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- Why gas flame is yellow?
- Is it safe to cook with orange flame?
- How do you fix a orange flame on a gas heater?
- What does it mean when the gas flame is orange?
- What color flame should a gas heater have?
- Does yellow flame mean carbon monoxide?
- Is a blue flame hotter than an orange flame?
- What Colour should a pilot light flame be?
- Is orange gas flame dangerous?
- What Colour gas flame is dangerous?
- Should a gas fireplace always have a flame?
- Does Blue Flame produce carbon monoxide?
- What color flame is carbon monoxide?
- What should a gas flame look like?
- What does carbon monoxide smell like?
Why gas flame is yellow?
Gas burners burn blue if the ratio of fuel to air is correct.
A yellow burner flame is a symptom that the burner is not getting enough air for complete combustion of the gas.
Correcting this problem involves adjusting the burner's air shutter to admit more air, something that an experienced do-it-yourselfer can do..
Is it safe to cook with orange flame?
An orange flame indicates your oven is not running efficiently, but it will still work. It's temperature that matters for your food, not the appearance of the fire. Yes, it is definitely safe, but the flame is not burning efficiently.
How do you fix a orange flame on a gas heater?
If you have an orange or yellow burner flame on your gas range make sure the burner portholes are clean and free of debris. Spillovers and cooking grease can block these openings which can affect the flame color. Make sure the burner holes and ignitor are clean and free from any debris.
What does it mean when the gas flame is orange?
If you see orange flames instead of blue flames, the burners may need cleaning or adjusting. The orange color alerts you to your gas stove's improper combustion, which may emit unsafe levels of carbon monoxide gas.
What color flame should a gas heater have?
blueThe burner flames from your natural gas furnace should look blue or almost completely blue. A healthy natural gas furnace flame is characterized by a roaring blue flame with a light blue triangle in its center. There may be a tiny tip of yellow.
Does yellow flame mean carbon monoxide?
A yellow flame indicates improper adjustment and a possibility of excessive carbon monoxide. Do not use the oven as a source of heat.
Is a blue flame hotter than an orange flame?
Blue flames burn hotter than orange flames, with temperatures reaching up to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. … They heat up more quickly and to higher temperatures than fires using other fuel sources, resulting in a blue flame.
What Colour should a pilot light flame be?
blueThe color of the pilot light should be blue because that means that only natural gas—without any other condensates—is reaching the pilot light through the gas main. The principal chemical compound found in natural gas is methane, and methane burns blue.
Is orange gas flame dangerous?
Orange or yellow flames from your gas range, or "sooty flames," indicate an incomplete burning of fuel and can put you at risk for carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.
What Colour gas flame is dangerous?
yellowThe yellow colour comes from the soot particles produced by the flame. Yellow or red flames only burn at around 1,000 degrees C. This flame is dangerous as it produces more poisonous carbon monoxide gas.
Should a gas fireplace always have a flame?
We recommend that you turn off your gas fireplace pilot light seasonally. Turning off your gas fireplace's pilot light can save a substantial amount of energy and money. It is important to remember that not all gas fireplaces have "standing" pilot light, or, a pilot light that is "always on".
Does Blue Flame produce carbon monoxide?
Carbon Monoxide A blue flame is one indication of proper function and complete combustion. As discussed, malfunctioning units may generate carbon monoxide, due to incomplete combustion.
What color flame is carbon monoxide?
blue flameCarbon Monoxide A blue flame is one indication of proper function and complete combustion. As discussed, malfunctioning units may generate carbon monoxide, due to incomplete combustion.
What should a gas flame look like?
A healthy, properly burning flame on gas appliances should be blue in color, sometimes with a tiny tip of yellow, with a little light blue triangle at the center. This blue color flame indicates that there is safe, efficient and more complete fuel combustion.
What does carbon monoxide smell like?
Carbon monoxide is a gas that has no odor, color or taste. You wouldn't be able to see or smell it, but it can be very dangerous to your health and even fatal.


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The History of Pointe Shoes: The Landmark Moments That Made Ballet's Signature Shoe What It Is Today
Pointe shoes, with their ability to elevate a dancer both literally and metaphorically to a superhuman realm, are the ultimate symbol of a ballerina's ethereality and hard work. For students, receiving a first pair of pointe shoes is a rite of passage. The shoes carry an almost mystical allure: They're an endless source of lore and ritual, with tips, tricks and stories passed down over generations.
The history of pointe shoes reveals how a delicately darned slipper introduced in the 1820s has transformed into a technical tool that offers dancers the utmost freedom onstage today.
1730s: Marie Camargo Invents the Ballet Slipper
A lithograph of Camargo in a floral gown and heeled shoes with one leg lifted
Marie Camargo
Courtesy Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library
During ballet's creation in the courts of Europe, dancers wore heeled shoes in line with the era's aesthetic. In the 1730s, Paris Opéra Ballet dancer Marie Camargo was the first to remove her shoes' heels, forging the way for the soft slipper we know today. "Camargo is the transitional point between a heeled shoe and pointe shoe. She is the ballet slipper," says Linda Murray, curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The slipper allowed Camargo to perform leaps and fast allégros that were not possible in heeled shoes, expanding movement vocabulary for ballerinas.
1790s: Charles Didelot's Flying Machine
In the late 18th century, Charles Didelot, a Paris Opéra Ballet dancer-turned-choreographer, invented a wire rigging that allowed dancers to "fly" onstage. The apparatus lifted dancers up onto their toes before they flew. "His ballet Flore et Zéphire introduced the idea of weightlessness," says Murray. "From a choreographic perspective, this is the first notion of what it means to dance on pointe."
1820s–1830s: Marie Taglioni and the Romantic Ballerinas
Lithograph of Taglioni in a dress covered in flowers and pearl jewelry and wings, standing on pointe in a low arabesque
Marie Taglioni in La Sylphide
Courtesy Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library
In 1823, the Italian dancer Amalia Brugnoli introduced pointework to ballet audiences, rising up to the tips of her toes in Armand Vestris' La Fée et le Chevalier. Brugnoli wore lightly stitched square-toed satin slippers, and had to use her arms and a visible amount of effort to get up on her toes. Nevertheless, she inspired the other dancers of the day, including Marie Taglioni, to practice the technique. In 1832, Taglioni became the first to dance a full-length ballet on pointe when she premiered La Sylphide, choreographed by her father, Filippo Taglioni. "Marie Taglioni gets the credit and the blame for introducing pointework," says Eliza Gaynor Minden, the head of design behind pointe shoe company Gaynor Minden. For Taglioni, rising up on pointe was more than just a stunt; she used her shoes—tight-fitting, darned, leather-soled satin slippers tied with ribbons—to convey character and emotion. Other Romantic-era ballerinas, particularly Fanny Elssler, who excelled at fast footwork, pushed pointework even further in the years that followed.
1870s–1890s: Italian Shoes Set the Imperial Standard
Sarah Lane in pink Aurora costume in a pass\u00e9 with one arm in the air onstage
American Ballet Theatre's Sarah Lane in Alexei Ratmansky's reconstruction of The Sleeping Beauty
Rosalie O'Connor, Courtesy American Ballet Theatre
Later in the 19th century, Italian shoemakers developed reinforced pointe shoes with stiff boxes made from newspaper, flour paste and pasteboard. The shoes' cardboard insoles were reinforced with leather. "The Italian ballerinas were able to do more bravura steps on pointe, including sustained balances and multiple pirouettes," says Minden. Italian dancers traveled to Russia, where ballet was extremely popular in the imperial courts, and ultimately influenced Marius Petipa to incorporate pointework into his ballets. He used it to help define his characters, such as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, whose long balances demonstrate her poise.
1910s–1930s: Anna Pavlova and Capezio
Black and white photograph of Anna Pavlova in a white swan tutu standing in fifth position on pointe with her arms crossed at her heart
Anna Pavlova in 1905
Herman Mishkin, Courtesy the Museum at FIT
Early-20th-century prima Anna Pavlova had very high, unstable arches, so she put leather soles inside her pointe shoes and hardened the box for more support. When she made her first trip to the U.S. in 1910, Pavlova had her company outfitted in shoes made by the Metropolitan Opera shoemaker Salvatore Capezio, thereby launching the first international pointe shoe brand. While Pavlova helped bring pointe shoes into the modern era, her shoes still had a very rounded toe and narrow vamp, making them much less stable than those worn today. "Footage of Pavlova even shows that she's sort of rocking on her toes the entire time she's on pointe," says Murray.
Close up photo of old heavily darned pointe shoe
Anna Pavlova's heavily darned shoe
Courtesy The Museum at FIT
1920s–1980s: The Shoe Adapts to Abstraction
Reichlen, in pink tights and a black leotard with a black belt, stands in a wide fourth position with her arms in the air.
New York City Ballet's Teresa Reichlen dancing Balanchine's 1946 The Four Temperaments
Paul Kolnik, Courtesy NYCB
Throughout the 19th century, the main purpose of the pointe shoe was to serve a ballet's narrative, distinguishing the mortals from supernatural fairies and sylphs. "But in the 20th century, particularly with the emergence of the Ballets Russes and then George Balanchine, you start to see an interest in pushing the vocabulary of ballet instead," says Murray. Over the next several decades, innovators from Bronislava Nijinska to William Forsythe expanded the physical limitations of ballet technique, leading to a demand for a stronger, more supportive shoe. Designs like the flat, platform box we are familiar with today were developed to give dancers more control.
1990s–Today: New Materials and Methods
Full page ad of two photos of Gillian Murphy with a quote below, and pink Gaynor Minden logo
Gillian Murphy in an early Gaynor Minden ad
Courtesy Gaynor Minden
In recent years, scientific approaches to pointe shoe construction and training have helped the shoe adapt to contemporary choreographic demands. In 1993, Gaynor Minden launched a shoe inspired by the shock-absorption found in athletic footwear, opening the door for other designers to experiment with modern materials to improve shoes' durability and fit. Emerging research in dance medicine has also made pointework safer. Dr. Sue Mayes, director of The Australian Ballet's pioneering Artistic Health program, collects data on all musculoskeletal complaints in the company, and she advises that proper fit for shoes is paramount to injury risk reduction. "The foot needs room to expand and contract to allow the shoe to act as a spring," she says, "We encourage dancers to be reassessed every year, even as adults." Mayes also stresses that proper preparation, gradual reintroduction of pointework after a break from dancing, and full leg strengthening can allow a dancer to perform on pointe without fear. "The last thing we want is for a dancer to feel cautious onstage."
Mayes adjusts the foot of a dancer sitting on a massage table in a studio.
Dr. Sue Mayes working with dancers at The Australian Ballet
Kate Longley, Courtesy The Australian Ballet
Beyond "European Pink"
Two Black dancers in silver tutus put on satin pointe shoes
Ballet Black dancers Cira Robinson and Marie Astrid Mence model Freed's line.
Tyrone Singleton, Courtesy Ballet Black
In the early 1970s, Dance Theatre of Harlem began customizing the company dancers' tights, pointe shoes and ribbons in shades of brown to match their skin tones. The effect was revolutionary for classical ballet. But it isn't until recently that pointe shoe manufacturers have started releasing shades that reflect the diverse skin tones of the ballerinas wearing them. Gaynor Minden released a collection of inclusive satin shades in 2017. The following year, Freed of London followed suit, in collaboration with the London-based dance company Ballet Black. And in the midst of June 2020's nationwide protests demanding racial justice, brands Bloch, Russian Pointe, Capezio, Nikolay, Grishko and Suffolk jumped on board, promising expanded lines released within the year. These options have helped free dancers from pancaking their shoes to match their skin tones, which can be costly and time-consuming. Most importantly, redefining what a pointe shoe looks like breaks down a long-outdated construct and makes ballet more accessible and welcoming to all


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Residential Toponyms and Urban Change (_PHONE_) in a Seaside Resort Town, Benicassim, Spain
This paper examines the naming patterns of residential dwellings in a seaside resort town, Benicàssim (Valencia), on Spain's Mediterranean coast. The fieldwork encompassed a survey of over 500 dwelling units along the town's coastal margin which has been developed over the last 100 years. Names, specifically personal names and surnames, are most commonly used, with women's name's being most frequent. Almost invariably these are associated with single-family dwellings. Geographical referents, usually of invoking exotic destinations and references to the sun and sea represent other significant categories. These names are used as toponyms for apartment buildings and other multi-unit residences. Recent naming patterns, usually for apartments, include a number of made-up names using prefixes or suffixes referring to the local area.

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Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-selectors] :stuck pseudo-class feature suggestion
After much pondering, I now get why it was not implemented:
1. Circular selection issue - breaks the website function and user experience, that's a big No No. We can maybe leave that out for developers to figure out the circular issue, but then, it becomes "buggy".
2. Performance consideration - we can prevent circular selection issue by implementing logic, that might be checking each class & id's if there are combinations that cause circular selection.
In programming, Boolean evaluation are very expensive vs not evaluating at all. It certain websites, there maybe hundreds or worst thousands of these elements, so this implementation could go exponentially in terms of compute resource. Doing the same thing in JS would then become faster for that 1 div we want "stuck" pseudo class for.
**Suggested solution 1 so that we can address point 2**
1. Implement :stuck pseudo class without logic, then implement a css developer checker within css engine so whenever the devs. are in inspect mode, they get notified about this issue. When not in dev mode this check is disabled so we avoid issue #2.
**Suggested solution 2 so that we can address both point 1 & 2**
1. Implement the ':stuck' pseudo class like a 'function' so when the css parser encounters ':stuck' it calls its function then carry out evaluations, if there is a circular selection drop that css block then continue parsing the css.
It goes like this
':stuck --parser--> function stuck(){//drop if circular selection}'
In this implementation, we avoid evaluating each and every element since the "checkers" is only asked to evaluate for ':stuck' class only.
I think the last suggestion is really sensible enough to enable great features without the dreaded performance problem. Can we reopen this ticket for implementations?
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Native - Organic Cane Sugar - 1kg
Organic sugar from Brazil. At Native, being organic means more than ensuring their raw materials come from fields that have been preserved in their natural state, respecting plant life cycles. For them, organic means applying the most advanced technology to traditional practices of natural and sustainable farming, which restores the natural ecological balance on their farms and contributes to beneficial social and economic programs in their community.
Ingredients: Organic Cane Sugar


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A Family Worship Resource: Devotionals for parents and youth, plus stories for children.
Family worship is a time for parents and children to gather for singing, Bible reading, and spiritual instruction. Many parents see the importance of family worship, but struggle to find material suitable for their whole family.
This series addresses that need. Each book has an overall theme that is broken into thirteen sections. Each section has readings for seven days, making ninety-one lessons—enough for approximately a quarter of a year.
Each day's lesson consists of two parts. The first part is especially for Dad and Mom and older children. It includes a suggested Scripture reading, a theme verse, and a devotional meditation on the topic introduced by the Scripture reading.
The second part consists of a reading from a continued children's story related to that week's theme. Each story is followed by questions for review and discussion, which provide opportunities for applying the theme to life.

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The exhibition studies the influence of the enigmatic Venus Kallipygos statue on fashion. The sculpture is thought to be a 1st century BCE Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic bronze original. Within an ancient context, Greece's Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, is comparable to the Venus of Roman times. Our artifact is linked to numerous goddess statues yet is quite unique. She wears a chiton — a single piece of cloth joined at the shoulders and belted—that is also rooted in Greek culture. As important as what is worn is how it is worn: the symbiosis between body and clothes resurfaces time-and-time-again and, in many ways, is present with us today.
The research is divided in three parts. The first contextualizes the statue: it investigates the artifact in terms of appearance, identity and cultural significance. The second explores its influence in the late 18th and early 19th century. Copies of our Venus spread and influenced dress in three visible ways: through the corporeality of clothing, in elements of dress such as colors, silhouettes and use of fabrics, and in gestures that revealed a link to Greco-Roman culture. For example, Louis-Sébastien Mercier's quote in New Picture of Paris of 1800 mentions how there is "[n]ot a petite maîtresse, not a grisette, who does not decorate herself on Sunday with an Athenian muslin gown, and who does not draw up the pendant folds on the right arm, in order to drop into the form of some antique or at least equal Venus aux belles fesses." The last section asks what impact the statue had on bodily ideals and aesthetics from the late 19th century on.
We look at how our Venus' body-conscious character and its clingy, draped and pleated clothing may have affected Classical revivals and Victorian aesthetics and how it continues to impact contemporary dress behaviors. As we live in a world where we often objectify and evaluate our bodies and the clothes that showcases them, it is our hypothesis that Venus lives on.
Anne Bissonnette, PhD, Co-curator
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Bissonnette, Anne, Sarah Nash and Loretta Yau. "Introduction." The Re-Birth of Venus: Fashion & the Venus Kallipygos, Exhibitions, Clothing and Textiles Collection, Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta Museums, May 3, 2013. [INSERT URL].


Genealogy Friday: Genealogy Gift Ideas for Senior Adults
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 1. Blankets—older adults often get cold very easily. However, you can take a picture and have Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Shutterfly
 family puzzle
 family puzzle
 or another company create a blanket from a family picture.
 2. Coffee Mugs—each morning my grandmother has hot chocolate with her 3 great-grandchildren. This mug was a Christmas present and she loves it.
 3. Calendars—create a calendar using family pictures. Once again you can easily create this online.
 4. Pillows—use family pictures and create pillows. You can make your own or order online.
 5. Find or make old style toys {dolls, cars, etc} that your loved one may have grown up with. This may prompt all types of memories.
 6. Puzzles—create a puzzle or order one online based on a family picture. This can be so much fun for everyone as the family slowly begins to take shape. You'll be saying, "This is "insert name" nose…"
 7. Ornaments—create family ornaments that are special to your family.
 family quilt
 family quilt
 8. Crossword Puzzles or Word Searches using family names, places, etc. you can find online software to help you with this.
 9. Magnets for the refrigerator, kitchen or cabinets with family pictures. Senior adults love to brag on their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
 10. Family Quilt—if you enjoy quilting, create a quilt using pictures of family members.
 11. Bonus: Life of Yesteryear—memory books for grandparents can easily be found. This is a great gift for everyone. Grandma/Grandpa can write out their memories which will be saved and cherished for years to come.
What are some fun gift ideas you have?


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New Apple iPads.
Berkhampstead pupils are making the most of their brand new Apple iPads - purchased to replace the old ones bought over five years ago. The new iPads are now being used for all sorts of lessons, including a Year 2 lesson, where the delighted children used the 'Brushes' app to draw wonderful self-portraits. The app enabled the children to record each brush stroke allowing them to play back exactly how they created their works of art! Children across the school have been given their own 'account' so that their computing work is secure and will remain so during their time at Berky. The older children are also able to access their work at home to complete work started in class. Computing lessons include computer coding, animation, eSafety and digital media. The children are also taught how to research topics, create presentations and projects as well as crucially, how to explore the internet safely.


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Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
Separation reactions are the thoughts, feelings and behaviors that follow when significant interpersonal relationships and intimate relationships are broken. Humans are social beings and their attachment with others entails the establishment of psychological bonds. When these are broken substantial adjustment may be required.
Seperation can produce a wide range of feelings:
- Emotional trauma
- Separation anxiety


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What is a Concrete Test Report?
A Document that records data obtained from an experiment of evaluation in an organized manner, describes the environmental or operating conditions, and shows the comparison of test results with test objectives. The data included in a concrete test report is used in specification compliance determination and can be used in quality control evaluations. Effective use of the data comes from a better understanding of the report process. On a large concrete construction project there could be hundreds of individual reports representing thousands of test specimens.
When are Concrete Test Reports Usually Released?
On average, reports are issued at 7 and 28 days. The initial 7-day data is an indicator of the concrete potential compressive strength.
How do Concrete Test Reports Help?
When constructing a building, we want to make sure the location is suitable to support the structure and we also want to make sure that the quality of the concrete at the bottom of the structure is the same at the top and all layers in-between. Concrete test reports help us to achieve higher quality and standards. When tested, concrete is sampled for evaluation, the "plastic" properties of the test sample are determined and this data is included in the report. The concrete is tested for consistency (slump), air content and temperature. In some projects the density (unit weight) of the concrete is required. The primary purpose of these tests is to verify compliance with project specified limits and can provide important data should there be non-compliant compression strengths.
Special Note: The process of sampling and testing of concrete must comply with the project specifications and ASTM C172 sampling and testing as required in ASTM C31 for casting cylinders and ASTM C39 for compression strength tests.
What Types of Information is Included in A Concrete Test Report?
Ambient temperature at the job site.
- Curing method at job site and laboratory.
- Compressive strength of each specimen to nearest 10psi.
- Date and time of the test and the name of the testing technician.
- Fresh concrete test results (slump, air content, and concrete temperature).
- Location in project represented by sample.
- Project name and location, name and location of testing lab, and identification numbers of the test specimens.

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The Maracot Deep
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Cover of the first edition of The Maracot Deep
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Fantasy-Science fiction novel
Publisher John Murray
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Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 310 pp
The Maracot Deep is a short 1929 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle about the discovery of a sunken city of Atlantis by a team of explorers led by Professor Maracot. He is accompanied by Cyrus Headley, a young research zoologist and Bill Scanlan, an expert mechanic working with an iron works in Philadelphia who is in charge of the construction of the submersible which the team takes to the bottom of the Atlantic.[1]
The novel first appeared in 1928 as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post.[2] It also appeared as a serial in The Strand Magazine from October 1927 to February 1928. In 1929 it was followed by a sequel, The Lord of the Dark Face,[3] beginning with the April issue of The Strand. The same year the novel was published in The Maracot Deep and Other Stories from John Murray in London, and was released in the U.S. by Doubleday Books of New York.[1]
The novel revolves around the legend of Atlantis, mentioned as an ancient city or continent which was drowned by the sea due to divine intervention. The novel is narrated by Headley who first writes a letter to his friend Sir John Talbot. On his subsequent rescue, he completes his story giving details on his escape and how they fought off possibly the greatest danger to humanity, the Devil himself.
The novel begins with preparations for the dive, off the coast of Africa. Prof. Maracot claims to have located the deepest trench in the Atlantic and is vehement that he shall go down in the specially prepared submersible actually a bathysphere along with Headley and Scanlan. On reaching the edge of the trench, a description of the undersea world is presented. The team comes face to face with a giant crustacean who cuts off their line and hurls them down into the trench. Down in the trench, the team is rescued by the Atlanteans who are the last survivors of the land that was Atlantis.
Although the description of Atlantis may not sound quite futuristic and may seem fantastic, the fact that the novel was written in 1929 should be taken into account. One device in particular is often made use of. This is a thought projector which visualizes the thoughts of a person for others to see. This helps the team and the Atlanteans to communicate.
Descriptions of work habits, culture and various sea creatures are provided. The Atlanteans forage for their food from the sea bed and their slaves, Greeks who are the descendants of the original slaves of the kingdom of Atlantis work in undersea mines. This is made possible thanks to an exceptionally strong and light transparent material which is fashioned into helmets to enable people to work underwater.
The team eventually uses the levity of these spheres to escape to the surface. Headley elopes with the daughter of Manda, leader of the Atlanteans.
In the later part of the novel, Headley describes the encounter with the Lord of the Dark Face, a supernatural being who led the Atlanteans to their doom and was the cause of untold miseries to humanity ever since. This being is likened to the Phoenician god Baal who was demonized by later religions and cultures. The being is defeated by Prof. Maracot who becomes possessed by the spirit of Warda, the man who managed to convince a handful of Atlanteans to prepare for the worst and thus built an Ark which saved them from the cataclysm which destroyed their land.
Features of the Novel[edit]
Although a short novel, it provides interesting glimpses into the belief regarding the sea during the early 20th century and particularly Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's own beliefs and outlooks. The dramatic end mentioned at the end of the novel, the fight between the ultimate Good and Evil reveals the deep spiritual nature which Conan Doyle had developed in his later years. Whereas the adventures of Sherlock Holmes show the keen analytical side of Sir Arthur, novels like The Maracot Deep show that he seriously took to spiritualism in his later years. It is not marked by any particular religion though there are strong Christian and Hellenistic undertones.
 1. ^ a b Bleiler, Everett Franklin (1990), Science-fiction, the early years, Kent State University Press, p. 206, ISBN 0-87338-416-4
 2. ^ Sprague De Camp, Lyon (1970), Lost continents: the Atlantis theme in history, science, and literature, Courier Dover Publications, p. 262, ISBN 0-486-22668-9
 3. ^ Clute, John; Grant, John (1999), The encyclopedia of fantasy (2nd ed.), Macmillan, p. 287, ISBN 0-312-19869-8


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I'm using an iterator in ModelBuilder (1) to merge files, using a feedback loop (2). The output file is named "Output_%n%.txt", (3), so each file is unique.
Now, I'm merging a fair number of files, so I'm trying to speed the process up. Since I don't care about the interim files, I can write them out to in_memory. But I would like to save the final file, viz: "Output_167.txt" to C:\myfile rather than in_memory.
(0) Yes, APPEND would work, but this has other applications.
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 - How about you write them all to in_memory as you are then the next step is to write out the final dataset, you know what %n% is so it should be fairly easy to export out. I am surprised that the in_memory workspace allows that naming convention. – Hornbydd Oct 24 '14 at 7:51
 - @horbbydd. That does work, but I'm trying to generalize the tool in such a way that I can apply it to multiple tables of unknown length. I could use a count function or table properties to get the number of rows, and then export when x=%n%, but doing so would require using a nested model, so it didn't redo the count multiple times. – Mox Oct 27 '14 at 19:59
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How about you write them all to in_memory as you are then the next step is to write out the final dataset, you know what %n% is so it should be fairly easy to export out. Hornbydd Oct 24 at 7:51
@Hornbydd Months later, I finally understand your reply. I could not think how to get n, realized that for this specific purpose, I'm using a FOR loop, with a model parameter. It will take some text slicing, but I can extract the n from %n%. For cases where I am not, such as iterating over rows in a data-set, I can use max(ID) to get the iteration count.
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SHAPING THE FUTURE WITH CERAMIC BUILDING MATERIALS
Safety has always been one of the basic human needs. Architects play a significant role in meeting this need, because they have the ability to create robust and healthy living spaces. Throughout the company's 200-year history, Wienerberger has striven to support architects in this role by providing them with the most innovative and sustainable solutions possible, and by taking a socially responsible approach to environmental and social considerations. Wienerberger applies the principle of 'Improving people's quality of life' in all of it's sustainability measures: from the considerate extraction of raw materials, to switching to energy-efficient processes, developing sustainable and innovative products, and taking a holistic approach to building design. All this is particularly relevant to us, because sustainable solutions facilitate the construction of durable and energy-efficient buildings, thereby delivering significant added value for our clients and making a positive contribution to the environment.
All of this supports our key aim of using our solutions to improve quality of life. With our ceramic systems, which are both energy-efficient and visually appealing, and a holistic approach to building design, Wienerberger helps architects to meet future requirements today. The fabulous examples of outstanding architecture on the following pages are proof of just that. The buildings presented here demonstrate the successful symbiosis of using sustainable materials in consideration of ecological, economic and social factors, and are also representative of high standards of architectural diversity and aesthetics.
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Make Sure Bunk Beds Meet Safety Rules
Do you breathe a sigh of relief after you tuck your child into bed at night? If your child sleeps in a bunk bed, your sense of security could be a false one.
Each year, thousands of children in the United States visit emergency rooms for injuries linked to bunk beds. Most are minor, caused by horseplay, but some children have died after being trapped in bunk beds, says the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Experts blame the potentially dangerous injuries on the beds' structure.
The CPSC has mandated a safety standard for bunk beds. manufacturers and importers of bunk beds are required to meet this safety standard and be tested for compliance. The standard aims to prevent injury or death to children who become trapped in the beds' structure or wedged between the bed and the wall.
When buying a bed
CPSC rules require bunk beds made for sale in the United States meet these requirements:
Any bed in which the bottom of the foundation is more than 30 inches from the floor must have guardrails on both sides. The side rail along the wall must be continuous.
The tops of theguardrails must extend at least 5 inches above the top of the mattress.
The openings in the upper bunk structure must be small enough (less than 3.5 inches by 6.2 inches) to prevent passage of a child's torso.
The openings at the ends of the lower bunk structure must be small enough to prevent entry by a child's head or torso, or large enough to permit free passage of the child's torso and head without risk of neck entrapment.
The bed must bear a label identifying the manufacturer, distributor, or seller, the model number and the date of manufacture.
A label, warning against placing children under six on the upper bunk and specifying mattress size, must be attached to the bed. It must also appear in instructions that accompany the bed.
If you buy a used bunk bed, be sure to check whether it meets the requirements.
The CPSC also offers these guidelines on bunk bed use:
Don't allow children younger than six to use the upper bunk.
Install guardrails on both sides of the upper bunk.
Don't allow children to roughhouse on or under the beds.
Don't allow more than one child on the upper bunk.
Insist that your children use the ladder for entering or leaving the upper bunk.


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Human Resource Management And The Search For The Happy Workplace
The analysis of the impact of human resource (HR) practices on employee well-being at work is an important yet relatively neglected area of inquiry within the field of human resource management (HRM). In this inaugural address, the main findings from ongoing research based on data from the 1998 British Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) are presented. These suggest that the HR practices that are adopted by organisations have a significant impact on the well-being of their workforces and that this impact tends, on the whole, to be more positive than negative. The effects, however, are more complex than is normally assumed in the literature. In particular, preliminary results indicate that the constellation of HR practices that help to maximise employee well-being (i.e. that make for happy workplaces), are not necessarily the same as those that make up the type of 'High Performance Work Systems' commonly identified in the literature. This has important theoretical, policy and ethical implications for the field of HRM. These are discussed along with important directions for future research.
|Keywords||HR, HRM, employee well-being, happy workplaces, human resource management, human resource ractices, job satisfaction, job stress|
|Sponsor||Erasmus University Rotterdam. Address given in shortened form at the occasion of accepting the appointment as Professor on the Rotating Chair for Research in Organisation and Management in the Faculty of Economics, on behalf of the "Vereniging Trustfonds Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam" with the teaching and research commitment 'Organizing and Human Resource Management' on Thursday, January 15, 2004|
|Series||ERIM Inaugural Address Series Research in Management|
Peccei, R.E. (2004, January 15). Human Resource Management And The Search For The Happy Workplace. ERIM Inaugural Address Series Research in Management. Retrieved from _URL_


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I'm trying to cluster an unknown set of data with a replicator neural network. The number of clusters is determined by the number of neuron units in the middle layer, multiplied by the number of steps in our step function responsible for the middle layer activation. The only information provided, is that the feature size vector will be 10. However there are no information about the number of possible clusters. The final goal is to detect anomalies with the neural network.
How do I approach this task? I'm not sure how much neurons and steps I should be using. I believe I can limit the neurons to about 4, as it should be usually less than half the input neurons. However I'm not sure how the network is going to perform on a lot of steps. Perhaps to many neurons won't hurt, as for my understand neural networks cluster, compared to k-means, independent from the number of clusters, while a number to small might damage the anomaly detection by limitation?


ASL Linguistics: Noun / Verb Pairs
Noun/Verb pairs are signs that use the same handshape, location, and orientation, but have a different movement. The verb of a noun verb pair generally has a single, continuous movement that is larger than the movement of the noun. The motion of a noun of a noun verb pair is generally a double movement that is smaller than that of a verb.
Got that?
Verbs (of noun/verb pairs) use a single movement.
Nouns (of noun/verb pairs) use a double movement.
A good example of a noun verb pair is the "CHAIR/SIT."
If I do this motion once, it means sit.
If I do the movement twice, it means CHAIR.
But sometimes if I'm in a hurry I'll only do the movement once and my friends still understand me. Why? Because of context. The rest of the sentence makes the meaning clear for me.
For more on this topic, see: "Compounds"
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Tiger Nuts (Chufa) (Raw and Organic) - The New Superfood 150g
Our organic Tiger nuts come from Alboraia in Valencia, where Enric Navarro has championed organic growing methods, working with the land's natural cycles, avoiding the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides, and annually rotating the crop with organically-grown vegetables to produce tiger nuts of an exceptional quality. Tiger nuts were so prized by the ancient Egyptians that they have been found in burial tombs amongst other treasured possessions. Known as 'chufa' in Spain, these little tubers are packed with taste and healthful qualities.
They can be eaten just as they are, or you can add water to soften them slightly, eating them as a snack, ground or crushed to use in desserts, biscuits and granola or blended into smoothies. They can be soaked and crushed to make the traditional sweet, milky tasting Spanish drink Horchata. They are also delicious in combination with dried fruits such as dates or figs.
Tiger nuts grown in Valencia have an intense, sweet flavour. They are highly nutritious containing vitamin C and E as well as phosphorous, potassium, fibre and a good energy rich balance of natural sugars and proteins. It has also been suggested that Tiger nut consumption can help to prevent heart attack and reduce the risk of colon cancer.
Supplied in tamper proof tub.
D.O. CHUFA DE VALENCIA


Why Does a Putt Lip Out?
This week's Q&A was published in Dear Frank…Answers to 100 of Your Golf Equipment Questions
Hello Frank,
Can you please explain why a putt lips out of the hole? Is it because it is going too fast or because it is rolling with side-spin instead of end over end? And, of course, how do I keep it from happening?!
– Anne
If the ball is directed toward the center of the hole at the correct speed (approximately 1 1/2 mph), it will fall into the hole, touching the back of the hole-liner on its way to where it truly belongs — i.e., the bottom of the cup. This is our final objective when we tee it up on every hole.
If it is going too fast (above 3+ mph), it will bounce off the back edge of the cup and over the hole. So speed is important; when you practice putting, on your misses the ball should end up about 12 to 18 inches behind the hole on a flat putt, which would indicate that even though you didn't have the right line at least you had the correct speed.
The odds are that if you are short with your putts, they will not go in, so try to get enough speed on the putt to get it at least over the edge of the hole or a little beyond it. If it "dies" in the hole it is going slowly enough to be affected by "precession" (a hard right or left turn at the end of a breaking putt).
Now when your line is slightly off and the ball rolls around the edge only to "lip out," it is because, for that line (an off-center near miss), it was going too fast. If the ball is moving more slowly, it could fall in the 'side door' or even do a 180. It has nothing to do with side-spin, which you may have put onto the ball immediately after impact.
Putts begin with a little bit of backspin or topspin (never pure rolling spin). The ball then skids until it gets pure rolling spin. At this point any side-spin initially applied at impact will be turned into pure rolling spin. So you can forget about the affect of side-spin when the ball gets to the hole.
I recommend that putters have a 4-degree loft, (which I designed into the Frankly Frog Putter) because this will lift the ball out of the depression in which it has inevitably come to rest on the green. A lower lofted putter may drive the ball into the rim of this slight depression and tend to make it jump, which may deflect it slightly off line. A 4-degree loft will control the very small amount of spin off the putter and avoid any inconsistent initial jumping.
For a little better understanding of what happens to the ball after it leaves the putter be sure to check out the "Understanding Your Putter" section of The Fundamentals of Putting
Anne, lip outs are purely a matter of direction and speed and have nothing to do with side-spin. Thank you for asking the question; now you can give your friends, who believe that it has something to do with side-spin, a little lip of your own.
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Art & Design
Unusual Diego Rivera Work Restored in Mexico City
The Mexican muralist Diego Rivera painted in New York City, San Francisco, Detroit, Europe and the Soviet Union. But some of Rivera's most famous murals and most unusual projects are found in Mexico City.
In Mexico City, Rivera did far more than just paint. He collected pre-Hispanic pottery and indigenous folk art. And he experimented with sculpture and architecture.
And between 1950 and 1952, Rivera built a giant, tiled fountain to the Aztec rain god Tlaloc as part of an overhaul of Mexico City's municipal water system.
"It's a very special fountain. It's one of the most important sculptures that Diego Rivera did in his life," says Lilia Haua of Probosque Chapultepec, an organization which helped raise money to restore this work by Rivera.
But the fountain and murals had fallen into disrepair and until a year ago, were closed to the public for more than a decade.
"The fountain was completely destroyed so we tried to make it as nice as we can... always respecting the style and what Diego Rivera did," Haua says.
The fountain is basically a shallow pool more than a hundred feet long and a hundred feet wide. Originally, it served as the ceremonial entry point for water from the Lerma River into the city's main reservoirs. The main flow of water has now been diverted into a pipe, but in Rivera's sculpture the rain god, Tlaloc, still lies on his back in the pool.
"In the beginning, the water was coming through Tlaloc's face, under his mouth, and then, the water was coming up to here to the Carcamo," Haua says.
The Carcamo is a giant tank inside a rotunda that's part of the same complex. Until the 1990s municipal water flowed into the tank, and from here technicians could control the levels in several large reservoirs.
Rivera painted the entire cement tank, including the floor in elaborate, colorful scenes.
Water Damaged The Murals
The flow of water, however, not only covered much of the murals, it was also destroying them so the water is no longer there. It's been diverted.
To replace the sound of the missing stream, there's now a new and unexpected element—a pipe organ. It rumbles and changes tone based on the flow of water through the adjacent municipal pipes.
Lilia Haua notes that Rivera viewed water as a social issue, and an element essential to life.
Pointing to the mural, she says, "On this side we can see a beautiful wall, a beautiful painting, and he's talking about the origin of life and the importance of the fertility. But everything is related with the importance of the water."
More than a half a century after his death, Diego Rivera still has a strong presence throughout Mexico City.
His best-known works include murals at the National Palace and the Palace of Fine Arts. These include a recreation of his controversial "Man at the Crossroads" at Rockefeller Center, which Nelson Rockefeller ordered destroyed in 1934 after Rivera slipped in a portrait of the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin.
Then there's a huge mural made of tiny bits of tile that stretches across the front of the Insurgentes Theater. Another one of his sculptures covers the entire front of the soccer stadium at the National Autonomous University.
The Blue House of his wife Frida Kahlo is more famous and attracts far more visitors, but Rivera left behind two houses in the south of Mexico City. One is a stark modernist structure that was way ahead of its time in the 1920s. The other is a giant pyramid made of black volcanic rock. One critic referred to its style as Soviet/Aztec.
Rivera's iconic murals still grace the walls not only of museums but of schools, hospitals, and government buildings. His chubby face has even turned up on the new 500 peso Mexican bank note.
And now, with his project at the municipal pumping station restored, his work once again gazes over the water before it flows out into the Mexican capital.


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THE CULTURAL CAPITAL OF INDIA
1. Importance of Banaras in India and especially for Hindus; various aspects of Banaras, its many names and what makes it the cultural capital of India.
2. Archaeology, Mythology, Geography, and History of Banarasits unique situation on Ganges, and its journey through the history of India, and quest to know what makes it oldest living city.
3. Religious VaranasiMany religions, place and types of worship, a religious place and institutions. You will find that even Primitive worship cults are still practiced in this city. Discover the city of Buddha, Jain Tirthankars, Shaiva and Vaishnava saints or Devoted saints like Kabir and Tulsi.
4. Arts, Crafts and Architecture of Banaras: You will be amused to see that Varanasi is a Museum architectural designs. It presents changing patterns and movements in course of history. It has a rich and original variety of paintings and sculptor styles and equally rich treasures of folk art. During the ages Varanasi has produced master craftsmen and Varanasi has earned name and fame for its Sarees, handicrafts, textiles, Toys, ornaments, metal work, clay and wood work, leaf and fibre crafts. With ancient crafts, Banaras has not lagged behind in Modern Industries.
5. Discover Gangathe holiest of the holy riverits mythology, geography, socioeconomic aspects, its monumental ghats and their story and the present condition of pollution.
6. The Capital of all knowledgeDiscover the most ancient seat of education in India World the famous scholars and their 'Shastrarthas', the great scholars, universities, college, schools, Madarsas and Pathshalas and Guru Shishya traditions, the epics, famous literary works, languages and dialects, journalistic traditionsnewspapers and magazine, and famous libraries.
7. Discover the social and cultural fabricOrganisation of sacred complex and social spaces, the cultural pluristic, linguistic and ethnic groups. Discover the city of affluence, intellectuals, oral traditions, castes and customs, personalities, professions, communal harmony. Discover the rural Varanasi. And finally (and with deep insight) peep into, the pleasure of Pans, Thandai, Gamcha, Bahri Alang and Mauj Masti.
8. The City of Music and Drama and Entertainment: Banaras has been famous for its Music both vocal instrumental, it has its own dance tradition. Add to this a very rich stock of folk Music and drama (esp. Ramlila), the tradition Musical soirees, fairs and festival the rich tradition of Akharas, games and sports. Add to this classical Banaras Transport vehicles like Ekka and Modern Traffic Jam.
9. Industrial City: Discover the fast developing city of heavy, light and cottage industries, local handicrafts and other small scale industrial units. ( DLW, BHEL, Electric, Cycle,Pumps, Paper, Glass, Fertilizer etc.)
10. Medical World of Varanasi: Discover the ancient College of Plastic Surgery, Sushruta, Dhanvantri (God of Medicine), Divodas, and practice of all the ancient and modern systems of medicine in action.
11. The Unseen Banaras: Discover the spots around Varanasi, instituions, story of freedom struggle and the martyrs, history of Kashiraj, history of Sarnath, history of Bhadohi (Carpet town), of Mirzapur, of Ghazipur, know about the famous travellers and tourists, of the 'Nijam'. And finally having seen the Panorama of Banaras, its continuity of culture, discover the identity of Banaras.
Source of Information:- Department of Culture, Varanasi


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Introduction
This page contains information on using the LAVA CI project on R-Car platforms.
It is not intended as a complete 'end to end' tutorial on running LAVA. There are numerous sources for such tutorials including the official LAVA documentation. Instead, the aim is to explain nuances of using R-Car platforms in LAVA and to accelerate integration.
Glossary
DUT = Device Under Test, e.g. hardware platform to be tested
Serial console
LAVA interacts with the DUT via a serial console. A typical test job will involve restarting the DUT through a power cycle. This can be for multiple reasons. Power cycling means each job starts with the same setup for example. Another is restarting after flashing the DUT to use the flashed software.
The challenge is therefore for LAVA to maintain a serial console connection through such resets. Some R-Car platforms reset the serial on power on causing LAVA to lose the ser2net/telnet console link and therefore its ability to control the DUT. This can be mitigated by setting the LOCAL option for the DUT in the LAVA Worker ser2net configuration file.
lava-docker
If you are managing your LAVA instance using lava-docker (a project that simplifies LAVA instances using Docker) you can automate this by setting the option in your boards.yaml:
 ser2net_options:
 - LOCAL
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Session 107 - Radio Astronomy and VLBI Instruments.
Display session, Thursday, January 16
We describe a near real-time test correlator for the upcoming VSOP space VLBI mission. The correlator will be used as an additional debugging tool for the VSOP satellite in its in-orbit checkout period before astronomical observations begin.
The correlator is a PC-based system which will acquire digitized signals from a test radio source using the VSOP satellite and the 140-foot telescope located in Green Bank, WV as a single baseline interferometer. Once the signals have been acquired, the data will then be correlated using digital signal processing hardware so that feedback about the state of the spacecraft can be presented quickly to the satellite operations group.
Program listing for Thursday


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Mechanics: Newton's Laws of Motion
Newton's Laws of Motion: Audio Guided Solution
Skydiving tunnels have become popular attractions, appealing in part to those who would like a taste of the skydiving experience but are too overwhelmed by the fear of jumping out of a plane at several thousand feet. Skydiving tunnels are vertical wind tunnels through which air is blown at high speeds, allowing visitors to experience bodyflight. On Natalya's first adventure inside the tunnel, she changes her orientation and for an instant, her 46.8-kg body momentarily experiences an upward force of air resistance of 521 N. Determine Natalya's acceleration during this moment in time.
Audio Guided Solution
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1.3 m/s/s, up (rounded from 1.33 m/s/s)
Habits of an Effective Problem Solver
- Read the problem carefully and develop a mental picture of the physical situation. If necessary, sketch a simple diagram of the physical situation to help you visualize it.
- Identify the known and unknown quantities in an organized manner. Equate given values to the symbols used to represent the corresponding quantity - e.g., vo = 0 m/s; a = 4.2 m/s/s; vf = 22.9 m/s; d =???.
- Use physics formulas and conceptual reasoning to plot a strategy for solving for the unknown quantity.
- Identify the appropriate formula(s) to use.
- Perform substitutions and algebraic manipulations in order to solve for the unknown quantity.
Read About It!
Get more information on the topic of Newton's Laws of Motion at The Physics Classroom Tutorial.
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- Virtual First Day (All School) – August 19th, 2020
- First Day in person and simultaneous virtual – September 2nd, 2020
For the 2020-2021 School Year, St. Mary of Carmel will provide our families both:
- An On-Campus Learning Model
We are also preparing for whole school e-learning should it be necessary throughout the year.
As always, our top priority is to be able to serve our students by providing a quality, Catholic Education in a safe and nurturing environment. A safe environment is more important now than ever and we have developed these protocols with special care to ensure the health and safety of our students upon their return. We know that nothing can replace in person, face to face learning and our goal is to prepare stringent safety and cleaning protocols so that students can return to school safely. However, we understand the uncertainty of these times and are ready to provide flexible options for families so that your students can continue to receive the highest quality education in the environment most comfortable for your family.
Both in-person instruction and online distance learning will be available for our families beginning on August 12th 2020 with students utilizing the Online Distance Learning Model functioning on a one day delay from the in person model. We invite your family to consider which model is a better fit for your family after learning more about the details of both models below. Providing both models will require all of us to work together to ensure the highest quality learning for all of our students. The virtual school option will especially require partnership and a time commitment from families.
Online Distance Learning: "Virtual School"
St. Mary of Carmel will provide a full-time 'Virtual School' Model for any family wanting the quality, Catholic Education that St. Mary of Carmel provides, but who is not ready to attend in-person classes at this time. Choosing to continue to partner with St. Mary of Carmel from home means that your student will continue to have access to all resources (faculty and staff, counselor, library, software etc.) that is available to our students, but the mode and method of delivery will be different. While St. Mary of Carmel will provide high quality direct instruction and engaging learning activities from teachers, this model will still require significant partnership and commitment from parents. Teachers and parents will need to work together closely to ensure that student work is turned in and returned in a timely fashion, that student questions are addressed thoroughly and that schedules are followed closely.
While this new learning model presents a learning curve for both the school, teachers, and students, we are committed to working together to ensure high quality instruction for your students. Our virtual school policies and procedures are currently being refined and finalized, but know that the program will include the following:
- Teachers will record all of their daily direct instruction and post it online for students learning at home to view
- All homework and classwork assignments will be completed via our learning platforms (SeeSaw and Google Classroom)
- Students will have access to all textbooks, software, videos and resources that students in the classroom have access to
- Individual conference/question and answer/discussion time will be set up for students to have live interactions with their teachers on at least a weekly basis
- A staff member on campus will be our virtual learning coordinator and will serve as the point of contact for all questions and support
E-Learning Plan (if necessary)
A transition to a full e-learning schedule during the 2020-2021 school year is a possibility and we will be actively preparing teachers and students for that transition from the onset of school. Our e-learning model will be quite different than the emergency transition we made in the spring and will include synchronous (live instruction in core content) and asynchronous (independent or teacher guided work at a child's own pace) instruction throughout the week. Our full e-learning policies are still being finalized, but all teachers, students and parents will receive training and support in e-learning policies at the beginning of the school year. In addition, all teachers will begin to use our learning platforms in their live, physical classrooms as well to help ensure a seamless transition.
General E-learning Policies
- SMC will use SeeSaw as the learning management platform for PK-2nd Grade.
- Google Classroom will be used as the learning management platform for 3rd-8th grade.
- Google Classroom and FACTS will be integrated for a more seamless transition of grades and assignments from Google Classroom to FACTS (RenWeb) gradebook.
- All students and parents will use Zoom for video conferencing and communicating with teachers.
- Students will be expected to participate in live Morning Prayer and homeroom each day.
- Our E-Learning schedule will include a daily schedule for students with a mix of live classes with students, recorded teacher videos and on screen and off screen work time.
- Weekly calendars of assignments will be provided


Brain Injury, Gender Identity Issues Counsellors
Brain Injury, Gender Identity Issues
Brain injury can cause a many emotional difficulties. It can change the ways in which a person functions emotionally and in the way he or she expresses emotions. There could be a wide range of emotional difficulties, such as difficulty with controlling mood swings.
While some brain injury victims experience a change in emotions right away, others may take months to show changes in the way they behave. Some people with brain injuries will experience quick and intense emotional changes, but they will calm down again quickly. Alternatively, they may experience emotional lability, or severe mood swings.
These behavioural changes are sometimes the result of damage to the emotional center in the brain. There is not always a specific trigger that causes the sudden emotional response in the patient, and that can be very confusing for loved ones. They will often take the blame for the sudden outbursts on themselves, thinking that they did something to upset the patient. In some cases, the person might express emotions they don't feel at all, because they are unable to control the emotions they express.
In most cases, symptoms dissipate in the months following the brain injury, allowing the patient to return to more balanced emotional balance. However, people with brain injury and their families have found hope in working closely with a therapists. A therapists who offers brain injury counselling will help establish the cause of emotional changes and reassure the family and friends, while equipping them with better coping skills. A range of therapies can help improve emotional expression in brain injury patients.
If you are looking for a counsellor or psychologist who offers cognitive behavioural therapy or counselling to address your brain injury issues you may want to search the directory to find a professional whose approach will suit you best.
Gender identity issues can make a person feel that nature has played a cruel trick, leaving them living in a body and role that is contrary to what they feel inside. However, as society becomes more accepting of gay and lesbian individuals it is also becoming much easier for people to admit that they are transgender than ever before. However, therapy can help people with gender dysphoria to cope with gender identity issues.
Most people with gender dysphoria prefer the term transgender as they deal with the social expectations of living a life that is authentic to their own emotions while conforming to their birth gender.
Whether you are confused about the possibility that you might be transgender, or whether you have accepted the reality, it is a good idea to speak to a therapist. If you are considering gender reassignment surgery, therapy will help you prepare for the psychological impact of the decision.
Living in your gender of choice will take a lot of courage, as well as some experimentation. You will have to learn how to find a congruent appearance, and explore different ways for you to present your body so that it relates to your true gender.
Counselling from a therapist trained in gender identity issues will provide a nurturing and non-judgmental environment for you to explore your emotions, fears and feelings regarding what is happening for you. Individual and group therapies are common for gender dysphoric patients, while family therapy can help foster better communication, and understanding. Family therapy can help deal with conflicts that can arise from gender dysphoria.
If you are looking for a counsellor or psychologist who offers gender identity counselling to address your gender dysphoria issues you may want to search the directory to find a professional whose approach will suit you best.
Kirsten Mueller
M.S.W., RSW
Parenting (or caregiving) is one of the most important jobs you've taken on. But the person you're caring for is going through some tough stuff, and the two of you aren't getting along. You're... Read more


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How to make double hung windows using old materials
Use of double hung windows in homes is quite old and still there are large numbers of people who prefer them for their homes. The leading benefit of these windows is that they are suitable for almost every home. Generally, when it is the matter of double hung windows, people prefer to design their own windows with their own efforts. People prefer to design double hung windows by own efforts mainly because of the reason that they will get what exactly they want. Any material that suits the windows can be used for this tasks but majority of time people prefer old materials for designing the double hung windows.
There is lot of things that one has to keep in the mind before designing the double hung window through old materials. It is necessary to consider influences on a design before starting any work. Also it is better to have a look at the features of the design.
1. Selection of materials
When it is the matter of choosing old materials, there are large number of options that are easily available. Selection of materials depends upon on lot of things and especially on the type of weather on the place where these windows are to be installed.
2. Designing the double hung windows using wood
Wood is one of the better options for designing such windows. Generally, wood is one of the oldest materials available for this and is preferred for this task mainly because of its durability. For designing the double hung windows through wood, what one has to do is:
- Firstly, select the design and size of the window to be designed.
- Next step is to cut the wood as per the design. Cutting tasks include cutting of wood in different shapes and sizes so better is cut them with full concentration. For this, some of the tools are needed which can be taken on rent. Use of red cedar wood is a great option.
- Wooden parts can be joined using iron sticks.
- Paint the windows once they are installed because painting them before installation may destroy the paint during installation.
- Selection of glass is not a big task and majority of times a plain glass is used.
It must always be remembered that wood is not suitable for all weather conditions. Wood is a better option for places have less annual rainfall in a year.
3. Using iron for designing double hung windows
The use of iron for designing double hung window is quite common just like wood. The iron has its own merits and demerits over wood. The designing procedure of these windows through iron is same as design of windows through wood but there is one major issue with iron and that is cutting and designing of iron is quite hard and for this sometime complex tools are required. It is because of this reason, people do not prefer DIY task for designing double hung window through iron. Generally, iron double hung windows are suitable for majority of weather conditions.
4. Plastic is another wise choice
Just like iron and wood, plastic is another one of the oldest materials that is preferred by large number of people for designing double hung window in their own way. The leading advantage of plastic is that it is suitable for any design any size. Another advantage of plastic is its low cost and long life. Plastic has one leading disadvantage and that is it loses its grace, when come under direct sunlight and thus not suitable for places having dry atmosphere.
Some important things to be kept in mind while using plastic are:
- This material needs perfect cutting and a small variation in size may result in failure of entire design.
- Joining the plastic needs lot of care and thus task is performed by a burning process.
5. Installation of double hung windows
There are generally two sashes that one has to implement while designing the double hung windows. One sash is at the top of window while other at the bottom. Both of them are movable. Balancing devices are used for shifting the sashes up and down and they also support their movement as well. The overall weight of sash is balanced by overall weight of balancing devices thus windows can easily be set at any position.
Double hung windows can easily be designed using old materials and by preferring old materials one can have lot of benefits including cost saving and especially one can get the desired design for his/her double hung windows. Use of double hung windows designed with old materials has become a modern trend nowadays.


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Risk & Fraud Solutions
Health & human services
Health & human service programs are facing increasing sophistication of fraudsters and complex fraud schemes that cost billions of dollars each year.
Protecting what you care about most
The work that government health and human service programs do is essential to the communities and individuals they serve. From providing critical services such as healthcare and SNAP/TANF benefits to child or family support resources, these programs make an immediate impact on the lives of some of the most vulnerable populations.
Unfortunately, these programs are consistently asked to do more with less — less time, less budget, and less resources.
Thomson Reuters Risk & Fraud Solutions can help health and human service professionals quickly streamline investigation workflows, uncover critical or hard-to-find information, and detect and prevent potential fraud, waste, and abuse that may exist within their program.
Insights into human and health service agencies such as Child Support, SNAP/TANF or Medicaid and Medicare
Thomson Reuters provides solutions that help streamline processes and maximize efficiencies with limited resources giving agencies the data they need to make confident decisions and ensure the right resources are going to the right people.
Child support agencies
For family and social service agencies, the fast-paced and ever-changing need for resources such as timely child support makes a huge difference in a child's life – often the difference between living above or below the poverty line.
The cost of uncollected court-ordered child support payments in May 2020 was $11.5 billion and approximately $3.5 billion of this amount is owed to the government, according to the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). Agencies cannot waste precious time collecting and resolving information from many sources, instead, they need fast, up-to-date, reliable information to make trusted decisions, efficiently manage casework, and more easily locate and collect from non-custodial parents (NCP).
Your community relies on you to provide low-income families and individuals with the resources they need when they need them. Unfortunately, in the last two years, there has been a historic increase of individuals needing support, which leaves government-run SNAP and TANF programs vulnerable to potential fraud.
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Thornless Common Honey Locust
(Gleditsia triacanthos inermis)
The Common Honey Locust Tree is an excellent lawn tree for providing filtered shade. This tree can reach heights between 30 to 70 feet.
Soil Type: Prefers rich, moist bottomlands and limestone soils, salt tolerant and tolerant of drought conditions.
Zones: 4 to 9
Stratification Requirement: Seeds should be scarified in concentrated sulfuric acid for 1 to 2 hours.


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Tent Stove Terminology
What is a Tent Stove?
A tent stove is a wood-burning appliance designed to be used inside a tent as a heat source and/or cooking device. All wood stoves consist of the same basic design components: An enclosed fire box with a fuel loading door, air intake to deliver oxygen to the fire, and a flue pipe system to vent smoke and combustion byproduct to the outside atmosphere. Generally, tent stoves are smaller, lighter, and more portable versions of the wood stoves found in homes. There are several types of tent stoves which vary in design, materials, and features to cater to a range of environments and applications – not exclusive to use in tents as the name suggests.
Tent stove terminology varies and uniquely reflective of the array of cultures and applications in which they are used.
- Descriptive expressions are most common, i.e. cylinder stoves, portable wood stoves, and wood-burning camp stove.
- Colorado Stove is the most widely used location-based designation.
- Operator specific synonyms for tent stove are the most interesting and diverse including sheepherder stove, guide stove, outfitter stove, glamping stove, cowboy stove, and camp cookers.
- DIY tent stoves are typically named after their repurposed parts – think ammo can, coffee can, or steel drum.
- Propane fired camping stoves are often confused with tent stoves, despite being extremely dangerous to use in a tent.
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What is a Hot Tent?
The term 'hot tent' is a common way of describing a canvas tent set up with a portable wood burning tent stove. 'Hot tenting' refers to be the activity of camping with a tent and tent stove.
Hot Tent (noun) a canvas tent that is heated with a wood burning tent stove
"I'm bringing my hot tent, we'll be fine even if it is freezing outside"
Hot Tent (verb) to heat a tent with a wood burning tent stove
"I'm going to hot tent, we'll be fine even if it is freezing outside."
Hot Tent (adjective) A tent that either warm, or attractive, or both.
"You brought the CanvasCamp? Dude, that's a hot tent!"
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Source Newsroom: American Psychological Association (APA)
Reduced mortality risk not seen in people motivated by self-centered reasons
Newswise — WASHINGTON – People who volunteer may live longer than those who don't, as long as their reasons for volunteering are to help others rather than themselves, suggests new research published by the American Psychological Association.
This was the first time research has shown volunteers' motives can have a significant impact on life span. Volunteers lived longer than people who didn't volunteer if they reported altruistic values or a desire for social connections as the main reasons for wanting to volunteer, according to the study, published online in the APA journal Health Psychology. People who said they volunteered for their own personal satisfaction had the same mortality rate four years later as people who did not volunteer at all, according to the study.
"This could mean that people who volunteer with other people as their main motivation may be buffered from potential stressors associated with volunteering, such as time constraints and lack of pay," said the study's lead author, Sara Konrath, PhD, of the University of Michigan.
Researchers examined data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which has followed a random sample of 10,317 Wisconsin high school students from their graduation in 1957 until the present. The sample is 51.6 percent female, with an average age of 69.16 years in 2008.
In 2004, respondents reported whether they had volunteered within the past 10 years and how regularly. They reported their reasons for volunteering (or the reasons they would volunteer, for those who had not done so) by answering 10 questions. Some motives were more oriented toward others (e.g., "I feel it is important to help others," or "Volunteering is an important activity to the people I know best") and some that were more self-oriented (e.g., "Volunteering is a good escape from my own troubles," or "Volunteering makes me feel better about myself").
The researchers also considered the respondents' physical health, socioeconomic status, marital status, health risk factors (i.e., smoking, body mass index and alcohol use), mental health and social support. Much of this information was collected in 1992, 12 years before the respondents were asked about their volunteering experience. The researchers then determined how many of the respondents were still alive in 2008.
Overall, 4.3 percent of 2,384 non-volunteers were deceased four years later, which was similar to the proportion of deceased volunteers who reported more self-oriented motives for volunteering (4 percent). However, only 1.6 percent of those volunteers whose motivations were more focused on others were dead four years later. This effect remained significant even when controlling for all the variables. Additionally, respondents who listed social connection or altruistic values as their predominant motive were more likely to be alive compared with non-volunteers.
"It is reasonable for people to volunteer in part because of benefits to the self; however, our research implies that, ironically, should these benefits to the self become the main motive for volunteering, they may not see those benefits," said the paper's co-author, Andrea Fuhrel-Forbis, MA.
The American Psychological Association, in Washington, D.C., is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world's largest association of psychologists. APA's membership includes more than 154,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance psychology as a science, as a profession and as a means of promoting health, education and human welfare.
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Article: "Motives for Volunteering Are Associated With Mortality Risk in Older Adults," Sara Konrath, PhD, University of Michigan and University of Rochester Medical Center; Andrea Fuhrel-Forbis, MA, and Alina Lou, BA, University of Michigan; Stephanie Brown, PhD, University of Michigan and Stony Brook University Medical Center; Health Psychology, published online, Aug. 17, 2011.
Full text of the article is available from the APA Public Affairs Office and at _URL_


ild's npm package with one addition: you need to call stop() when you're done because unlike node, Deno doesn't provide the necessary APIs to allow Deno to exit while esbuild's internal child process is still running.
If you would like to use esbuild's WebAssembly implementation instead of esbuild's native implementation with Deno, you can do that by importing wasm.js instead of mod.js like this:
import * as esbuild from '_URL_
let ts = 'let test: boolean = true'
let result = await esbuild.transform(ts, { loader: 'ts' })
console.log('result:', result)
esbuild.stop()
Using WebAssembly instead of native means you do not need to specify Deno's --allow-run permission, and WebAssembly the only option in situations where the file system is unavailable such as with Deno Deploy. However, keep in mind that the WebAssembly version of esbuild is a lot slower than the native version. Another thing to know about WebAssembly is that Deno currently has a bug where process termination is unnecessarily delayed until all loaded WebAssembly modules are fully optimized, which can take many seconds. You may want to manually call Deno.exit(0) after your code is done if you are writing a short-lived script that uses esbuild's WebAssembly implementation so that your code exits in a reasonable timeframe.
Why this is not recommended: Deno is newer than node, less widely used, and supports fewer platforms than node, so node is recommended as the primary way to run esbuild. Deno also uses the internet as a package system instead of existing JavaScript package ecosystems, and esbuild is designed around and optimized for npm-style package management. You should still be able to use esbuild with Deno, but you will need a plugin if you would like to be able to bundle HTTP URLs.
Build from source
To build esbuild from source:
 1. Install the Go compiler:
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 2. Download the source code for esbuild:
 git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.18.0 _URL_
 cd esbuild

 3. Build the esbuild executable (it will be esbuild.exe on Windows):
 go build ./cmd/esbuild
If you want to build for other platforms, you can just prefix the build command with the platform information. For example, you can build the 32-bit Linux version using this command:
GOOS=linux GOARCH=386 go build ./cmd/esbuild
Why this is not recommended: The native version can only be used via the command-line interface, which can be unergonomic for complex use cases and which does not support plugins. You will need to write JavaScript or Go code and use esbuild's API to use plugins.


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Finding the Love for Writing: An Interview with Phil Bildner
"Students dislike writing because they often equate it with testing. Testing is stress, testing is not fun, and testing has taken over." Phil Bildner
Educators are always looking for creative ways to inspire students to write. Too often students grow to dislike writing because they find it boring or they struggle with it and it's easier to give up and not write at all. In these days of modern technology it's easier for students to pick up a game that does all the creativity for them.
However, writing can offer great experiences to students. It's how we communicate with one another. Writing is also highly entertaining. Everyone has a favorite book that they have read once or twice. Presently, I'm reading the Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick to my third, fourth and fifth graders and many of them were excited when the movie came out so they could see it on the big screen. A good book can change lives!
Writing should be a lot more fun than it is in schools. In an effort to figure out how to break the code and get students to love writing I enjoy going to the experts. One such expert is Phil Bildner who has written many best selling children's books and young adult novels.
I met Phil a few years ago when he came to my school as a visiting author. He left such a great impression, that three years later many of our students and teachers still talk about his visit. As a former teacher, and dynamic presenter, Phil knows how to connect with an audience.
PD: How do we teach kids the love of writing?
PB: We need to give kids permission to write. My fifth grade teacher, Mr. Kramer, was that teacher for me. He was the one who allowed me to write about the Apollo missions and the New York Mets and dinosaurs and all the things I wanted to write. He was the one who showed me that writing wasn't simply responding to a prompt, doing a book report or answering questions on a worksheet.
There are so many ways this can be achieved.
- One is through modeling the behavior. This applies to teachers and parents. If you want kids to develop a love for writing, they need to be an environment where they see adults writing for pleasure.
- Encourage kids to write at least a little bit everyday. Kids should have a journal or writers' notebook outside of school. They shouldn't be required to write in it, but they should have it at their disposal so that it's there when they do feel inspired or motivated.
- Establish a creative space. This can be in the classroom and at home. The creative space should be a "testing-free" zone. Equip the set-aside area with useful writing tools. Allow students to personalize the space and make it their own.
- Encourage kids to write together. I love watching kids create their own comics, where one student focuses on the text and the other focuses on the drawings. Or have them write a short skit or play. The different students can each write the different roles.
- Integrate technology into the writing process. Find interactive learning activities. This is a great way to reach the gamers out there, the kids who spend countless hours staring at screens. Acknowledge that video games are a form of art, and create ways for kids to evaluate and dissect this art form. Have them storyboard the video games they play. Or have them make webs or maps that graphically organize the plotlines.
PD: Why do so many students dislike writing?
PB: Students dislike writing because they often equate it with testing. Testing is stress, testing is not fun, and testing has taken over. Students see what testing does to teachers and parents. They see how schools go on "lockdown" during benchmark days. They see how everything school-related must stop during testing times. In that context, how can writing be enjoyable?
Then I think of the word expository. Beginning in the third and fourth grade, students are tested on their ability to do expository writing. But to a third and fourth grader, expository is an intimidating word. To most adults, it's an intimidating word! Students dislike writing because it's presented to them in ways that elicits fear, not fun.
PD: What are your thoughts on using writing as a discipline technique?
PB: Writing is a creative process. Using writing as a disciplinary technique is not creative. It's punitive. If you want to foster a dislike for writing in students, have them write essays or do extra writing assignments when they misbehave or fail to complete tasks.
With that said, writing does come into play when we discipline. For instance, when a student has done something wrong, we usually want them to reflect on their actions. Often this entails having them write about what they've done. That way, the student can look back on their actions and self-assess.
PD: As an author who does dozens of school visits every year, what are some of the best examples of writing projects that you have seen?
PB: The best writing projects I've seen all involve listening to students. They involve tuning into their interests and finding meaningful entry points.
One project I've seen work (and have tried myself) involves texting. Texting is a separate language. It's certainly not conventional writing. So have students "translate" one of their recent text conversations into English. The reverse works just as well. Have the students convert dialogue they've written into "text." Or have the students take dialogue from a book they've read and convert that. It gets them to look at language and writing through a different lens, and they focus on aspects of their own writing they usually don't.
Another project I've seen work is have students create a sixty or ninety second video commercial that promotes a book. This is really a book talk where the commercial is the end product. It forces students to think in terms of organizing and prioritizing -- how do you get your point across convincingly in a limited amount of time? The teacher didn't require the students to submit a written script. The teacher only wanted the students' notes. This enabled the teacher to assess their processes and learning styles.
With my middle schoolers, I used to do the "Picture Book Project." Each student would research a 20th Century subject area (The Roaring Twenties, the Space Shuttle Challenger, Jackie Robinson, etc.), and write a paper about it. Then the students would have to "convert" their papers into picture books that they would read aloud to 3rd and 4th graders. I loved this project because it worked on so many different levels. It was always fascinating to watch how invested some of the students became in their books and how their primary focus shifted from themselves to their audience (End of Interview).
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Mixing Math and Poetry
What kind of poem am I?
(12 + 144 + 20 + (3 x (4^.5)))/7 + 5 x 11 = (9 ^2) + 0
HintThe carat symbol (^) means raised to the power of, and a number raised to the power of one half is its square root.
AnswerA mathematical limerick!
A dozen a gross and a score,
Plus three times the square root of four,
Divided by seven,
Plus five times eleven,
Is nine squared and not a bit more!
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Vectis is an accessible instrument
From music education to music production, the Vectis is an innovative way to create music.
The Vectis is a pressure-sensitive device that can be operated using the feet or other extremities, turning movement into action. From providing accessible music education to extending creative interaction, the Vectis is a novel way to engage in music.
Accessible interaction
Vectis was conceived by Alternate Devices' founder after a life-altering injury left him with a limited ability to use a keyboard or mouse. The Vectis was developed to be an easy-to-use, dynamic input peripheral that enables fast interaction with modern user interfaces.
Access to music is not universal - while music is a vital part of education and therapy, many people do not have the ability to engage in the art. The Vectis provides an accessible way to create music.
Like many innovations borne of an accessibility need, the Vectis has applications beyond the AT space. As a device that talks MIDI and OSC, it finds use among artists who create music using the latest electronics.
The Vectis allows anyone to create music
No software required
The Vectis is a pressure-sensitive device that responds to a variety of gestures. Touch-based input on the device enables users to interact with most music software, from commonplace offering such as GarageBand, to more advanced tools like Ableton and Cubase. Through standard USB or Bluetooth interfaces, the Vectis can talk to MIDIand OSC-enabled software.
Touch and go
The Vectis is designed to "just work." It is compatible with any Windows, macOS, or Linux computer, as well as Android phones and tablets, and the iPhone and iPad, with wireless battery-powered operation. Customization is possible through a web page.
Web-based configuration
Customization of the system is possible through Alternate Devices' cloud platform. Quickly see how the Vectis is being operated and change how it interacts with attached devices, all from any internet-connected device.
Durable design
Available in a lightweight triple-bar design, as well as a durable, all-machined enclosure.
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