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By OBA I DONATUS, CNN
Updated 1034 GMT (1834 HKT) February 21, 2020The 46,000-year-old specimen was identified as a horned lark.
(CNN)Scientists studying the remarkably well-preserved remains of an Ice Age bird have identified the specimen as a horned lark.Buried and frozen in permafrost near the village of Belaya Gora in north-eastern Siberia, the bird was discovered by local fossil ivory hunters, who passed it on to a team of experts, including Nicolas Dussex and Love Dalén from the Swedish Museum of Natural History, for testing.Radiocarbon dating revealed the bird lived around 46,000 years ago, and genetic analysis identified it as a horned lark (Eremophila alpestris), according to a paper published Friday in the journal Communications Biology.Dalén told CNN that research showed the bird may be an ancestor to two subspecies of lark alive today, one in northern Russia and the other on the Mongolian steppe."This finding implies that the climatic changes that took place at the end of the last Ice Age led to formation of new subspecies," he said.The bird was found in north-eastern Siberia at a site which also contained other frozen specimens.The preservation of the bird is explained in large part by the cold of the permafrost, explained Dussex, but this specimen is in extraordinarily good condition."The fact that such a small and fragile specimen was near intact also suggests that dirt/mud must have been deposited gradually, or at least that the ground was relatively stable so that the bird's carcass was preserved in a state very close to its time of death," said Dussex.The next stage of research involves sequencing the bird's entire genome, said Dalén, which will reveal more about its relationship to present day subspecies and estimate the rate of evolutionary change in larks.
Is it a dog or is it a wolf? 18,000-year-old frozen puppy leaves scientists baffledScientists working in the area have also found carcasses and body parts from other animals such as wolves, mammoths and wooly rhinos.Dussex described such findings as "priceless" as they allow researchers to retrieve DNA and sometimes RNA, a nucleic acid present in all living cells."This in turn will open new opportunities to study the evolution of ice age fauna and understand their responses to climate change over the past 50-10 thousands of years ago," added Dussex.The horned lark was discovered at the same site as an 18,000-year-old frozen puppy, which Dalén and Dussex are also studying.Using carbon dating on the creature's rib bone, experts were able to confirm that the specimen had been frozen for around 18,000 years, but extensive DNA tests have so far been unable to show whether the animal was a dog or a wolf.Scientists can normally tell the difference relatively easy, and researchers hope that further tests on the remains will provide more insight into exactly when dogs were domesticated.


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Blue Lake Rhino
One of the most unusual fossils ever found in the Columbia Plateau is a mold and a few bones of a small rhinoceros. In 1935, a group of hikers found it in a cavity in the vicinity of Blue Lake a few miles south of Dry Falls. This fossil is commonly known as the "Blue Lake Rhino". The mold is preserved in pillow basalt overlying a thin sand bed. Probably the rhino, which was dead at the time, was lying in a small pond and as molten lava flowed into the lake and became chilled somewhat so that the lava did not burn the rhino up. A mold was formed around the dead body. Professional paleontologists have made a coast from the mold and have reconstructed the rhino. Above see a model showing how the animal may have appeared prior to burial. The actual rhinoceros measured about eight feet from snout to tail.

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American Professor Alfred W. Crosby (1931–2018), Academician of Science, has passed away at the age of 87.
During his academic career in the field of environmental and global history, Crosby worked at several US universities, such as Harvard University and the University of Texas at Austin, retiring in 1999 as Professor Emeritus of Geography, History and American Studies. He also held teaching positions at the University of Helsinki. In 1995, the Academy of Finland awarded him the title of Academician of Science, which is the highest academic honour in Finland.
Crosby was a pioneering scholar who worked to explain and improve our understanding of human history. He is regarded as one of the leading founders of environmental history. In his work, he combined research results from history, geography, biology and medicine to explore, for instance, why Europeans had been able to succeed with relative ease in populating North America, Australia and southern South America. He was also interested in shedding light on why some early cultures failed and disappeared, for example due to inflammatory diseases and epidemics. These phenomena and their causes were the topic of his classic books The Columbian Exchange: Biological Expansion and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972), Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe 900–1900 (1986), and America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (1976/1989).
Crosby was a versatile researcher who was also interested in the history of science and technology. This interest inspired several works, such as The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250–1600, Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History, and Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy. The historian Crosby described himself also as a scholar of the future, and his interest in shaping a better future lasted until his passing.
Based on nominations made by the Academy of Finland, the President of the Republic of Finland may confer the honorary title of Academician of Science to highly distinguished Finnish or foreign scientists and scholars. The title of Academician can be held by no more than sixteen Finnish scientists and scholars at a time. There are no restrictions on the number of foreign Academicians.
- Mikko Saikku, McDonnell Douglas Professor of American Studies, firstname.lastname(at)helsinki.fi, University of Helsinki
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The Academy of Finland is a government agency within the administrative branch of the Finnish Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Our mission is to fund high-quality scientific research, provide expertise in science and science policy, and strengthen the position of science and research. In 2018, our funding for research amounts to 444 million euros. Part of our funds comes from proceeds of Finland's national gaming company Veikkaus. In 2018, these proceeds account for 70.7 million euros of our total funding for scientific research.

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Coconut trees are often found at exotic beaches or tropical sea costs and place where the climate is warm. It has a trunk which is roughly around two one or two feet thick. The tree do not have any branches and grows vertically up sometime slanting, and has leaves on the top like a crown. It normally grows about 70 to 100 feet above the ground. You can imagine a bird feather, the leaf of coconut tree will be similar to that. The fruit hangs at the bottom of the leaves in clusters.
Now we shall learn how to draw a coconut tree. Please look at the image, and this is how a coconut tree looks like. You can find 7 simple steps on how to draw coconut tree.
First thing to start with is.. draw the skeleton of the coconut tree, like bones of the fish, just draw the outline of the trunk and the leaves of the tree by a pencil. It looks like few hairs on the top of the trunk. This is very simple to draw.
Lets go to the next step. Draw the outline of the leaf. Please observe carefully, this leaf is not like any other plant leaf, one leaf has a long stem and it has hundreds of thin subleaf sort of thing hanging on the leaf. Hence, you need draw thin lines like how it is shown in the sketch.
The third step to draw the tree leaf is to fill it with lines from the centre of the think skeleton line to the outer border. Just keep drawing thin lines like strokes to get a natural look for the leaf of the coconut tree.
In the fourth step you can mark horizontal lines on the stem. These are nothing but as the tree grows the leaf falls down and leaves a mark on the stem. Drawing these lines give natural look for the stem. I have drawn a very small stem, but a well grown up coconut tree normally be double the size of this.
In step five you need to give more depth for the coconut leaf, draw using more stress the coconut leaves and it should become more darker. This is a sketch, the real color of coconut tree leaf is green in color. Ensure the image is dark as shown in the picture. Also observe the bottom part of the stem which is called as root, the lines are little different and is facing towards the ground.
In the sixth step you need to give little reality to your image. Imagine the light is falling from the right side of the picture or you can imagine that the sun is on the right side of the tree, hence the left side has to be dark. So darken the left side of the stem as shown in Step 6 image at the border, it will show as if the light is falling on the right side and there is a darkness on the left. These kind of techniques give more reality to the image.
The seventh and the last step in drawing a coconut tree is we need to draw some coconuts. Observe the tip of the stem where the leaves come and join, it there are some coconut fruit, they are heavy oval shape fruit, let it be drawn dark to give little reality. Same way you need to draw the ground too with some grass in it, otherwise it will not look real. Did you complete it. Now the picture looks more real and nice isnt it?
Hope you all enjoyed this lesson, and in case if you are satisfied please bookmark this page to your social site for immediate reference.

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New version of "Generation Tree" 126.96.36.199
A new BETA version 188.8.131.52 of the program "Tree of Generations" was released.
- Fixed bug when exporting a tree to MS Visio, generated in the "Generations Tree" program. The svg file now successfully opens in MS Visio.
- Added new card templates in the tree. New templates have a portrait display card.
- Improved algorithm and fixed errors when rendering person cards in the tree.
- When building a tree, and the location of the photo on the center, the text is aligned to the center of the card.
- Fixed errors when overlapping lines when building a full tree.
- Changed the layout of the person's form.
- Fixed translation errors in languages other than Russian.
- Fixed other bugs and increased stability of the program.


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Short Time Period Atmospheric Density Variations and a Determination of Density Errors from Selected Rocketsonde Sensors.
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES LAB WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE N MEX
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Atmospheric density changes as observed from nine soundings taken over a three and one half hour time span are described. Arcasonde, Datasonde and inflatable falling sphere sensors were used to determine the density structure. There was general agreement between the mean densities derived from the spheres and the Arcasonde and Datasonde sensors however, the sphere data show more variation from sounding to sounding. A paired data test using 42 soundings showed that the first estimate of the standard deviation of sensor random error of density for the Arcasonde was 0.75, for the Datasonde 0.77, for the sphere 2.86 and for the Arcasonde-Datasonde comparisons 1.38. In an analysis of variance procedure, the percentage change in atmospheric density over various time spans was determined. Author
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Gunding was a master carpenter and painter by profession. He belonged to the Philippine Independent Church. He married Fredesvinda Francisco Hernandez on 21 March 1935. The young couple lived with Gudning's parents in 104 C.R. Fuentes Street, Iloilo City at first. The home was where their three eldest children were born.
They migrated from Iloilo City to Manila in 1941, at the advise of Fredesvinda's father who, being affiliated with the government, knew that Manila would be the only open city where supplies and rations would be most accessible. In 1942, Fredesvinda's father, Juan Anderson Hernandez, served as superintendent of the Philippine Constabulary Academy, a training school for policemen. Segundino then worked in the Academy as the chief cook. In his efforts to help the Filipino guerillas, he would keep the armory unlocked for the rebels to loot overnight.
Segundino and Fredesvinda made Mandaluyong City their home. This city was where they raised their family. Fredesvinda was a homemaker and worked as a skilled dressmaker. Despite their humble lifestyle, they raised a closely-knit family and were important influences in the lives of their grandchildren.
A smoker since his teens, Lolo Gunding died of complications from lung disease on 21 April 1992 in Manila City.
Family History Research Notes
1. Segundino Sobrepeña Magno's Family Tree can be found on Geni.com.
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Location: Gunter Annex, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL
Client: USACE, Omaha District
The Gunter Annex surface drainage system is designated as site SD-001 under the Installation Restoration Program (IRP) and is located immediately adjacent to Gunter Annex. The property is currently owned by the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC). Drainage associated with Gunter SD-001 initiates from within the boundaries of Gunter Annex and flows from three pipes located just east of the site into an ecologically sensitive, area known as Three Mile Branch Creek. It is believed that pesticide runoff in surface water from Gunter Annex contributed to the drainage ditch impacts. Chlordane was detected in sediment samples, from within the ditch, at concentrations up to 13 times the ecological screening levels. Bhate developed an innovative in-situ remedial approach using sodium persulfate to oxidize the contaminants. Our approach resulted in a cost avoidance of $1.2M for the Air Force – without impact to the installation mission or the ecologically sensitive areas adjacent to SD-001.


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Please, please, do not put packing peanuts into your garden's soil! Most packing peanuts are made from polystyrene, which is not biodegradable. They will remain long after you and your garden have passed from this earth. Biodegradable packing peanuts made from plant starch won't help your soil either, because they dissolve when they get wet.
Improve the drainage, tilth, and overall quality of your soil by mixing compost into your garden beds. Even better, double-dig your beds. This process adds organic matter and loosens the soil, making it easier for water and air to reach the roots of your plants. For instructions on doubledigging, see "Start a Fresh Bed" in our March 2004 issue. Another option is to build raised beds and fill them with a high-quality, well-draining topsoil.
Whichever method you choose, allow the newly fluffed soil to settle for a couple of days before planting. And don't walk on your new bed; you'll compact it and undo all your hard work.
As for your packing peanuts, recycle them at a local store that provides packaging and shipping services. That's the most sensible way to get these nuts off your hands.


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Stephen asks, what convention governs the association of red with Labor and blue with the Liberal Party?
Q: In media coverage of elections, the same colours are commonly assigned to each major political party in graphs, charts and other representations. For example, Labor is usually given red while Liberals are given blue. What is the convention, if any, that governs this? - Stephen Mok
There are no particular conventions. To a large extent, we have adopted the same party colours as used in the United Kingdom. Traditionally, candidates in the UK use rosettes pinned to their chest when campaigning, and it is an old tradition that these rosettes be coloured. The Conservative Party has always been blue, Labour has used the traditional red colour of socialism, and the Liberal Democrats yellow.
We have simply adopted the same colourings in Australia. Until quite recently, the signs stuck up on power poles (known colloquially as corflutes) were blue for Liberal candidates and red for Labor candidates. These days they are often printed in brighter colours, like yellow or hot pink.
We have simply adopted this red and blue convention for the Labor and Liberal parties. The National Party have traditionally been given dark green as their party logo is green and gold. The Australian Democrats have traditionally used yellow in their publicity material. Recently the ABC has adopted the convention of colouring the Greens light green.
Beyond those established colours, ABC-TV has used brown and light blue for other parties in recent years. These colours have been used mainly to distinguish them from other colours used on graphics. Independents and minor party candidates are traditionally been coloured grey.
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Fall Creek Falls & Coon Creek Falls
January 15, 1951
RG 82, Department of Conservation
Fall Creek Falls is Tennessee's second-largest park; it consists of 19,684 acres and is located between Spencer and Pikeville along the border of Van Buren and Bledsoe counties. Park construction began in 1936 following the arrival of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA). The CCC restocked wildlife and began reforestation, and the WPA assisted with the construction of the park's facilities. The State Forestry Service and Department of Agriculture administered the park throughout the 1930s and 1940s. The National Park Service oversaw development, which included parking areas, picnic and camping facilities, trails, etc.
Today, park attendance places Fall Creek Falls among the state's most heavily visited recreational sites. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation has successfully retained the parks' most valuable resources, including the spectacular 250-foot namesake, Fall Creek Falls, as well as Cane Creek Gulf, Cane Creek Falls, Rockhouse Falls, Piney Creek Falls, numerous gorges, natural foliage, and an abundance of wildlife species. Today, the park remains, as the National Park Service remarked in the mid-1930s, "unquestionably one of the most outstanding beauty regions" in the United States.
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discover (part of speech: verb)
locate (part of speech: verb)
- The committee hesitated, and then one by one came after us, more anxious, I think, to complete the fiasco than to unearth facts. - "Caves of Terror", Talbot Mundy.
- I don't want you and Letitia to think that I was just making catspaws of you both, and forcing you without knowing, to help me unearth him in his lair. - "The Princess Virginia", C. N. Williamson A. M. Williamson.
- He also inspected the crypts of churches, to unearth traces of the priests' lubricity. - "The Aspirations of Jean Servien", Anatole France.


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PRODUCTIVITY Evernote vs. OneNote: Which is best for your business?
If you're someone who likes to jot down notes to keep their thoughts organized or whose line of work requires taking notes regularly, you've likely come across two of the most popular note-taking apps available today: OneNote and Evernote. Both of these apps have free versions and come with some very useful features, but each has pros and cons that set it apart from the other. While some users swear by OneNote, others prefer Evernote. Let's discuss the features of both apps to help you decide which one is better for your business.
Taking notes
OneNote
Microsoft OneNote features the traditional Microsoft Office Ribbon that provides you with many features to create, edit, view, and organize notes. While creating notes, you can add text, images, tables, videos, audio files, spreadsheets, links, and more to your notes. This helps you create content-rich notes and keep all media associated with them in one place.
You can take freehand notes and draw freehand images using a touch-enabled device or a Microsoft Surface device. The usual Microsoft Office formatting and reviewing options help you create more appealing and accurate notes.
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Evernote
Evernote includes most of the same note-creation features, like drawing and editing tools, but doesn't provide some OneNote features like reviewing other users' edits. Also, unless you tag your notes, they will keep piling up in an unorganized manner, and it will be difficult to search for them later.
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Organizing your notes
OneNote
OneNote helps you organize content just like you would in a physical notebook—in the hierarchy of notebooks, section groups, sections, and pages. This provides you with simple and broad cabinets to save your notes in. Pages in a section are displayed in a list on the right-side panel, which helps you keep track of topics that you've created. OneNote also helps you organize content within your page by creating sub-paragraphs. You can create multiple paragraphs under the main one and collapse/display them as needed.
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Evernote
Evernote organizes notes in a linear fashion, displaying all the existing notebooks on the far-left side of the screen. While scrolling through these notebooks, you can see the list of notes in each and image clippings from those notes. As the name suggests, the "All notes" section displays the entire collection of notes taken up to this point, irrespective of the notebooks they are in. Evernote provides a Tags options under the listed notebooks where you can search for notes according to their tags.
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Clipping content from the web
OneNote
OneNote has a clipper add-in that has very basic functionality and can only be used from a Microsoft account. Using this clipper, you can grab a screenshot of a webpage or other content. For example, you can choose to capture an article from a webpage, excluding the advertisements, as well as its bookmark.
The clipping gets embedded as an image. OneNote allows you to include this clipping only inside an existing notebook. If there are any multimedia components or links on the clipping, you will not be able to interact with them. OneNote also doesn't allow you to copy a saved clipping to other applications, such as Microsoft Word.
Evernote
With Evernote, you can do all this but also choose to exclude the original format of the article and copy just the text and images from it. You can create a new notebook to add this clipped information and use Evernote's mark-up tools to include comments or questions. You can also play around with the content from the clipped page by editing or changing its appearance, such as adding text to it, highlighting it, and even drawing directly on it. Unlike OneNote, Evernote lets you click the links of the clipped page. You can also view videos embedded in clipped content by clicking them and visiting the original webpage from where the content was clipped.
Device support
Both OneNote and Evernote can be used across devices, but the overall look and feel may vary from one device to another.
OneNote
As part of the Microsoft Office suite, OneNote works best on Windows, where you get to enjoy its entire range of note-creation and formatting options. You may find a few of these features missing in the web, iPad, and Mac versions of OneNote. Though the Mac version of OneNote has all the formatting features just like Windows, it doesn't provide you with as many Insert features. The iPad version also has its limitations, though it provides the extra functionality of taking a picture with your device's camera and inserting it into your notes. The iPhone and Android versions are also simplified and omit some features. However, they allow you to scroll through notes easily and take quick notes on the go.
Evernote
Out of all the different devices, Evernote also seems to look and work the best on Windows. It's easier to organize your notes on Windows, as existing notebooks are displayed vertically. This task becomes a little tricky while using an iPad or Mac. If you use the Android or iPhone version, Evernote displays notes in rectangular boxes with the note title and image displayed on it. While using the web version, you need to click the Notebook icon to see the list of existing notebooks. You can then click on a notebook to see the notes in it.
Using third-party apps
When it comes to using third party apps to import content, both OneNote and Evernote work well.
OneNote
Applications such as OnetasticGenius ScanIFTTT, and Zapier help you to easily bring information to OneNote, where you can edit and organize it according to your needs. In case you want to export your notes to other apps, OneNote allows you to do so easily with Microsoft Office products, especially Word. You can also export your notes to a spreadsheet or PDF documents.
Evernote
Evernote is very versatile in this regard, as it supports many apps across different platforms and devices. For example, if you need to convert recorded audio notes to text on Evernote, you can use the Dragon Anywhere app. Evernote also supports other useful apps like TaskClone and Cloudmagic. But if you export your notes to other apps, Evernote doesn't provide you with as many options as OneNote does.
Multi-Factor Authentication: Better Protect Your Office 365 Data
Nowadays, nearly every modern organization is moving their business to the cloud. Protecting your organization's users and their accounts from being compromised is easy when you have an on-premises setup like Microsoft's Azure Active Directory. But what if you're using Office 365? Well, you're still in luck. In this article, we'll take a comprehensive look at how Office 365 multi-factor authentication helps protect your data.
What is multi-factor authentication?
Multi-factor authentication is a simple way of protecting user profiles by requiring users to provide more than just their username and password when attempting to log in.
In Office 365, multi-factor authentication adds a second layer of protection that requires users to provide proof of their identity before they are granted access to a profile.
For example, if someone managed to crack or steal your password but doesn't have the device you associated with your profile, they won't be allowed to log in. So that second factor—the mobile or office phone—will protect your account from unauthorized logins.
Licensing
The best part is that multi-factor authentication is free with an Office 365 subscription. Though Office 365 multi-factor authentication is part of Azure, you don't need any additional license to use it for your Office 365 tenant. You only need an Azure AD Premium license in case you want to use advanced features of Azure multi-factor authentication.
How multi-factor authentication works in Office 365
Microsoft offers three different ways you can use multi-factor authentication to prove your identity from your phone:
 1. Use the Microsoft Authenticator app. This app provides you with a one-time password (OTP) or a push notification. You can either use that device as a software token that provides OTP or you can use it as a push notification hub that will get notifications from the central multi-factor authentication service.
 2. Receive a phone call on your registered number. If you select this option, you'll receive a call on either your mobile or landline phone and will be asked to press the pound sign (#) to confirm your identity.
 3. Receive a text message at your registered number. You'll receive an OTP through a text message sent to your mobile. You then simply enter the OTP on the screen where you're trying to log in.
You can either use one of these options or configure multiple options for multi-factor authentication.
Below are the options that an Office 365 global admin sees when enabling multi-factor authentication for Office 365 users in their organization:
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When users complete their multi-factor authentication registration, they can also choose default and secondary options from the ones enabled by their global admin. Users will see the following screen:
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How to set up multi-factor authentication in Office 365
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The shape optimization of the upper plenum of a pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR)-type gas-cooled nuclear reactor has been performed by using three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) analysis and a multiobjective optimization procedure. A multiobjective genetic algorithm is used for multiobjective optimization. Two objective functions related to the uniformity of the flow distribution at the core inlet and pressure drop through the upper plenum are employed. Three geometric design variables, namely, the ratio of the thickness of the slot to the diameter of the rising channels, the ratio of the height of the upper plenum to the diameter of the rising channels, and the ratio of the height of the slot at the inlet to that at the outlet, are used for the optimization. Latin hypercube sampling is used to determine the experimental points. The response surface approximation model is used to approximate the Pareto-optimal front with three-dimensional RANS analysis using the shear stress transport turbulence model. Seven optimal shapes have been obtained using k-means clustering. From an analysis of two typical optimal designs, it is found that both of the objective functions have been improved remarkably in comparison with the reference design.


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Royal Llama of the Inca
If you are coming to the Museum today, please use one of the following entrances: 79th Street and Central Park West, subway entrance, or Weston Pavilion (Columbus Avenue entrance). The Rose Center for Earth and Space and the 81st Street entrance will be closed today, Friday, May 24.
Most Inca goldwork and silverwork was melted down by the Spanish conquistadors. The Museum's silver llama figurine is a rare example of Inca metalwork. Approximately 500 years old, it is from the Island of the Sun, or Lake Titicaca, Bolivia.
Every morning, an Inca priest presided over the sacrifice of a llama at the temple of the Sun. Anthropologists think that this figurine is a special white llama covered with a red blanket that was kept by the Inca ruler, or Sapa Inca, as a kind of mascot.
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Maya Bernstein, Director of Education and Leadership Initiatives at UpStart Bay Area, discusses her vision of Jewish Education for the 21st Century, one which encourages the development of "Jewish educational activism". She describes how hevruta learning can be a model for how this type of ethical education can proceed.
She suggests that the process of Hevruta learning can inform and enhance the Jewish ethical activist classroom in the following ways:
- Responsibility for the Other
- Ideas are Multi-faceted and Complex
- Deliberate Partnering – Paving the Way for Critical Relationships
- Cultivation of Compassionate Listening
- Movement between Intellectual Discussion & Personal Contemplation
- Nature of the Educational Relationship
"Hevruta is a powerful tool in facilitating the movement from study to action, and thereby helping Jewish wisdom stay relevant and agile in today's world. Jewish education can contribute invaluably to the challenge of striving to define and create an ethical global community. In our Jewish educational environments, we must ensure that we train the next generation to engage in this process, armed with a set of values, texts, and tools unique to our tradition. The philosophical methodology behind hevruta learning to create ethical educational environments should be considered as one vehicle to help ensure that the Jewish education our children receive is one that will stay with them for a lifetime, and inspire and challenge how they behave as human beings in this world."


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An ad hoc committee is pushing a series of projects aimed at honoring the late-George I. Sanchez, a scholar credited with helping bring attention to the plight of poor Mexican-Americans in the 1930s. Those projects include naming a street and building after Sanchez, said Luisa Duran, a retired University of New Mexico bilingual education professor.
In addition, New Mexico state lawmakers are scheduled Tuesday to read a memorial about the pioneer scholar's contributions to Latino education.
For the Sanchez family, it's a stunning reversal of his legacy in a state where lawmakers once denounced him and forced him to leave because of his then-radical views on desegregation, said granddaughter Cindy Kennedy, 49, a Santa Fe teacher. "I think it's fantastic," Kennedy said. "It's about time he's being honored here nearly 40 years after his death."
Duran said the committee is working on more ideas to honor Sanchez, who wrote the 1940 classic book "Forgotten People" about Mexican-Americans in Taos. The group of educators formed the committee after reading a story by The Associated Press last year that Sanchez was relatively unknown in his birth state and in Albuquerque, an area he worked as a young school teacher.
"It's important that we remember him because
A dozen or so schools in Texas and California are named in honor of Sanchez—including the School of Education building at the University of Texas where he taught for many years—but not a single school in New Mexico bears his name. Few New Mexico educators or activists know much about him, according to historians and educators. No plaque exists to show his birthplace or the school where Sanchez taught. He is not listed among the state's notable figures in New Mexico Centennial guidebooks.
A son of an Arizona miner, Albuquerque-born Sanchez worked his way out of poverty as a rural public school teacher in New Mexico to become a pioneer scholar and education activist. Sanchez developed his theories on school inequalities using New Mexico's Hispanic and Navajo populations as examples. He argued that bilingual students were discriminated against by monolingual school systems and testified in landmark court cases about the negative effects of segregation and IQ testing on Hispanic, American Indian and black children.
But Sanchez clashed with the state's governor for pushing a state equalization funding formula for schools and came under fire from some lawmakers for helping with a University of New Mexico professor's survey on racial attitudes in schools.
Kennedy said her grandfather never sought much recognition while he was alive.
"But I'm glad New Mexico is finally beginning to honor him," Kennedy said. "He's finally coming home."
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More water is flowing in DeSoto County thanks to the completion of a $3.6 million pipeline.
The five-mile pipeline, known as the DeSoto County Regional Transmission System (RTS) Extension, connects the county to the Peace River/ Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority's water treatment facility. This pipeline is part of a larger alternative water supply project that will allow for growth, while preserving groundwater supplies for existing agricultural users.
The District contributed $1.9 million toward the project, which was completed in conjunction with the Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority.
District Governing Board member Patsy Symons, who participated in the pipeline dedication, described the project as a regional solution to a regional water supply problem.
"This region faces many water resource challenges. Finding solutions can be difficult, especially for smaller counties with limited financial resources, but working together we can conquer those challenges," said Symons.
The RTS Extension consists of approximately five miles of 20-inch diameter pipeline and provides more than five million gallons of potable water per day from the Peace River facility to extended areas of DeSoto County. This pipeline will also be used for future expansion of the Peace River facility, interconnecting neighboring utilities within DeSoto and Charlotte counties.
"The ability to interconnect the pipeline with existing utilities in the future supports the District's position on regionalizing water supply sources," said Brian Armstrong, P.G., District project manager.
The project is a critical component of the District's Southern Water Use Caution Area Recovery Strategy. The plan's aim is to provide users in coastal areas, where there is the greatest threat of saltwater intrusion, with supply options that are an alternative to ground water.


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17 March 2014
San Francesco - Via della Quarquonia 1 (Classroom 1 )
The Eshelbian (or configurational) force is the main concept of a celebrated theoretical framework associated with the motion of dislocations and, more in general, defects in solids. In a similar vein, in an elastic structure where a (smooth and bilateral) constraint can move and release energy,a force driving the configuration is generated, which therefore is called by analogy 'Eshelby-like'or 'configurational'. This force (generated by a specific movable constraint) is derived both via variational calculus and, independently, through an asymptotic approach. Its action on the elastic structure is counterintuitive, but is fully substantiated and experimentally measured on a model structure that has been designed, realized and tested. These findings open a totally new perspective in the mechanics of deformable mechanisms, with possible broad applications, even at the nanoscale.


C++ Program To Find Factorial
This program is used to find factorial of n numbers.
Algorithm:
1.Start
2.Get the input from user for variable n (ie) an integer number
3.Initialize fact as 1
4.You will need a for loop to find factorial of given number
5.In for loop set i as 1 then compare if i is lesser than or equal to zero
6.If step-5 is true declare fact as fact * i and if step-5 is false stop the program
7.Increment i value by 1
8.Stop
Program:
# include <iostream.h>
# include <conio.h>
void main ()
{
 clrscr();
 int n, fact = 1;
 cout << "Enter Value For N:";
 cin >> n;
 for (int i = 1; i <= n; i + +)
 {
 fact = fact * i;
 }
 cout << "The Factorial Of" << n << "Is:" << fact;
 getch ();
}
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Meaning of RD
What Does RD Mean? (Using RD Online)RD means "Real Deal".
Summary of Key Points
Definition for RDRD means "Real Deal". This is the most common definition for RD on Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter. Here is some more information about RD:
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UNIX Resources monitor
The UNIX Resources monitor shows the UNIX resources measured during the test run. This graph helps you determine the impact of Vuser load on the various system resources.
Configure the UNIX monitoring environment
This task describes how to configure the UNIX environment before setting up the UNIX monitor. The monitor can be configured with rstatd Daemon, or when non-mandatory credentials fields are supplied, it can be configured to access UNIX resources via the SSH protocol.
Configure the UNIX monitoring environment to allow access via the SSH protocol
 1. Make sure that authentication by password is enabled on your UNIX machine:
 1. Open /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
 2. Find the line that defines the password authentication property, and enable it.
 For example: PasswordAuthentication yes
 If this property is not defined, add it.
 3. Save the file and restart the sshd service.
 2. Verify that the following commands run on the UNIX machine without errors:
 /bin/cat /proc/stat| /bin/grep cpu | /usr/bin/head -n 1
 /bin/cat /proc/stat | /bin/grep btime
 /bin/cat /proc/uptime
 /bin/cat /proc/stat | /bin/grep ctxt
 /bin/cat /proc/vmstat | /bin/grep pgpgin -A 3
 /bin/cat /proc/loadavg
 /bin/cat /proc/net/dev | /usr/bin/head -n3 | /usr/bin/tail -n1
 /bin/cat /proc/stat | /bin/grep intr | /usr/bin/awk '{print $2}'
 /bin/cat /proc/meminfo | /bin/grep MemTotal -A 2
 3. Configure the monitor measurements as described in Set up the UNIX Resources monitor.
Configure the UNIX monitoring environment with rstatd Daemon
 1. Verify whether the rstatd daemon is already configured
 The rstatd daemon might already be configured, because when a machine receives an rstatd request, the inetd on that machine automatically activates the rstatd.
 - The rup command reports various machine statistics, including rstatd configuration. Run the following command on the UNIX machine to view the machine statistics:
 - >rup host
 - You can also use lr_host_monitor and see if it returns any relevant statistics.
 - If the command returns meaningful statistics, the rstatd daemon is already configured and activated. If not, or if you receive an error message, the rstatd daemon is not configured.
 2. Configure the rstatd daemon
 If the rstatd daemon is not yet configured, follow these steps to configure it:
 1. On the UNIX machine, run the command: su root
 2. Go to /etc/inetd.conf and look for the rstatd row (it begins with the word rstatd). If it is commented out (with a #), remove the comment directive, and save the file.
 3. From the command line, run:
 4. kill -1 inet_pid
 where inet_pid is the pid of the inetd process. This instructs the inetd to rescan the /etc/inetd.conf file and register all daemons which are uncommented, including the rstatd daemon.
 5. Run rup again.
 If the command still does not indicate that the rstatd daemon is configured, contact your system administrator.
 3. Configure the monitor for a UNIX machine over a firewall (optional)
 To monitor a UNIX machine over a firewall, you must run a UNIX utility called rpcinfo and identify the rstatd's port number.
 Run rpcinfo -p <hostname>. You will receive a list of all RPC servers registered in the host's portmapper, along with the port number. This list will not change until rstatd is stopped and rerun.
 Some firewalls allow you to open an RPC program number instead of a port. In such cases, open program 100001. If are prompted to include a version number, specify versions 3 and 4.
 4. Configure the monitor measurements as described in Set up the UNIX Resources monitor.
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Set up the UNIX Resources monitor
This task describes how to set up the UNIX Resources monitor.
 1. Prerequisites
 If your monitor accesses a server outside of your internal network, you may need to set up a web proxy to collect data from it. For details, see Use a proxy server.
 2. Select a resources folder.
 Select a resources folder for the monitor profile in the resources tree, or create a new folder as follows:
 1. In LoadRunner Enterprise, click Open the navigation toolbar and select Monitors (under Assets).
 2. Click New Folder and enter a name for the monitor resources folder.
 3. Create a monitor profile.
 1. Click New Monitor Profile, and make sure Monitor Profile is selected.
 2. Enter a name and optional description for the monitor profile, and click Save. An empty monitor profile is added to the selected resources folder.
 3. Select the monitor profile you just added and click Add Monitor.
 1. Select the UNIX Resources monitor type and click Next.
 2. Enter the server details:
 UI Elements
 Description
 Server
 The name or IP address of the server whose resources you want to monitor.
 User Name
 Provide the monitored server's user name if you want to use the SSH protocol to connect to the resource. Otherwise, if left empty, rstatd is required to run the monitor.
 Password
 Provide the monitored server's password if you want to use the SSH protocol to connect to the resource. Otherwise, if left empty, rstatd is required to run the monitor.
 3. Click Get Counters to display a list of available metrics and counters.
 Select the measurements that you want to monitor, and then click to add the counters to the Selected Counters table.
 The following default measurements are available for the UNIX machine:
 Measurement
 Description
 Average load
 Average number of processes simultaneously in Ready state during the last minute.
 Collision rate
 Collisions per second detected on the Ethernet.
 Context switches rate
 Number of switches between processes or threads, per second.
 CPU utilization
 Percent of time that the CPU is utilized.
 Disk rate
 Rate of disk transfers.
 Incoming packets error rate
 Errors per second while receiving Ethernet packets.
 Incoming packets rate
 Incoming Ethernet packets per second.
 Interrupt rate
 Number of device interrupts per second.
 Outgoing packets errors rate
 Errors per second while sending Ethernet packets.
 Outgoing packets rate
 Outgoing Ethernet packets per second.
 Page-in rate
 Number of pages read to physical memory, per second.
 Page-out rate
 Number of pages written to pagefiles and removed from physical memory, per second.
 Paging rate
 Number of pages read to physical memory or written to pagefiles, per second.
 Swap-in rate
 Number of processes being swapped in.
 Swap-out rate
 Number of processes being swapped out.
 System mode CPU utilization
 Percent of time that the CPU is utilized in system mode.
 User mode CPU utilization
 Percent of time CPU is utilized in user mode.
 4. Click Save. The monitor details are displayed in the Monitors tab for the selected monitor profile.
 4. Associate the monitor with your test.
 For details, see Step 3: Associate monitors with your test.
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Notes and limitations
Problem: If rstatd is not running and credentials are not supplied (when credentials are provided, the SSH protocol is used instead of rstatd), the UNIX monitor does not work and returns the following error:
root@<LR Enterprise Server name>:~# rup <LR Enterprise Server name>
rup: RPC: Program not registered
Resolution:
 1. Install rstatd by running the command:
 sudo apt-get install rstatd
 2. Open the /etc/xinetd.conf file in a text editor and add the line:
 rstatd sunrpc_udp udp wait root /usr/sbin/rpc.rstatd rstatd 100001 1-3
 3. Restart rstatd by running the command:
 /usr/sbin/rpc.rstatd start
 4. Verify rstatd is running on the localhost by running the command:
 rpcinfo -p localhost
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See also:


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What crapemyrtle blooms red at same time or close to 'Natchez'?
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Impl for StoredProcedure call. Method executeQuery() is used when the stored procedure returns ResultSet and method execute() is used when the stored procedure does not have any return ResultSet.
Parameters hold both IN and OUT parameters.
PagerImpl Holds ReadCommandImpl, page size and current page index. Implements next(), previous(), getPage(index) methods. In each based on current page index and page size, the ReadCommandImpl is executed with start and end boundaries set.
ChangeFactory This class is used during DAS.applyChanges(). With changed DataObject and ChangeSummary, required type of ChangeOperation instance is created (like DeleteOperation, UpdateOperation). This instance of ChangeOperation holds appropriate CommandImpl, which in itself holds the Parameters. Thus for a given DAS Config and Connection, ChangeFactory is used to propagate DataObject changes to Database via CommandImpl.
ChangeSummarizer Main function of this class is load Changes based on root DataObject of applyChanges() Command MappingWrapper is used to sort the ChangeOperations in Changes.
Changes Contains DeleteList, InsertList, Update List pertaining to one applyChanges() command.
DeleteList Maintains ordered/unordered list of DeleteOperations. If DAS Config defines any Relationships, MappingWrapper aids in forming Delete Order for all the Tables undergoing DeleteOperation, based on Parent-Child relationships. If Delete Order is available, DeleteList forms a List following appropriate Referential Integrity. Otherwise no order is maintained.
InsertList Maintains ordered/unordered list of CreateOperations. If DAS Config defines any Relationships, MappingWrapper aids in forming Insert Order for all the Tables undergoing InsertOperation, based on Parent-Child relationships. If Insert Order is available, InsertList forms a List following appropriate Referential Integrity. Otherwise no order is maintained.
UpdateList As UpdateOperation happens on single Table, there is no reason for sorting based on any Referntial Relationships. So, this class is just a wrapper on ArrayList.
BaseGenerator Parent class for Delete/Update/InsertGenerator. If in DAS Config, any Table Column specifies a ColumnConverter class, BaseGenerator, returns a new instance of this class.
DeleteGenerator Extends BaseGenerator. Based on Table and DAS Config, DELETE statement is generated with Primary Keys in WHERE clause. Using this, DeleteCommandImpl is instantiated. For Parameters in DeleteCommandImpl ColumnConverter is considered if present.
InsertGenerator Same as DeleteGenerator. Here Database Key value generation is also considered.
UpdateGenerator Extends BaseGenerator. In UPDATE statement WHERE clause Primary Keys are considered as well as Default OCC policy is considered. Also check is implemented for any violation for Foreign Key relationships. Parameters in UpdateCommandImpl consider ColumnConvert as appropriate. OCC attributes in DAS Config for , viz. managed and collision are considered in SET and WHERE clause formation respectively.
ChangeOperation Abstract parent class for Create/Delete/UpdateOperation. It contains WriteCommand, DatabaseObject and any generated ID.
DeleteOperation Extends ChangeOperation. Uses SDO's ChangeSummary based OldValues as in the DataGraph, deleted objects have lost their settings.
CreateOperation Extends ChangeOperation, makes use of Generated ID.
UpdateOperation Extends ChangeOperation and makes use of generated ID.
DatabaseObject Wraps DataObject. If a field is FK, it will return value from parent. It also sets the Database generated value in primary key property of DataObject.
RowObjects Holds a Map of TableName->DataObject. It uses relationship information to associate these DataObjects to form DataGraph.
GraphBuilderMetadata Class that form Metadata for forming DataObjects based on MetaData available in JDBC ResultSet. It uses DAS Config, ResultSet and ResultSetShape to form a Collection of ResultMetaData. It is used in ResultSetProcessor and thus further in RowObjects.
ResultSetProcessor This class is used to transform data in ResultSet into set of inter-related DataObjects. It contains TableRegistry, GraphBuilderMetadata and DataObjectMaker. Using GrapbBuilderMetadata and the JDBC ResultSet, it forms
ResultSetRow, then form RowObjects and connects related DataObjects using Relationship information from RowObjects to form the completed DataGraph.
DataObjectMaker Forms DataObject based on TableData. It is used in ResultSetProcessor for this.
TableRegistry Base Interface for Single/MultiTableRegistry.
SingleTableRegistry No functionality.
MultiTableRegistry Implements TableRegistry. Used when converting JDBC ResultSet of SQL SELECT into DataObjects.
DefaultConverter Implements Converter. In case of Blob database column type, returns byte for the column value when mapping from database data to property value.
ResultMetaData Holds complete ResultSet related metadata of the Query resultResultSet, ColumnConverters, MappingWrapper, SDO Type Names, SDO Property Names, ResultSetShape for the ResultSet, Map containing Table Type
> Column Property (equivalent to Database Table>Column). It provides various get methods on these members.
ResultSetRow A ResultSetRow is used to transform a single row of ResultSet into a set of DataObjects. It uses TableData as a intermediate place to keep Database Data for a Row, which is later used to form DataObject. It holds a List of all Table Data for the current row. This class is used in ResultSetProcessor.
TableData Holds single JDBC row for a Table and its Columns - tableName, list of PKs, Map of ColumnName->Data, if table has PK. Is used by DataObjectMaker to form DataObject based on Table Row.
ResultSetTypeMap Provides mapping from sql.Types to SDO Type. Used in ResultSetShape to populate SDO Type for all columns present in ResultSet.
FactoryRegistry Maintains registry of ChangeFactory. There is one FactoryRegistry for on DAS Config and Connection. It maintains a Map with entries of each SDO Type against ChangeFactory for current DAS Config+Connection.
ParameterImpl Holds values required for representing SQL statement/StoredProcedure parameter like name, index, value, SDO Type and columnConverter. Can have direction IN/OUT/IN-OUT. IN is default. OUT/IN-OUT is only in case of Stored Procedure.
ManagedParameterImpl Extends ParameterImpl. Expected to be integer or BigDecimal type, else exception is thrown. setValue() returns oldValue+1.
CollisionParameter Extends ParameterImpl. Design restricts setting value in CollisionParameter only once.
Parameters Maintains lists of parameters (used in SQL statements), IN/OUT parameters (used in stored procedures).
ResultSetShape This is an alternative to use ResultSetMetaData of the Query result. It can be used when some platforms like Oracle do not fully support MetaData. For a given SQL Query, this holds schemaName, tableName, columnName, SDO Column Type for each column in ResultSet. It has 2 constructors, one uses JDBC's ResultSetMetaData to form ResultSetShape and another uses DAS Config supplied ResultDescriptor to form ResultSetShape.
Statement Holds SQL String, JDBC connection, JDBC PreparedStatement and also state information whether the current statement is used by Pager.
SDODataTypeHelper Provides mapping between SDO's Type and JDBC's sql.Types.
SDODataTypes Uses SDO's TypeHelper to get SDO Type for given string.
QualifiedColumn Maintains schemaName, tableName and columnName for a Table's Column.
RelationshipWrapper Wrapper for DAS Config's . Only one method to return Collection of all FKColumns in a Relationship.
TableWrapper Wrapper on DAS Config's . Provides various get methods to get values of different elements and attributes within .
ConfigUtil Uses SDO's XMLHelper to load DAS Config Data Model in memory.
DataObjectUtil Provides utility methods for SDO DataObject like copying one DataObject into another, restoring Old Values of a DataObject using its SDO's ChangeSummary.
Complete DAS Configuration follows.
Convention Child Element
 Not used
 Needs a valid value when creating static DataObjects.
 when true, multiple database schema under same database are supported
complete URL of data source
if true, DAS manages database transaction
complete qualified class name
 authentic database user
 password for the user
 database table column name (no meaning when Command kind is procedure)
IN/OUT (OUT makes sense when Command kind is "procedure")
used in set/getParameter() on Command based on direction (used when Command kind is procedure).
-> Used as alternative to database result set metadata.
 database table column name
 database table name
 used when databaseSchemaNameSupported=true
SDO mapped data type
 =true allows for 1:n relationship. If it is false, it's 1:1 relationship.
 In case of 1:1 relationship, if keyRestricted is not specified, the
link (relationship) between the parent and child rows can be broken, by setting the
parentKeyTable's row to null/deleting the row. Also, a different parent row can
be associated to the child row, which has one pre-existing parent row association.
If keyRestricted=true, this kind on change in existing relationship is not allowed,
user will get exception 'Can not modify a one to one relationship that is key
database table column name
database table column name
Database table name
Data Object type name
 used when databaseSchemaNameSupported=true
 INSERT statement in PreparedStement format
space separated column names used in explicit INSERT
 UPDATE statement in PreparedStement format
 space separated column names used in explicit UPDATE
 DELETE statement in PreparedStement format
 space separated column names used in explicit DELETE
 database table column name


Everyone knows that the humidity in the jungle is higher than in the desert. But how much exactly? How much does it fluctuate from morning to evening? How can you regulate it? These questions are important and need to be clarified for each species.
Humidity in rainforest terrariums
With rainforest animals it's no use simply building an irrigation system in your terrarium to permanently achieve 100% humidity! Our measurements during the JBL Amazon Expedition showed that during the day, the humidity dropped to 58% with increasing temperature (12:00 noon) and increased to a maximum of 92% early in the morning (2:00 - 6:00). Our measurements in Venezuela at the Orinoco showed the same trend, albeit with slightly different values: highest humidity of 96% at 6:30 in the morning and lowest humidity of 65% at 13:30 in the afternoon.
In the rainforest terrarium, water sections or a waterfall increase the humidity. The monitoring of the relative humidity and air temperature can, for example, be carried out with the JBL TerraControl.
If the humidity you achieve is not sufficient, an additional spraying with water in the evening or a sprinkler system is advisable.
Humidity in desert terrariums
As in the rainforest, the humidity decreases during the day as the air temperature increases and increases at night with decreasing air temperatures, whether in the Australian outback or in African deserts at about 20% at noon and 80% at night.
Remarkably, there are huge differences within the same region, e.g. in Tanzania/near Mount Meru: Only a few miles apart, we simultaneously found 42 °C with 16 % relative humidity and 34 °C with 44 % humidity at the same time. When aiming to keep the conditions of your terrarium animals close to nature not only the region (e.g. Arusha) but also the microhabitat (steppe, savanna, bush, height above sea level, rainforest, etc.) is important. Equally noteworthy are the differences between day and night: from a day's maximum value of 34 °C with 44 % relative humidity, the values drop at night to 18 °C at 83 % relative humidity. These conditions should also be reproduced for a species-appropriate animal keeping.
Since the humidity is so important for a lot of animal species, e.g. when shedding skin, it also needs to be properly adjusted in the terrarium. And because many desert terrariums contain at least two climatic zones (sun area and cooling area), separate measurements are also needed from both areas. During the day the humidity values should be between 20 and 40%. At night, it might be between 50 and 70%. It is possible to adjust the moisture slightly with the help of a water bowl. The warmer the bowl, the more water evaporates and increases the humidity. In addition, some fine, light spraying may be helpful. Never aim directly at the animals when spraying!
Adding plants to your desert terrarium will increase the humidity as well. The soil introduced stores moisture and the plants also transpire and release water into the air via their stomata.
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:"Std_Z",
 values:[-5000]
 }
];
layer.multidimensionalDefinition = dimension;
// get the layer's multidimensionalDefinition and locate the
// Salinity dimension and filter the data by salinity.
const multidimensionalDefinition = layer.multidimensionalDefinition;
const variableName = "Salinity";
// filter the data by salinity dimension
multidimensionalDefinition.forEach((def) => def.variableName = variableName);
layer.multidimensionalDefinition = multidimensionalDefinition;
// update the statistics of the layer's stretch renderer.
const renderer = layer.renderer.clone();
const dimensions = layer.rasterInfo.multidimensionalInfo;
// get the salinity variable's statistics
const salinity = dimensions.variables.find((variable) => variable.name === variableName);
renderer.statistics = salinity.statistics;
layer.renderer = renderer;
opacity Number inherited
The opacity of the layer. This value can range between 1 and 0, where 0 is 100 percent transparent and 1 is completely opaque.
Default Value:1
Example
// Makes the layer 50% transparent
layer.opacity = 0.5;
portalItem PortalItem
The portal item from which the layer is loaded. If the portal item references a Feature Service or Scene Service, then you can specify a single layer to load with the layerId property.
Beginning with version 4.17, it is possible to load tables from feature service items hosted in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise. This only applies to feature layers, and will successfully load if FeatureLayer.isTable returns true.
Examples
// While this example uses FeatureLayer, this same pattern can be
// used for other layers that may be loaded from portalItem ids.
const layer = new FeatureLayer({
 portalItem: { // autocasts as new PortalItem()
 id: "caa9bd9da1f4487cb4989824053bb847"
 } // the first layer in the service is returned
});
// Set hostname when using an on-premise portal (default is ArcGIS Online)
// esriConfig.portalUrl = "_URL_
// While this example uses FeatureLayer, this same pattern can be
// used for SceneLayers.
const layer = new FeatureLayer({
 portalItem: { // autocasts as new PortalItem()
 id: "8d26f04f31f642b6828b7023b84c2188"
 },
 // loads the third item in the given feature service
 layerId: 2
});
// Initialize GeoJSONLayer by referencing a portalItem id pointing to geojson file.
const layer = new GeoJSONLayer({
 portalItem: new PortalItem({
 id: "81e769cd7031482797e1b0768f23c7e1",
 // optionally define the portal, of the item.
 // if not specified, the default portal defined is used.
 // see _URL_
 portal: new Portal({
 url: "_URL_
 })
 }
});
// This snippet loads a table hosted in ArcGIS Online.
const table = new FeatureLayer({
 portalItem: { // autocasts as esri/portal/PortalItem
 id: "123f4410054b43d7a0bacc1533ceb8dc"
 }
});
// Before adding the table to the map, it must first be loaded and confirm it is the right type.
table.load().then(function() {
 if (table.isTable) {
 map.tables.add(table);
 }
});
rasterInfo RasterInforeadonly
Since: ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.19
Raster information retrieved from data source.
The renderer assigned to the layer. The renderer defines how to visualize pixels in the WCSLayer. Depending on the renderer type, the pixels may be stretched across the color ramp or classified.
See also
timeExtent TimeExtentautocast
Since: ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.22
The layer's time extent. When the layer's useViewTime is false, the layer instructs the view to show data from the layer based on this time extent. If the useViewTime is true, and both layer and view time extents are set, then features that fall within the intersection of the view and layer time extents will be displayed. For example, if the layer's time extent is set to display features between 1970 and 1975 and the view has a time extent set to _PHONE_, the effective time on the feature layer will be _PHONE_.
Default Value:null
Examples
if (!layer.useViewTime) {
 if (layer.timeExtent) {
 console.log("Current timeExtent:", layer.timeExtent.start, " - ", layer.timeExtent.end}
 } else {
 console.log("The layer will display data within the view's timeExtent.");
 console.log("Current view.timeExtent:", view.timeExtent.start, " - ", view.timeExtent.end}
 }
}
// set the timeExtent on the layer and useViewTime false
// In this case, the layer will honor its timeExtent and ignore
// the view's timeExtent
const layer = new ImageryTileLayer({
 url: "_URL_
 timeExtent: {
 start: new Date(2014, 4, 18),
 end: new Date(2014, 4, 19)
 },
 useViewTime: false
});
// timeExtent is set on the layer and the view
// In this case, the layer will display features that fall
// within the intersection of view and layer time extents
// features within Jan 1, 1976 - Jan 1, 1981 will be displayed
const view = new MapView({
 timeExtent: {
 start: new Date(1976, 0, 1),
 end: new Date(2002, 0, 1)
 }
});
const layer = new FeatureLayer({
 url: myUrl,
 timeExtent: {
 start: new Date(1974, 0, 1),
 end: new Date(1981, 0, 1)
 }
});
timeInfo TimeInfoautocast
Since: ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.22
TimeInfo provides information such as date fields that store start and end time for each feature and the fullTimeExtent for the layer.
Default Value:null
Since: ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.22
A temporary offset of the time data based on a certain TimeInterval. This allows users to overlay features from two or more time-aware layers with different time extents. For example, if a layer has data recorded for the year 1970, an offset value of 2 years would temporarily shift the data to 1972. You can then overlay this data with data recorded in 1972. A time offset can be used for display purposes only. The query and selection are not affected by the offset.
Default Value:null
Example
// Offset a CSV Layer containing hurricanes from 2015 so that they appear in 2019 (+4 years).
let layer = new CSVLayer({
 url: 'hurricanes-and-storms-2015.csv',
 timeOffset: {
 value: 4,
 unit: "years"
 },
 timeInfo: {
 startField: "ISO_time"
 },
 renderer: {
 type: "simple",
 symbol: {
 type: "simple-marker",
 size: 6,
 color: "red",
 outline: {
 width: 0.5,
 color: "black"
 }
 }
 }
});
The title of the layer used to identify it in places such as the LayerList widget.
If the layer is loaded from a portal item, the title of the portal item will be used. If a layer is loaded as part of a webmap or a webscene, then the title of the layer as stored in the webmap/webscene will be used.
type Stringreadonly
For WCSLayer the type is always "wcs".
url String
The URL of the WCS service endpoint of the layer.
useViewTime Boolean
Since: ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.22
Determines if the layer will update its temporal data based on the view's timeExtent. When false, the layer will display its temporal data based on the layer's timeExtent, regardless of changes to the view. If both view and layer time extents are set while this property is true, then the features that fall within the intersection of the view and layer time extents will be displayed. For example, if a layer's time extent is set to display features between 1970 and 1975 and the view


Loading Paper in Tray 1 and Tray 2
The procedure when loading paper in Tray 1 is used as an example, and the same procedure applies to Tray 2 (optional).
 1. Pull the paper cassette out.
 2. Slide the paper guide to the width of paper to be loaded.
 3. Slide the paper stopper to the length of paper to be loaded.
 4. Fan a stack of paper well, and then align the edges of the paper.
 5. Load paper with the print side face down.
 Do not load paper above the "" mark on the paper guide.
 6. Secure the loaded paper with the paper guide.
 7. Push the paper cassette until it stops.
 8. Press [Device Settings] on the touch panel.
 9. Press [Paper Setup].
 10. Press the tray in which paper is loaded.
 11. Set [Paper Size], [Media Type], and [Media Weight].
 12. Press [Back] until the home screen is displayed.


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Pitch Analysis of Keyed Instruments in the Malay Gamelan Ensemble
Previous technical works on gamelan instruments include topics such as tuning systems, acoustical analysis, tone measurement, timbre analysis, temporal and spectral characteristics. These works are heavily focused on the Javanese and Balinese gamelan but not on the Malay gamelan. In the Malay gamelan ensemble, the keyed instruments particularly from the balungan instruments, possess similar features but are different in terms of size, range and musical roles. The objective of this study was to obtain the pitch of the saron demung, a pair of saron baron, and a pair of saron peking in order to determine their relationship. A sound sample of each instrument was imported into an audio editor software to detect its fundamental frequency as well as harmonics. A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) analysis indicated that the fundamental frequencies of each of the paired instruments are not necessarily similar due to the nature of how the instruments are tuned, which is by ear and "rasa" (instinct). The balungan instruments are found to have an octave relationship to each other, with the lowest being the saron demung, followed by the saron baron, and the saron peking.


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What do moons on your fingernails mean?
Moons on your fingernails are located at the base of your fingernails, closest to your fingers. They are the lighter half moon shaped growth under your nails. In palmistry, overly large moons can mean an overactive thyroid and high blood pressure. Small or no moons are thought to predict an underactive thyroid and low blood pressure. Scientists have found that a lack of a fingernail moon may indicated you are low in Vitamin B-12 or in iodine which feeds the thyroid. Vitamin B-12 deficiency has been linked with lack of energy, depression, and loss of coordination and memory, among other things. Iodine deficiency has been linked with breast cancer. One palmistry specialist determined there is a link between small moons and carbon monoxide exposure.


What are reserves?
An account reserve is an amount of money that is on hold in your PayPal account to cover potential financial risk such as payment reversals you may receive like chargebacks and claims. PayPal uses three types of reserves: rolling reserves, minimum reserves and jumpstart reserves.
 - A Rolling reserve is a reserve where a percentage of each transaction you receive each day is held and then released later on a scheduled basis. This is the most common type of reserve.
 - A minimum reserve is a specific minimum amount of money that's held in your reserve balance. The minimum reserve is either taken as a percentage of money held until a certain amount has been reached, or a one-time amount.
 - For example, 5% of your daily transaction volume is held until a balance of $5,000 is reached.
 - A Jumpstart reserve is when funds are held from your available balance immediately.
 - For example, if we make the determination to keep a $10K jumpstart reserve and there is $20K in the PayPal account balance, $10K is moved to reserves straight away.
We may also use a combination of a reserve types on your account.
Why does PayPal use reserves?
Reasons for placing reserves
Reserves are a common industry practice. They are used to minimize losses and to create a safer shopping experience. If you would go out of business or would be otherwise incapable of covering your financial obligations, we would still need to pay back the buyer. If a buyer contacts PayPal or their financial institution because they didn't receive what they ordered, we're responsible for making things right. A reserve can be placed on your account for a number of reasons and is set on a case-by-case basis. PayPal considers a list of factors to determine this including:
 - Your processing history with PayPal and other providers
 - Whether your industry has a higher likelihood of chargebacks or refunds
 - Whether your account has an elevated number of customer claims and disputes
 - Your business and/or personal credit history
 - Whether you are selling products or services in advance (preselling orders).
 - Your delivery time frames - whether there are extended delivery timeframes
PayPal will periodically review the account to determine whether the reserve placement and amount needs to be adjusted. Reserves may be eligible for the reduction or removal with positive changes to key areas such as performance, industry, claims reduction, etc.
When will I get my money?
Once a reserve is placed, you will receive communications outlining the terms of your reserve. Your terms are also outlined in your account. When your money will be released depends on what type of reserve you have.
If you have a rolling reserve, the funds will be released after a certain period of time. For example, if you have a 90 day rolling reserve, funds from Day 1 sales will be available on Day 91.
For minimum reserve, reserves are reviewed every 90 days. PayPal proactively reviews reserves and based on improvements to your business performance it is possible that your reserves could be adjusted or removed.
How to prevent reserves from being placed on an account
Reserves may be a necessity throughout your relationship with PayPal. Preventing reserves isn't always possible, and depending on your industry and your credit history, you might never be able to fully remove a reserve from your account.
Seller Best Practices
Some best practices to follow are:
 - Monitor your buyer complaint rates regularly and try to keep complaint rates below 1% of your sales.
You can also access additional information on account reserves by reviewing our Business Resource Center.


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The Port of Houston Authority is the sponsor for the Houston Ship Channel. This responsibility encompasses a number of important tasks that help ensure the free flow of commerce in the Port of Houston. Those responsibilities include:
Dredging – project management/coordination of dredging projects of the Port of Houston Authority, US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and private terminals.
Dredged Material Area Management (DAMP) - Dredged Material Placement Areas, commonly referred to as "DAMP" sites or placement areas, are areas that accept soils that have been dredged from the Houston Ship Channel. The term "DAMP" refers to the site management process that includes carefully dewatering and ditching a site to dry, after receiving dredged material. Learn more here.
Marine Construction Permits — administration of permits for the construction of docks, bulkheads, wharves, etc. that encumber Port Authority property; submerged land leases.
Pipeline, Cable, and Transmission Line Licenses — project management/administration of projects that encumber Port Authority property, including seismic exploration and right of entry.
Houston Ship Channel — project management/coordination of the project to deepen the ship channel to 45 ft and widen it to 530 ft. while using the dredged material to create approximately 4,250 acres of wetlands in Galveston Bay.
Navigation Safety — advise the US Coast Guard on navigational safety issues of interest to the Port Authority.
New Initiatives — Electronic Navigation Systems (ENS) for increased safety and fewer delays during times of low visibility and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for more efficient management of port assets and infrastructure.
The area of responsibility includes 42 miles of railroad right-of-way (ROW), Houston Ship Channel with tributary bayous and streams within Harris County, 6000 acres of dredged material areas (13 sites), and all other Port of Houston Authority properties where other entities are permitted use by the Port Commission.
111 East Loop North
Houston, Texas USA 77029
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Houston, Texas USA 77252-2562


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This article aims to establish a rainfall-runoff relationship; estimate depth and extent of inundation under climate change scenarios; assess impacts on the socio-economy; and identify and evaluate adaptation strategies in Nepal's East Rapti Watershed (ERW). The ERW has been the site of devastating floods but effective mitigation and adaptation measures are lacking. The study uses an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was to generate peak flows which were then entered into a hydraulic model to simulate inundation. The calibrated and validated RR and hydraulic models were fed with projected future climate derived from multiple regional-climate-models to assess the changes in inundation.
The study finds that the peak discharge likely exceeds 10,500 cubic meters per second at the ERW outlet in the extreme future flood scenario with corresponding inundation of 80 sq.km and up to a depth of 11 m sweeping away over 1000 houses and 19 sq.km. of agricultural land in the critical areas. Constructing a 17 km long embankment in the critical areas along the right bank of the East Rapti River could reduce the flood spread by 35%, safeguarding 78% of the houses and saving 51% agricultural land compared with the scenarios without the embankment.


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Program Fact Sheet
Bureau of Youth Services & Delinquency Prevention
Division of Community Health & Prevention
Illinois Department of Human Services
The Youth Build program enrolls youth and young adults aged 16 to 24 who have dropped out of school, are unemployed and/or have limited job skills.
The purpose of the Youth Build program is to empower struggling teens and young adults. Youth Build focuses on academic goals while also helping youth to develop job skills by building homes for low-income families.
Youth Build is a year-long, highly demanding program that prepares youth and young adults for the challenges they will face in today's world. The program offers young people a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build their futures and their communities
through education, leadership development, job training, and the rehabilitation and production of affordable housing.
The Youth Build program is administered by local communities. There is not one single model that can be applied to every Youth Build program. Although each Youth Build program is unique in its approach to addressing the needs of the community, all
embrace the same basic principles; Youth benefit from the opportunity to join and function in a community; education comes not only from the classroom but from life skills learned from having to function as a team, maintain a job, manage money and speak
effectively with one another; adults in the program mentor students as they mature; and each site's unique approach addresses the complexities within their community.
Youth Build Program Data
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Mildred Archaeology II $3000
Mark Dion, J. Morgan Puett, with local and visiting historians and artists continue to study the site of The Mildred's Lane Transhistorical Society and Museum, an ongoing project at the heart of the greater Mildred's Lane project. We will investigate the embedded histories focusing on the 1830's farmhouse and surrounds, as a permanent and historic feature of the site. Historians, archivists, conservators, preservationists, and artists will be involved in an archaeology of recent centuries, beyond and into the future culminating in a large-scale, site-sensitive installation.
- Posted in summer2017


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- astropy.stats.circstats.circmean(data, axis=None, weights=None)#
Computes the circular mean angle of an array of circular data.
Array of circular (directional) data, which is assumed to be in radians whenever
Axis along which circular means are computed. The default is to compute the mean of the flattened array.
In case of grouped data, the i-th element of
weightsrepresents a weighting factor for each group such that
sum(weights, axis)equals the number of observations. See , remark 1.4, page 22, for detailed explanation.
S. R. Jammalamadaka, A. SenGupta. "Topics in Circular Statistics". Series on Multivariate Analysis, Vol. 5, 2001.
C. Agostinelli, U. Lund. "Circular Statistics from 'Topics in Circular Statistics (2001)'". 2015. <_URL_
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Home Office seeks software and hardware platform for monitoring those being prosecuted for immigration offences
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The government is to spend up to £70m implementing satellite tracking technology to monitor the whereabouts of people prosecuted for immigration offences.
The tracking devices will be worn by people suspected of being in the country illegally, those charged with people-smuggling offences, and anyone else being prosecuted for contravening immigration laws. These people are often restricted by curfews and inclusion or exclusion zones imposed by authorities.
According to a newly issued contract notice from the Home Office, the government is looking for a technology system that will enable it "to use satellite tracking proportionately by matching the type and degree of monitoring to the risk posed by each foreign-national offender". This will entail the deployment of devices designed to be worn and monitored around the clock, as well as "less intrusive devices for lower-harm cases".
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Alongside these will be a software platform through which officials can track the track the devices. This technology will need to deliver alerts when a device needs to be changed, or when a wearer attempts to remove or tamper with their device, the government said. The software must also incorporate an automated response to these alerts.
The supplier of the hardware and software must also provide a nationwide "induction and fitting service", including the replacement or removal of devices, as and when required. The chosen bidder will also be expected to provide "a field service that can respond to alerts". Regular reports that can be easily accessed by officials via a self-service portal must also be provided.
The government expects to spend between £50m and £70m on a contract on that will last for an initial period of three years, with an option to extend by up to a further 24 months.
Potential bidders have until 11 July to register their interest, after which the government expects to ask five firms to bid. A contract is scheduled to be awarded on 1 October.


Main Content
Compare Fits in Curve Fitter App
Interactive Curve Fitter Workflow
The next topics fit census data using polynomial equations up to the sixth degree, and a single-term exponential equation. The steps demonstrate how to:
 - Load data and explore various fits using different library models.
 - Search for the best fit by:
 - Comparing graphical fit results
 - Comparing numerical fit results including the fitted coefficients and goodness-of-fit statistics
 - Export your best fit results to the MATLAB® workspace to analyze the model at the command line.
 - Save the session and generate MATLAB code for all fits and plots.
Loading Data and Creating Fits
You must load the data variables into the MATLAB workspace before you can fit data using the Curve Fitter app. For this example, the data is stored in the MATLAB file census.mat.
 1. Load the data.
 load census

 The workspace contains two new variables.
 - cdate is a column vector containing the years 1790 to 1990 in 10-year increments.
 - pop is a column vector with the US population figures that correspond to the years in cdate.
 2. Open the Curve Fitter app.
 curveFitter
 3. On the Curve Fitter tab, in the Data section, click Select Data. In the Select Fitting Data dialog box, select the variable names cdate and pop from the X data and Y data lists, respectively.
 The Curve Fitter app creates and plots a default fit to the X input (or predictor) data and the Y output (or response) data. The default fit is a linear polynomial fit type. Observe the fit settings display in the Fit Options pane. The fit is a first-degree polynomial.
 4. In the Fit Options pane, change the fit to a second-degree polynomial by selecting 2 from the Degree list.
 The Curve Fitter app plots the new fit. The Curve Fitter app calculates a new fit when you change fit settings because Auto is selected by default. If refitting is time consuming, as is sometimes the case for large data sets, you can turn off the automatic behavior. On the Curve Fitter tab, in the Fit section, select Manual.
 The Curve Fitter app displays results of fitting the census data with a quadratic polynomial in the Results pane, where you can view the library model, fitted coefficients, and goodness-of-fit statistics.
 5. Change the name of the fit. In the Table Of Fits pane, double-click untitled fit 1 in the Fit name column and type poly2.
 6. Display the residuals. On the Curve Fitter tab, in the Visualization section, click Residuals Plot.
 The residuals indicate that a better fit might be possible. Therefore, continue exploring various fits to the census data set.
 Polynomial fit with residuals in Curve Fitter app
 7. Add new fits to try the other library equations.
 1. Right-click the fit in the Table Of Fits pane, and select Duplicate "poly2". Alternatively, on the Curve Fitter tab, in the File section, click Duplicate.
 Tip
 For fits of a given type (for example, polynomials), duplicate a fit instead of creating a new fit because copying a fit requires fewer steps. The duplicated fit contains the same data selections and fit settings.
 2. Change the polynomial Degree to 3 and rename the fit poly3.
 3. When you fit higher degree polynomials, the Results pane displays this warning.
 Equation is badly conditioned. Remove repeated data points
 or try centering and scaling.
 Normalize the data by selecting the Center and scale check box in the Fit Options pane.
 4. Repeat steps a and b to add polynomial fits up to the sixth degree. Then add an exponential fit. On the Curve Fitter tab, in the File section, click New and select New Fit. In the Fit Type section, click the arrow to open the gallery, and click Exponential in the Regression Models section.
 5. For each new fit, look at the Results pane information, and the residuals plot in the app.
 The residuals from a good fit should look random with no apparent pattern. A pattern, such as a tendency for consecutive residuals to have the same sign, can be an indication that a better model exists.
About Scaling
The warning about scaling arises because the fitting procedure uses the cdate values as the basis for a matrix with very large values. The spread of the cdate values results in a scaling problem. To address this problem, you can normalize the cdate data. Normalization scales the predictor data to improve the accuracy of the subsequent numeric computations. For example, you can normalize cdate by centering and scaling the data to have zero mean and unit standard deviation.
(cdate - mean(cdate))./std(cdate)
Note
Because the predictor data changes after normalizing, the values of the fitted coefficients also change when compared to the original data. However, the functional form of the data and the resulting goodness-of-fit statistics do not change. Additionally, the data is displayed in the Curve Fitter app plots using the original scale.
Determining the Best Fit
To determine the best fit, you should examine both the graphical and numerical fit results.
Examine the Graphical Fit Results
 1. Determine the best fit by examining the graphs of the fits and residuals. To view plots for each fit in turn, click the fit in the Table Of Fits pane. The graphical fit results indicate that:
 - The fits and residuals for the polynomial equations are all similar, making it difficult to choose the best one.
 - The fit and residuals for the single-term exponential equation indicate it is a poor fit overall. Therefore, it is a poor choice and you can remove the exponential fit from the candidates for best fit.
 2. Examine the behavior of the fits after the year 2000. The goal of fitting the census data is to extrapolate the best fit to predict future population values.
 1. Click the sixth-degree polynomial fit in the Table Of Fits pane to view the plots for this fit.
 2. In the fit plot, click the Pan button in the axes toolbar and pan until the fit is visible for several years after the year 2000. The axes limits of the residuals plot adjust accordingly.
 3. Examine the fit plot. The behavior of the sixth-degree polynomial fit beyond the data range makes it a poor choice for extrapolation and you can reject this fit.
 Plot of sixth-degree polynomial fit extended to years after the year 2000
Evaluate the Numerical Fit Results
When you can no longer eliminate fits by examining them graphically, you should examine the numerical fit results. The Curve Fitter app displays two types of numerical fit results:
 - Goodness-of-fit statistics
 - Confidence bounds on the fitted coefficients
The goodness-of-fit statistics help you determine how well the curve fits the data. The confidence bounds on the coefficients determine their accuracy.
Examine the numerical fit results.
 1. For each fit, view the goodness-of-fit statistics in the Results pane.
 Results pane showing statistics for third-degree polynomial fit
 2. Compare all fits simultaneously in the Table Of Fits pane. Click the column headings to sort by statistics results.
 Table Of Fits pane displaying five polynomial fits and one exponential fit. The fits are sorted by the sum of squares due to error.
 3. Examine the sum of squares due to error (SSE) and the adjusted R-square statistics to help determine the best fit. The SSE statistic is the least-squares error of the fit, with a value closer to zero indicating a better fit. The adjusted R-square statistic is generally the best indicator of the fit quality when you add additional coefficients to your model.
 The largest SSE for exp indicates it is a poor fit, which you already determined by examining the fit and residuals. The lowest SSE value is associated with poly6. However, the behavior of this fit beyond the data range makes it a poor choice for extrapolation, so you already rejected this fit by examining the plots with new axes limits.
 The next best SSE value is associated with the fifth-degree polynomial fit, poly5, suggesting it might be the best fit. However, the SSE and adjusted R-square values for the remaining polynomial fits are all very close to each other.
 4. Resolve the best fit issue by examining the confidence bounds for the remaining fits in the Results pane. Click a fit in the Table Of Fits pane to open the fit figure (or select it, if the figure is already open), and view the Results pane. Each fit figure displays the plots for a single fit.
 Display the fifth-degree polynomial poly5 and the second-degree polynomial poly2 fit figures side by side. Examining results side by side can help you assess fits.
 1. To show two fit figures simultaneously, you can drag and drop the fit figure tabs in the Fits pane. Alternatively, you can click the Document Actions arrow located to the far right of the fit figure tabs. Select the Tile All option and specify a 1-by-2 or 2-by-1 layout.
 2. Compare the coefficients and bounds (p1, p2, and so on) in the Results pane for both fits, poly5 and poly2. The toolbox calculates 95% confidence bounds on coefficients. The confidence bounds on the coefficients determine their accuracy. Check the equations in the Results pane (f(x)=p1*x+p2*x...) to see the model terms for each coefficient. Note that p2 refers to the p2*x term in Poly2 and the p2*x^4 term in Poly5. Do not


How to insert & remove your Secret Whispers Kegel Weights
1. Firstly wash your hands and ensure your weights are clean by using warm soapy water.
2. Empty your bladder and bowel
3. Find a room and time where you won't be disturbed
4. Find a comfortable position – such as leg raised on the toilet or bath
5. Insert as you would do with a tampon – It can't go too far. Insert as high as is comfortable. They will move down to a natural resting place.
6. Insert them gently on an outward breath. Relax and remember to continue breathing
7. Use water or a water based (only) lubricant if referred
8. The cord should remain outside your body
9. Wearing underwear is recommended
Remove the weights during an outward breath (do not bear down with your pelvic floor) and wash thoroughly


3 Patterns for Refactoring Your Code
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Apr 12, 2021
When I review code written by people who are relatively new to programming, I find myself often repeating the same advice. There are many patterns we adopt as we learn to code that we have to unlearn or modify once we become more comfortable with the fundamentals. In this post, I'd like to highlight three common patterns I see, and how you can refactor them to write code that is more readable, and often more concise.
Here are three common refactoring strategies you can use when you're revising your code.
1. Return comparisons directly.
Consider the following example:
function isOrange(color) {
 if (color === "orange") {
 return true;
 } else {
 return false;
 }
}
As you can probably tell, this function accepts a color string and returns true if the color is orange. Otherwise, it returns false.
This function will work as expected, but it could be made much shorter. Take a close look at what we're doing: if the expression color === "orange" is true, we return true. if color === "orange" is false, we return false. Either way, we're just returning the value of the comparison itself! This means we can refactor our code to just:
function isOrange(color) {
 return color === "orange";
}
As a rule of thumb, if you ever find yourself writing an if / else statement where you are just returning true or false, you refactor to just return the condition inside of your if statement. The same goes for ternaries: you never need to write code like return color === "orange" ? true : false.
2. Choose your loop wisely.
Here's another example:
let items = [
 { price: 2.99, description: 'gummy bears' },
 { price: 2.99, description: 'honeydew melon' },
 { price: 3.99, description: 'eggs' }
]
let total = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
 total += items[i].price;
}
As before, this code works just fine. But it would benefit from some refactoring.
Specifically, the tradition for loop in JavaScript is a bit verbose. We have to store the current index in a variable, and use that to access the array element at that index.
Whenever you are iterating, it's worth asking yourself whether you need the index. Sometimes you do, but often you just need the array element itself. In JavaScript, if you find that you don't actually need the index when looping over an array, you can improve readability by rewriting your loop as a for...of loop instead. Here's how that would look:
let items = [
 { price: 2.99, description: 'gummy bears' },
 { price: 2.99, description: 'honeydew melon' },
 { price: 3.99, description: 'eggs' }
]
let total = 0;
for (let item of items) {
 total += item.price;
}
By selecting the right loop for your problem, you can write code that is both more concise and more readable.
3. Store complex conditions in variables.
Imagine you have an online shop and you want to offer a friends and family discount of 10% on any order over $100. You also have a coupon code of "DISCOUNT10" which will provide a discount of 10%. You write the following function to determine what the discount rate should be on an order:
function getDiscountRate(order, user, code) {
 if ((order.total > 100 && (user.isFriend || user.isFamily)) || code === "DISCOUNT10") {
 return 0.10
 }
 return 0;
}
Yikes. The code inside the if statement will work, but it can be difficult to read, especially if you're coming back to the code after a few days away from it.
One way to help improve the readability of complex conditions like the one above is to break them up into variables. Using variables can help break up the logic, and the variable name itself can help describe what's happening. Here's one way you could think about rewriting this example:
function getDiscountRate(order, user, code) {
 let isLargeOrderFromFriendOrFamily = order.total > 100 && (user.isFriend || user.isFamily);
 if (isLargeOrderFromFriendOrFamily || code === "DISCOUNT10") {
 return 0.10
 }
 return 0;
}
In this case, we wind up with a bit more code than we had before, but that's okay. We're trying to optimize for readability, not minimum number of lines.
Conclusion
I hope these examples are useful. If you're just beginning to learn to code, I'd encourage you to actively spend time on refactoring. Reviewing your code once it works and looking for places to improve it is a great way to learn.
Have you discovered any other patterns in the way you refactor your code? Let us know!
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