What is a Foodie and What Does it Actually Mean?
Foodie is a term that gets a bit of a bad rap. That's actually an understatement. It seems like the term is likely to produce a visceral reaction. So, what exactly is a foodie? It really depends on who you ask. Here's a look at what the term actually means, where it derives from, and what it's turned into.
What Is a Foodie?
The term foodie is official, it is in the dictionary. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, foodie is a noun and refers to "a person who loves food and is very interested in different types of food". Comparatively, Merriam-Webster largely defines a foodie as a person interested in popular food fads. Again, it really depends on who you ask. But, where did the term come from?
The Roots of Foodie
Foodie is a relatively new term, being first used in the early 1980s. It was originally coined by a writer in New York City, Gael Greene, but it became popularized by Ann Barr and Paul Levy, who wrote The Official Foodie Handbook. This piece was of the opinion that a foodie eats for pleasure, not sustenance. This person is not snobby, not a professional, and not concerned with anything being gourmet. They don't even necessarily have a large appetite. They eat for their soul.
The authors of this article knew the handbook would strike a nerve, as it spoke to a shared interest in food that hadn't been previously written about. They knew it would help people feel heard. Then, once the term was recognized and put into existence, it became hard to unsee. With this description and basic definition, what happened to the term to cause all the controversy?
Foodie and Commercialization
Foodie, when created, was a term used sparingly. It wasn't necessarily a good or a bad thing, it was just a description'. However, as the term became more and more popular, it fell into the inevitable trap of being commercialized and completely overused. It's used in commercials, magazines, email threads, television shows, books, pretty much everywhere. With overuse, terms become entirely unambiguous and, sometimes, annoying.
Once something becomes commercially popular, it also becomes popular to hate it. Additionally, the term has gained meaning in political conversations as well as class division due to the reality of the profession being predominately working-class, with expensive dining being sometimes reserved for the rich. Long story short, it gets complicated!
Where It is Today?
So, what is a foodie today? It really depends on who you ask, and what day you happen to ask. Accounts on Instagram celebrate the term, with influencers making their income documenting meals at popular restaurants and using the term with pride and absolutely no restraint. Chefs, however, often don't care for the term. They think it has become a way for people who don't know much about the culinary world to pretend they know everything. It empowers a person to complain about and critic something without necessarily having any merit.
What seems to be the common thread here is, if you actually know a lot about the culinary world, chances are you don't describe yourself as a foodie. But, if you do, we're not judging. After all, the term and movement have helped the food industry grow exponentially. All the restaurants you know and love, with unique recipes and incredible flavors, might just have the term to thank. At least in part.
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Definition of a Directory
The keyword for a directory definition is Directory. A global ID of a directory should begin with gid_Dir. Directories have to be assigned to modules in the definition block of the module. If a directory is not assigned to any module, it is automatically assigned to the root module by the scplinker. A typical definition of a directory in the scp projects looks like:
Directory gid_Dir_Autotext
ParentID = gid_Dir_Share;
DosName = "autotext";
Directory gid_Dir_Share_Autocorr
ParentID = gid_Dir_Share;
DosName = "autocorr";
Styles = (CREATE);
As you can see, the definition of a directory is very simple. A directory has a name (DosName) and a parent. Every directory has a parent, resulting in a directory tree. For the most directories, the ParentID is a global ID, which is defined in the script before. Some directories of course have to be defined by the setup. The most important is the directory:
which is for example used in the definition:
Directory gid_Dir_Program
DosName = "program";
The directory program is created below the Office installation root. And this is described by the PREDEFINED_PROGDIR, which has to be found by the setup. By the way, the PREDEFINED_PROGDIR is defined by the user, during the installation process.
Further predefined directories are:
PREDEFINED_HOMEDIR : The user's home directory
PREDEFINED_CONFIGDIR: The system's configuration directory
PREDEFINED_OSSHELLNEWDIR: The shellnew directory for Windows
PREDEFINED_OSSYSTEMFONTDIR: The system font directory
A directory is created, if it is necessary to create it. This means: For example we take a file gid_File_A, that belongs to gid_Module_B, and has to be installed into directory gid_Dir_C. If the module is selected in the user defined installation, the file has to be installed. Then it is necessary for the setup, to create the directory gid_Dir_C. If the module is not selected, the file has not to be installed and, if there is no other file in gid_Dir_C, this gid_Dir_C must no be created.
Some directories have to be created empty. As in the example above the directory gid_Dir_Share_Autocorr has the flag CREATE. This flag means, that the directory shall be created, even though there is no file in it.
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Which species are special in Wales?
The red kite or chough? The Snowdon Lily? The marsh fritillary
Wales, although small, is home to a great range of species
reflecting its geographical position, its varied habitats and the
complexity of its geology and soils.
Located on the Atlantic fringe, Wales has a distinctive
biodiversity. It also has a role to play in the conservation of our
representative western European oceanic plant and invertebrate
species some of which we share with western Portugal, France and
Ireland. Our sheltered wet and humid oak woodlands are rich in
mosses, liverworts and lichens. Our cliff tops and dunes are home
to wildlife that can cope with exposure and drought.
North v south
Wales lies on the boundaries of both northern and southern
species. The Brecon Beacons upland areas contain the southernmost
outposts of several arctic-alpine plant species. On the other side
of the country Anglesey's sand-dunes are home to southern
invertebrates at their northern limits. Charting these species'
movements will play a part in monitoring climate change.
A foreign invasion
Welsh conservationists are monitoring invasive non-native
species, such as ruddy duck and japanese knotweed, and their impact
on the rare native species and habitats. We also need to tackle
mink and New Zealand stonecrop if we are to conserve our water vole
and great crested newt populations.
Protecting our wildlife
Wales has175 species on the Section 74 list of Species of
Principal Importance for the Conservation of Biological Diversity.
Most of these are also on the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP)
list of threatened plants and animals. But this selection is just
the tip of the iceberg. We hope by conserving these species and
habitats, other important species can also benefit from our

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text: Objectives: Children with severe cerebral palsy (CP) commonly have gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction. Whey-based enteral formulas have been postulated to reduce gastroesophageal reflux (GOR) and accelerate gastric emptying (GE). The authors investigated whether whey-based (vs casein-based) enteral formulas reduce GOR and accelerate GE in children who have severe CP with a gastrostomy and fundoplication. Methods: Thirteen children received a casein-based formula for 1 week and either a 50% whey whole protein (50% WWP) or a 100% whey partially hydrolyzed protein (100% WPHP) formula for 1 week. Reflux episodes, gastric half-emptying time (GE t1/2), and reported pain and GI symptoms were measured. Results: Whey formulas emptied significantly faster than casein (median [interquartile range (IQR)] GE t1/2, 33.9 [25.3-166.2] min vs 56.6 [46-191] min; P =.033). Reflux parameters were unchanged. GI symptoms were lower in children who received 50% WWP (visual analog symptom score, median [IQR], 0 [0-11.8]) vs 100% WPHP (13.0 [2.5-24.8]) (P =.035). Conclusion: This pilot study shows that in children who have severe CP with a gastrostomy and fundoplication, GE of the whey-based enteral formula is significantly faster than casein. The acceleration in GE does not alter GOR frequency, and there appears to be no effect of whey vs casein in reducing acid, nonacid, and total reflux episodes. The results indicate that enteral formula selection may be particularly important for children with severe CP and delayed GE.

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Definitions for accelerantækˈsɛl ər ənt
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
ac•cel•er•antækˈsɛl ər ənt(n.)
something that speeds up a process.
Ref: accelerator (def. 3). 5
a substance that intensifies a fire or accelerates its spread.
Origin of accelerant:
1915–20; < L
Any substance that can bond, mix, or disturb another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a natural or artificial chemical process.
A substance that accelerates the development of a fire; especially some petroleum product used to spread an act of arson
A substance used to catalyze the vulcanization of rubber
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Homesteaders were hardworking people
The entire family helped in order for them to succeed
When the homestead program
started on St. Croi in 1932, it was
This third column focuses on
homesteaders at work and the hardship they encountered.
Homesteaders worked hard, with
commitment from the entire family
if they were to succeed in making a
life for themselves on the land.
Although agriculture had been
modernized, bomesteader relied on
traditional hand tools including
cane knives, hand plows and hoes.
This tradition was passed down
from slaves who worked the land
more than 300 years. Everybody
worked from dawn to dusk.
Homesteaders worried constantly about the weather, getting the
cane to the market, the price of cane
and sanual paymenTs fr their land.
But the homestead program tried
to improve the living conditions of
local people through the coostruction of new homes.
In the 1930s,. St. Croix's rural
blacks and Hispanics lived in
unsanitary housing in old slave
plantation villages and in overcrowded houses, for which they
paid 30 to 50 cents per week to
The typical set of rooms was
occupied by five or six persons.
Disease was rsmpan Many people
lived in poorly bult twoor threeroom apartments in long barracktype buildings. Many families did
not have their own homes.
Homesteading brought the first
radical change from these slave
housing patterns that dated back
from the 1800s.
Starting in 1934, the federal
government constructed houses for
homesteaders. This was the first
public housing in the Virgin
Islands. The new houses cost
between $500 and OO00. They consisted of two to four rooms with
kitchens, citerand porches.
In 1938, 52 new houses had
been built on homestead plots, but
the federal funds dried up with only
a few additional hose constructed
by the local government.
Some homesteaders erected their
own houses. Overall about 20 percent of the homesteaders lived on
family values at home
and at work. Strong
family ties were key to
their own land.
Homesteading reinforced family
values at home and at work. Strong
family ties were key to successful
But homesteaders had to use
their land mainly to grow sugar
cane for the big sugar corporations
on the island. Al first, homesteaders
enjoyed success. From 1933 to
1937 homesteaders saw steady
advances in both output and income
on their farms.
During this period, 96 percent of
all bills were paid on time, and more
than 300 homesteaders averaged an
income of $100 per year from cane
sales, which they supplemented with
other food crops grown.
By comparison, the typical field
workers for the sugar corporation
earned about $75 per year in wages.
But the homesteaders failed to
sustain their success. In 1938 a
severe drought hit the island.
With this natural disaster, sugar
prices fell, and rising wage rates
forced many homesteaders to relinquish their plots in favor of govemBy the end of 1941, only 202
active homesteaders remained with
533 acres of aceland in production.
The program also suffered as the
federal government grew disinteresLed. In 1934 the federal funds for
the program were reduced tremenThe cuts scrapped officials'
plans to purchase additional lands,
build more houses and provide
more cooperative services for the
farmers. In fact, by 1935 there were
no federal funds.
Instead, the federal government
gave millions to the Virgin Islands
Co., which was established in 1934
to rehabilitate the sugar industry.
By the 1940s the sugar company receive a total of S3.4 million as
compared to $400,000 for the
Next week Who is to blame for
the failure of the homestead proOlasee Davis, wao hs a master
ofscience degree in range management and forestry ecology, is a SL
Croix ecologist, activist and writer.


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Getting Started with Comments
Digital communities offer a myriad of ways for users to contribute content. Blog responses, product reviews, forum posts, and direct messages just to name a few. And while each of these mechanisms may serve a different purpose, they share quite a lot in common. At the heart of it, each represents a simple, hierarchical, contribution.
Episerver Social's Comments feature distills this concept down into a simple data structure that, in combination with the platform's data modeling concepts, can be applied to implement any such scenario.
What is a Comment?
The Episerver Social framework represents hierarchical content using a class called Comment (EPiServer.Social.Comments.Core.Comment). Fundamentally, a Comment is comprised of an Author, a Parent, and a Body. With these three things, we have enough information to build a conversation.
 - The Body represents the content, which has been contributed.
 - The Author identifies the contributor of the content. Who posted the comment? Who contributed the review?
 - The Parent identifies what the content is in reference to. Is this a comment on a page in your site? Is this a reply to another comment?
Relationships
What makes hierarchical content hierarchical are its relationships. When working with comments, there are two relationships to be aware of. The first is a comment's relationship to its Author. The second is a comment's relationship to its Parent
Episerver Social uses an open system of references to allow an application to represent such relationships. This gives a developer the freedom to identify elements in their application (pages, users, products, etc.) in a manner that is appropriate for that application. The framework provides a class called Reference (EPiServer.Social.Common.Reference), which uses a custom string to identify an application element.
Let's look at how the concept applies to a Comment.
Author
A Comment's Author is specified as a Reference, which identifies the contributing user. As the developer, you have the freedom to define the scheme used to identify that user.
So, in a simple web application, the username of an authenticated user may suffice for identifying a contributor.
var contributor = Reference.Create(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name);
In scenarios where user identities come from many different providers, a more sophisticated scheme may be required. You might consider a custom URI scheme to identify contributors.
var provider = ... // Set provider name
var username = ... // Set user name
var contributor = Reference.Create($"user://{provider}/{username}");
These are just two examples. Others might include a user ID, a GUID, a serialized identity object. The key takeaway is that your contibutors can be identified in whatever manner suits your application.
Parent
A Comment's Parent identifies what the comment is attached to. A comment can be attached to anything: a page, an Episerver Block, a product, an image, a user. Like the Author, a Parent is also identified using a Reference. So, you have the freedom to attach a Comment to anything that you can identify.
Let's say that we want to contribute a comment to an Episerver page. We might go about constructing our Parent Reference in the following manner.
public Reference CreateReferenceFor(PageData page)
{
 return Reference.Create(page.ContentGuid.ToString());
}
Similary, if we wanted to contribute a comment to an Episerver Commerce product, our Reference might be constructed as shown below.
public Reference CreateReferenceFor(ProductContent product)
{
 return Reference.Create(product.Code);
}
Now, while things like pages and products may be physically represented in a database somewhere, we're not strictly limited to such entities as a Parent. The ability to define our references means that we can also represent conceptual entities with no physical representation. Consider a feature where you'd like visitors to be able to discuss the facets of a product. A shirt's fit or a monitor's clarity. These are qualities of a product that likely have no stored entity to represent them but we can still have a conversation about them.
var product = product.Code;
var facet = "fit";
var parent = Reference.Create($"product://{product}/{facet}");
Contributing Comments
With an understanding of what comprises a Comment, we're ready to begin contributing them. Adding a Comment is a simple, two step, process:
 1. Construct the comment, defining its BodyAuthor, and Parent.
 2. Submit the Comment to Episerver Social.
All operations on Comments are performed through the ICommentService interface (EPiServer.Social.Comments.Core.ICommentService). A reference to this service can be obtained using Episerver's service locator.
Let's continue the example of contributing comments to a page within Episerver. Using the concepts that we covered above, the sample below demonstrates how we might implement such a scenario.
public class MyPageController : ContentController<MyContent>
{
 private readonly ICommentService commentService;

 public MyPageController()
 {
 commentService = EPiServer.ServiceLocation.ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<ICommentService>();
 }

 // ...
 private void SubmitComment(PageData page, string body)
 {
 // 1. Construct the comment, defining its Body, Author, and Parent

 var comment = new Comment(
 CreateReferenceFor(page),
 CreateReferenceFor(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity),
 body,
 true
 );

 // 2. Submit the comment to Episerver Social.

 commentService.Add(comment);

 }

 private Reference CreateReferenceFor(PageData page)
 {
 return Reference.Create(page.ContentGuid.ToString());
 }

 private Reference CreateReferenceFor(IIdentity user)
 {
 return user.IsAuthenticated
 ? Reference.Create(user.Name)
 : Reference.Create("Anonymous");
 }
}
Now we can contribute comments to a page but conversation requires give-and-take. So, how do we reply to an existing comment? The process is very similar to what we've seen already with one small variation.
When a Comment is added to Episerver Social, ICommentService returns us a copy of that Comment populated with some system-generated information. The information includes a unique Id for the new Comment. When submitting a Comment as a reply to another, a Comment's Id is used as a Parent Reference.
Let's expand the controller class defined above with a new method for submitting a reply.
private void SubmitReply(CommentId parentCommentId, string body)
{
 // Convert the CommentId of the parent Comment into a Reference.

 var parentCommentReference = parentCommentId.ToReference();

 // Construct the comment, defining its Body, Author, and Parent

 var comment = new Comment(
 parentCommentReference,
 CreateReferenceFor(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity),
 body,
 true
 );

 // Submit the comment to Episerver Social.

 commentService.Add(comment);
}
Retrieving Comments
With the ability to add and reply to Comments, our application likely also needs to deliver them. Episerver Social provides a number of ways to filter your Comments for retrieval. Your application may leverage any or all of those filtering capabilities as needed. Let's cover a couple of scenarios to introduce some of the options.
Let's first assume that our application simply maintains a linear list of Comments (i.e. no replies) for a page. To present such a list, our application would want to retrieve a set of Comments with a Parent corresponding to that page.
private ResultPage<Comment> RetrieveComments(PageData page)
{
 // Determine the parent for which Comments should be retrieved

 var parent = CreateReferenceFor(page);

 // Define the criteria by which Comments should be retrieved

 var criteria = new Criteria<CommentFilter>()
 {
 Filter = new CommentFilter
 {
 Parent = parent
 },
 PageInfo = new PageInfo
 {
 PageSize = 10
 }
 };

 // Retrieve the Comments from Episerver Social

 return commentService.Get(criteria);
}
In this example, we resolve the Reference representing the desired page and assign that Reference as a filter in the Criteria that is submitted to Episerver Social. As a result, Episerver Social delivers only Comments that are immediate children of the identified page. (The method also limits the result set to a maximum of 10 items.)
If we revise this method a bit, we can make it flexible enough to deliver Comments, regardless of whether the Parent is a page or another Comment.
private ResultPage<Comment> RetrieveComments(Reference parent, int pageOffset = 0, int pageSize = 10)
{
 // Define the criteria by which Comments should be retrieved

 var criteria = new Criteria<CommentFilter>()
 {
 Filter = new CommentFilter
 {
 Parent = parent
 },
 PageInfo = new PageInfo
 {
 PageOffset = pageOffset,
 PageSize = pageSize
 }
 };

 // Retrieve the Comments from Episerver Social

 return commentService.Get(


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Systems of Three Variables Systems of Three Variables
Systems of Three Variables
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- Solve this system. And here we have three equations with three unknowns.
- And just so you have a way to visualize this,
- each of these equations would actually be a plane in three dimensions.
- And so you're actually trying to figure out where three planes in three dimensions intersect.
- I won't go into the details here, I'll focus more on the mechanics,
- but you can imagine if I were to draw a three dimensional space over here.
- Now all of a sudden we'll have an x, y, and z axes.
- So you can imagine that maybe this first plane
- and I'm not drawing it the may it might actually look.
- It might look something like that. (I'm just drawing part of the plane.)
- And maybe this plane over here.
- It intersects right over there and it comes popping out like this and then it goes behind it like that.
- It keeps going in every direction, I'm just drawing part of the plane.
- And maybe this plane over here, maybe it does something like this.
- Maybe it intersects over here and over here.
- And so it pops out like that and then it goes below it like that
- and then it goes like that. I'm just doing this for visualization purposes.
- And so the intersection of this plane - the x, y and z coordinates that would satisfy
- all three of these constraints the way I drew them - would be right over here.
- So that's what we're looking for. And a lot of times these three equations with three unknown systems
- will be inconsistent. You won't have a solution here, because it's very possible to have three planes
- that all don't intersect in one place. A very simple example of that is
- well, one, they could all be parallel to each other, or they could intersect each other but maybe they
- intersect each other in kind of a triangle, so maybe one plane looks like that, then another plane maybe
- pops out like that, goes underneath. And then maybe the third plane cuts in.
- It does something like this: where it goes into that plane
- and keeps going out like that, but it intersects this plane over here.
- So you see kind of forms a triangle and they don't all intersect in one point
- so in this situation, you would have an inconsistent system. So with that out of the way, let's try to
- actually solve this system. And the trick here is to try to eliminate one variable at a time from all
- of the equations, making sure that you have the information from all three equations here
- so what we're going to do is we could maybe - it looks like the easiest to eliminate
- since we have a positive y and a negative y and then another positive y
- it seems like we can eliminate the Ys.
- We can add these two equations and come up with another equation
- that will only be in terms of x and z. And then we could use these two equations
- to come up with another equation that will only be in terms of x and z.
- But it will have all of the x and z constraint information embedded in it because
- we're using all three equations. So let's do that. So first let's add these two equations right over here.
- So we have x plus y minus three z is equal to negative ten.
- And x minus y plus two z is equal to three. So over here if we want to eliminate y, we can literally
- just add these two equations. So on the left hand side, x plus x is two x. Y plus negative y cancels out
- And then negative three z plus two z - that gives us just a negative z
- and then we have negative ten plus three, which is negative seven.
- So using these two equations we got
- two x minus z is equal to negative seven - just adding these two equations.
- Now let's do these two equatons. And we can reuse this equation as long as
- we're using new information here. Now we're using the extra constraint of this bottom equation.
- So we have x minus y plus two z is equal to three.
- And we have two x plus y minus z is equal to negative six.
- If we want to eliminate the Ys, we can just add these two equations.
- So x plus two x is three x. Negative y plus y cancels out. Two z minus z - well that is just z.
- And that is going to be equal to three plus negative six, which is negative three.
- So if I add these two equations, I get three x plus z is equal to negative three. Now I have a system
- of two equations with two unknowns. This is a little bit more traditional of a problem. So let me write
- them over here. So we have two x minus z is equal to negative seven. And then we have three x plus z
- is equal to negative three and the way this problem is set up, it gets pretty simple pretty fast, because
- if we just add these two equations, the Zs cancel out. Otherwise if it didn't happen so naturally, we'd
- have to multiply one of these equations, or maybe both of them, by some scaling factor.
- But we can just add these two equations up.
- On the left hand side, two x plus three x is five x. Negative z plus z cancels out.
- Negative seven plus negative three - that is equal to negative ten.
- Divide both sides of this equation by five and
- we get x is equal to negative two. Now we can substitute back to find the other variables.
- Maybe we can substitute back into this equation to figure out what z must be equal to.
- So we have two times x. Two times negative two minus z is equal to negative seven.
- Or negative four minus z is equal to negative seven.
- We can add four to both sides of this equation and then we get
- negative z is equal to negative seven plus four, which is negative three.
- Multiply or divide both sides by negative one and you get z is equal to three. And now we can go and
- substitute back into one of these original equations. So we have x. We know x is negative two.
- So we have negative two plus y, minus three times z.
- Well, we know z is three (so minus three times three)
- should all be equal to negative ten. And now we just solve for y.
- So we get negative two plus y minus nine is equal to negative ten. And so negative two minus nine,
- that's negative eleven. So we have
- y minus eleven is equal to negative ten. And then we can add eleven to both
- sides of this equation. And we get y is equal to negative ten plus eleven, which is one.
- So we're done!
- We've got x is equal to negative two. Z is equal to three and y is equal to one.
- Now I can actually go back and check it.
- Verify that this x, y and z works for all three constraints
- that this three dimensional coordinate lies on all three planes.
- So let's try it out. We've got x is negative two, z is three, y is one.
- So if we substituted - let me do it into each of them - so in this first equation
- that means that we have negative two plus one (remember y was equal to one).
- Let me write it over here - y is equal to one, x is equal to negative two, z is equal to three.
- That was the result we got. Yup, that's the result we got.
- So when we test it into this first one, you have negative two plus one minus three times three.
- So minus nine. This should be equal to negative ten. And it is.
- Negative two plus one is negative one, minus nine is negative ten.
- So it works for the first one. Let's try it for the second equation right over here.
- So we have negative two minus y (so, minus one) plus two times z (so, z is three, so two times three)
- So, plus six needs to be equal to three.
- So this is negative three plus six, which is indeed equal to three.
- So this satisifies the second equation. And then we have the last one right over here!
- We have two times x, so two times negative two, which is negative four. Negative four.
- Plus y, so plus one. Minus z, so minus three. Minus three.
- Needs to be equal to negative six. Negative four plus one is negative three,
- and then you subtract three again. It equals negative six.
- So it satisfies all three equations, so we can feel pretty good about our answer.
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. The symptoms vary from person to person but include headaches, edginess and lethargy.
Ways to cut down
To cut down, reduce your caffeine intake gradually over a period of about two weeks so your body is not prompted to produce any withdrawal symptom. Try using a smaller measure of instant or ground coffee with the same amount of water. With tea, the longer it is left to brew the more caffeine it contains. Alternatively, stick to same strength, but replace every other cup with a herbal tea, fruit juice or plain water. If it is the taste that you miss then try the decaffeinated versions of coffee, tea and cola.
Suggested Supplements to be taken
- SuperSoy Powder – To help combat stress, the body ward off infection, to inhibit cancer-promoting enzymes.
- Caps Adrenal Plus – This formulation helps the adrenal glands overcome the inhibiting factors of stress and perform at their peak level.
- Fenugreek – To improve your physical body state.
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Measuring the dynamic response of structures due to blast loading is rather complex because of the high strain rates, the transient nature of the deformation and the interactions between the explosion and the structure. The blast response of structures has been an area of active research in recent years. Several studies have investigated dynamic deformations due to explosive blast loading on plates using strain gauges, accelerometers, velocity meters or pressure sensors which only provide point-wise information. This paper describes the use of a high-speed stereo-vision system combined with 3D digital image correlation (DIC) to obtain the full-field deformation of thin plates subjected to blast loading. The pressure distribution on the plates is calculated by finite element simulations and is validated by comparing the numerical deformation with the deformation pattern from the DIC. For the finite elements model the Johnson-Cook material model is used to simulate the behaviour of the plate. The tests are performed for different boundary conditions, more specifically: for different materials and thicknesses of the plate.
|Titel||SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics|
|Status||Published - 7 jun 2010|
|Evenement||Unknown - Stockholm, Sweden|
Duur: 21 sep 2009 → 25 sep 2009
|Periode||21/09/09 → 25/09/09|

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It may seem like Robert Martinez is established, "but it's been a long road to walk," says the Native artist from the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming.
Despite his work being shown across the country, for most of his 25 years creating art, Martinez says he's felt overlooked. It hasn't been until the last few years that Martinez has felt valued as a Native artist creating work about Native people.
"[This is] still a fairly new experience. [Native artists] have been marginalized and pigeon holed and stereotyped for so long."
It's time, Martinez says, for Native artists to tell their own stories.
With that sentiment in mind, the Dairy Arts Center teamed up with the Creative Nations Art Collective to develop the Creative Nations Sacred Space — a space permanently dedicated to Native and Indigenous artists at the Dairy, opening on Friday, Sept. 16.
The dedication of Creative Nations Sacred Space comes at a time when concert halls, art centers and museums are recognizing original stewards of the land with land acknowledgements.
Marty Strenczewilk, an Ojibwe storyteller and the managing director of Creative Nations, says those acknowledgements are great, but have limited impact.
"Allyship is not about saying, it's about doing," Strenczewilk says.
Although it is not true land back, Creative Nations shows an actionable step toward land back and re-establishing Indigenous sovereignty in Boulder County.
"They have created something that's going to represent a moment of land back for us, a recognition of this land and what it is," Strenczewilk says. "It is a bigger step than almost any organization ever takes."
The space will serve multiple functions: providing a space for rehearsals, galleries, readings, poetry and music, while fostering collaboration and opportunities for Indigenous artists. Artists will have access to resources they might not have otherwise, and will bring the community together in healing and celebration.
"I guess if I were to think of a single word, the word hub … if we can be a hub for Native art and Native artists, that would be incredible," Strenczewilk says. "It's about making art as much as it is about displaying it."
The first Native art exhibition will feature works by artists from tribes with historical ties to Colorado and Boulder County: the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute tribes. This exhibition will be free and open to the public through November 2022.
Martinez, a Northern Arapaho Chicano artist, and Bruce Cook, a Haida (British Columbia) artist, were invited to curate the exhibition. Martinez says it was humbling to be asked to show his and other Native artists' work at the new space.
"[Our people] haven't been invited before recent times, so it was great to be invited back [to Boulder] to show our contemporary artwork."
Martinez says that Indigenous artists creating Native-themed art often do not have the same opportunities as white artists, emphasizing that "money is a huge factor."
"A non-Native artist, painting, drawing, sculpting Native themes and Native imagery, will have a longer and more lucrative career than an actual Native artist painting actual Native themes and imagery—and it's been like that forever," Martinez says.
Further, he sees Native artists giving back to Native communities, but doesn't see non-Native artists doing the same. "But they don't see the problem with that," he says.
The Dairy is seeking to bridge that gap and empower Native artists through valuing autonomy and fair pay.
The space, founded by five Indigenous people, is managed and envisioned by people who identify as Native or Indigenous. The Dairy is taking a hands-off approach in managing the space — providing resources, facilitation and guidance rather than controlling it.
"I think there's a real nice consciousness among most of the Dairy staff [to] not take over the project, because the Natives are really driving these things," Strenczewilk says.
Paying artists appropriately is a goal for Strenczewilk. He says Creative Nations staff talk about what they should pay artists versus what they can pay them, with the hopes of addressing pay inequities for artists of color and in the arts generally.
"Problems don't go away if unaddressed," says Melissa Fathman, executive director of the Dairy Arts Center. "It takes courage to step up, speak out, or make decisions that may make people mad or make you unpopular, but in the end, you know it's the right thing to do."
The idea to create a dedicated space for Indigenous artists at the Dairy began in 2019 during the dedication for the mural Uncounted by LMNOPI with Arapaho Shoshone artist Sarah Ortegon as the subject, whose family used to live on the land in the area. The mural raised awareness around violence against Native women and girls.
Fathman was moved by the piece and Ortegon's speech, which brought her to reflect on the Dairy's historic exclusion of Native artists.
"It completely changed the way I viewed my workplace, an organization that prides itself on community, diversity and inclusion that had almost no connection to the people who used to live here. I internally vowed to figure out how to reconcile the past," Fathman says. "I realized that although I could not give the land back, I could carve out a space within the Dairy facility that is permanently dedicated to Native artists."
The opening event will start at 6 p.m. with a traditional blessing from Harvey Spoonhunter, chairman of the Northern Arapaho tribe. Artists Martinez and Cook will give a live art demonstration for attendees. Art will be available for purchase during the exhibit, but not at the opening event.
Fathman says there is a lot of healing and reconciliation that needs to be done because of past abuses and crimes against Native people.
"Healing comes in many forms: It can come as a stark message; it can also come through laughter, or beautiful colors, cathartic movements or healing sounds," Fathman says. "The arts provide all of that — so many transformative opportunities that go beyond words."


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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the market for smart eyewear begins to find its sea-legs, companies are still struggling to balance features. What do buyers want in a pair of smart glasses?
Text messaging is a crucial part of communication nowadays. Companies such as Vuzix, North and Everysight offer smart eyewear projecting incoming text messages on their displays. But how do you reply when the eyewear doesn't come with a keyboard?
IpVenture, with its affiliate IngenioSpec, offers the next step: hands-free text messaging for smart eyewear. With our comprehensive patented technologies, users can send and receive texts without displays or a keyboard.
When a text message is received, IpVenture's technology transforms it into audio, and allows the user to hear the message read to her through a speaker in the smart eyewear. The user can then recite a reply verbally, which is received by a microphone in the smart eyewear; and IpVenture's technology will transform the reply into text and send it.
Some of the operations can be performed by a mobile phone wirelessly coupled to the eyewear. For example, the transformation between text and audio can be done by the mobile phone.
With these patented technologies and more, IpVenture and its affiliate, IngenioSpec, continue to lead in development of market-driven ideas and user-friendly technologies. Visit our websites for lists of patents on smart eyewear and hands-free text messaging.


text: BACKGROUND: Qunatitation of blood flow within the cardiac chambers has been tried using digitally recorded velocity information of color Doppler flow mapping (CDFM). However, the accuracy of CDFM has not been systematically assessed. The purpose of the study was to test the accuracy of digitally recorded velocity information obtained through CDFM. Method: Using the American Society of Echocardiography flow phantom, an in vitro steady flow experiment was performed. Eight different flow fields through the phantom (84, 139, 172, 192, 232, 237, 244, 436 mL/sec) were imaged by CDFM using Hewlett Packard Sonos 2500 and all data were stored in the magneto-optical disc. Multiple aliases were visible and 7 different Nyquist limits (17, 23, 27, 37, 42, 53, 58 cm/sec) were used for recording. A fully automatic computer algorithm was used to unwrap the aliases and to convert the CDFM to digital velocity. Among 9 consecutive values at each pixel along the centerline of the phantom, median value was chosen as a representative value, which was compared to the actual value. RESULTS: In the slow velocity region, CDFM tends to overestimate the true velocity, whereas in the fast velocity region, it underestimates. At the aliasing point of 2 times Nyquist limit, there is a marked turbulence and estimation of velocity is impossible;fter aliasing, velocity information of CDFM is totally unreliable. Velocity estimation of CDFM is the most accurate at the velocity region of the Nyquist limit and shows reasonable accuracy between 0.5 x Nyquist limit and 1.5 x Nyquist limit with the error of estimation less than 15%. Conclusion: Velocity information of CDFM is accurate in the limited region and is dependent on the Nyquist limit of each measurement;this can be explained by the effect of wall filter. Baseline-shift of CDFM should be limited to the region between 0.5 x Nyquist limit and 1.5 x Nyquist limit for accurate quantitation using velocity information of CDFM.


Question: What Companies Use LIFO?
Does Apple use FIFO or LIFO?
FIFO The first in first out FIFO method is used in Apples inventory management | Course Hero..
Does Starbucks use LIFO or FIFO?
Starbucks uses LIFO or FIFO inventory methods. Starbucks does use inventory reserve accounts for obsolete and slow-moving inventory. They also use it for estimated shrinkage between physical inventory counts.
Is LIFO allowed in India?
The cost of other inventory items used is assigned by using either the first-in, first-out (FIFO) or weighted average cost formula. Last-in, first-out (LIFO) is not permitted. … Indian companies have generally adopted the weighted average or FIFO method.
Does Walmart use LIFO?
The Company values inventories at the lower of cost or market as determined primarily by the retail inventory method of accounting, using the last-in, first-out ("LIFO") method for substantially all of the Walmart U.S. segment's inventories.
Do companies use LIFO or FIFO?
Since prices usually increase, most businesses prefer to use LIFO costing. If you want a more accurate cost, FIFO is better, because it assumes that older less-costly items are most usually sold first.
Why LIFO is banned?
Why do companies use FIFO?
Do restaurants use FIFO or LIFO?
The majority of restaurants operate according to the first-in, first-out (FIFO) principle of inventory valuation. This technique assumes that the goods you purchase first are the goods you use (and sell) first.
What is the benefit of LIFO?
The biggest benefit of LIFO is a tax advantage. During times of inflation, LIFO results in a higher cost of goods sold and a lower balance of remaining inventory. A higher cost of goods sold means lower net income, which results in a smaller tax liability.
Does Amazon use LIFO or FIFO?
Amazon Uses the FIFO Method to Determine Storage Fees It uses the First In, First Out (FIFO) method. In other words: your first batch of products that arrived at the warehouse will also be the first to go out the door when customers order them.
Does Costco use LIFO or FIFO?
Merchandise inventories for all foreign operations are primarily valued by the retail method of accounting and are stated using the first-in, first-out (FIFO) method. The Company's management makes an assessment each quarter of the estimated annual impact of inflation and adjusts the LIFO provision accordingly.
Why do oil companies use LIFO?
Companies that use LIFO record the cost of inventory at the latest price paid for those materials in the open market, even though they are selling goods often bought at a lower value. This increases a company's cost of goods sold, which in turn reduces profit. The upside: higher cash flow because of reduced taxes.
Is LIFO still allowed?
Therefore, LIFO is prohibited under IFRS because the focus of IFRS shifted away from the income statement to the balance sheet and, therefore, away from LIFO.
Why do companies choose LIFO over FIFO?
LIFO Reduces Taxes and Helps Match Revenue With Cost During times of rising prices, companies may find it beneficial to use LIFO cost accounting over FIFO. Under LIFO, firms can save on taxes as well as better match their revenue to their latest costs when prices are rising.
What is LIFO Last In First Out?
How many companies use LIFO?
Of 600 companies surveyed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the leading trade association for the accounting profession in the United States, more than 400 use LIFO for both tax and financial reporting.
Where is LIFO used?
The LIFO method is used in the COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) calculation when the costs of producing a product or acquiring inventory has been increasing. This may be due to inflation.
One of the greatest differences between GAAP and IFRS is that IFRS forces companies to use the first in first out (FIFO) form of accounting for their inventory. On the other hand, GAAP will allow a company to choose whether or not they want to use FIFO or the last in first out (LIFO) method.


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In the vocabulary of music, the term "Andante" indicates a tempo characterized by an intermediate speed between adagio and allegro; it can be further specified, with different nuances which catch different possible moods: moderato, con moto, con brio. The title conceived for this exhibition is drawn from musical terminology - even if we are conscious that, applied to music, it would be an oxymoron. If we apply it to visual experience, on the contrary, the reference to two different tempos is meant to suggest an essential feature of the process leading to the present work: Andante Lento aims to describe the pace of those who travel fast enough to cover distances, but who are as well able to linger in places, on things, on those natural and human details that travellers recognize as the very essence of travel. You go, but you are willing to slow down when circumstances demand it. The collection includes 22 images about Italy, they are photographs of places well-known, but they are not usual: faithful to the principle of going slow, the photographer took a few steps off the marked path, stopped, waited, contemplated, and took the picture. The choice of the format is not accidental either: the reading of a panorama picture, like its composition, requires an extra effort to control all the elements, but is more respectful of the nature of the human gaze that lingers on point after point in order to understand the whole.
Photos by STEFANO AMANTINI, MASSIMO BORCHI and GUIDO COZZI


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To access deeper located water enables a plant to better withstand drought. Helpful hereby are longer roots that penetrate deeper into the soil. It is one of the traits that breeders select during the development of drought resilient wheat. Although a big stumbling block is that there is relatively little known about which genes are involved. But now A group of researchers from America, Argentine, China, Israel, and Sweden show that the development of long soil penetrating roots depend on the level expression of OPRIII genes.
Wheat lines that were intercrossed with a rye line for a better root system pointed the researchers to the OPRIII genes. These so-called RS lines had a more expanded root system with better access to water. With as result a higher yield for RS lines in the case of drought.
Closer analysis suggested that the most like genes responsible for the drought adapted root system of the RS lines were the OPRIII genes. To make sure this was indeed the case the researchers developed wheat with extra OPRIII and wheat without any OPRIII. When there was an extra amount of OPRIII present, then the researchers noticed, the wheat plants had shorter roots with more side roots. While absence of OPRIII resulted in wheat plants with extra long roots.
Making the amount of OPRIII determinative for how the roots develop. Although it is not completely clear how OPRIII influences root architecture. It gives breeders a handhold for developing drought resilience lines. By keeping an eye on the OPRIII levels.
Gabay, G., Wang, H., Zhang, J. et al. (2023) Dosage differences in 12-OXOPHYTODIENOATE REDUCTASE genes modulate wheat root growth. Nature Communications 14, 539 _URL_


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Sensing using radio frequency (RF) signals such as Wi-Fi has garnered significant attention in recent years. They can be used, for instance, for so-called passive indoor positioning of humans. This passive positioning uses the Wi-Fi signal as a bi-static radar to determine the location of a human subject who is not carrying any Wi-Fi device. While previous works have demonstrated that positioning is possible, these algorithms rely on precise position labels for training, and only work in confined laboratory environments that must remain invariant.
We recently proposed two novel algorithms for passive positioning. The first is based on a self-supervision signal by a combined clustering and triplet loss. The second is modality-agnostic and is based on a low-dimensional manifold learning facilitated by optimal transport. Neither algorithm requires dense labels as required by state of the art algorithms. In this demo, we demonstrate results of these two algorithms in real-world environments, i.e., outside of carefully controlled labs. The presented results demonstrate that our methods surpass state of the art by a wide margin.


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The New American Slave (Roger Ingalls)
Remember that game teachers played to help develop our logic and reasoning skills? They would hold up a picture and ask, "what's wrong with this picture" and we would have to figure it out.
Well, my fellow Americans, what's wrong with this picture?
Based on the incarceration numbers shown in this chart, it appears that many Americans suddenly became criminals during the Nixon administration and turned more evil during the Reagan administration.
Now, I ask you, does this really make sense? Did the citizens of the United States exponentially turn to the dark side during the 70s and 80s? Your gut is probably saying no, people don't change that drastically. Your intuition is correct, the people didn't change but the laws did.
Virtually overnight, human behavior was criminalized by Nixon's War On Drugs legislation. This was conservative backlash for the 1960's Enlightened Movements. Ten years later, the Reagans stepped into the Whitehouse. While the country was in a recession, Nancy spent a few hundred thousand dollars on new dinnerware and this didn't go over well with the public. The spin doctors came to her rescue and she became the Just Say No First Lady. The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 came into existence along with harsh penalties for drug related crimes.
Nixon's prohibition of recreational drugs and the subsequent draconian penalties are responsible for the exponential growth of the prison and jail populations. To make matter worse, incarceration is becoming more privatized and the bigger prison companies are publicly traded. Wall Street expects these for profit companies to grow annually at a rate that is faster than the real crime rate. Do we see a problem here? The prison industry, their lobbyists and law enforcement need more criminalization of human behavior and harsher penalties to maintain jobs and profits.
Throughout history man has used mind altering substances, it's our nature. It is estimated that 30% of those incarcerated have committed non-violent drug related crimes.
Taxpayers can no longer afford an annual $70 billion bill for the War On Drugs.
We need to do away with the prohibition of recreational drugs and regulate them similar to tobacco and alcohol. We also need to do away with for profit incarceration that creates incentives for enslavement.
The 40 year experiment of criminalizing human behavior has failed.
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PRG set a new standard for stage automation in 1988 when it introduced the patented Stage Command™ motion control system on Phantom of the Opera. The PRG Stage Command System (SCS) gives designers and operators the reliability to execute even the most complex motion control cues with accuracy, repeatability and unparalleled attention to safety. In the ever-expanding scope of scenic and automated elements, SCS offers the clear solution for today's demanding performance environments.
The cue-based SCS software allows seamless transitions in full view of the audience and creates a world of possibilities for designers. At the core of the Stage Command System are four main components designed to work as a system or as individual products. Complete and accurate control is provided through the proprietary PRG Commander™ console; the SCS PLC Cube (Programmable Logic Controllers) provides a Go/No Go safety check prior to executing a cue; and the SCS Drive Racks house the individual drivers that send control signals to the motion effects.
Finally, the wide range of effects controlled include the SCS Winches, a standardized line of winches, and the SCS Turtle Rotator, which brings rotational motion to a wide range of scenic elements. SCS can also control motors, chain hoists, scenic deck dogs, and traveler track systems.


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Emboli: Something that travels through the bloodstream, lodges in a blood vessel and blocks it. Examples of emboli are a detached blood clot, a clump of bacteria, and foreign material such as air.
Pulmonary emboli are blood clots that have been carried through the blood into the pulmonary artery (the main blood vessel from the heart to the lung) or one of its branches, plugging that vessel.
Emboli is the plural of embolus, a word that comes from the Greek "embolos" meaning a wedge or plug. "Embolos" was derived from "en" (in) + "ballein" (to throw) so emboli are something thrown in.
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Abstract: Incorporating energy awareness in identifying the routes in MANET is one of the mandatory mechanisms to be incorporated in any routing protocol. This helps reduce selfishness in node and hence prolongs the network's lifetime. This paper presents a metaheuristic based routing scheme for MANET that identifies next hop nodes not only based on their distance, but also on the residue charge left in them. This approach uses a modified Ant Colony Optimization technique with threshold limits for exploration and exploitation levels. These limits are set such that the exploration is given more importance, in-order to maintain the randomness and avoid repetitive usage of the same node. Experiments reveal that this approach exhibits low computational complexity and provides sufficient randomness for the node selection mechanism.
Keywords: MANET; Routing; ACO; CDF; Energy efficiency; Altruism; Selfishness.


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§ Lord Braine of Wheatley
asked Her Majesty's Government:
How many abortions have been performed within the North Thames Region, under the provisions of the Abortion Act 1967 (as amended); and how many and what percentage of such abortions were performed in an emergency to save the life of the mother.
§ Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish
The total number of abortions carried out under the Abortion Act, to women usually resident in the North Thames health Region1, from 1970 to 19942 was 752,736. During this period, 19 abortions, 0.003 per cent. of the total number of 196WA abortions performed, were carried out in an emergency, certified by the operating practitioner as immediately necessary, to save the life of the woman3.
1Figures are based, where possible, on 1994 health authority boundaries. Other boundary changes have not been reflected in the figures.
2 Figures for 1968–69 are not held on a comparable basis.
3Abortions performed under statutory grounds 5 (1970–31st March 1991) and F (1st April 1991–present)—i.e., where in the case of emergency it was necessary to save the life of the woman.


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Lowell Creek Waterfall, Seward, AK
The Lowell Creek Diversion Tunnel is a flood control project located in Seward, Alaska, United States. The project was constructed to alleviate flooding of Lowell Creek in Seward. It was the first flood control project completed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Alaska.
Originally, Lowell Creek ran through Seward along what is now Jefferson Street. Beginning with the town's establishment in 1903, the fast-moving stream produced one to three severe floods a year until the tunnel was built in 1939. The floods carried large amounts of debris from the mountains; one flood deposited 10,000 cubic yards in an 11-hour period in 1935.
In 1927 the Alaska Railroad constructed a small diversion dam and flume to carry debris down Jefferson Street to drain into Resurrection Bay. However, by 1937 these structures had deteriorated beyond repair. Consequently, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction of the new project in August 1939. The project consisted of:
a diversion dam, 400 feet (120 m) in length and up to 25 feet (7.6 m) high that diverted the creek away from its original path;
a tunnel through Bear Mountain, 2,068 feet (630 m) in length and 10 feet (3.0 m) in width;
an outlet flume, 109 feet (33 m) in length and 10 feet (3.0 m) in width which drains into Resurrection Bay.
Completed in 1940, this system withstood the 1964 Alaska earthquake, as well as severe floods in 1966, 1986, and 1995, which brought the water level within inches of cresting the dam.
Though the project has prevented significant flooding of the city of Seward, debris continues to accumulate at the outlet of the flume and the city must work to move the debris further into the bay. With the significant risk of debris accumulation during a flooding event, new projects are being considered to replace the diversion tunnel — including construction of a new, wider tunnel through Bear Mountain at a cost of $30 million, or an aqueduct underneath Jefferson Street.
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JavaScript Functions > Virtual Table Server Functions for Single Connection (lrvtc) > Alphabetical Listing of Virtual Table Server Functions (Single Server) > lrvtc.ensureIndex
lrvtc.ensureIndex
Creates an index on a column.
Example Global Functions
Syntax
lrvtc.ensureIndex ( columnName );
Arguments
name Comments
columnName The name of the column to index.
lrvtc.ensureIndex creates a column index. If a column is not indexed, the time required to execute a lrvtc.sendIfUnique call increases with the number of rows. If the column is indexed, the time for 'send if unique' operations is constant. For large databases, we recommend that you index columns you want to perform 'send if unique' operations.
A column is locked while an index is being built on it. Any function calls that change the column are queued until the index build completes.
If the index exists, this function has no effect.
Return Values
Returns zero on success or one of the Error Codes.
Parameterization
All string input arguments can be passed using standard parameterization.
Example
var rc = 0;
rc = lrvtc.createColumn("Name");
if(rc) {lr.errorMessage("Create column failed.");}
rc = lrvtc.ensureIndex("Name");
if(rc) {lr.errorMessage("Index operation failed.");}


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Sportsmen and their sweaters: knitting patterns as historical sources
Polley, Martin (2009) Sportsmen and their sweaters: knitting patterns as historical sources. In, Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, Games and Pastimes, Bolton, UK, 07 Apr 2009.
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Old knitting patterns are easy to see as ephemeral, disposable items, artefacts of everyday life that we can see in our memory on our mothers' laps, but that we don't readily picture in an archive. They are produced for a very specific purpose, and are not designed to become historians' sources. However, cultural historians and historians of everyday life can learn from them, and can use them as windows on to their time of production. Using sport-related knitting patterns from Winchester School of Art's Knitting Reference Library as a case study, this paper will look at what historians can get from this type of evidence: both empirical evidence about disposable income, materials, and technology, and household economics, and more subjective, cultural evidence about class, identity, and gender. The paper will build on the call that I made for sports historians to use wider variety of sources in Sports History: a practical guide (Palgrave, 2007).
|Item Type:||Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)|
|Keywords:||knitting, sport, clothing, fashion, history|
|Subjects:||G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure
H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
|Divisions:||University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Education > Leadership, School Improvement and Effectiveness
|Date Deposited:||15 Jul 2009|
|Last Modified:||02 Mar 2012 13:12|
|Contributors:||Polley, Martin (Author)
|Date:||7 April 2009|
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16 October, 2022
Heavy metals in the body have long been thought to induce the aggregation of disease-linked proteins, but a KAUST study shows this is not always the case.
It turns out that zinc ions tune the ability of human serum albumin (HSA), an abundant transport protein in the body, to better prevent α-synuclein from aggregating, a process directly linked to Parkinson's disease.
The finding should "open new avenues for preventive treatments," says Samah Al-Harthi, a Ph.D. student who won a best poster award at the International Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Science for the work.
The unexpected role for zinc discovered by Al-Harthi only became evident after she and her mentor, Łukasz Jaremko, studied the metal's effects on HSA, the main carrier of zinc in blood plasma and spinal fluid, under physiologically relevant conditions.
Image: KAUST researchers have discovered that zinc ions may play an important role in Parkinson's disease prevention.
Pixabay; Khanchit Khirisutchalual


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Dr. Dina Tukhvatullina (cPhD, MD in Neuroscience) was born in Ufa, the capital of Bashkiria in the Ural Mountains region which divides Russia into European and Asian parts. She studied in Russia and the UK and has been residing in Sabah, Malaysia for over 6 years.
Since the childhood she has always felt a beauty of the moment where painting was the precise expression of it. Her younger days were with the art school and passionate highly towards painting she has been permanently following it as a spiritual part of life. Her abstract art is inspired by magnificence of the existence where each and every piece of reality has its own way of appearance like the paints she is working with. Light, temperature, motion flow, manipulations with mediums, colors behavior and drying process itself make the final art unpredictable so does the life itself. Endless poetry of the forms and shapes tears the canvas on inner and outer spaces with the narrow line between them.
Dr. Dina is inspired by various art styles, including abstract art, impressionism, surrealism, symbolism and romanticism. She is currently extremely passionate about the impasto and fluid painting techniques using acrylic paints with vibrant rich colors penetrating each other to create atmospheric shapes and themes.


text: This study is to develop a micromachining technology for a light guide panel(LGP) mold, whereby micro dot patterns are formed on a LGP surface by a single injection process instead of existing screen printing processes. The micro powder blasting technique is applied to form micro dot patterns on the LGP mold surface. The optimal conditions for masking, laminating, exposure, and developing processes to form the micro dot patterns are first experimentally investigated. A LGP mold with masked micro patterns is then machined using the micro powder blasting method and the machinability of the micro dot patterns is verified. A prototype LGP is test-injected using the developed LGP mold and a shape analysis of the patterns and performance testing of the injected LGP are carried out. As an additional approach, matte finishing, a special surface treatment method, is applied to the mold surface to improve the light diffusion characteristics, uniformity and brightness of the LGP. The results of this study show that the applied powder blasting method can be successfully used to manufacture LGPs with micro patterns by just single injection using the developed mold and thereby replace existing screen printing methods.


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Victor Hugo biography
Victor Marie Hugo was born in Besançon, France, on February 26, 1802, to mother Sophie Trébuche and father Joseph-Léopold-Sigisbert Hugo, who later served as a general in Napoleon's army. Victor Hugo studied the law before poetry lured him away. While his first publications were mostly verse, his novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) was a huge success. In 1862, Hugo published Les Misérables, considered one of the greatest works of the 19th century.


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Bullion traditionally stands for gold bars, silver bars, other precious metals bars or ingots. The word bullion originates from the old French word bouillon, which meant "boiling" and was the term for a mint or melting house.
Bullion refers to precious metals in bulk form which are regularly traded on commodity markets. The value of bullion is typically determined by the value of its precious metals content, which is defined by its purity and mass.
The specifications of bullion are often regulated by market bodies or legislation. In the European Union, the minimum purity for gold bullion, which is treated as investment gold with regards to taxation, is 99.5% for gold bullion bars and 90% for bullion coins.
London Bullion Market
The London bullion market is an over-the-counter market for wholesale trading of gold and silver. The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) coordinates activities of its members and other participants in the London Bullion Market.
The London Bullion Market Association sets and promotes quality standards for gold and silver bullion bars. The minimum acceptable fineness of the Good Delivery Bars is 99.5% for gold bars and 99.9% for silver bars.
A range of professional market participants is active in the bullion markets: banks, fabricators, refiners and vault operators or transport companies as well as brokers. They provide facilities for the refining, melting, assaying, transporting, trading and vaulting of gold and silver bullion.
Besides the direct bullion market participants, other professional parties like investment companies and jewelers use bullion in the context of products or services which they produce or offer to customers. For example, shares of the world's largest Gold exchange-traded fund, the SPDR Gold Shares represent ownership in vaulted gold bullion.
Private individuals use bullion primarily as an investment or potential store of value. Gold bullion and silver bullion are the most important forms of physical precious metals investments. Bullion investments can be considered as insurance against inflation or economic turmoil and may not entail direct counterparty risk.
Compared to numismatic coins, bullion bars or bullion coins can typically be purchased and traded at lower margins and their trading prices are closer to the values of the contained precious metals.
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Bullion - Definition and More, _URL_
- Council Directive 98/80/EC of 12 October 1998 - Special scheme for investment gold: _URL_
- The London Bullion Market Association: Glossary of terms - Bullion and precious metals coins, _URL_
- A Guide to the London Precious Metals Markets: _URL_
- Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA. "Key Insights: Portfolio Structure". Sunshine Profits. Retrieved 2012-11-15.


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A variation of the pointed cross, the heraldic
dagger is a common sign
in printed texts.
In typography the sign, along with and, is used as a sign for note, i.e. an amendment to the main text.
In botany the dagger means poisonous, in chess, check! In timetables it is sometimes used for Sunday or holiday. In genealogy it is used for deceased or dead. In dictionaries it can indicate an obsolete word, and again in botany it may mean a once cultivated but now wild growing plant.
This sign is the second in series of reference marks and as such called obelisk or obelus. See reference marks in the word index for the other signs.
The dagger is also sometimes used preceding a death date, that is meaning dead or died.


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IT LOOKS like a paler version of Oyster Fungus, which you find growing in clusters on stumps and fallen logs in the autumn but Branching Oyster Fungus, Pleurotus cornucopiae, appears earlier in the year, and can be seen growing on elm, oak and beech stumps and logs from spring to autumn. These were growing on a fallen Silver Birch in Coxley Woods between the two dams.
In his field guide Marcel Bon warns that although edible it's 'not of high quality' and says that the white flesh has 'a strong smell, sometimes rather unpleasant'. Michael Jordan describes the odour as 'slight, of aniseed'. A related species, the Pale Oyster, is grown commericially, as is the Oyster.
Horn of Plenty
The species name of the Branching Oyster, cornucopiae, refers to the mythical horn of plenty. In specialist books on fungi this funnel shape is referred to as infundibuliform. In anatomy, a infundibulum is a funnel-shaped cavity or structure.
In Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan, one man (and his dog) gets trapped in a 'chrono synclastic infundibulum'. I'd worked out the first part of this; chrono is time, the prefix syn means united and clastic in geology means broken pieces. So these clumped up fragments of time had formed a funnel-shaped structure.


Johnsonville Fossil Plant
TVA's Johnsonville Fossil Plant is located on 720 acres of land near Waverly, Tenn. It is named for the town of Johnsonville, which was flooded during the formation of the adjacent Kentucky Lake. The town was relocated several miles south and named New Johnsonville.
Johnsonville is the oldest fossil plant in the TVA fleet. Plant construction began May 12, 1949 with the first of the plant's 10 operating units going into service Oct. 27, 1951. The final unit began generating electricity on Aug. 20, 1959.
Johnsonville can generate about 1,500 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, enough to power approximately 800,000 homes. Units 1 through 4 also provide steam to a nearby DuPont plant in a co-generation configuration. Johnsonville is the only TVA coal-fired co-generation facility.
Nevertheless, units 1 through 4 will cease generation by December 2017, as part of a consent decree with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Units 5 through 10 were idled in 2012.
Toxics Release Inventory
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Copyright © 2012 Chenquan Gan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper examines the propagation behavior of computer virus under human intervention. A dynamical model describing the spread of computer virus, under which a susceptible computer can become recovered directly and an infected computer can become susceptible directly, is proposed. Through a qualitative analysis of this model, it is found that the virus-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable when the basic reproduction number, whereas the viral equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable if. Based on these results and a parameter analysis, some appropriate measures for eradicating the spread of computer virus across the Internet are recommended.


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MADISON — The University of Wisconsin–Madison's West Madison Agricultural Research Station (ARS) will be hosting an open house and field day for the general public on Saturday, Aug. 18 from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. The station is located at 8502 Mineral Point Road, Verona, Wisconsin.
At this free, family-friendly event, visitors can tour the station's vineyard, vegetable garden and extensive flowerbeds, and participate in a taste evaluation of fruits and vegetables. UW–Madison and UW-Extension experts will share information and answer questions about pollinators and beneficial insects, plant diseases, turfgrass and general gardening.
Each year the station showcases different flowers, plants or cultivars, and 340 varieties of petunias will be on display this year. Visitors will also have the opportunity to learn about new research into cut flowers including health assessment of sunflowers and zinnias grown in hoophouses versus fields.
The West Madison ARS, located in Verona, 1/4 mile west of the Beltline on Mineral Point Road, has 535 tillable acres on which UW-Madison researchers evaluate field crops, vegetables and fruit crops. The station also maintains an extensive horticultural display garden featuring both annual and perennial ornamental plants and various fruit crops that grow well in the area.
For more information about the event, contact station superintendent Janet Hedtcke at _EMAIL_ or _PHONE_.
The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will make a reasonable effort to provide accommodations for participants with disabilities when notified in advance. To request a disability accommodation, please contact superintendent Hedtcke at least 10 days in advance of the event. Efforts will be made to meet same-day requests to the extent possible.
— University of Wisconsin–Madison
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This electric carriage is used to move small loads (up to about 400kg) in places not viable, where it is not advantageous building a stationary cable crane.
Following the idea of a cable crane in which the power and control signals are integrated into the traction cable, it was possible to develop a simple, lightweight and low cost carriage.
Is used an electric winch as traction element, which moves the carriage along the line.
The carriage is equipped with an electric motor, which moves the lifting hook. This engine is placed on the machine and is powered by the batteries on board. The batteries are recharged via an electronic charger positioned in the control cabinet, near the traction winch. By exploiting the conductivity of the traction cable can transmit the load from electrical cabinet up to the carriage batteries.
The cable crane is controlled by a transmitter. The receiver is mounted on the machine, which communicates with the electrical panel through conductors within the traction cable.


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Eilenberg and Mac Lane showed that given a group $G$ there exists a pointed topological space $X_G$ such that $\pi(X_G,\bullet)\cong G$. It is obviously a way to "invert direction" to the functor $\pi_1\colon \mathbf{Top}^\bullet\to \mathbf{Grp}$ to a functor $\mathcal K\colon \mathbf{Grp}\to \mathbf{Top}^\bullet$ such that $\pi_1(\mathcal K(G),\bullet)\cong G$ (almost by definition). This is equivalent to say that there exists a natural transformation (equivalence, in this case) between $\pi_1\circ\mathcal K$ and $\mathbf{1}_{\mathbf{Grp}}$, which turns out to resemble some sort of counity.
It would be wonderful if I could define an adjunction between the two categories in exam, given by the two functors. Everytime I try to think about some sort of unity to this hypotetical adjunction I poorly fail: considering the vast literature in the field of algebraic topology, I believe in only two possible cases. The first, nothing interesting arises from this adjunction. The second, there is no sort of adjunction.
The key point, quite trivial, to answer is: it is well known that an adjunction is uniquely determined by one among unity and counity, provided the one is universal. But $\boldsymbol\varepsilon\colon \pi_1\circ\mathcal K\to \mathbf{1}_{\mathbf{Grp}}$ is an equivalence: can I conclude that it is universal?
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In the more general setting the answer is no. Left adjoints preserve colimits and it is not true that $\pi_{1}(X\vee Y)\cong \pi_{1}(X)\ast\pi_{1}(Y)$ for all spaces $X,Y$ (even compact metric spaces). For instance, if $(\mathbb{HE},x)$ is the usual Hawaiian earring, let $X=Y=C\mathbb{HE}=\mathbb{HE}\times I/\mathbb{HE}\times\{1\}$ be the cone on the Hawaiian earring with basepoint the image of $(x,0)$ in the quotient. It is a theorem of Griffiths that $\pi_{1}(C\mathbb{HE}\vee C\mathbb{HE})$ is uncountable and not the free product of trivial groups.
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Clear, clear. Thanks. :) – tetrapharmakon Nov 9 '10 at 0:05
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be the homotopy category of connected pointed CW complexes. Then the functor $\pi_1:\mathcal{C}\to\mathbf{Grp}$ does indeed have a right adjoint. The cleanest way to define it is to use the simplicial classifying space functor $B:\mathbf{Grp}\to\mathcal{C}$. For the unit of the adjunction you need a natural homotopy class of maps $X\to B(\pi_1(X))$. This can be done by obstruction theory, by induction up the skeleta of $X$. Alternatively, one can define a more canonical map from $|SX|$ (the geometric realisation of the singular complex) to $B(\pi_1(X))$ by simplicial methods, and then use the fact that there is a natural map $|SX|\to X$ which is a homotopy equivalence when $X\in\mathcal{C}$. The first place I would look for more details would be Peter May's old book on simplicial objects in algebraic topology.
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Goerss-Jardine is probably going to be more useful than Peter May's book, which is really outdated. – Harry Gindi Nov 8 '10 at 21:21
That copy of the book is copyright-infringing (not that I care), and it's probably better if you can avoid posting it on MO. – Harry Gindi Nov 9 '10 at 0:58
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