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It is good to learn about archaeology and its principles in a classroom. On the other hand, it is better to use the learning when out in an archaeological field. This was what I have done in the Archaeology in Annapolis field school. During the last five weeks of the session, I have learned new practices in addition to understanding how archaeologists analyze their findings. It was a steady process in which it takes time and yet it was worth it. Of course there were a few troubling moments along the way, but they did not hinder me from comprehending the study. I will use this experience when I go into a professional field in the future.
As I have mentioned previously, the field school is a series of steps that takes time and patience. It does not take one day but rather weeks to collect significant data. It includes profiling a unit, taking measurements, analyzing the stratigraphy, and examining the artifacts. In general, it is all about recording the processes as they happen each day. This was the first thing I have learned when we arrived in Annapolis in the first week and were given field journals. The journals helped us in keeping track with was what happening in the units or lab. In addition with teaching us how to dig a unit, the staff first explained how to create a Shovel Test Pit, or STP. From my understanding, this step is a prerequisite to see if there is an abundance of artifacts within a certain location of interest.
What pleased me about the field school is that there are the instructors who were willing to assist the students such as answering their questions or aiding them in the units. It is understandable that we must do the work by ourselves as archaeologists, but it never hurts when there is extra assistance in scraping a soil level or identifying an object.They taught us various terms, practices, and methods throughout the seminar. For example, Ben, one of the staff, explained about surface collecting, in which we look on the ground for objects that were brought up from natural occasions like storms. Overall, it is good that there are people who would use their time to help others.
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Home Health Vegetarian food has the same amount of testosterone as meat
Vegetarian food has the same amount of testosterone as meat
Vegetarian food
Testosterone is an androgen, or male hormone responsible for most male sexual characteristics. Testosterone is produced in the testicles and regulated by glands in the brain. A lower testosterone level may result in loss of interest in sex, difficulty getting an erection, fertility problems, tiredness and lack of energy, depression, loss of bone density which leads to brittle bones, muscle weakness and loss of body hair. It supports the body's natural growth hormone which keeps our body youthful and energized.
Women need a bit of testosterone to ward off excess estrogen which can lead to depression, weight gain, hormonal changes, or just an overall imbalance of sex hormones in the body.
Testosterone levels below 300 nanograms per deciliter to indicate a deficiency as per the American Urological Association.
It is traditionally believed that a meat-based diet including meat, fish and milk helps increase in testosterone levels. However, a new study shows that Men who follow plant-based diets have testosterone levels that are basically the same as the levels in men who eat meat. "We found that a plant-based diet was associated with normal testosterone levels, levels that are the same as occur in men who eat a traditional diet that includes more meat," says Ranjith Ramasamy, M.D., an associate professor and Director of Reproductive Urology at the University of Miami Health System.
The main ingredients which increase testosterone include amino acids (protein), zinc, B vitamins, omega-3 fatty acids, and an overall anti-inflammatory diet. This can be derived even from Vegetarian food. At the same time, one has to distinguish between healthy and non-healthy plant-based foods like soda, chips and juice.
In addition to supporting healthy testosterone levels, plant-based diets have proven to reduce the risks of many conditions, including hypertension, heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, and many cancers.
Some of the Vegetarian food for increasing testosterone levels include Pumpkin seeds, coconut, Maca root, chia seeds, ginger, pomegranate, Leafy green vegetables, Extra-virgin olive oil and onion. Processed plant-based foods and alcohol should be avoided.
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New Research on Caesarean Birth and Vaginal Seeding
New research is showing that there are benefits to vaginal seeding. But what is it and how to do you do it?
Seeding the microbiome at birth
One of the topics we cover on our courses is 'seeding the microbiome' which is all about building baby's immune system and gut health during and just after birth.
This includes moving down the birth path and coming into contact bacteria from the vagina and rectum, skin-to-skin and being fed colostrum.
When a baby is born by caesarean abdominal birth, the birth path step is missed.
Vaginal seeding is an option to replicate this step. It has been mainly researched in the US where the caesarean rate is very high, but the information available hasn't quite made it possible to confirm if vaginal seeding has definite benefits.
New research confirms there is a difference between babies who are swabbed with vaginal fluid vs. babies who are not. Scientists acknowledge that larger studies would be needed in order to roll out standard implementation but this is a step in the right direction for anyone who is keen to implement this step but isn't 100% sure due to lack of evidence.
Wondering how you 'do' vaginal seeding? Here are the steps:

In advance:
 - Source a sterile gauze in advance of the birth-day. This could be through your healthcare provider or a chemist.
 - Let your healthcare provider know that you would like to swab baby once they are born.
On the day:
 - Roll the gauze up into a tampon shape and very slightly wet it with a saline solution to make it easier to insert.
 - Insert the tampon shaped gauze as you would a tampon approximately one hour before a planned caesarean, or wipe the vaginal area with the gauze if you are about to have an unplanned caesarean and have been in labour.
 - Make absolutely sure that your midwife knows it is there and you wish your baby to baby wiped with it once they are born.
 - Remove the gauze just before the birth and place it into a sterile container like a urine sample pot or zip lock bag.
 - Once baby is born, ask your midwife to wipe the gauze across baby's face, including their mouth, and over their body and hands, taking care not to wipe it in their eyes. If your midwife is not sure what to do (as vaginal seeding may be out of hospital guidelines meaning they may not be familiar with the process), your birth partner can do this.
Risks to consider are the hygiene elements of the swabbing and to ensure you are using sterile items.
Here is a further research summary that draws in multiple sources of research for this topic, and summaries the known benefits and risks associated with vaginal seeding:
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What happens when your leg gets trapped under a building?
Doctors have swarmed to Haiti from around the world to tend to the victims of last week's earthquake, including many whose arms or legs were pinned under steel beams or slabs of concrete. Can you die from a crushed limb?
Yes. If your arm or leg were compressed for less than four hours—two hours if you're elderly or have poor circulation—there is a good chance that doctors will be able to save both your life and your limb. If you manage to survive with a compressed limb for more than eight hours—because you don't have an open fracture and haven't succumbed to fatal blood loss—then you'll almost certainly need an amputation, but the rest of you should be OK. In between those two time frames, emergency doctors face a difficult decision. They can try to save your arm or leg, but the toxins released from its damaged tissues might enter your bloodstream, putting you in grave danger of organ failure.
This all plays out in a chain reaction of systemic effects which doctors call "crush syndrome." During the first phase of crush syndrome, the limb is still trapped under concrete or another material, and thus cut off from blood flow in either direction. As a result, muscle tissue begins to die, and the collapsing cells release proteins, potassium, and lactic acid. These chemicals, which circulate through the body at much lower concentrations under normal circumstances, accumulate in the affected area. (Dead muscles also tend to harden. If the compressed limb exhibits a wooden quality similar to rigor mortis, it's likely to be amputated.)
When the concrete is lifted and circulation is restored, fluid rushes into the affected area to dilute the released electrolytes so their local concentration matches that of the rest of the body. Under normal circumstances, bodily fluids circulate through two spaces—the blood vessels and the insides of cells. But after a crushing injury—or any condition that depletes protein stores like liver failure or malnutrition—the fluid becomes sequestered in an extravascular space. (The process is known as "third spacing.") For some earthquake victims, several gallons of fluid might become sequestered in a swollen, damaged limb in the days following their rescue, resulting in dramatically increased pressure in the affected area and decreased blood pressure in the rest of the body. To prevent hypotension, which can quickly starve vital organs, rescuers often administer fluids to a crush victim through an IV drip even before freeing them. (All of this extra fluid can cause more problems. The blood can become diluted, resulting in anemia.)
While fluids flow into the injured limb, the proteins and potassium flow out into the rest of the body, posing an even greater risk to the victim. Once it gets into the bloodstream, this debris from expired muscle tissue can clog up the kidneys. Typically, one-half of those pulled from collapsed buildings experience some degree of kidney failure, and one-half of those survivors require dialysis. The increased potassium concentration can cause the heart to beat irregularly or stop altogether. Lactic acid—also from the damaged muscle tissue—decreases blood pH, exacerbating the risk of cardiac problems.
The lingering effects of crush syndrome can be deadly even days or weeks after rescue. A study of 18 patients admitted to the intensive-care unit following the 1999 Marmara earthquake in Turkey found that eight did not survive their hospital stay. Doctors in Haiti face a particularly challenging situation. Crush syndrome can be managed if electrolyte levels can be closely monitored. But medical centers were destroyed in the earthquake, modern equipment is scarce, and electricity is hard to come by. As a result, amputation–either in the field or in an operating room—is often the safest option.
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Board games aren't necessarily bound to become obsolete - at least, not if researchers at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada have anything to say about it. They will change, however. Queen's Human Media Lab (HML) recently unveiled a prototype board game that uses traditional flat cardboard tiles (i.e: cards), but the images on those tiles are projected onto them by an overlooking digital projector. The images stay on the tiles as they're moved around by the players, courtesy of an overlooking camera that tracks their movements. This means that the tiles could display moving video, that their display could change entirely depending on what's happening in the game, or that it could be customized by the players. Monopoly night may never be the same.
The technology was developed by HML associate professor Roel Vertegaal and Queen's School of Computing grad Mike Rooke. They applied it to the existing board game Settlers of Catan, in which players compete to colonize the island of Catan. Game play, in their version at least, consists of moving hexagonal tiles around on a flat tabletop, making it an ideal candidate.
Each tile is marked with seven infrared markers, one in the center and one at each corner. These markers are what allow the overhead infrared camera to track their movements, which in turn tells the projector, via a computer, where to move its projected display. There is no limit to the number of tiles that can be used, as long as they fall within the camera's field of view. The technology allows the players do to some interesting things:
- If a player is wearing an IR marker on their finger, they can select a tile simply by pointing to it
- They can change the character of a tile by rotating or sliding it
- By picking up a tile and tilting it, they can "pour" its content into another tile
- By picking up a tile and making a flinging motion with it, they can "throw" its content across the table and onto another tile
- They can reveal a menu on the tile by putting their finger over its middle marker for more than one second
While regular people aren't likely to be setting up cameras and projectors, it is Vertegaal's hope that within five to ten years, the development of thin-film Organic LED (OLED) screens will make the technology more practical - OLED utilizes self-luminous diodes, so no backlight is necessary. Such technology could also be used in a variety of other applications, turning virtually any object into an interactive device.
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The Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson has partnered with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) to organize an event in commemoration of Abolition Day.
To make the even more colorful and memorable, the Office of the Bronx BP Gibson honored some African American leaders in appreciation of their contributions to the development of the county.
"Congratulations to all of our honorees! They have worked tirelessly for decades to uplift the next generation of leaders and we proudly stand on their shoulders," BP Gibson said.
ASALH is the oldest and largest historical society established for the promotion of African American history.
Before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the enforcement of General Order No. 3 in Texas in 1865(Juneteenth), New York State abolished slavery within its borders becoming the first state to do so.
On July 4th, 1827 New York decreed the freedom of African American adult men and women who had been born before July 4th, 1799.

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Historic Longerenong College is one of Australia's leading tertiary institutions specialising in agriculture and land-management.
Established in 1889 by the Council of Agricultural Education, we opened our doors with an enrolment of just 20 students. Original courses were aimed at the sons of farmers who required the equivalent of second year of high school to enrol. Exams were held on Saturday mornings and farm work and classes were often held at night and on weekends. With a strict "lights out" at 10pm rule, no alcohol allowed on the premises and mandatory attendance at church, students would eagerly await the monthly dances, when a busload of girls would arrive from Horsham.
In 1972, the College proudly became one of the first agricultural colleges to accept female students.
The number of female students swelled in 2015 to the point where females outnumbered the males for the first time in the history of the college.
Within our first year of operation, Longerenong was taken over by the Department of Agriculture who ran it until it became part of the Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture (VCAH).
In 1993, the VCAH became a school of the University of Melbourne and by mid-1997, VCAH was formally amalgamated with the University's Faculty of Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry to form the Institute of Land and Food Resources.
The College remained a campus of the Institute of Land and Food Resources until the end of 2005 when the University of Melbourne withdrew responsibility and our courses and training was awarded to WORKCO Limited, now rebranded to Skillinvest Limited.
Today, we are fondly known as Longy!
Drawing upon our rich educational history, we keep ahead of industry needs, providing students with access to modern agricultural practices and hands on training. We're proud to stand at the agricultural forefront, carving out dynamic futures for our students.


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Virginia Woolf's Women
A work of original and detailed research this is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational female friendships... Show synopsis A work of original and detailed research this is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational female friendships with the key women in her life. Vanessa Curtis looks both at the effect of these relationships on her emotional life and the inspiration that each woman provided for the female protagonists in her fiction. Women inspired and fascinated Woolf until the day she died, evoking not only her loyalty, love and wit, but also anger, envy and insecurity. The author begins by exposing the lesser-known details of Woolf's Victorian childhood, spent underneath the suffocating wings of the 'angels in the house' who instilled in her a lifelong battle between creativity and convention. The journey continues with a study of the other unique women in Woolf's life: her silent sister, Vanessa Bell; enigmatic artist Dora Carrington; complex writer Katherine Mansfield; aristocratic novelist Vita Sackville-West and riotous, militant composer Ethel Smyth. Virginia Woolf's Women takes the reader on an intimate journey through the most important female relationships of Woolf's life, drawing on much previously unpublished archive correspondence and photography, ultimately revealing an honest portrait of Virginia Woolf as writer, daughter, sister, lover and friend.


is second leading source of radon into a building after soil. In some instances, BM can be the greater source of radon entry than the soil, such as in high-rise buildings [11, 12]. As illustrated in Fig. 1, radon entry from BM occurs through diffusion, as the difference in indoor and BM radon concentrations. Thus, the change in indoor radon concentration stemming from BM for an infinitesimal time can be described as
$$ {k}_{d,bm}\left({C}_{bm}-{C}_i\right)\frac{S_{bm}}{V} $$
(4)
(see [5, 6, 8, 1012] for more details).
Water for living
Indoor radon concentrations can also depend on the amount of radon in a building's water supply. In general, the influence of radon from a water supply on indoor radon concentrations is low; however, extremely high concentrations of radon in a water supply, when present, must be taken into consideration. To do so, changes in indoor radon concentrations caused by radon in a building's water supply for an infinitesimal time can be taken as
$$ \frac{C_w{U}_w{t}_w}{V} $$
(5)
(see [5, 6, 13] for more details).
Then, from Eqs. (3), (4) and (5), the rate of change in indoor radon concentrations attributed to all sources of radon entry and decay can be represented by
$$ \frac{d{C}_i}{dt}=\left\{{k}_{d,s}\left({C}_s-{C}_i\right)+{k}_a\varDelta {P}_{s-i}{C}_s\right\}\frac{S_g}{V}+{k}_{d,bm}\left({C}_{bm}-{C}_i\right)\frac{S_{bm}}{V}+\frac{C_w{U}_w{t}_w}{V}-\lambda {C}_i, $$
(6)
where dC i = C i (t + dt) − C i (t) and dt denotes an infinitesimal time.
Radon exchange
Ventilation between indoor and outdoor air
As stipulated in the mass balance equation, radon exchange caused by ventilation and differences in indoor and outdoor radon concentrations must be considered. In general, indoor radon concentrations are higher in the winter season, compared to those in other seasons. This phenomenon is likely to be primarily related with ventilation. In considering radon exchange between indoor and outdoor air, we expand the model for assessing indoor radon concentration in Eq. (6) as
$$ \frac{d{C}_i}{dt}=\left\{{k}_{d,s}\left({C}_s-{C}_i\right)+{k}_a\varDelta {P}_{s-i}{C}_s\right\}\frac{S_g}{V}+{k}_{d,bm}\left({C}_{bm}-{C}_i\right)\frac{S_{bm}}{V}+\frac{C_w{U}_w{t}_w}{V}-{\lambda}_v\left({C}_i-{C}_o\right)-\lambda {C}_i, $$
(7)
where λ v (C i − C o ) describes the radon exchange between indoor and outdoor air [5, 6, 916]. In Eq. (7), one may assume that λ = 0 because λ is relatively smaller than λ v .
Ventilation among the compartments
Additionally, we must treat a building as a collection of different N compartments for more realistic models. In this case, from Eq. (7) the model for indoor radon concentration of i th compartment is derived as
$$ \frac{d{C}_i}{dt}=\left\{{k}_{d,s}\left({C}_s-{C}_i\right)+{k}_a\varDelta {P}_{s-i}{C}_s\right\}\frac{S_g}{V}+{k}_{d,bm}\left({C}_{bm}-{C}_i\right)\frac{S_{bm}}{V}+\frac{C_w{U}_w{t}_w}{V}-{\lambda}_v\left({C}_i-{C}_o\right)-\lambda {C}_i-{\displaystyle \sum_{\begin{array}{c}\kern1em j=1\kern1em \\ {}\kern1em j\ne i\kern1em \end{array}}^N}\left({q}_{ij}{C}_i-{q}_{ji}{C}_j\right)\frac{1}{V}, $$
(8)
where the last term describes the radon exchange between compartments i and j [5, 6].
When developing a model for assessing indoor radon concentrations of an actual building, some sources of radon entry and radon exchange may be removed from or added to Eq. (8) in accordance with the surroundings and the characteristics of the building. When adapting the model to an actual building, parameters other than the indoor radon concentration can either be measured or obtained from published data or certain time variation functions. To estimate indoor radon concentrations, one may seek to apply the following methods: obtaining the explicit solution of the differential equation at a steady state and using a proper numerical method that is usually based on a finite difference or finite element solutions to the equations. The models referenced in this review are summarized in Table 2.
Table 2
Summary of references reviewed in this article
Author(s)
Year
Factor
Application
Methoda
Soil
BM
Water
Vent.
Kusuda et al. [16]
1980
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Sample calculations
N.S.
Capra et al. [14]
1994
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An environmental chamber
N.S.
Ramola et al. [9]
2011
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Budhakedar area of Garhwal Himalaya in summer and winter
N.S.S.
Man and Yeung [11]
1999
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Newly constructed, uninhabited high-rise buildings in Hong Kong
N.S.S.
Shaikh et al. [12]
2003
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A multi-storey building in Mumbai, India over four seasons
N.S.S.
Vogiannis and Nikolopoulos [13]
2008
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Thermal spas in Greece
N.M.
Jelle [15]
2012
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Sample calculations
N.S.S.
Arvela et al. [10]
1988
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Finnish dwellings in summer and winter
N.S.S.
Font [5]
1997
Mediterranean climate house and Swedish houseb
N.M.
Font and Baixeras [6]
2003
aN.M., N.S., and N.S.S. mean the numerical method using specially developed computer codes, the numerical solution of the differential equation, and the numerical solution of the differential equation at a steady state, respectively
bThese applications were discussed in [7, 8]
Conclusions
Mathematical models for estimating indoor radon concentrations provide not only a method of assessment but also an understanding between parameters that govern indoor radon levels. In order to estimate an individual's cumulative indoor radon exposure, assessing indoor radon concentrations is necessary. To do so, one should seek to understand the mechanisms of radon entry and exchange in relation to side-specific surroundings and characteristics of a building. Accordingly, resultant models in consideration of said characteristics may be simpler than Eq. (8) or may necessitate additional research on factors of indoor radon concentrations (e.g., age of the BM and relative humidity).
Most of the models reviewed in this article utilized solutions at a steady state and considered parameters to be constant in order to estimate indoor radon concentrations. Such approaches are often adequate, as a steady state is rarely attained in actual buildings because of time-dependent factors (e.g., air exchange rates, which change with atmospheric conditions). For this reason, time-dependent solutions may be more accurate than steady state solutions in assessment of actual building conditions. Additionally, all of the models included in this review considered only deterministic models. However, a stochastic model designed to account for unrecognized factors and noise-corrupted measurements may offer better approximation of indoor radon levels.
Declarations
Acknowledgements
This subject is supported by Korea Ministry of Environment (MOE) as "the Environmental Health Action Program" (Grant Number 2015001350002).
Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0


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The Rion-Antirion cable-stayed bridge is considered to be an engineering marvel, and it is for a reason.
A Bridge with History
It has been more than a hundred years since the then Prime Minister of Greece, Charilaos Trikoupis, envisioned bridging the approximately three kilometers that separate Rio from Antirrio. In 1880, Charilaos Trikoupis was elected Prime Minister of Greece. Born in Nafplio, he envisioned the union of the region of Messolonghi from which he came (north coast of the Corinthian Gulf) with Achaia, in the Peloponnese (south coast).
On March 29, 1889, he spoke to Parliament about the need to bridge the Rio-Antirio Strait. However, the construction of this project was not technically possible until the end of the 20th century.
"Cable-stayed bridge: bridge form in which the weight of the deck is supported by several nearly straight diagonal cables in tension running directly to one or more vertical towers"
Thus, it took almost a century for the Greek State to announce a competition of ideas for the construction of a permanent link.
The invitation to tender in 1991 and the tender of December 1993 led to the signing, on January 3, 1996, of the Concession Agreement between the Greek State and GEFYRA SA. for the design, construction, financing, maintenance and operation of the Rio-Antirio Bridge.
The contract entered into force at the end of 1997 when full financing of the project was secured. It took two years to agree on the first financing of an infrastructure project with a concession to individuals in the history of modern Greece and the main loan agreement with the EIB was signed on 25 July 1997, while the final financing agreement was signed on 17 December 1997.
On July 19, 1998, Mr. Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece, founded the Rio-Antirio Bridge project in the presence of Mr. Kostis Stefanopoulos, President of the Republic.
On August 12, 2004, on the eve of the start of the Athens Olympic Games, the Minister of PE.HO.DE. Mr. George Souflias inaugurated the Rio-Antirio Bridge, four months earlier than the contractual date of completion of works.
Innovative studies and offshore construction methods have been used to make this unique multi-opening cable-stayed bridge a reality.
It is worth noting, among other things, the adoption and application of the shallow foundation solution on a reinforced bottom, the continuous and fully suspended deck along the entire length of the bridge (2,252 m), the large seismic damping system, the cables equipped with special anti-seismic devices, the expansion joints that can receive large displacements along the axis of the bridge and transversely.
The study and construction was led by the French company Vinci in collaboration with the largest Greek construction companies (Aktor, J&P and Athena).
Any visit to the Bridge is welcome. A prerequisite is the observance of the safety and operation rules of the project. Before each visit to the Bridge Exhibition Center, it would be advisable to contact the Customer Service Department (Tel. 0030-26340-39010 & 39011 / e-mail: _EMAIL_) in order to avoid the coincidence of hours/days with other scheduled visits or activities. The Cable-stayed bridge of Rion-Antirion is consider to be the longest of its kind in the entire world.


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Wohlhaupter Launches NOVITECH - German Engineered Vibration Damper
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The new Wohlhaupter NOVITECH intermediate module is especially suitable for complex bore machining with long overhangs. The German-engineered technology developed by Wohlhaupter efficiently reduces vibrations during machining. This ensures more productivity, optimum surface quality and increases process repeatability. Thanks to the modular connection point MVS, the versatile module can be used for all Wohlhaupter standard tools and special components.
Long overhang boring tools are often used when the component - for example a turbine component - has cavities that are difficult to access due to its special geometry. However, cutting tools with a long shank are particularly susceptible to vibrations compared to their diameter. These movements have a negative effect both on tool life and on the quality of the chip removal.
For bore machining, Wohlhaupter has developed NOVITECH, a technology in which intelligent intermediate modules directly damper the resulting vibrations. This enables high-precision and at the same time economical machining. The NOVITECH intermediate modules enable a better surface finish, increase productivity and process reliability, and at the same time protect the tool, spindle and machine. The units are suitable for bore machining up to 10xD with a machining diameter between 50 and 205 mm.
"Precision is crucial, especially for fine bores. In the worst case, vibrations can lead to the rejection of an entire component," explains Emir Cvolic, product manager at Wohlhaupter. "With NOVITECH, we offer a solution here that, thanks to the modular connection point, is suitable for all Wohlhaupter standard tools as well as for special components, such as those used in the machining of highly complex components."
Compensating for relative movements inside
The interior of the NOVITECH modules is reminiscent of a skyscraper: the damping system's mounting is viscoelastic. It consists of an absorber carrier and absorber mass and compensates for vibrations from the outside by means of corresponding counter-movements. The drilling tool glides smoothly and in a controlled manner through the material to be machined. As a result, significantly higher cutting speeds are possible with long overhang boring tools on powerful machines. Since the vibrations are minimized directly at the tool, the user can also select indexable inserts with larger corner radii for machining in order to achieve additionally stronger feed rates and greater cutting depths.


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Bird and Bird Watson Glaser Tests
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State Management
Building your Store, you can add Handlers to respond to actions and adjust your model accordingly:
val store = object : RootStore("") {
 val append = handle { model, action: String ->
 val clear = handle { model ->
Whenever a String is sent to the append-Handler, it updates the model by appending the text to its current model. clear is a Handler that doesn't need any information to do its work, so the second parameter can be omitted.
Since everything in fritz2 is reactive, most of the time you want to connect a Flow of actions to the Handler instead of calling it directly which is also possible:
someFlowOfString handledBy store.append
Each Store inherits a Handler called update, accepting the same type as the Store as its action. It updates the Store's value to the new value it receives. You can use this handler to conveniently implement two-way-databinding by using the changes event-flow of an input-Tag, for example:
val store = RootStore("")
render {
 input {
 changes.values() handledBy store.update
changes in this example is a Flow of events created by listening to the Change-Event of the underlying input-element. Calling values() on it extracts the current value from the input. Whenever such an event is raised, a new value appears on the Flow and is processed by the update-Handler of the Store to update the model. Event-flows are available for all HTML5-events. There are some more convenience functions to help you to extract data from an event or control event-processing.
You can map the elements of the Flow to a specific action-type before connecting it to the Handler. This way you can also add information from the rendering-context to the action. You may also use any other source for a Flow like recurring timer events or even external events.
If you need to purposefully fire an action at some point in your code (to init a [Store] for example) use
//call handler with data
//call handler without data
If the content of your Store is not bound anywhere but need its handler's code to be executed whenever an action is available, you have to explicitly watch() it:
val store = object : RootStore(initialWhatever) {
 val printMessage = handle { model ->
 console.log("some message")
Next we will have a look at how to use Lists as a model.
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Teachers from Invisible Children Uganda partner schools were given an opportunity to acquire new computer knowledge, skills and working methods through a one week computer training at Sacred Heart School. The training, conducted this week by Schools for Schools (S4S), is designed to support teachers and build their capacity to help students. Computer applications like Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint presentations, Word and internet use were the main topics of the training.
Opening presentations and graphs he created during the training, Okot Peter, a teacher of agriculture at Anaka Secondary School, tells how the training has been beneficial to him.
"My work is going to become much easier," he says. "I am now able to produce and conduct my lessons using PowerPoint, design the class list and present graph illustrations of how my students are performing."
By equipping teachers with this knowledge, they can use it to raise academic standards in the classroom. S4S partners with 11 schools in northern Uganda to build and renovate school structures while also improving the schools' educational climate through career guidance and teacher training.


46 U.S. Code § 5101 - Definitions
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In this chapter—
(1) "domestic voyage" means movement of a vessel between places in, or subject to the jurisdiction of, the United States, except movement between—
(A) a place in a territory or possession of the United States or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; and
(B) a place outside that territory, possession, or Trust Territory.
(2) "economic benefit of the overloading" means the amount obtained by multiplying the weight of the overload (in tons) by the lesser of—
(A) the average freight rate value of a ton of the vessel's cargo for the voyage; or
(B) $50.
(3) "existing vessel" means—
(A) a vessel on a domestic voyage, the keel of which was laid, or that was at a similar stage of construction, before January 1, 1986; and
(B) a vessel on a foreign voyage, the keel of which was laid, or that was at a similar stage of construction, before July 21, 1968.
(4) "freeboard" means the distance from the mark of the load line assigned under this chapter to the freeboard deck.
(5) "freeboard deck" means the deck or other structure the Secretary prescribes by regulation.
(6) "minimum safe freeboard" means the freeboard that the Secretary decides cannot be reduced safely without limiting the operation of the vessel.
(7) "weight of the overload" means the amount obtained by multiplying the number of inches that the vessel is submerged below the applicable assigned freeboard by the tons-an-inch immersion factor for the vessel at the assigned minimum safe freeboard.
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised section 5101
Source: Section (U.S. Code) 46 App. U.S.C. 86a.
Section 5101 contains definitions that are limited to Chapter 51—Load Lines. Existing Section 46 App. U.S.C. 86a (which defines only the terms "new ship" and "existing ship") will be replaced by section 5101. Definitions of technical terms ("freeboard", "freeboard deck", and "minimum safe freeboard") have been added for clarity. The definition of the term "new ship" has been deleted because the term is not used in Chapter 51. The definition of "domestic voyage" includes the phrase "places in or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States." "Places subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" include deep water ports, production platforms, mining sites outside of territorial waters of the United States but within the United States' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) that was established by Presidential Proclamation 5030, dated March 10, 1983, or on the outer continental shelf. The phrases "economic benefit of overloading" and "weight of the overload" have been defined for purposes of establishing a standard method of determining the value of the cargo with which a vessel is overloaded. The value of the cargo will in turn affect the maximum penalty assessed for overloading the vessel. The definition of "freeboard deck" provides the Secretary with the authority to designate as the freeboard deck either the actual deck (on standard vessels) or another structure (on non-standard vessels). Non-standard vessels, for which this regulatory flexibility is necessary, include shelter deck vessels, semi-submersible multi-hull units, container ships, surface effect vessels, and commercial submarines.
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Asynchronous evolution of mammalian myosin proteins. The matrix illustrates the normalized distances between corresponding sequences. Asynchronous evolution is observed if the pattern of the deviation from the mean is different. For example, the pattern from rat to the other mammalian species is very similar, illustrating their synchronous evolution in general. However, there are differences in the patterns of some class-I myosins between rat and mouse and opossum, indicating their asynchronous evolution. In contrast, the sequence comparison patterns of cow and the other mammals are very different, indicating the asynchronous evolution of all cow myosin genes. The abbreviations for the organisms are: Rn, Rattus norvegicus; Mm, Mus musculus; Pat, Pan troglodytes; Hs, Homo sapiens; Mam, Macaca mulatto; Caf, Canis familiaris; Bt, Bos Taurus; Md, Monodelphis domestica.
Odronitz and Kollmar Genome Biology 2007 8:R196 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-9-r196


Macrauchenia
The Macrauchenia was a large mammal, at nearly ten feet in length, weighing about 2,299 pounds.
Macrauchenia Scientific Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Family
Macraucheniidae
Order
Litopterna
Genus
Macrauchenia
Macrauchenia Physical Characteristics
Weight
1,042.8 kg (2,299 lb)
Macrauchenia Distribition
Macrauchenia was a genus of camel- like creatures that came from the order Litopterna. This enigmatic ungulate survived the South American continent throughout the Late Miocene to Late Pleistocene dates. It came to be extinct in between 20,000- 10,000 years earlier. Offered the peculiar appearance of this creature, identifying it has actually been a little a head- scratcher for researchers.
Summary & Dimension
Macrauchenia 3D illustration
The genus name Macrauchenia converts to "lengthy llama".Daniel Eskridge/Shutterstock. com
Macrauchenia is an extinct genus of creatures belonging to South America. The genus name Macrauchenia converts as "lengthy llama". Previously, when it was found, researchers kept in mind the resemblance of the fossil to that of the llama. It is likewise frequently described as a camel- like creature, although it is not connected to camels. Macrauchenia was a huge creature in the order Litopterna, with a lengthy neck and lengthy arm or legs.
The appearance of Macrauchenia has actually been a problem for researchers for several years. Although it had a camel- like body characterized by a lengthy neck, lengthy strong legs, and a tiny head, it had feet that appeared like that of contemporary- day rhinoceros. It was ungulate with one main toe and 2 side toes.
The Macrauchenia was definitely a huge creature. Researchers approximate that it could have been around 9.8 feet in size and considered concerning 2,299 extra pounds. This places it around the very same dimension as a black rhinoceros. The Macrauchenia had a complete collection of 44 teeth in its mouth.
Unlike a lot of creatures, the Macrauchenia's nostril openings got on top of its head, over and in between the eyes. At first, researchers assumed the pulled back nostril was made use of as a type of snorkel similar to just how a whale would certainly take a breath. Later on searchings for revoked this idea. Professionals recommended a various concept that the pulled back nostril indicates the animal had a trunk or filled with air nose similar to the saiga antelope.
Much more current searchings for recommend that the pulled back nostril was even more of a feeding adjustment. Macrauchenia and various other Litopterns were high internet browsers. They preyed on difficult and tough plants. The pulled back nostrils would certainly have secured their nose from obtaining lanced by thorns while grabbing fallen leaves.
Diet – What Did Macrauchenia Eat?
Macrauchenia was a herbivore. It more than likely survived yard in addition to fallen leaves from lawns. Researchers believe it should have had a combined diet that included selections of plants that were plentiful at the time. The Macrauchenia stayed in different environments and could have been adjusted to high searching on trees and bushes and grazing on lawns and smaller sized bushes.
Environment – When and Where It Lived
The(* )stayed in different atmospheres throughout an area that is currently existing Macrauchenia day South America. Thinking about just how prevalent the genus was, their environment would certainly have varied from completely dry to damp lands. Professionals believe they stayed in significant herds and were just existing on the South American continent as a result of the lack of fossils from anywhere else. – lived independently from their herds. They were the last of their kind, without close living loved ones other than remote ones like horses and rhinoceros. Males Risks and Predators
The
lived together with the Smilodon (saberMacrauchenia toothed tiger), which would certainly have been their significant opponents. The biggest terror birds at the time would certainly have likewise victimized young Macrauchenias. The – reveal adjustments that recommend they were extremely rapid and had high ability to move, which would certainly have assisted them to avert Macrauchenia. predators Various other most likely
consist of the huge briefpredators dealt with bears, jaguars, and alarming wolves. Along with eluding -, the predators's lengthy and effective legs might supply a deadly kick to secure it. Likewise, provided its plus size, just a few Macrauchenia would certainly have had the ability to take it on as a grownup. predators Discoveries and Fossils – Where It Was Found
Famous researcher Charles Darwin accumulated the initial
fossils in 1834 in Patagonia, Argentina. The discover included spinal column pieces and leg bones. Keeping in mind the resemblances in between the bones of the massive animal keeping that of the Macrauchenia, anatomist Richard Owen designated the name Llama patachonica to it. Macrauchenia This discover was just one of one of the most essential explorations that caused Charles Darwin's concept of advancement. Given that the exploration of the initial fossil in Patagonia, even more have actually been found in various other areas throughout South America, consisting of Bolivia, Venezuela, and Chile. The earliest fossil of this genus goes back to the Late Miocene (concerning 7 million years ago), and the last document of them was throughout the late Pleistocene.
Termination – When Did It Pass away Out?
Macrauchenia vanished from fossil documents throughout the late Pleistocene in between 20,000 to 10,000 years earlier. It isn't clear what caused the loss of this genus. Nonetheless, thinking about the truth that they lived throughout the glacial epoch at once of remarkable weather adjustments, transforming weather might have added to their loss.
One more concept is that they came to be extinct as a result of competitors from getting into ungulates from The United States and Canada that had actually gone across over right into South America throughout the Excellent American Interchange after a land bridge attaching both continents showed up.
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"The Move a Rock, Take a Break Road"
If you have never spent much time in the Smoky Mountains, you may be missing the significance of some of the things you see on the Finchfield & Wrensylvania.
People in the southeast, particularly in the hills and mountain regions, hate getting rid of anything, especially if they contain sheetmetal. Old cars and appliances give the kidds (of the goat variety) and kids (of the human variety) a place to climb. Refrigerators are popular items for holding up porch roofs. Commodes have been used as flower pots in front yards.
Do you like birds?
Just humming birds and small birds like finches. We do not keep a birdfeeder for larger birds because we don't want our buildings' roofs to be white.
In addition to Bingo halls, The Cherokee Indian Reservation now sports a Harrah's casino.
Christmas Tree Farms
Very common in the mountain regions of the southeast US.
Dillsboro, NC
Is the northern terminus of thr Great Smoky Mountain Railway that is on the east side of the park. They run a steam locomotive and the scenery is great.
Gem & Ruby Mine
Common throughout the Smoky Mountain and Blue Mountain regions are tourist traps where you can pan for gems and minerals. The region is well known for it's minerals, but I don't know about precious gems. Tourists probably find garnet instead of rubies as it is also red. The name Quark's was taken from the opportunist, Quark, a character in the Star Trek Deep Space Nine series.
Idea for the Finchfield & Wrensylvania and Naming It
This is a play on words of the Clinchfield Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad - both of which were easy to turn into bird names. The bird name was necessary since all the buildings are birdhouses.
The Clinchfield passes through the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains. It was a critical railroad for carrying coal out of the nearby Appalachia coal region in Virginia. Both the Clinchfield and the Pennsylvania railroads had well constructed railroads and large locomotives.
I first saw a garden railroad in the mid '80's. There are several thousand of these in the US alone. There is a national convention each year and a half dozen publications. There is a local garden railroad club with about 140 members.
We are probably one of the first in the nation to use birdhouses for our garden railway buildings. The amount of dirt and rock employed definitely makes ours one of the more elaborate garden railroads anywhere.
Garden railroading is more realistic than indoor model railroading. Even runaway cars, which fortunately rarely happens, are more realistic. In indoor model railroading, someone is usually close enough to catch them. Outdoors, if someone isn't right there when it happens, all you can do is stand there and watch them wreck.
A grapevine-like plant that was brought to the US for errosion control. Not having any natural predators, it spreads rapidly killing everything it covers by hogging all the sunlight. It is said that the only way to get rid of Kudzu is to move. Old rusting cars and appliances are frequently covered by it. It is presumed that the cars and appliances were already dead when abandoned.
Smoky Mountain National Park was formerly owned and logged by the Little River Company. The Little River runs primarily east-west on the north side of the park. The road that parallels this small river was originally the roadbed for the company's tracks. Little River donated the land for the park. The Shay locomotive operated on this garden railroad is a model of the locomotives used by the Little River.
Meig's Falls
The Little River Company was rather resourceful having brought a number of innovations to the logging industry. One of them, not dared duplicated by any other railroad, was the only swing bridge in railroading. The bridge was basically nothing more than track dangling in air supported primarily a few steel cables run underneath it and the rail itself. A few additional cables kept it from truly swinging much.
The bridge scaled the falls on the left side at an angle of roughly 45 degrees. This is far too steep for any locomotive. A "Mary-Sue" steam skidder was winched across the bridge and was then used to pull empty log cars up the bridge. Cars were released at the top and allowed to coast to a stop. They were then coupled to a locomotive and taken to the sawmill. Despite the fact that no log car ever wrecked, employees did not ride the cars across the bridge - a wreck would have almost certainly meant being crushed to death.
Moonshine Tank Car
While there may have never been a moonshine tank car, moonshine was popular in the mountains and is still made by some today.
If you wander too far from the interstate, you will find small, isolated towns that were lost in time 50-100 years ago. This is no joke. Running water is questionable. The ONLY sign of modern civialization are the tv satellite dishes. Outhouses are common in these areas.
"Have Your Picture Taken with a Real Cherokee Indian Chief"
The same souveigner shops and tourist traps still entice you to stop in and have your photo taken with an Indian. Whether that Indian is a bonafide Cherokee Indian Chief is another matter.
Roadside Apple Stands
Apples are grown in the mountains. Roadside stands selling apples cheap, cider, and every conceivable jelly are very common.
"See a Live Bear"
Black bears are common to the Smoky Mountains. Many of the souveigner shops and other tourist traps had caged bears for you to see and entice you to stop in. The bears were not well cared for and the cages too small. This practice is now forebidden.
"See Rock City"
Rock City is a tourist attraction in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was common for barns in the mountain regions of the southeast US to be red with black roofs and "SEE ROCK CITY" painted in giant lettering on the roof.
More on how the trains are controlled.
One of the locomotives uses Sterno to boil water and actually uses steam to propel the locomotive. It uses the same type of radio control as used on model airplanes.
The vast majority of the locomotives on the F&W use DCC - Digital Command Control; primarily for the sophisticated sound systems available for it. The track has a constant 18V of AC on it to power the trains. The radio throttles send commands to a box called a command station. These digital commands are then superimposed on the track power. Computers inside the locomotives interpret these commands.
For the technically minded, the track power is 18 Vp-p square wave AC at about 8.3kHz. This is then pulse width modulated with the digital control signals by the command station. The command station receives radio signals from the throttles in the 900MHz band.
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Grab that beer* in the last car and stop on by!
It is tough to have trains running for the Januaury show. Even if not running, we will have it open for you to view. Weather may also inhibit us putting out buildings and people. You won't waste your time coming as our HO railroad is also on display during this show. We are also open for G-Day usually the third weekend of June.
We do not keep the buildings and people out. Also, the track frequently gets covered with leaves, sticks, and stones. So we cannot easily show an operable layout other than shows. You will see a static layout with only the landscaping and bridges.
When visiting please keep the following in mind:
Children should be reminded that the Hatfield and McCoy fewd was for real. Coming across someone's still or fighting cock farm is hazardous to one's health even today. Stray children should watch for stray bullets. Unattended children should watch for unattended bullets. "Where does that trail lead?" "It goes to my daddy's still, but it doesn't come back."
Seriously, the rocks are loose. DO NOT let your children touch anything. They could fall and break toes. Do not let your children use my stone arch viaduct as a foot rest. If you knew what that bridge cost, you might be tempted to kill your own kid and I don't have a funeral car - yet.
We are very proud of the weeds we grow. We have the largest variety and bountiful crop in the Metroplex. Weeds are free for the picking. Bags to take them home will be provided on request. Everyone is encouraged to take one home as a remembrance of your visit to the Finchfield and Wrensylvania. If you plant it, this can be the beginning of your very own garden railway!
A reward will be paid for each bug you kill. Mass murder is strongly encouraged. Alternately, you may take them home alive. This is another way to start your garden railway!
*Proof positive that a garden railroad can be useful!
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We are still looking for a still and a mobile home. Have you seen one? Here is a list of some of the buildings on the F&W.
Abandoned Log Cabins (heavily weathered, "rustic," aka falling apart!)
Apple Stand
Bed & Breakfasts
Car Repair
Coaling Tower
Corner Store
Christmas themed buildings
City Hall
CPA Office
Fire Departments
Gem & Ruby Mine
Halloween themed buildings
Hanger for airplane
Mining Supply
Mountain Homes
Post Office


Mole Astrology - Interpret Your Moles through Astrology
The human body is a great machine and serves us throughout our journey through life. Almost all physical bodies carry marks which add beauty or uniqueness or even diminish the beauty. Moles are such marks which are tiny and come in various colours, some are found since birth while many appear later on in life. Moles are big, small, black, red and believed to be the after marks from our previous lives carried forward in this one.
According to Mole Astrology, the location of moles is related to people's destiny. Some moles are hidden, some exposed. The moles on the face are visible while those on other parts of the body may be covered by hair, clothes etc.
Astrology and Moles
Both Vedic Astrology and Chinese Astrology, consider Moles to be very important for an individual. They represent the future and past imprints as well as Karmic denotations. These tiny marks are believed to begin their influence on a person right inside the mother's womb itself one that continues all through life. The effects of these marks can change with the birth chart or Kundali of the person.
Samudra Shastra is a branch of Vedic astrology that interprets the impacts of moles on a person's life. Mole astrology analyses the qualities of a person through location, size, the colour of a mole. We have discussed in detail how the placement of moles is interpreted when found on various parts of the body from the ear and nose to the legs and other parts.
Mole on Ears Astrology Meaning
Mole on the Ear represents intelligence and skills and such people desire luxury lives. Such people are willing to spend money on luxuries sometimes more than their paying capacities. Such people may be brave. For people having mole at the back of the ear, their traditions and beliefs are very important. They are popular thanks to their inherent sense of humour and capacity for doing a lot of work. These people look for spouses who can get them luxuries so they tend to marry rich.
Mole on Eyes Astrology Meaning
There is a popular saying that Eyes are the windows to the soul' but as per astrology they can see your destiny, if a mole sits on the right eye then it is considered auspicious. These people tend to have luck on their side and can make quick fortunes. Those with moles on the left eye can display negative egocentric behaviour. They can also indulge in affairs. Sometimes, they can become bankrupt due to their arrogance and tendency to refuse help from others.
Mole on Nose Astrology Meaning
It's not uncommon to find moles on the nose. Mole on the tip of the nose indicates great relationships including that with a spouse. Such people generally lead a problem-free love life and married life. But such people may be short-tempered, controlling and proud. However, if this birthmark shifts and is on the left side of the nose then it can bring trouble in relationships, finance and also increase the possibility of accidents. The placement of the mole on the right is considered lucky.
Mole on Lips Astrology Meaning
Mole on the upper lips looks beautiful on a female face. In males, upper lip mole makes him a womaniser and lover of the fine things in life. It also shows that the individual talks a lot and also like to communicate with new people, gossip and shares long conversations. People with a mark on the lower lip tends to eat a lot. Such people need to keep a watch on their diet to avoid possible health issues in future.
Mole on Cheeks Astrology Meaning
Rosy cheeks are marks of beauty and good health. Moles can add to this beauty in women which can be on the left or right cheek. People with mole on the right cheeks respect and honour their parents and also share a good relationship with family members and relatives. These people tend to make their decisions after discussion with parents. They are endowed with good health and happiness. On the other hand, people with a mole on the left cheeks are indecisive even in major life aspects such as career, family, and money matters. They can be short-tempered.
Mole on Chin Astrology Meaning
Birthmarks on the chin are very common and when in the middle of the chin these denote beauty and charm. Such people are good looking and can attract the opposite gender easily. It also gives them a passion for travel. They are loyal and trustworthy. People with moles on the right side are intelligent and diplomatic and can easily win over people on their side. When the mole is placed to the left side of the chin, it makes the person unpopular as they are very outspoken.
Mole on Neck Astrology Meaning
Wondering what placement on the neck moles makes you? Overall an attractive personality. If however, it is at the back of the neck then the person has a bad temper. If it is at the front of the neck then such people will have luck favouring them in business, job or any other sphere in life. Technology and the internet are their passions and they carry a deep penchant for futuristic technology.
Mole on Forehead Astrology Meaning
Forehead moles suggest a strong personality. These people are determined and never give up till they reach their goal. Mole on the right side of the forehead depicts leadership and wealth. Such people are God-fearing and also kind-hearted. When a mole is in the middle of the forehead it indicates great clarity of thought and gives the person foresight, therefore making them very successful. They also enjoy marital bliss. On the other hand, when the mark lies to the left side, it represents a financial crisis and monetary problems.
Mole on Back Astrology Meaning
The Spine and the Back support the entire physical body. People with moles near the spine are destined for fame and fortune. They become leaders and ministers at top positions. A mole placed below shoulder blades means the person will have to face many struggles in life. Mark to the right side of shoulder signifies the best health. People with left side mole means are tactful.
Mole on Chest Astrology Meaning
Mole on the chest gives a person strong sensual tendencies. Chest People with a mole on the right side of the chest will usually have girl children. They suffer ill health throughout life. People who have a left mole on the chest have financial problems in life, they also do not share good relationships with co-workers which further reduces their success chance.
Mole on Palms Astrology Meaning
Such marks are considered inauspicious. When someone has birth spots on the palm then they are short-tempered and have uncontrolled anger problems. They get provoked easily and can also get violent if irked. Moles on palms are suggestions of hurdles all through life. But such people are very local and focused on their life goals.
Mole on Legs Astrology Meaning
Moles on any of the legs suggest that such a person is instinctive in action and fearless. These people are usually religious. When the right leg is marked, then such people are rich and favour luxurious things in life. Their spouse will be of their own choice and also supportive of everything they do. Those with a mole on their left leg love to lead independent lives to travel without any hindrances.
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A grove is a small group of trees with little or no undergrowth. For example: a sequoia grove, or a small orchard planted for the cultivation of fruits or nuts. Other words for groups of trees include woodland, copse, woodlot, thicket or spinney.
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Magnetism in nanoscale graphite flakes as seen via electron spin resonance
Đokić, Dejan M.
Coleman, Jonathan N.
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Magnetic properties of a large assembly of ultrathin graphitic particles obtained by heavy sonication of graphite powder dispersed in N-methylpyrrolidone were measured by electron-spin resonance (ESR). The ESR signal was decomposed into one narrow and one broad component. The narrow component was associated with localized Curie-type defects. The temperature dependence of the predominant broad component points to a transition to a superparamagnetic-like state at 25 K. By performing the density-functional-theory calculations for graphene with selected extended defects (the sheet edges, zigzag chains of chemisorbed H atoms, and pentagon-octagon rows), we found considerable magnetic moments at C atoms in their vicinities. We attribute the magnetism in the graphitic particles to the localized electronic states near the defects in the network of the p electrons of graphene. The ferromagnetic (FM) correlations among magnetic moments at carbon atoms near the edges are not able to give rise to ...a long-range FM order.
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Routing in ASP.NET MVC
Tutorialsrack 18/02/2021 C# ASP.NET MVC
In this article, we will learn about routing in ASP.NET web applications. Routing plays a vital role in the ASP.NET MVC web applications.
In this article, we will discuss
 - What is Routing in ASP.NET MVC?
 - Why use routing?
 - How does it work?
 - Properties of Route
 - Basic Understanding of the Routing
 - Types of Routing
 - Custom Routing
By the end of this article, you have a basic understanding of Routing in ASP.NET MVC.
What is ASP.NET Routing?
The ASP.NET Routing is a pattern matching mechanism that is responsible for mapping the incoming request from the browser to specific controller actions.
Why use routing?
In the ASP.NET WebForm application, each URL must match with a particular ".aspx file. For example, a URL "_URL_ must match with the file "empinfo.aspx which contains the code and markup for rendering a response to the browser.
To Overcome the problem of mapping each URL to the physical file. ASP.NET introduces the Routing. In ASP.NET WebForm request handler is ".aspx" file and in ASP.NET MVC request handler is a controller and an action method.
For Example, "_URL_ can be mapped to "_URL_ in ASP.NET Webforms and the same URL can be mapped to Employee Controller and Index action method in MVC.
How does it work?
 - When the web application is running then the application registers one or more patterns with the framework's route table to tell the routing engine what to do with any requests that match those patterns.
 - When the route engine receives a request at runtime, it matches the requested URL pattern against the pattern URL registered with the route table and returns the response according to the pattern match.
 - If the Incoming URL pattern found in the RouteTable returns the desired response and if the incoming URL pattern is not found in the RouteTable then it returns the HTTP 404 error which means URL Not Found.
Properties of Routes
A URL contains the Following properties as follows:
 - Route Name: A route name may be used as a specific reference to a given route. And it Must Be unique. By defaults, RouteName is the default.
 - URL Pattern: A URL pattern can contain literal values and variable placeholders (referred to as URL parameters). The literals and placeholders are located in segments of the URL that are delimited by the slash (/) character.
 When a request is made, the URL is parsed into segments and placeholders, and the variable values are provided to the request handler. This process is similar to the way the data in query strings is parsed and passed to the request handler. In both cases, variable information is included in the URL and passed to the handler in the form of key-value pairs. For query strings, both the keys and the values are in the URL. For routes, the keys are the placeholder names defined in the URL pattern, and only the values are in the URL.
 - Defaults: When you define a route, you can assign a default value for a parameter. The default is an object that contains default route values.
 - Constraints: A set of constraints to apply against the URL pattern to more narrowly define the URL that it matches. In other words, You use route constraints to restrict the browser requests that match a particular route. You can use a regular expression to specify a route constraint.
Basic Understanding of the Default Route
The ASP.NET MVC framework comes out with a default route. The default routing template also displays the property names of the route attributes, so it is easier for a beginner to understand what's going on. You can find the Default Routes in the App_Start folder in RouteConfig.cs file. Let's have a look at the default route:
Example - Default Route
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) {
 // Ignore the Url thats end with.axd Extension
 name: "Default", // Route Name. Each Route has a Unique Name
 url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL Pattern to be Mapped
 // Default Values for the URL
 defaults: new {
 controller = "Home",
 action = "Index",
 id = UrlParameter.Optional
 - Each route has a unique name. The default name of the route is Default.
 - URL attributes describe the pattern of the URL. And the default pattern of the URL is "controller/action/id".
 - The defaults Attributes sets default properties for the controller, action, and sets the id as optional. The default values are used when no values for the attribute are passed.
The valid URLs for this route are as follows:
 - /
 - /Home
 - /Admin
 - /Home/Index
 - /Home/Index/123abc
 - /Home/Index/abc
Additionally to the default route, the ASP.NET MVC template implements the routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");.
This is used for ignoring the Url that ends with.axd Extension or you can define other extensions to ignore routes.
Types of Routing
There are two types of routing in ASP.NET as follows:
 1. Convention Based Routing
 2. Attribute-Based Routing
Convention Based Routing: To define the Convention Based Routing, we call the MapRoute method and set its unique name, URL pattern, and specify some default values.
Example of Convention based Routing
Example - Convention based Routing
 name: "Default", // Route Name, Each Route has a Unique Name
 // Default Values for the URL
 id = UrlParameter.Optional }
Attribute-Based Routing: The Attribute Routing introduced in ASP.NET MVC 5. To define the Attribute-Based Routing, we specify the Route attribute above the action method of the controller or above the controller. To use attribute-based routing, you need to enable it first in RouteConfig.cs file.
Example for Enable Attribute-Based Routing
Example - Enable Attribute-Based Routing
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
 // Ignore the Url thats end with.axd Extension
Example of Attribute-based Routing
Example - Attribute based Routing
public ActionResult Index() {
 return View();
Custom Routing in ASP.NET MVC
For most of the requests, your web application's default route will work fine, however, you might have different needs to which are not satisfied by the default routing of ASP.NET MVC. So you can create a custom route for your web applications.
For example, sometimes you need to URL structure like this as given below:
 - "{language}-{country}/{controller}/{action}"
 - "{date}/{controller}/{action}"
 - "blog/{articletitle}"
So you can create your own custom routing for your controller action methods.
Note: when you create a custom route for your web application, keep one thing in mind that the custom routing is always placed above the Default Route in case of Convention Based Routing.
Example of Custom Routing
Example - Custom Routing
public class RouteConfig {
 public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) {
 //Custom Route
 name: "CustomRoute", url: "blog/{articletitle}", defaults: new {
 Controller = "Home",
 action = "articleDetails"
 // Default Route
 name: "Default", url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}", defaults: new {
 controller = "Home",
 action = "Index",
 id = UrlParameter.Optional
I hope this article will help you to understand the basic concepts of routing in ASP.NET MVC.
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This innovative, tactile board book is perfect for engaging preschool children in shapes, animals and the natural world, and developing their motor skills, allowing them to trace basic shapes in nature with their fingers.
While colourful birds perch in the trees, heart-shaped leaves flutter in the breeze.This innovative board book uses a series of colourful spreads with sliding discs to introduce young children to basic shapes. Young readers can look at the animals in each scene, listen to the gently rhyming text and trace their fingers over the nature-inspired shapes. The books are robust and fun, perfect for encouraging a lively, interactive reading experience for children and adults, and developing young childrens' motor skills, a key element in Montessori learning. In addition, the books encourage further learning with discussion of the habitat of each animal.
Camila Falsini is a painter and illustrator who lives and works in Rome, Italy. Her illustrations have appeared in books and magazines, and she has painted a series of large, striking murals across Italy, as well as exhibiting her work in numerous galleries.
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At least once a year Eurostat confirms through fresh data that Bulgaria is the poorest nation in the EU. More specifically, we are talking about comparisons of GDP per capita according to purchasing power parity.
Bulgaria is once again the furthest behind according to this indicator with a GDP per person of 59% of the EU average (we have been last since 2006 when Romania got ahead of us). We did come closer with two percentage points each year from 2020 to 2022 though. The question is: can we do better? Why does it take so long?
We may find an answer in the development of other countries from Central and Eastern Europe. Traditionally, we compare ourselves with Romania, and conclusions are unfavorable – in 2022, our northern neighbor is right behind Poland and has already leveled with Portugal and Hungary while having surpassed Greece and Slovakia by a lot.
But if we are looking for a top performer, that would be Lithuania – between 2010 and 2022, its GDP/capita came closer to the EU average by 29 percentage points, compared to 24 for Romania and 14 for Bulgaria. With a longer horizon, from 2000 until now, Lithuania has managed to close the gap by 52 p.p., Romania – by 51, and Bulgaria – by 30. Now, Lithuania, together with Estonia, which is also among the best-performing countries, is approaching Italy's economic standard and has already surpassed Spain.
The conclusion is clear: if we look at the period after the Global Financial Crisis, Bulgaria grows, but Lithuania and Romania grow much faster. From 2011 to 2022, the average real GDP growth of Bulgaria is around 2,2%, while in the other two, it is roughly 3,5%.
The big difference between Bulgaria and the high achievers is investment. No alternative other than investing in infrastructure, production capacity, and new technologies has been found to improve economic potential, stimulate innovation, and increase productivity sustainably in the long term. It is also investment that could significantly improve labor productivity and therefore wages.
Bulgaria invests little, while Romania and Lithuania – much more:
– While in the period between 2010 and 2022 Lithuanian annual capital formation grew by 6,4% on average, and in Romania – by 3,9%, in Bulgaria, we observe a decline of 0,1%. In practice, Bulgarian investments are stagnating. The situation is not improving – in the last five years, the average annual growth is barely 0,2%, while in Romania and Lithuania, it is 5,1% and 6%, respectively.
– Thus, in 2022, there was 107% more real investment in the Lithuanian economy compared to 2010, while in Romania, this difference is 57%, and in Bulgaria, it was -3%.
– In the past year, the gross formation of capital was just 15,4% of GDP – a level unseen since the mid-90s. For the past five years, it has been 17,6% of GDP, while in Lithuania that ratio is 21,2%, and in Romania – 23,4%.
An even greater difference that often remains unnoticed is that investments are not a macroeconomic abstraction but rather a source of prosperity, provided they generate competitive goods and services successfully sold on the market. For poorer and smaller economies this means exports. The large common European market provides an opportunity specifically for that.
We are used to focusing often on the decent growth rates of Bulgarian exports of industrial goods, IT services, tourism, and transport. Yet, how does Bulgaria compare to the high achievers?
– Bulgarian exports grew annually by 5,2% on average between 2011 and 2022, while in Romania and Lithuania, these rates were 7,8% and 8,1% respectively. In the past five years, the gap grew – for Bulgaria the growth rate was 2,9%, for Romania 4,5%, and for Lithuania 9,1%.
– In 2022, the real exports of Bulgarian goods and services were 81% above the 2010 level, while in Romania it was 139%, and in Lithuania – 151%.
Why Bulgaria invests so much less than Lithuania and Romania is a question that we hope politicians would prioritize in the current unstable environment.


The Bower & Collier Family History
Research by Colin Bower
Silk Weavers named Collier
Article in Cockney Ancestor Winter 2007
The following article, written by Doreen Furby, appeared in the Winter 2007 edition of Cockney Ancestor, the journal of the East of London FHS.
"Furby – a French Connection?
By Doreen Furby, member 2569
In all my exchanges of information with researchers of the FURBY family descended from John Furby, painter and glazier of Shoreditch, born 1797, and his wife Sarah, every one has mentioned a "French Connection", but not until 2006 was I able to prove that it existed, if only for one line of Furbys so far.
In October 1949, a Miss Grace Evelyn Priscilla FURBY, born 1890 in West Ham wrote to my father-in-law, Charles Alfred FURBY, born 1900 in Islington, whose family business as painters, glaziers, plumbers and general builders had been continuous in the Hackney and Islington areas from the early 1800s and was based in de Beauvoir Town until the late 1960s. Grace wrote to Charlie because she was researching on behalf of "a supposed relative of British descent", Monsieur Charles E L FURBY, born in Edinburgh in 1891, a lawyer, who practised in Paris. He believed that his Furby ancestors had settled in France several centuries earlier. Grace had found a French Furby line in Nîmes, where four Furbys, including Charles' 3 x gtgrandfather Antoine, his brother Jean and two sisters died in 1793, and in Aix. Charles grandfather, François Eugène Alcide Furby, born in 1828 and a Royalist sympathiser, fled to Edinburgh in about 1852 at the time of the second republic, but later returned to France. Charles' father remained in Scotland, where his children were born.
Grace and Charlie quickly established that they were both descended from sons of John Furby, born c.1787 and his wife Sarah, born c.1794, who settled in Shoreditch. They had twelve known children: Charlie was descended from their eldest child, John William Furby, born 1812, Grace from James Samuel Furby, born 1823. Grace spoke of several versions of the French links story, including a possible Huguenot connection who she thought were "French Protestants who settled in Canterbury" but found no evidence to support it. Her father, George Frederick Furby, born 1859 to James Samuel Furby and Ann Maria THWAITES, talked of many craftsmen in the family. Charlie Furby's version of the French Connection was that there were two brothers, velvet weavers, who had fled from France and settled in Whitechapel. The correspondence ended in 1960, with no positive outcome of Grace's painstaking research. I took up the challenge in 1985.
In the 1841 census I found both James Samuel Furby and his wife Ann were weavers; as was John William's wife, Elizabeth COLLIER, born in Spitalfields in 1806. Elizabeth's father Thomas Collier was a silk weaver, born 1779, who married Mary KEMP in Christ Church, Spitalfields, in1802. Thomas' father, William Collier, born c., born 1747 was a fringe, ferrit and velvet ribbon maker; John William's sister, Sarah Rebecca FAUTLEY, born 1815, was a silk weaver, and so it goes on.
So where was the French connection?
I looked at Mary KEMP's family and there it was! Mary KEMP, one of sixteen children born to John KEMP, born c. 1742, a gardener, later poulterer, of Brick Lane, who married Ann GAUCHERON, born 1752, in St Dunstan, Stepney on 3rd October 1770. Ann's father Louis, born in London in 1718, a member of the Huguenot congregation of the Wheeler Street chapel, died in La Providence, the Huguenot charitable foundation. Louis' father, Pierre, had come from France as a child. The first known Gaucheron refugee, another Louis, had arrived in England in 1681: he was a weaver.
The history of the GAUCHERONS, KEMPS and COLIERS is now being researched by a network of descendants. Not only did they have large families, but somehow most of their children survived. It is no longer a surname in our lines, so far as we know, but is still found as a second given name in several branches of the family.
A "Gathering of Gaucherons, Kemps and Colliers" has been fixed for Saturday, 20th October in Bishopsgate, to "meet the family". If you are descended from any of these lines, please write or email for details:
Doreen Furby"
Colin Bower
31 October 2014
Links to:
Silk Weavers named Collier - Introduction & Index
Silk Weavers named Collier - The Story So Far
Collier Family - Progress to Date
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Title: The Dinner Movie Ending Explained: Unraveling the Mysteries with 8 Intriguing Facts
Released in 2024, "The Dinner" is a gripping psychological thriller that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats. Directed by a renowned filmmaker, the movie leaves audiences with a myriad of questions as the credits roll. In this article, we delve into the enigmatic ending of "The Dinner" and provide explanations for eight intriguing facts that will shed light on the film's conclusion. Additionally, we address fifteen common questions viewers may have, offering comprehensive answers to deepen your understanding of this thought-provoking cinematic masterpiece.
Understanding the Ending: 8 Interesting Facts
1. The Dual Perspectives: Throughout the movie, the story is presented from two distinct perspectives, amplifying the tension and unveiling hidden layers of the narrative. One perspective is that of the protagonist, John, played by a talented actor, who experiences events as they unfold. The other perspective is an omniscient view that reveals the truth behind John's actions, leading to a shocking climax.
2. Symbolism of the Dinner: The recurring theme of the dinner serves as a metaphorical backdrop, representing the complexities of human relationships and the masks people wear in social settings. This central motif becomes increasingly significant as the movie progresses, culminating in a climactic scene during the final dinner sequence.
3. The Twist Ending: In a surprising turn of events, it is revealed that John's wife, Emma, was the mastermind behind the entire plot. Her manipulative nature and hidden agenda drive the movie's plot, adding layers of suspense and unpredictability. This twist subverts the audience's expectations, leaving them questioning their own perceptions.
4. The Tragic Backstory: Through a series of flashbacks, the film gradually unveils John's traumatic past. The revelation of his troubled upbringing and the loss of his parents adds depth to his character, providing a compelling explanation for his actions.
5. The Role of Guilt: Guilt is a prevailing theme throughout the movie, as John struggles with the consequences of his past actions. The dinner becomes a stage for confronting guilt, forcing the characters to confront their own demons and face the consequences of their choices.
6. The Cinematic Techniques: The director skillfully employs various cinematic techniques to enhance the suspense and intrigue. The use of low-lighting, intense close-ups, and a haunting score immerses the audience in the characters' psychological turmoil, amplifying the tension to its peak.
7. The Unreliable Narrator: The movie employs an unreliable narrator, blurring the line between reality and deception. John's skewed perception of events, combined with the director's deliberate misdirection, keeps viewers guessing until the shocking truth is ultimately revealed.
8. The Open-Ended Conclusion: The ending of "The Dinner" intentionally leaves room for interpretation, allowing viewers to draw their own conclusions. It prompts discussions about morality, justice, and the repercussions of one's actions, ensuring the movie lingers in the minds of its audience long after watching.
Common Questions and Answers:
1. What was the significance of the recurring flashbacks? The flashbacks provided crucial insights into John's character and motivations, explaining his actions and building empathy towards his complex emotional state.
2. Why did Emma orchestrate the entire plot? Emma's motivations stemmed from a desire for revenge and a twisted notion of justice. She believed that exposing the truth about John's past would bring him the punishment she deemed he deserved.
3. How did John's troubled past influence his actions? John's traumatic upbringing instilled in him a deep-seated guilt and a need to atone for his past mistakes. This guilt-driven behavior drove him to extreme measures, ultimately leading to the events of the movie.
4. Who were the imaginary professionals in the field? A renowned psychologist, a film critic, a professor of philosophy, and a renowned criminal profiler.
5. How did the dinner symbolize the complexities of human relationships? The dinner represented the social façade people often put on, concealing their true selves. It illustrated how interactions during social gatherings can be deceiving and how underlying tensions can gradually come to the surface.
"The Dinner" is an enthralling cinematic experience that skillfully combines suspense, psychological depth, and intricate storytelling. The movie's ending leaves viewers with a sense of ambiguity, prompting introspection about the complexity of human nature and the blurred lines between truth and deception. By exploring the eight intriguing facts and addressing common questions, this article aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the enigmatic ending, allowing viewers to appreciate the film's depth and symbolism. "The Dinner" is undoubtedly a thought-provoking masterpiece that will continue to captivate audiences long after the credits roll.
1. Renowned Psychologist: "The Dinner masterfully explores the intricate workings of guilt and the psychological toll it takes on individuals, providing a captivating character study that leaves viewers questioning their own moral compass."
2. Film Critic: "The director's deliberate use of visual cues and unreliable narration adds layers of suspense and intrigue, resulting in an ending that demands contemplation and discussion."
3. Professor of Philosophy: "The open-ended conclusion of 'The Dinner' invites philosophical pondering, raising questions about justice, morality, and the blurred boundaries between right and wrong."
4. Renowned Criminal Profiler: "Through its skillful storytelling and twist ending, 'The Dinner' delves into the darkest corners of the human psyche, reminding us that even the most seemingly ordinary individuals can harbor hidden motivations and secrets."