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Acting for impaired Railroad Retirement beneficiaries
Posted By rob On February 12, 2013 @ 2:54 pm In Alumni Association News,Amtrak/Commuter News,Recent Updates | Comments Disabled
According to Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) policy, every annuitant has the right to manage his or her own benefits. However, when physical or mental impairments make a railroad retirement annuitant incapable of properly handling benefit payments, or where the RRB determines that the interests of the annuitant so require, the agency can appoint a representative payee to act on the annuitant's behalf.
A representative payee may be either a person or an organization selected by the RRB to receive benefits on behalf of an annuitant.
The following questions and answers provide information for family members, or others, who may have to act on behalf of an annuitant.
1. Does the RRB have legal authority to appoint a representative payee for an annuitant?
The Railroad Retirement Act gives the RRB authority to determine whether direct payment of benefits, or payment to a representative payee, will best serve an annuitant's interest. The RRB can appoint a representative payee regardless of whether there has been a legal finding of incompetence or commitment and, depending on the circumstances in a particular case, the RRB can select someone other than the individual's legal representative to be the representative payee.
2. What if a person has been given power of attorney by a beneficiary?
Power of attorney is a legal process where one person grants another the authority to transact certain business on his or her behalf; but the RRB, like the Social Security Administration, does not recognize power of attorney for purposes of managing benefit payments for a beneficiary. For this purpose, the RRB uses the position of representative payee.
3. Why doesn't the RRB recognize power of attorney?
The Railroad Retirement Act protects a person's right to receive benefits directly and to use them as he or she sees fit by prohibiting the assignment of benefits. Power of attorney creates an assignment-like situation that is contrary to the protections given by this law. The Act likewise gives the RRB exclusive jurisdiction in determining whether to appoint a representative payee for an annuitant. If the RRB recognized power of attorney, it would be deferring to a designation made by someone outside of the agency and would, in effect, be abdicating its responsibility to the annuitant.
Also, events often occur which may affect an annuitant's eligibility for benefits. The responsibility for reporting these events to the RRB is placed, by law, directly on the annuitant or the annuitant's representative payee. When benefits are accepted, the annuitant or his or her payee attests to a continued eligibility for such benefits. And if payments are misused, they can be recouped from the payee. This is not true with power of attorney.
4. How are these representative payees selected?
Generally, the RRB's local field offices determine the need for a representative payee and interview potential payees. The field office also advises the payee of his or her duties, monitors the payee, investigates any allegations of misuse of funds, and changes the method of payment, or the payee, when appropriate.
The RRB provides 15 days' advance notice to an annuitant of its intent to appoint a representative payee, and the name of the payee, in order to allow the annuitant a period of time in which to contest the appointment.
5. What are the primary duties and responsibilities of a representative payee?
The payee must give first consideration to the annuitant's day-to-day needs. This includes paying for food, shelter, clothing, medical care and miscellaneous personal needs. Beyond day-to-day needs, railroad retirement benefits may be used for other expenses.
The payee is also responsible for reporting events to the RRB that affect the individual's annuity, and is required to account for the funds received on behalf of the annuitant.
In addition, since railroad retirement benefits are subject to Federal income tax, a representative payee is responsible for delivering the benefit information statements issued each year by the RRB to the person handling the annuitant's tax matters.
Periodically, the payee will be asked to complete a report which includes questions regarding how much of the railroad retirement benefits available during the year were used for the support of the beneficiary, how much of the benefits were saved, and how the savings were invested. In order to complete the questionnaire correctly, a payee must keep current records of the railroad retirement benefits received and how the benefits were used. The records should be retained for four years.
6. What are a representative payee's primary responsibilities for an annuitant's Medicare coverage?
When an annuitant requires covered medical services, the payee must have the annuitant's Medicare card available. The payee must also keep records of the services received and the expenses incurred or paid, just as for any other usage of railroad retirement benefits.
7. What if an annuitant is confined to an institution?
When annuitants are in a nursing home, hospital or other institution, their railroad retirement benefit payments should be used to meet the charges for their current maintenance. Current maintenance includes the usual charges the institution makes for providing care and services.
The payee should use the benefit payments to aid in the annuitant's possible recovery or release from the institution, or to improve his or her living conditions while confined. Payments may be used to provide such items as clothing, personal grooming supplies, transportation of relatives to visit the patient, trial visits to relatives, medical and dental care, and reading materials and hobby supplies.
8. How should railroad retirement benefits not immediately required to meet an annuitant's needs be handled?
Benefit payments which will not be needed in the near future must be saved or invested unless they are needed for the support of the annuitant's legally dependent spouse or child, or to pay creditors under certain circumstances. It is recommended that conserved funds be held in interest-bearing accounts. Preferred investments are Federally-insured or State-insured accounts at financial institutions and obligations of, or those backed by, the Federal Government, such as U.S. Savings Bonds.
Funds should not be kept in the home, where they may be lost or stolen, nor can they be mingled with the payee's own funds or other funds.
9. How can a person get more information about being appointed as a representative payee, or whether the use of railroad retirement benefits for a particular purpose would be proper?
More information is available by visiting the agency's website, _URL_, or by calling an RRB office toll-free at _PHONE_. Persons can find the address of the RRB office servicing their area by calling the RRB's toll-free number or at _URL_.
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Scale Finder & Common Keys Finder
Two simple apps for Mac that I made for my students to find notes of a scale or find common notes between two scales. First steps for the algorithmic composition with Max/MSP. :)
Scale Finder: App that helps you to find notes of every scale you want.
Common Notes Finder: App that helps you find common notes between two scale. Useful when you try to find two similar scales for modulation, without many knowledges of music harmony.

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EVALUATION OF A FIBER‐OPTIC SENSOR FOR STRAIN MEASUREMENT AND AN APPLICATION TO CONTACT MECHANICS
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A surface attached fiber‐optic sensor has been evaluated for maximum strain measurement capability in simple tension experiments to better understand the basic mechanisms of fiber‐optic sensor failure. A fiber‐optic sensor was then evaluated for its applicability to measure strains under more complex loading conditions, for example, contact strains. Experimental work has shown that while the surface attached fiber sensor fails at much lower strain levels than that achievable by conventional strain gages, unlike conventional strain gages, the fiber‐optic sensor shows linearity up until the failure point. This failure point is well within the parameters for typical experiments in our laboratory. Fiber‐optic sensors also showed their applicability to contact mechanics. Copyright © 1994, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
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convert -append 1.jpg 2.jpg out.jpg
This command appends 1.jpg and 2.jpg vertically. What is the command to do this horizontally?
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Smart home energy management systems (SHEMS) digitally monitor, control and coordinate functions in a home for space heating, cooling, lighting, appliances, security, and renewable technologies. Although experimental trials and simulated studies on SHEMS are available, limited attention has been paid to the actual performance of SHEMS in the real-world. This paper identifies qualitative and quantitative criteria that have been used for evaluation of SHEMS in empirical studies globally from a technical and non-technical perspective. Using 14 criteria identified in the literature and grouped by the extent and type of interactions between technology and users, a new flexible and customisable evaluation framework has been developed. The framework will help to evaluate the real-world effectiveness of SHEMS in a smart and flexible energy system. It is useful for policymakers, academics, and industry to determine the success of SHEMS in delivering expected outcomes for the energy system and users.
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2 runners(Alice, Bob) are running on the oval track at a constant speed. The tracklength is 200 meters.
First Alice ran with such low speed that Bob passed him every 2 minutes. To run faster than Bob, Alice sped up 2 times and now she is passing him every 6 minutes. What speed did Bob ran at in km/h?
How much was Bob faster than Alice at first speed?
1/30h is 2 minutes x km/h * 1/30h = 0.2km x = 6km/h
How much was Alice faster than Bob at second speed?
1/10h is 6 minutes 2x km/h * 1/10h = 0.2km x = 1km/h
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Russia: Over 3 years, insurance companies paid almost 7 billion rubles to farmers in 50 regions for crop loss alone
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The agricultural insurance system in Russia has compensated farmers for the loss of agricultural crops totaling almost 7.0 billion rubles in less than three years. The highest volume of insurance compensation was received by farmers in the Stavropol Territory, Samara Region, and regions in the Central Black Earth Region. Winter wheat, sunflower for grain, and corn for grain were the most compensated crops, with payments totaling billions of rubles.
Disclaimer: The above summary was generated by a state-of-the-art LLM model and is intended for informational purposes only. It is recommended that readers refer to the original article for more context.
"Agricultural insurers compensated losses to farmers from the loss of crops of 33 types of crops; in total, payments were made by 14 insurance companies," noted NIA President Korney Bizhdov. – In the structure of payments, the largest part falls on winter wheat - its loss is compensated in the amount of 2.25 billion rubles. The second most unprofitable crop is sunflower for grain; its loss was compensated to farmers in the amount of 1.8 billion rubles; in third position is corn for grain, 996 million rubles were paid. Losses of spring wheat were compensated by agricultural insurers in the amount of 309 million rubles, spring barley - 290 million rubles, peas - 217 million rubles, fodder beets - 175 million rubles, flax - 157 million rubles, soybeans - 149 million rubles, sugar beets - 124 million rubles. This payment structure is determined primarily by the preferences of farmers for insuring certain crops and the peculiarities of the implementation of agroclimatic risks - these ...


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We report the use of a small-volume nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR)-spectroscopy device with integrated fiber-optics for the real-time detection of UV-vis-light-assisted chemical reactions. An optical fiber is used to guide the light from LEDs or a laser diode positioned safely outside the magnet toward the 25 nL detection volume and placed right above the microfluidic channel, irradiating the transparent back of the NMR chip. The setup presented here overcomes the limitations of conventional NMR systems for in situ UV-vis illumination, with the microchannel permitting efficient light penetration even in highly concentrated solutions, requiring lower-power light intensities, and enabling high photon flux. The efficacy of the setup is illustrated with two model reactions activated at different wavelengths.
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Capital allowances is a tax relief that allows businesses to offset the cost of certain expenditure against its taxable profits. It has been eroded by previous governments offering little scope for residential investors.
But the boom in domestic holidays in 2020 predicted to continue into 2021 has seen a renewed interest in furnished holiday lets. Property investors, and sometimes their advisers, often wrongly assume capital allowances are not available in respect of such properties due to them often being managed much like normal residential dwellings.
The capital allowances regime has the potential to offer investors in holiday lets considerable tax savings but certain criteria must be met to qualify.
Firstly, a property must qualify as a furnished holiday let. This means that it must be furnished for occupation, and meet the following three qualifying tests during a 12-month period or a tax year:
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text: This paper explores the problem of determining the success of students in higher engineering programmes. The best way to do this is a full cohort analysis, which yields information such as throughput rates, average time to graduation and average student years per graduate. A much cruder measure is graduates/headcount, the inverse of which is similar to average student years per graduate. The paper proposes an alternative to a full cohort analysis which looks back from graduation to predict the same parameters. These analyses are compared using data for a fouryear engineering programme. The results clearly show the shortcomings of the headcount analysis, as well as the potential of the looking back analysis, especially where large sets of data are concerned. The paper also indicates the value of determining the number of student years it take to generate a single graduate, in terms of the funding which needs to be provided.


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Hartshorne at the end of page 76 of his Algebraic Geometry book gives an example of a scheme which is not an affine scheme. The scheme is constructed by gluing two affine lines together along their maximal ideals obtained by removing a point P. There's also a figure accompanying the example:
Can someone please explain how to show that this is not an affine scheme?
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Is that only because it's not Hausdorff? – Keivan Monfared Feb 3 '12 at 21:41
Many affine schemes are not Hausdorff. – Qiaochu Yuan Feb 3 '12 at 21:44
One way to do this is to observe that an affine scheme is separated, but this scheme is not separated. – James Cranch Feb 3 '12 at 21:45
I think "Hausdorff" here means "separated". – Laurent Moret-Bailly Feb 4 '12 at 9:30
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Call $X $ your scheme over the field $k$, $P_1$ and $P_2$ the two special closed points, $A_1$and $A_2$ their respective open complements and $A_{12}=A_1\cap A_2$, so that $A_i\simeq \mathbb A^1_k$ and $A_{12}\simeq\mathbb G_m$, all affine schemes.
Here are some (not independent) proofs that $X$ is not affine.
Proof 1
The point $(P_1,P_2)\in X \times X $ is in the closure of the diagonal $\Delta_X\subset X \times X $, but $(P_1,P_2)\notin \Delta_X$. So $\Delta_X$ is not closed, hence $X$ is not separated and a fortiori not affine
Proof 2
The images of the restriction map $\Gamma(A_i,\mathcal O_X)=k[T] \to \Gamma(A_{12},\mathcal O_X)=k[T,T^{-1}]$ are both
$k[T]$, and together do not generate $ k[T,T^{-1}]$. However, in an affine scheme (or more generally in a separated scheme) the ring of regular sections on the intersection of two open affines is generated by the images of the regular sections on the two opens.
Proof 3
The two open immersions $\iota_j:\mathbb A^1_k \to X$ with respective image $A_j\subset X$ coincide on the open subscheme $\mathbb G_m\subset \mathbb A^1_k$ but are nevertheless distinct. This couldn't happen if $X$ were affine (or just separated).
Proof 4
The cohomology vector space $H^1(X,\mathcal O_X)$ is infinite dimensional, whereas the cohomology of a coherent sheaf on an affine scheme vanishes in positive degree.
In detail, consider the covering $\mathcal U=\lbrace A_1,A_2\rbrace$ of $X$. It is a Leray covering because $A_1,A_2,A_{12}$ are affine hence acyclic, for the coherent sheaf $\mathcal O_X$ (cf. Proof 2). Thus Čech cohomology computes genuine cohomology.
The Čech complex is the linear map $$C^0=\Gamma(A_1,\mathcal O_X)\times \Gamma(A_2,\mathcal O_X)=k[T]\times k[T]\stackrel {d^0}{\to} C^1=\Gamma(A_{12},\mathcal O^*_X)=k[T,T^{-1}]\to 0$$ given by $$d^0(P(T),Q(T)) =Q(T)-P(T) $$.
Hence we get $H^1(X,\mathcal O_X)=k[T,T^{-1}]/k[T]$
Proof 5
The Čech complex above proves that $\Gamma(X,\mathcal O_X)=k[T]$ so that the restriction to the strictly smaller open affine subscheme $A_1\subsetneq X$ is bijective: $res: \Gamma(X,\mathcal O_X)\stackrel {\simeq}{\to} \Gamma(A_1,\mathcal O_X)$.
This cannot happen for an affine scheme $X$.
[In categorical language: $\Gamma$ is an anti-equivalence from the category of affine schemes to that of rings]
Proof 6
Every global function $P(T)\in \Gamma(X,\mathcal O_X)=k[T]$ (see Proof 5) takes the exact same value at $P_1$ and $P_2$, namely $P(0)\in \kappa(P_1)=\kappa (P_2)=k$.
In contrast given two closed points in an affine scheme, there exists a global regular function vanishing at the first one but not at the second.
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My friend Otto Forster once told me that he had seen in an old German book on group theory the sentence "Um den Satz zu erhärten, geben wir einen zweiten Beweis", which translates as: "To harden the theorem, we give a second proof". Logicians tell me that they are not convinced of the hardening. Pity, that – Georges Elencwajg Feb 4 '12 at 13:19
I'm impressed. Very nice answer. – Leo Alonso May 22 '12 at 17:33
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Compute the ring $R$ of globally defined regular functions. If the scheme were affine, then there would be a bijective correspondence between closed points of the scheme and maximal ideals of $R$, given by taking a closed point to the ideal of functions that vanish at that point. But the two points represented by the colon in your diagram give the same ideal of $R$, so this "correspondence" is not injective. Therefore, the scheme is not affine.
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Viewing OpenLearn Mindmaps Using d3.js
In a comment on Generating OpenLearn Navigation Mindmaps Automagically, Pete Mitton hinted that the d3.js tree layout example might be worth looking at as a way of visualising hierarchical OpenLearn mindmaps/navigation layouts.
It just so happens that there is a networkx utility that can publish a tree structure represented as a networkx directed graph in the JSONic form that d3.js works with (networkx.readwrite.json_graph), so I had a little play with the code I used to generate Freemind mind maps from OpenLearn units and refactored it to generate a networkx graph, and from that a d3.js view:
(The above view is a direct copy of Mike Bostock's example code, feeding from an automagically generated JSON representation of an OpenLearn unit.)
For demo purposes, I did a couple of views: a pure HTML/JSON view, and a Python one, that throws the JSON into an HTML template.
The d3.js JSON generating code can be found on Scraperwiki too: OpenLearn Tree JSON. When you run the view, it parses the OpenLearn XML and generates a JSON representation of the unit (pass the unit code via a ?ucode=UNITCODE URL parameter, for example _URL_
The Python powered d3.js view also responds to the unit URL parameter, for example:
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The d3.js view is definitely very pretty, although at times the layout is a little cluttered. I guess the next step is a functional one, though, which is to find how to linkify some of the elements so the tree view can act as a navigational surface.


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Changing Flags in the userAccountControl Attribute
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Scripting Guide
To enable any of the flags directly available from the userAccountControl attribute (see Table 7.6), use the XOR bitwise operator. Listing 7.6 contains a script that demonstrates how to evaluate and set a password flag in the userAccountControl attribute.
Scripting Steps
Listing 7.6 contains a script that disables the ADS_UF_ENCRYPTED_TEXT_PASSWORD_ALLOWED flag using the XOR operator. To carry out this task, the script performs the following steps:
 1. Set a constant to the value of the ADS_UF_ENCRYPTED_TEXT_PASSWORD_ALLOWED flag in the userAccountControl attribute.
 2. Bind to the user account object by using the GetObject function and the LDAP provider.
 3. Create a variable, and initialize it to the integer value of the userAccountControl attribute.
 4. Use the bitwise AND operator to determine whether the flag is enabled.
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class InfraredSensor(port)
LEGO® Powered Up Infrared Sensor.
Parameters
port (Port) – Port to which the sensor is connected.
distance() int: %
Measures the relative distance between the sensor and an object using infrared light.
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Distance ranging from 0% (closest) to 100% (farthest).
reflection() int: %
Measures the reflection of a surface using an infrared light.
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Measured reflection, ranging from 0% (no reflection) to 100% (high reflection).
count() int
Counts the number of objects that have passed by the sensor.
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Number of objects counted.
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Measuring distance, object count, and reflection
from pybricks.pupdevices import InfraredSensor
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A major characteristic of Chinese instrumental variations is the use of identification motives called the hetou (refrain head) or hewei (refrain tail) that appear in the beginning and end of each movement. Again, except for these refrain motives, there might be no other relationship between the variations and the refrains or among the variations themselves. Sometimes, a movement appears several times among the other movements in a suite; this is considered a variation technique. Due to Western influence, ABA form has become extremely popular in modern instrumental folk music.
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Share any resource with your children using the Twinkl Planner tool
The Planner tool tab can be found in the top right of every page on site. From any page, drag and drop resources into the Planner and organise them into named folders, lessons or collections. You can manage and share all your lessons in the Lessons Overview area.
What is the Twinkl Planner Tool?
The Twinkl Planner tool is a time-saving method for quickly and simply collating resources, which can then be easily shared with your children and with colleagues and parents.
Best of all, whoever you share your resources with will be able to access them without needing a Twinkl membership. Whether it's for teaching pupils online, supporting learning at home or collaborative working with colleagues, sharing resources using the Twinkl Planner tool can be a huge time-saver. Best of all, it's included in your Twinkl membership.
Take a look at our video below for all the details on using and making the most of this quick and simple tool.
You can use the Twinkl Planner to collate share ANY Twinkl resource in your membership directly with your child(ren). Your child(ren) can access and use the resources independently online in the classroom or at home.
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MoD neutralizes mines in Caspian Sea [PHOTO]
The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry has neutralized six large naval mines (КБ-1) detected in the Caspian Sea, the ministry reported on May 10.
The mines were discovered at a depth up to 60 meters during the exploration of the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, the report added.
The mines were cleared by specialized ships and competent professionals of the Naval Forces in line with security procedures and in collaboration with other government agencies.
Overall, four warships, four boats, and 133 servicemen were involved in the demining process, the ministry underlined.
All activities in the Azerbaijani part of the Caspian Sea are now proceeding normally.
On May 10, the Defence Ministry reported that six large mine ships have been discovered at the depth of up to 60 meters during the exploration in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea.
The mines were found during a mission conducted in the Azerbaijani sector by a branch of the Umid Babek Operating Company.
During an inspection conducted by ships and qualified specialists of the Naval Forces involved in the water area of the sea used as a training range for minesweeper formations during the former USSR period, it was found out that the discovered objects were six large ship mines (K-1) dropped into the water without full compliance with mine-laying standards, the report added.
It is planned to neutralize the detected mines and continue the search activities in cooperation with other state agencies in compliance with security measures and weather conditions.
For security reasons, the mine detection area was temporarily closed for ships.
The legal status of the Caspian Sea was finally established in 2018. The Caspian Sea littoral states adopted a convention on the Caspian Sea status at the Aktau summit in August 2018.
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The feasibility of using a simple radiochemical method to determine the extent of formylation resulting from interaction of formic acid solutions with soil constituents was investigated. The interaction between formic acid-14C solvents and starch was used as a model reaction. Radioassay of 1 cm3 formic acid solution by liquid scintillation counting in 10 cm3 of the scintillator-solubilizer Insta-gel was found to be suitable. The method is simple to use and sample preparation is easy.
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Both disposable and cloth training pants are better than diapers because children can remove them by themselves. However, there is nothing magical about switching your child from a diaper into training pants. Some parents think that just switching their child to training pants will result in a child who is toilet trained. Unfortunately, it's not that easy.
For children in daycare, disposable training pants present less of an infection control and sanitation problem than do cloth pants, which must be saved and handed over to the parent. Regardless of whether your child is in daycare or at home, training pants should be changed quickly after he has peed or pooped in them to avoid skin irritation or damage. Toddlers can get diaper rash just as easily as infants do if they aren't changed often enough.


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With "cell" I mean the value of a particular column in a particular row. I'm not sure if its called just "cell" or this is a spreadsheet thing.
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It's called a field when on a database: _URL_ also _URL_(database)
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In SQL terminology, we have Tables, Rows and Columns. The term Column is applied to the table as a whole, and also within a single row.
In relational theory, we have Relations, Tuples, and Attributes, filling similar roles.
(Going a bit Celko here): Generally, the term Field fits into the terminology of Files and Records, and doesn't fit within DB naming.


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HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR
Mexican Folk Art Figure
On his second voyage in 1493, Christopher Columbus brought with him thirty Spanish Mustangs, a breed then considered to be the finest in the world. Breeding farms were established in the Caribbean and Mexico, and the Spanish horses became a vital part of the new society. The mix of Spanish and native Mexican peoples produced a unique and colorful culture, the artwork of which blended brilliant color, texture, and design. The Mexican Folk Art horse represents this blend of traditions and histories.


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Ocmulgee National Monument 5th Butterfly Bio Blitz
Join us for our fifth bio blitz held at Ocmulgee National Monument. The event is open to the public and we are encouraging the general public to come out and participate in the event. Participants will help us collect data and identify the different species of butterfly on the park grounds. Butterflies are one of the most beautiful elements of the natural world and ecologically important pollinators, consumers, and food sources for other animals.
On August 19, 2017, from 9:00am-3:00pm participants will conduct a day of field observations counting butterflies along the trails with Ocmulgee National Monument. Participant will be given a free butterfly bio blitz t-shirt, water bottle, and much more. The park will provide cameras, binoculars, and field guides while supplies last. Participants are encouraged to bring their own cameras, binoculars, and field guides if possible as well as appropriate clothing is required of all participants, closed-toed shoes, sun protection, water, and snacks.
Children's education and craft programs available that include: painting a butterfly ceramic bank to take home as a souvenir of the event. Free butterfly face painting for kids from 10:00am - 3:00pm. There will be a toddler's story time at 11:00 am in the museum theater.


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Any fluorescent "black light" will fluoresce dried urine to some degree – but the brightness will depend on the actual wavelength of the light output, and this varies considerably from light to light. Even among different lights of the same make and model, the manufacturing tolerances of consumer-grade black lights are simply not demanding enough to reliably produce a specific UV light wavelength. These lights are fine for their intended purpose, but for the specific job of detecting dried urine, they are less than ideal (note: incandescent/screw-in household bulbs with "black light" coatings generally will NOT fluoresce urine at all).
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Haringey Park is the oldest residential road in Crouch End and it contains what are perhaps my favourite houses in that part of Town. I've finally taken the time to understand why it is the way it is today and how it got there. That story is shared below
Haringey Park was the first road to be developed in Victorian Crouch End, with the first houses let by the late 1840s. By 1861, fifteen houses had been built and by 1871, the number had increased to 25, including two across the end of the road surrounded by very large gardens. Most houses were mid-Victorian villa type houses, with a dozen or so rooms.
Later sale and rental patterns suggest that the houses were probably built and largely owned by investors. For example in 1899, numbers 13-25 were offered for sale in one lot. A few years later, numbers 24 to 29 were sold in one lot.
Claims are made elsewhere that the road was originally gated. That may have been the case for a short while and I'm open to the possibility. However, such an arrangement is not shown on either of the detailed mid or late nineteenth century Ordnance Survey maps; neither it is mentioned in any of the mid or late nineteenth century sales and letting advertisements I have, which wax lyrical on other details concerning the desirability of the road. Nor have I seen any other evidence to support it.
During the early decades of development, the road was home to a range of well-to-do-residents. In 1861, four of the fifteen heads of household were living on independent means, five were in the professions and five were successful merchants. The fifteenth was, rather incongruously, a police constable. All households but the policeman's had between one and three staff, most commonly general servants, housemaids and cooks.
Those early houses include my favourites, numbers 13, 14 and 15.
In 1855 Park Congregational Chapel was opened on Crouch Hill facing the end of Haringey Park. A mid-Victorian community was now complete.
Fig. 3: Park Chapel on Crouch Hill, c 1875. The Chapel amalgamated with Ferme Park Baptist Church to form Union Church,
Crouch End in 1974. This building was then split in two, Half was bought by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics and used as a recording studio; the other half continued to operate as a church. Both uses continue to this day.
Things did not stand still for long in Haringey Park, however. By the last decade of the century, the road had already begun to change. The number of houses increased from 25 to 42 and at the Crouch Hill end, further development had begun.
The last house before Crouch Hill on the south side the road, had belonged to Reverend John Corbin, the Pastor for Park Chapel. After his death in 1890, the house was sold and along with the neighbouring vacant plot provided the land for the development of what are now numbers 35 to 42 Haringey Park as well as for Ivy Gardens. The advertisement placed for the sale of Corbin's house gives us a little sense of what it might have been like (although the five minutes walk to the station claim, suggests that not everything in it should be taken at face value!).
Corbin had been the pastor for Park Chapel from 1856 to 1871. His passing was mourned by the congregation and he was commemorated with the building of Corbin Hall in 1892, replacing the former school building, seen on the right on the picture above. (Previous changes in the 1860s, 70s and 80s and had already enlarged the southern portion of the chapel and altered the main entrance).
Although the new houses were built on a more modest scale, than the earlier ones, they were still a good size, with ten or eleven rooms in each.
The grainy photo below shows a still leafy Haringey Park. The new terrace of houses on the site of Corbin's house is on the right. On the left, where the library now stands, are the leafy gardens of the earlier buildings.
The next, rather clearer photo is shot in the opposite direction, showing the new terrace on the left and Park Chapel on Crouch Hill in the centre.
On the north side of the road two pairs of semi-detached houses were built, just around the corner from Crouch Hill.
The late nineteenth century development at the Crouch Hill end of Haringey Park is shown on the 1893 Ordnance Survey map. You'll note that the map shows Haringey Park as Harringay Park. Anyone who knows anything about our local history will know that the spelling of Harringay/Haringey is a vexed question that has occupied far too much of people's time. For present purposes, suffice it to say that the overwhelming majority of contemporary local references used the -ey form. One can only assume then that the usage of the -ay spelling on this map was an oversight.
Changes at the Crouch Hill End were completed by the end of the century with the laying out and development of Hatherley Gardens.
The subsequent development phase shifted to the far end of the road. The mid-century villas that stood on the eastern hundred yards of the road were sold in two lots. Bourne Road was laid out and connected to Haringey Park, necessitating the demolition of the two villas that had stood at the end of the formerly close-ended road. On the south side, numbers 25 to 39 were demolished and on the north, 13 to 22 were sold with some later to be converted to flats.
The houses on the southern side were replaced with two mansion blocks called Ravensdale Mansions. Next to them, Sandringham Gardens was laid out and two pairs of late Victorian semis were erected.
The once tranquil and sparsely populated road had changed significantly in nature. The 1911 census suggests that the type of occupants had changed too. Whilst there were still one or two people of independent means, the merchant and professional occupants had, by and large, moved on and the road had become more clerical and commercial.
The occupant group in 1911 included commercial travellers, articled clerks, a dressmaker and a builder. One house was described as a boarding house and one was running as a nursing home.
In the 1920s, at the far end of the road, on the north side, the last two villas were converted to flats and named Haringey Park Mansions (Park Mansions by the 1930s). By 1929, number 16 and 17 had been converted to flats as Harcourt House. Two years later number 18 had been subsumed into the Harcourt development and by 1938, they had been renamed Harcourt Mansions.
At the Crouch Hill End the road was lined now with shops.
Fig. 11: The south corner of the junction with Crouch Hill c1910. On the corner is Norris's florist shop.
Fig. 12: The north corner of the junction with Crouch Hill c1905. On the corner is Agnew's dressmaker.
But bigger changes were also afoot. We know from an advertisement for sale placed at the end of the nineteenth century that numbers 13 to 23, on the north side of the road, had been sold as a single lot. This unified ownership had clearly allowed for the easy development of the land for purposes other than residential. Half of the long gardens of numbers 13 to 18 were sold and given over to light industry. In 1919, a business called Slabs Ltd was established. The owners described their business as follows.
To acquire and carry on the business of manufacturers and dealers in building materials and appliances.
(The Builder 1919)
By 1925, the premises had been taken over as a car service facility run on behalf of Morris Motors. By 1929 it had been taken over by Lyne and Wagstaff, and run as Morris's North London Service Centre. In 1948 the firm moved to 3 Crouch End Hill. They moved again soon afterwards to 163 Tottenham Lane (until recently this premises was being run as Kwik Fit). The Haringey Park property was sold and run as a coach building works.
Just to the west of the motor business, the land was acquired by the Borough of Hornsey and, by 1935, the new Hornsey Town Hall was up and running.
Just to its east a small cluster of buildings was erected to serve as the new Borough of Hornsey School Clinic.
Fig. 13: Haringey Park in aerial shots, 1938, by Aerofilms (© Historic England) and 2023 Google Maps. birdseye view. (Click the image and click again to enlarge)
In 1937, the Borough bought numbers 9 and 10, Haringey Park and before long demolished the houses. After leaving the land empty during the war, the space was developed as a small park shortly after the war.
In the 1960s the Borough bought numbers 6, 7, and 8 to the west of the small park and numbers 11 and 12 to its east. The land was used for the development of the new Hornsey Library. Built between 1963 and 1965, it opened just as Hornsey was being amalgamated into the new Borough of Haringey.
During this period the borough also acquired number 32 Haringey Park, opposite the library. This building was used used as a children's care home from 1963 until the early years of this century, when it used the name of Haringey Park Children's Home.
During the later part of the last century, the industrial usage to the east of the Town Hall ended and by 2003, it was developed as flats in the clumsily-named Primezone Mews.
The world is not finished with changing Haringey Park yet. The latest phase sees the redevelopment of the old town hall as a hotel and flats.
What a lot of change over 175 years.
All the above is sourced from original research, mainly using


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A Defect Review SEM is a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) that is configured to review defects found on a wafer. A defect detected by a semiconductor wafer defect inspection system is enlarged using an Review SEM to a high magnification image so that it can be reviewed and classified. A Defect Review SEM is mainly used together with the inspection systems in the production lines of electronic devices and other semiconductors.
Review SEM
Review SEM role
Review SEM generally works in the following way:
 1. Wafer defects are detected using an inspection system in advance.
 Inspection system lists position coordinates of the defects and outputs it into a file.
 2. The inspected wafer and the file of the inspection result are loaded into the Review SEM.
 3. Images of the defects on the list are taken.
 The defect position is determined based on the position information from the defect list. Images of the defects are then taken and stored by the Review SEM.
 Several thousand to several tens of thousand defects are detected using the inspection system, and the data is output into a file. Whether to review and to take photos of all or some of the defects can be specified in the operation settings of a recipe of the Review SEM.
Sometimes a defect on a wafer cannot be found using the position information in the defect data file. Because of various errors, it is not easy to find a defect using the position information alone.
In a defect inspection system, the defective image is compared with the adjacent die image (reference image) and the defect is detected due to the image difference (difference image processing).
The Review SEM, similar to the defect inspection system, detects the defect by comparison with the circuit pattern of the adjacent die and obtains the correct position of the defect. The defect is then moved to the center of the field of view and an enlarged photo is taken of it.
In the case of Memory IC's defect review, in which cell patterns are arranged repeatedly, the image of the minimum unit of a cell is registered as the reference image in advance. One method of detecting a defect on the Review SEM is to compare the image of the defect with the reference image using difference image processing. This method can speed up the defect detection on the Review SEM because multiple sections can be compared with the same reference image.
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ADR stands for Automatic Defect Review. The aim of the Defect Review is to observe, classify and analyze the shape and components of the defect and particles detected by wafer inspection system in greater detail.
Automatic Defect Review automatically obtains image of the desired defect using the defect information (coordinates, etc.) obtained in defect inspection. The data is stored and arranged into a database.
In Defect Review SEM, an image of the defect is automatically obtained and stored using the ADR function.
ADC function
ADC stands for Automatic Defect Classification. The image information of the defect stored in the image server is classified according to the cause of the defect by the classification software based on the predetermined rules and is then restored in the classification server. The classified information is sent to Yield Management System (YMS) and the host computer of the IC manufacturer so that it can be used in the failure and defect analysis.
Some systems can classify defects using ADC in conjunction with the ADR function of the Defect Review SEM. The defect information obtained by ADR can also be classified collectively at a later stage.
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HEALTH DATA SUMMIT RIGA 2020
The Health Data Summit Riga "Toward Data-Driven Health: Sharing is Caring" is an online summit organized by Ministry of Health of Latvia, National Health Service and AmCham Latvia. It is the largest gathering of its kind in Latvia covering topics related to data governance in healthcare.
Even though patients are the focal point of healthcare, they are not always provided with sufficient information, attention, and compassion. A digital transformation needs to take place to make effective use of the available data, that would reshape the relationship between patients, healthcare providers and the healthcare system to meet the demand for personalized and outcome driven services.
The summit embraces a discussion on the most pressing healthcare needs illuminated by the global pandemic and focus on advancing data-driven healthcare. Progression will drive research and innovation and result in better quality of care for patients, increased efficiency and sustainability of healthcare systems.
Recommendations for a health data strategy and data-driven decision making are established while raising awareness of the necessity to invest in digitalization of health data and the benefits to be achieved for all stakeholders. The summit works as a catalyst in the development of a new user-friendly and sustainable digital healthcare system in Latvia.
Speakers from all over the world


Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Why Does Old Ice Cream Get Crunchy?
This was originally posted on Sustainable Nano, which is my new project. You should go check it out! Science Minus Details will live on though! Poop posts will come, have faith!!!!
As with all good meals of information, let's start this one off with ice cream!
In an effort to grow out of my "slim fit" clothes, I've begun an ice-cream-after-every-dinner diet.
Even the cat likes my diet!
An added bonus is that I go through jugs of ice cream so quickly that I NEVER have to deal with old, gross, crunchy ice cream! You know what I'm talking about. You reach into the back of your freezer, find that jug of 6-month-old ice cream, only to discover that it tastes like the perfect mixture of sugar, fat, and sand.
In order to understand this gritty phenomenon, let's talk first about what gives freshly purchased ice cream that wonderfully non-gritty texture. The ice cream manufacturing process is controlled very carefully, such that the ice in ice cream comes in the form of lots of super-tiny ice crystals. These ice crystals are usually around 10 to 100 micrometers in size, which is so small that our tongues can't even detect them as crystals, which is one reason ice cream is so smooth! However, if their size increases significantly, our tongue notices the crystals and the ice cream tastes gritty. But how do the crystals get bigger? Well, as we talked about in the previous post, small crystals have more surface area compared to an equal mass of large crystals. This means that lots of the atoms that make up small crystals are stuck out on the surface of those crystals, instead of being nestled on the inside. Those surface atoms would much rather be on the inside of the crystal, surrounded by other identical atoms. We scientists would say the surfaces of crystals have extra energy, relative to the insides of crystals.
Water molecules on the surface of ice crystals have extra "surface energy" because they aren't fully surrounded by other water molecules.
As a consequence of this, small crystals are always looking for a way to grow larger so that a smaller percentage of their atoms will have to live on the crystal surface. That is exactly what happens over time as ice cream sits in the freezer—the ice crystals find a way to grow larger—leading to that oh-so-disappointing gritty texture. One way this crystal size growth can happen is when small crystals clump together to make larger crystals. This turns some of the unhappy surface atoms into happy interior atoms.
An even cooler way crystals can grow larger is by stealing individual unhappy surface atoms from other crystals. Basically, the surface atoms are so unhappy, they simply "abandon ship" and wash up on the shores of another crystal, making that second crystal larger. This process results in larger crystals growing and smaller crystals shrinking. This can continue to happen until the small crystals disappear completely! Cool!
What in the world does this have to do with nanotechnology? Well, if we shrunk the smooth-tasting ice crystals to be around 1,000 to 100,000 times smaller, they would be nano-ice crystals. We scientists would then call them "nanoparticles," and we can make them from lots of different materials. Nanoparticles are so tiny that their surfaces have WAY MORE extra energy, and this energy can be harnessed to do some amazing things! To choose one example of many—big chunks of gold can't do much for a chemist except buy her lots of late-night meals and maybe a new car bike (we're sustainable here, remember!). However, nano-sized chunks of gold have such energetic surfaces that they can link two different chemicals together—where nothing at all happens without the nano-gold.
Gold nanoparticles can act as "catalysts" in chemical reactions.
The surfaces of nanoparticles can also be harnessed to degrade pollutants, turn fuels into electricity in fuel cells, and tons of other great stuff! Their surfaces are also largely responsible for how these materials behave in the environment and in organisms' bodies (more on that soon!). So, the more we understand about these special surfaces, the better we can predict where nano-pollutants might end up and how toxic or non-toxic they might be. We can then hopefully use this information to design nanoparticles that are "benign by design." So, to stretch the ice cream analogy to its limits, it's best to understand as much as we can about nanoparticle surfaces in order to avoid any gritty-tasting negatives, but there are still plenty of smooth-tasting positives!
 1. glad the cat enjoys the ice cream.
 1. haha, yeah. me too! She didn't like it as much as she likes leftover cereal milk tho.
 2. :-) NOt dead, just trying my best to get paid to talk about science, rather than do it for free, so focusing my efforts on helping scientists learn how to communicate with the public, at I swear I'll come back to science minus details. Have faith. I'm so sorry it's been so long since I've posted an update. Thanks for checking in!!!!!!!!!!!!
 2. Brazilian food tech student here. Just curious about re-crystallization.
 Thanks for the info ;)
 1. This isn't quite "recrystallization" as a chemist would use the term. Perhaps food scientists have another use for it. Recyrstallization usually purifies things by allowing you to rinse away impurities. The water isn't becoming any more or less pure here, just changing the size of its crystals. I'm glad you found it useful though!!!


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Geo can be used in combination with Object Storage (AWS S3, or other compatible object storage).
Currently, secondary sites can use either:
- The same storage bucket as the primary site.
- A replicated storage bucket.
- Local storage, if the primary uses local storage.
The storage method (local or object storage) for files is recorded in the database, and the database is replicated from the primary Geo site to the secondary Geo site.
When accessing an uploaded object, we get its storage method (local or object storage) from the database, so the secondary Geo site must match the storage method of the primary Geo site.
Therefore, if the primary Geo site uses object storage, the secondary Geo site must use it too.
- GitLab manage replication, follow Enabling GitLab replication.
- Third-party services manage replication, follow Third-party replication services.
Introduced in GitLab 12.4.
Secondary sites can replicate files stored on the primary site regardless of whether they are stored on the local file system or in object storage.
To enable GitLab replication:
- On the top bar, select Menu > Admin.
- On the left sidebar, select Geo > Nodes.
- Select Edit on the secondary site.
- In the Synchronization Settings section, find the Allow this secondary node to replicate content on Object Storage checkbox to enable it.
For LFS, follow the documentation to set up LFS object storage.
For CI job artifacts, there is similar documentation to configure jobs artifact object storage
For user uploads, there is similar documentation to configure upload object storage
If you want to migrate the primary site's files to object storage, you can configure the secondary in a few ways:
- Use the exact same object storage.
- Use a separate object store but leverage your object storage solution's built-in replication.
- Use a separate object store and enable the Allow this secondary node to replicate content on Object Storage setting.
GitLab does not currently support the case where both:
- The primary site uses local storage.
- A secondary site uses object storage.
When using Amazon S3, you can use Cross-Region Replication (CRR) to have automatic replication between the bucket used by the primary site and the bucket used by secondary sites.
For manual synchronization, or scheduled by


one or more of the following.
Drag
Manipulator Values
Different manipulators will have you set different values to fill out. Rather than listing every possible combination, here is what each means individually. Each value type has the same meaning, regardless of Manipulator Type chosen.
If a value is connected to a dataref
Common Manipulator Values
 - Drag X - Length of X axis (meters)
 - Drag Y - Length of Y axis (meters)
 - Drag Z - Length of Z axis (meters)
 - Value 1 - Value 1 of the range of values over which a Drag Axis manipulator changes it's dataref
 - Value 2 - Value 2 or the range of values over which a Drag Axis manipulator changes it's dataref
 - Value 1 Min - Minimum for a 2D Drag manipulator's dataref 1 range (-x to +x)
 - Value 1 Max - Maximum for a 2D Drag manipulator's dataref 1 range (-x to +x)
 - Value 2 Min - Minimum for a 2D Drag manipulator's dataref 2 range (-y to +y)
 - Value 2 Max - Maximum for a 2D Drag manipulator's dataref 2 range (-y to +y)
 - On Value - On value for toggle (must match value of dataref)
 - Off Value - Off value for toggle (must match value of dataref)
Command Manipulator Values
 - Command - The command to fire when manipulator is used
 - Positive Command - Command to be executed when cursor is in positive region of Command Axis manipulator and mouse is being held down
 - Negative Command - Command to be executed when cursor is in negative region of Command Axis manipulator and mouse is being held down
 - Dataref 1 - The first dataref to be modified by the manipulator
 - Dataref 2 - The second dataref to be modified by the manipulator
 - Step - Dataref increment
Mouse Manipulator Values
 - Value On Mouse Down - Value to set dataref on mouse down
 - Value On Mouse Up - Value to set dataref on mouse up
 - Value On Mouse Hold - Value to set dataref on mouse hold
 - Click Step - Value change on click
 - Hold Step - Value change on hold
 - Wheel Delta - Value change on mouse wheel tick
 - Exp - Power of an exponential curve that controls the speed at which the dataref changes. Higher numbers cause a more "non-linear" response, where small drags are very precise and large drags are very fast
LODs
LODs - Four checkboxes that determine which levels of detail X-Plane should place this object. By default all boxes empty, meaning place in every LOD catagory LOD ranges are defined in the layer settings.
Override Weight
Weight - An int used to offset the order in which similar elements are written to the Obj, by default 0. Needs better desc.
Custom Object Properties
Objects can have custom properties (another name for attribute) as well. These will get written directly to the OBJ in the form of
Name - The name of the custom property Value - The value of the property Reset - OBJ attributes often come in pairs, such as ATTR_light_level and ATTR_no_light_level. An attribute may be turned on at the beginning of an object in an OBJ, and turned off (aka reset) in time for the next one. In the case of ATTR_whatever, if it was never turned off every object afterward would take on that attribute. The value for Reset will be written before the next object starts. Weight - An int. The larger the weight the later it gets written in the OBJ
Custom Animation Properties
Objects can also have custom animation properties. These also get written directly to the OBJ in the form of Name Value with no validation.
Name - The custom animation directive to be written out. ANIM_ is not prepended Value - The value for the custom animation direcitve. Weight - An int. Attempts to change the order of the properties, with larger numbers written later.
Object Conditionalization
Objects X-Plane 10 supports the conditionalization of OBJ files. Conditionalization is a process whereby the contents of a file are skipped or used depending on rendering settings. Typical uses of conditionalization are to change the appearance of an object when shadows are enabled, or when HDR is on.
Variable - A dropdown menu of "Global Shadows","HDR", and "Version 10x", "Global Shadows". Must Be On - A checkbox which, when checked, tells X-Plane this rendering variable must be on to draw the variable. If unchecked, it tells X-Plane this rendering variable must be off to draw the variable. Removing the conditional lets X-Plane make its own decisions.
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The Math Behind a Spinning Coin
Trevor English
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Everyone loves spinning a coin on a table and watching it slowly stop rotating . . . no, just me? Well in the world of physics this is called Euler's disk, and it is often used to demonstrate the dynamics of a spinning disk on a flat surface. Many of you probably just want to watch the shiny disk spin, but there are some of us wondering what the ratio between the disk's rotation and diameter is. Whether you just want to watch a disk spin or you actually want to learn the math behind it, the video below has you covered.
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Mathematics define everything, and the physics behind Euler's disk isn't actually all that complicated. The radius of the disk being spun can be related through through some pretty simple formulas, and the rate of wobble can be correlated to the rate of spin.
Engineering isn't always about big complex problems, but rather knowing everyday problems can be solved with a little bit of math. Many of you will probably just go back to spinning your coins and enjoying their wobble as they slow down. But the rest of us will never be able to look at a spinning disk ever again without trying to calculate the rate of spin or rate of wobble in our heads. Engineering is both a curse and a blessing like that sometimes, you can never look at the world without wondering.
Eueler's disk spinning disk[Image Source: Wikimedia]
At the end of the video, the challenge is put out to do some further in depth study about the mathematics behind Euler's disk, and that's our challenge to you. Can you explain the ratios behind the spinning motion of the disk better than the video did? Let us know in the comments, or send in your report to StandUpMaths on youtube!
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Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940
(SSCRA, or the Act) (50 USC 501) is a reenactment of a statute originally
passed in 1918. The intent of the Act is to provide protection for individuals
entering or called to active duty in the military service. The Act is designed
- Enable service members to fight a war without having to
worry about problems that might arise at home, and
- Help service members honor pre-service debts, since
military income tends to be less than pre-service income.
All members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force,
and Coast Guard on active duty and all officers of the Public Health Services
authorized for active duty with either the Army or Navy are covered under the
Act. The Act also covers members of the Army and Air National Guard and U.S.
military reserves called to active duty, as well as commissioned officers of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on active duty.
The SSCRA covers such issues as rental agreements,
security deposits, prepaid rent, eviction, installment contracts, credit card
interest rates, mortgage interest rates, mortgage foreclosure, civil judicial
proceedings, and income tax payments. The following summarizes the relief
provisions that might affect financial institutions.
- Interest Rates. Under the SSCRA, service members
can cap the interest rates on all obligations that were entered into before
beginning active duty at 6 percent. Obligations include credit cards,
mortgages, and non-federally guaranteed student loans. In order to invoke the 6
percent cap, military members must write the lender requesting relief and
provide a copy of current military orders. In addition, service members must
demonstrate that active duty materially affects their ability to pay. The cap
is lifted a short time after active duty ends and the rate reverts to the rate
in effect prior to the cap.
- Mortgages. A lender may not foreclose on a
mortgage if the obligation originated prior to entry into active duty and the
service member's ability to pay is materially affected by military
- Installment Loans. A lender may not exercise any
right or option under the contract to terminate an installment contract to
purchase real or personal property or to assume possession of the property for
nonpayment, if the obligation originated prior to entry into active duty and
the service member's ability to pay is materially affected by military
- Leases. A service member may terminate without
penalty a lease for property occupied. The property must have been used for
dwelling, professional, business, or agricultural purposes. The service member
must have entered into the lease before he or she started active duty. To
terminate the lease, the member must provide written notice to the landlord
after called to active duty.
Contrary to what many people believe, there are no
provisions for reemployment rights as part of the SSCRA. Reemployment rights
are contained within separate legislation, The Uniformed Services Employment
and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA).
Additional information on the SSCRA.
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and are not necessarily those of this Reserve Bank or the Federal Reserve System.


Creating workflows with UI Component Fields - Platform - BlueCat Gateway - 20.1.1
Gateway Administration Guide
BlueCat Gateway
Create a custom workflow using UI Component Fields. You will modify files in the /workflows/ directory generated when creating a new workflow from the BlueCat Gateway user interface.
 1. Create a workflow. This can be performed manually or by using the Create Workflow administrative workflow.
 2. In , add the needed UI Component fields.
 Note: By default, all UI Component Fields are disabled upon loading a workflow. Fields will become enabled as you progress through the form. After clicking SUBMIT, if you receive an error from the server all fields remain enabled. You can customize this using the is_disabled_on_start and is_disabled_on_error parameters.
 3. Modify the workflow files as needed in the /workflows/ directory:
 - —you need to specify the endpoint that will be called when clicking Submit. By default, when using 'Create Workflow' the Form Submit function name will be in the format __form and called inside HTML using action=url_for ().
 - .js—contains any of the customizations needed in a workflow. For an example refer to the 'Update Alias Record' workflow.
 - Text/en.txt—Reserved for future use with UI Component Fields, otherwise it can be used as custom workflow internationalization.
 - —contains a GenericFormTemplate class where you can specify UI Component Fields and their interactions. Use the PlainHtml Component field if you desire to add static HTML in between components. For example, PlainHTML('').
 4. Set the and permissions for each UI Component Field. If you want to change a default label, set the label and required parameters. Set coerce to force a data type of a field. For example, .
 If necessary, customize the server-side endpoint by providing the server_side_method parameter. Use inputs to map server endpoint form parameters passed to server-side endpoints with client HTML elements. If none are provided all elements in the DOM will be submitted.


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Date of this Version
Published in Chem. Eng. Technol. (2011) 34:12, 1989–1996. DOI: 10.1002/ceat.201100353
Sugarcane bagasse was partially acetylated to enhance its oil-wicking ability in saturated environments while holding moisture for hydrocarbon biodegradation. The water sorption capacity of raw bagasse was reduced fourfold after treatment, which indicated considerably increased hydrophobicity but not a limited capability to hold moisture for hydrocarbon biodegradation. Characterization results by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and surface area analyzer suggested that treated bagasse exhibited enhanced hydrophobicity and surface area. Oil wicking test results indicate that treated bagasse is more effective in wicking oil from highly saturated environments than raw bagasse and suggest that application of this material in remediation of oil spills in highly saturated wetlands is promising.


C# Corner
Recording Media in a Windows Store App Part 2: Photo Capture
Eric Vogel covers how to capture a photo in a Windows Store App by using the MediaCapture API.
More On Windows Store App Media from Visual Studio Magazine:
Welcome to Part 2 of the MediaCapture API series. In Part 1 I covered how to record audio with a selected encoding and sound quality. In this article, I'll cover how to capture a photo from a webcam with the MediaCapture API in a new Windows Store App in a selected image format.
The first step is to create a new blank C# Windows Store app. Next, open up the Package.appxmanifest file and click on the Capabilities tab, and check the Internet (Client), Pictures Library and Webcam options, as seen in Figure 1.
[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 1. Setting app capabilities for photo capture and storage.
The MediaCapture API allows for photo capture in three encoding formats: JPEG, JPEG XR and PNG. To handle each format, create a new enum named ImageEncodingFormat with Jpeg, JpegXr and Png formats in a new C# class file:
public enum ImageEncodingFormat
 {
 Jpeg,
 JpegXr,
 Png
 }
In the application, the user will be presented with a ComboBox with selections for each option. The user will also be able to save a picture, and the file extension will be set appropriately for his selected image encoding. To handle both of these requirements, add a static extension method class named ImageEncodingFormatExtensions. The ImageEncodingFormatExtensions class will contain two methods: ToFileExtension and ToDisplayName. The ToFileExtension method translates an ImageEncodingFormat to its appropriate file extension. The ToDisplayName method translates an ImageEncodingFormat enum value to its UI displayed value. See Listing 1 for the completed ImageEncodingFormat class file containing the enum declaration and extension method definitions.
Listing 1. The ImageEncodingFormat.cs class file.
using System;
namespace VSMVideoCaptureDemo
{
 public enum ImageEncodingFormat
 {
 Jpeg,
 JpegXr,
 Png
 }
 public static class ImageEncodingFormatExtensions
 {
 public static string ToFileExtension(this ImageEncodingFormat imageEncodingFormat)
 {
 switch (imageEncodingFormat)
 {
 case ImageEncodingFormat.Jpeg:
 case ImageEncodingFormat.JpegXr:
 return ".jpeg";
 case ImageEncodingFormat.Png:
 return ".png";
 default:
 throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("imageEncodingFormat");
 }
 }
 public static string ToDisplayName(this ImageEncodingFormat imageEncodingFormat)
 {
 switch (imageEncodingFormat)
 {
 case ImageEncodingFormat.Jpeg:
 return "JPEG";
 case ImageEncodingFormat.JpegXr:
 return "JPEG XR";
 case ImageEncodingFormat.Png:
 return "PNG";
 default:
 throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("imageEncodingFormat");
 }
 }
 }
}
To further encapsulate the UI display logic for the image format encodings, I've decided to create an ImageEncodingDisplay view model class. Create a new folder named ViewModels within the main project. Next, create a new C# class file named ImageEncodingDisplay. Then add a Format ImageEncodingFormat Type property to the ImageEncodingDisplay. Next, add FileExtension and Name read-only properties to the class that use the ToFileExtension and ToDisplayName ImageEncodingFormat extension methods, respectively. Last, add an ImageEncodingDisplay constructor that accepts an ImageEncodingFormat argument that sets the Format property. See Listing 2 for the full ImageEncodingDisplay class implementation.
Listing 2. The full ImageEncodingDisplay.cs class definition.
namespace VSMVideoCaptureDemo.ViewModels
{
 public class ImageEncodingDisplay
 {
 public string Name { get { return Format.ToDisplayName(); }}
 public string FileExtension { get { return Format.ToFileExtension(); } }
 public ImageEncodingFormat Format { get; set; }
 public ImageEncodingDisplay(ImageEncodingFormat format)
 {
 Format = format;
 }
 }
}
Now it's time to implement the UI for the application. Open up the MainPage.xaml file and copy the root Grid element from Listing 3 into your MainPage.xaml XAML markup file.
Listing 3. The MainPage.xaml UI XAML.
<Page
 x:Class="VSMVideoCaptureDemo.MainPage"
 xmlns="_URL_
 xmlns:x="_URL_
 xmlns:local="using:VSMVideoCaptureDemo"
 xmlns:d="_URL_
 xmlns:mc="_URL_
 mc:Ignorable="d">
 <Grid Background="{StaticResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">
 <StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center">
 <StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="0,10,0,0" Orientation="Horizontal">
 <TextBlock Margin="0,0,10,0">Image Encoding</TextBlock>
 <ComboBox Name="ImageEncodings" ItemsSource="{Binding}"
 DisplayMemberPath="Name" SelectedValuePath="Format"
 SelectionChanged="ImageEncodings_SelectionChanged"></ComboBox>
 </StackPanel>
 <CaptureElement Name="CaptureElem" Width="400" Height="600"></CaptureElement>
 <StackPanel Name="VideoPanel" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Orientation="Horizontal">
 <Button Name="PreviewButton" Click="PreviewButton_Click">Preview</Button>
 <Button Name="TakePhotoButton" Click="TakePhotoButton_Click">Take Photo</Button>
 </StackPanel>
 </StackPanel>
 </Grid>
</Page>
The application's UI is very minimalist. The user has the ability to select an image-encoding format, and then they can preview their webcam via the CaptureElement and, finally, snap a photo via the TakePhotoButton.
Now it's time to tie everything together in the MainPage class. Open up the MainPage.xaml.cs class file and add the following using statements to the MainPage class:
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using VSMVideoCaptureDemo.ViewModels;
using Windows.Media.Capture;
using Windows.Media.MediaProperties;
using Windows.Storage;
using Windows.Storage.Pickers;
using Windows.Storage.Streams;
using Windows.UI.Popups;
Next, add a MediaCapture Type private member variable to the MainPage class:
private MediaCapture _mediaCapture;
Then add an ImageEncodingFormat Type private member variable:
private ImageEncodingFormat _imageEncodingFormat;
Next, in the OnNavigatedTo event, the ImageEncodings ComboBox is populated and the media capture is initialized:
protected async override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
{
 LoadImageEncodings();
 await InitializeMediaCapture();
}
The LoadImageEncodings method populates the ImageEncodings ComboBox by enumerating over the ImageEncodingFormat enum values and translating them to ImageEncodingDisplay objects. In addition, it sets the default image encoding to JPEG and stores the selected ImageEncodingFormat into the _imageEncodingFormat member variable:
private void LoadImageEncodings()
 {
 var imageEncodings = Enum.GetValues(typeof(ImageEncodingFormat));
 List<ImageEncodingDisplay> encodings = new List<ImageEncodingDisplay>();
 foreach (ImageEncodingFormat imageEncoding in imageEncodings)
 {
 encodings.Add(new ImageEncodingDisplay(imageEncoding));
 }
 ImageEncodings.ItemsSource = encodings;
 ImageEncodings.SelectedIndex = 0;
 _imageEncodingFormat = (ImageEncodingFormat)ImageEncodings.SelectedValue;
 }
The InitializeMediaCapture method initializes the _mediaCapture object to capture video only and subscribes the application to the Failed event:
private async Task InitializeMediaCapture()
 {
 _mediaCapture = new MediaCapture


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Average Sunshine in Alberta for February
The tables below give February averages for the number of sunny days and hours of sunshine at cities and towns in Alberta.
Each place has three measures of sunshine. The number for % Sun is the usual percentage of daylight hours with bright sunshine. Hours gives the total hours of bright sunshine that's normal this month. Days statistics are for the typical number of days in February with any amount of measurable sunshine. All the data are averages for the years 1971 to 2000.
Environment Canada. National Climate Data and Information Archive. Canadian Climate Normals or Averages _PHONE_.


text: Water supply coverage in Nigeria is 58 per cent. In order to bridge the gap and meet national and MDG targets thousands of boreholes will have to be drilled in a relatively short time. To achieve this, different approaches incorporating a variety of solutions are needed. Emphasis has to be placed on solutions that are affordable and will allow households and communities to meet their need for potable water. A phenomenon that may contribute to bridging the gap is ongoing local fabrication of drilling rigs from discarded materials. This paper evaluates the potential of the locally fabricated rigs to produce cost effective boreholes and contribute to increasing the water supply coverage.


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Without a bank account
- As in urban districts, low-income households are more likely to have no bank or building society account than households on average incomes.
- As in urban districts, the proportion of households in rural districts who have no bank or building society account has fallen over the last decade. However, the rate of reduction has been much slower than that in urban districts and, as a result, the differences between rural and urban districts have been largely eliminated over the last decade.
- See the UK indicator on bank accounts.
On most poverty and social exclusion indicators, rural areas have 'better scores' than urban areas. The purpose of the table below is to differentiate between those subjects where rural areas are 'a bit better' and those where rural areas are 'a lot better'. It does so by presenting the rural statistics for the indicator as a proportion of the urban statistics. So, for example, a rural'score' of 6 in the table below means that the rural statistic is around 60% of its urban equivalent.
|Type of district||Average of 2006/07 to 2008/09|
|Households in the poorest fifth||Households with average incomes||All households|
|'Very rural' districts||9||7||7|
|'Mostly rural' districts||7||11||9|
|'Part rural' districts||12||12||11|
For each type of local authority district, the first graph shows the proportion of households without a bank, building society or any other kind of account. The data is split to show households in the poorest fifth of the income distribution and for households on average incomes (middle fifth of the income distribution) separately. As well as bank and building society accounts, the figures also count any savings or investment accounts as well as post office card accounts but do not include stocks and shares, premium bonds, gilts, Save As You Earn arrangements or Credit Unions. Income is household disposable income, equivalised (adjusted) to take account of household composition and is measured after deducting housing costs.
For each type of local authority district, the second graph shows how the proportion of households without a bank, building society or any other kind of account has changed over time. The data is for all households.
Level of the data
Lower tier local authorities (districts), as classified by the DEFRA 2009 classification system. Both the DEFRA classification rules and their results by local authority can be found on the page on rural/urban classification systems.
Family Resources Survey, DWP.
|Type of district||Proportion of households without an account|
|Average of 1996/97 to 1998/99||Average of 2006/07 to 2008/09|
|Households in the poorest fifth||Households with average incomes||All households||Households in the poorest fifth||Households with average incomes||All households|
|'Very rural' districts||15%||2%||5%||5%||2%||3%|
|'Mostly rural' districts||13%||2%||5%||4%||3%||3%|
|'Part rural' districts||16%||3%||5%||7%||4%||4%|


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The Michigan Weavers Guild (MWG) is dedicated to encouraging excellence, inspiring creativity, and preserving fiber traditions by providing forums for the education of handweavers, handspinners, basketmakers, and fiber artists in related disciplines.
MWG January 17, 2015 Meeting
This presentation describes how new research methods make historic figured silks held in museum collections available to weavers for study purposes. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, antiquities collectors acquired archaeological silk fragments attributed to Mediterranean and Near East workshops between AD _PHONE_. While necessary to protect our fragile textile heritage, conservation standards have limited access to these pieces for study purposes. Now, high-resolution digital images and computer-based analysis techniques provide new information about how historic silks were constructed from a weaver's point of view with a focus on material processing, weave structure, pattern design, and end use.


Polyphase Systems 1 - Study Guide
Polyphase Systems 1 explains what polyphase systems are, and differences between wye and delta systems. Illustrates various transformer bank connections using phasor diagrams. Shows examples of polyphase transformer banks and their external connections.
5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 20 pages By Alexander Publications
Item Code: PP1-STU
$ 15.00


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rot in a sentence
Example sentences for rot
There are others, though brain rot seems to have set in.
The rafflesia's five fleshy petals begin to rot soon after they blossom, giving off an odor of decay.
The wood resisted rot and warping, making it a favorite for fencing, utility poles and furniture.
Even more maddening, the wood above and below the rot is nearly always perfect.
The days of homemade candied apples may be gone, but these days kids can rot their teeth with a wealth of weirdo treats.
They are the rot that undermines the intellectual authority of science.
Rot set into the empire from the late second century.
Early-ripening variety with some resistance to root rot in heavy soils.
Susceptibility to rot from moisture is one of the main weaknesses of straw-bale construction.
Worse, some big sleaze scandals have broken, suggesting that the rot reaches close to the top.
Our brain has no idea how to organize our structure for sitting so the rot sets in early.
Bacterial canker and brown rot of stone fruit are serious diseases.
Rot your kids' brains right there in their heads will he.
It would rot before my colleague would be able to turn it around.
It takes a few days or a few months to cause a big tree to rot under drought conditions.
Diseases include blossom blight and brown rot of stone fruit.
Once their contractor began removing walls they said he discovered the rot was widespread.
The air was dreamy with ripeness from laden branches and rot underfoot.
Yes the absorb it when they are growing, and release it when they are burned or rot.
They are prone to root rot and crown rot if drainage is poor.
But they did they share the awful potency as tombs of rot.
Additionally, pollution is causing shell rot and other illnesses in normally disease-resistant species.
And to the morons who talked about leaving the wolf to rot.
Ailments you may encounter include peach leaf curl and brown rot of stone fruit.
She has seen true hunger, and can't bear to watch food rot.
If the rot stops there, the damage will be containable.
Rain has also been getting in through holes, causing the floors and walls to rot.
If there are some leaves that are starting to rot at the tips or edges, remove them.
Set the crowns of the plants high, so they won't become saturated and rot after watering.
We shall not wait for it to fester and rot any longer.
Dust cuts with sulfur or charcoal to discourage rot.
Small areas of wood rot can be easily repaired with epoxy, window restorers say.
In high-rainfall areas, excess moisture induces rot.
Rotted fascia boards should be removed and replaced before the rot has a chance to spread to the roof rafters.
If placed too closely, mulch can retain moisture and cause plants and trees to rot.
These are adapted to dry periods after bloom and will rot if they get too much water.
We're in denial about the extent of the rot in the system, and the effort that would be required to turn things around.
Do not use glue, as it will blister the pads, causing them to rot.
Stem rot is a potentially serious disease of clematis.
If there is so much cheating in universities, it also has to do with the rot in the culture that we've built for ourselves.
The thousands of corpses, many hanging in trees or washed up on beaches, immediately started to rot in the tropical heat.
Then the plankton comes up, and there are no fish to eat them and they go to the bottom and rot.
In fact this should be beneficial as compared to allowing them to fall naturally and rot.
They try to shield their kids from cultural rot and depravity.
As excess plant matter sinks to the seafloor, microbes rot it and suck oxygen out of the water in the process.
The corpses of the losers in the conflict were left for weeks to rot in the sun, then dragged and shoved into shallow pits.
Everyone knows that dead animals begin to rot and stink as bacteria break down their meat and give off toxic chemicals.
While brains rot quickly, they leave behind marks where some of their folds and blood vessels were.
Many homeowners fear that wood will immediately rot if allowed to get wet.
Would have loved for him to have been convicted to rot in prison for many many years.
Fungus that grows on rot might not, at first, seem the perfect image of our culinary ideals.
But some have come from ambitious younger figures, despairing at their elders' inability to stop the rot.
The rot can spread from housing to other areas, such as commercial property and credit-card debt.
He belittles his large philosophical gifts, finds publication an agony and worries to correspondents that his work is rot.
The rot could easily feed on itself, leaving equipment and workers idle, and depressing tax revenues.
Government efforts have done little to stop the rot.
Both these longer-term risks are real, but they are far outweighed by the need to stop the rot.
Believed the myth about being good sports and maintaining discipline and all that rot.
Local food subsidies encourage farmers to let their goods rot rather than sell them on the global market.


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Elmer: Meaning, Popularity, Origin of Baby Name Elmer
Origin of the name Elmer:
Transferred use of the surname originating from the obsolete Old English Æthelmær, Æðelmær, a compound name composed of the elements æthel, æðel (noble) and mær (famous): hence, "noble and famous."
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My Great Grandmother, Elmer Effie (Simpson) Tolley born about 1878 in Crittenden co ky to James Huey Simpson and Sarah Catherine (Greer) Simpson. We dont know why or how or where the Elmer came from and by the time it was questioned of us now in the search ancestors we still dont know how she came to be named ELMER. A lady she called Grandma NUNN and worked for on the lady's property who had large land holdings told her Elmer was a man's name and renamed her Elma. Elma later in 1902 marred Robert H Tolley who was clearing the lady Nunns forest. I have found no Elmer's in the family and the only family line I cant find is James Huey Simpson's mother was Louisa Lyzenby daughter of Orpha Marvel and Charles Lyzenby b. 1801 in Livingston co Ky. The Marvel's are traced and Louisa said to be part indian so I guess the Elmer came from either the maternal or paternal side of Charles Lyzenby. Sincerely Denise of Madison co Ill.
Robert Tolley family left Ky went via Tn to Kansas where my gpa was born then by 1920 they were in madison co ill.
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A Salvadoran couple selected this name for their baby boy because they could both pronounce and spell it.
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Elmer Bernstein, Academy and Golden Globe winning film score composer.
Elmer Charles Bigelow, United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
Elmer Davis, news reporter, the WWII Director of the United States Office of War Information and a Peabody Award Recipient.
Elmer E.Ellsworth, American Civil War hero.
Elmer Rice, Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright.
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Elmer Fudd, of course!
Elmer the Bull, husband of Elsie the Cow (mascot of Borden Dairy Products), who gave his name to Elmer's Glue.
"Elmer the Patchwork Elephant," a children's picture book series by author David McKee.
"Elmer Gantry," a novel by Sinclair Lewis, which was made into a film starring Burt Lancaster.
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, a British psychedelic rock band active in the late 1960s.


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Rename Your amp
1. To rename your Amp press the MENU button, scroll to "BLUETOOTH" and press the Encoder to select.
2. Press the lower soft-key to select the Edit "*" cog to enter the "NAME screen.
3. "NAME" will appear in the screen.
4. Press the Encoder and you will see Mustang GT. You may enter a new name, or, to leave the default "Mustang GT" name in place, press the soft-key next to "DONE".
5. To enter a new name, scroll with Encoder to select a letter to edit, then press the Encoder and scroll to select letters, numbers or characters.
After renaming your amp you must search for your Amp on your Bluetooth device using the new name you've given. If no changes have been made, it will default to "MUSTANG GT".


text: To examine whether high moral reasoning competence of adolescents is associated with low levels of bullying, and to understand whether moral disengagement mediates or moderates this relationship, 925 German children ranging from 11 to 17 years of age (M = 14.18, SD = 1.21) completed questionnaires on moral reasoning competence and moral disengagement in surveys at three different schools. The children were classified according to their bullying role, based on a peer‐nomination procedure. Multinomial logistic regression analyses showed that moral reasoning competence negatively predicted whether a student took an aggressive role. Moral disengagement partially mediated this relationship. Corresponding effects for defenders and outsiders were not found. These results extend previous findings about the effect of moral reasoning on bullying in primary school. The implications for the prevention of bullying are discussed.


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What is a 'Pencil Pusher'?
The Pencil Pusher is an innovative yet unappreciated invention. It is a gadget which makes pencils with waste papers.
According to the study, the United States alone uses 21 Million Tons of paper for business use. It causes a huge amount of loss of paper. If the United States approximate use of paper is so much, then all over the world the usage of paper would be at a level of the un-imaginary point. In the last 40 years, paper consumption has increased by 400%, which leads to an increase in the rate of deforestation and Green House Gases. This has led to office recycling programs. Now, even the printers come with a slogan of 'Think before you Print'. Unnecessary wastage of paper is a huge matter of concern for the environment. Companies also try to use both sides of paper printing to minimize wastage of paper, but this step is not only enough.
So, a trio of Chinese inventors (Chengzhu Ruan, Yuanyuan Liu, Xinwei Yuan, and Chao Chen) hopes to add a device to save papers in the office cubicle environment. The wastage of paper can be minimized through this innovative inventions. "The P&P Office Waste Paper Processor" come up with the solution of recycling or reusing the waste paper. It turns waste paper into the form of a pencil.
The machine looks like a three-hole punch crossed with an electric pencil sharpener, was the finalist in the 2010 "Lite-On Awards", an International competition which completely focuses on to simulate and nurture innovation.
How does a "Pencil Pusher" works?
A Pencil Pusher works like, first inserting a waste paper into a feed slot. Then, the machine automatically draws the paper in, rolls in the form of a pencil (cylinder shape) and compresses it. After that, it inserts a piece of lead from the storage chamber which is located at the top of the device. Then, it adds a small amount of glue, before the pencil slides out from a hole on the side.
A lead stick is then inserted into the center and it makes a pencil which can be efficiently used by two people. An electric sharpener which is placed at the side is then used to sharpen the end of the pencil made with paper, and after that, it is ready to use.
The procedure of making a pencil with waste paper sounds like a revolutionary and ingenious way to not only reduce the amount of paper waste but also a great initiative to reduce the number of trees needed to make pencils.
Drawbacks of "Pencil Pusher"
- It is not clear that how many pieces of papers are required to form a single pencil.
- The companies are busy in updating their technological requirement of laptops, phones, tablet, etc. then the company won't go for the option of purchasing the machine that makes the pencil when a large number of workforce is not using a pencil anymore.
- In the case of Schools, it is completely a no-no. The school which survives on charity can't afford a normal pencil then, it won't be possible for them to afford a machine to make the pencil.
- To fulfill the need for glue and pencil lead would be quite difficult to manage how much these things would be required to make use of waste papers.
Benefits of "Pencil Pusher"
- Minimizes the wastage of paper, as well as no need to purchase pencils.
- Great initiative to save the environment, minimize cutting of trees and deforestation.
- Personal Stationery will never get deprived of pencils.