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Personalised wearable digital technology can help adults diagnosed with autism understand and manage their anxiety.
Reflecting back on incidents can help people manage their anxiety – though, traditional reflection aids such as written diaries are often abandoned. However, wearable technology could provide the solution.
Human Computer Interaction specialists at Lancaster University have worked with adults diagnosed with autism to create prototype personalised wristband devices called Snap that enable wearers to digitally record data when they are feeling anxious.
In their paper 'Anxiety and Autism: Towards Personalised Digital Health', Lancaster researchers explain how Snap was created following a three-month rapid development process.
Snap enables wearers to record data by stretching the wristband, which is made from natural materials for rapid prototyping. Snap also includes a customisable 3D printed pod containing the computing unit, which uses an Arduino-compatible RFDuino micro controller. This enables users to freely modify and assemble their own devices by tapping into the growing number of community maker movements and open-source software.
Off the shelf wearables, such as the Fitbit, are able to capture data such as gestures, steps, and heart rates, however these devices capture this information passively. Snap records data when the wearer intentionally interacts with it – so they have greater control of the information collection, an important consideration for people diagnosed with autism.
Researchers noticed that people diagnosed with autism have a tendency to play with things in their hands when they are anxious and wanted to digitise this activity. The idea for a wristband came up in the study's workshops.
"We wanted to build our own device and we thought that if we could digitise something they do anyway – play with things in their hands – then that could potentially help them to manage their anxiety," said Dr Will Simm, one of the researchers from Lancaster University School of Computing and Communications. "This is about empowering people with data to reflect about their anxiety."
It is important that Snap can be customisable for the user so they have a greater sense of ownership of the device than an off-the-shelf product.
Through rapid prototyping, the researchers were able to involve adults diagnosed with autism in the design process and it was discovered that the design process itself, and the ability to customise Snap, was therapeutic to the volunteers.
"Our approach has facilitated an understanding and management of anxiety through Snap interactions and data capture," said Dr Simm. "The process of designing and building Snap has enabled our participants to discuss experiences of anxiety in a way their supporters said they had never before articulated."
Another important element of Snap, as expressed by the participants of the research, was that the captured data was retained on the device and could be downloaded onto a computer without reliance on cloud storage.
Previous research on people with autism has revealed the importance of being able to reflect on positive life experiences in addition to anxious moments.
"It was also crucial that the project didn't just focus on the build up to anxious states and so the device can also record data on wearers' positive states as well," said Dr Simm.
Snap also has an additional benefit of signalling to support workers during social settings when the wearer was getting anxious – enabling them to take action.
The researchers are now looking at further developing the prototypes by refining the design and including additional features requested by the autistic study participants, such as a clickable button. An online platform to aid reflection is also being developed that will work with customisable and off-the-shelf wearable devices.
More information about the project, which received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), is available by visiting _URL_
To find out more about Lancaster University's School of Computing and Communications visit _URL_
The papers authors are Dr Will Simm, Dr Maria Angela Ferrario, Dr Marcia Tavares Smith, Dr Stephen Forshaw and Professor Jon Whittle from Lancaster University's School of Computing and Communications, Adrian Gradinar, from Imagination Lancaster, and Dr Ian Smith from Lancaster University's Division of Health Research.


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ANOTHER space "first" takes place in February when the space shuttle carries chilled Coca-Cola and Diet Coke into orbit. Astronauts will be asked to give opinions on flavour and carbonation.
Coke has flown in space twice before, but only at room temperature. In this case, the drinks will be chilled to 4 °C. The makers of Coca-Cola say the test will measure how taste perceptions change in space. "The Coca-Cola Company has always assumed the leadership role in the development of new technology," says the company.
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This article shows how to get detailed logs of the True Image Monitor's activity in Acronis True Image 2018.
True Image Monitor starts automatically with Windows and is responsible for showing icons and notifications in the system tray.
True Image Monitor's executable file, TrueImageMonitor.exe, is located in the following folder:
- Windows 64-bit: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Acronis\TrueImageHome"
- Windows 32-bit: "C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome"
The level of logging is defined in the configuration file TrueImageMonitor.config, lying next to TrueImageMonitor.exe:
- Disable the self-defence feature of Active Protection as explained here. Otherwise, Active Protection will not allow modifying Acronis True Image configuration files.
- Locate the file TrueImageMonitor.config and copy it to the Desktop folder. That is needed because files in the folders Program Files and Program Files (x86) are protected by the operating system and cannot be edited directly there.
- Right-click the copied file in the Desktop folder and select Open with:
- Click More apps:
- Click Notepad and click OK to confirm the selection:
- Configuration file will open in Notepad text editor:
- Replace all the occurrences of level="info" with level="debug":
- Click File -> Save to save the changes and close Notepad window:
Drag and drop the file TrueImageMonitor.config from the Desktop to its original location:
Choose the Replace option when asked:
Click Continue to confirm the operation:
- Reboot the computer for changes to take effect.
In certain cases you could just restart the process TrueImageMonitor.exe instead of doing a full system reboot, but that would exclude the boot chain events logs which may be important in troubleshooting. If you are unsure, do a complete system reboot.
- Reproduce the problem.
- Detailed logs of the True Image Monitor could be found in the folder C:\ProgramData\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Logs\ti_monitor:
- Turn on Active Protection and the self-defence feature.
- If you are working with Acronis directly, generate a system report and send it to Acronis. The folder with Tray Monitor logs will be included in the report automatically.
- When the detailed logs of True Image Monitor are no longer needed, repeat the steps from this article, replacing level="debug" with level="info" at step 7.


Moving Teachings: Crowdsourced Learning from Fellow Commuters
PARK AND RIDE... AND LEARN: Here's an interesting alternative to reading the Kindle or plugging into your smartphone on that next bus ride. Moving Teachings is a web app that allows bus riders to offer or register for "mini-classes" around whatever collective knowledge exists among riders on a given route. It strikes us as a web 2.0 tool for scheduling intelligent conversations with fellow commuters but you get a little more say over who's talking about what. So far the offerings -- limited to Portland, OR riders -- include conversational Portuguese from a Brazilian expat and breathing techniques from a yogi. There's even prerequisite suggested reading. The alpha site isn't quite ready to accommodate a group of 7th grade urbanites, but offering learning opportunities in everyday public spaces is a major step towards meaningful learning in and outside of the classroom.
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Control the order of ember promise resolution?
I've been following the tutorial, using ember 2.9.1, node 6.9.1, chrome 53.0.2785.143 and OS/X 10.11.6.
When I create the component described here:
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I end up with a race condition. If I enter the character p into the input and very rapidly hit backspace, I end up with the models filtered by the character p but no input in the text field.
Some console logging suggests this is happening because the second promise (which returns all the models, since the input is empty) is resolving first, and the first promise (returning the filtered models) resolves second.
Is there anything that can be done about this?
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For concurrency purposes, there is an addon called: ember-concurrency. You can use it for all your async operations.
Also ember-power-select uses this addon. It is a powerful, auto-complete select component. I can suggest you to use it.


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 2. Transact
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 4. Administrator Role and Features
 5. Administrator Overview
Administrator Overview
Administrators using Ephesoft Transact are responsible for managing batch classes and batch instances. They also create regular expressions to identify what information in the documents is extracted and validated for the operator to process and review.
Overview of Administrator Navigation Menu
This navigation menu contains the same options as the login screen, with additional access to System Configuration for super-admins. This menu appears:
Figure 1. Administrator Menu
The following table provides a brief overview of each administrator page and its functions.
Feature Overview
Batch Class Management Primary configuration area where workflows, classification and extraction are configured and managed
Batch Instance Management Real-time screen that shows all current batches that are being processed along with a history of finished batches
System Configuration Area for user security, database connection manager, regular expression repository, license info, etc.
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 Column[] ForeignKey.getConstantColumns()
 Return the local columns that we link to using constant values.
 Column[] ForeignKey.getConstantPrimaryKeyColumns()
 Return the primary key columns that we link to using constant values.
 Column ForeignKey.getPrimaryKeyColumn(Column local)
 Return the primary key column joined to the given local column.
 Column[] ForeignKey.getPrimaryKeyColumns()
 Return the foreign columns in the foreign key, in join-order with the result of ForeignKey.getColumns().
 Column[] Table.getRelationIdColumns()
 Return this table's relation id columns.
 Column Table.importColumn(Column col)
 Import a column from another table.
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protected Column DynamicSchemaFactory.newColumn(DBIdentifier name, Table table)

protected Column SchemaGroup.newColumn(String name, Table table)
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Methods in org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.schema with parameters of type Column
 void Unique.addColumn(Column col)
 Adds the given column.
 boolean SchemaTool.addColumn(Column col)
 Add the given column to the database schema.
 void PrimaryKey.addColumn(Column col)

 void LocalConstraint.addColumn(Column col)
 Add a column to the constraint.
(package private) void Table.changeAutoAssigned(Column col)
 Called by columns when their auto increment status changes.
(package private) void Table.changeRelationId(Column col)
 Called by columns when their relation id status changes.
 boolean LocalConstraint.columnsMatch(Column[] ocols)
 Return true if the given columns match the columns of this constraint.
 boolean ForeignKey.columnsMatch(Column[] fkCols, Column[] fkPKCols)
 Return true if the given local and foreign columns match those on this key.
 boolean ForeignKey.columnsMatch(Column[] fkCols, Column[] fkPKCols)
 Return true if the given local and foreign columns match those on this key.
 boolean LocalConstraint.containsColumn(Column col)
 Return true if the pk includes the given column.
 boolean ForeignKey.containsColumn(Column col)
 Return true if the fk includes the given local column.
 boolean ForeignKey.containsConstantColumn(Column col)
 Return true if the fk includes the given local column.
 boolean ForeignKey.containsConstantPrimaryKeyColumn(Column col)
 Return true if the fk includes the given primary key column.
 boolean ForeignKey.containsPrimaryKeyColumn(Column col)
 Return true if the fk includes the given primary key column.
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 Copy information from the given column to this one.
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 Drop the given column from the database schema.
 boolean Column.equalsColumn(Column col)
 Tests compatibility.
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 Return the local column joined to the given primary key column.
 Object ForeignKey.getConstant(Column local)
 Return the constant value assigned to the given local column.
 Column ForeignKey.getPrimaryKeyColumn(Column local)
 Return the primary key column joined to the given local column.
 Object ForeignKey.getPrimaryKeyConstant(Column pk)
 Return the constant value assigned to the given primary key column.
 Column Table.importColumn(Column col)
 Import a column from another table.
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 boolean ColumnIO.isAllUpdatable(Column[] cols, boolean nullValue)
 Equivalent to isAllUpdatable (cols.length, nullValue).
 boolean ColumnIO.isAnyInsertable(Column[] cols, boolean nullValue)
 Equivalent to isAnyInsertable (cols.length, nullValue).
 boolean ColumnIO.isAnyUpdatable(Column[] cols, boolean nullValue)
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 boolean ColumnIO.isInsertable(Column col, boolean nullValue)
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 boolean ColumnIO.isUpdatable(Column col, boolean nullValue)
 Equivalent to isUpdatable (0, nullValue), but returns false if the given column is null.
 void ForeignKey.join(Column local, Column toPK)
 Join a local column to a primary key column of another table.
 void ForeignKey.joinConstant(Column col, Object val)
 Join a constant value to a local column of this table.
 void ForeignKey.joinConstant(Object val, Column toPK)
 Join a constant value to a primary key column of another table.
 boolean Table.removeColumn(Column col)
 Remove the given column from the table.
 boolean LocalConstraint.removeColumn(Column col)
 Remove a column from the constraint.
 boolean ForeignKey.removeJoin(Column col)
 Remove any joins inolving the given column.
 void LocalConstraint.setColumns(Column[] cols)
 Set the columns the constraint spans.
 void ForeignKey.setConstantJoins(Column[] cols, Object[] consts)
 Set the foreign key's constant joins.
 void ForeignKey.setConstantJoins(Object[] consts, Column[] pkCols)
 Set the foreign key's constant joins.
 void ForeignKey.setJoins(Column[] cols, Column[] pkCols)
 Set the foreign key's joins.
 void ForeignKey.setJoins(Column[] cols, Column[] pkCols)
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Uses of Column in org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql

Methods in org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql that return Column
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 Column[] SQLServerDictionary.getColumns(DatabaseMetaData meta, DBIdentifier catalog, DBIdentifier schemaName, DBIdentifier tableName, DBIdentifier columnName, Connection conn)

 Column[] PointbaseDictionary.getColumns(DatabaseMetaData meta, DBIdentifier catalog, DBIdentifier schemaName, DBIdentifier tableName, DBIdentifier columnName, Connection conn)

 Column[] OracleDictionary.getColumns(DatabaseMetaData meta, DBIdentifier catalog, DBIdentifier schemaName, DBIdentifier tableName, DBIdentifier columnName, Connection conn)

 Column[] InformixDictionary.getColumns(DatabaseMetaData meta, DBIdentifier catalog, DBIdentifier schemaName, DBIdentifier tableName, DBIdentifier columnName, Connection conn)

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 Column[] FoxProDictionary.getColumns(DatabaseMetaData meta, DBIdentifier catalog, DBIdentifier schemaName, DBIdentifier tableName, DBIdentifier columnName, Connection conn)

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 Column[] SQLServerDictionary.getColumns(DatabaseMetaData meta, String catalog, String schemaName, String tableName, String columnName, Connection conn)

 Column[] PointbaseDictionary.getColumns(DatabaseMetaData meta, String catalog, String schemaName, String tableName, String columnName, Connection conn)

 Column[] OracleDictionary.getColumns(DatabaseMetaData meta, String catalog, String schemaName, String tableName, String columnName, Connection conn)

 Column[] InformixDictionary.getColumns(DatabaseMetaData meta, String catalog, String schemaName, String tableName, String columnName, Connection conn)

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How Much to Separate?
The Torah does not specify an amount that must be separated for challah, bikkurim, or terumah. By contrast, it does specify that one-tenth of the crop is given to a Levi as ma'aser. The Sages determined that a professional baker separates one out of forty-eight parts, while a lay baker separates one out of twenty-four parts.
Why does the professional give less challah? The Ateres Zahav states that the Sages were more lenient with a baker because baking is his livelihood, and the Sages wanted him to enjoy more of the fruits of his labor. The Rambam writes that whereas a baker generally deals with large portions of dough, the amount that he separates, even at the smaller one-forty-eighth ratio, generally is large enough to make a suitable gift to the kohen. A housewife kneads smaller quantities, so that a larger percentage, one-twenty-fourth, is required to make her gift suitable.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe advances a more esoteric reason for the difference. He explains that G-d wants us to perceive His providence in all that we do. A professional baker is heavily reliant upon a good planting season and a good harvest. He carefully monitors these and thereby witnesses G-d's providence throughout the process of flour manufacture. A non-professional sees only the final product. He must give a greater percentage, so that he will have a greater awareness of G-d's manifestation.
Today, because the mitzvah of challah is Rabbinic in nature, there is no minimum amount that must be taken. In Israel, there is a widely observed custom to take a k'zayis, the size of an egg.
While both men and women have the obligation to separate challah, this is among the mitzvos that were specially entrusted to women. Where both husband and wife are involved in making dough, it is preferable for the wife to separate the challah.
How large must the dough mass be to require the taking of challah? One must take challah if the dough is at minimum the size of an omer, equivalent to a volume of forty-three and one-fifth eggs. (The omer is the standard of measurement for food in the Torah.) There is a disagreement concerning the precise measurement of an omer. There is a consensus that dough weighing five pounds meets the minimum size requirement. A consensus exists as well that dough weighing less than two and one half pounds is too small to require the taking of challah. Therefore, when one kneads five or more pounds of dough, she recites the blessing. If kneading less than two and a half pounds, she does not take challah at all. When kneading dough that weighs between two and a half pounds and five pounds, one does take challah, but should consult a competent Orthodox rabbi regarding the recitation of the blessing.
The blessing made for the taking of challah is "who sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us to separate challah." A common custom is to say "... to separate challah from the dough." This latter version is not recorded in the Shulchan Aruch, and the Taz, one of the principal commentators on the Shulchan Aruch, notes that he does not know the basis for it. Nonetheless, the custom in many circles is to add the words "from the dough."
Challah is taken only from five grains: wheat, oats, rye, spelt, and barley. Challah is not taken from rice, corn, or other grains with which dough may be made. Also, challah is taken once the flour and water have been mixed; it cannot be taken before the kneading has been done. And it should be taken before the dough is baked; nonetheless, if one neglected to separate challah before baking, she does so after baking. (In Passover matzoh baking, where we must complete the baking process quickly, we take challah only after baking.)
We separate challah from cake doughs as well as from bread doughs; however, if the majority of the liquid content is juice rather than water, we do not make the blessing. If none of the liquid is water, it is preferable to add a little water and separate challah. (For a detailed, practical exposition of the challah laws, see Spice and Spirit: The Complete Kosher Jewish Cookbook.)
The mitzvah of taking challah serves a number of purposes. It connects the mundane act of food preparation to G-d, by reminding us that He is the true owner of the land. It also establishes a bond between the common folk and the kohanim, the priests, who are ideally the recipients of the challah. The kohanim, by virtue of the fact that they were deeply involved in the service at the Temple, were unable to engage in farming on a regular basis. Challah, terumah, and the other gifts given them afforded the kohanim sustenance as they performed their work.
Today we do not give challah to the kohanim. While we do have kohanim in our midst, we are unable to verify their lineage beyond any doubt. A non-kohen is not permitted to eat challah. Therefore, we destroy the challah by burning it to the point that it is inedible. (Walk into a kosher pizza store, and you will often see a crisply burned ball of dough resting on top of the oven. This is the challah.)
Rabbi Yitzchak Hanoka is a Rabbinic Coordinator at the OK Labs
Originally published in The Jewish Homemaker
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April 25, 2014
Where and when is the best place to burn the challah that one separates? During the bread being baked? in the oven at the same time or not?
February 3, 2014
amount of dough vs amount of flour
Indeed you are correct. The measurement mentioned in Halachah is in flour measurements, not in dough.
Shaul Wolf
January 31, 2014
amount of dough vs amount of flour
In this article, it states that when five pounds of dough is kneaded, one must separate challah with a blessing. In other articles, the amount necessary is the use of five pounds of flour.
Can you please clarify for me?
Thank you,
March 8, 2013
why are we supposed to burn a peice of dough in the oven
February 4, 2013
challah on bagels
Do you take challah from bagels if they are boiled and then baked. Studying Pesachim and it differentiates between baking and fying or boiling. Also if you do take challah from bagels, at what point do you do so?
September 10, 2012
RE: burning the challah
You should not burn it at the same time that you are baking your bread, as you do not want the forbidden challah flavor to enter your bread.
Rabbi Menachem Posner
September 7, 2012
burning the challah
may the challah be burnt in the same oven at the same time I am baking my loaves?
brooklyn, ny
August 19, 2009
Using different liquids in challah recipes
If I use liquids other than water in my challah recipes (eg. soy milk, wine, juice, liquor, etc.) Is the challah still considered hamotzi? Can it be used as lechem mishne on shabbat? Is there a difference on this for Sephardim vs. Ashkenazim?
March 13, 2009
RE: which is it, kezayis or egg?
"which is it, kezayis or egg?"
A Kzayis.
See the gloss from Rabbi Moshe Isserlis to the Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deiah 322:5
Yehuda Shurpin
Brooklyn, NY
March 12, 2009
you write that "there is a widely observed custom to take a k'zayis, the size of an egg."
which is it, kezayis or egg?
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On May 13, 2012, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives will present the Second ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism, in the amount of $100,000, to Fredy Peccerelli, Executive Director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, and Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America at the National Security Archive. The award ceremony will take place at the Museum of the City of New York.
"Both Doyle and Peccerelli are indefatigable defenders of human rights who have played a seminal role in the fight against impunity in Latin America," said Sebastiaan Faber, Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA).
A determined and creative researcher-activist, Doyle has spent twenty years working tirelessly with Latin American human rights organizations and truth commissions – in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Peruto obtain the declassification of U.S. government archives in support of their investigations.
Peccerelli is an innovative forensic anthropologist whose work has been instrumental to the first-ever conviction of Guatemalan military forces for crimes against humanity. As founding director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG), Peccerelli leads a team that, over the past fifteen years, has exhumed hundreds of mass graves filled with victims of Guatemala's civil war.
The ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism, one of the largest human rights awards in the world, is granted annually by ALBA and the Puffin Foundation.
"The award is designed," said Puffin Foundation President Perry Rosenstein, "to give public recognition, support, and encouragement to individuals or groups whose work has an exceptionally positive impact on the advancement and/or defense of human rights. It is intended to help educate students and the general public about the importance of defending human rights against arbitrary powers that violate democratic principles."
The ALBA/Puffin Award is part of a program connecting the inspiring legacy of the International Brigades – the 40,000 volunteers who helped fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War – to international activist causes of today. Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón received the first ALBA/Puffin Award in May 2011.
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Entering Recovery Mode on Samsung Galaxy M30 (6GB RAM + 128GB)
Do you need to enter recovery mode on your Samsung Galaxy M30 (6GB RAM + 128GB) device? Are you struggling to access this important mode on your device? Do not worry as we have got you covered in this guide. In this guide, we will be discussing all the necessary steps that you need to follow in order to access recovery mode on your Samsung Galaxy M30 (6GB RAM + 128GB) device.
Why Entering Recovery Mode is Important
Most users may ask themselves why entering recovery mode is important in the first place. Here are some of the reasons why entering this mode is important:
- Recover lost data: With recovery mode, you can access certain data, which may be hidden in the core system of your device. Such data can be recovered with the recovery mode.
- Perform a Factory Reset: One of the most common means of speeding up a device is by performing a factory reset. Recovery mode allows you to directly access the core of your device to perform the reset.
- Install Firmware Updates: Firmware updates are an important means of adding new features to the devices. Moreover, new firmware updates also fix bugs and other irregularities in devices. To install such updates, you will need to access recovery mode.
- Other Tasks: Other than just the mentioned tasks, the recovery mode also allows you to perform other tasks, such as clearing the cache memory, wipe data, and so on.
How to Enter Recovery Mode on Samsung Galaxy M30 (6GB RAM + 128GB)
Now that you know why the Recovery mode is important, it is now time to discuss the steps of entering the recovery mode on Samsung Galaxy M30 (6GB RAM + 128GB). Here are the steps that you need to follow:
- Step 1: First of all, turn off your Samsung Galaxy M30 (6GB RAM + 128GB) device completely.
- Step 2: After the device is turned off, press and hold the Volume Up and Power Button together for a few seconds.
- Step 3: You will now see a screen with the Android robot icon.
- Step 4: By using the Volume Up and Down keys, go to the 'Recovery Mode' option.
- Step 5: Now, press the Power Button to select the 'Recovery Mode' option to enter it.
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The People HR modules enable you to monitor events in your People HR account.
Getting Started with People HR
- A People HR account
- API license activated in your People HR account
In order to use People HR with Integromat, it is necessary to have a People HR account. If you do not have one, you can create a People HR free trial account at _URL_
Connecting People HR to Integromat
To connect your People HR account to Integromat you need to generate an API Key in your People HR account.
1. Log in to your People HR account.
2. Go to Settings > API.
3. Click the PLUS (+) button to generate a new API Key.
4. Enter the name for the API Key and select applications you want to access using the API Key, then click Save.
5. Click the copy icon () to copy the generated API key.
6. Go to Integromat and open the People HR module's Create a connection dialog.
7. Enter the API Key you have copied in step 5 to the respective field, enter your People HR login credentials, and click the Continue button to establish the connection.
The connection has been established. You can proceed with setting up the module.
Triggers when an action is performed in your People HR account.
The webhook URL needs to be generated in Integromat and then added to People HR API settings.
1. Add the Watch Events module to your Integromat scenario.
2. Generate and copy the webhook URL.
3. Log in to your People HR account.
4. Go to Settings > API.
5. Paste the webhook URL you have copied in step 2 above to the Webhook URL field.
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Birdie Meaning
What does Birdie mean?
The name Birdie is of English and American origin.
The meaning of Birdie is "little bird, birdlike".
Birdie is generally used as a girl's name.
The Given Name Birdie
A simple name, Birdie possesses great character.
A creative name, that may be just right for you.
Birdie falls into the bird name category.
Birdie Popularity
In the U.S. in 2015, it ranked 2,761 in baby name popularity for girls with 63 occurrences. Less than 5 boys were given the name.
In contrast, the year before it ranked 3,714 in baby name popularity for girls with 41 occurrences. Less than 5 boys were given the name.
Birdie Related Names
Variants of the name Birdie include Birdena, Birdine.
Famous Birdies
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haulm definition by Webster's New World
- the stalks or stems of cultivated cereal plants, beans, peas, etc., esp. after the crop has been gathered
- straw or hay used for thatching, bedding, etc.
- a stem of grass or grain
Origin: Middle English halm ; from Old English healm, halm, straw, akin to German halm ; from Indo-European an unverified form olemos, reed, cane from source Classical Greek kalamos, Classical Latin culmus
haulm definition by American Heritage Dictionary
noun Chiefly British
Origin: Middle English halm, straw, from Old English healm.

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Sustainability at CPA Ireland
The Climate Action Plan has set targets to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050.
At CPA Ireland, we are working with many stakeholders in the area of sustainability to create a sustainability strategy that will benefit our students, members and wider society.
As well as building long term strategies, CPA Ireland has already committed to:
- Being at the forefront of change on sustainability matters in the accountancy profession in Ireland
- Supporting and educating students and members with the tools and resources to develop sustainability strategies
In order to achieve our sustainability strategy goals, CPA Ireland is committed to:
- Auditing our carbon footprint
- Reducing the organisation's carbon emissions
- Offsetting carbon emissions by working with external partners on carbon offset projects
- Pledging to plant a tree for every annual conference attendee in 2021
- Pledging to plant a tree for every student registration in 2021 & 2022
- Educating our trainees and members
CPA Ireland have partnered with Hometree to offset carbon emissions.


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Are Christian Grandparents Appreciated?
Updated: Mar 30
Our recent research explored the experiences and perceptions of some Christian grandparents.
It seems that whilst there is widespread awareness of the value of Christian grandparents, this understanding is often implicit and unspoken, leading to grandparents frequently feeling under-valued and dis-empowered by the wider Christian community. It is proposed that this must be urgently addressed in order to bring about a paradigm shift to raise the profile of this demographic within churches across the UK. The effect of greater visibility, equipping and empowering of grandparents to take an active and intentional role in the spiritual nurture of their grandchildren (and pseudo grandchildren!) could be phenomenal in enhancing the faith lives of many children who are connected with church; whether they attend regularly or only occasionally.
Equally, mobilising this sector of congregations to share their spiritual insights and model their faith to younger generations could transform the richness of church life. Ultimately, if taken seriously, this call to better serve the grandparents within UK churches may bring about considerable growth in the faith interactions of children in the home, local church or wider-church context.
READ THE MAINSTREAM REPORT BELOW: (Published online 2020)
READ THE ACADEMIC PAPER BELOW: (Published in Review of Religious Research 2022)


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What are traditional West African crops?
Long ago, hundreds of leaves, roots, tubers, corms, rhizomes, bulbs, seeds, buds, shoots, stems, pods, or flowers were eaten. Yet across Africa today the main vegetables are crops such as sweet potato, cooking banana (plantain), cassava, peanut, common bean, peppers, eggplant, and cucumber.
What crop is indigenous to West Africa?
Many foods were originally domesticated in West Africa, including grains like African rice, Pearl Millet, Sorghum, and Fonio; tree crops like Kola nut, used in Coca-Cola, and Oil Palm; and other globally important plant foods such as Watermelon, Okra, Black-eye peas, and Yams.
What crops does the West grow?
Farmers in these areas grow specific types of crops. In the Mountain West you will find wheat, potatoes, cabbage, and onions. Colorado and Montana have wheat farms. Idaho is famous for its potatoes.
What were some early crops grown in West Africa?
But another early cradle of agriculture lay thousands of kilometers away, around West Africa's Niger River Basin, a flurry of plant genomic studies is showing. Several of the continent's traditional food crops got their start there: a cereal called pearl millet and Africa's own version of rice.
What plants grow in West Africa?
5 Top West African Healing Plants and Herbal Remedies
- Aloe. Flickr: titanium22. …
- Neem. Neem trees originally come from India. …
- Kenkiliba (also "kenkeliba") The leaves of the kenkiliba bush are known through Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, and Burkina Faso as a strong tonic for well-being and longevity. …
- Baobab Oil. …
What is agriculture in West Africa?
West African agriculture ranges from nomadic pastoralism in the far north to root-crop and tree-crop systems in the south. … In the Sahelian zone, millet and sorghum are the predominant crops, transitioning to maize, groundnuts, and cowpeas farther south in the Sudanian zone.
What are the main crops grown in Africa?
Africa produces all the principal grains—corn, wheat, and rice—in that order of importance. Corn has the widest distribution, being grown in virtually all ecological zones. Highest yields per acre are recorded in Egypt and on the Indian Ocean islands of Réunion and Mauritius, areas where production is under irrigation.
What are some traditional African foods?
15 of Africa's favorite dishes
- Pap en vleis/Shisa nyama, South Africa. Feast your eyes on these succulent steaks. …
- Piri piri chicken, Mozambique. Stop. …
- Jollof rice and egusi soup, Nigeria. …
- Bunny chow, South Africa. …
- Kapenta with sadza, Zimbabwe. …
- Chambo with nsima, Malawi. …
- Namibian venison, Namibia. …
- Muamba de Galinha, Angola.
What crops came from Europe and Africa?
Europe, Africa, and Asia
People in Europe were introduced to maize (a type of corn), potatoes and sweet potatoes, beans and squashes, tomatoes, avocados, papaya, pineapples, peanuts, chili peppers, and cacao (the raw form of cocoa). New crops from America changed how Europeans lived and farmed.
What is types of crops?
Categories of Crops in India
- Food Crops (Wheat, Maize, Rice, Millets and Pulses etc.)
- Cash Crops (Sugarcane, Tobacco, Cotton, Jute and Oilseeds etc.)
- Plantation Crops (Coffee, Coconut, Tea, and Rubber etc.)
- Horticulture crops (Fruits and Vegetables)
What foods are grown in the West Region?
Crops grown in this area include apricots, almonds, strawberries, cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, grapes, asparagus, oranges, cotton, corn and much more. Potatoes, green beans, onions, and broccoli are also grown in the valley. Washington is known for its apples. Washington produces more apples than any other state.
What is the number 1 crop in the world?
1. Corn. The rundown: Corn is the most produced grain in the world.
What is the most common food item in West Africa?
To most West Africans, foods like yams, corn, cassava, rice, and groundnuts are indispensable in their diet. Other common foods are green vegetables, dried peas, pumpkin, squash, eggplants, okra, garlic, and tomatoes. A few common dishes in West Africa are gari and fufu.
What crops are grown in southeastern Africa?
Citrus fruits, including oranges and grapefruit, are grown for export primarily along the southern coast of South Africa and the Mediterranean coast of North Africa. A number of vegetables—including tomatoes, onions, cabbages, peppers, okra, eggplants, and cucumbers—are raised in Africa.
What were the first crops domesticated in Africa?
The first native African grass to be domesticated was pearl millet.


Benchmarks
To get a grip of the actual performance of Pymunk this page contains a number of benchmarks.
The full code of all benchmarks are available under the benchmarks folder.
Note that the the benchmarks are not yet updated for Pymunk 6.0, but tests look promising.
Micro benchmarks
In order to measure the overhead created by Pymunk in the most common cases I have created two micro benchmarks. They should show the speed of the actual wrapping code, which can tell how big overhead Pymunk creates, and how big difference different wrapping methods does.
The most common thing a typical program using Pymunk does is to read out the position and angle from a Pymunk object. Usually this is done each frame for every object in the simulation, so this is a important factor in how fast something will be.
Given this our first test is:
t += b.position.x + b.position.y + b.angle
(see pymunk-get.py)
Running it is simple, for example like this for pymunk 4.0:
> python -m pip install pymunk==4.0
> python pymunk-get.py
The second test we do is based on the second heavy thing we can do, and that is using a callback, for example as a collision handler or a position function:
def f(b,dt):
 b.position += (1,0)
s.step(0.01)
(see pymunk-callback.py)
Results:
Tests run on a HP G1 1040 laptop with a Intel i7-4600U. Laptop runs Windows, and the tests were run inside a VirtualBox VM running 64bit Debian. The CPython tests uses CPython from Conda, while the Pypy tests used a manually downloaded Pypy. CPython 2.7 is using Cffi 1.7, the other tests Cffi 1.8.
Remember that these results doesn't tell you how you game/application will perform, they can more be seen as a help to identify performance issues and know differences between Pythons.
Pymunk-Get:
CPython 2.7.12
CPython 3.5.2
Pypy 5.4.1
Pymunk 5.1
2.1s
2.2s
0.36s
Pymunk 5.0
4.3s
4.5s
0.37s
Pymunk 4.0
1.0s
0.9s
0.52s
Pymunk-Callback:
CPython 2.7.12
CPython 3.5.2
Pypy 5.4.1
Pymunk 5.1
5.7s
6.8s
1.1s
Pymunk 5.0
6.5s
7.3s
1.0s
Pymunk 4.0
5.1s
6.5s
4.5s
What we can see from these results is that you should use Pypy if you have the possibility since that is much faster than regular CPython. We can also see that moving from Ctypes to Cffi between Pymunk 4 and 5 had a negative impact in CPython, but positive impact on Pypy, and Pymunk 5 together with Pypy is with a big margin the fastest option.
The speed increase between 5.0 and 5.1 happened because the Vec2d class and how its handled internally in Pymunk was changed to improve performance.
Compared to Other Physics Libraries
Cymunk
Cymunk is an alternative wrapper around Chipmunk. In contrast to Pymunk it uses Cython for wrapping (Pymunk uses CFFI) which gives it a different performance profile. However, since both are built around Chipmunk the overall speed will be very similar, only when information passes from/to Chipmunk will there be a difference. This is exactly the kind of overhead that the micro benchmarks are made to measure.
Cymunk is not as feature complete as Pymunk, so in order to compare with Pymunk we have to make some adjustments. A major difference is that it does not implement the position_func function, so instead we do an alternative callback test using the collision handler:
h = s.add_default_collision_handler()
def f(arb):
 return false
h.pre_solve = f
s.step(0.01)
(see pymunk-collision-callback.py and cymunk-collision-callback.py)
Results
Tests run on a HP G1 1040 laptop with a Intel i7-4600U. Laptop runs Windows, and the tests were run inside a VirtualBox VM running 64bit Debian. The CPython tests uses CPython from Conda, while the Pypy tests used a manually downloaded Pypy. Cffi version 1.10.0 and Cython 0.25.2.
Since Cymunk doesnt have a proper release I used the latest master from its Github repository, hash 24845cc retrieved on 2017-09-16.
Get:
CPython 3.5.3
Pypy 5.8
Pymunk 5.3
2.14s
0.33s
Cymunk 20170916
0.41s
(10.0s)
Collision-Callback:
CPython 3.5.3
Pypy 5.8
Pymunk 5.3
3.71s
0.58s
Pymunk 20170916
0.95s
(7.01s)
(Cymunk results on Pypy within parentheses since Cython is well known to be slow on Pypy)
What we can see from these results is that Cymunk on CPython is much faster than Pymunk on CPython, but Pymunk takes the overall victory when we include Pypy.
Something we did not take into account is that you can trade convenience for performance and use Cython in the application code as well to speed things up. I think this is the approach used in KivEnt which is the primary user of Cymunk. However, that requires a much more complicated setup when you develop your application because of the compiler requirements and code changes.


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A detailed analysis of the meteorological data from the Malaga Airport recording station has revealed that it rained on only 232 days in five years but in half of these dates less than five millimetres of rain fell and in a third less than 1mm fell. The longest period without a drop of rain occurred between 25 April 2019 and 14 September 2019. And in nine of the 72 months that make up the study period, from 2019, not a single drop of rain fell.
The analysis of the data provided by Spain's Met Office (Aemet) to SUR gives a true measure of the serious drought situation that Malaga province is going through. In the five-year period from 2019 to 2023, 1,613.2mm of rainfall was recorded at the airport which equates to a poor average of 322.6mm per year.
During the study period, there were 45 days with more than 10mm of rainfall, 21 days with more than 20mm; 14 days with more than 30mm; eight days with more than 40mm; and four days in which the rain gauge registered more than 50mm.
The wettest days were: on 8 January 2021 (61.7mm); 20 March 2019 (60.3mm); and 25 March 2022 (60.2mm). A good amount of rainfall also occurred between 20 and 25 January 2020, in the run-up to the pandemic when it rained five days in a row with an accumulated total of 145mm.
It is known that 2023 was the driest year since official records were kept in 1942. Last year, rain fell on only 37 days, with an accumulated total recorded at Malaga Airport of 179.3mm. The second driest year was in 2019 when rain fell on just 31 days with an accumulated total of 207.2mm. The best year was 2020 when it rained on 56 days with an accumulated total of 459.8mm.
The drought of 1995, which was the culmination of a very poor five years in terms of rainfall, is still very clear in the memory of many people. Since 1990 and in the successive years, only 330mm, 398mm, 320mm, 468mm, 304mm, and 315mm of rain was recorded at the airport. In 1996, it rained, and it rained a lot: 1,120mm, similar to the 1,307mm of 1978 and the 1,169mm of 2010.
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This brief paper considers multirate control from the viewpoint of computation saving. When a digital control system involves multiple actuators with different bandwidths, feedback loops may be closed at different rates: a fast rate for a high bandwidth loop and a slow rate for a low bandwidth loop. Multirate implementation of a single loop controller is possible by decomposing the control algorithm to fast and slow rate blocks. Such implementations of digital controllers will reduce the total amount of computation. The slow rate part of the controller may be further decomposed and interlaced so that computation saving by multirate control may be distributed uniformly at all fast rate sampling instances. The performance of multirate control implementations for computation saving are applied to the dual actuator track following problem of computer hard disk drives (HDDs). The experimental results show that the multirate implementations achieve regulation performance of the position error signal at about the same level as the single-rate implementation while realizing significant computation saving.


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Let $A$ be a finite, Abelian, additive group. Let $A^{*} = Hom(A, \mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z})$ denote the group of homomorphisms $f$ from $A$ to $\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$. Take for granted that $A^{*}$ is an Abelian group (I have already proved this). Prove that $A$ is isomorphic to $A^{*}$ if $A$ is cyclic.
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What's the group operation on $A^*$? $(f \cdot g)(a) = f(a) \cdot g(a)$? – Clive Newstead Oct 30 '12 at 18:30
That is indeed the case! – user44069 Oct 30 '12 at 18:36
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Hint: If $A$ is cyclic, and $a$ generates it, then every homomorphism $f:A\to G$ is completely determined by $f(a)$.
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Welcome to Franklin Primary School. Franklin Primary was established in 1860, making it one of the oldest schools in Tasmania. We are a school of approximately 140 students located in a natural bushland setting bordered by Prices Creek. A focus of our school grounds is the "Big Tree", a giant Redwood tree planted in 1901. Our school and its beautiful surrounds provides a unique environment for children to grow and to realise their individual potential. Catering for children Kindergarten to Grade 6, in both single and composite classes, children are taught using a variety of teaching approaches ranging from large group activities to specialist programs. We also run a weekly Launching into Learning Early Years program for children birth to 4 years and their parents/carers.
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Eclipse observation and record was a very important ritual formality in old Chinese dynasties. As generally impresses, this process was objective and scientific. This paper analyzed the eclipse data collected from the observational reports submitted to throne by the Astronomical Bureau of the Qing Dynasty·It was discovered that the data in the observational reports from late Kangxi to early Xianfeng reigns were very largely transcribed from the eclipse predictions issued by the Astronomical Bureau before every eclipse. This indicates that the process of eclipse observation and record in the Qing Dynasty was not so objective and scientific as researchers imagines.The most impossible reasons for this phenomenon are that 1·the authorities of Dynasty upheld the supremacy of the so一called "royally decided" calendar and shared an unreasonable conceit on the precision of that calendar in such things as eclipse prediction; 2 .missionaries wanted to conceal the errors in order to maintain their status in government of Qing Dynasty and to spread the Christianism; 3 .the officials in Qintianjian (Astronomy Bureau of Qing Dynasty) wanted to keep their own benefits.
A Perspective into the Eclipse Observations and Records of the Qing Dynasty ( p . 44 )


extractMS: Extract embedded mass spectrometry data
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View source: R/MsDat-API.R
Description
Extract mass spectrometry data from an object with class binMS, class filterMS, or class msDat.
Usage
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extractMS(msObj, type = "matrix")
Arguments
msObj
An an object with class binMS, class filterMS, or class msDat.
type
A character string with value either "matrix", or "msDat". If "matrix" is provided as the argument, then the mass-to-charge values, charge values, and mass spectrometry data are combined into a single matrix and returned. If "msDat" is provided as the argument, then an msDat object containing this data is returned.
Details
A convenience function for extracting and inspecting the mass spectrometry data in a binMS, filterMS, or msDat object. binMS and filterMS objects are lists that contain an msDat object, and specifying "msDat" for type merely returns the msDat element from the list for these classes of object. specifying "msDat" for an object with class "msDat" merely returns the argument, i.e. is the identity function. When "matrix" is specified, then the elements in the embedded msDat object are combined into a single matrix using cbind and returned.
Value
Returns either a matrix containing the mass spectrometry data if "matrix" is specified as the argument to type, or an object with class msDat if "msDat" is specified as the argument to type. See Details for more detail regarding the return objects.
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- Can you cook a dead crab?
- Do crabs die instantly in boiling water?
- Can fish come back to life if frozen?
- Does freezing kill crabs?
- How long can live crabs be frozen?
- Is boiling crabs alive cruel?
- How do you store crabs in the freezer?
- Do Crabs feel pain?
- How do I cook frozen crabs?
- How long can a crab be dead before cooking?
- Does ice water kill crabs?
- Can frozen lobsters come back to life?
- Do crabs come alive after being frozen?
- Should I thaw frozen crabs before cooking?
- How do you humanely kill a crab?
Can you cook a dead crab?
Curstaceans, like crabs and lobsters, have bacteria beneath their shell which start growing rapidly when the crustaceans die.
And so, crustaceans are cooked alive.
That being said, its is okay to cook a crab which has been dead for only an hour or two but not more than that..
Do crabs die instantly in boiling water?
Crabs take four to five minutes to die in boiling water, while lobsters take three minutes. … While crabs remain silent when boiled alive, they shed their claws and legs as a defence mechanism and, because of this, are often put in fresh water and drowned for eight hours as an alternative.
Can fish come back to life if frozen?
It's alive! Incredible moment a frozen tuna fish is brought back to life after being defrosted with warm water. Footage has emerged of a frozen fish being 'brought back to life' after being defrosted in warm water. … Fish can survive this kind of freezing cold because they contain 'antifreeze' proteins in their blood.
Does freezing kill crabs?
Does freezing a crab kill it? At home, the most humane method at present of killing a crab is first to lower its body temperature, before spiking it. … Putting crabs in the freezer for two hours will generally kill most of them.
How long can live crabs be frozen?
eight to ten monthsEach crab should be individually wrapped in plastic cling wrap before freezing. After they are frozen, the wrapped crabs should be put in a heavy-duty, zipper-type freezer bag for storage. Frozen soft-shell crabs can be held for eight to ten months."
Is boiling crabs alive cruel?
Crabs and lobsters have a tough time at the hands of humans. … Nevertheless, if you care about animal welfare, you should care what happens to crabs and lobsters. Consider live boiling. The animal often takes minutes to die, during which it writhes around and sheds its limbs.
How do you store crabs in the freezer?
Pull out the stomach and gills and discard them. Make sure to pull off the flap and mouth and discard them as well. Either put the entire crab in a heavy-duty freezer bag or break its body in half and rinse it under cold water before freezing it in the shell.
Do Crabs feel pain?
Crabs have well-developed senses of sight, smell, and taste, and research indicates that they have the ability to sense pain. They have two main nerve centers, one in the front and one to the rear, and—like all animals who have nerves and an array of other senses—they feel and react to pain.
How do I cook frozen crabs?
Place a steam basket at the bottom of a large stockpot with 1 cup of water. Add as many crab legs as your pot will accommodate and still close the lid tightly. Bring the water to a boil then cover and steam cook until fragrant and steaming hot (about 5 minutes for thawed or 10 minutes for frozen crab legs).
How long can a crab be dead before cooking?
It's best to cook them within 10 or 15 minutes of dying in order to preserve the meat for as long as possible. If they're kept cool, crabs can be cooked 24-48 hours after they die but the flavor and texture are going to suffer.
Does ice water kill crabs?
A: Crabs can live for several days out of water as long as they are healthy and are kept cool, moist, and stress-free. The optimal temperature is about 50° F., anything colder will ultimately kill them. … If using ice, be sure to fasten a shelf to keep the crabs out of the melted ice water.
Can frozen lobsters come back to life?
BOSTON — Call it cryonics for crustaceans. A Connecticut company says its frozen lobsters sometimes come back to life when thawed. Trufresh began freezing lobsters with a technique it used for years on salmon after an offhand suggestion by some workers. It found that some lobsters revived after their subzero sojourns.
Do crabs come alive after being frozen?
If they have been frozen solid – then no. If they have only been chilled, then they might come back to life. Freezing destroys tissue.
Should I thaw frozen crabs before cooking?
To thaw your crab legs, leave them in your refrigerator for at least 12 hours or until thawed. This is the safest method, because the crab remains at a safe temperature throughout the thawing process. Failing that, thaw the frozen legs by running cold water over them in a sink or large bowl.
How do you humanely kill a crab?
Crabs can be killed by rapid destruction of both nerve centres by piercing both ganglia from the underside of the crab with a pointed spike (e.g. a thick, pointed pithing instrument, an awl or a sharp-pointed knife). Spiking must not be performed on lobsters because they have a long chain of nerve centres.


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i have this exercice Let the problem $$y'=f(y) g(x), y(x_0)=y_0$$ if $f(y_0)=0$ what are the conditions on $f$ for the probleme admits a unique solution thank's
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Use the Picard-Lindeloef's Theorem to give a sufficient condition... – Alex Apr 19 '13 at 22:24
$f(y)$ has to be Lipschetz continuous by Picard-Lindeloef's theorem. – Mhenni Benghorbal Apr 19 '13 at 22:45
We use Picard theorem to $f(y) g(x)$ not just to $f(y).$ or not? – lili Apr 19 '13 at 22:48
_USER_: Read the theorem carefully, if $y'=G(x,y)$, then we require $G$ to be Lipschitz continuous in $y$ and continuous in $x$. – Mhenni Benghorbal Apr 19 '13 at 23:12
ok! $f(y)$ must be lipschitz. But why lipschitz continuous? if $f$ is lipschiz, so she is continuous! – lili Apr 20 '13 at 9:30
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$$f(y)g(x)=h(x,y) $$
If both $h(x,y)$ and $\displaystyle\frac{\partial h}{\partial y}(x,y) $ are continuous over some rectangle $R$ then for $(x_{0},y_{0})\in R$ the solution exists and it is unique
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Modeling the effect of varying seawater temperature and carbon concentration on coral life expectancy
A NetLogo-based model has been used to simulate the life expectancy of corals under different parameters. The model focuses on exogenous variables initial temperature of the system and carbon concentration. The simulation has been divided into three parts–varying initial temperature, varying carbon concentration, and extreme temperatures. Results have shown that as the initial temperature increases, the time it took to wipeout the population of corals decreases. Additionally, simulating 29°C initial temperature has shown that corals stopped reproducing. As for carbon concentration, carbon molecules act as catalysts in seawater temperature increase resulting in faster coral-population wipeout for high number of carbon molecules and contribute to ocean acidification. Lastly, coral health rapidly depletes for extreme temperatures. The number of carbon molecules in the system and the initial temperature of the system have been shown to be high-leverage variables.


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Section 5: Driveway Angle
Two-way driveways should intersect the roadway at an angle of ninety degrees unless it is determined that a lesser angle will provide satisfactory traffic operations for the highway. Suggested limiting values on driveway angles are:
Residential Driveway: 75o
Commercial Driveway: 75o; commercial driveways expected to have a volume of 400 vehicles per day or two or more trucks/large vehicles in a one-hour period shall be designed as normal intersections (public driveway).
Normal Intersection (Public Driveway), Service Driveway and Field Driveway: 80o.
The angle of intersection between the centerline of a one-way driveway and the edge of pavement of the public roadway may be between forty-five (45o) and ninety degrees (90o). Sixty degrees (60o) is a commonly used angle for one-way driveways.


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SQS as a write stream.
Installation
npm i node-sqs-stream
or
yarn add node-sqs-stream
Link to Github project - _URL_
If you've worked in Node.js for a while, you've probably heard of streams. I spent years knowing that streams exist, but never understood how they worked. Streams are one of the fundamental concepts that power Node.js applications. I learnt how streams work only recently and have been applying them in my projects for great results.
Node SQS Stream
A Writable stream interface for AWS SQS. Stream data to AWS SQS directly from your read/transform streams. Uses SQS batch send to reduce costs. Batteries not included! Pass in your sqs client:
const sqsClient = new AWS.SQS({apiVersion: '2012-11-05'});
const sqsStream = new SQSWritableStream({
 sqsClient: sqsClient,
 queueUrl: 'http://example-sqs-url',
});
someStream.pipe(sqsStream);
Motivation
I had a use case where the contents of an entire Postgres database had to be transformed and then pushed to a SQS queue. One way to do this was to fetch results from Postgres in batches, transform and then send to SQS. However, while waiting for the next batch from Postgres, the process was essentially idle. This time could have been utilized for transformation or sending data to SQS also. The final solution was to stream results from Postgres using the excellent pg-query-stream, use a custom Transform stream for my data transformation and then pipe the results into node-sqs-stream.
Why Streams
Consider a use case where you need to run a series of tasks on a collection of data. For example - Read data from a file, convert it to upper case and then write it back to another file. Your code might look like this:
const fs = require('fs');
//Callbacks
fs.readFile('in.txt', (err, data) => {
 if (err) return;
 const upperCase = data.toString().toUpperCase();
 fs.writeFile('out.txt', upperCase, (err, result) => {
 if (err) return;
 console.log('done callbacks');
 });
});
// Promises
fs.promises.readFile('in.txt')
 .then(data => data.toString().toUpperCase())
 .then(data => fs.promises.writeFile('out.txt', data))
 .then(result => console.log('done promises'))
 .catch(err => console.error(err));
// Async Await
(async () => {
 try {
 const data = await fs.promises.readFile('in.txt');
 const upperCase = data.toString().toUpperCase();
 await fs.promises.writeFile('out.txt', upperCase);
 console.log('done async/await');
 } catch (error) {
 console.error(error);
 }
})();
While all this is pretty straightforward, what happens when the file size is larger than available memory? All three methods above load the complete contents of the file in memory, modify them in memory and then write it back to another file. Streams can help us solve this problem. We can view the operation as 3 independent steps:
 1. Read bytes from a file
 2. Convert bytes to string and then uppercase it
 3. Write bytes to a file
The above code looks like this when implemented with streams:
const fs = require('fs');
// Read Stream
const inStream = fs.createReadStream('in.txt');
// Write Stream
const outStream = fs.createWriteStream('out.txt');
// Custom Transform Stream
const upperCaser = new Transform({
 transform(chunk, encoding, callback) {
 this.push(chunk.toString().toUpperCase());
 callback();
 }
});
// Push data from inStream -> upperCaser -> outStream
inStream.pipe(upperCaser).pipe(outStream);
You can run this code on a file with infinite size with limited memory resources. There are many resources online to explain how streams work in detail, but my TL;DR version is this:
Imagine a stream is dam. A dam has finite capacity. Water from the river keeps on flowing towards the dam. When the dam becomes full, it is opened till it can hold water again.
In the NodeJS world, each stream has a buffer. When the buffer is full, the contents of the buffer are sent to the next stream as a "chunk".
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Item Code: 187446
Australian Geographic Motorised Planetarium Star Globe features constellations from the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Hear dreamy clestial sounds as you watch the stars and constellations go by.
Motorised rotation just like it does in the sky.
Transform a darkened room into an outer space light show.
Inspire the future astronomer to explore the mysteries of space with this motorised planetaium projector that lights up at night.
Inspire the future astronomer to explore the mysteries of space with this motorised planetarium projector that lights up at night. Includes an instruction manual with detailed diagrams of what your budding astronomer can see when they turn on the planetarium.


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ReQL command: distinct
Command syntax
sequence.distinct() → array
table.distinct([{index: }]) → stream
r.distinct(sequence) → array
r.distinct(table, [{index: }]) → stream
Removes duplicates from elements in a sequence.
The distinct command can be called on any sequence or table with an index.
While distinct can be called on a table without an index, the only effect will be to convert the table into a stream; the content of the stream will not be affected.
Example: Which unique villains have been vanquished by Marvel heroes?
r.table('marvel').concatMap(function(hero) {
 return hero('villainList')
}).distinct().run(conn, callback)
Example: Topics in a table of messages have a secondary index on them, and more than one message can have the same topic. What are the unique topics in the table?
r.table('messages').distinct({index: 'topics'}).run(conn, callback)
The above structure is functionally identical to:
r.table('messages')('topics').distinct().run(conn, callback)
However, the first form (passing the index as an argument to distinct) is faster, and won't run into array limit issues since it's returning a stream.
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text: White Bear Photonics offers high quality standard cuvettes from Starna. These cuvettes are offered in glass or quartz. Quartz materials are used when measurements below 320 nm are required, which require high signal to noise. Glass cuvettes are often used more often in the visible and near infrared. Most spectrometer applications use 10 mm pathlengths, depending on the sample optical density, shorter or longer pathlengths are available.


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Judy Port wants to change the text color in desktop icon captions.
Microsoft doesn't provide that option, but there's a trick to turning the default white text to black. You can also turn off the drop shadows.
In fact, you have to turn off the drop shadows before you can change the color: Select Start, then Run, type sysdm.cpl, and press ENTER. Click the Advanced tab. In the Performance box, click the Settings button. Scroll down to and uncheck Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop. Click OK for each box.
Now that the drop shadows are gone, you can turn the letters black by selecting a light background color. If you're saying "What background color? I have wallpaper!" don't worry. There's a background color behind your wallpaper (or desktop background in Vista); you don't see it, but it effects the color of your text.
To change this color in Vista, right-click the desktop and select Personalize. Click Desktop Background. Pull down the Location menu and select Solid Colors. Click the white square (if you want white text, pick the black square). Don't worry if the desktop suddenly turns ugly. You're about to fix that.
Now return to the Location menu and select the location where you'd find your wallpaper. Select the wallpaper, then click OK.
Although the same principles apply in XP, there's one big difference. Once you turn off the drop shadows, potentially ugly boxes appear around the captions. If you pick white as your background color (like I recommended with Vista), they look particularly ugly. Choosing the right background color will improve the look of the desktop..
Right-click the desktop and select Properties. Click the Desktop tab. Pull down the Color menu in the lower right corner and select a background color. Pick one that blends in well with your wallpaper, but if you want black text, it must be a light color. Click Apply to see how it looks.


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Turning on the Enable Short Links for Processes feature allows administrators to share a direct short link to the initial form in a process. When this setting is enabled, follow the steps below to copy the short link for a process:
From the Edit Process Summary dropdown in the process, click the link icon next to the name of the process.
Make sure the toggle switch is green, indicating the link is active. Click the copy icon to copy the link to your clipboard. This can now be pasted into an email or other communication with applicants.
- If a user who has not already created a profile within the site uses this link, they will first be brought to the registration page.
- For a process with Restricted visibility, the applicant will not need to enter an Access Code if they use this short link.
The short link will lead to an "Inactive Link" message in the following instances:
- Process is turned off
- Not within the process start and end date range
- The process is set to Internal visibility
- Link has been deactivated in the process by an administrator


text: Deduplication is an effective way to improve storage utilization by eliminating redundant copies of duplicate data and replacing them with logical pointers to the unique copy. At present, it has been widely used in backup and archive systems. However, most of the existing deduplication systems use hashing to compute and compare data chunks to determine whether they are redundant. The Hash-based exact match is too strict for many applications, for example image deduplication. To solve this problem, a fast and accurate image deduplication approach is presented. We firstly give the definition of duplicate images according to the characteristics of Web images, and then divide image deduplication into two stages: duplicate image detection and duplicate image deduplication. In the first stage, we use perceptual hashing to improve image retrieval speed and multiple filters to improve image retrieval accuracy. In the second stage, we use fuzzy logic reasoning to select the proper centroid-images from duplicate image sets by simulating the process of human thinking. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach not only has a fast and accurate ability to detect duplicate images, but also meets users'perceptive requirements in the selection of centroid-images.


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Indigenous community liaison officers liaise with Indigenous communities and the state or territory police forces in order to establish and maintain positive relationships. Indigenous community liaison officers usually have limited police powers, although in certain circumstances they may assist police officers with law enforcement tasks such as arrest, search and detainment. This type of position will involve shift work, weekend and public holiday work, with positions in urban and rural communities. Having an Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander background is encouraged. The number of positions available is growing, but is dependant on the number of Indigenous Australians and police in an area, as well as community funding.
Roles of an Indigenous Community Liaison Officer include:
- Developing and maintaining contacts between the police and the local Indigenous communities to strengthen cooperation and communication between the parties
- Improving community knowledge about police services and law and order issues
- To advise, assist and educate police officers on cross-cultural awareness, potential crime and disorder areas and how to address these issues in order to improve relations
- Represent and advocate for Indigenous people at committee meetings and juvenile hearings
- Aid Indigenous recruitment, retention, career management and development strategies
Due to the level of involvement with police and the power bestowed on an individual by the role, it is essential that a person in this position have a sound character, an acceptable traffic/criminal record, be medically fit, have good communication skills, understanding of Indigenous cultures, and enjoy working with people.


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Medical Term:
Pronunciation: klōr-ō′sis
Definition: Rarely used term for a form of chronic hypochromic microcytic (iron deficiency) anemia, characterized by a great reduction in hemoglobin out of proportion to the decreased number of red blood cells; observed chiefly in females from puberty to the third decade and usually associated with diets deficient in iron and protein.
Synonym(s): asiderotic anemia, chloremia1, chloroanemia, chlorotic anemia, green sickness
[chloro- + G. -osis, condition]


of running with multiple processes as you need to consider that each process will use up to the nominal maximum amount that your web application uses. Thus, how much memory your web application uses dictates how many separate processes you can use in a multi process configuration before you run out of system memory.
When using the Tornado web server though there is a hidden trap which I don't believe many would appreciate exists and would have done something about.
The issue in this case is that when the Tornado web server receives a request which contains request content, it will by default read all that request content into memory before even passing the request to the handler for that request. This is noted in the Tornado documentation by the statement:
By default uploaded files are fully buffered in memory; if you need to handle files that are too large to comfortably keep in memory see the stream_request_body class decorator.
It is a little detail, but the potential impacts of it are significant. This is because of the fact that Tornado can in theory process so many requests at the same time and so those concurrent requests can each be buffering up to 100MB at the same time and so blowing out memory usage. In fact, I am not even sure if there is a hard limit.
Even if there is a hard limit it is likely to be set to be quite high. Such a limit isn't therefore generally going to help, as Tornado will only block requests automatically when the request content length is specified as being greater than 100MB in size. If chunked request content were being sent, it can't even block it as the amount of request content will not be known in advance, so it still has to read and buffer the request content to work out the size and whether the limit is reached.
With such a high default limit and there being no effective limit that can be applied at the outset for chunked request content, it is actually relatively easy, as a result of the buffering, to cause a Tornado web application to use up huge amounts of memory. This doesn't even need to be the result of a concerted denial of service attack by a malicious actor. Instead, if you are using Tornado for handling large file uploads and need to deal with slow clients such as mobiles, then many concurrent requests could quite easily cause a Tornado web application to use quite a lot of memory just during the phase of initially reading the request in.
This is all in contrast to WSGI applications where no request content is read until the WSGI application itself decides to read in the content, allowing the WSGI application itself to decide how it is handled. This is possible with WSGI because of the blocking model and use of processes/threads for concurrency. Things get much harder in ASYNC systems.
Tornado 4.0+ does now offer a solution to avoid these problems but it is not the default and is an opt in mechanism for which you have to add specific code into your web application on each request handler.
This newer mechanism in Tornado is that rather than the request content being buffered up and being passed complete to your handler as part of the request, it will be passed to your handler via a 'data_received()' method as the data arrives. This will be the raw data though and does mean that if handling a form post or file upload, you will need to parse the raw data yourself to decode it.
Anyway, the point of raising these issue is to highlight the need to pay close attention to the Tornado web server configuration and how request content is handled. This is because the default configuration and way things are handled, is as I understand it, susceptible to memory issues and not just through the normal operation of your web application but also through deliberate attacks. In a memory constrained environment of a PaaS, the last thing you want is to run out of memory.
What the overall best practices are for Tornado for handling this I don't know and I welcome anyone pointing out any resources where it clearly explains how best to design a Tornado web application to avoid problems with large request content.
From my limited knowledge of using Tornado, I would at least suggest look at doing the following:
 - If you are not handling large uploads, set the 'max_buffer_size' value to be something a lot smaller than 100MB. It needs to be just enough to handle any encoded form POST data or other file uploads you need to handle.
 - Look at the new request content streaming API in Tornado 4.0+ and consider implementing a common 'data_received()' method for all your handlers such that more restrictive per handler limits can be placed on the 'max_buffer_size'. This could be handled by way of a decorator on the method. With this set the limit to '0' for all handlers which would never receive any request content. Even if handling a form post, set a limit commensurate with what you expect. You would though also need new common code for parsing form post data received via 'data_received()'.
 - For large file uploads, use 'data_received()' to process the data straight away, or save the data straight out to a temporary file, rather than buffer it up in memory, until you are read to process it.
Although I have looked specifically at request content as that presents a more serious problem due to possibly being used as an attack vector, also be mindful to what degree Tornado may buffer up response content as well when it cannot be written out to a client in a timely manner. It has been a while since I have looked at that side of Tornado so I can't remember exactly how that works.

In closing on this issue, it needs to be stressed that this isn't an OpenShift specific issue. It can happen in any environment. It is raised in relation to OpenShift because of it being common that PaaS offerings generally have less memory available per instance for your web application to use.

For those who understand the inner workings of Tornado better than I, which wouldn't be hard, if I have misrepresented anything about how Tornado works then please let me know, providing an explanation of what does happen.
Automatic scaling of gears
Another issue which needs some attention when using ASYNC applications on OpenShift is how automatic scaling for gears works.
The issue with automatic scaling is that a main selling point of ASYNC web applications is that they can handle a much larger number of concurrent requests. Because of how automatic scaling works though, the fixed thresholds on when scaling occurs may result in some surprises if you enable use of auto scaling in OpenShift for an ASYNC web application handling a large number of concurrent requests.
As this is a more complicated issue I will look at that in a subsequent post.
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Using Apache to start and manage Docker containers.
In the last couple of posts (1, 2) I described what needed to be done when migrating a Python web site running under Apache/mod_wsgi to running inside of a Docker container. This included the steps necessary to have the existing Apache instance proxy requests for the original site through to the appropriate port on the Docker host and deal with any fix ups necessary to ensure that the backend Python web site understood what the public facing URL was.
In changing to running the Python web site under Docker, I didn't cover the issue of how the instance of the Docker container itself would be started up and managed. All I gave was an example command line for manually starting the container.
docker run --rm -p 8002:80 blog.example.com
The assumption here was that you already had the necessary infrastructure in place to start such Docker containers when the system started, and restart them automatically if for some reason they stopped running.
There are various ways one could manage service orchestration under Docker. These all come with their own infrastructure which has to be set up and managed.
If instead you are just after something simple to keep the Python web site you migrated into a Docker container running, and also manage it in conjunction with the front end Apache instance, then there is actually a trick one can do using mod_wsgi on the front end Apache instance.
Daemon process groups
When using mod_wsgi, by default any hosted WSGI application will run in what is called embedded mode. Although this is the default, if you are running on a UNIX system it is highly recommended you do not use embedded mode and instead use what is called daemon mode.
The difference is that with embedded mode, the WSGI application runs inside of the Apache child worker processes. These are the same processes which handle any requests received by Apache for serving up static files. Using embedded mode can result in various issues due to the way Apache manages those processes. The best solution is simply not to use embedded mode and use daemon mode instead.
For daemon mode, what happens is that a group of one or more separate daemon processes are created by mod_wsgi and the WSGI application is instead run within those. All that the Apache child worker processes do in this case is transparently proxy the requests through to the WSGI application running in those separate daemon processes. Being a separate set of processes, mod_wsgi is able to better control how those processes are managed.
In the initial post the example given was using daemon mode, but the aim was to move the WSGI application out of the front end Apache altogether and run it using a Docker container instead. This necessitated the manual configuration to proxy the requests through to that now entirely separate web application instance running under Docker.
Now an important aspect of how mod_wsgi daemon process groups work, is


Note: The code to reproduce the results can be found on the sPYnning Github repository.
Spinning globe
The source code to animate a spinning globe is published on Github. The sphere is approximated by hexagons (and few pentagons). By assigning a color to each hexagon, we can color-code the globe to represent the ocean / landmass of the earth, or even different countries.
We can fake a diffusion equation on the sphere by simply updating a cell's value based upon the neighboring cells. For a full diffusion equation, the areas of the cells would need to be included. For this animation, I did not consider this yet. Since I could not get my hands on an elevation profile, I only distinguish between landmass an ocean and run the diffusion equation on these values.
The update rule then looks like this.
This update need to be applied in every iteration, resulting in the following code (including plotting).
This results in the following animation (or versions of it).
Game of Life
It is easy to implement a spherical Game of Life version. However, it is hard to find appropriate update rules. The idea is, that the (boolean) state of a cell is being updated based upon the states of the neighbors. If the neighbors are alive, they bring life to the cell. If too many neighbors are alive, a cell dies. A possible implementation can look like this. Here you can be creative.
We can initialize the states randomly as True or False. Some fine-tuning is required to find a good update rule.