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How to fix Amazon Alexa voice device error code 10: 2: 17: 5: 1?
By Adan Flannigan 2019-09-18 1782 0
What is the error code 10: 2: 17: 5: 1 mean?
10: 2: 17: 5: 1 means that a user cannot register the device or software application in the Amazon account. In simple words, Alexa's server has forbidden him to configure or register the echo device.
First, if you get an error, before you go one step further, simply restart your device to see if it solves your problem. Unplug the power adapter from the back of the device or from the wall outlet and then simply plug it back in.
Why this error will appear?
- When registering and configuring the new Alexa device.
- When Amazon Echo keeps saying that there is a registration error and disconnects from Wi-Fi.
- Sometimes, after you reset the factory settings, this error appears.
- In addition, you could face an error 10: 2: 17: 5: 1 when registering the Echo device you received as a gift.
- If the device is reported undelivered or stolen from Amazon, you may get the same error.
- The registration error also occurs when the device has not been used for more than a year.
- In addition, some users brought their Alexa devices from eBay or Best Buy, not Amazon, which automatically generated this type of error.
- If you are trying to use second-hand Echo devices, they will definitely display an error 10: 2: 17: 5: 1 because the initial user purchased this device through a different email address.
Note :As we know, Amazon has a unique ID number that appears on its server. Sometimes, a user does not verify the ownership of the device and ends up entering the wrong number that leads to error 10: 2: 17: 5: 1.
How to repair Alexa Alexa 10: 2: 17: 5: 1 error?
- If the device is used for the first time or is 2nd hand
Step 1: Simply make a call to the person who purchased the device and ask them to unregister the device from your Amazon account or provide you with the email address/password you used when registering the Echo device.
Step 2: After you have provided the required credentials, you will be sent a verification code, request it.
Step 3: Your device is now configured as you have completed the registration process.
Step 4: On the other hand, if you unregister your device, use your own Amazon account to log into the application.
- If the device is from another registry
Step 1: Simply contact the person who gave you the device and ask them to unregister your account.
Step 2: After the registration deletion process, restart the device and register your own Amazon Echo device.
- If you have not used the device for more than one year
Step 1: Open the navigation menu in the Alexa application and then select the "help and comments" option.
Step 2: Select the device you are using, "User Guide".
Step 3: Now scroll down and press the Alexa device software update button.
- If the device is new
Step 1: First and foremost, make sure you are using the same email while registering your device as you did when you purchased the device.
Step 2: Try some formal tactics, such as restarting the modem, resetting the device, and installing the new Alexa application.
Tips for fix Alexa voice device error code 10: 2: 17: 5: 1
- Make sure your device is running the latest version of the Amazon Echo application. In addition, the application is compatible and runs on the following operating systems: Android 5.0 or higher, Fire OS 3.0 or higher, IOS and mac os 9.0 or higher, the latest version of the Chrome browser, Desktop attests Pentium p4 with 1 GB ram and Chromebook.
Your wireless network must be dual-band with a frequency range of 2.5 to 5.0 GHz (minimum bandwidth requirements).
- Your router, modem and echo device should be placed in the same room no more than 8 feet away.
- Enter the login information you use to log into your Amazon account.
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From the Roman name Mauritius
, a derivative of MAURUS
Maurice was a 3rd-century Roman soldier from Egypt. He and the other Christians in his legion were supposedly massacred on the orders of emperor Maximian for refusing to worship Roman gods. Thus, he is the patron saint of infantry soldiers.
This name was borne by a 6th-century Byzantine emperor. Another notable bearer was Maurice of Nassau (called Maurits in Dutch), a 17th-century prince of Orange who helped establish the Dutch Republic. The name has been used in England since the Norman conquest
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Maputo Resolutions For Peace In Africa
MAPUTO RESOLUTIONS FOR PEACE IN AFRICA
Delegates from different African countries, after listening and analyzing the Keynote Message of His Excellency Joaquim Alberto Chissano, former President of the Republic of Mozambique, Chairperson of the Joaquim Chissano Foundation and Chairperson of AFRICA FORUM, followed by the Message of Dr Michael Cassidy, Chairman and Founder of African Enterprise,Patron of Christians for Peace in Africa,as well as presentations from different Guest Speakers,have taken the following Maputo Resolutions for Peace in Africa:
RESOLUTION NO 1:
CHURCH AND LEADERSHIP.
- Christians for Peace in Africa must raise awareness for the Church to produce among Christians, men, women and youth Leaders in order to fulfill the prophetic mandate of African nations, in the 7 pillars of society.
- Christians for Peace in Africa must create a platform to partner with other organizations sharing the same Vision of Peace and Reconciliation, like African Enterprise, in raising young African Christian Leaders.
RESOLUTION NO 2:
ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE PEACE EFFORT.
- Christians for Peace in Africa must create a platform to empower women to take the lead in promoting the Culture of Peace according to Christian Values.
- Christians for Peace in Africa should advocate for Peace capacity building in organizations that promote women's interests, based on Biblical standards.
RESOLUTION NO 3:
FOOD SECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE.
- A. Christians for Peace in Africa must raise awareness for poverty alleviation, food security and climate change.
- B. Christians for Peace in Africa must raise awareness and oppose excessive land's ownership by non -African people, countries and organizations.
- C. Christians for Peace in Africa should support foreign investments in the form of land leasing, technology to process raw African products on African soil, empowerment and training of Africans for better food production.
RESOLUTION NO 4:
AFRICAN WAYS OF PREVENTING AND CURING DISEASES.
A. Christians for Peace in Africa should promote research on Good practices for disease prevention and cure, according to Christian Values.
B. Christians for Peace in Africa should promote healthier diet through the consumption of natural African products and dishes instead of processed food.
C. Christians for Peace in Africa should oppose the multiple partners African culture and promote the one sex partner strategy in the combat against HIV/AIDS
RESOLUTION NO 5:
POSITIVE INPUTS OF MIGRANTS IN AFRICA
- Christians for Peace in Africa should promote the safe migration, integration and inclusion through Social cohesion of migrants in the host countries and get rid of xenophobia.
- Christians for Peace in Africa should raise awareness on the mental health of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) in their countries, and refugees in the host countries, and facilitate their voluntary repatriation.
- Christians for Peace in Africa should promote the respect and human dignity of all migrant people and encourage the exchange or transfer of skills among the locals.
RESOLUTION NO 6:
LESSON FROM ZAMBIA AS AN AFRICAN WAR –FREE COUNTRY.
- Christians for Peace in Africa should advertise to other African countries the secret of Zambia being a WARFREE country.
- Christians for Peace in Africa must advocate in African churches the role played by the Church in promoting the Culture of Peace in Zambia
RESOLUTION NO 7:
LESSONS AND EXPERIENCES LEARNT FROM POLITICAL AND CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP IN MOZAMBIQUE.
- Christians for Peace in Africa must spread the Message of the Outstanding Leadership of His Excellency Joaquim Alberto Chissano and other political Leaders in promoting the Culture of Peace, Reconciliation, in his own country, the Republic of Mozambique, in working hand in hand with the Christian Leaders, for the sake of Africa Lasting Peace and Sustainable Development.
- Christians for Peace in Africa must learn and share the experiences of the Mozambican Christian Leaders in working for the Lasting Peace in Mozambique; the same work can be done by Christian Leaders in other African countries.
Done on the 21st February 2013 at the Igreja de S. Estevard E S. Lourenco (Anglican ), in Maputo, Republic of Mozambique


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Naupaka's yellow blooms catch the eye
Description: Small shrubs 3 to 4 feet tall with narrow leaves 2 to 3 inches long and up to 1 inch wide. The margins of the leaves are slightly serrated near the tip. The most appealing feature of this native plant is its fragrant yellow half-flowers, compared with the other eight native species of naupaka, six of which are also mountain-dwelling. The other two are the common coastal naupaka kahakai (Scaevola sericea) and the endangered dwarf naupaka (Scaevola coriacea), also found near the ocean.
This particular species has the most narrow and pointed petals of them all; it's very striking. The color of the flower is unusual -- the only other yellow-flowered species of naupaka is the 'ohe naupaka (Scaevola glabra), which is much rarer. Once the flowers are pollinated, small black fruit develop with a single seed within.
Distribution: This endemic species is found in dry to mesic forests on all the main islands except Niihau and Kahoolawe, unlike other mountain naupaka, which reside mostly in higher, wetter areas.
Landscape use and care: This plant makes an excellent addition to any yard. It requires little water once established in the ground and loves full sun. It also seems to be the hardiest of the naupaka kuahiwi species, resistant to the mites and other pests that would crinkle and deform other naupaka leaves. Many times, people plant coastal naupaka kahakai on the makai side of a house and naupaka kuahiwi on the mauka side.
For a limited time, this plant can be purchased at Home Depot for around $9.
Cultural uses: The fragrant flowers of various naupaka kuahiwi are used in leis, as seen in the book "Na Lei Makamae," by Marie McDonald and Paul Weissich (a definite must-have for everyone, especially hula dancers, native plant collectors, lei makers and Hawaiian culture enthusiasts).
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Objectives- To test the hypothesis that there is no significant correlation between miniscrew failure rate and root proximity, insertion angle, bone contact length, and bone density. Setting and Sample Population- This study included 107 patients in whom 190 miniscrews had been placed from April 2008 to October 2009 in Tohoku University Hospital (Sendai, Japan). Materials and Methods- Cone beam computed tomography scans (CBCT) and periapical radiographs were taken before and after miniscrew placement. Differences in root proximity, screw insertion angle, bone contact length, and bone density were statistically compared; comparisons were also made between the CBCT images and periapical radiographs. Results- A significantly higher success rate was observed in the maxilla than in the mandible. The distance between the miniscrew and the root surface was significantly smaller in the failure group. There were no significant differences in the insertion angle, bone contact length, or bone density between the success group and the failure group. The concordance rate between the periapical dental radiographs and CBCT images was 46.5%. Conclusion- While bone contact length, miniscrew angle, and bone density did not exert major effects on miniscrew failure, root proximity was the factor that most affected miniscrew failure, especially for miniscrews placed in the mandible. CBCT was superior to periapical dental X-rays for evaluating the proximity of miniscrews to the root. Correction of the X-ray attenuation coefficient value was necessary for measuring bone density using CBCT.
- Cone beam computed tomography
- Failure analysis
- Orthodontic anchorage procedures
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Oral Surgery

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Feature to generate Config File in PSLab Android application
In this blog, I will explain the feature to generate "Config File" in PSLab Android Application
What is a Config File?
The main aim of this feature is to make PSLab board a self data logger, which would read user-defined configs from a config file stored on SD card connected to PSLab board and based on instrument, parameters and time interval stored in config file PSLab board would automatically log those values.
Now as the first step of this feature, an option is added to PSLab Android application, where user can create a config file. User can select an instrument, parameters associated with that instrument and time interval. With this feature, user can easily generate a config file which can later be used by PSLab board for logging.
User Interface
The option to generate a config file is given in the side navigation menu on the main screen.
(Figure 1: Generate Config file menu)
Once the user selects the "Generate Config File" option, the user will be directed to the following screen where user can create a config file with intended parameters
(Figure 2: Generate Config File UI)
As can be seen in the screenshot above the user can select instruments for which the config file needs to be created from a drop-down menu. User can specify the time interval, for which the data should be logged by the PSLab board. Based on the instrument selected by the user corresponding parameters will be shown at the bottom. User can select whichever parameters are required and click on "CREATE CONFIG FILE" button and a config file will be saved on device local storage.
A config file for Oscilloscope with 25-sec interval and CH1, CH2 and CH3 parameters would look something like below,
(Figure 3: Sample config File )
When a user clicks on Create Config File button, First we check whether the user has provided a time interval, if not a toast message appears to let the user know that time interval is missing. This is done using the following lines of code,
createConfigFileBtn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
 public void onClick(View v) {
 interval = intervalEditText.getText().toString();
 if (interval.length() == 0) {
 Toast.makeText(CreateConfigActivity.this, getResources().getString(R.string.no_interval_message), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
Once the user sets the time interval and selects the parameters, the following lines of code generates a string array containing params selected by the user.
ArrayList selectedParamsList = new ArrayList<>();
for (int i = 0; i < paramsListContainer.getChildCount(); i ++) {
 CheckBox checkBox = (CheckBox) paramsListContainer.getChildAt(i);
 if (checkBox.isChecked()) {
After we have the list of selected parameters we call the following function to create the config file
private void createConfigFile(ArrayList params) {
 String instrumentName = instrumentsList.get(selectedItem);
 String fileName = "pslab_config.txt";
 String basepath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath();
 File baseDirectory = new File(basepath + File.separator + CSVLogger.CSV_DIRECTORY);
 if (!baseDirectory.exists()) {
 try {
 } catch (Exception e) {
 File configFile = new File(basepath + File.separator + CSVLogger.CSV_DIRECTORY + File.separator + fileName);
 if (!configFile.exists()) {
 try {
 } catch (IOException e) {
 try {
 FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(configFile);
 writer.write("instrument: " + instrumentName + "\n");
 writer.write("interval: " + interval + " " + intervalUnit + "\n");
 String param = String.join(",", params);
 writer.write("params: " + param);
 CustomSnackBar.showSnackBar(rootView, getString(R.string.file_created_success_message), null, null, Snackbar.LENGTH_SHORT);
 } catch (IOException e) {
 CustomSnackBar.showSnackBar(rootView, getString(R.string.file_created_fail_message), null, null, Snackbar.LENGTH_SHORT);
In the first part of this function, we check whether there exists a PSLab directory in the local storage of the device, if not the directory is created. After that, we create a file named "pslab_config.txt". After that, we use FileWriter to write data to the file.
In a nutshell with this feature user can create config files easily. The following GIF demonstrated this functionality.
(Figure 4: GIF of the functionality)
Tags: PSLab, Android, GSoC 19, Config File, data logger
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Gas sensor (MQ-135) support In PSLab Android application
Along with lots of sensors provided in the PSLab Android application, recently support for a new sensor – MQ-135 gas sensor has been added to the app. In this blog, I will discuss what is this gas sensor and how to use it with PSLab Android application
MQ-135 Gas sensor
The MQ-135 gas sensors are used in air quality control equipment and are suitable for detecting or measuring of NH3, NOx, Alcohol, Benzene, Smoke, CO2.
The Pin layout of MQ-135 sensor
(Figure 1: MQ-135 pin layout)
How to Connect MQ-135 to PSLab Board
The following diagram shows how a user can connect MQ-135 sensor to a PSLab Board.
(Figure 2: MQ-135 and PSLab connections)
As can be seen in the diagram above connect Voltage pin of MQ-135 sensor to one of the VDD pins on the PSLab board. Connect the Ground pin of MQ-135 sensor to one of GND pins on the PSLab board. And connect Analog Output pin to CH1 pin on the PSLab board. Once these connections are made user can connect PSLab board to their mobile phone and start reading data using Gas Sensor instrument in PSLab Android application
Gas Sensor Instrument in PSLab Android Application
To provide users an interface to read values collected by MQ-135 sensor connected to PSLAb board, a new instrument screen has been added to the PSLab Android application. The UI of the screen is shown below,
(Figure 3: Gas Sensor instrument UI)
As can be seen, the user is provided with a circular meter, a text box and a graph, all of which indicates the amount of different gases sensed by MQ-135 in PPM (parts per million) unit. The data is collected by very simple lines of codes. Since we are connecting Analog Output of MQ-135 to CH1 on PSLab board, we need to read the voltage at CH1 pin. Which would be in the range of 0 – input voltage (which is 3.3V in our case). To convert the voltage values to PPM, we map these output voltages to a range of 0 – 1024. This is done by following lines of code.
double volt = scienceLab.getVoltage("CH1", 1);
double ppmValue = (volt / 3.3) * 1024.0;
As provided in all the other instruments in PSLab Android application, Gas Sensor also has data logging and importing feature. User can record the data and store it as a CSV file and import previously recorded data into the PSLab application easily.
So in conclusion, now users can utilize and experiment with MQ-135 sensor effortlessly using PSLab Android application.
A working demo of this feature can be seen in the following video
Tags: PSLab, Android, GSoC 19, Sensors, Gas Sensor, MQ-135
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Two flavors of PSLab Android App to support Google Maps (in Play Store flavor) and Open Street maps (in Fdroid flavor)
What are the flavors of an App? And why are they needed in PSLab Android App?
While working on the PSLab Android Project, I ran into the need to create different variants of the app with different dependencies. In this blog, I have tried to explain the process of creating various flavors of the app in the easiest way possible.
Android Allows Developers to create different variants of the same app with the same code base but having some functionalities different across the variants. These functionalities may include some special/pro features, some different dependencies, etc. Such variants are called flavors of the App. Most common flavors are Paid and Free version of the app.
In the PSLab Android Application, we needed to generate flavors, when we required to use Google Maps in the App. The app is also published on the Fdroid, which doesn't allow dependencies of Google Maps. Hence 2 flavors of the app have been created,
 1. Play Store Flavor (With Google Maps)
 2. F-Droid Flavor (With Open Street Maps)
Declaring Flavors in the build.gradle File
In order to create flavors of the app, first, we need to declare flavors in the Gradle file. In PSLab Android app we are creating 2 flavors, which are declared in the build.gradle file as under
flavorDimensions 'default'
productFlavors {
 fdroid {
 dimension = 'default'
 playstore {
 dimension = 'default'
flavorDimensions is used to package flavors if there are many flavors for an App. Since we have only two flavors fdroid and playstore, hence we are using single dimension default for both the flavors. Once this has been added to the build.gradle file we need to sync the gradle.
After the Sync is complete, if we open


I am building a Ruby on Rails application that lets users deploy a server in the DO region of their choice.
I'd like to show the latency between the user's location and all the available DO regions so that the user can select the region with the fastest response time for them.
The latency can be easily calculated locally in development for each region with Net::Ping using the example code below:
 check =
 start_time =
 elapsed_time = ('%.6f' % ( - start_time))
However, in production, the originating IP is consistently the web host of my application, not the user's IP address.
How can I measure the response time between a website visitor and a DO region?
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Thanks for taking a look _USER_.
I was able to solve this problem by using JavaScript to ping a website hosted in each of DO's regions. I used the speed test websites originally designed to help DO customers measure the upload/download speed from each region.
For example, the code below will ping a website hosted in each DO region and then print the response time latency in the console.
var region_data = [
 {"name":"New York","host":""},
 {"name":"San Francisco","host":""},
for (var i = 0; i < region_data.length; i++) {
 var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest()
 var start_time =;'GET', region_data[i].host, false)
 xmlhttp.onload = function () {
 var elapsed_time = - start_time;
 console.log(region_data[i].name + ':'+ elapsed_time);
 // Send request
Hi there _USER_,
Usually you would be seeing the server IP address in case that you are using Nginx as a reverse proxy. To get the real IP address of the visitor you have to get the X-forwarded-for header value. That way you would get the actual IP rather than the server IP itself.
Hope that this helps!
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Purpose: To assess the safety and efficacy of conversion from pure laparoscopy to hand-assisted laparoscopy to control mild-to-moderate bleeding during renal surgery. Patients and Methods: Between August 2006 and August 2008, we performed 94 laparoscopic nephrectomies (44 partial and 50 radical). A total of three radical nephrectomies were converted from pure to hand-assisted laparoscopy for control of bleeding. The first patient was a 44-year-old man with a 14-cm cystic renal mass. The second patient was a 52-year-old man with a 3.8-cm renal mass, and the third patient was an 86-year-old woman with a 7-cm renal mass. Results: In all three procedures, the indication for conversion was bleeding from the renal hilum or the kidney parenchyma during dissection. The bleeding was difficult to control using pure laparoscopy, and therefore a hand port was inserted. Time for conversion and placement of the hand port averaged less than 7 minutes. Total estimated blood loss for the three patients was 800 mL, 2000 mL, and 650 mL, respectively. One patient needed a transfusion with three units of packed red blood cells. The postoperative course was uneventful in all patients, except for one patient who had prolonged ileus and stayed in the hospital for 6 days. The remaining two patients were discharged on postoperative days 2 and 3. Conclusions: Conversion from pure to hand-assisted laparoscopy for bleeding control is feasible and effective. It adds minimal morbidity while maximizing cosmesis, and it should be considered as an alternative to open conversion in cases of mild-to-moderate bleeding.
ASJC Scopus subject areas


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The <a href="_URL_ class in Ruby allows us to generate some very smooth and useful infinite sequences. For example, in some <a href="_URL_ Euler problems it is required to generate sequences without a specific limit. A good example of this is the Highly Divisible Triangular Number problem:

The sequence of triangle numbers is generated by adding the natural numbers. So the 7th triangle number would be 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 = 28. The first ten terms would be: 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55, ... Let us list the factors of the first seven triangle numbers: 1: 1 3: 1,3 6: 1,2,3,6 10: 1,2,5,10 15: 1,3,5,15 21: 1,3,7,21 28: 1,2,4,7,14,28 We can see that 28 is the first triangle number to have over five divisors. What is the value of the first triangle number to have over five hundred divisors?

So first we would want to be able to generate a (infinite) sequence of <a href="_URL_ numbers that we can use to do many programming operations, such as iterating over the sequence.
 Modifying the Zenoss Infrastructure Grid _URL_ Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 _URL_
Continuing from my previous post, where I explained <a href="_URL_ to modify the device detail bar from a ZenPack using ExtJS, in this post I will explain how we can modify the device list grid shown in the infrastructure page.

The Infrastructure Grid

This is the table in the infrastructure page that shows all devices being monitored by Zenoss. Default columns include device name, device class, IP address, production state, and events, as shown in the image below:

However it would be nice to also include the power status we added to the device detail bar in the previous post, maybe even add the ping status as well (why Zenoss doesn’t do this by default is beyond me).

DevicePanels.js

The source code for the grid is found in $ZENHOME/Products/ZenUI/browser/resources/js/zenoss/DevicePanels.js. A quick glance at it and you will quickly find the definitions of the columns I mentioned earlier, defined in an array called deviceColumns.
 Modifying the Zenoss Device Detail Bar _URL_ Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 _URL_
The Zenoss Core <a href="_URL_ graphic user interface is divided into many different components. In this post I will go over on how we can modify the device detail bar to display additional custom information for devices, by creating a custom ZenPack.

Zenoss Core 4 uses ExtJS 4 JavaScript framework to manage all the user interface components. These components can be found in $ZENHOME/Products/ZenUI3/browser/resources/js/zenoss, and as you would expect, the device detail bar component is also located there.

The Device Detail Bar

This is the detail bar located on the device view page which shows the device’s icon, name, events, status, production state, and priority. The JavaScript source code for this component can be found in DeviceDetailBar.js

However since we are going to extend this component through a ZenPack, we will not modify that source. Instead, we will add new code to use ExtJS to add our custom data displays.

Extending The Component, Through ZenPacks

Let’s assume we are starting with a freshly created ZenPack, which adds a new power_status integer field to certain devices, according to its zenpack.yaml file:

# ... classes: CustomDevice: base: [zenpacklib.Device] label: Custom Device properties: power_status: type: boolean

What we want is to display this value in the device’s detail bar, similar to the device’s ping status display.
 Creating Zenoss ZenPack Daemons _URL_ Mon, 07 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 _URL_
ZenPacks are powerful custom add-ons that can help us extend Zenoss’s functionality. In this post I will go over on how to create a ZenPack that adds a custom daemon to the existing Zenoss daemons and runs on a configured cycle time to perform custom tasks. We will achieve this by creating the ZenPack using <a href="_URL_ but it is also possible to create it from the Zenoss user interface.

About zenpacklib

zenpacklib is a Python library developed by the Zenoss team to facilitate the process of creating ZenPacks, specially ZenPacks that deal with modeling and monitoring devices and components. Most of the newer ZenPacks that are being released are now being built with zenpacklib.

We can obtain zenpacklib by running the following commands:

wget _URL_ chmod 755 zenpacklib.py

This will download the zenpacklib Python library and give it executable permissions.

Creating the ZenPack

Using the zenpacklib file we just downloaded, we proceed to create a new fresh ZenPack:

./zenpacklib.py create ZenPacks.<your_namespace>.<zenpack_name>

This will create the ZenPack base directory with the necessary base files.

Now we go into this directory to begin.

cd ZenPacks.<your_namespace>.<zenpack_name>

Creating the ZenPack Daemon

Our custom daemon declaration will be located


Outdoor Studies Program
The Outdoor Studies Program has three divisions: the Outdoor Studies Minor, the Outdoor Program, and the Adirondack Semester. The Program aims to develop students' appreciation for nature and the human place in it. It provides experiential education through outdoor activities, and academic exploration of different concepts of nature and the human place in it.
Through the Outdoor Program, Outdoor Studies promotes experiences in the out-of-doors and the chance to acquire outdoor skills and knowledge. Through the Outdoor Studies Minor and the Adirondack Semester it fosters an experiential, emotional, and intellectual understanding of nature and human relations with nature. Students participating in the Adirondack Semester study environmental ethics and the natural and cultural history of the Adirondack region while living on a remote lake in the Adirondack Park.
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Vessel Monitoring System Program
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How It Works
VMS is a satellite surveillance system primarily used to monitor the location and movement of commercial fishing vessels in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and treaty areas. The system uses satellite-based communications from on-board transceiver units, which certain vessels are required to carry. The transceiver units send position reports that include vessel identification, time, date, and location, and are mapped and displayed on the end user's computer screen.
Each vessel typically sends position reports once an hour, but at increased intervals when the vessel is approaching an environmentally sensitive area. Alerts can be sent to the VMS technicians and other personnel when a particular vessel location might require additional inquiry or contact with the vessel operator.
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How We Use It
VMS is used to support law enforcement initiatives and to prevent violations of laws and regulations. VMS also helps enforcement personnel focus their patrol time on areas with the highest potential for significant violations. It is used as evidence in the prosecution of many environmental laws and regulations including regional fishing quotas, the Endangered Species Act, and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, to name a few.
The VMS program currently monitors more than 4,000 vessels. It is the largest national VMS fleet in the world. The system operates 24 hours a day every day with near-perfect accuracy, which is why the program is of interest to other users, including the U.S. Coast Guard, academia, and the coastal states.
VMS data is subject to strict confidentiality requirements.
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How to Encrypt VBScript
You cannot protect your business's VBScript code perfectly, but you can encode it to prevent the average person from understanding it. VBScript is an older scripting language, but if your business still uses it, you have the ability to encrypt that code. Microsoft provides a free Script Encoder utility that does this for you. Use the Script Encoder to encrypt all or part of any document that contains VBScript code.
Install Encryption Program
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 Navigate to the Microsoft.com Download Center (see Resources) and click the "Change Language" drop-down menu to select your desired language.
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 Click Download and then click "Save" to save a file named "sce10en.exe" to your hard drive.
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 Launch Windows Explorer and find that file after it downloads. Right-click the file and select "Run as Administrator." The installation program launches and walks you through the installation steps.
Encrypt VBScript
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 Launch a text editor or your HTML editor and open a document that contains VBScript code. Paste the following text before the VBScript code you wish to encrypt:
 Start Encode
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 Save the document and press the "Windows" key to open the Start menu.
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 Paste the following command into the Start menu's search box:
 C:\%programfiles%\
 If you installed Windows on a drive other than the "C:" drive, replace "C" with that drive's letter. Press "Enter." Windows Explorer opens and displays the folders in your Program Files folder. One of those is the Windows Script Encoder folder that the installation program created.
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 Hold down the "Ctrl" key and right-click the "Windows Script Encoder" folder. Select "Open Command Window Here" to open the Command window.
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 Type the following command in that window:
 SRCENC inputfile outputfile
 Replace "inputfile" with the file that contains your VBScript code. Replace "outputfile" with the name of the encrypted file you wish to create. Press "Enter." The Script Encoder encrypts the input file and stores the encrypted code in the output file you specified.


LASS Audio Tutorials
LASS Audio Tutorials
Welcome to the LASS Audio Tutorials section. This section has audio tutorials that could be considered "naked demos" where nothing else is playing but LASS accompanied by dialog that explains what you are hearing.
Spiccato Cellos and the A.R.T script explained
(also see tutorial video)
This demo highlights LASS's unique A.R.T script that gives you the ultimate control over fast rhythmic patterns and accents. The demo is at 155 bpm to showcase the precision of the short articulations even with the larger stringed instruments. Hold down the sustain pedal and play a note…and you will hear A.R.T. You can read more about this amazing tool in the LASS User Guide.
LASS's Layered Real Legato Exposed
This demo explains the "layered" approach to a realistic strings sound by showcasing all the different divisis and how they interact together. These naked examples really let you hear the detailed sound of LASS.
Violas Improvised
This audio clip demonstrates LASS's violas as well as how easy it is to elicit expressive legato lines with improvised performances. Featured are the first chair, divisi ensemble A, B and C violin section. Also, CC83 (the controller that commands the speed of the portamentos and glissandos) is discussed.
LASS Sordino Patches
This demo reveals the expressive range of the LASS's sordino (muted strings) articulation (both divisi and combined).
Faster Legato Phrases
This simple demo illustrates LASS's ability to achieve wonderfully expressive legato lines at faster tempos. A simple melody is played by the violin's first chair and all the other violin divisi ensembles and then they are all played together as a cohesive section. Note how all the different violin sections "sing" the melody differently.
LASS Trills
The Trill script is a very simple script that eliminates a lot of midi-mockup headaches. Instead of having to figure out whether you need to play whole or half-note trills in the key you are in, just play the appropriate Key Switch for the key you are in and LASS's Trill script does the rest!! Note the dynamic range, clarity and detail of these trills.


Macmillan has only the entry Home Town.
Oxford also has only the entry Home Town (although all examples suggested have hometown written).
Cambridge has only the entry Hometown.
Microsoft Word keeps correcting me (I use BrE dictionary). It underlines Home town: I should write Hometown.
1) Which is the word I should use: Home Town or Hometown?
I've read here that:
Home town is used for "My home town is Flower Mound." Home is modifying the noun, town.
Hometown is an adjective, as in "My hometown memories."
2) Is this all right? Do both words exist, one as a noun and the other as an adjective? If it is the case, why the dictionaries don't have both entries?
Hometown as a noun is American English. Home town (n.) is British English.
Since it's a two-word phrase in British English, it would need to be converted into a compound adjective by using a hyphen, rather than combining them into one word: "My home-town memories" rather than "hometown memories". In American English, "hometown" is also the adjective form.
That's probably why "hometown" isn't appearing in your BrE dictionary searches. "Home-town" may not either, since many compound nouns don't have dictionary entries.
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On one hand, where the pandemic had gotten the whole world upside down, the work from home (WFH) culture had taken the internet on the roll. From memes to sharing the WFH moments on the internet, people sought all the opportune moments to deal with the global crisis in a mood-light way.
Amid all the dismay, however, one thing that gained tremendous popularity was Pyjama! While the clothing had been a go-to for so many around the world, the lockdown and WFH culture had gained it the status of 'the new cool.'
But here's research to your surprise that may make you think over slipping out of your PJs and hopping into something else, a clothing that is more put-together maybe. Australian researchers have established a link between working in the Pyjamas during the pandemic and deteriorating mental health.
On taking a look at the effects of wearing pyjamas while working, researchers found its astonishing association with recurrent reporting of poor mental health.
As per the study conducted by Australian researchers, 41% of people say that they experienced an enhancement in their productivity when working from home. However, more than one-third of the participants have reported a severe deterioration in their mental health.
Further, 59% of people who wore pyjamas at least once a week while working from home, admitted to experiencing a decline in mental health, as compared to 26% of those who did not wear pyjamas during the day.
Reportedly, researchers also suggest that clothing can have a significant impact on cognition and mental health. Here's how they explained it: "Although we cannot determine whether wearing pyjamas is the cause or consequence of deteriorating mental health, appreciation of the effect of clothing on cognition and mental health is increasing, as it has been observed in hospitalized patients."
It is also observed that if the patients are motivated to wear normal daytime clothes instead of pyjamas, it can add to their mental well-being and even decrease the effect of depression.
Researchers advise changing clothes before beginning the work with the view to lessen the negative effects that the pandemic restrictions have caused to our mental health.
They say, "The simple advice to get changed before beginning work in the morning might partially protect against the effects of Covid‐19 restrictions on mental health, and would be less expensive than the 'fashionable' sleep or loungewear gaining popularity as working from home becomes the norm."
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bations of embedded eigenvalues. In \cite{G-Sig} a definition of resonance in a time dependent way is given and it is shown to agree with the one resulting from analytic continuation when it exists, in the Balslev-Combes theory. They also get exponential decay and estimates on the remainder terms. Exact results, including the case $\varepsilon$ large, for time dependent potentials have recently been obtained in \cite{CLR}. Further notable results on the time dependent behavior of the wave equation were proved by Tang and Zworski \cite{T-Z}. The construction of states which resemble resonances, and thus decay approximately exponentially was accomplished e.g. in \cite{Sk}. For resonance theory based on Balslev-Combes method the reader is referred to the book \cite{H-S} and its comprehensive bibliography on the subject. Then in a time-dependent approach to perturbation of embedded eigenvalues developed in \cite{SW} exponential decay and dispersive estimates on the remainder terms were proved in a general context, without the assumption of analytic continuation. The main condition required that a local decay estimate holds on the continuous spectrum near the embedded eigenvalue for the {\it unperturbed} Hamiltonian. The required decay is $O(t^{-2-\eta})$ and the Fermi Golden rule was required: $$ \Gamma \geq C\varepsilon^2 > 0. $$ where $\varepsilon$ is measure of the size of the perturbation. The analysis in this work utilizes in some ways this framework, but generalizes the results considerably: the required time decay is $O(t^{-1-\eta})$ and we remove here the assumption of lower bound on $\Gamma$; it is replaced by $$ \Gamma \geq C\varepsilon^\frac{2}{1-\eta} $$ when $\eta < 1,$ and $$ \Gamma > 0, \text{ arbitrary} $$ when $\eta > 1$. This may be important in applications where the lower bound on $\Gamma$ is hard to prove \cite{Sar}. Whenever a meromorphic continuation of the $S$-matrix or Green's function exists, the poles give an unambiguous definition of ''resonance''. A time dependent approach or other definitions are less precise, not necessarily unique, as was observed in \cite{Or}, but usually apply in more general situations, where analytic continuation is either hard to prove or not available. The aim of this work is to generalize the results of \cite{SW} and to provide some clues about the definition of resonance by time dependent methods and its relation to the existence of ''analytic continuation''. In particular, we will show that in general one can find the exponential decay rate up to higher order corrections depending on $\eta$ and $\Gamma$. In case it is known that analytic continuation exists, our approach provides a definition of a unique resonance corresponding to the perturbed eigenvalue. It is given by the solution of some transcendental equation in the complex plane and it also corresponds to a pole of the weighted Green's function. Finally, we analyze the connection between existence of analytic continuation and the Borel summability of the correction to the exponential behavior. Typically the remainder term looks like a stretched exponential times a Borel summable (incompletely) power series. Our approach follows the setup of the time dependent theory of \cite{SW}, combined with Laplace transform techniques. It is expected to generalize to the $N$-body case following \cite{M-S}. We will follow, in part, the notation of \cite{SW}. \centerline{*} Given $H_0$ a self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$, we assume that $H_0$ has a simple eigenvalue $\lambda_0$ with normalized eigenvector $\psi_0$: \begin{equation} \label{eq:(1)} H_0\psi_0=\lambda_0\psi_0, \|\psi_0\|=1 \end{equation} \z Our interest is to describe the behavior of solutions of \begin{equation} \label{eq:2} i\frac{\partial\phi}{\partial t}=H\phi, \ \ \ H\equiv H_0+\epsilon\, W \end{equation} \z with $\phi(0)=E_{\Delta}\phi_0$, where $E_\Delta$ is the spectral projection of $H$ on the interval $\Delta$ and $\Delta$ is a small interval around $\lambda_0$. Furthermore, we will describe, in some cases, the analytic structure of $(H-z)^{-1}$ in a neighborhood of $\lambda_0$. $W$ is a symmetric perturbation of $H_0$, such that $H$ is self-adjoint with same domain as $H_0$. \subsection{Definitions} In this section we also introduce certain necessary terminology and notation. We then state the hypotheses $({\bf H})$ and $({\bf W})$ on the unperturbed Hamiltonian $H_0$ and on the perturbation $W$. For an operator $L$, $\|L\|$ denotes its norm as an operator from $L^2$ to itself. We interpret functions of a self-adjoint operator as being defined by the spectral theorem. In the special case where the operator is $H_0$, we omit the argument, i.e., $g(H_0)=g$. For an open interval $\Delta$, we denote an appropriate smoothed characteristic function of $\Delta$ by $g_\Delta(\lambda)$. In particular, we shall take $g_\Delta(\lambda)$ to be a nonnegative $C^\infty$ function, which is equal to one on $\Delta$ and zero outside a neighborhood of $\Delta$. The support of its derivative is furthermore chosen to be small compared to the size of $\Delta$. We further require that $|g^{(n)}(\lambda)|\le c_n|\Delta|^{-n}, n\ge 1$. $P_0$ denotes the projection on $\psi_0$, i.e., $P_0 f=(\psi_0,f)\psi_0$. $P_{1b}$ denotes the spectral projection on $\mathcal{H}_{pp}\cap \{\psi_0\}^\perp$, the pure point spectral part of $H_0$ orthogonal to $\psi_0$. That is, $P_{1b}$ projects onto the subspace of $\mathcal{H}$ spanned by all the eigenstates other than $\psi_0$. In our treatment, a central role is played by the subset of the spectrum of the operator $H_0$, $T^\sharp$ on which a sufficiently rapid local decay estimate holds. For a decay estimate to hold for $e^{-iH_0 t} $, one must certainly project out the bound states of $H_0$, but there may be other obstructions to rapid decay. In scattering theory these are called threshold energies. Examples of thresholds are: (i) points of stationary phase of a constant coefficient principal symbol for two body Hamiltonians and (ii) for N--body Hamiltonians, zero and eigenvalues of subsystems. We will not give a precise definition of thresholds. For us it is sufficient to say that away from thresholds the favorable local decay estimates for $H_0$ hold. Let $\Delta_*$ be a union of intervals, disjoint from $\Delta$, containing a neighborhood of infinity and all thresholds of $H_0$ except possibly those in a small neighborhood of $\lambda_0$. We then let $$P_1=P_{1b}+g_{\Delta_*}$$ \z where $g_{\Delta_*}=g_{\Delta_*}(H_0)$ is a smoothed characteristic function of the set $\Delta_*$. We also define \begin{eqnarray} \label{eq:2.1} \langle x\rangle ^2&=&1+|x|^2\nonumber\\ \overline{Q}&=&I-Q,\ \mbox{and}\nonumber\\ P_c^\sharp&=&I-P_0-P_1 \end{eqnarray} \z Thus, $\pcs$ is a smoothed out spectral projection of the set $T^\sharp$ defined as \begin{equation} \label{eq:2.2} T


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Esmarch bandage
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Original Esmarch bandage
Vernaid bandage
Another First-Aid bandage
Esmarch bandage (also known as Esmarch's bandage for surgical haemostasis or Esmarch's tourniquet) in its modern form is a narrow hard rubber tourniquet with a chain fastener that is used to control bleeding by applying it around a limb in such a way that blood is expelled from it.[1] This prevents the flow of blood to or from the distal area, making it easier to operate. The limb is often elevated as the elastic pressure is applied.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ [1] "Esmarch bandage" entry in Dorlands Medical Dictionary


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This paper presents the analysis of a voltage regulator for a 3-phase self-excited induction generator (SEIG) using a current controlled voltage source inverter (CC-VSI). The control scheme consists of two PI controllers and one hysteresis current controller, which are used to regulate the stator terminal voltage of the induction generator (IG). A mathematical model of a SEIG in synchronously rotating reference frame is used in order to simulate the performance of the generator with static VAr compensator. It has fast dynamic response for regulating the voltage when the SEIG subjected to a sudden application/removal of load. The voltage-regulating scheme is adaptive to changes in the load condition and hence it is possible to operate the SEIG at constant voltage from no load to full load. The proposed controller regulates the IG terminal voltage against varying rotor speed and changing load conditions. This scheme does not require computations and information regarding rotor speed for calculating the excitation current thereby minimizing the cost of the controller. Simulation results using Matlab / Simulink software show the satisfactory operation of an induction generator with the proposed control scheme.


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So the first thing you heard this morning, courtesy of the brave people at NPR. How they do stuff like this every day is truly admirable.
These are the rules. Write a story.
- Seven sentences of seven words.
- Each sentence begins with the successive word of the first sentence.
Broccoli and My Feelings for You: A Breakup Story
"I don't think I want broccoli tonight."
"Don't starting making demands—you're not deserving."
Think first, he mused, and then speak.
"I am tired of you saying I'm unworthy–"
"Want to argue this now?" she responded.
"–Broccoli is a metaphor for our relationship."
Tonight, he thought, this thing finally ends.


PTU-018 Endoscopy: the effect of hospital anxiety and depression scale on patient experience
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IntroductionThe effect a patients baseline anxiety and depression has on their experience of oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD) is unclear, as is how this affects their view of the service. We present a questionnaire study of patients undergoing OGD in our endoscopy department.MethodA closed ended questionnaire was given to adult patients attending outpatient OGD between November 2016 and January 2017. The patients hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS), sedation requirement, expectations, experience of OGD and service evaluation were assessed in the questionnaire. Patients were asked to rank questions focused on unpleasant sensations (gagging, vomiting, choking and bloating), discomfort and pain. All patients were offered sedation with fentanyl and midazolam.ResultsQuestionnaires were completed by 100 patients: 46 female (med: 62 years±13.5 years), 54 male (med: 57±13 years). There was a significant difference in anxiety score (AS) between females and males (med: 7±3.15 vs 4.5±3.5 respectively p=0.001) and depression score (DS) (med: 5±3.5 vs 2±2.75 respectively p=0.026). Patients with a high AS or DS had statistically significantly greater concerns and expectations prior to OGD but no statistically significant difference in their experiences of unpleasant sensations or discomfort (Table 1). Patients with a higher AS and DS experienced statistically significantly more pain than those with lower scores. Sedated patients experienced less unpleasant sensations and discomfort.ConclusionPatients with higher AS or DS have greater concerns prior to OGD. However, their actual experiences are no different to those with lower scores with regards to unpleasant sensations and discomfort. Sedated patients reported a better experience suggesting a beneficial role of sedation in reducing awareness of unpleasant sensations and discomfort.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared
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Preparing Vietnam for Malaria Elimination
Location(s): Viet Nam
Support the Vietnam National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology (NIMPE) to accelerate progress toward achieving Vietnam's national goal of malaria elimination. The project is directed towards:
1) Improving malaria intelligence (surveillance and data analysis/usage) in two districts (Quang Tri and Phu Yen).
2) Generating evidence to support informed decision‐making about both the use of existing control tools, and novel strategies to achieve and maintain malaria elimination in Vietnam.
3) Aligning and refining spatially‐targeted elimination strategies that can be scaled in Vietnam.
These project components will be examined through a diverse set of project activities, including retrospective data collection, use of spatial‐decision support systems, and a range of field surveys to determine high‐risk groups.


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DEXTER - Dexter Regional High School received a Science and Math Improvement Grant from the Toshiba America Foundation in New York City in the amount of $10,000 for a project entitled "Portal Research Project". The project was created by Ms. Regina Herrick, the classroom teacher.
The mission of the Toshiba America Foundation is to contribute to the quality of science and mathematics education in U.S. communities by investing in projects designed by classroom teachers to improve instruction in their own classrooms.
Each year, Toshiba America Foundation selects 100 to 150 of the most interesting classroom projects in grades K-12 for grant recognition. Teachers from throughout the United States apply by submitting a project idea and lesson plan. Winners are selected based on the quality of the project idea and its potential for increasing student learning of some aspect of the regular K-12 science or math curriculum at their school.
Over the years, teachers and students have used the grants to make the classroom experience both exciting and instructive. Funded projects have included alternative energy experiments including solar cars and a bio-diesel school bus, studies in the science of sound and the creation of handmade musical instruments and a project to study and curtail local air pollution, just to name a few. K-12 science and math teachers in public and nonprofit schools are invited to apply.
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In Use or abuse we queried the meaning of 'significant' in the context of Paragraph 112 of the NPPF, which relates to the loss of agricultural land.
An inspector dealing with an appeal against the refusal of planning permission for 28 dwellings in Leicestershire has given us the answer (DCS Number 200-006-606).
"The proposed scheme would result in the loss of 2.58 hectares of grade 3 agricultural land to development" the inspector recorded. "Land within grade 1, 2 and 3a is defined in the glossary to the Framework as being the best and most versatile agricultural land. In preference to the development of this type of land the use of land of poorer quality is encouraged by paragraph 112 of the Framework. This government policy though relates to proposals involving the development of significant amounts of such land. The view of the Council, expressed in its Development Control Report on the application, is that the development of less than 20 hectares of such land is a low amount of land. I agree with that position."
So there we have it. 'Significant' in the context of Paragraph 112 of the NPPF means 20 hectares. For the time being.
The following DCP section is relevant: 4.145


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Lyon, France and Swiftwater, PA (USA) – [September 15, 2005] – Sanofi pasteur, the vaccines business of the sanofi-aventis Group (NYSE: SNY), has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to produce doses of a vaccine to help protect against the H5N1 influenza virus strain, the so-called avian strain. Scientists believe the H5N1 strain could become the cause of a global influenza pandemic.
The contract is another major effort by sanofi pasteur to support efforts in both the U.S. and Europe to prepare the world for the possibility of an influenza pandemic.
The $100 million contract calls for sanofi pasteur to manufacture the vaccine in bulk concentrate form at its U.S. headquarters in Swiftwater, PA from early September through late October. The agreement provides for additional fees to be paid to sanofi pasteur for storage of the vaccine as well as for formulation and filling of the vaccine upon government request.
Here's a link to the complete press release
The real fun of a pandemic will begin when there is not enough vaccine for everyone, but an effective vaccine for the chosen few.


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Definitions for Bowboʊ
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to bend the knee or body or incline the head, as in reverence, submission, or salutation.
to yield; submit:
to bow to the inevitable.
to bend or curve downward; stoop:
The pines bowed low.
(v.t.)to bend or incline (the knee, body, or head) in worship, submission, respect, civility, etc.
to cause to submit; subdue; crush.
to cause to stoop or incline.
to express by a bow:
to bow one's thanks.
to usher (someone) with a bow:
They were bowed in by the footman.
to cause to bend; make curved or crooked.
bow out, to withdraw by choice, as from a task; retire.
Category: Verb Phrase
(n.)an inclination of the head or body in salutation, assent, thanks, reverence, submission, etc.
Idioms for bow:
bow and scrape,to be excessively polite or deferential.
Origin of bow:
bef. 900; ME bowen (v.), OE būgan; c. D buigen
a flexible strip of wood or other material, bent by a string stretched between its ends, for shooting arrows.
a bend or curve.
a readily loosened knot for joining the ends of a ribbon or string, having two projecting loops.
Category: Navy, Textiles
a loop or gathering of ribbon, paper, etc., used as a decoration.
a flexible rod having horsehairs stretched from end to end, used for playing a musical instrument of the viol or violin families.
Category: Music and Dance
something curved or arc-shaped.
an archer; bowman.
Ref: temple2 (def. 2). 1 2 3
aU-shaped piece for placing under an animal's neck to hold a yoke.
(adj.)curved outward at the center; bent:
(v.i.)to bend into the form of a bow; curve.
to perform with a bow on a stringed instrument.
Category: Music and Dance
Origin of bow:
bef. 1000; ME bowe (n.), OE boga
the forward end of a vessel or airship.
Category: Aeronautics, Nautical, Navy
the foremost oar in rowing a boat.
(adj.)of or pertaining to the bow of a ship.
Category: Nautical, Navy
Origin of bow:
1620–30; < LG boog (n.) or D boeg or Dan bov; see bough
a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces
a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments
bow, fore, prow, stem(noun)
front part of a vessel or aircraft
"he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line"
a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow
something curved in shape
bow, bowing, obeisance(noun)
bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting
bow, curtain call(noun)
an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience
a decorative interlacing of ribbons
a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments
bow, bow down(verb)
bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head
"He bowed before the King"; "She bowed her head in shame"
submit, bow, defer, accede, give in(verb)
yield to another's wish or opinion
"The government bowed to the military pressure"
bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting
"He bowed before the King"
crouch, stoop, bend, bow(verb)
bend one's back forward from the waist on down
"he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
play on a string instrument with a bow
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
a knot with loops
to tie a bow
an object used for playing the violin
***He pulled the bow across the strings.
a weapon for shooting arrows
***a bow and arrow
to bend forward to show respect or thanks
to bow to the audience
to look down or to bend the head down
He bowed his head in shame.
the act of bending forward
***to take a bow
the front of a ship
***a boy fishing from the bow
The front of a boat or ship.
Origin: From bugan, from beuganan. Cognate with Dutch buigen, German biegen.
to cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved
to exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline
to bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension
to cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue
to express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks
to bend; to curve
to bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down
to incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow
an inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility
anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow
a weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled
an ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string
the U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke
an appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument
any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters
a rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea
two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree
to play (music) with a bow
to manage the bow
the bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow
one who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar
Translations for Bow
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
a springy curved rod bent by a string, by which arrows are shot.
- arcoPortuguese (BR)
- der BogenGerman
- bue; flitsbueDanish
- (šaujamais) loks; stopsLatvian
- 弓Chinese (Trad.)
- cái cungVietnamese
- 弓Chinese (Simp.)
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The Rosa Porrino is a pink coloured granite from Spain that is a reference granite all over the world. The Rosa Porrino has set the standards for pink coloured granites and opened a large market for this type of granites. Today, there are similar granites from different origins being commercialized all over the world, but the Rosa Porrino will still remain a pioneer for this type of granite.
Due to its fame and international recognition, this granite has taken several different names according to each supplier, market, project, etc. We present below some of these alternative names that identify the Spanish Rosa Porrino:
- Rosa Porrinho: the Portuguese name for the Rosa Porrino granite. There is a variation of the Rosa Porrino being extracted in Portugal.
- Porrino Pink: the English name for the Rosa Porrino granite, it is common to use this name on English speaking countries.
- Spanish Pink granite: a generalist name to describe the Rosa Porrino granite. If we talk about Spanish pink granite, we normally refers to its main reference: the Rosa Porrino
- Porrino granite: simply known as Porrino granite. Porrino is the town nearby where the Rosa Porrino granite quarries are located.


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Title of Project
Response of solar panel array structural system to wind loading
Name of Advisor/s
College of Science & Engineering
Summary of Project
The Cyclone Testing Station at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia has been carrying out research and testing on wind loading and structural response since 1977. This work has produced data for codes and standards and is used widely by the building and insurance industries worldwide.
Ground mounted solar panel arrays (Solar Farms) are being constructed in large numbers around the world. These panels are mounted on fixed or single axis tracking structural support systems. Design wind loading data for these types of structures is limited. Large scale failures of these systems have been observed during windstorms. These structural systems may be prone to wind induced dynamic excitation resulting from spatially and temporally varying net pressures on the panels. This project will study the wind loading and structural response (including the dynamic effects) from wind tunnel model studies and fundamental structural dynamics analysis. Results will be used to produce design data for inclusion in wind loading codes and standards.
Would suit an applicant who
You will have a relevant BE Honours degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.


Expressions used in Everyday Spoken English in Social and Professional contexts
shake on it
shake on it
1) shake hands in agreement
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 - let's shake on it
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 This phrase is usually one that is spoken. When you say 'let's shake on it' you are sealing a deal or shaling hands in order to formally agree on something. "Are we both happy with all of the terms here? I think we have a deal, let's shake on it." This is a friendly way of finalising an agreement or ending a negotiation.
 - Professional Examples (Basic)
 1. Buyer: "Would you accept 100 Euro for the goods?" Seller: "Okay, let's shake on it."
 2. After hours of negotiations, they shook hands on a deal worth millions of pounds. All that was left to do to make it official was to finalise the contract and have both parties sign it.
 - Social Examples (Basic)
 1. If we both agree, let's shake on it.
 2. Yari said he would pay me ten euro if his team lost, we shook on it and everything!
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Sun dogs and Icebows
By Russell Russ
The month's low temperature of 5 degrees below zero was observed on January 3. The high temperature of 57 degrees was observed on January 8. The average temperature this month was 25.0 degrees. This was 4.7 degrees above the normal January average. A wind chill temperature of 26 degrees below zero was recorded during the early morning of January 3.
The low temperature of 5 degrees below zero observed during the early morning of January 3 tied a record low for that date. It was also 5 degrees below zero back on January 3, 1981. Four days later on January 7 we tied a record high temperature for that date with 52 degrees, the same high temperature that was recorded back in 1946. The 57 degrees observed on January 8 set a record high for that date, beating the old record high of 52 degrees set back in 1937.
The total precipitation recorded for the month was 2.37 inches. This was 1.64 inches below normal. Interestingly, December's total precipitation was exactly 1.64 inches above normal. There were a few flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder on the morning of January 11. January's snowfall total was 19.2 inches which was 2.5 inches below normal. The snowstorm that began during the late evening of January 13 and ended during the day on January 14 was by far the biggest, dumping a total of 9.8 inches at the station. As in December, there was a snow cover on the ground at the station every day this month. The snow cover ranged from a low of just 3 inches to a maximum of 13 inches with a daily average of 9 inches.
A beautiful icebow was observed on the morning of January 3. A unique phenomenon, which also occurred to a lesser extent on January 22, that generally occurs in colder climates. When the air temperature is very cold and there are high thin clouds the light from the low on the horizon sun refracts through the ice crystals in the clouds resulting in a band, or bow, of color. A parhelion, or sun dog, is formed under somewhat similar circumstances, but only appears as a colored luminous spot to either side of the sun. When conditions are right a parhelion can form on both sides of the sun. At the weather station this month there were seven days when a parhelion was observed.


Flint water documentary shown prior to debate
A documentary highlighting the Flint water crisis was shown at Woodside Church on Sunday prior to the evening's debate between Democratic presidential candidates.
The film follows the untold story of the activist role in exposing the lead in Flint's water, according to a participant featured in the documentary.
The Coalition for Clean Water banded together to conduct citizen testing and partnered with Marc Edwards of Virginia Tech, who helped discover the lead contamination.
The documentary talks about that process and kind of a history of Flint's switch from the Detroit water system to treating its own drinking water using the Flint River.
It also explains the role of Flint's emergency manager and the state's emergency manager law in the water crisis.


Tolkien Gateway
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Menel was an Elvish (both Quenya and Sindarin) name for the regions of air above Arda, a name which is generally meant as "firmament, heaven" or "the heavens".[1] Sometimes the word is simply synonymous with the sky, but in other uses it is meant as a more sublime reference to the domain of the stars and heavenly bodies.
Menel is a physical place, although arguably a sacred one as it is the location of the stars.
[edit] Etymology
The word is understood as men "towards" + el "star" meaning "the Direction of the Stars".[2]
The loremaster Quennar is attributed as having devised the word Menel ("heavens, firmament").[3]
[edit] Examples
Menel is seen in numerous personal and place-names, including Meneltarma (the "Pillar of Heaven"), Meneldil, Tar-Meneldur, Armenelos and Meneldor.
It also appears in A Elbereth Gilthoniel "o menel aglar elenath" ("from the glories of the star-host of heaven").[4]
Sam used it in his invocation from Cirith Ungol: "o menel palan-diriel" ("from heaven gazing afar").[5]
[edit] Derivatives
It already existed in Avarin[source?], and survived as such in Adûnaic minal.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
 2. J.R.R. Tolkien, Donald Swann, The Road Goes Ever On, "A Elbereth Gilthoniel", p. 72
Middle-earth Cosmology


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rogation. Its main purpose is reimbursing the insurer from funds that should equitably come from the party at fault.
For example, subrogation enables an auto insurer to sue the careless driver who injured their policyholder. This prevents that driver from escaping liability. The insurer can then lower rates rather than spread costs to blameless policyholders.
Subrogation as a Right and a Duty
Subrogation rights automatically apply without being specified in insurance policies. This entitles the insurer to step into the shoes of its policyholder and pursue legal action in their name.
Most policies also obligate cooperation from the policyholder. This includes handing over documents needed to subrogate, not interfering with the action, and agreeing to have any recovery directed first to the insurer up the amount they paid out.
Limitations and Exceptions to Subrogation
Insurers cannot subrogate against certain protected parties even if they caused the loss:
- Additional insureds named in the same policy
- Family members living with the policyholder
- Employees of the policyholder
These restrictions prevent disrupting important relationships. Some states also prohibit subrogating against tenants who negligently damage rented dwellings.
Additionally, policyholders can contractually waive insurers' subrogation rights upfront. This waiver forecloses any subsequent attempt to recover.
How to Maximize the Benefits of Subrogation
To optimize subrogation's potential benefits:
- Give prompt notice to at-fault parties, before evidence disappears
- Thoroughly investigate fault and document findings
- File claims rapidly, before statutes of limitations expire
- Avoid conflicts of interest when pursuing joint representation
- Keep meticulous records of claim payments to prove damages
- Monitor the proceedings closely and participate where necessary
Timely, rigorous subrogation actions allow insurers to gain back a portion of claims paid, reducing pressure for higher premiums.
The contribution principle equitably distributes liability across multiple insurers covering the same loss. This avoids forcing just one insurer to bear the full burden.
Contribution and its Purpose
When concurrent policies cover the same claim, contribution allows allocating responsibility proportionately among all insurers involved. This prevents the policyholder from selectively claiming against just one insurer and maximizing recovery.
Contribution guards against such unfair outcomes by:
- Preventing windfall double recovery beyond actual losses
- Discouraging strategic claiming behavior by policyholders
- Ensuring insurers share large claims burden appropriately
By diffusing liability, contribution promotes sustainability, honesty, and due diligence across the industry.
B. Calculating Contribution in Insurance Claims
Two primary methods allocate contribution amounts:
- Equal shares: Each insurer contributes an equal portion, regardless of policy limits.
- Proportionate limits: Insurers pay percentages based on the ratio of their policy limit to the aggregated coverage limits.
The majority of states follow the proportionate approach. This aligns contributions most closely with the relative risks each insurer accepted.
Ensuring Fair Allocation of Responsibility
Certain measures ensure contribution arrangements are equitable:
- Clear coordination rules: Policies should specify contribution procedures and incorporate standard industry protocols.
- Subrogation rights: Insurers paying more than their share gain subrogation claims against the others.
- Arbitration clauses: These provide efficient dispute resolution for contribution conflicts.
- Cooperation requirements: Policies obligate coordination to prevent excess recovery.
By enshrining contribution in established protocols, insurers prevent the injustice of any party bearing a disproportionate loss burden.
Both insurers and policyholders share an interest in mitigating loss events. This cooperative approach to avoiding and reducing losses benefits all stakeholders.
Importance of Loss Mitigation in Insurance
Effective loss control provides several advantages:
- Lower claims costs: Preventing avoidable losses directly reduces insurers' payment obligations.
- Lower premiums: Savings from reduced claims translate into lower premium rates for policyholders.
- Reduced externalities: Containing losses prevents ancillary harms like business interruptions or liability costs.
- Social benefits: Loss mitigation promotes health, safety, and responsible resource management.
Proactively managing risks aligns with insurance's fundamental protective purpose. It enables extending coverage efficiently to more people and assets.
Strategies for Minimizing Loss in Insurance
Insurers and policyholders can work together to implement various loss mitigation strategies:
- Risk-based pricing: Charging higher premiums for higher-risk items or behaviors motivates reducing exposure.
- Deductibles: Requiring policyholders to cover some initial loss amount incentivizes prevention and care.
- Conditions: Requiring protective measures like alarms, sprinklers, or regular maintenance reduces hazard vulnerability.
- Loss control guidance: Insurers can provide loss prevention education, site inspections, and similar consulting.
- Premium discounts: Lower premiums reward policyholders who take proactive precautions.
Applying sticks and carrots gives both parties a stake in achieving mutually beneficial loss reduction outcomes.
Role of Insurance in Promoting Loss Minimization
Beyond financial incentives, insurance can promote loss prevention in other impactful ways:
- Aggregating data to identify patterns and target problem areas
- Advocating for protective infrastructure investments and policies
- Researching technological improvements like automated diagnostics or safety innovations
- Generating standardized metrics to track prevention program efficacy
Insurers' unique bird's-eye vantage point positions them to be leaders in researching, designing, and championing superior risk management practices. Their prevention initiatives multiply the social value insurance provides.
Harnessing insurance principles to align stakeholders around avoiding and minimizing harm unlocks enormous potential for advancing individual and collective welfare. The foundational doctrines examined in this article optimize insurers' ability to deliver on that worthy promise. While intricate in application, these tenets coalesce around delivering efficient, fair, and transparent risk transfer services to everyone insurance serves.


SSN Information for Staff
The University drafted its policy on the collection, maintenance, and dissemination of Social Security numbers in order to protect the privacy and legal rights of its faculty, staff, and students. This policy cannot be successful without the active participation of those staff members that have access to employee and student SSNs. SSNs should never be stored unencrypted on workstations, laptops, or other portable data storage devices. Nor should SSNs ever be sent through email.
The University has removed SSNs from most computing systems. Consequently access to SSNs is generally not needed by University faculty and staff. All employees are encouraged to review practices involving SSNs by,
 - Questioning whether Social Security numbers are truly required for a given procedure or practice (can the UIN be used instead?)
 - Ensuring that printed documents containing Social Security numbers are destroyed in a secure manner (e.g., shredder, confidential recycling bins)
 - Reviewing reports released to third-parties - SSNs cannot be released outside of the University without the consent of the Social Security number Coordinators. The exception is the release to governmental bodies with an explicit legal right to SSNs, such as the IRS.
Federal law requires that anytime a Social Security number is requested, the electronic or physical form used to collect the number should be clearly marked as to whether this request is voluntary or mandatory. When requesting the SSN, you need to explain: 1) whether submission is mandatory or voluntary; 2) by what authority the number is solicited; and 3) what uses will be made of it. Taken together these three items comprise a disclosure statement. All disclosures statements require approval by the SSN Coordinators.
SSNs will still be maintained in U of I systems where appropriate. University employees with questions about the Social Security number policy should feel free to contact their campus SSN Coordinator.
An extended set of approved disclosure statements are also now online.
Specific Staff SSN Issues
Many of the questions asked concern the use of Social Security numbers when processing travel vouchers, fellowships, grants, and reimbursements or similar processes. Most existing University systems still rely on the Social Security number to identify individuals and in many circumstances the SSN is required by the IRS (particularly where compensation is involved).
It is important to note that the University is entitled to use the SSN internally if it has an individual's SSN. However in most circumstances it is not appropriate to force an individual to provide his or her SSN, even if they are an employee. Units should attempt, where ever possible, to collect the individual's UIN and use it to lookup the SSN. The SSN can then be used on an internal form or submission to an administrative system to speed processing.
A number of specific situations are outlined below.
Accounts Receivable, ATOs, Travel Advances
State law requires the university to provide SSNs on any receivable over $1000 for collection purposes. The SSN coordinators and University Counsel are discussing the legality of this requirement with the State Comptroller's office. In the meantime, the requirement stands.
The difficulty here is that a person may have other charges already on his/her account and your charge may push him/her over the $1000 limit. So, unless the Comptroller's office changes its requirement, we must continue to ask for the SSN/FEIN for all accounts receivable transactions. Note that ATOs (air travel orders) and travel advances are considered to be receivables, so we will continue to need SSNs on these forms as well.
Please note that as stated above, when working with faculty, staff, or students, please request their UIN and use departmental records to lookup the SSN and then complete any paperwork with the SSN.
A disclosure statement will be required:
"The University is required by the State Comptroller to collect a Social Security Number when extending credit to an individual. If an account becomes delinquent, the SSN will be provided to the state or to a private collection agency to assist in the settlement of the debt. Provision of the SSN is voluntary; if you do not wish to provide one, you may pay in advance with a check or credit card."
Fellowship payments to international students are reported to the IRS per federal statute, so we are justified in asking for an SSN from international students. There is no equivalent statute for US permanent residents and citizens.
Fellowships are processed through Payroll, and therefore we may currently continue to ask for an SSN under the exemption granted to systems in place prior to 1975. The SSN coordinators will write a disclosure statement that explains this. However, after the Banner system is installed, we will not be able to require SSN for domestic fellowship recipients.
Travel Grants
The Graduate College processes many small travel grants through an invoice-voucher. Their process requires them to collect receipts after the fact, so these grants are really treated as reimbursements for tax purposes and are not taxed or reported individually outside the university. As with travel reimbursements, having an SSN on the voucher would speed up the processing and data entry by Payables staff because of the ability to pull the data from Paymaster. However, there is no legal justification for requiring an SSN on these forms. If the Graduate College can look up the SSNs and enter them on the voucher, it will save time in Payables, but the Graduate College may not ask the student for an SSN on the Travel Grant application.
Refund payments
When the university is refunding money that was collected from an individual, it is not necessary to include an SSN on the invoice-voucher for the refund. Vouchers without SSNs will take longer for data entry staff to process.
SSN Compliance Worksheet
The University SSN Policy states: "II.2.All University forms and documents that collect Social Security numbers will use the language included below. It is understood that this language will be implemented on an 'as reprinted' basis for existing paperwork, with a full compliance date of fall 2002." The "language below" refers to disclosure statements required by federal law. The following information is provided to insure that units and University employees that solicit SSNs are meeting Federal requirements when doing so.
The Privacy Act of 1974 requires that whenever a Social Security number is requested the electronic or physical form used to collect the number must be clearly marked as to whether this request is voluntary or mandatory. When requesting the SSN, you need to:
 1. explain whether submission is mandatory or voluntary;
 2. by what authority the number is solicited; and
 3. what uses will be made of it.
Taken together, these three items constitute an SSN disclosure statement. Please note that all SSN disclosure statements are subject to the approval of the Social Security number Oversight Committee.
How do you know if you need a disclosure statement?
If you answer yes to any of the following questions you must have an SSN disclosure statement:
Do you solicit an individual's SSN on a printed form?
Do you solicit an individual's SSN on an online form or application?
Do you request an individual's SSN at a point of service (e.g., help desk, register, teller)?
Does the disclosure statement have to appear on the form (or computer screen)? I've got 10,000 printed forms I'd rather not reprint.
It is acceptable to print the disclosure statement on a separate piece of paper and include it with the form, until the existing stock of forms is exhausted. If the form is also accompanied by a separate set of instructions, it is acceptable to include the disclosure statement in the instruction booklet and reference it by page number on the form (as in the example from the UIUC application below). However, it is preferable to mark whether the submission of the SSN is mandatory or voluntary directly on the form.
Electronic screens should always include on the display whether the submission of the SSN is voluntary or mandatory. It is acceptable to provide a hyperlink or similar contrivance to the full disclosure statement.
We ask students for their SSN when they walk into our office so we can help them (in order to find their records in a computer system) - do we need a disclosure statement and how do we distribute it?
Yes - and if you explain verbally when you ask for the SSN why you are asking, the vast majority of students will gladly provide it. However having a small stack of printed disclosure statements available to hand to students (or displayed on a wall) will prevent you from having to recite the same information over and over. It is advisable to have an alternate lookup mechanism in place for students that refuse to provide an SSN. The i-card office can provide access to a web based interface to an individual's demographic information (e.g., name, SSN, digital photo) keyed on their UIN (also known as their i-card number). This permits you to request the UIN in place of the SSN and still provide the usual service.
Okay, so how do I create or get a hold of an approved disclosure statement?
 1. Please collect the following information:
 Department/Unit name
 How is the SSN utilized in your department?
 Is the SSN required or voluntary?
 If required, by what law, statute, act?
 Whose SSN do you collect (i.e. students, employees, etc.)?
 Who is allowed access to this information?
 What happens if someone refuses to provide his/her SSN?
 Could anything else (i.e. the University Identification Number) substitute for the SSN?
 2. If you would like to create your own disclosure statement, use the collected information and the following template to create a draft disclosure statement. You


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What is a thread cutter?:
A thread cutter is a tool used in beadwork to cut beading threads of several types. They are usually circular in shape and have a blade set between two notched discs. They can be strung as a pendant.
What is it used for?:
A thread cutter is used for cutting beading threads. You can use a thread cutter to cut either gel-spun (fishing line-type) threads or nylon beading threads. They are generally used when cutting new lengths of thread rather than for finishing cuts because the shape and design of the thread cutter make it difficult to make precise cuts close to beadwork.
How do I use a thread cutter?:
To use a thread cutter, place your beading thread into one of the notches where the cutting blade is exposed. To cut the thread, pull it tightly over the blade until it cuts.
Where can I buy a thread cutter and how much do they cost?:
Thread cutters can be purchased from most sewing and craft supply companies and stores. Some local bead shops also carry thread cutters. A thread cutter is an inexpensive tool, costing around $5.
- Great for travelers or frequent fliers because it can be taken on most aircraft in the United States
- No risk of cutting fingers on the recessed blades
- Easy to cut thread
- Can also make a pretty pendant
- Not suitable for making close finishing cuts of thread because the shape makes it difficult to get close to the beadwork
- Blade cannot be resharpened or replaced, so the entire unit must be replaced when the blade finally wears out


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Chad Woodcock, Meagan Walsh, Nicol Kurstjens
Prefilled syringes (PFS) are one of thefastest growing classes of drug-delivery systems; inaddition to being convenient to use, they also mayhave the potential to reduce the risk of contamination.For intravitreal applications, the elimination of severalsteps during aseptic preparation may reduce the risk ofpotential iatrogenic eye infections that may result fromsuboptimal drug/device handling.
Methods: Characteristics, development process, andpotential benefits of ranibizumab PFS are described.
Results: The design features and functionality ofranibizumab PFS are as follows: 1) LUER lock closuresystem holding the needle tightly and enables needlechoice; 2) small syringe barrel (0.5 mL) with low voidvolume(fill volume: 0.165 mL); 3) unambiguous dosemark that facilitates high dose accuracy; 4) non-reactive borosilicate glass that provides storage stabil-ity; 5) non-retractable stopper to prevent inadvertentdrawing of non-sterile air and to minimize the poten-tial for sterility-related ocular adverse events; 6) spe-cially designed blister packaging that prevents thecontamination of sterile outer syringe surface. A baked'silicone' process is used for the development ofminimally-siliconized PFS. The barrel's inner surface isspray-coated with silicon oil-in-water emulsion andsubsequently heat fixed. There were no relevant dif-ferences observed in product stability betweenranibizumab vials and the PFS.
Conclusions: The ranibizumab PFS aims to improvephysician convenience and efficiency of ranibizumabadministration in clinical practice with the potential toreduce risk of eye infection and saving time forpatients and physicians. Real time clinical practice datawill help demonstrate the advantages of ranibizumabPFS.


Vallam Kali
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Aranmula Uthrattathi Boat Race
Vallam Kali (Malayalam: വള്ളംകളി, vaḷḷaṃ kaḷi, literally "boat game") is a traditional boat race in Kerala, India. It is a form of canoe racing, and uses paddled war canoes. It is mainly conducted during the season of the harvest festival Onam in autumn. Vallam Kali includes races of many kinds of paddled longboats, the traditional boats of Kerala.
Vallam Kali originated in Assyria, on a New Year's Day in 300 BC. Vallam Kalli events were conducted by several ancient Indian states.
In Kerala, during an early 14th-century war between the feudal kingdoms of Kayamkulam and Chembakassery, King Devanarayana of Chembakassery commissioned the construction of a war boat called Chundan Vallam and he tasked a famous carpenter of the day with the responsibility of creating it.[1] Hence, the technical methods for creating these Snake Boats are around 650 years old. Of the snake boats still in use today, the Parthasarathi Chundan is the oldest model.
Vallam Kali has mainly been conducted during the season of the harvest festival Onam in Autumn. The race of Chundan Vallam is the major event. Vallam Kali also includes races of many other kinds of traditional paddled longboats of Kerala, and is one of the major tourist attractions in the state.
Vanchipattu (lit. boatsong) is the form of poetry in Malayalam language commonly using while Vallam Kali and related festivals. During Aranmula Uthrattadi Vallamkali, the vanchipattu is performed by the participants for its significance in the rituals. Ramapurathu Warrier is considered to be the pioneer of the vanchipattu.
List of periodical Vallam Kali events[edit]
Major events[edit]
Map of Backwaters in Kerala where boat racing is conducted
Minor events[edit]
Outside Kerala[edit]
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The Spectator shoe (British English: Co-respondent shoe) is a style of low-heeled, oxford, semi brogue or full brogue constructed from two contrasting colors, typically having the toe and heel cap and sometimes the lace panels in a darker color than the main body of the shoe.[ This style of shoe dates from the nineteenth century but reached the height of popularity during the 1920s and 1930s.
Common color combinations include a white shoe body with black, brown tan toe and heel caps, but other colors can be used. The spectator is typically an all leather shoe, but can be constructed using a canvas, mesh or suede leathers.
For women, spectator pumps have been considered, during certain periods, to be very high fashion and a kind of dress shoe, After their loss of popularity in the early 1950s, when sling-backed and sandaled, thinner pumps became stylish, they returned to fashion in the early 1980s. Perennially favorite in England, their high-fashion appeal went with the polka dot and black-and-white, red-and-white, navy-and-white, etc. combination dress ensembles trendy during this time. With their white color, spectator shoes are most appropriate for women's spring and summer wear.
Spats (originally a contraction of spatterdashes) are a type of classic shoe accessory covering the instep and ankle. Spats were primarily worn in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Spats should not be confused with gaiters which are garments worn over the shoe and lower pants leg, and used primarily as protective equipment.
French infantry wore white spats for parade and off duty wear until 1903. Italian soldiers wore a light tan version until 1910 and the Japanese wore long white spats or guaiters during 1905.
Spats continue as a distinctive feature of the Scottish dress of Highland pipe bands, whether civilian or military. The modern Royal Regiment of Scotland, into which all Scottish line infantry regiments were amalgamated in 2006, retain white spats as part of their uniform. Prior to that date most Scottish infantry units in the British Army wore spats. For Highland regiments in kilts, spats reached halfway up the calf. For Lowland regiments in spats were visible only over the boots.
Most regiments of the modern Indian Armies wear long white spats into which trousers are tucked, as part of their parade dress. Other full dress uniforms which still include spats are those of the Finnish Army. In the Finnish Navy, spats are part of the winter uniform. The U.S. Navy Honor Guard and Rifle Guard still wear them while performing ceremonies.
Spats are still used as a traditional accessory in many marching band uniforms in the United States.
The Brogue wingtip is a style of low-heeled shoe or boot traditionally characterized by multiple-piece, sturdy leather uppers with decorative holes (or "broguing") and serration along the pieces' visible edges. Modern brogues trace their roots to a rudimentary shoe originating in Scottland and Ireland that was constructed using untanned hide with perforations that allowed water to drain from the shoes when the wearer crossed wet terrain such as a bog. Brogues were traditionally considered to be outdoor or country footwear not otherwise appropriate for casual or business occasions, but brogues are now considered appropriate in most contexts. Brogues are most commonly found in one of four toe cap styles (full or "wingtip", semi-, quarter and longwing) and four closure styles oxford, derby, ghillie and monk. Today, in addition to their typical form of sturdy leather shoes or boots, brogues may also take the form of business dress shoes and sneakers or any other shoe form that utilizes or evokes the multi-piece construction and perforated, serrated piece edges characteristic of brogues.
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