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COMPULSARY RATING..Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB) will soon introduce a Green PASS rating to contractors and developers in the country.
KUALA LUMPUR - Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB) will soon introduce a Green PASS rating to contractors and developers in the country.
"Green PASS is an assessment that measures the actual impact of the quantity of greenhouse gas (GHG) by released by building to the environment.
"This evaluation will be done in two phases: construction phase and operational phase of the building.
"For the construction phase it contains five elements, namely assessment of the construction site, building materials, energy, water and waste.
"As for the operational phase of building the three elements that are assessed include building indoor environmental quality (IEQ), energy and water," she said.
Esmaria said this when presenting a paperwork on Green Pass evaluation to over 80 leading local construction industry in the capital recently.
However, she said, for the Green PASS evaluation in the construction phase, the evaluation can only be done once while in the building operation phase, the assessment will be done after the building is completed and occupied by at least 70 percent of the residents.
"Green PASS Rating will be the yardstick used to measure the ability of contractors to produce quality construction," she told the National Construction Portal, 1BINA.my.
It is learned that the database of Green PASS evaluation is borrowed from the United Kingdom which acts as a baseline to measure the conservation of buildings that is under construction or already completed.
Even so, Emasria says that Malaysia will build its own database as it is a dynamic data collection and not rigid.
"For example, if the study found that current energy consumption baseline is 100 kilowatt per meter and found the building in Green PASS assessment process uses only 70 kilowatts per meter which is a saving of 30 percent sure this data will be stored as a reference at any time.
"This is because the saving was calculated using carbon calculator and will be monitored from time to time for record and reference," she said.
Emasria also added that, in that particular case, contractors and developers are eligible for a diamond bonus in scoring if they uses Quality Assessment System in Construction (QLASSIC) and Safety and Health Assessment System in Construction (SHASSIC) for their construction projects.
In the meantime, CIDB previously issued the Construction Industry Standard CIS 19:2012 Draft and requested the public to provide feedback on the Green Performance Assessment System in Construction (Green PASS) draft.
By July, CIDB will work with the Malaysian Green Tech Corporation (MGTC) and several government agencies to test the effectiveness of the Green PASS assessment to construction projects in Malaysia through a pilot project that has been agreed.
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timeline controlled audio video show and mapping software
Mapstard is a timeline controlled, multi-input and multi-output, audio/video show and VJ software, available for Windows, Mac-OS and Linux.
With mapstard's video output features any type of video device can be controlled: projectors, HD-monitors, ledand video walls, DMX lighting equipment.
Mapstard's advanced mapping function includes highly customizable soft-edge, which allows to draw seamless projection surfaces on architectural objects, using multiple projectors of different type.
Multiple media types such as videos, audio files, images, custom text, camera input, 3D models can be loaded and playback simultaneously on multiple projection surfaces trough different video output devices.
With the timeline controlled keyframe animation feature an AV show can be planned and rendered beforehand, or played back live using presets and OSC remote control.
With the built in DMX functionalities, multiple DMX universes can be timeline controlled to include lighting in your AV-Show.
Multiple projects can be grouped into playlists which in turn can played back timeline controlled.


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Origin of the name MERIKH.
Etymology of the
Meaning of the baby name MERIKH.
MERIKH (ملك). From
name for the planet "Mars." Also spelled Mirrikh.
the Ministers of his High Majesty (who is exalted like Saturn, fierce as
* In the Original it is Beheram Solat, Merikh
Suttuvit. Beheram, in the ancient Persic,
signifies Mars, and Merikh, in the Arabic,
signifies the same.

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We describe a high-resolution real-time spectroscopy system targeted to ethane gas with sensitivity ≥70 ppt and response time from ≥0.7 s. The measurement technique is based on a mid-IR lead-salt laser passing through a Herriott cell through which a gas sample flows. We compare wavelength scanning and locked configurations and discuss their relative merits. The technology has been motivated by clinical breath testing applications, ethane being widely regarded as the most important breath biomarker for cell damage via free-radical-mediated oxidative attack. We discuss preliminary human and animal studies in which ultrasensitive real-time ethane detection offers new diagnostic and monitoring potential.
© 2005 Optical Society of America
Original Manuscript: July 20, 2004
Revised Manuscript: October 20, 2004
Manuscript Accepted: December 15, 2004
Published: August 1, 2005
Kenneth D. Skeldon, Graham M. Gibson, Cathy A. Wyse, Lesley C. McMillan, Steve D. Monk, Chris Longbottom, and Miles J. Padgett, "Development of high-resolution real-time sub-ppb ethane spectroscopy and some pilot studies in life science," Appl. Opt. 44, 4712-4721 (2005)


Voltage-gated proton channels were studied under voltage clamp in excised, inside-out patches of human eosinophils, at various pHi with pHo 7.5 or 6.5 pipette solutions. H+ current fluctuations were observed consistently when the membrane was depolarized to voltages that activated H+ current. At pHi ≤ 5.5 the variance increased nonmonotonically with depolarization to a maximum near the midpoint of the H+ conductance-voltage relationship, gH-V, and then decreased, supporting the idea that the noise is generated by H+ channel gating. Power spectral analysis indicated Lorentzian and 1/f components, both related to H+ currents. Unitary H+ current amplitude was estimated from stationary or quasi-stationary variance,
\(\mathrm{{\sigma}}_{\mathrm{H}}^{\mathrm{2}}\)
. We analyze
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data obtained at various voltages on a linearized plot that provides estimates of both unitary conductance and the number of channels in the patch, without requiring knowledge of open probability. The unitary conductance averaged 38 fS at pHi 6.5, and increased nearly fourfold to 140 fS at pHi 5.5, but was independent of pHo. In contrast, the macroscopic gH was only 1.8-fold larger at pHi 5.5 than at pHi 6.5. The maximum H+ channel open probability during large depolarizations was 0.75 at pHi 6.5 and 0.95 at pHi 5.5. Because the unitary conductance increases at lower pHi more than the macroscopic gH, the number of functional channels must decrease. Single H+ channel currents were too small to record directly at physiological pH, but at pHi ≤ 5.5 near Vthreshold (the voltage at which gH turns on), single channel–like current events were observed with amplitudes 7–16 fA.
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In the last MVC post we looked at Filter Providers but didn't really describe what filters were. Filters are special classes which can execute some functionality at certain points during each MVC request. Historically most filters have been attributes that you can apply to an action method or a controller class (not all as Controllers can also act as filters). Before talking about filters it's worth looking at how a request in MVC is handled.
At the lowest level, all web applications behave the same way:
- A browser (or some other client) issues an HTTP request to your application
- Your application performs some processing based on the incoming request
- The application sends an HTTP response back to the client (this can be HTML, XML, JSon or even just a simple status code)
In an ASP.NET MVC application the incoming request is mapped to a method (called an Action) on a class (called the Controller). Once the controller has been created and the correct action method selected it is the job of the Action Invoker to run the method (action), retrieve its return value (result) and send something sensible back to the client. Along the way the action invoker allows filters to get involved at specific points in the process (and possibly alter it). There are 4 types of filter:
- Authorization filters are executed up front and may prevent the action method from being executed at all if they decide that the user is "not authorized" (implements
- Action filters are executed both before and after the action method is executed. (implements
- Once the action method returns a result it is executed. A Result filter can run code both before and after this happens (implements
- If something goes wrong at any time during the process any Exception filters will be run (implements
I'll describe each of the filter types in future posts. Each filter is represented in MVC 3 as an object of the
Filter class. This class contains 3 properties. The first (called
Instance) holds an object that can implement any combination of the 4 filter interfaces defined above (it can even implement none of them but then your filter will never actually execute). The other two properties (
Scope) relate to the order in which filters are run.
Filters are run in a very specific order. Filters are sorted first by their ascending
Order value. If two filters have the same
Order value then they are sorted by their
Scope value in the following order:
As an example here is the forwards order of a few filters:
- Order = –1, Scope = First
- Order = –1, Scope = Global
- Order = –1, Scope = Last
- Order = 0, Scope = Controller
- Order = 0, Scope = Action
- Order = 1, Scope = First
Note that Action Filters and Result Filters are actually run twice (once before and once after the thing they are filtering). When these filters are running before the action/result to which they apply they are run in forward order. When they are running after the action/result to which they apply they are run in the reverse order. You can think of it like this:
The default filter providers will create filters with the following orders and scopes:
ControllerInstanceFilterProvider– Exposes the controller as a filter with an order of
Int32.MinValueand a Scope of First. This means that the controller will always be the first filter
FilterAttributeFilterProvider– Finds filter attributes (inherits from
FilterAttribute) on the controller and on the action method and exposes them using the Controller and Action scope accordingly. The Order value is derived from a property on the attribute itself (
FilterAttribute.Order) and defaults to –1. In fact, if you try to set a filter attributes order to less than –1 it will throw an
GlobalActionFilterProvider– provides filters in the Global scope and again derives the order from the filter you provide (which defaults to –1). Unlike the
FilterAttribute.Orderproperty you can set a value less than –1.
Finally, filters can specify whether or not they will allow multiple instances by setting the property
IMvcFilter.AllowMutliple (filters derived from
FilterAttribute will provide this value based on any supplied
AttributeUsage attribute they have). If filters allow multiples then each instance of the filter that applies will be run for a given action/result. If a filter does not allow multiples then only one filter of the specified type will be executed. The one which is kept is the one with the highest Order and Scope (i.e the one which would normally be executed last).
Filters are a great feature of MVC that allow you to create a very orthogonal design for your application. Although the initial implementation of filters put a lot of code inside of attributes I don't recommend doing that in MVC 3. Iinstead you should create marker attributes and use
FilterProviders to apply your filter implementation classes where they're needed. In the coming posts I'll look at each of the different types of filters (Authorization, Action, Result and Exception) along with some examples of each from the MVC 3 framework. I'll also discuss the circumstances under which you might like to create your own filters and how you'd go about doing so.
One last thing, there are a few attributes that ship in the framework and get applied to action methods but are not Filters. It's easy to get these mixed up so I'll list some here.
NonActionAttribute are examples of Action Method Selectors and
ActionNameAttribute is an Action Name Selector. Both of these types of attributes get involved in the MVC pipeline before the Action Invoker executes so they are not filters.
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I'm working on Windows 7 and I have installed Strawberry. I would like to run a perl skript (test.pl):
open OUTPUT, ">test.txt";
print OUTPUT "This is a test\n";
by just clicking on the file or redirect with left mouse click to Perl-program (open with/perl.exe). When I do this a console opens for less than a second and disappears but the file test.txt is not created. If I go to the MS command and enter
> C:\myplace>perl test.pl
it works. I never had this experience before (WinXP, other Windows 7 PC with ActivePerl and Windows 8 with strawberry). I would be very happy if somebody could give me a hint how to solve this problem.
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There are two problems here:
 1. Creating the file where you want it. When double-clicking a perl script to launch it, it is not executed in the context of the folder you have opened in Explorer. If you want to specify an explicit context, do the following near the top of your script:
 use FindBin; # This is a module that finds the location of your script
 BEGIN { chdir $FindBin::Bin } # set context to that directory.
 When you then create a new file without an aboslute path, the path is considered relative to that directory.
 You do not have the problem when running the script from the command line, because you have specified the correct path. But if you run it from C:\ like
 C:\> perl myplace/test.pl
 then you have created the file in C\test.txt. The FindBin solution fixes this.
 2. When running a script by double-clicking it, the command line exits before you can inspect the output. This "problem" is shared by all programming languages on Windows. You can force the window to stay open by waiting for some input. You can either do
 system("PAUSE"); # not portable to non-Windows!
 warn "Press enter to exit...\n";
 ; # Read a line from the command line and discard it.
 # Feels akward when launching from the command line
 to wait until an Enter ⏎ is pressed.
 The other solution is to always use the command line for your scripts, which is what I'd actually suggest.
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Thanks for the answer. I didn't know about FindBin. Very useful. But why this simple test-code above works on all various computers and OS but in one it does not behave in this way? I just wonder... – giordano Sep 3 '13 at 20:03
Check what is your script executing folder, as it might differ from C:\myplace
use Cwd;
print getcwd();
sleep 7;
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Thanks for answer. Yes, it differs (C:\strawberry\perl\bin). But is this a problem? The environment variable is included. Usually, I never had such kind of problems. – giordano Sep 2 '13 at 15:13
_USER_ to be sure, you can try absolute path when writing, ie. open OUTPUT, ">", 'C:\myplace\test.txt'; – Сухой27 Sep 2 '13 at 15:19
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Neil Wilkin, curator, British Museum
Question: What do you call a Bronze Age coin specialist?
Answer: Flat broke and misspent, for there is no evidence from this period of coins or currency systems, as we know them, in Europe!
And yet… a journey through the Citi Money Gallery begins with a group of Bronze Age objects. Among them are gold objects from the 'Mooghaun hoard' (about 800 BC), a find that has recently been honoured with a place in Fintan O'Toole's 'A History of Ireland in 100 Objects' series, supported by the National Museum of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy.
But why are they in the gallery? Their recent honour gave me the perfect opportunity to explore that question.
The start of our story is bitter-sweet: in March of 1854, workmen in County Clare, Ireland discovered at least 150 finds of what was then described as 'fairy gold', weighing approximately 5kg, mostly consisting of jewellery. The gold must have poured from the small stone chamber it was found in – childhood dreams of gold pots and rainbows come to mind!
It was certainly one of the biggest discoveries of Bronze Age gold ever found in Ireland or even North West Europe. Sadly, accounts tell of hats full of gold being sold for less than their true value to be melted down, forever lost. Only 29 objects survive today.
Around the same time, in Mold, Wales, a separate group of workmen came across another famous find of Bronze Age gold, known as the Mold Gold Cape. Like the Mooghaun Hoard, the cape was also dispersed. But unlike the Mooghaun Hoard, the fragments were not melted down and they were eventually purchased and re-assembled. So, why did the Mooghaun Hoard not receive the same treatment?
Unlike the complex decoration of the unique Mold Gold Cape, most of the Mooghaun finds consisted of many very similar bracelets or armlets with very little decoration. Perhaps they were a way of storing wealth – even an early form of 'currency'? In melting and spending the gold, the modern finders may have been recognising this key quality.
However, there is more to the story. The finds at Mooghaun were made close to (or even within) a lake and close to one of the biggest Bronze Age hillforts in Ireland. This setting is typical of Irish hoards deposited for spiritual and religious reasons, rather than 'banked' for safe-keeping to be returned for later.
The similarity of the objects could also relate to the status of individuals. For while the Mold Gold Cape could only be worn by a single, very important person, the Mooghaun hoard could decorate the bodies of many people at once.
The Mooghaun finds therefore tell us that not all gold was for important individuals and that we can't always separate economics from spiritual beliefs. In that sense, they provide the perfect starting place to the story of the history of money.
The Mooghaun Hoard is object 11 in A History of Ireland in 100 objects


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Vibration Response Imaging
Vibration response imaging or VRI, is nominally a medical VR visualisation technology, although it has obvious uses in other fields. It was developed to image patient lungs, and works via detecting vibrations within the target body, via sensors deployed to either side, pressed against the surface.
Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.
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As the demands for precise imaging in fields such as medicine, astronomy, and real-time machine vision in hostile environments continue to increase, so the demands placed on imaging equipment become ever more stringent. An imaging method based on Single Photon Avalanche Photodiodes (SPAD) offers the potential to ease this bottleneck greatly.
Technology Review's long, and in depth look at the rise of diffusion spectrum imaging, and how this new neural interface imaging technique is rapidly accelerating the study of both human and animal brains to an extent unparalleled by any previous imaging technique, even fMRI.
Diffusion spectrum imaging is a new technique at time of writing, which allows magnetic resonance brain imaging, at a much higher level of fidelity than fMRI permits.
In mid 2012, Swiss researchers turned the world of alzheimers plaque imaging on its head: by combining a phased imaging source and an integral VR model generator, for the first time ever we can now track the formation of Alzheimers plaques in real-time in living patients.
AR based Medical imaging technologies really began to take off in the early 2000s. There are a growing range of holographic, projective, interactive gesture recognition tools available, which can really make training and diagnosis so much easier.
VRIxp is a medical diagnosis device using what is perhaps a novel form of 3D visualisation. It uses audio analysis of vibration deep inside the body to assemble precise structural detail.
fMRI or functional magnetic resonance imaging, is one of the newest brain imaging technologies for the first decade of the 21st century. It is a basic form of Brain-Computer Interaction.
These are the proceedings of the fourth international medical imaging and augmented reality conference, held in Tokyo, Japan, August 1-2, 2008.
These are the proceedings of the third international medical imaging and augmented reality conference, held in Shanghai, China, August 17-18, 2006.
These are the proceedings of the first international medical imaging and augmented reality conference, held in Hong Kong, 10-12 June 2001.
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Currently, to keep track of a game, soccer fans have the option of reading textual information of the game?s key events in near-real-time, or listening to audio of the text transferred to voice. However, these options require a user?s full...
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A new 3D view of the body's response to infection -- and the ability to identify proteins involved in the response -- could point to novel biomarkers and therapeutic agents for infectious diseases.
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This week, researchers from Philips Electronics plan to describe a jacket they have lined with vibration motors to study the effects of touch on a movie viewer?s emotional response to what the characters are experiencing.
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Movement in FEAR 2: Project Origin, whether in combat or just traveling from point A to point B, is an essential element of the game play and this article gives you a quick review before you get out of the APC at Genevieve Aristide's hideaway.
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 Hints & Tips on Movement in FEAR 2: Project Origin
 FEAR 2: Project Origin hints & tips
 Jump -- All members of the Special Forces in FEAR 2: Project Origin are outstanding athletes that have developed and trained their bodies to be finely tuned machines that can fight all day. You can easily jump gaps and chasms, scale crates, hurdle rails, and even jump through windows when necessary. You just need to face toward the object in question and jump to execute the necessary movements. Just make sure to take a look out a window or to check the width of a jump before attempting it because you can only fall a short distance before you'll be injured or killed. Find out more in this FEAR 2 Project Origin game guide.
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 Moving in Dark Environments in FEAR 2: Project Origin
 Watch out for the things that go bump in the night Darkness -- There are missions in FEAR 2: Project Origin where a majority of the game time occurs at night and in dark indoor areas where you're in danger from enemies you can't see. In these environments you can also miss important features of the environments or useful items that will keep you alive. The designers have provided you with a flashlight to help you move about and see in these dark environments, so you won't miss important elements. But your flashlight can also provide your enemy with information they can use to ambush you if the enemy sees your light before you see them. Don't use your flashlight all the time, turn it on for a few seconds and memorize the lay of the environment and then turn it off, before moving. Also, pay close attention to the distance that you flash the light from your flashlight, and travel a distance each time you move through the dark environment within the effective firing range of your weapon. Moving through the environment in this way will limit the visibility of your light and make sure that any enemy that see your light are within effective range and can be eliminated quickly.
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 Crouch and Cover In FEAR 2: Project Origin
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 - Whenever you approach or are near an object that you can use as effective cover the game will provide an on screen prompt telling you that you can overturn the object in question.
 - Your opponents will also overturn objects in the environments to provide themselves with cover from your fire. If you can't get a lock on an opponent behind cover throw a "cooked" grenade behind their cover.
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 Sprinting in FEAR 2: Project Origin
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By using qualified versions of the chip selects to connect to external devices, you can prevent those external devices from sampling the undefined pin states on address, data, and other control signals. 3.1 Workaround step 1: Generate a qualifier signal The first step to the workaround is to generate a signal that can be used to qualify or mask the undefined signal states on the chip select signals (or other control signals as needed). Determining the qualifier to use can require some characterization of power and reset signal operation in the system. The idea is to find a signal or combination of signals that remains high throughout the time when the undefined signal states can occur. Theoretically the RSTOUT signal could be used to qualify signals; however, because RSTOUT asserts low at the same time that the undefined signal states start to drive on other pins, if this signal were used as a qualifier alone, there could be small glitches while waiting for RSTOUT to propagate through logic. For this reason Freescale doesn't recommend using RSTOUT on its own as a qualifier. If the system keeps the RESET input signal to the processor asserted during system power-up and through the start of clocks, then the RESET signal could be used to generate the qualifier signal as shown in Figure 2. /RESET Chip Select Qualifier Figure 2. Generating a qualifier signal using RESET If the system is not guaranteed to keep the RESET input signal asserted through the start of clocks, then a combination of the RESET and RSTOUT signals could be used instead as shown in Figure 3. 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Las Cruces – New Mexico State University is looking beyond the border to find
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In January.experts from around the United States, Mexico and Israel will discuss similarities and problems of the Rio Grande and Jordan River basins.
The Rio Grande provides water for Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico.
The Jordan River supplies water in Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
The Rio Grande water shed is regulated by two different treaties
between the U.S. and Mexico.The Jordan River is also regulated by
treaties - peace treaties between adjacent countries after the 1967 Six Day War.
16 experts will speak.including Jean Parcher from the U.S. Geological Survey Mid-Continent Geographic Science Center in Austin, Texas.
Parcher has done research on transboundary geographic issues with an emphasis on the U.S.-Mexico border region.
The conference takes place on January 22 and 23 at NMSU.


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Antimony - Chemical Poisons
The important derivatives of antimony include antimony oxide, antimony trichloride (butter of antimony), antimony sulfide, potassium antimony tartrate (tartar emetic), stibine gas and antimonials used in therapeutics.
Antimony
The important derivatives of antimony include antimony oxide, antimony trichloride (butter of antimony), antimony sulfide, potassium antimony tartrate (tartar emetic), stibine gas and antimonials used in therapeutics.
Uses
· Alloys
· Plating
· Pigments
· Batteries
· Ant paste (insecticide)
· Matches
· Therapeutics: In the past, tartar emetic was quite popular as an emetic, diaphoretic, and indirect expectorant. Today virtually the only indication for the use of antimonials in medicine is leishmaniasis for which relatively safe pentavalent antimony compounds are used such as sodium stibogluconate and meglumine antimoniate.
· Antimony trichloride and stibine (which is a gas) are mainly encountered in the industry.
· Antimony sulfide may be used as kohl to darken the eyebrows, or as collyrium for the eyes in place of lead sulfide (surma).
Clinical Features
· Ingestion of antimony compounds produces abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, haematemesis, dermatitis, EEG changes, oliguria, and renal and hepatic failure.
· Exposure to the dust and fumes may cause gingivitis, rhinitis, chest tightness, shortness of breath, bronchitis, pulmonary oedema, headache, and dizziness.
· Inhalation of stibine gas (released when antimony alloys are treated with acids) causes respiratory irritation, vomiting, headache, haemolytic anaemia, haematuria, myoglobinuria, and renal failure.
· Signs and symptoms of chronic exposure may include ECG changes, laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, pneumo-nitis, pneumoconiosis, ulceration of the nasal septum and larynx, and contact allergy to metal. Skin contact with antimony compounds can cause papules and pustules around sweat and sebaceous glands. QT prolongation and T wave changes have been reported on ECG.
· Side effects associated with pentavalent antimonial therapy include arthralgias, myalgias, and EEG changes, and are usually reversible.
· Antimony has been found to cause premature births and spontaneous abortions in women, along with growth retardation in children. Russian studies have suggested that workers exposed to antimony have shown sexual dysfunc-tion in males and increased incidence of gynaecological problems in females.
Treatment
· Chelation with BAL (as in arsenic poisoning).* It is given intramuscularly for 10 days. However, DMSA may be more effective. D-penicillamine is less effective but may be useful. EDTA is not effective.
· Haemodialysis.
· Stomach wash may help if the patient is seen early, in the case of oral ingestions.

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Why It Works...
For a given area and all other factors being equal, a flat shape with the highest coefficient of drag gives the best grip on the water. When various flat surfaces of equal area are pulled through the water, a round shape gives the least drag and a long rectangular shape, such as a Greenland style, gives the highest drag or best 'bite (which is what is desired)'. A wide blade paddle falls somewhere in between these shapes. When a paddle is pulled through the water, the water on the working blade moves outward to the edges of the paddle and curls around forming an eddy or vortex on the back side These are shed alternately and is the reason for the zigzag motion felt at certain speeds. It is these eddies that create the 'push' on the paddle. Only with a narrow paddle is this vortex shedding noticeable because the vortex is large in relation to the blade.
The opposite is true for the non working blade. In hydrodynamics, the rectangular shape has the highest coefficient of drag but aerodynamically it has one of the lowest. This coupled with the lower Greenland stroke makes the effect of wind on the blade minimal. With feathered paddles, as the working blade is pulling through the water, the other is edge on to the wind. This may be a slight advantage for wide paddles when heading into the wind but what happens when paddling with a beam wind. A sudden, powerful gust may catch the unprepared paddler and capsize them. The working blade is edge on to the water and will offer no support to counteract the effect of the wind.
Where a wide bladed paddle is useful for quick, powerful strokes such as would be needed on the river or in racing, it can be very fatiguing for touring. Similar to a mountain bike in low gear for going through dirt and sand versus a touring bike in high gear. Initially, a narrow paddle will offer less power but after a kayak is at cruising speed it makes no difference.
Another consideration is that a narrow paddle gives less muscle shock since it develops resistance more slowly. Wooden paddles flex more, acting as shock absorbers in the beginning of the stroke and giving back the snap at the end.
It has been said that the Greenlanders did not have the technology to make wide bladed paddles or feather them. Nonsense. The paddle could have been made as a frame and covered with skin or thin pieces of wood or they could have built up the width the same way they attached the bone or ivory tips and edging to the narrow bladed paddles. As far as feathering goes, there is no secret to making a feathered Greenland paddle.They have been made quite easily and there are a few feathered Greenland paddles in the museums so the validity of that statement disintegrates. The paddle evolved as a narrow and unfeathered blade because, quite simply, it works.
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Remotox is a water-soluble compound that has been shown to be a cost effective for in-situ stabilization of metals. The common name for Remotox is calcium polysulfide, (CaS5) with a molecular weight of 199.8 gram per mole. Remotox has a pH of 11 to 11.5, a specific gravity of 1.27 and is deep orange-red color in solution. It is water soluble and comes as 29% (Wt. % CaS5) aqueous solution.


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Solid state quantum memory using the 31P nuclear spin
The transfer of information between different physical forms is a central theme in communication and computation, for example between processing entities and memory. Nowhere is this more crucial than in quantum computation, where great effort must be taken to protect the integrity of a fragile quantum bit. Nuclear spins are known to benefit from long coherence times compared to electron spins, but are slow to manipulate and suffer from weak thermal polarisation. A powerful model for quantum computation is thus one in which electron spins are used for processing and readout while nuclear spins are used for storage. Here we demonstrate the coherent transfer of a superposition state in an electron spin 'processing' qubit to a nuclear spin 'memory' qubit, using a combination of microwave and radiofrequency pulses applied to 31P donors in an isotopically pure 28Si crystal. The electron spin state can be stored in the nuclear spin on a timescale that is long compared with the electron decoherence time and then coherently transferred back to the electron spin, thus demonstrating the 31P nuclear spin as a solid-state quantum memory. We have achieved transfer fidelities up to 90percent each way, which we attribute to systematic imperfections in radiofrequency pulses which could be improved through the use of composite pulses. We apply dynamic decoupling to protect the nuclear spin quantum memory element from sources of decoherence. The coherence lifetime of the quantum memory element is found to exceed one second at 5.5K.


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LAnnotation::SetRestrictToContainer
#include "ltwrappr.h"
virtual L_INT LAnnotation::SetRestrictToContainer(bRestrict, uFlags)
L_BOOL bRestrict;
flag that specifies whether to restrict the object to the container
L_UINT uFlags;
flags that determine which objects to process
Restricts one or more annotation objects to a container.
Parameter Description
bRestrict Boolean value that specifies whether to restrict the object to the container. Possible values are:
 Value Meaning
 TRUE Restrict the object to the container.
 FALSE Do not restrict the object to the container.
uFlags Flags that determine which objects to process. Most of the flags apply only to container objects. You can combine values when appropriate by using a bitwise OR ( | ). The following are valid values:
 Value Meaning
 0 Process only the specified object.
 ANNFLAG_SELECTED [0x0001] Process only objects that have the selected property set to TRUE. For getting and setting the selected property, use the LAnnotation::IsSelected and LAnnotation::SetSelected functions.
 ANNFLAG_NOTTHIS [0x0004] Process only one level of objects within the specified container, not the container itself. If there are containers within the container, they are modified, but the objects within them are not.
 ANNFLAG_RECURSE [0x0008] Process objects within a container, and within any subcontainers, down to any level.
 ANNFLAG_NOTCONTAINER [0x0002] (Used with ANNFLAG_RECURSE) Process objects within containers, not the containers themselves.
 ANNFLAG_NOINVALIDATE [0x0010] Do not invalidate the affected rectangle in the window. Use this to avoid generating unwanted paint messages.
 ANNFLAG_CHECKMENU [0x0020] Process objects only if the ANNAUTOTEXT_MENU_UNGROUP menu item has been selected.
Returns
SUCCESS
The function was successful.
< 1
An error occurred. Refer to Return Codes.
Comments
If an object is restricted to the container, then no part of that object can be moved outside of the container using automation.
All annotation objects support restriction.
Required DLLs and Libraries
LTANN
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Platforms
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See Also
Functions:
Class Members, LAnnContainer::Convert, LAnnContainer::HitTest, LAnnContainer::RestrictCursor, LAnnotation::GetRestrictToContainer, LAnnotation::Define2, LAnnotation::Define, LAnnotation::SetAutoSnapCursor, LAnnotation::GetAutoSnapCursor
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array
Asserts that the input is an array (optionally with a specific item type and length). If, when the input expression is evaluated, it is not of the asserted type, then this assertion will cause the whole expression to be aborted.
Syntax
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Syntax
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Syntax
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 { "case-sensitive": boolean, "diacritic-sensitive": boolean, "locale": string }
]: collator
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 - "text-color": Overrides the color specified by the root paint property.
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Syntax
["format",
 input_1: string | image, options_1: { "font-scale": number, "text-font": array<string>, "text-color": color },
 ...,
 input_n: string | image, options_n: { "font-scale": number, "text-font": array<string>, "text-color": color }
]: formatted
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image
Returns an image type for use in icon-image, *-pattern entries and as a section in the format expression. If set, the image argument will check that the requested image exists in the style and will return either the resolved image name or null, depending on whether or not the image is currently in the style. This validation process is synchronous and requires the image to have been added to the style before requesting it in the image argument.
Syntax
["image", value]: image
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literal
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["literal", [...] (JSON array literal)]: array<T, N>
["literal", {...} (JSON object literal)]: object
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number
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Syntax
["number", value]: number
["number", value, fallback: value, fallback: value, ...]: number
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number-format
Converts the input number into a string representation using the providing formatting rules. If set, the locale argument specifies the locale to use, as a BCP 47 language tag. If set, the currency argument specifies an ISO 4217 code to use for currency-style formatting. If set, the min-fraction-digits and max-fraction-digits arguments specify the minimum and maximum number of fractional digits to include.
Syntax
["number-format",
 input: number,
 options: { "locale": string, "currency": string, "min-fraction-digits": number, "max-fraction-digits": number }
]: string
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basic functionality >= 0.54.0 Not yet supported Not yet supported Not yet supported
object
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Syntax
["object", value]: object
["object", value, fallback: value, fallback: value, ...]: object
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basic functionality >= 0.41.0 >= 6.0.0 >= 4.0.0 >= 0.7.0
string
Asserts that the input value is a string. If multiple values are provided, each one is evaluated in order until a string is obtained. If none of the inputs are strings, the expression is an error.
Syntax
["string", value]: string
["string", value, fallback: value, fallback: value, ...]: string
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basic functionality >= 0.41.0 >= 6.0.0 >= 4.0.0 >= 0.7.0
to-boolean
Converts the input value to a boolean. The result is false when then input is an empty string, 0, false, null, or NaN; otherwise it is true.
Syntax
["to-boolean", value]: boolean
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basic functionality >= 0.41.0 >= 6.0.0 >= 4.0.0 >= 0.7.0
to-color
Converts the input value to a color. If multiple values are provided, each one is evaluated in order until the first successful conversion is obtained. If none of the inputs can be converted, the expression is an error.
Syntax
["to-color", value, fallback: value, fallback: value, ...]: color
SDK Support MapLibre GL JS Android SDK iOS SDK macOS SDK
basic functionality >= 0.41.0 >= 6.0.0 >= 4.0.0 >= 0.7.0
to-number
Converts the input value to a number, if possible. If the input is null or false, the


Anglo-Jewish Portraits, Alfred Rubens, The Jewish Museum, London 1935.
9k portraits_0001This is a biographical catalogue of engraved Anglo-Jewish portraits. Before the days of photography, the only images of people were paintings, drawings and engravings. this catalogue of about 460 known engravings includes a large selection of images, and I have reproduced a few interesting ones below.
Alfred Rubens (_PHONE_) was a chartered surveyor who made his fortune in property development. However, he is known mainly as a collector of prints and drawings and as a historian. He was the long-time Chairman of the Jewish Museum, and an active member and eventually President of the Jewish Historical Society of England. His collection is now deposited in the Jewish Museum in Camden Town. This was his first book, self-financed and based largely on his own collection.
Here is the introduction:
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The book is a catalogue listing:
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I have chosen a few interesting engravings as examples:
This (below) is No. 17, Isaac Haim Bitton, the boxer, born in Amsterdam, 29th June, 1779, died in London 27th January 1859. You can find his genealogy here.
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This is No. 99, Moses Franks (_PHONE_), Merchant. He was born in New York and moved to England where he represented his family interests. He became a prominent member of the Ashkenazi Jewish community in London and a participant in the re-building of the Great Synagogue in Dukes Place, in 1766, for which he donated £250. He married his cousin, Phila Franks.
In 1763 Moses Franks leased land in Twickenham and had a house known as The Grove built on the site.
Moses and his wife had one daughter, Isabella, who married William Cooper, a Christian, in 1787 with the agreement of her parents. When Moses Franks died, intestate, in 1789 his wife was declared a "lunatic" and so his fortune passed to his daughter and her husband.
Moses Franks is buried at the Alderney Road Cemetery, Mile End. The engraving is from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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This (below) is No. 122, Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Bart. (_PHONE_). He was a financier and the eldest son of Asher Goldsmid of Finsbury Square, and thus a nephew of Abraham Goldsmid, and was the first Jewish Baronet, created in 1841. He worked for the removal of Jewish disabilities such as the right to be a Member of Parliament, and was a founder of University College, London. The drawing, which was published in 1824, is a caricature portrait entitled "WILL YOU LET ME A LOAN?" You can see his genealogy here.
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This (below) is No. 180, Raphael Meldola, the Chief Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London, from 1805 until his death in 1828. It was engraved by Joshua Lopez, a Jewish engraver, in 1806.
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This (below), No. 210, is Rabbi Moses Gomes de Mesquita, Chief Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London from 1744 until his death in 1751.
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This (below), No. 224, is Isaac Pollack, Chazan of the Great Synagogue, Dukes Place. He was the son of Elijah Pollack of Hamburg. The engraving was published in 1779 by S. Friedeberg, a Jewish publisher.
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This (below), No. 288, is Joshua Van Oven (_PHONE_). He was the Honorary Physician to the Great Synagogue, a communal worker, and founder of the Jews Free School and of the Jews Hospital in Mile End. He died in Liverpool in 1838. This engraving, from a painting, was published in 1815.
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The drowned man represents any number of mythological or epic historical figures, and we'll go through them one by one. First off is the name the villagers assign him: Esteban. Who is this Esteban? As it turns out, Esteban is another name for Estevanico, a slave from the early 1500s who was supposedly the first man born in Africa to set foot in the Americas. Estevanico (or Esteban) became a legendary figure in Latin America, and was later given a set of incredible skills – he mastered dozens of languages, knew everything about medicine, was even considered by some to be a deity, or so the story goes.
When the women of the village call the drowned man Esteban, they might very well be referring to this Estevanico. (At the end of the story, the women imagine a captain speaking of Esteban's village "in fourteen languages" (12). This may be a reference to the myth that Estevanico spoke so many languages fluently.)
When the oldest women calls the drowned man Esteban, Márquez writes that some of the younger women hoped it might be Lautaro. In the mid 1500s a war occurred in what today is Chile between the colonizing Spaniards and the native Mapuche people. In this conflict, Lautaro was a military leader of the natives. The drowned man's handsomeness and sheer masculinity inspires the young women to fantasize that he is this famed leader. There are some interesting questions to consider here: why is it that the older women's thoughts turn to the Esteban, while the younger women think of Lautaro? And why is it that, once they get a better look at the drowned man, everyone agrees that it is Esteban, rather than Lautaro?
Many scholars have also pointed out that the drowned man is a shade of Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec god. The drowned man in many ways takes on the role of a deity for the villagers. He arrives from some other world (the sea), is essentially worshipped by the villagers, and permanently changes their lives.
Mythology in this story isn't limited just to the drowned man. The entire tale is rooted in mythological history; even the villagers take on mythological roles themselves by the end of the narrative. When the women weep for the drowned man at his funeral, Márquez writes, "Some sailors who heard weeping from a distance went off course and people heard of one who had himself tied to the mainmast, remembering ancient fables about sirens" (12). This comment is an allusion to Greek mythology.
Some background on the sirens. The sirens were half-women, half-bird creatures who lived on an island. They used to sing in beautiful voices to lure sailors off their course. The sailors would head towards the voices and then crash their ships on the jagged rocks, which pretty much meant death. When Odysseus was sailing by the siren's island, he made the rest of his men plug up their ears and tie him to the mainmast. This way, he got to hear the beautiful sound of their voices without being driven to suicide. Here in "The Handsomest Drowned Man," the women weeping over Lautaro are compared to the sirens, and some sailor going by ties himself to the main mast in an attempt to mimic Odysseus. The point is that through the drowned man, the villagers enter the realm of the mythological themselves.
The allusions to Esteban, Lautaro, Quetzalcoatl, and Odysseus's sirens illustrates the magical realism we've been mentioning. (If you haven't read "Genre" yet, go ahead and take a look.) "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" is exploring this mingling of the real (a little fishing village) with the mythological (a magnificent dead man).


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Next semester I will be starting Calculus 2, and I opened my textbook to get a hint of the course material, and on one of the pages I saw a function being integrated twice. I've been racking my brains trying to figure out the meaning of the second integral of a function but have been unsuccessful - I really don't want to wait two months to find out, either.
The meaning of the first integral is the area bounded between the function and the x-axis; what is the meaning of the second integral?
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If $a(t)$ is the acceleration at time $t$, then the first integral gives the velocity $v(t)$, and the second integral gives the displacement $s(t)$. That is the most important application, perhaps the only application, of integrating twice that you will meet this coming term.
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And it doesn't need to stop at 2: higher derivatives of acceleration, used in mechatronics, include: jerk, snap, crackle, pop. – alancalvitti Jan 28 '13 at 20:45
Andre is correct for the physics interpretation. Mathematically, one can describe a double integral as the volume under a surface within a particular region in the plane. For instance, $$\int_{-1}^1\int_{-1}^1{x^2+y^2}dydx$$ would represent the area under the paraboloid $z=x^2+y^2$ in the square whose vertices are at (-1,-1),(-1,1),(1,1),(1,-1)
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As one of the comments mentioned, you can have many.
From physics, they have defined:
$\bullet$ $r(t)$ - position
$\bullet$ $v(t)$ - velocity (1st derivative)
$\bullet$ $a(t)$ - acceleration (2nd derivative)
$\bullet$ $w(t)$ - jerk (3rd derivative)
$\bullet$ $s(t)$ - snap (4th derivative)
$\bullet$ $c(t)$ - crackle (5th derivative)
$\bullet$ $p(t)$ - pop (6th derivative)
You can integrate from the 6th derivative all the way back up to position.
Here is a paper on the matter.
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_USER_: Those are actually correct, and they are funny. I saw a t-shirt (we are math geeks) that says don't be a $\Large \frac{d^3y}{dx^3}$. Of course, see list for what it means! :-) – Amzoti May 5 '13 at 2:08
Really? I knew about "jerk", but not about "Kellog's" *snap, crackle, pop! – amWhy May 5 '13 at 2:09
_USER_: Yes, actually true. My guess, someone said it as a joke, but the reality, is, it is very easy to remember - so why not! :-) – Amzoti May 5 '13 at 2:11
_USER_: see referenced example paper. – Amzoti May 5 '13 at 2:13
Nice link! I learn something every day I visit math.se! – amWhy May 5 '13 at 2:15
Some Advice: Almost every calculation in higher level calculus is solved by reducing the problem to an elementary Calculus 101 calculation. This is one example.
You are probably asking about a multiple integralsuch as a volume or surface integral like the one mentioned in a previous answer.
If so, don't worry because Fubini's Theorem allows you to reduce such integrals to a a set of ordinary integrals you are already familiar with.
You never have to actually integrate over a volume or surface directly (by adding up the contributions from each volume or surface element) because you will learn how to evaluate volume and surface integrals by calculating multiple ordinary integralswhich you already know how to do.
But you will have to think carefully about the region of integration. That is new.
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» Opportunities for rerouting commuter rail via the Grand Junction in Cambridge are criticized by community members who fear increases in pollution. Meanwhile, the long-planned Green Line extension in Somerville is threatened by budget limitations.
Just northwest of Boston, Cambridge and Somerville are some of the nation's exemplar cities when it comes to promoting transportation alternatives. In Somerville, 48% of the population rides transit, walks, or bikes to work; in Cambridge, 57% do. The explanation likely comes down to a strong commitment to livable streets in both cities, a large student population, high residential densities, community activism against limited-access highways, and big concentrations of jobs both in the traditional office center of Downtown Boston but also in the walkable Kendall Square-MIT and Harvard Square areas, both along the Red Line rapid transit corridor.
Yet, with the exception of the Red Line — extended north of Harvard Square in the early 1980s — reliable transit access in the two cities is limited. Buses crisscross the area, but they are stuck in traffic at all periods of the day due to the lack of reserved lanes. Commuter rail lines that extend through the area only stop once, at the Porter Square Red Line station. These limitations have strained the Red Line, which now suffers from overcrowding at peak hours, and limited the potential for growth. In addition, partially because of the penury of transit stations around which to build up, the Boston region is one of the nation's most expensive housing markets.
For years, plans for transit access improvements, clearly merited considering the area's demographics and potential, have been under development by the Boston-area transit agency, MBTA. A circumferential bus rapid transit line, the Urban Ring, would have allowed commuters from Cambridge and Somerville to get to Boston's jobs-heavy Longwood Medical Area or Logan Airport without passing through congested downtown — but it was put on indefinite hold last year due to a funding shortfall. Now, an extension of the Green Line light rail line into Somerville is threatened by similar concerns. And the reactivation of the Grand Junction commuter rail corridor through Cambridge has been put off by community resistance.
The Green Line extension is one of the most promising transit projects in the country. It is expected to carry about 45,000 daily riders along its four-mile, two-pronged route, with termini in Somerville's active Union Square neighborhood and Tufts University, just across the Somerville city line in Medford (see map below of the green dotted line), following two existing commuter rail corridors in a fully separated right-of-way. The state has previously said it plans to begin construction at the end of next year, with the opening of the first stations planned for 2016. The program is expensive — about $1 billion for its completion.
The Grand Junction, meanwhile, is a lightly used railroad that runs from Boston University, across the Charles River, through Cambridge, to the existing commuter rail corridors in East Cambridge; it is the only link between the commuter rail corridors emanating from Boston's North and South Stations, which are on opposite sides of downtown. The Grand Junction, purchased from CSX in 2010, runs through the Cambridgeport, Kendall Square, and Area IV neighborhoods of Cambridge and past MIT, as seen below dotted in purple. The plan developed by MassDOT — abandoned for now — would have routed some commuter trains from Worcester to North Station along this route in order to provide better access to Kendall and decrease congestion at South Station, which is expected to see increasing use due to higher ridership on the commuter rail network and plans for expanded Amtrak Northeast Corridor operations, which end there.
Neighbors of the Grand Junction have opposed the commuter rail rerouting project from the beginning, suggesting that it would increase air pollution due to diesel emissions from the heavy, long, unelectrified trains. State Representative Tim Toomey, in concert with many of his neighbors, hailed MassDOT's announcement last week that it would cancel the program.
The state's own studies suggested that the new train services, including a $30 million upgrade at Kendall Square, would do little to improve ridership; only about 300 new riders would be expected to use them. And the line's six street grade crossings would have posed a significant problem, especially at Massachusetts Avenue, along which a huge percentage of the automobile traffic between Boston and Cambridge travels. And yet the Urban Ring, which would have partially run along the same corridor, was expected to attract 184,000 daily riders, many of them in Cambridge. What gives?
Fundamentally, the problem with the current commuter rail plans for the Grand Junction was that they would have provided infrequent, limited-stop service in an area of the region that demands frequent operations with many stops. Connecting Boston University with MIT and North Station without running through downtown remains a good idea. And neighborhood groups might get on board if the plan is adapted to include stops in Cambridgeport and Area IV, two neighborhoods with only minimal connections to the existing network. This project deserves to be resurrected using low pollution diesel multiple unit trains, electric light rail vehicle, or BRT on its ridership merits alone. Fortunately, MassDOT left the project's development open as a future possibility.
Community opposition, on the other hand, is certainly not a problem for the Green Line extension, which has nearly universal support from Somerville residents and politicians, who are excited about the opportunity for better and faster connections throughout the city and into downtown. But funding this huge infrastructure program is the bigger concern. Following a lawsuit over the Big Dig project (which interred a highway through central Boston), the state agreed as a form of air pollution mitigation to fund a number of major transit projects, including the Green Line extension. But the costs of the project were forced on the already debt-ridden MBTA; no alternative funding plan has yet been developed.
Though the state is required by legal settlement to improve transit into Somerville, the fate of the Green Line remains up in the air; earlier this year, there were rumors that its completion might be delayed until 2018 or later. U.S. Representative Michael Capuano of Somerville sounded the alarm last week, suggesting that the state should limit its ambitions to reflect funding realities, especially while pro-transit Democratic Governor Deval Patrick remains in office. Mr. Capuano's proposal would be to build the extension only to Union Square and Washington Street, failing altogether to address connectivity deeper into Somerville. New stations would be built on the commuter rail line to make up for the loss of light rail access.
Yet this proposal would fail to provide the all-day frequent service rapid transit lines offer the rest of the Boston region. And it would force those using the line to transfer at North Station, preventing them direct access to other destinations in downtown Boston as well as further out to Northeastern University, Boston University, the Longwood Medical Area, and Brookline. Using heavy diesel trains rather than electrified light rail vehicles — just as in the Grand Junction case — would likely increase air emissions in the area, defeating the mitigation aspect of the project altogether. Replacing the Green Line with commuter service operating less frequently would doubtless attract far fewer riders.
Like in many metropolitan areas, funding for transport in Boston and its close-in suburbs is always tight. The exciting opportunity to improve on the fantastic transportation use patterns already present in Cambridge and Somerville, however, should encourage local leaders and politicians to fight for new revenue sources. And in the process, they should argue for the refinement of existing transit plans to better serve communities along their routes.
Image at top: Very short freight train running along the Grand Junction near Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, from Flickr user SignalPAD (cc)


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Reference data, like most other HST data, is stored as FITS files. FITS with extensions for the newer instruments, or "waiver" FITS for the legacy Instruments and WFPC2. The FITS files for reference data contain information in the form of tables or images.
For a detailed discussion of understanding and working with these file types, see Chapter 2 of the on-line HST Data Handbook.
Each operational reference file past or present has a unique name. The file name root has the format YMDHHMMSI where:
 Y denotes the year (1->Z, 1981=1)
 M denotes the month (1->C, January = 1)
 D denotes the day of the month (1->V)
 HH denotes the hour (00->23)
 MM denotes the minutes (00->59)
 S denotes seconds/2 (0->T)
 I denotes the instrument
 (j=ACS, n=NICMOS, u=WFPC2, o=STIS, f=FGS, l=COS, i=WFC3
 v=HSP, w=WFPC, x=FOC, y=FOS, z=GHRS, m=multiple)
The file name extension which is defined by file type is appended to the unique root.
Example: p9e1544dj_drk.fits is an ACS file (last character in the rootname is j=>ACS); it is a dark file (drk), named on 14 September 2005 at 15 hours 44 minutes 26 seconds (p9e1544d).
For the detailed specifications of calibration reference data, see document ICD-47 (PDF).
Description of the reference data by instrument:


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Use the crops on the logs to help grow your flowers and make your rows. As your flower seed is sat in the slime you will need to move it down to towards the edge of the slime. You won't get any more seeds fall down until the seed on the board is germinated.
Combinations or shovels will break ice, and grab as many crops as you can gather on the grass as you will get extra points. Most of it is under the ice so it needs to be broken.
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William Davis is a famous for the simplicity, clarity and sincerity of his poems. 'Leisure' is a simple but forceful poem in which he advises us not to fall a prey to hurry and haste. He feels sorry at the miserable plight of the modern man.
The poet says that modern man has become the slave of Time. He remains busy in gathering wealth and making progress from morning till late at night. He has no time to rest. He can not enjoy himself of the beauties of nature.
The tragedy of modern man does not end here. He has a lot many things to worry about. He lives under constant stress and strain. We have become machines by reaming in the company of machines.
We are unable to spare some moments of leisure to refresh our minds by standing among the hills and trees. In the poet's opinion, our slavery to Time is the greatest curse of the modern age. He also advises us how to make use of our leisure. (172 words)
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There are many ceremonies that without Kabbalistic understanding they look meaningless and many time tasteless.
What is the spiritual meaning behind each ceremony? What is the proper way to perform the ceremony? What is the state of mind needed for getting the best results?
- Class 1 – The Kabbalistic View of Mitsvot, Ceremonies and Rituals
- Class 2 – Birth and Circumcision
- Class 3 – Names, Baby Naming and Name Changing
- Class 4 – The Redemption of the First Born
- Class 5 – Bar/Bat Mitsva and Tefillin
- Class 6 – The Wedding
- Class 7 – Death, Burial and Mourning
- Class 8 – Sanctifying and protecting homes and buildings. Mezuza, Dedication of the House (Hanukkat HaBayit
- Class 9 – Food Rituals, Kosher Laws
- Class 10 – The Foundations of Prayers
- Class 11 – The Blessing of the Sun
- Class 12 – Mikveh, Healing in Water
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National Rural Water Association
The National Rural Water Association (NRWA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to training, supporting, and promoting the water and wastewater professionals that serve small communities across the United States. NRWA provides training and technical assistance through 49 affiliated State Rural Water Associations, that currently have over 31,000 utility system members. State Rural Water Association staff have delivered over 75,000 on-site technical assistance visits and 150,000 hours of training to more than 37,000 utilities.
Government agencies and larger organizations like NRWA can support underfunded utilities through capacity building and skills training. NRWA and its state-level affiliates employ experienced water and wastewater operators called Circuit Riders to work on-site with small, rural utilities to make operational improvements, respond to emergencies, and assess technological alternatives. They also offer courses and trainings to utility professionals.
NRWA also offers low-cost loans for short-term repair costs, small capital projects, or pre-development costs associated with larger projects. The Rural Water Loan Fund (RWLF) helps small water and wastewater utilities replace equipment, upgrade systems, improve energy efficiency, and cover planning costs for infrastructure projects.
In addition to financial assistance, NRWA has a unique initiative that provides reduced prices on fleet vehicles. The Rural Water Fleet Program is a valuable service for small water and wastewater utilities that have a need for reliable work vehicles, but may not have the purchasing power of larger utilities.
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Authors: Nicolae Botezatu, Simona Caraiman, Dariusz Rzeszotarski, Pawel Strumillo
in: 2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)
Abstract: In this paper we describe the 3D acquisition component integrated in the Sound of Vision (SoV) system. SoV is a computer vision based sensory substitution device (SSD) for the visually impaired. Its main objective is to provide the users with a 3D representation of the environment around them, conveyed by means of the hearing and tactile senses. One of the biggest challenges for the SoV system is to ensure pervasiveness, i.e., to be usable in any indoor or outdoor environments and in any illumination conditions. To this end, the proposed 3D acquisition system was designed based on a fusion of data from different types of sensors. We present the hardware and software solution for developing this acquisition system and provide insight on its exploitation in various computational scenarios of the SoV system. In the first indoor trials with the system, carried out in modeled indoor environments, the visually impaired volunteers were capable of performing simple navigation tasks and avoiding cardboard box obstacles.
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Dubai Storm Water Tunnel - Sustainability Lessons
This session will be live-streamed by Continuing Education.
Dubai Municipality has implemented the Dubai's Deep Tunnel Storm Water System (DTSWS) as part of a long-term catchment-wide plan for capturing and conveying storm water and groundwater flows. Rising groundwater levels in Dubai is increasingly a concern as the deep foundations and basement structures of the skyscrapers are curtailing the natural pathways for groundwater. The DTSWS serves a catchment area of about 500 sq. km, and will convey the collected water through a 10 km gravity tunnel to a terminal pumping station facility located at a depth of 60 m. The facility consists of a 36m3/s deep pump house; and 110m3/s overflow structure which discharges flows that are above 36 m3/s. The system will manage the rising brackish ground water most of the year and when needed switched to rainwater mode to handle the rare rain events. This presentation will showcase the sustainable approached Dubai has taken towards storm water and rising groundwater management, while keeping sustainability as priority criteria. The selection of the four numbers of main pumps (9 m3/s each) that covers three different regimes: dry weather, tunnel emptying and first flush of storm water over wide ranges of flows and static heads, was the primary sustainability check.
Primary Speaker, Jayapregasham Tharamapalan, will be joining live from Dubai.


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DnaNudge – Shopping with your DNA
The world's first DNA-based healthier food selection service, includes Insight SiP RF module
When shopping for food, many people struggle to make healthy choices, and obesity has become a widespread problem. When following a diet, it is not always easy to access the right nutritional information, particularly when faced with an overwhelming number of foods to select from supermarket shelves. Fortunately, there is now a solution developed by DnaNudge that encourages healthy eating by "nudging" consumers to pick out the healthiest food, most suited to their unique DNA profile and lifestyle, when shopping.


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Objective: To investigate whether for patients with incurable cancer comprehensive home care programmes are more effective than standard care in maintaining the patients' quality of life and reducing their "readmission time" (percentage of days spent in hospital from start of care till death).
Design: Systematic review.
Methods: A computer aided search was conducted using the databases of Medline, Embase, CancerLit, and PsychLit. The search for studies and the assessment of the methodological quality of the relevant studies were performed by two investigators, blinded from each other. Prospective, controlled studies investigating the effects of a home care intervention programme on patients' quality of life or on readmission time were included in the analyses.
Results: Only 9 prospective controlled studies were found; eight were performed in the United States and 1 in the United Kingdom. Their methodological quality was judged to be moderate (median rating 62 on a 100 point scale). None of the studies showed a negative influence of home care interventions on quality of life. A significantly positive influence on the outcome measures was seen in 2 out of the 5 studies measuring patients' satisfaction with care, in 3/7 studies measuring physical dimensions of quality of life, in 1/6 studies measuring psychosocial dimensions, and in 2/5 studies measuring readmission time. The incorporation of team members' visits to patients at home or regular multidisciplinary team meetings into the intervention programme seemed to be related to positive results.
Conclusions: The effectiveness of comprehensive home care programmes remains unclear. Given the enormity of the problems faced by society in caring for patients with terminal cancer, further research is urgently needed.
Key messages Only nine controlled prospective studies have compared the effects of home care intervention programmes for patients with terminal cancer with those of standard care, in relation to patients' quality of life and time spent in hospital between start of care and death The methodological quality of these studies seemed to be moderate Home care programmes did not have a negative influence on quality of life or time spent in hospital; some studies observed positive effects on these outcome measures Enabling team members to visit patients at home and holding regular multidisciplinary team meetings seem important elements for obtaining favourable results The general belief that home care programmes are effective for patients with terminal cancer is not supported scientifically


Projections for infinitary rewriting
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Proof terms in term rewriting are a representation means for reduction sequences, and more in general for contraction activity, allowing to distinguish e.g. simultaneous from sequential reduction. Proof terms for finitary, first-order, left-linear term rewriting are described in [15], ch. 8. In a previous work [12] we defined an extension of the finitary proof-term formalism, that allows to describe contractions in infinitary first-order term rewriting, and gave a characterisation of permutation equivalence. In this work, we discuss how projections of possibly infinite rewrite sequences can be modeled using proof terms. Again, the foundation is a characterisation of projections for finitary rewriting described in [15], Sec. 8.7. We extend this characterisation to infinitary rewriting and also refine it, by describing precisely the role that structural equivalence plays in the development of the notion of projection. The characterisation we propose yields a definite expression, i.e. a proof term, that describes the projection of an infinitary reduction over another. To illustrate the working of projections, we show how a common reduct of a (possibly infinite) reduction and a single step that makes part of it can be obtained via their respective projections. We show, by means of several examples, that the proposed definition yields the expected behavior also in cases beyond those covered by this result. Finally, we discuss how the notion of limit is used in our definition of projection for infinite reduction.
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2017.04.009
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@article{Lombardi2017ProjectionsFI, title={Projections for infinitary rewriting}, author={Carlos Lombardi and Alejandro R{\'i}os and Roel de Vrijer}, journal={Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci.}, year={2017}, volume={332}, pages={131-148} }


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The client has been designing and supplying products to enhance the independence and quality of life for people with special needs for more than forty years. They are regarded as leaders in Electronic Assistive Technology (EAT), Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) and Environmental Control Systems (ECS) and are approved suppliers of Electronic Assistive Technology products and services to the NHS.
The brief was to work alongside the clients own software and electronic design team and to develop a mechanical design for a fully featured, loud speaking, remote control telephone and answering machine with communication aid functions. The phone would be used by disabled persons in their own home and would integrate with a range of Environmental Controllers whilst still functioning as a standard telephone apparatus for able persons.
The first stage was to prepare a full specification for the product with the client, including a user methodology. This stage was followed by an extensive concept design stage where several different internal arrangements were explored with the client to achieve a compact design based around a large, high quality loud speaker and an emergency battery backup. Once the build was agreed, drawings of the PCBs were issued to the clients own engineers for simultaneous development. The external enclosure was developed using 3D CAD and several concepts presented as 3D visualizations and ergonomic form models.
The project required close collaboration with the clients own engineers to develop the PCBs and resolved issues with component placing. The final design was achieved using rapid prototypes and prototype PCB's prior to commissioning all tooling from 3D data and 2D control drawings. Rapid prototypes were invaluable in resolving issues of audio separation in both the Handset and the Base and evaluating snap fits and their placement. The project was strongly supported by the client.


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THE CLAN ANDERSON
An Oak Tree
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Son of Andrew
The Anderson tartan is referenced in a book, The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland, published by W & AK Johnston, 1906. Likewise samples of the tartan were included in collections of tartans by John MacGregor Hastie and by James Cant. The sett (pattern) of the Anderson tartan includes these primary colors: red, azure, black, white, yellow, blue, green. The azure color predominates the tartan, making it somewhat unique among the Scottish tartans. Another distinguishing characteristic of the Anderson tartan is that it has seven distinct colors whereas most Scottish tartans typically have three to five different colors.
The Anderson crest consists of a strap and buckle encircling an oak tree. The oak tree rests on the "wreath", which for the Andersons is a twisted strand of red and silver threads. The wreath has six loops, with silver and red in an alternating pattern. Silver is the first loop on the left side, and red is the last loop on the right side. The Clan motto, STAND SURE, is written in the top portion of the strap. It is correct for all Andersons to wear a crest, as a sign of being a clansman.
STAND SURE is the Anderson clan slogan or motto. Clearly, it reflects the spirit we all feel as Andersons. As does an oak tree, Andersons "stand sure" and firm in their Scottish heritage. Stand Sure is as relevant today, as it was throughout history, to recall the strength and pride of Andersons in any situation.
It is inappropriate for anyone to wear a Scottish coat of arms unless that person (or the direct descendent) has been granted the coat of arms directly by the Lord Lyon. Feathers worn in conjunction with the crest are likewise incongruous with Scottish law, as the feathers (one, two or three) denote chief, chieftain or armiger.
Terry Anderson, Given name Fredrick Terrell Anderson is head of the Terry Anderson Clan. Shown in this photo with his wife,
Marylou Andersonn nee Ferguson dancing at their oldest son, Mark's wedding.


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Valley of Fire is located 50 mi (80 km) northeast of Las Vegas, at an elevation between 2,000–2,600 ft (610–790 m). It abuts the Lake Mead National Recreation Area at the Virgin River confluence. It lies in a 4 by 6 mi (6.4 by 9.7 km) basin.
Complex uplifting and faulting of the region, followed by extensive erosion, have created the present landscape. The rough floor and jagged walls of the park contain brilliant formations of eroded sandstone and sand dunes more than 150 million years old. Other important rock formations include limestones, shales, and conglomerates.


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Exorcist: The Beginning is a 2004 horror film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Stellan Skarsgård. The film is a prequel to the original 1973 classic horror film, "The Exorcist", and explores the backstory of the demonic possession that takes place in the original film.
The film is set in 1949 and follows Father Lankester Merrin, played by Skarsgård, as he is sent to Africa to investigate an archaeological dig site that may have unearthed a significant religious artifact. However, as he begins to uncover the dark secrets of the site, he finds himself in the middle of a battle between good and evil, ultimately leading to a harrowing exorcism.
The movie explores themes of faith, evil, and the power of belief. The character of Father Merrin is portrayed as a deeply flawed but determined priest struggling to come to terms with his faith and the horrors he witnesses. The film also incorporates elements of African mythology and colonialism, which add to the film's overall sense of unease and horror.
While the film received mixed reviews from critics, it still garnered a following among horror movie fans for its intense and unsettling atmosphere, as well as for its connection to the iconic original film. "Exorcist: The Beginning" is a must-watch for fans of the horror genre and for those interested in exploring the deeper themes and questions raised by the concept of demonic possession.