text:
I would like to view some spiral galaxy. However, I would prefer not to spend lots of $$$. What are the minimum specs a telescope must have to resolve detail in a spiral galaxy?
It depends on what you mean by "view." If you just mean "see" a spiral galaxy, then you can do that without any telescope: the Andromeda Galaxy is visible naked eye from a good dark sky site. If you mean "see detail" such as spiral arms, I'd say the minimum aperture is around 10 inches (250 mm). Although you can occasionally glimpse spiral structure with smaller apertures—I've seen the spiral arms of Messier 51 in a 150-mm refractor—10 inches is the minimum to see structure in galaxies routinely.


text:
News from across RSC Publishing.
Radiation-proof solvents for the nuclear industry
06 June 2006
Ionic liquids can withstand high doses of gamma radiation, and could be used to process nuclear fuels, say chemists in France.
Philippe Moisy at the French Atomic Energy Commission and colleagues irradiated two imidazolium-based room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) with gamma radiation. The researchers found that the density, refractive index and surface tension of the ionic liquids did not change, even after being exposed to very large doses of radiation. And only low levels of chemical decomposition took place via radical-based mechanisms, said Moisy.
According to the researchers, the unique properties of RTILs, such as their negligible vapour pressure, make them attractive for use in processing nuclear fuels. 'To be successful in such applications RTILs should be at least relatively robust to high radiation doses,' said Moisy. This prompted the team to investigate the stability of ionic liquids to gamma radiation, often released by nuclear fuel materials.
Buxing Han at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing noted the relevance and timeliness of Moisy's work. 'Studying the effect of gamma irradiation on the properties of ionic liquids is of great importance to the related applications of ionic liquids,' said Han.
L Berthon, S I Nikitenko, I Bisel, C Berthon, M Faucon, B Saucerotte, N Zorz and P Moisy, Dalton Trans., 2006, 8, 2539

source: m-a-p/FineFineWeb


Developer Evangelist
What Does Developer Evangelist Mean?
A developer evangelist is a specific role within a company's engineering team that is focused on bridging internal and external communications. The developer evangelist typically maintains a presence as an "ambassador" for the company, interacting with the outside world through social media and in person.
A developer evangelist is also known as a technology evangelist, technical evangelist or technology advocate.
Techopedia Explains Developer Evangelist
A developer evangelist is typically a skilled developer, but does not actually spend most of his or her time writing code. Instead, the developer evangelist is essentially going out into the community to spread the news about what his or her company is doing, build relationships, and participate in a kind of "developer ecosystem." Part of this job would often entail communicating with both corporate developers, and those working on open-source technologies who are unconnected to a proprietary license product and brand.
The developer evangelist job is heavy on communications. In posting a job opening for this particular role, a Microsoft post defines the developer evangelist's mission as "to secure platform adoption and revenue growth through evangelism, community engagement, relationship marketing and a vibrant solutions ecosystem."
Experts point out that developer evangelists need both technical and communication skills, a passion for technology, and ways to articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Technology Evangelist, Technical Evangelist, Technology Advocate
Share this Term
 - Facebook
 - LinkedIn
 - Twitter
Related Reading
DevelopmentPeopleWeb Development
Trending Articles
Go back to top


List of unusual units of measurement
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
An unusual unit of measurement is a unit of measurement that does not form part of a coherent system of measurement, especially because its exact quantity may not be well known or because it may be an inconvenient multiple or fraction of a base unit.
This definition is not exact since it includes units such as the week or the light-year, which are quite "usual" in the sense that they are often used but which can be "unusual" if taken out of their common context, as demonstrated by the furlong-firkin-fortnight (FFF) system of units.
Many of the unusual units of measurements listed here are colloquial measurements, units devised to compare a measurement to common and familiar objects.
Hammer unit[edit]
Most computer programs and games use meters as the base unit to represent length, but some do not. One of the most common units used in software, that is unusual elsewhere, is the Hammer unit, a unit of measurement used in Valve's Source engine.[1] One Hammer unit is usually defined as a sixteenth of a foot (16 Hammer units = 1 foot). This means that one Hammer unit is equal to exactly 0.01905 meters, and one meter is equal to 52.49344 Hammer units. This scale is not rigidly enforced in all Source games; each game has its own rules of how big things are that slightly differ from this standard. Another program that can use a unit similar to Hammer units is 3DS Max.[2][3]
Rack unit[edit]
A typical section of rack rail, showing rack unit distribution.
One rack unit (U) is 1.75 inches (44.45 mm) and is used to measure rack-mountable audiovisual, computing and industrial equipment. Rack units are typically denoted without a space between the number of units and the 'U'. Thus a 4U server enclosure (case) is seven inches (177.8 mm) high, or more practically, built to occupy a vertical space seven inches high, with sufficient clearance to allow movement of adjacent hardware.
The hand is a non-SI unit of length equal to exactly 4 inches (101.6 mm). It is normally used to measure the height of horses in some English-speaking countries, including Australia,[4] Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The light-nanosecond is defined as exactly 29._PHONE_ cm. It was popularized in information technology as a unit of distance by Grace Hopper as the distance which a photon could travel in one billionth of a second (roughly 30 cm or one foot): "The speed of light is one foot per nanosecond."[5][6]
Metric foot[edit]
A metric foot (defined as 300 mm, or about 11.8 inches) has been used occasionally in the UK[7] but has never been an official unit.
Horses are used to measure distances in horse racing – a horse length (shortened to merely a length when the context makes it obvious) equals roughly 8 feet or 2.4 metres. Shorter distances are measured in fractions of a horse length; also common are measurements of a full or fraction of a head, a neck, or a nose.[8]
Boat length[edit]
In rowing races such as the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, the margin of victory and of defeat is expressed in fractions and multiples of lengths. The length of a rowing eight is about 62 feet (19 m). A shorter distance is the canvas, which is the length of the covered part of the boat between the bow and the bow oarsman. The Racing Rules of Sailing also makes heavy use of boat lengths.
Football field (length)[edit]
A football field is often used as a comparative measurement of length when talking about distances that may be hard to comprehend when stated in terms of standard units.
An American football field is usually understood to be 100 yards (91 m) long, though it is technically 120 yards (110 m) when including the two 10 yd (9.1 m) long end zones. The field is 160 ft (53 yd; 49 m) wide.[9]
A Canadian football field is 65 yd (59 m) wide and 150 yd (140 m) long, including two 20 yd (18 m) long end zones.
Media in the UK also use the football pitch as a unit of length, although the area of the association football pitch is not fixed, but may vary within limits of 90–120 m (98–131 yd) in length and 45–90 m (49–98 yd) in width. The usual size of a football pitch is 105 m × 68 m (115 yd × 74 yd), the dimensions used for matches in the UEFA Champions League.
In most US cities, a city block is between 116 and 18 mi (100 and 200 m). In Manhattan, the measurement "block" usually refers to a north–south block, which is 120 mi (80 m). Sometimes people living in places (like Manhattan) with a regularly spaced street grid will speak of long blocks and short blocks. Within a typical large North American city, it is often only possible to travel along east–west and north–south streets, so travel distance between two points is often given in the number of blocks east–west plus the number north–south (known to mathematicians as the Manhattan Metric).[10]
The Earth's radius[edit]
The radius of Earth, generally given as 6,371 kilometers (3,959 miles) is often employed as a unit of measure to intuitively compare objects of planetary size. The unit is commonly written as r🜨.
The Earth's circumference[edit]
The metre was originally defined as 110,000,000 of the distance from a pole to the equator, or as 140,000,000 of the Earth's circumference as measured through the poles. This standard made the historical metre 0.0197% longer than the modern standard metre, which is calculated based on the distance covered by light in a vacuum in a set amount of time.
Earth-to-Moon distance[edit]
One barn is 10−28 square metres, about the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus. The name probably derives from early neutron-deflection experiments, when the uranium nucleus was described, and the phrases "big as a barn" and "hit a barn door" were used. Barn are typically used for cross sections in nuclear and particle physics. Additional units include the microbarn (or "outhouse")[12] and the yoctobarn (or "shed").[13][14]
One brass is 100 square feet (9.29 m2) area (used in measurement of work done or to be done, such as plastering, painting, etc.). It is also equal, however, to 100 cubic feet (2.83 m3) of estimated or supplied loose material, such as sand, gravel, rubble, etc. This unit is prevalent in construction industry in India.[15][16]
The square is an Imperial unit of area that is used in the construction industry in North America,[17] and was historically used in Australia by real estate agents. One square is equal to 100 square feet (9.29 m2). A roof's area may be calculated in square feet, then converted to squares.
Cow's grass[edit]
In Ireland, before the 19th century, a "cow's grass" was a measurement used by farmers to indicate the size of their fields. A cow's grass was equal to the amount of land that could produce enough grass to support a cow.[18][19]
Football field (area)[edit]
A morgen ("morning" in Dutch and German) was approximately the amount of land tillable by one man behind an ox in the morning hours of a day. This was an official unit of measurement in South Africa until the 1970s, and was defined in November 2007 by the South African Law Society as having a conversion factor of 1 morgen = 0.856532 hectares.[23] This unit of measure was also used in the Dutch colonial province of New Netherland (later New York and parts of New England).[24][25]
Countries, regions, and cities[edit]
Wales (red) in the UK (pink)
Equal to 20,779 km2 (8,023 sq mi), the country of Wales is used in phrases such as "an area the size of Wales"[26] or "twice the area of Wales".[27][28] England is 6.275 times the size of Wales, and Scotland is roughly four times the size of Wales. Ireland is four times larger than Wales, and France is about twenty-five times larger.
In older British and Commonwealth atlases, it was common to show a known area at the same scale, and the usual area to show was either Wales for smaller scales, or Great Britain for larger areas.[citation needed]
The British comedy show The Eleven O'Clock Show parodied the use of this measurement, by introducing a news article about an earthquake in Wales, stating that an area the size of Wales was affected. The Radio 4 programme More or Less introduced the idea of "kilowales" – an area 1,000 times the size of Wales. The Register introduced the nanowales (20.78 m2).[29]
The measurement has been adopted by rain


text:
. Draw a simple diagram of a hydraulic jack and explain its working
The diagram of a hydraulic jack is represented as:
WORKING OF THE DIAGRAM →
- When handle H of the lever is pressed down by applying an effort, the valve V opens because of increase in pressure in cylinder P.
- The liquid runs out from the cylinder P to the cylinder Q.
- As a result, the piston B rises up and it raises the car placed on the platform.
- When the car reaches the desired height, the handle H of the lever is no longer pressed.
- The valve V gets closed so that the liquid may not run back from the cylinder Q to cylinder P.
The diagram of a hydraulic jack is drawn as:
The working of a hydraulic jack is explained above in the explanation part.


Apply Now
Topoi: Similitude
Excerpt from Richard M. Weaver's
Rhetoric and Handbook,
Chapter 5
Table of Contents
 1. Introduction: The Enthymeme
 2. Relation of Logic to Rhetoric
 3. The Topics
The argument from similitude derives its force from a statement about the likeness of two things. To understand how it persuades, we must recall what was said about analogy in our discussion of the devices of logic. We saw that all analogy depends upon a theory that if two things resemble in a certain number of respects, it is probable that they resemble in still further respects. When we argue from similitude, what the major premise does is assert this principle of similarity or comparability. The minor premise then asserts the fact of the similarity and the conclusion asserts the probability of still further similarity. The process may be best seen in the form of a hypothetical syllogism:
 - If S resembles P in X particulars, it is probable that S resembles P in one or more further particulars.
 - S does resemble P in X particulars.
 - Therefore it is probable that S resembles P in one or more further particulars.
As we learned when we examined the theory of analogy, the weight of this probability will depend upon the number and the pertinence of the particulars in which the two instances resemble. Here again we have to observe that the rhetoric of the argument is in direct relation to the soundness of the predication about the world. If the analogy is weak, the argument will have little power to persuade; but if it is strong, the power will be proportionately great.
Previous | Next


How To Convert Fructosamine To A1c Calculation
Different strategies have evolved in different animals, depending on the animals' needs. unicellular organisms, of course, simply release the ammonia into the environment. likewise, bony fish can release the ammonia into the water where it is quickly diluted. in general, mammals convert the ammonia into urea, via the urea cycle..


text: A new method for selective surface functionalization of silicon with a silicon-nitrogen bonded (Si-N) monolayer and subsequent bioimmobilization is presented. The Si-N monolayer was studied using Xray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), fluorescence spectroscopy, and capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurements using an electrolyte insulator semiconductor (EIS) sensor. A symmetric ethylene diamine (EDA, C2H4 (NH2)(2)) molecule was used as a precursor compound for monolayer formation in an inert environment in the liquid phase. XPS results show the attachment of EDA molecules proceeds via dissociative and dative bond formation whereas free amine groups on the surface were used for further immobilization of biomolecules. SEM shows selective functionalization and bioimmobilization on a patterned surface such as a silicon nanowire on silicon oxide substrate. Biosensing experiments with bioimmobilized surfaces were carried out in aqueous buffer and show high sensitivity for biosensing. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


text:
Partnering for Low Carbon Energy Research and Plastics Upcycling
Partner with NREL to reduce your organization's carbon footprint through our ongoing research in carbon conversion and utilization.
Here are a few reasons to work with us:
- Advance research associated with plastics upcycling, bio-based products, and waste valorization.
- Address plastic pollution by joining NREL and industry partners in Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment (BOTTLE™) plastics upcycling consortium.
- Partner with industry and academia to develop a biorefining process to produce sustainable aviation fuel both compatible with existing jet engines and capable of supporting net-zero-carbon flight.
- Develop energy transition strategies for traditional energy companies to incorporate alternative energy sources that meet emission goals.
Research Capabilities and Case Studies
Learn about our research capabilities and case studies below and see our breadth of experience with partners around the world.
NREL is dedicating resources to designing clean energy technologies with reducing, reusing, and upcycling in mind for energy-relevant and energy-intensive materials, processes, and technologies. This effort will help mitigate supply issues, promote upcycling, reduce waste, and add value to materials at end of life.
NREL and partners are working to create low-carbon fuels, which are scalable, and have low emissions both in the final use as well as during the production process.
The use of cheap, renewable electricity (instead of fossil fuels) to convert low-energy molecules such as water or carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemicals, materials, fuels, or even energy storage is emerging as an attractive solution. Electrons to molecules both reduces reliance on fossil fuels and drives CO2 capture and conversion efforts.
H2@Scale is a concept that explores the potential for wide-scale hydrogen production and utilization in the United States to enable resiliency of the power generation and transmission sectors. Learn more about the H2@Scale study showing abundant opportunities for hydrogen in a future integrated energy system.
Learn about all of NREL's partnership opportunities.


text:
In the computer models section, there are forecast wind charts available at a whole variety of resolutions and height levels. These charts are showing the predicted strength and direction of the wind at that level of the atmosphere.
The wind is blowing from the direction where the barbs on the wind stick are pointing, to the empty end of the wind stick. Each full barb represents 10 knots and each half barb 5 knots. A triangle completely shaded in represents 50 knots.
15:46 EDT The Australian research body the Climate Council has argued in its latest paper that the probability of drought will increase, and it will become more severe, because of climate change.


text:
April 1, 2024
As systematic risk (geopolitical, social unrest, etc.) intensifies, traders typically turn their attention to investment strategies that pay on off-the-charts movement, either up or down. The butterfly calendar spread is considered one of the most conventional strategies. This article will give a fundamental view of a 6-month butterfly calendar spread, using June 2024, December 2024, and June 2025 contracts for both WTI crude oil and natural gas. Current prices for WTI range from $74.6 to $82.4, while natural gas prices vary from $1.99 to $3.44.
Traders may consider employing a butterfly calendar strategy with futures in commodities trading when they anticipate relatively stable price movement within a defined time frame, coupled with an expectation of increased volatility afterward. This approach is particularly useful when there's uncertainty surrounding upcoming events or market developments, allowing traders to benefit from both the stability and the subsequent volatility in commodity prices.
On the other hand, traders may desire to exercise caution and avoid implementing a butterfly calendar strategy with futures in commodities trading during periods of high uncertainty or rapidly changing market conditions. During volatile environments, traders may find it more prudent to employ strategies that offer greater flexibility and risk management, rather than relying on the specific timing and directionality inherent in the butterfly calendar approach. In that case a reverse butterfly calendar spread should be taken into consideration.
WTI crude futures rose above $82 per barrel on Thursday, marking a third consecutive monthly increase fueled by optimism around continued production cuts by the OPEC+ alliance. Meanwhile, the most recent report from the EIA showed a surprise rise in US crude oil, reporting a 3.17 million barrel rise in crude oil stocks, contradicting expectations of a 1.28 million barrel decrease. Concerns were heightened by Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil refineries impacting 12% of the country's processing capacity. Additionally, the market remained attentive to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, specifically the UN Security Council's resolution urging a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Additionally, the rise in US refinery utilization rates further supported prices.
US natural gas prices rose above $1.7/MMBtu due to a larger-than-expected storage draw reported by the EIA and increased demand forecasts for the next two weeks. The report also showed that US utilities built up their inventories for the first time since November, likely to end the seasonal inventory depletion. Utilities withdrew 36 bcf of gas from storage, exceeding the 28 bcf draw expected by the market. Despite a 25% drop in prices in Q1 following a mild winter and high output, prices are expected to remain under pressure due to forecasts of mild weather, ample gas in storage, and reduced gas flow to LNG export plants. These factors may lead to record-high US gas consumption in 2024 and the first production cut since 2020, when the pandemic drastically reduced demand.


text:
To involve means to connect. When you get involved in the Spanish Club, you attend meetings and events. If doing math well is involved in understanding advanced chemistry, that means it's a necessary part of it.
When someone is very involved, it means they are engaged or connected to a lot of activities. When someone is self-involved, all they connect with is him or herself. If getting ice cream involves walking a mile to the ice cream shop, the exercise offsets the indulgence. When no exercise is involved, it's less healthy.


text:
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man of noble rank.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the nobility; a noble; a peer.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.
- n. a titled peer of the realm
"November 2nd, 2009 Virgin nobleman SIR RICHARD BRANSON has abandoned his efforts to hire a heroic commander of a miraculous Hudson River plane crash for his intergalactic spaceship mission."
"The bird carols as sweet a lay for the toil-worn peasant, who labors from morn till night, to gain a scanty subsistence, as for the titled nobleman, who rolls along in his gilded chariot."
"On the 14th of July, 1909, during the sitting of the British House of Commons, a certain nobleman-a real earl-charged a Labour member with being drunk, and a hub-bub arose and the Labour member resented it, and said he was not drunk."
"There had been much gossip about a certain Italian nobleman who had wooed her openly and madly."
"In that same world, one man, even a nobleman, is of little account."
"He had informed them of the earl of Mar's danger, and the policy as well as justice of rescuing so powerful and patriotic a nobleman from the threatened execution."
"At one of the first of the evening parties which they attended, the general topic of conversation was the conduct of a certain French nobleman, the Baron"
"The person whom you speak of as a nobleman was presented to me as 'Mr. Vincent, an artist."
"When he became a man he mortally offended a certain Polish nobleman by some improprieties in which he became involved with the nobleman's wife."
"Did you ever hear that, in the last century, or in the century before the last, to put my story far enough back, so that it shall not touch anybody living; when a certain English nobleman, Lord"
These user-created lists contain the word 'nobleman'.
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
These politically incorrect words for people contain the element'man','son', or 'boy'.
Everything that contains a man in it
Its a rhetorical question.
Looking for tweets for nobleman.

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


Just In
The most recent 250 top stories.
Hundreds join potential class action as Camden High School cancer cluster fears multiply
Updated August 01, 2013 05:52:39
Hundreds of former students and teachers of a Sydney high school have added their names to a potential class action over toxic contaminants.
The old Camden High School was moved in 2001 after dangerous substances were discovered.
The school was built on top of an old gasworks.
Now former students and teachers believe cases of cancer, tumours and birth defects may have been caused by exposure to the chemicals.
7.30 first reported last week that lawyers were preparing a class action against the Education Department on behalf of a group of 70 people.
Now that number has grown to 195.
Leonie Curry, 41, is the lead plaintiff for the case.
She is dying of a terminal brain tumour, and wants an investigation into whether the school is to blame.
"There are so many people that are sick and died, they've died already and there's a lot of people with brain tumours, it makes you wonder," she said.
Mrs Curry has already had one tumour removed, but doctors say another tumour is inoperable.
Former Camden High School student Leonie Curry.
"The prognosis is they just don't know because it's a very rare tumour, it's a very rare position and even though it's a benign tumour they still grow and because of the position it can grow and your brain stem is where all the functions for your body are, your breathing, your heart rate, all that kind of stuff, so if it takes a function that's it," she said.
Mrs Curry approached lawyers after hearing of many former students of the school who were being diagnosed with serious illnesses.
One of her closest friends, Raelean Borg, died of breast cancer last year.
"When we discovered that I had a brain tumour and I wouldn't be around much longer either we were having a bit of a joke about how long we were going to last and then came round to how it was so bizarre that the two of us were going to be dead very soon," Mrs Curry said.
Teachers, former students alike affected
Mrs Curry set up a Facebook page and was swamped with feedback from former students who suspect the contaminants at the site made them sick.
Former teachers are also involved in the potential class action.
Art teacher Dale Hodges, 45, died in 2007 of thyroid and ovarian cancer.
Her partner Glenn Carson says she was fit, and had no family history of cancer.
"She trained hard, she worked hard, she wanted to live and she wanted to teach and it didn't happen," he said.
Ms Hodges taught at the school for 18 years.
For much of the time she taught in a classroom directly on top of the site of the former gasworks.
She kept records of the contamination uncovered in 1996.
The records include a letter from the Environmental Protection Authority warning of high levels of contamination.
The letter was addressed to the NSW Education Department.
Some remediation work was done a year later, but the school was not moved until 2001.
You turn up to your workplace thinking it's safe - which is what a workplace should be - but obviously this workplace wasn't safe
Dale Hodges' partner Glenn Carson
Mr Carson says it should have happened sooner.
"You turn up to your workplace thinking it's safe - which is what a workplace should be - but obviously this workplace wasn't safe," he said.
"We just need answers.
"You need to be able to find out why in '96 they didn't do something more drastic than wait until '97 for a start, wait another year before they did anything at all, then wait another four years until they got the land at Cawdor."
Another family of seven siblings has also added their names to the case.
Mary Nolan says of her six brothers and sisters, two died of cancer and tumours, and three more have had repeated tumours detected and removed.
She wants the Education Department to investigate.
"The Education Department should do a thorough investigation into it yes. Absolutely," she said.
"I mean we went to a rural community to have seven children raised in a rural healthy environment.
"Our public school is absolutely the first place of safety that you would think you would get a healthy upbringing from.
"What's the point of giving children milk every day when you're going to actually have them sitting on toxic ground for six years every day that they attend there, there is just no point to it."
7.30 asked the Education Department why it took five years to close the school.
It ignored the question and instead sent this statement:
The department is open to review any new information available in relation to the former Camden High School site. However, at this time we have not received any complaints or claims. If any complaints or claims are received, the department will review the information and work with the relevant government agencies to take appropriate action.
Ms Nolan says her mother is devastated by the doubts about the school, and blames herself for sending her seven children there to study.
"To watch them die one by one when you think you gave them the best - she was watching out for food and vitamins and all of those sorts of things - to find out she's been sending them to a toxic waste dump everyday for so many years in their growth periods, it is very heartbreaking for her, she'd like somebody other than herself to take responsibility for it," she said.
Although almost 200 people have now joined the legal action - it remains just a small portion of the many students who went to the school.
Those involved acknowledge that proving the cause of their illnesses may be impossible.
Nonetheless, Glenn Carson, who is still struggling with the death of his partner, also wants an official inquiry.
"It'd be nice just to be able to find out what happened, why it happened and how it happened," he said.
"If it could've been prevented, why wasn't it prevented?"
Topics: occupational-health-and-safety, health, work, education, brain-tumor, cancer, camden-2570, sydney-2000
First posted July 31, 2013 21:26:02


text:
Learn the signs of heat stress in chickens and over 10 ways you can help your backyard flock beat the heat and keep your chickens cool in summer!
Here in central Texas, the heat and humidity can be a brutal combination. And the "season" for heat and humidity can seem to go on f.o.r.e.v.e.r. So we know all about keeping me from losing my cool…ahem, I mean keeping our chickens cool.
Know the Signs of Heat Stress in Chickens
Some signs of heat stress in chickens are:
- Panting, chickens do not have sweat glands, so they pant to help cool their bodies down through respiration
- Spreading wings, they will hold them away from their body,
- Pale combs and wattles,
- Lethargic behavior,
- Reduction in egg production, including egg size, or poor shell quality.
10 Ways to Keep Chickens Cool in Summer
Here are ten things we do to keep our chickens cool when the mercury starts to rise:
Keep Chickens Cool Through Hydration
Chickens need access to plenty of fresh, clean water all the time, but especially when the temperatures soar. It also helps to keep their water, whatever setup you use, in the shade.
Allow Chickens to Have Access to Shade
Speaking of shade, it's helpful if they have some. By a pure stroke of genius luck, we ended up building our coop in the center of a cluster of trees. Once the trees are fully leafed out in the spring, their entire coop and surrounding yard is completely shaded (which consequently also gives them relatively good air cover from hawks).
Let Them Get Their Feet Wet
Besides keeping their drinking water in the shade, we also have black rubber shallow feed pans full of water around their yard (in the shade). I'm always shocked by how cool the water stays when it's blistering hot outside. Another way chickens will cool themselves down is by standing with their feet submerged in water. I swear, we can almost see them hike up their "bloomers" and wade in.
And speaking of standing in water to cool down, chickens love mud puddles. No matter what time of year it seems (mild winters here), if we're ever out watering trees, the chickens flock (no pun intended) to the water pooling around the base of the tree. Even with five gallons of fresh clean water in the waterer, they'd rather go stand in, scratch around, and drink from a puddle.
Keep Chickens Cool with Refreshing Treats
When we say we spoil our chickens by giving them treats, those treats are fruits, vegetables, and grains. In the summer, items with high water content like cold melons, berries, and lettuces are a great supplement on a hot day.I'm here to tell you, our chickens will knock. you. over. for a cold watermelon or cantaloupe on a hot day!
You can also give them popsicles. No, not otter pops! Chopped fruits and veggies frozen in an ice cube tray (with a little water) make great snacks to beat the heat. Fresh mint is also a good, cooling herb to add to these popsicles.
Provide a Mister
Every year, we string a mister line across their yard. Again, this is in the shade, so it helps minimize evaporation. We come out to the coop in the evenings every day of the summer, we find the chickens in the "wading pools" and digging around in the soil right underneath the misters. It's not as effective in our high humidity climate, but when I stand in the mist, I can definitely tell a difference in my body temp!
We built our coop with plenty of cross ventilation. There is a huge window in the west people door, one on the south side of the coop and one on the east side of the coop. We also have ventilation "windows" at the very top of our north and south walls, just below the roof.These, coupled with the "summer screen door" for the chickens' opening to the coop, allows for air movement through the chimney effect.
Place Fans in the Coop To Keep Chickens Cool
Even with all the windows and cross ventilation, we also have fans in our coop. Air movement is key, especially in humid climates like ours.
Taking it a step further, on really hot nights, we've even put wet towels (my hubby's Grandma Jane use to get "tow sacks" soaking wet) and hang them up near fans, but not in front of the fan blocking air flow. And we also recycle juice bottles, fill them with water, and freeze them. We put those blocks of ice in front of the fans. They don't last all night obviously, but as the chickens are getting settled down for the night, you can feel the cooler temp of the air blowing past the blocks of ice.
Choose Heat-Tolerant Chicken Breeds
Read up on chicken breeds when you're selecting your chicks. Some folks need cold tolerant birds, and some, like us, need heat tolerant ones. And observe your flock. We have made our own notes about the breeds that seem to do the best at handling the heat.
Adjust Their Diet of Your Backyard Chicken Flock
Add electrolytes to the chicken waterer to prevent dehydration and choose a ration that is more easily digestible, such as corn.
No Deep Litter Bedding
As much as we love deep litter bedding to keep chickens warm in the winter, it will also work to generate heat in the chicken coop during the already blazing hot summer. Keep your chickens cool by regularly removing the bedding from their coop.
Raising Chickens on the Homestead
Chickens are the gateway livestock on any homestead! Learn more about how to care for backyard chickens!
- The Basics of Raising Chickens
- How to Hatch Chicks in an Incubator
- Chicken Breed Egg Colors
- Cardboard Chicken Coop Bedding
- 10 Dual-Purpose Chicken Breeds
- How to Treat Common Chicken Illnesses
- How Do You Keep Chickens Warm?
- 6 Reasons Every Homestead Needs a Rooster
- Reasons to Raise Pastured Livestock
- Save Money Raising Chickens for Eggs


text:
The language section lets you manage the languages available for the store front. Arastta provides English (en-GB) as the default language after installation. To add multiple languages to the store you need to install a language pack. There are two ways to add new languages:
Adding new language via Marketplace is just one-click away. Just find the language and click on the plus (+) button.
You can also download the language pack from Translations Directory and upload it from Extension Installer of Arastta.
Languages can be set up from Localisation > Languages page. The following information will be needed to save the language:
- Name: The name in native language.
- Code: The ISO language code. W3Schools has a complete list of ISO codes.
- Image: The image used to represent the language, that will be displayed in the header area of the store.
- Directory: The folder name is based on language tags. They are composed of 2 parts: language-COUNTRY.
- Status: Enables or disables the language in the store front.
- Sort Order: Determines the position of the language among multiple languages in the header.
Language determination in store front
Arastta will try to determine the store front language based on the visitor's browser settings and your installed languages. If not able to match, the one set from the Settings > Local page will be loaded as per default.
Language translations are managed and downloaded live from Crowdin platform. You're always welcome to join and help the translation of Arastta.


text:
On April 24, 2012, The Maryland State Board of Education accepted the definition of STEM Education and STEM Standards of Practice presented by the Office of STEM Initiatives. The definition of STEM Education and the STEM Standards of Practice reflect the skills and knowledge students must master to be prepared to meet the increasing demand of the workplace where STEM skills are required.
STEM Education Defined:
STEM education is an approach to teaching and learning that integrates the content and skills of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. STEM Standards of Practice guide STEM instruction by defining the combination of behaviors, integrated with STEM content, which is expected of a proficient STEM student. These behaviors include engagement in inquiry, logical reasoning, collaboration, and investigation. The goal of STEM education is to prepare students for post-secondary study and the 21st century workforce.
STEM Standards of Practice:
The titles of the seven STEM Standards of Practice are:
Maryland STEM Brochure
STEM Standards of Practice
The STEM toolkit contains resources to support teachers in the classroom.
Maryland STEM: Innovation today to meet tomorrow's global challenges.


Where and when did Islam originate? Did Ishmael, son of Abraham start this religion?
I want to know from when or which nation the Muslim religion started. Is it from Ishmael son of Abraham?
Islam as a religion was established by Muhammad, a member of the Arabic Quraish tribe from the West-Central part of the Arabian Peninsula in the region of present-day Mecca. Muhammad is a real person who lived from AD 570-632. He claimed to receive a revelation from the archangel Gabriel in AD 610 to be a prophet to the Arabic peoples promoting monotheism and a belief in Allah. His movement started slowly, but when he moved to Medina, it began to gain momentum. Later, Muhammad returned and conquered Mecca. By his death, his troops had conquered much of the Arabian Peninsula. By physical force and persuasion Islam spread across North Africa and the Middle East, reaching India by about the 11th century.
The Old Testament claims that Ishmael, son of Abraham moved into the area we now call "Arabia." It claims that the Arab peoples are the direct descendant of Ishmael. Muslims agree that this is true. They believe that the promised son of Abraham in Genesis is actually Ishmael, not Isaac. They claim that Abraham traveled to Mecca with Ishmael and worshipped the one true God at the Kabba, a stone idol in Mecca. There is not external verification of this claim and no evidence that Abraham made this journey. What we can say for sure is that Ishmael definitely did not establish the religion Islam because he died over two thousand years before the religion was founded by Muhammad. Muhammad himself definitely did not claim that Ishmael founded Islam, but he did claim that he was a prophet in the spirit of Abraham, Ishmael and Moses.
I have a power point on Islam at the web site. Just go to the power point presentation section and click on the appropriate link. It may prove helpful to you in your study of this religion. I also suggest you read the Koran for yourself so that you can be prepared to answer your Mulsim friends as to why Jesus is indeed the Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament.
By the way our organization Apologetics Research Society just sponsored a debate between a Jew (Rabbi Shmuley Boteach) a Muslim (Imam Shabir Ally) and Douglas Jacoby. You might want to get a copy of the DVD. It is very educational and inspirational. It is available at _URL_
John Oakes, PhD
Shopping Cart
Your shopping cart is empty
Visit the shop
EFC Newsletter
driven by RightTurn


text:
The Indigenous University of Venezuela (UIV) is well known for its cultural diversity, bringing together students from many indigenous communities across the country. During mealtimes or when walking together between classes, one might hear the students speaking one of the numerous native languages represented at the UIV.
Preservation of language and culture remains an important pillar for the UIV, and an example of this can be seen on its website [es]. The school's mission statement is available in the Huottöja, Pumé, Ye'kwana, Shiriana, and E'ñepa languages. Here is the translation in the E'ñepa language, also known as Panare:
A university that raises awareness and educates young indigenous students so that they can serve their communities. We preserve and strengthen indigenous peoples and we put forth intercultural and experimental higher education
During the digital photography workshop held on the campus with three students from the edu-communications department, the students also learned some basics in the use of the free and open-source program Audacity to record audio podcasts and upload them to the web. To demonstrate, we recorded the students giving a brief greeting in their native language and the Spanish-language translation. These are the three audio recordings uploaded to Rising Voices' Soundcloud account.
Indigenous University of Venezuela – Kuranicha – Piaroa Language
Indigenous University of Venezuela – Akaneto – Jivi Language
Indigenous University of Venezuela – Wadaana – Ye'kwana Language


text: Share Your Insights Join the statewide conversation about justice and equity. * 1. What is one insight you have about social, economic, and environmental justice in Maine in 2015? * 2. As you look around, in your community or across the state, what are the most pressing justice and equity opportunities or issues you perceive? * 3. What is one thing we must do to advance justice and equity in Maine? Thank You!


The antibacterial properties of wood should be leveraged in construction
The antibacterial properties of wood should be leveraged in construction
- Many materials contain volatile organic compounds, also known as VOCs, which are considered to be health hazards. Wood's volatile compounds have been found to have some antibacterial effect. According to studies however, the scent from many wood compounds is harmful to bacteria but not humans, says Tiina Vainio-Kaila.
Vainio-Kaila, who received her doctorate on the subject, has compared how well bacteria survive on untreated wood surfaces when compared to glass, which is traditionally considered hygienic. - When the amounts of bacterial growth on different surfaces were cultured and compared in a laboratory, both e. coli and listeria bacteria gradually died on the wood surface, but survived on the glass plate serving as a control.
- Wood extracts have also been found to be reasonably effective against hospital bacteria. It can be said that wood surfaces and many wood compounds have antibacterial properties and that pine has a slightly larger antibacterial effect than spruce. Many of the dozens of different wood extracts have been found to have antibacterial properties as the lignin that binds the fibres together has an antibacterial effect. In addition, wood surfaces dry quickly; this dryness puts bacteria at a disadvantage.
Vainio-Kaila points out that there has been very little research in general into the effects of wood on well-being. For example, surveys of residents conducted in wooden apartment buildings indicate that the scent of wood is not considered unpleasant and that a wooden building does not cause allergies in residents in the same way many other materials do.
According to Vainio-Kaila, the underlying antibacterial qualities of wood do not come from a single substance but are the result of a well-functioning whole of many substances. - If a change of materials can slow down the spread of hospital bacteria, we should seize the opportunity. Now that antibacterial research on wood has begun, it would be a good idea to properly study the effects of antibacterial wood in hospital and day-care building materials.
There are already some practical applications that leverage wood's antibacterial properties. - For example, the German company Wilms HygieneHoltz manufactures a variety of hygiene products from wood, ranging from skin creams to anti-bacterial rugs and cutting boards. They have improved wood's inherent antibacterial properties in their products even more. Here at home, a Finnish company has launched a sap-based antibacterial salve.
Vainio-Kaila points out that all parts of a tree have medicinal uses. - If antibacterial materials can be used in contact surfaces in public spaces, we will reduce the transmission of various infectious diseases spread by hand. There are many insights and practical applications that can be developed from these antibacterial properties. The only limit is in our imaginations.


text:
I'm a big fan of GhostDoc's automatic comment generation in Visual Studio so am looking for an plugin that does the same job with my Java code in Eclipse. Any recommendations?
It is basically the equivalent of Javadoc, which can be generating in eclipse with the shortcut:
(when you are within the Java function you wish to add javadoc for)
From there, if you really want XML format, you can try and use a JELDoclet
You can check JAutodoc (_URL_
From the author:
JAutodoc is an Eclipse Plugin for automatically adding Javadoc and file headers to your source code. It optionally generates initial comments from element name by using Velocity templates for Javadoc and file headers.
This one is the one I've found closest to GhostDoc.
GhostDoc has a nice extra feature that infers a description of what the method does by parsing the method name and providing this as skeletal documentation. For example, using GhostDoc on a method named GetDocumentName() might return the phrase "Gets the document name". While this is hardly more information than provided by the method name, it adds method documentation where previously none existed. Some might argue that this is barely useful. I argue to the contrary because it supports generating documentation from the source code (e.g., for tools like NDoc or SandCastle).
In my opinion the greatest benefit of GhostDoc over eclipse's "Generate Element Comment" is that it encourages programmers to begin adding documentation comments by adding an extremely fast and reliable way create this. The programmer can accept the inferred text, (suitable in 50 - 80% of cases), or expand on this for more complex methods. For the junior programmer who is not as familiar with how documentation comments are used, this can quickly shorten the learning curve and encourage good programming practices.
Javadoc is not like GhostDoc my friend. Javadoc only creates the structure so one can write the documentation from scratch. GhostDoc actually fills up the information according to the Method/Property name.
/// /// Gets the user from id. /// /// The id. /// private string GetUserFromId(string id);
JAutoDoc is the closest I've found so far but it's not as magical as GhostDoc.


Multiple realities
(covers information from several alternate timelines)
On Starfleet vessels, Jefferies tubes or service crawlways were a type of access tunnel or internal maintenance conduit that was used to provide crew access to various ship's systems. In emergencies, they were also used for moving around the ship if turbolifts are not functional. Doors within the Jefferies tubes could be sealed for safety or security reasons.
During the 22nd and 23rd centuries, Jefferies tubes were usually referred to as access tubes, access tunnels, or service chutes, although the term was in use as early as 2256. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings") In the 24th century, the single term was generally favored, though some officers referred to them as "service crawl-ways". (TNG: "Disaster") Geordi La Forge sarcastically remarked that starship designers consider Jefferies tubes "easy access." (TNG: "Power Play")
Jefferies tubes could also be used for fitness training exercises. (VOY: "Learning Curve")
22nd century
The entrance of a Jefferies tube aboard an NX-class starship
During the 22nd century, starships were outfitted with long and small service tunnels, which would later be known as Jefferies tubes. These were hard, cold, cramped, and poorly lit. Tunnels on some ships joined at a variable gravity "sweet spot". (ENT: "Broken Bow")
Vertical tubes
NX-class ships had vertical tubes to help their crew manually reach decks above them or below them. These tubes were circular from one end to the other. Each tube was equipped with a single one-way ladder for crewmen to climb or descend. The ladders had dim lights behind them so the crew could see where to step. (ENT: "The Crossing", "Regeneration")
In September 2152, several crewmembers used these vertical access tunnels for transporting equipment and personal things to the catwalk. (ENT: "The Catwalk")
This episode also identified this type of tube as a "pylon tube".
Horizontal tubes
A horizontal tube (2150s)
For ENT: "Vox Sola", a horizontal NX-class Jefferies tube was represented with a set built on Paramount Stage 8.
As evidenced by the final draft script of "Acquisition", the name "Jefferies tubes" was to have been referenced in dialogue which was ultimately omitted from that installment.
23rd century
The inside of a Constitution-class Jefferies tube
In the 23rd century, Jefferies tubes were still round and small, but they were better lit by that time and no longer simply a means to get around. They served many different functions and purposes. It was not uncommon to find many technicians and engineers tinkering inside them.
Diagonal tubes
The entrance to a Jefferies tube
Matt Jefferies' own original sketch called this diagonal tube a "Power Shaft." [1]
A diagonal Jefferies tube was scripted to appear in an ultimately unused scene extension from ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly". According to T'Pol, that tube appeared to intersect a turboshaft. The tube was ascended by her and the other members of an assault team from the ISS Enterprise (NX-01), on their way from a corridor aboard the USS Defiant to the ship's bridge.
Vertical tubes
A vertical Jefferies tube in the 2260s
The vertical tubes on a starship, also known as gangways, allowed manual access to decks both above and below. These particular tubes were easily accessible in the open hallway alcoves located on every deck. On the walls of these tubes, there was a reflective material that perfectly illuminated the entire tunnel. The tubes were equipped with a single "three-way ladder" to allow more than one crewman to climb or descend. (TOS: "Amok Time", "The Doomsday Machine", "The Way to Eden")
In 2258 of the alternate reality, a ladder was visible aboard the USS Enterprise when Spock walked down a corridor after being relieved of duty as acting captain. (Star Trek)
Horizontal tubes
A horizontal Jefferies tube (2260s)
A horizontal Jefferies tube (2280s)
The horizontal crawl-ways on starships allowed manual access to various parts of a starship. These tubes were also densely connected with important system controls and vital engineering circuits. Some of these tubes even led to the matter-antimatter reaction chamber. Every few feet, a bright light could be found, shining down. Crewmen usually had to crawl while traveling in some of them due to the cramped size. (TOS: "That Which Survives")
The Jefferies tubes aboard Crossfield-class vessels were dark in color and not well lit; unlike those in contemporary Constitution-class vessels.(DIS: "Context Is for Kings")
By the 2280s, the horizontal tubes were still cramped but tall enough to allow crewmen to walk standing up. Also by this time, they had become extremely well-lit. This was especially true late in the 23rd century. Late in that century, the horizontal tubes were extremely well lit, with lights coming from both above and below. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)
Tube junctions
Jefferies tube junction crawl-way (2260s)
On a starship, the Jefferies tubes had junction service crawl-ways. They served as interconnected points linking all the different tubes. On Constitution-class vessels, these junctions also gave access to critical starship systems, like plasma flow regulators and warp and power relays. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II")
24th century
The inside of a Jefferies tube aboard a Sovereign-class starship
During the 24th century, Jefferies tubes became more simple, less intricate, and not as thoroughly filled with vital systems.
Vertical tubes
A standard 24th-century vertical tube aboard a starship (2370s)
The vertical tubes on starships allowed manual access to decks both above and below, which were labeled inside these particular tubes. Dim lights were located behind the main ladder and other lights were found on every deck. These tubes were equipped with a single one-way ladder for crewmen to climb or descend. (TNG: "Chain of Command, Part I", "Starship Mine", "Lessons", "Timescape", "Eye of the Beholder"; VOY: "Learning Curve", "Deadlock", "Macrocosm", "Relativity"; Star Trek Generations)
Horizontal tubes
The horizontal crawlways on starships allowed manual access to various vital parts of a ship or station. Dim lights were located near the floor and on each side of the tube. Crewmen usually had to crawl while traveling in them due to the cramped size. Inside these tubes were removable panels to important system conduits and engineering controls. (TNG: "Galaxy's Child", "Power Play", "Force of Nature", "Emergence"; DS9: "Destiny", "The Adversary", "Blaze of Glory"; VOY: "Twisted", "Scientific Method", "Year of Hell", "Collective")
In 2374, The Doctor sent the EMH Mark II to Jefferies tube 17 aboard the USS Prometheus to release a neurozine gas. The EMH Mark II had never accessed a Jefferies tube and The Doctor told him that, traditionally, such a Jefferies tube was accessed head first. (VOY: "Message in a Bottle")
The same year, an explosion blew off a hatch and exposed Jefferies tube 84 aboard the USS Voyager to space. (VOY: "Prey")
Tube junctions
A 24th-century tube junction (2360s)
On 24th-century starships, all Jefferies tubes had junction service rooms. They served as interconnected points, linking all the different tubes. Every room had exposed conduits on the walls, sometimes with panels to access various power conduits or relays.
This is a list of Jefferies tube appearances, which were typically only seen on Starfleet/Federation vessels. For a list of tunnels seen on space stations and other vessels, see access tunnel.
Background information
The innovative three-way ladder was never seen again
In universe, Jefferies tubes were probably named in honor of the 22nd century Starfleet engineer W.M. Jefferies. In reality, this character was named after Matt Jefferies, the designer of the original USS Enterprise and the Art Director of Star Trek: The Original Series. (Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 386))
The name "Jefferies tube" was originally an in-joke, already in use during the production of The Original Series, but only came to be canonically mentioned on a number of occasions in the later Star Trek: The Next Generation television series, the first time being in that show's third season episode "The Hunted". Jefferies himself had indicated, "Somebody hung the name Jefferies Tube on it. It wasn't me, but the name stuck and I used it in some of my sketches!" (Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook, p. 72; Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 386)) The first recorded use of the nomenclature was a "SHOT – JEFFERIES TUBE" script reference in the draft of 14 September 1967 of "Journey to Babel" (scene 36, p. 21, where the body of Gav was


Browser Fingerprinting: There's no place where you can hide
The EFF, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, did research about the users' privacy and how it is possible to identify the user in a quite unique way.
The concept is based on gathering as much information as possible, like user agent (browser and version), resolution, plugins installed, timezone, language, and so on to create a message digest to identify the user / user's device in an accurate way.
This means that disabling the cookies is not enough to avoid this kind of identification. So you can still be a target of web tracking, mainly for marketing and commercial purposes.
The full article is available at "A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy".
So fascinated by this experiment I've tried to create just for fun something similar to generate a "unique" fingerprint.
You can test my version on JSFiddle.
You can check the code here below:
But if you only think all the information the Google has got during the years based on what you have done on Internet, it's enough to track and predict your behaviour without too many problems and put at risk your privacy.


What is an idempotent operation?
In computing, an idempotent operation is one that has no additional effect if it is called more than once with the same input parameters. For example, removing an item from a set can be considered an idempotent operation on the set.
In mathematics, an idempotent operation is one where f(f(x)) = f(x). For example, the abs() function is idempotent because abs(abs(x)) = abs(x) for all x.
These slightly different definitions can be reconciled by considering that x in the mathematical definition represents the state of an object, and f is an operation that may mutate that object. For example, consider the Python set and its discard method. The discard method removes an element from a set, and does nothing if the element does not exist. So:
my_set.discard(x)
has exactly the same effect as doing the same operation twice:
my_set.discard(x)
my_set.discard(x)
Idempotent operations are often used in the design of network protocols, where a request to perform an operation is guaranteed to happen at least once, but might also happen more than once. If the operation is idempotent, then there is no harm in performing the operation two or more times.
See the Wikipedia article on idempotence for more information.
The above answer previously had some incorrect and misleading examples. Comments below written before April 2014 refer to an older revision.
Leave a Comment


Quick Answer: What Is Difference Between Sum And SUMX?
How do you use PowerPivot?
First, import your dataset into your Power Pivot workbook.
Next, in the Power Pivot window on the Power Pivot Home tab, click PivotTable.
Next, select "New Worksheet" (Excel will add an empty PivotTable).
Then, select the empty PivotTable and follow the instructions detailed there..
What does running total mean in tableau?
Running Total is probably the most used Table Calculation in Tableau. It is used to calculate a cumulative total of a measure across a specific dimension or table structure.
What does running total of all grades mean?
RUNNING TOTAL ON If you choose to go with the Running Total turned on (click yes), then the Running Total option will require you to enter zeroes for all graded items that a student doesn't submit. If no zeros are entered then the total possible points will not be calculated properly.
How do you sum a power query?
Short AnswerWithin Power Query click Add Column -> Custom Column.In the Custom Column dialog box enter the following formula: =[Headcount] / List.Sum(#"Changed Type"[Headcount])Change the formula to fit your scenario: … Give the custom column a useful name, such as % of total, then click OK.More items…•Feb 8, 2020
Which language is used in power query?
What is a running total called?
What is a running total? A running total, or cumulative sum, is a sequence of partial sums of any given data set. A running total is used as a means of displaying the summation of the data as it grows over time.
Is Power Query free?
Power Query is an amazing data tool for Excel! … "Free" add-in for Excel 2010 and 2013 for Windows. Built-in feature for Excel 2016 for Windows (Office 365 Subscription). Click here to learn where to find it.
How do I sum multiple columns in power query?
There are two ways to achieve the same sum operation on multiple columns.Use DAX expression in a Calculated column.Use DAX expression in Measure column.Jun 18, 2020
How do you handle null values in power query?
Select the cell value you want to change(select null in this case) in Query Editor. 2. Click "Replace Values" option under Home tab. Then you should be able to change null to "Unspecified" like below.
How do you Aggry a power query?
Select Home > Group by. In the Group by dialog box, select Advanced to select more than one column to group by. Add a column to aggregate by selecting Add aggregation at the bottom of the dialog box.
How is Cumsum calculated?
And you want to calculate the cumulative sum of the revenue for each customer. This is pretty simple. You can use Group By command to group the data by customer id. Then, select 'Create Window Calculations' -> Cumulative -> Sum (Total) from the column header menu of the 'revenue' column.
What is SUMX?
The SUMX function takes as its first argument a table, or an expression that returns a table. The second argument is a column that contains the numbers you want to sum, or an expression that evaluates to a column. Only the numbers in the column are counted. Blanks, logical values, and text are ignored.


text: Treating electron correlation more accurately and efficiently is at the heart of the development of electronic structure methods. In the present work, we explore the use of stochastic approaches to evaluate high-order electron correlation energies, whose conventional computational scaling is unpleasantly steep, being O(Nn+3) with respect to the system size N and the perturbation order n for the Møller-Plesset (MP) series. To this end, starting from Goldstone's time-dependent formulation of ab initio many-body perturbation theory (MBPT), we present a reformulation of MBPT, which naturally leads to a Monte Carlo scheme with O(nN2 + n2N + f(n)) scaling at each step, where f(n) is a function of n depending on the specific numerical scheme. Proof-of-concept calculations demonstrate that the proposed quantum Monte Carlo algorithm successfully extends the previous Monte Carlo approaches for MP2 and MP3 to higher orders by overcoming the factorial scaling problem. For the first time, Goldstone's time-dependent formulation is made useful numerically for electron correlation energies, not only being purely as a theoretical tool.


Amazon Machine Images: HVM or PV?
Learn the differences between HVM and PV for Amazon Machine Images.
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) have a virtualization type of "HVM" or "PV." What is the difference and which should I choose?
Steve MillidgeSteve Millidge
Under the covers, AWS runs the Xen hypervisor on the bare metal of its servers. Xen has the capability to virtualize in two ways: Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) or paravirtualization (PV).
Paravirtualization is a lightweight form of virtualization which differs from HVM in that it doesn't require any virtualization extensions from the host CPU. If your host server doesn't have Intel VT or AMD-V hardware extensions, then you'll need your guest to be paravirtualized.
PV does, however require that a guest OS has a "Xen-PV-enabled kernel" as well as PV drivers, meaning that the guests know that they are running in a hypervisor.
HVM guests are fully virtualized, so the underlying hardware has to be emulated for the guests to use, incurring performance cost, unlike PV, where the guest OS is modified to be able to run without needing that emulation.
If none of this is making sense so far, let me simplify; HVM requires the host machine to have a certain feature present in its hardware, whereas PV requires the guest OS to have a certain feature present in its software.
In practical terms, PV means that performance is much closer to what you would expect of the underlying hardware compared to HVM because of the extra overheads in HVM. As the Xen wiki says: "Fully virtualized guests are usually slower than paravirtualized guests, because of the required emulation."
The answer is simple, then: Choose PV instances because of the better performance. Right? Well, mostly. Since PV requires software changes, it is not possible to run a paravirtualized Windows guest.
The actual answer is nearly simple, then: If you need Windows, you'll need HVM. If you are using GNU Linux or Unix, you can choose either, but will (in most cases) get better performance with PV. The only caveat to make is that HVM isn't supported for t1.micro GNU/Linux instances.
For further reading, there's a good overview of these different types of guests in the Xen wiki.
This was first published in May 2014
Dig Deeper on AWS instances strategy and setup
Have a question for an expert?
Please add a title for your question
Get answers from a TechTarget expert on whatever's puzzling you.
You will be able to add details on the next page.
Forgot Password?
Your password has been sent to:


text:
Educator and historical researcher Glennette Tilley Turner was born November 23, 1933 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her mother, Phyllis, was a teacher, and her father, John, was the first executive director of the SCLC. As a child, Turner moved several times with her family, first to Florida, and then to Illinois. After graduating from high school, she attended Lake Forest College, earning her B.A. in 1955, and she later returned to school at Goddard College to earn her master's degree in 1977.
After earning her bachelor's degree, Turner first went to work in advertising, but made the switch to education in 1962. That year, she was hired by the Chicago public school system, and she remained there for four years. In 1966, Turner went to work for the Maywood-Melrose Park public schools, and in 1968, she began teaching in the Wheaton-Warrenville public schools. She remained there for the next twenty years. Today, Turner supervises student teachers at National-Louis University.
In addition to her work as a teacher, Turner is a historian, and has focused much of her research efforts on the Underground Railroad. Her first book, The Underground Railroad in DuPage County, was published in 1978, and since then she has continued to write and conduct research. Most recently, she has published The Underground Railroad in Illinois. Turner has also written collections of biographies of notable African Americans, and she serves as an advisor to the National Park Service, where she helps plan programs for the national historic Underground Railroad trail.
Turner lectures widely on the history of the Underground Railroad, and she has been honored numerous times both as an educator and historian. She is the recipient of the Studs Terkel Humanities Award, the Alice Browning Award from the International Black Writers Conference, and she is a member of numerous historical organizations.
Turner and her husband have two grown children. They reside in Illinois.
Glennette TIlly Turner was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on August 12, 2004.


text:
Modeling CO2 Storage Pipeline Routes in the United States
Carbon capture technology offers the potential for the United States to continue the widespread use of coal to generate electricity in a carbon constrained economy. This study examines potential configurations of a nationwide carbon capture and storage network by integrating work on the capture, transportation, and storage aspects of such a network. Modeling conducted with the Department of Energy's National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) model provided data on which plants will retrofit or be built with carbon capture technology in the future. A cost surface and several models were developed using geographic information system (GIS) software to site new plants and connect all carbon capture plants to geologic storage basins throughout the United States.
Several network scenarios with different levels of foresight and government pipeline construction assistance are examined. Building a trunkline increases the overall length of the pipeline network. Assuming all pipelines are the same diameter, initial cost estimates indicate that building a trunkline network is more expensive than allowing plants to connect to storage sites on their own. More detailed information on pipeline diameter is needed to develop accurate cost estimates of different pipeline network configurations to further inform decision makers.
School Location:USA - North Carolina
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Keywords:co2 pipeline routing storage pipelines
Date of Publication:04/24/2009


Unsafe Application State Restoration (iOS)
Unsafe Application State Restoration (iOS)
What Does Unsafe Application State Restoration Actually Mean?
Despite the fancy title, it essentially means that a mobile application saves the state of a view location that is only presented to an authenticated user, or that contains sensitive data. Within the event of the application being unexpectedly terminated, the state is restored and loaded back into the UI without first validating or re-authenticating the current user.
Conceptually this happens all the time within mobile applications. A developer focused on making things easy and enjoyable for the user, will implement this type of functionality, so if by chance the application closes, the user will be brought back into the same state they left off at.
This functionality makes sense, and is a nice addition to many of the applications we use day in and day out, but what if this existed in your mobile banking application, or on a shared device in a hospital for an application that stored and operated on PHI? If an attacker has direct access to an unlocked device with these applications, he can potentially re-open them after they have been closed, and be presented with very critical data.
So hopefully we can start understanding what this vulnerability actually means and its potential impact.
Preservation and Restoration
For this specific scenario we will explore the technical details surrounding the vulnerability paired with Apple's UIKit Framework. The UIKit Framework has a state restoration system that allows for the preservation and restoration for the application's view controller objects. UIKit allows the developer to choose which view controllers and views he wants to ultimately preserve and restore. To do this, a restoration identifier marks a restorable object, which is a string that identifies the view or the view controller to UIKit and the application.
During preservation the application will:
 - Tell UIKit it supports state preservation
 - Tell UIKit which view controllers to preserve
 - Encode all data for the targeted objects
Preservation
During restoration the application will:
 - Tell UIKit it supports state restoration
 - Provide the restorable objects
 - Decode the state for all relevant objects and return
Restoration
Class Dump Inspection
Methods
To figure out whether or not the application supports preservation and restoration, we can take a look at the output from class-dump-z.
We can see within the Application's Delegate the method 'application:willEncodeRestorableStateWithCoder:' – this is used to encode the state information for the targeted object. You can also see the corresponding method for decoding – 'application didDecodeRestorableStateWithCoder:' – which is called when the application finishes its restoration of the decoded objects.
Unsafe Application State Restoration, So What Is The Risk?
The problem is rooted purely in context, meaning it is all based off what the application's overall business impact will be (i.e. Healthcare). The biggest recommendation I have so far is there really isn't a good reason to mark view objects for preservation that exist in a post-authenticated world. Even if it is solely meant to provide a better user experience, it still is inherently dangerous.
If by chance a developer still chooses to implement this risky functionality, the user still needs to be forced to identify themselves and authenticate back into the application. It would make the most sense that this process begins before initializing and decoding object state.


What is a universal preschool
Does universal preschool increase mothers' job supply?
Relevance of the topic
Since the 1970s, many countries have introduced free or highly subsidized educational formats for preschoolers to improve their learning and socio-economic opportunities and to encourage mothers to work. Evaluations show that these measures can strengthen maternal employment not only in the short term, but also after the end of preschool, by improving the acquisition of qualifications and the retention of mothers in the labor market. However, effectiveness depends on policy making, country context and characteristics of mothers of preschoolers.
Important results
A general pre-school encourages mothers to work if their low employment is caused by a lack of childcare facilities.
Pre-school care enables the acquisition of professional skills and can contribute to greater long-term loyalty to the labor market
If the universal preschool increases maternal employment, the effects last for several years.
Improving the quality, availability and flexibility of pre-school provision could bring more mothers into employment.
If the universal pre-school only displaces existing informal or privately paid childcare, hardly any effect on the gainful employment of mothers is to be expected.
In countries with traditional perceptions of gender roles and low demand for female workers, a universal preschool can only have a limited effect.
A target group-oriented approach is likely to be more cost-effective if a comprehensive preschool primarily increases the labor supply for mothers with low incomes or single parents.
Key message from the author
The effect of a universal pre-school on maternal employment is particularly large in countries with rather low levels of employment, private childcare and social benefits. The positive labor force participation effects persist beyond preschool attendance, but are often concentrated on low-income or single mothers whose youngest child is of pre-school age. As a result, a targeted subsidy of pre-school education for mothers who otherwise could not afford pre-school care for their children should be a more cost-effective way of effectively increasing the number of jobs.


text:
Image: Shortbill Spearfish, Tetrapturus angustirostris
A Shortbill Spearfish caught on hook and line at a depth of 450 m, off Rottnest Island, Perth, 31 August 2011.
- Jamie Moir
- © Jamie Moir
- Common name:
- Shortbill Spearfish
- Scientific name:
- Tetrapturus angustirostris
The species occurs in offshore waters and is infrequently encountered close to the coast. It is recorded from the Indo-Pacific region and rarely from the Atlantic. In Australia it occurs in most marine offshore areas, but has not been recorded from Northern Territory waters or the Gulf of Carpentaria.
- Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & G.R. Allen. 2006. Fishes. In Beesley, P.L. & A. Wells. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 35. ABRS & CSIRO Publishing: Australia. parts 1-3, pages 1-2178.
- Nakamura, I. 1985. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 5. Billfishes of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of marlins, sailfishes, spearfishes and swordfishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. No. 125 (5): i-iv, 1-65.
- Pepperell, J. 2010. Fishes of the Open Ocean. A natural history & illustrated guide. University of NSW Press. Pp. 266.


text:
Which drugs do people take? The Guardian/Mixmag survey is one attempt to explain the facts behind this controversial issue - which sees users claim that more of them use cannabis than energy drinks.
Conducted by Global Drug Survey, we wanted to know which drugs people take, how often and why. The survey of 15,500 people studied a wide range of illict and legal substances, from alcohol and cannabis to cocaine and MDMA - as well as newer drugs such as mephedrone and synthetic cannabis. These are the results.
The answers came from countries around the world, mostly the UK and US. Here are some of the key findings:
- fifth of young drug users admit to taking "mystery white powders" without any idea what they contain - 15% of overall respondents say they have taken a unknown white powder in the last 12 months, a third admitting its was supplied by someone they didn't trust. But younger drug users were much more likely to take risks with unknown substances, with a fifth of all survey respondents aged between 18 and 25 saying they had taken mystery powders
- more respondents in the UK and US admitted to taking cannabis than either tobacco or energy drinks
- Those who defined themselves as clubbers were more likely to take ecstasy than smoke cigarettes
- 3.5% of those in the UK said they had even taken ecstasy, or MDMA, anually
- Alcohol is used regularly by almost all drug users, and apart from tobacco, the substance respondents would most like to take less of. Two-thirds of male respondents and 60% of women drank reported drinking at hazardous or harmful levels - though a fifth of regarded their drinking as average or below average levels
This is how we animated the results:
Keep up-to-date with drug policy developments by subscribing to the IDPC Monthly Alert.


text:
16 April 2009
A new, interactive education section has been launched to support teachers and help pupils learning about weather and climate change. The refreshed web pages have been split into three sections for kids, teens and teachers to match the needs of each age group.
They have been designed with the help of teachers and are more engaging, easier to navigate and provide clearer content.
Younger children can meet the 'Weather Explorer', who will help them learn about the weather and provide them with amazing facts. There are also games to play and experiments to try at home or in the classroom.
For teenagers there are in-depth case studies on severe weather events, which provide greater information on the weather and its impacts on people and places.
New worksheets and presentations for primary and secondary pupils have been designed to support the National Curriculum for England, so teachers will find it easier to incorporate weather and climate change into lesson plans. Covering elements of the geography, science and maths curriculums, all of the material can be downloaded free-of-charge.
Mark Gibbs, Education Business Manager, said: "We have worked closely with teachers to develop our education web pages to suit their needs. The three areas are designed to be simple and clear to use, both as part of a lesson or by children exploring the web for themselves."
Met Office Press Office: +44 (0)1392 886655
E-mail: Press Office
Met Office Customer Centre: 0870 _PHONE_
If you're outside the UK: +44 1392 885680


text:
BIOPHYSICS SEMINARStructural Determinants and Functional Consequences of Protein Partitioning to Membrane Domains
The organization of metazoan membranes into functional domains is a key feature of their physiology. A subset of these domains, known as membrane rafts, has been implicated in a large variety of processes occurring at the plasma membrane. However, the molecular mechanisms by which raft domains regulate cell function remain elusive. Here, we demonstrate that membrane raft association is a necessary and sufficient sorting signal for cell surface localization of integral membrane proteins, and that this raft association is governed by the properties of the protein transmembrane domain. These results begin to define the physical bases for protein raft affinity and establish lateral domain formation in membranes as a mechanism for biosynthetic sorting in mammalian cells.


text:
A multi-purpose maritime facility that will provide the necessary logistics infrastructure for Abu Dhabi's growing industrial and commercial sections has been constructed approximately 4.6 kilometres off the shores of Taweelah.
Halcrow was retained by Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADP) to provide the planning, environmental, and management services for the port facilities of the proposed development of the Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone at Al Taweelah, Abu Dhabi. The new port is designed to accommodate the current and future marine traffic served by the principal port of Abu Dhabi, Mina Zayed, which is to be closed, and to create a gateway for the import and export of raw materials and finished products from the industrial zone.
The port is on an artificial island complex 4 km offshore. Developed in five stages, by 2030 the port will have 7.4 km of quay for 22 container berths, 12.6 km of quay for 63 general cargo and RO-RO berths, and 2.4 km of quay for six dry bulk berths. This will accommodate annually 12 million TEU of containerized cargo, 16 million tonnes of general and RO-RO cargo, and 25 million tonnes of dry bulk.
The project will create 1,200 ha of reclaimed land using the material dredged from the access channel and port basins. It will be linked to shore by a causeway formed as a solid bund for most of its length, with a 1 km opening spanned by a bridge to allow water to circulate. The exposed faces of the port island and causeway will be protected using rock or concrete armor units. The quay walls will be constructed from solid concrete blocks keyed together. Pavements, cargo handling equipment, roads, buildings, and utility supplies will be installed on the island to create the marine terminals.
Halcrow conducted a pre-master plan study to determine the feasibility of a new port and industrial zone at Al Taweelah. This included a Met Ocean data collection campaign that had as its objective establishment of the baseline conditions to permit the calibration and verification of a number of hydrodynamic wave transformation, sediment transport, and water quality numerical models developed by Halcrow to assess the impact of the proposed development on the marine environment and adjacent marine infrastructure.
Subsequent to this, Halcrow carried out four separate, but highly interdependent assignments: port master plan, marine infrastructure impact assessment (MIIA), environmental impact assessment (EIA), and site investigations. In addition, it provided the project management necessary to ensure these assignments were fully coordinated.
The port will reside on an artificial island, 4 km offshore. Developed in five stages, by 2030 it will offer container, general cargo, roll-on-roll-off, and dry bulk berths. The island will be created using material dredged from the access channel and port basins. It will be linked to shore by a causeway with a 1 km opening spanned by a bridge to allow water to circulate. A 9 km-long breakwater protects the environmentally sensitive area from the effects of construction and port operations.
The economy of the emirate of Abu Dhabi is almost totally dependent on the petroleum sector. A major objective of the government is to diversify the economy and create additional sectors that can be self-sustaining and assure the prosperity of Abu Dhabi into the future. To achieve this, a new industrial zone is being created in which major industries, and supporting commercial, logistics, and services industries, can flourish. These industries will create employment opportunities and, in turn, create the need for a new town to provide housing, schools, and the myriad services these workers and their families will require. A key element in this vision is Khalifa Port.
The new port is located at a relatively undeveloped location on the coast of Abu Dhabi, adjacent to an existing power and desalination plant to the west and a marine nature preserve to the east. The hydrodynamic modelling established that the effect of the port could be substantially reduced by locating the port island further offshore, providing a 1 km-long bridge in the port access causeway to increase long-shore current flow, and a 9 km-long breakwater to protect the environmentally sensitive area from the effects of construction and port operations. These features, which increased the cost of the port by hundreds of millions of dollars, were approved by the Abu Dhabi government to ensure the marine environment is properly protected in accordance with its policy.
The new port permits the existing port, located within the capital city, to be closed and developed for tourism, recreation and residential development, improving the quality of life for the citizens of Abu Dhabi and helping to further diversify the regional economy.


October 23, 2018
The Top 10 Lessons I Learned Freshman Year at the CIA
top 10 lessons freshman year og image
So here's my countdown of 10 important lessons I've learned so far as a student here at The Culinary Institute of America:
10. The second term practical is not as scary as it seems, and if you fail you can always try again. Listen to your chefs when they tell you it's just soup and one entrée. They prepared you well, so trust them.
9. When a chef gives you feedback on a dish you made, it is not directed towards you personally. It's only about the food. One bad critique will not destroy you.
8. Absorb as much information as you can, because the classes move quickly. I seriously can't believe that my first year is already over.
7. Ask as many questions as you can. Even if your chef gets irritated, it is worth it. In my opinion, it is better to do it right the first time than to do it wrong because you didn't ask.
6. Learn from your mistakes. It is the only way to improve.
5. Practice makes perfect. You will not become a celebrity overnight.
4. If you fail a class, it is not the end of the world. You are also not the first one to ever fail a class.
3. Being stressed only makes school harder. It's OK to have fun! I used to walk into every class repeating, "Confidence is the name of the game." Once I truly had confidence in my abilities—and myself—I didn't need the mantra anymore.
2. The Tutoring Center can become your best friend if you let it. If you are struggling, there is no shame in asking for help. (Also, it seems that they never run out of potatoes…trust me on that.)
1. Coming in with no kitchen experience can seem like a disadvantage, but it is not. You only need to be better than you were yesterday.
Bonus lesson: Listen to your parents. They may know nothing about culinary school, but they are pretty smart and give great advice. Don't be too stubborn, and take that advice no matter how much you do not want them to be right.
By Marisa Papell, Student Contributor | La Papillote


text:
SMM7 March 20:
I. the main ship type of bauxite in the Pacific region
The main ship type of bauxite transportation in the Pacific region is less than 100000 tonnes. from the point of view of transportation, the loading port of bauxite in the Pacific region does not have the capacity of large ships because of its port restrictions. For example: Australia's bauxite loading port is mostly limited by berth draught, usually using Panama-type transport capacity, and some ports can be modified to load and unload 120000-ton ships, that is, post-panamax and mini cape;, while the loading ports in Southeast Asia can only load their own goods at the loading Anchorage with 5764,000-ton handy ships with Klein crane and grab due to draught restrictions and port restrictions.
Second, the existing benefit data of the transport capacity of 300,000 tons.
At present, the 30,000,000 dwt transport capacity operated in the market are tailor-made for iron ore, and the transport contracts bound to the ship are long-term contracts, and the whole life cycle of the ship serves for specific projects (similar to "pay or not"). Therefore, the ship does not have market liquidity; And the shipper bound to the ship also has a certain ability to control the ship, for example: in order to deal with the switch between high and low sulfur fuel, the shipper can choose to use low sulfur fuel, or arrange the ship to come into the factory to install desulfurization tower at his own expense.
At the same time, as we all know, fuel price fluctuations have a certain impact on freight rates, the rise and fall of freight rates of conventional ships will be affected by fuel price fluctuations, and this change can not be clearly predicted. On the other hand, 30Mel 400,000-ton customized ships basically do not participate in the market circulation, and their freight rates are also different from the pricing mechanism of conventional ships, which, to some extent, can reduce the excessive stimulation of fuel price fluctuations to the rise and fall of freight rates. In this context, the reference of benefit comparison is open to question.
III. Loading and unloading capacity of 400,000 tons of bauxite in domestic ports
At present, although domestic ports are more and more inclined to build large-scale deepwater berths, the domestic policy has not fully liberalized the examination and approval and restrictions on the construction of 400,000-ton wharves. At the present stage, the existing and under construction of the 300,000-ton wharf and its supporting loading and unloading system are basically specially designed for iron ore. If the loading and unloading bauxite is temporarily replaced, in order to reduce cargo damage, it is necessary to carry out the whole system cleaning operation before and after loading and unloading, which is very tedious. At the same time, whether the wharf has a special service agreement with the iron ore and the consignee still needs to be further confirmed. If bauxite is picked up and unloaded all the year round, or additional special berths and loading and unloading systems will be needed, construction investment, wharf throughput and income are all factors that need to be further considered.
In addition, the existing 400,000-ton terminals are basically the transit point of iron ore mixing and distribution, which is an indispensable link for iron ore trade due to the influence of the distribution of mineral resources and calcination process. However, for bauxite trade, if centralized distribution occurs, it is likely to increase the cost of land transportation. In terms of total transportation cost, centralized distribution may have more advantages than conventional ship transportation.
At present, it is known that shipping companies that are planning to transport bauxite with a capacity of 325,000 tons are mainly due to the singleness of their main customers, the scale and stability of their annual imports, and the realistic basis that the consignee has 400,000 tons of berths in the nearest port. Based on this, the use of super-large ships in bauxite transportation at the present stage is actually not universal and needs specific analysis.
IV. Characteristics of transportation of bauxite in Guinea
Considering the natural conditions of Guinea, first, the continental shelf along the coastline of Guinea is specially constructed, it is extremely difficult to build a deep-water port, and the cost of dredging and waterway construction is huge. So in the early days, due to draught restrictions, Rusal chose to use handy ships in the port of Conakry in Guinea, while Alcoa chose to use Camsar ships in the port of Camsar. It is only with the opening of sea barge technology in recent years that conventional Capesize ships gradually participate in the transportation route of Guinean bauxite in order to reduce transportation costs. If a 30-400000 ton ocean-going ship is used to transport bauxite, it is necessary to retrofit the existing barge equipment or even to build and upgrade the supporting equipment. At the same time, due to the draught requirements of super-large ships, the location of barge Anchorage will be further away from the coastline. Without considering the risks such as maritime safety, the increase of barge distance will lead to a substantial increase in barge equipment investment and barge transportation costs. Second, Guinea can be divided into rainy season and dry season, and the efficiency of sea barge operation is obviously reduced in the rainy season, coupled with the fact that exclusive customized ship types do not have market liquidity, which will lead to excess capacity and idle capacity in the long rainy season. in theory, it is suggested that it should be customized according to the standard of transport demand in the rainy season.
V. views on the construction of factories overseas
First of all, with the gradual deepening of the domestic implementation of the "capacity loss" policy, it is imperative for central enterprises to "go out". Second, the domestic environmental pollution is serious, the government is firmly determined to carry out the "green water and green mountains" work, the anti-pollution work has been continuously strengthened, and the trend of rectification and closure of all kinds of non-compliant factories has been obvious. Third, affected by the epidemic, the global economy has fallen into a state of serious depression, and not only domestic enterprises but also international capital have entered a state of tightening, carefully arranging investment plans and making every effort to deal with the current situation. On the whole, the situation at this stage may cause investors to delay investment, but it does not provide a decisive basis for investment decisions.
VI. Exploration of special ships for super-large bauxite mines
At present, the existing 40,000 dwt ships are all customized iron ore ships and have no general market performance; so the cabin capacity of this kind of ships is relatively small, and if bauxite is loaded, there will be obvious underloading, which is of no obvious help to reduce transportation costs.
Domestic well-known bulk transport enterprises have also been committed to studying the large-scale design scheme of bauxite transport ships and further optimizing the applicability of the ship. however, the substantive scheme optimization, ship construction and benefit evaluation still need the concrete implementation of long-term transportation contract and construction contract.
Summary: at present, although domestic alumina plants are not like steel mills concentrated in coastal areas with convenient water transportation, they have also begun to move forward or build new ones in coastal areas. It is believed that in the next few years, the demand for land transport of bauxite will gradually decrease, and the demand for full-process water transport will become an "important play", which may provide a broader space for super-large bauxite special ships at that time.
Author: Cosco Marine bulk cargo Transportation Co., Ltd. Huayi


text:
The Universe has universal rules which have been shared with humanity through religions and must be followed to end the recycling of souls. It is the job of all of humanity to get out of the recycle process by following the rules set up by the Universe.
These rules exist only for the souls in human bodies. Souls at the recycling centre, souls trapped in lower life forms and souls in transition are not covered under the universal laws.
Following the universal rules while in the human body will help release the soul from the recycling process and allow souls to choose how they want to live.
The guardian of humanity does not have any control over these rules. They were created by the Universe and must be followed by humanity. Only the laws that are common to all religions can be considered universal laws because they have been proven to provide souls with the leverage to remove themselves from the recycling process.
Example of Universal Rules
- Do not worship entities or earth based objects/persons or ideas.
- Be careful with the power in your words.
- Incorporate a day and daily times for reflection and meditation.
- Respect your soul family.
- Avoid killing life forms with souls.
- Do not Take or have the intent to take from others.
- Do not cheat in any committed relationship.
- Country citizenship
- Do not lie with intent.
- Do not wish for what others have.