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Examples of Just Do It
Examples of Just Do It
Where does Just Do It come from?
The Just Do It video, also known as Shia LaBeouf's Intense Motivational Speech, was released in 2015. It shows actor Shia LaBeouf, of Nymphomaniac and Transformers fame, giving what is supposedly a motivational speech in front of a green screen. In it, LaBeouf repeatedly roars "Just do it!" at the camera while making wildly over-the-top, furious expressions and gestures. He also growls such lines as: "Don't let your dreams be dreams, yesterday you said tomorrow, so just do it!"
This video exploded in popularity almost as soon as it was released. There was some misconception that LaBeouf made the video as an earnest motivational speech, particularly given Shia LaBeouf's eccentric public persona. But, in actuality, LaBeouf's zealous performance was part of an art project.
The Just Do It video has its origins in Central Saint Martins, the London arts college, where LaBeouf joined in on a project called _TAG_. This project had each student in class write a short script for LaBeouf to perform, lasting no more than 100 words, with an emphasis on strong emotion. LaBeouf actually did thirty of these performances, some involving different stunts or props. Other pieces from the same set can be found online. The Just Do It segment that went viral was written by student Joshua Parker, who intended it as a mockery of the corporate health and fitness industry, specifically targeting one of its most famous slogans, Nike's Just Do It.
The green background is no accident; as many film students know, a green screen is used to superimposes backgrounds, special effects, props, and so on. Here, it allowed the London film students to edit in their own footage and use it as an introductory video for their projects. When the Just Do It clip went online, it was released under a Creative Commons license, specifically so that viewers could rework it however they pleased—which millions of people did do, and quite rapidly so.
Who uses Just Do It?
Though the Intense Motivational Speech spread virally in its original form, it became even more intense when internet users began taking advantage of the green screen provided.
Because a green screen allows editors to replace the background with anything they want, the original Just Do It clip has been reworked to depict Shia LaBeouf's speech in countless different scenarios. Videos have shown him giving the speech before massive crowds from archival film footage (e.g., Hitler's rallies), delivering it as a TED talk, or superimposed onto the Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer. There's even one version where he replaces Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back, with Shia telling a distressed Luke Skywalker to "Just do it!" and use the force.
There are also parody videos that show other people giving the same exaggerated speech in front of a green screen.


CIV. WDDX Functions
Introduction
These functions are intended for work with WDDX.
Requirements
In order to use WDDX, you will need to install the expat library (which comes with Apache 1.3.7 or higher).
Installation
After installing expat compile PHP with --with-xml and --enable-wddx.
Runtime Configuration
This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.
Resource Types
This extension has no resource types defined.
Predefined Constants
This extension has no constants defined.
Examples
All the functions that serialize variables use the first element of an array to determine whether the array is to be serialized into an array or structure. If the first element has string key, then it is serialized into a structure, otherwise, into an array.
Example 1. Serializing a single value
<?php
print wddx_serialize_value("PHP to WDDX packet example", "PHP packet");
?>
This example will produce:
<wddxPacket version='1.0'><header comment='PHP packet'/><data>
<string>PHP to WDDX packet example</string></data></wddxPacket>
Example 2. Using incremental packets
<?php
$pi = 3._PHONE_;
$packet_id = wddx_packet_start("PHP");
wddx_add_vars($packet_id, "pi");
/* Suppose $cities came from database */
$cities = array("Austin", "Novato", "Seattle");
wddx_add_vars($packet_id, "cities");
$packet = wddx_packet_end($packet_id);
print $packet;
?>
This example will produce:
<wddxPacket version='1.0'><header comment='PHP'/><data><struct>
<var name='pi'><number>3._PHONE_</number></var><var name='cities'>
<array length='3'><string>Austin</string><string>Novato</string>
<string>Seattle</string></array></var></struct></data></wddxPacket>
Note: If you want to serialize non-ASCII characters you have to set the appropriate locale before doing so (see setlocale()).
Table of Contents
wddx_add_vars -- Add variables to a WDDX packet with the specified ID
wddx_deserialize -- Deserializes a WDDX packet
wddx_packet_end -- Ends a WDDX packet with the specified ID
wddx_packet_start -- Starts a new WDDX packet with structure inside it
wddx_serialize_value -- Serialize a single value into a WDDX packet
wddx_serialize_vars -- Serialize variables into a WDDX packet


I just gave this answer to a question, but it was deleted by a moderator, because my initial answer was a placeholder answer, that I posted in order to be able to answer the question, even if it got locked.
Now that my answer is no longer a placeholder, how should I proceed?
 1. Add a new answer to the question?
 2. Flag the answer to be undeleted?
 3. Forget about it and leave the question un-answered?
Please advice on the appropriate way to act, because I am fairly new to SO, and I am not familiar with the ethics.
Note: The answer has now been undeleted. I edited the question to better fit the answers.
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 Please do not just write "try this". It's no better than posting the code alone. Can't you explain why your answer works at all? Maybe what's happening in there? No one is going to learn from copying and pasting code that someone else has written. (This is an entreaty to your conscience not official site policy) – ben is uǝq backwards Feb 5 '13 at 19:34
 - _USER_ Ok I will add a few lines to explain how it works. Thanks for the tip. – user000001 Feb 5 '13 at 19:36
 - _USER_ see my comment to the answer below – user000001 Feb 5 '13 at 22:32
While _USER_ nicely describes why answering with Placeholder in case it gets locked. Working on the solution. is abusing the system, there is a non-abusive approach to answering a question you feel is valid.
Remember that closing a question is not the end of question since it can be re-opened. Once reopened you can then add your answer.
To reopen a question you can try the following
First edit or propose an edit to the question making sure that your edit makes it
 1. Not a duplicate
 2. On topic
 3. Would be interesting to someone outside of the OP
 4. Is answerable in our Q/A format.
Also improve it by
 1. Fixing up spelling and grammar problems.
 2. Improve the formatting
 3. Make sure you have the right tags.
 4. Remove anything that detracts from the question I wanted to know the Java code... probably contributed to its negative response.
Once you've done that it will automatically go into the reopen queue. If you have the rep you can also vote to reopen. Be patient and check back periodically.
If that doesn't work you can still take it to the meta chat room Posse Comitatus and state your case there. Be patient and check back periodically.
If that doesn't work you can flag it as other and explain why you think it should be opened. Be patient and check back periodically.
Finally you can bring your case to meta and explain why you think it should be reopened.
As an aside, I think what this question was asking was fine when I compare it to recent questions tagged. I would look at those questions like those below and try and model my edits to make it similar.
 - Thank you for the info. I didn't know neither about the Posse Comitatus, nor that edited posts automatically go to the reopen queue. That is very helpful. Accepting this answer because it explains what you should do when you feel that a question can be saved. – user000001 Feb 5 '13 at 21:57
 - _USER_ it took me a while to find as well. I used it for the first time a couple of weeks ago – Some Helpful Commenter Feb 5 '13 at 22:04
You saw that the question got downvotes and maybe gets closed and you still wanted to answer. So you placed a placeholder answer with no content to place a dummy answer before it got closed. (Because after closing no answers can be added)
That is wrong and abusing the system. Please don't do that in the future.
If the question is about to be closed, it is for a good reason and should not be answered. Otherwise that would just motivate users to ask bad questions because they still get answers even if closed.
 - Ok good point. I just felt sorry for the poor guy that was asking the question and got the downvotes. I won't do it again. – user000001 Feb 5 '13 at 19:41
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 I know the feeling. But to keep the site's standard high we have to tell such users politly how to improve their questions to avoid closing. – juergen d Feb 5 '13 at 19:46
To clarify for others: short placeholder answers are good, because they help us get information and solutions out faster... but only if the placeholder has real content that does answer the question. You can post a brief placeholder answer and flesh it out via edits, but that original post needs to be able to stand on it's own in case something happens and you aren't able to finish an edited version.
With that in mind, it should be obvious that if you post a placeholder answer that does not have real content, the most likely result is that it will be downvoted, flagged, and possibly deleted.
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 Why was his answer undeleted? His placeholder was an abuse of the system, irrespective of the fact whether he later on got an answer on not. By restoring his answer, are we not supporting abuse? – asheeshr Feb 6 '13 at 1:59
 - Don't know... I wasn't involved – Joel Coehoorn Feb 6 '13 at 2:25
 - I was asking for your opinion as you are a Mod as well. Bart is not involved in any conversation in this page, so its not possible to ask him directly. – asheeshr Feb 6 '13 at 2:28
 - I'm only a mod on meta... but I'd say it was undeleted because after the edit it was correct. A mod doesn't always see the whole history of what happened, and keeping it deleted would punish the asker and the community more than the answerer. – Joel Coehoorn Feb 6 '13 at 2:32
 - _USER_ Probably it got undeleted because at the time I corrected the answer, the question had not been closed yet. This is just a guess though. – user000001 Feb 6 '13 at 7:46
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 As it is the system can be gamed, and we should not encourage more of it, which is what has in fact happened here, IMHO. – asheeshr Feb 6 '13 at 8:01
 - _USER_ Yes but you can't really prevent someone from answering before a question gets closed. Probably the only solution would be to disable edits to answers after they get locket... – user000001 Feb 6 '13 at 8:04
 - _USER_; Bart wasn't involved in undeleting the answer If you look at the post history it was undeleted by Bill... – ben is uǝq backwards Feb 6 '13 at 8:50
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You can now download GPT's highly acclaimed paper "New Design/Material Solution for Isolating Pipelines with Chemical and Permeation Issues". The paper was presented at NACE CORROSION 2018, in Phoenix and authored by Nick Bander, Engineering Manager & Tim Hurley, Senior Product Manager.
Here is an abstract of the a paper:-
Glass reinforced epoxy (GRE) gaskets were a significant improvement over prior isolation technologies, such as phenolic gaskets, which were in use since the early 1900's. GRE has now been used to isolate pipelines in a broad range of industries for close to 50 years. Advances in oil and gas extraction, changes in oil chemistry and changes in installation practices have exposed some potential weaknesses in common gaskets utilizing GRE as the primary form of isolation. The typical GRE gasket uses media permeating through the gasket to energize the seal. This "leak to seal" design is an indicator that GRE may not be the best choice as a gasketing material as media stream materials have become increasingly incompatible with the epoxy resin. Due to the continued efforts to design GRE gaskets with reduced permeation paths, it is believed that GRE's permeability is a well known issue, but GRE has other weaknesses that open this product up to potential failure in a pipeline. The GRE can be prone to delamination at high pressures due to the material's laminate construction, the operating temperature range of GRE is not as high as many oil and gas operators would desire and finally, the thickness and thickness tolerance of GRE can cause installation challenges and potential failure by media leakage.


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The drag coefficient of a rigid spherical particle deviates from Stokes law when it is put into a near-critical fluid mixture in the homogeneous phase with the critical composition. The deviation is experimentally shown to depend approximately linearly on the correlation length of the composition fluctuation far from the particle, and is suggested to be caused by the preferential adsorption between one component and the particle surface. In contrast, the dependence was shown to be much steeper in the previous theoretical studies based on the Gaussian free-energy density. In the vicinity of the particle, especially when the adsorption of the preferred component makes the composition strongly off-critical, the correlation length becomes very small as compared with. This spatial inhomogeneity, not considered in the previous theoretical studies, can influence the dependence of on. To examine this possibility, we here apply a renormalized local functional theory, describing the preferential adsorption in terms of the surface field. This theory was previously proposed to explain the interaction of walls immersed in a (near-)critical binary fluid mixture. The free-energy density in this theory, coarse-grained up to the local correlation length, has a very complicated dependence on the order parameter, as compared with the Gaussian free-energy density. Still, a concise expression of the drag coefficient, which was derived in one of the previous theoretical studies, turns out to be valid in the present formulation. We show that, as becomes larger, the dependence of on becomes distinctly gradual and close to the linear dependence.
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- Condensed Matter Physics
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering

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The birth of Rose of Sharon's child carries significant symbolic meanings. For Rose of Sharon, the child has represented the possibilities for the future, yet the baby is stillborn. The event has clear parallels to the Joad's journey to California: they faced incredible hardship and pain striving for a better future, yet their sacrifices lead to nothing. The fate of the baby is even a perverse reversal of religious imagery. Uncle John places the dead child in a box and sends it down the river, an obvious allusion to Moses.


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This Humanoid Robot Sweats To Keep Cool While Doing Push-Ups
Now if only we could outsource our gym workouts.
Humans get hot when they work out, and so do robots. Just as our muscles generate heat when they work, a robot's motors get hot enough that heat concerns can limit their performance. To cool down, humans sweat. Now, a robot can do the same.
The conventional way to cool a robot is to either just let the heat dissipate into the air, which doesn't work well because air is a poor conductor of heat. The other solution is to add water cooling, which requires pumps, tubes, and heat-sinks to radiate away the excess heat. Now researchers at the University of Tokyo's JSK Lab have built a humanoid robot that sweats. Its name is Kengoro.
Kengoro uses his metal skeleton to sweat, and the key is, as ever these days, 3D printing. The Tokyo team 3D printed the metal bones using a process called sintering, in which powder is deposited a layer at a time and cured with a laser. The process allows the designer to vary the porosity of the metal. In the case of Kengoro's bones, they were made to allow water to permeate the metal, seeping out at a rate slow enough not to start dripping, but fast enough to evaporate and carry away excess heat along with it, just like an animal sweating.
"Usually the frame of a robot is only used to support forces," project leader Toyotaka Kozuki told IEEE Spectrum. "Our concept was adding more functions to the frame, using it to transfer water, release heat, and at the same time support forces."
The sintering process is so precise that the porosity can be varied to make permeable channels to guide the water through the skeleton. In tests, Kengoro's cooling system performed three times better than air cooling, as well as beating plain-old water circulation. It doesn't do as well as a dedicated pumped-water-with-radiators setup, but it is also a lot less bulky, and simpler.
One curious side effect of Kengoro's perspiration-based cooling is that it needs to stay hydrated. It doesn't take much, though. Just a cup of water is enough to keep Kengoro and its 108 motors cool all day long.
"In practice," writes Spectrum IEEE's Evan Ackerman, "this means that Kengoro can run at full power longer, letting it do push-ups for 11 minutes straight without burning out its motors."
I can't even imagine 11 straight minutes of pushups, but one thing's for sure. If you managed it, you'd end up smelling a lot worse than Kengoro.
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Studies have shown that although guilt is a feeling that is more common among men, women tend to feel this emotion more intensely. In this study, researchers tried to analyze if feelings of guilt and their intensity, especially when habitual, could be different between the sexes. Researchers also attempted to understand other factors like "interpersonal sensitivity" and anxiety coupled with aggression, which could affect guilt. Results have shown that the difference between the sexes does indeed lie in these two factors and that, "habitual guilt was found to be more intense in women than in men in all age groups."
Researchers had in a previous study explored feelings of guilt in teenagers between ages 15 and 19 and among adults in the 25 to 48 age group. They noted that teenage girls experienced deeper guilt than teenage boys but that adults showed no such gender disparity. For this study, the researchers tried to explore if these differences persist in adulthood. There have been studies that show that "problems in interpersonal relationships tend to evoke guilt (interpersonal guilt) and moral dilemmas more often in women." This is labeled as "interpersonal sensitivity." Besides, anxiety along with outward anger and inward anger known as "anxiety aggressiveness" also guides guilt. There have been no studies exploring the difference between the genders, caused by these factors "interpersonal sensitivity" and "anxiety aggressiveness," and this prompted the present study.
- The study group of 360 participants was divided into three age groups. The first one consisted of 156 teenagers (ages ranging from 15 to 19). The second group involved 96 adults (aged 25 to 33) and the third group had middle-aged adults (ages ranging from 40 to 50).
- They were all given an initial questionnaire that asked them to relate a situation that made them feel guilty and rate the amount of guilt that they felt. Based on this, they were determined to be habitually guilty or not.
- The guilt-evoking situations were also analyzed to see if they were interpersonal or not. For example, not visiting one's aged mother was interpersonal while indulging in an extra drink was not.
- Similarly, from a questionnaire that quantified the anxiety and anger felt due to these guilt-evoking situations, measures of "anxiety aggressiveness" were also determined.
- Results showed that "the experiences of habitual guilt reported by women were more intense than those reported by men."
- These results are different from a previous study by the researchers that showed that adult men and women suffer from guilt equally.
- More women reported interpersonal events (86.5 percent) than men (76.5 percent), in all the age groups. Also the anxious-aggressive factor was seen more among women, irrespective of age. Women in their middle age had the highest anxious-aggressive component.
- Of concern is the fact that "interpersonal sensitivity" is the lowest among young men between ages 25 and 33.
One of the perceived shortcomings of this study was some of the gender behaviors in reporting feelings. Earlier studies have said that men may hide their actual emotions and women may exaggerate their emotions and expressions; in this study, sometimes women may have held back from expressing themselves, making analysis unpredictable. Researchers plan to explore these questions in future studies.
This study shows that women feel habitually guilty more often than men. This gender difference is mainly due to interpersonal relations and the anxiety and anger that they feel, if placed in a situation that evokes a feeling of guilt. One of the expected results from this study is the lack of empathy towards relationships and family, in young men. On the other hand, "anxious aggressiveness" can lead to deeper mental health problems than habitual anxiety. This lack of "interpersonal sensitivity" as well as "anxious aggressive" behavior could be tackled by a change in "educational practices and socializing agents," according to the study authors.


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perform an assessment at an agency or laboratory based on a variety
of standards. There are three categories of assessors:
- Lead AssessorThe assessor with overall responsibility for the
assessment, including preparation with the laboratory, leadership
of the assessment team, writing the assessment report, and
coordinating a corrective action response.
- Technical AssessorThe person who conducts the assessment of
the technical competency of the laboratory for specific areas and
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- Technical ExpertThe person assigned to provide specific
knowledge or expertise with respect to a specific discipline being
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education, training, and experience. Various performance measures,
such as written exams and observations during assessments, are used
to ensure ongoing competence.
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They range from a variety of disciplines and their backgrounds are
among the top scientists in their fields. FQS's Manager of
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A mutant species of all-female crayfish taking over the world is not the latest science fiction film but a real-life environmental thriller. A new study has found that marbled crayfish are multiplying rapidly and invading ecosystems across the world.
The ten-legged pests are descended from one single female with a mutation allowing it to reproduce without males.
These self-cloning ladies are found for sale in North America, despite a warning against keeping them as pets. Sales of the six-inch creature are already banned by the European Union. Click on the following two links to access the full story.
Born to a male and female slough crayfish, a species originally from Florida, the original marbled crayfish had an additional set of chromosomes – a mutation that made her distinct from her parents and allowed her to reproduce without having to mate.
Desperate pet owners dumped the extra crayfish in nearby lakes, becoming an invasive species in countries as far-flung as Madagascar, Japan, and across Europe. This prompted the European Union to issue "a total ban on the possession, trade, transport, production and release of these species in the wild" in 2014.

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A canton is a type of administrative division of a country. In general, cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared with other administrative divisions such as counties, departments, or provinces. Internationally, the best-known cantons - and the most politically important - are those of Switzerland. As the constituents of the Swiss Confederation, theoretically (and historically), the Swiss cantons are semi-sovereign states.
Cantons exist (or existed) in the following countries:


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The oboe is said to be one of the more difficult woodwind instruments to play. It first takes some time until the player can even produce a sound, and even then, a beginner has little ability to control it. It would therefore seem to be a challenging instrument to learn.
But the oboe can be an extremely rewarding instrument to learn to play, and once the feeling of a good tone is produced it is hard to ignore its allure. Students who are successful with the oboe are very detail-oriented, patient, intellectual and curious.
The oboe is made out of wood and metal and gets bigger at the lower end where it flares into the 'bell'. Oboes are expensive for many different reasons, but the most important are the cost of the exotic woods and other materials, and the skill in craftsmanship. The cost of new oboes ranges from £400-£2000, while used oboes in a good condition generally cost £100-£800. Some oboists replace their oboe every year!
Oboes favoured by experts include the Yamaha YOB-441 Series Intermediate Oboe; YOB-441 all Grenadilla; Schiller Elite Conservatory Oboe; Buffet Crampon Model 3613G Green Line Oboe; Ammoon Oboe; Selmer Model 122F Intermediate Oboe and the Talljo Oboe, ABS Pipe Cupronickel Keys of C for Beginners.
Is the position of oboe important?
It is the job of the principal oboist to tune the orchestra to an A at the beginning of each concert. The other key role of the oboe is that it usually carries the melody with its lyrical and mournful colour, often heard as the solo instrument in the most emotional sections of music.
How long will it take me to learn the oboe?
The oboe is very hard to learn to play. It often takes 6-8 months to develop an acceptable embouchure (the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue and teeth in playing a wind instrument including shaping the lips to the mouthpiece) and tone. This has much to do with learning to make and adjust reeds, a necessary skill that will take you closer to your instrument.
Is playing the oboe dangerous?
To a degree, yes – headaches, eye strain and eye damage come into the world of the oboe player. Playing a musical instrument can affect physical and mental health plus musculoskeletal problems, focal dystonia, stress velopharyngeal incompetence, increased intraocular pressure and glaucoma, gastroesophageal reflux disease, lower pulmonary function, disease transmission via instruments and hearing loss due to noise exposure can be issues.
The oboe is a high-resistance instrument. Playing instruments like the oboe a lot, especially when increased blowing force is required (for a high pitch) can put eyes at risk due to increased pressure.
The oboe is officially one of the most difficult instruments to play. And not just because of the double-reed misery, the duck noises and the tuning issues. Despite this, persevere and your sense of achievement will be unparalleled.


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Think history is just a boring list of names and dates? Think again. There's hundreds of amusing stories that they don't tell you in history class. Some of those have to do with deaths, because let's be honest, people sometimes die in ironic and downright ridiculous ways. Some, like the curious case of the Greek writer Philitas, died because of an obsession. Others, like the case of John Sedgwick, were hit with the right arm of perfect irony. A while back, we did an article on five of history's most ridiculous deaths. Here's six more:
1. Death by Beard
Back during the Renaissance, circa 1567, Hans Steininger, a man living in Austria, became famous for having the world's longest beard. Sources have cited that, at its peak length, his beard was over a meter and a half long! That's almost five feet! Well, reportedly, he died because of his beard. One day, he tripped over his majestic mane, lost his balance, and fell, snapping his neck. His death was almost instantaneous.
2. Death by Academia
Philitas of Cos was a Greek philosopher who lived during the 300s-200s BC. He was, in fact, the first Greek writer who was both scholar and poet. Not much is known about his life, but according to other Greek historians and writers, Philitas was so obsessed with his work that he literally wasted away and died because he was too busy and scholarly to eat. How's that for dedication?
3. Death by Safe
According to what history tells us, Jack Daniel (yes, the guy that created the alcohol brand), died by kicking a safe. The story goes that he came to work one morning to fill out paperwork. At one point, he had to get the safe open, but couldn't remember the combination and got so frustrated that he tried to kick it open.
Well, he actually injured his foot so badly by kicking the safe that the limb began to develop gangrene, and even after the foot was amputated, the gangrene spread up his limbs and killed him. He died on October 10, 1911 when he was 61 years old.
4. Death by Irony
During the American Civil War, John Sedgwick was a general fighting on the Union side. During one particular fight, he made fun of his soldiers for running away from the Confederates, who were 1,000 yards away and raining down heavy fire.
He was recorded as shouting, over the sound of the gunfire: "[The Confederates] couldn't hit an elephant at this distance!".
A few seconds later, a Confederate sharpshooter shot him in the eye. The shot killed him immediately. How's that for irony?
5. Death by a Quest for Immortality
You've probably heard of the famous Terracotta Army — the hundreds of thousands of life-sized clay figurines all created to guard the ancient Chinese Emperor Qin during his afterlife. We hear a lot about Emperor Qin and his vast necropolis full of treasures. What we don't hear about often is what caused his death. Ironically, he died because of his obsessive quest for eternal life. During his last years, Emperor Qin feared death and began to desperately search for the "elixir of life" that would grant him immortality. He fell prey to many false physicians who sold him hoax medicines that were supposed to make him immortal. In the end, one of his alchemists gave him three mercury pills. He ingested them, hoping that they would give him eternal life, and promptly died of mercury poisoning.
6. Death by Molasses Flood
During a cold January day in 1919, in a freak accident that has become a part of local folklore in Boston, a disaster occurred. A storage tank in Boston exploded, unleashing a wave of molasses that ripped through the area at a whopping 35 km per hour, killing over 21 people and injuring 150. For decades after, Boston locals have claimed that, during particularly warm summer days, they can still smell molasses.


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The upper LED is used to indicate polarity and the corresponding uActivate test ports located at the top of the uActivate. The Color of the LED indicates which test port is the power side which is typically terminal 30 of the relay. By default the other port is relay terminal 87.
The lower LED also indicates the polarity and the corresponding test port - the pin tip sockets located on either side of the LED. Typically, the LED color indicates which test point is the relay 86 terminal. The lower LED is actiavted only by the systen control circuit - when this LED lights up, the system is trying to actiave the relay.


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A health care law Call for Articles has been announced by the West Virginia Law Review. The announcement is set forth below:
Call for Articles
The West Virginia Law Review announces a call for articles and invites scholars, practitioners, and researchers to submit contributions for its upcoming issue focusing on health care. This issue will include articles from the Law Review's Lecture Series, "Beyond Politics: A Discussion of Health Care in America," a thoughtful discourse on the social disparities in access and outcomes engrained in our current health care system. For this issue, we are particularly interested in scholarship discussing the following topics:
- Health care reform;
- Health care access and outcome disparities, especially as they affect women and children, racial minorities, and the rural poor;
- Health care as a human right.
Articles will be selected by our Articles Selection Team and the Editor-in-Chief based on scholarly merit, originality, relevancy, and writing style. Articles should be thoroughly researched and contain appropriate footnotes in bluebook format.


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Abu Dhabi: Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi's (EAD) youth engagement platform, naha, has revealed a line-up of activations for COP28 (30 November – 12 December) set to inspire the next generation in Abu Dhabi to turn climate intention into climate action.
Recently launched by the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), naha (taken from the words 'natural habitat') is an environmental engagement platform that centralises EAD's eight-plus youth outreach initiatives.
The platform provides youth who are passionate about environmental preservation with the necessary resources to be a part of creating impactful change when it comes to addressing pressing environmental issues.
Young people play a key role in being catalysts for change and creating huge momentum when it comes to tackling the climate crisis, and at the heart of naha's COP28 programme is a line-up of events that will create grassroots-level climate solutions that continue to promote sustainability, elevate environmental awareness, and encourage green practices across the UAE.
Key initiatives and activities will include:
Greening Education Hub
The EAD booth at the Greening Education Hub will provide resources to support with the Sustainable Schools Initiative (SSI), which teaches school students about sustainability to drive awareness and education amongst young people; and the Sustainable Campus Initiative (SCI), which trains students and faculty members across participating colleges and universities to reduce their carbon footprint.
A select number of schools participating in SSI will be chosen to share insights and learnings around their individual achievements, with a different institution showcasing on each day of COP28.
All entities and universities attending COP28 will be invited to the E-Green Workshop on 8 December at the EY- Zayed Sustainability Prize Pavilion, which marks the official debut of E-Green to the public – a first-of-its-kind free and collaborative e-learning tool exclusively dedicated to the environmental sector in the region.
Ahead of COP 28, in collaboration with the Foundation of Environmental Education (FEE), one of the world's largest environmental education organisations, four students across SSI and SCI will undergo media training as part of a 'Youth Reporters' programme. They will then work as environmental journalists and conduct spontaneous interviews throughout COP28.
Other youth-centric programmes that will take place during COP28 include the Leveraging Youth Climate Programmes Towards Green Jobs workshop on 9 December at the DP World Pavilion, and the Abu Dhabi Strategy on Green Education panel on 8 December at the Youth Pavilion, which will feature impactful insights from different speakers across the MENA region.
Connect with Nature, a programme developed with Emirates Nature – WWF that builds leadership and advocacy for youth to lead solutions and sustainable decision-making, will also seek to engage Youth Ambassadors and Youth Insiders at COP28.
As global leaders gather in the UAE to tackle the climate crisis, naha's COP28 programme of initiatives reaffirms the organisation's commitment to fostering change at a grassroots level through targeting youth to create a more sustainable future for all.
Beyond COP28, in line with the UAE's strategic sustainability goals, naha will continue to prioritise the accessibility of outreach programmes that raise awareness and increase community engagement around the environment, equipping communities and schools with the necessary tools to turn climate intentions into meaningful action across the UAE.
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Acting as the single access point for the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi's (EAD) outreach initiatives and campaigns, the platform offers a personalised experience through 'my naha', a tailored space for a unique climate lifestyle journey, and keeps users updated and engaged through EAD's interactive calendar and newsfeed.
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Established in 1996, the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) is committed to protecting and enhancing air quality, groundwater as well as the biodiversity of our desert and marine ecosystem. By partnering with other government entities, the private sector, NGOs and global environmental agencies, we embrace international best practice, innovation and hard work to institute effective policy measures. We seek to raise environmental awareness, facilitate sustainable development and ensure environmental issues remain one of the top priorities of our national agenda.
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A recent toast to James Watson highlights a tolerance for bigotry many want excised from the scientific community.
Chimpanzees may reinforce social bonds by involuntarily mimicking a fellow chimp's pupil size.
August 25, 2014|
FLICKR, WILLIAM WARBYLike humans, chimpanzees possess a capacity to unconsciously dilate their pupils to match those of a conspecific, according to research published last week (August 20) in PLOS ONE. The results suggest this involuntary action likely evolved to help humans and chimps communicate sympathy and strengthen social bonds within groups.
In face-to-face interactions, people often involuntarily imitate each other's facial expressions, eye blinks, or pupil size to convey empathy. These physical cues help communicate emotions to both individuals in the interaction, facilitating trust and cooperation within groups. But precisely when and how these signals evolved isn't clear.
So Mariska Kret of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and her colleagues searched for signs of pupil mimicry in chimps. Eight chimp and eighteen human participants were shown images of both human and chimp eyes with either dilated or constricted pupils. The researchers found that both humans and chimps mimicked pupil dilation more strongly in response to their own species, although the reaction was slightly stronger in humans. The effect was also the strongest in mothers.
Previous work has suggested that these eye signals between individuals evolved with the appearance of the whites of eyes, which offer more contrast and make such cues easier to spot. "Traditionally, it's been thought that the evolution of white sclera was driven by its enhanced ability to indicate gaze direction, and hence share attention," Neil Harrison of the University of Sussex in the UK told New Scientist. Harrison said the discovery of pupil mimicry in chimps is significant.
"The current findings show that pupil mimicry is not uniquely human but is possible in a species that has no clear visible eye-white and has less communicative eyes than humans," the authors wrote in their paper.


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Where are DEC's environmental education summer camps located?
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation runs four environmental education camps for youths. Pack Forest, runs two different sessions for ages 12 to 14 and 15 to 17, and is located in the southern Adirondacks, north of Warrensburg. Camp Colby, for 12 to 14 year olds, is in Franklin County near Saranac Lake. Camp Rushford, for ages 12 to 14, is in Allegany County, and Camp DeBruce, also for ages 12 to 14, is in the southern Catskills, near the village of Livingston Manor.
For more information about these camps, please visit DEC's website or e-mail the DEC environmental education camps at _EMAIL_
Environmental Education Camps
Names and locations of DEC's summer camps for youths


text: Future advanced driver assistance systems will contain multiple sensors that are used for several applications, such as highly automated driving on freeways. The problem is that the sensors are usually asynchronous and their data possibly out-of-sequence, making fusion of the sensor data non-trivial. This paper presents a novel approach to track-to-track fusion for automotive applications with asynchronous and out-of-sequence sensors using information matrix fusion. This approach solves the problem of correlation between sensor data due to the common process noise and common track history, which eliminates the need to replace the global track estimate with the fused local estimate at each fusion cycle. The information matrix fusion approach is evaluated in simulation and its performance demonstrated using real sensor data on a test vehicle designed for highly automated driving on freeways.


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A novel concept of suspended sediment (SS) routing through a small reservoir is proposed that relies on the particle properties in the reservoir inflow.
The SS routing through the reservoir is described following the single continuous stirred tank reactor concept with only one model parameter, the SS decay coefficient. This parameter is linked to the sediment settling velocity and water flow velocity. Hence, the model does not require a direct calibration with recorded data. This model was tested on a small reservoir in Warsaw, Poland, with seven storm events. Suspended sediment samples at the reservoir inflow and outflow were taken manually during the passage of flood flows at irregular intervals. The performance of the proposed method was verified with the approach when the model parameter is estimated directly from recorded events.
The parameter calculated based on particle properties was about 10 times higher than the corresponding parameter optimized from recorded SS events. Hence, there was a need to introduce a correction factor to accurately predict the effluent SS. This led to a high model performance for all events (Nash-Sutcliffe = 0.672 on average).
(i) The proposed SS routing model based on particle properties has been proven to accurately simulate SS in the reservoir outlet. (ii) Thus, the parameter can be estimated from the sediment settling velocity and water flow velocity, but the correction factor must be applied. (iii) Our findings acknowledge difficulties in describing SS routing through small reservoirs and indicate a lack of knowledge on the functioning of these reservoirs.


a_1 | a_2 | \cdots | a_p$ (you can pretend at first that $\overline{A}$ is just $A$ - really, $\overline{A}$ agrees with $A$ in degrees two and greater, is 0 in degree zero, and in degree one we replace $A^1$ by $A^1/ im(d)$). The vertical differential is the standard one on $A^{\otimes p}$ (using the Leibniz rule to extend to the tensor product), and the horizontal differential is defined as a sum obtained by "removing bars and multiplying." Let ${\bf k}$ be $F_2$ if you don't want to worry about signs.
Exercise: Show this is a bicomplex. If you're brave, do so with signs.
Exercise: The spectral sequence for this bicomplex obtained by taking homology vertically first has $E^1$ given by $Bar(H_*(A))$, where the homology of $A$ is a differential graded algebra with zero differential. (This is an immediate application of one of the main theorems from a first algebraic topology course.)
Theorem (Eilenberg-Moore, after Adams-Hilton): If $X$ is simply connected and $A$ is (quasi-isomorphic to) the cochains of $X$, then the homology of $Bar(A)$ is isomorphic to the cohomology of the loopspace of $X$.
Exercises: first compute for $A$ with all products zero. Then compute when $A$ is a free associative algebra, and then free commutative algebra. Finally, try to make examples with higher differentials.
(I might elaborate more later... and we can talk at the Cascade seminar this week-end).
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In Jim Stasheff's original papers on $A_\infty$-algebras he generalises the bar construction and its spectral sequence to $A_\infty$-algebras, and then he identifies all of the differentials explicitly in terms of things that look like (duals of) Massey products - he calls them Yessam products.
I realise that this isn't exactly an explicit compution, but it is at least a general explicit description of the higher differentials that is not formal, and to get it requires a bit of the guts of the spectral sequence.
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is that in his H-spaces from a htopy point of view? – Sean Tilson Nov 7 '10 at 2:24
There's a paper of Fadell and Hurewicz (in the Annals, mid 1950's) identifying certain differentials with cap products. I can't recall the precise result.
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You mean probably the paper jstor.org/stable/_PHONE_ It identifies the first non-trivial differential in the Serre spectral sequence if the base space is highly connected. For a specific computation of a differential in the Serre spectral sequence in a similar vein see also the following paper by McCleary: springerlink.com/content/443j202m17562714/fulltext.pdf – Lennart Meier Nov 6 '10 at 13:34
Verdier and Deligne introduced more terms in a spectral sequence of a filtered complex (indexed by 4+1 indices instead of 2+1), thus in particular factoring the differentials into epis and monos. This enables one to splice certain short exact sequences to obtain Massey triangles or to obtain H(E_r) = E_{r+1}. Not sure whether this helps for calculations, but it does help with understanding what's going on with differentials. Cf. Deligne, Décompositions dans la catégorie dérivée, appendix, MR1265526; cf. also Verdier, Des catégories dérivées des catégories abéliennes, MR1453167.
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Role of Site Background & History
The site is both nature reserve and water overflow storage for excess rainwater during heavy periods of precipitation. The Nature Reserve is essentially divided into two sites, the pond and its immediate surroundings, and the dry balancing pond which also contains the sports ground.
When the Friends of the Pond group started in the early 1990's, work was more hazardous due to dumped items such as bikes, trollies and/or furniture. Also we had to deal with illegal fishing and the accompanying materials. Hooks and discarded lines were both hazardous to volunteers and waterfowl.
In 2007, heavy flooding occurred in the area. Prior to that date, there was small grill along with a natural river bank where the river meets the dam. It was prone to fairly high levels of flooding, with difficult access to the site. After the major flooding in 2007, work was carried out to extend a concrete platform to the dam site for vehicle access to a new flood /debris guard. More recently trees growing on the top of the dry dam were removed to stablise these important barriers against future flooding.
Group and Role Development
Friends of Saintbridge Pond or F.O.S.P. have been around for over 20 years and has obtained a 'Nature Reserve' status. With a core group of long term & new volunteers, it has expanded its remit to include a management (development and maintenance) plans for the nature reserve as well as a model allotment, demonstrating best practice. The group has been involved with the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, local schools, the Environment Agency, Gloucester City Council, the Aston project police rehabilitation scheme and for the last couple of years, sponsorship from GL4 Communities.
When the group was back up to speed, after suffering the loss of most of its tools and resources through arson, a new health & safety regime was initiated. A tool list was generated and this was strictly adhered to on all working days. A second application was made for the Green Flag Award and feedback received, measures around water hazards was included in the document. We have been awarded the Green Flag in August 2017 which has been renewed for the 2018/19 period after much hard work.
Image taken before the upgrading of the 'feeding area' in 2017/18.
This website has been created to communicate to the wider public about FOSP past, present and future activities so that everyone in Gloucester and visitors from elsewhere can feel as if they are a part of this wonderful space.
Roles and Responsibilities of the Committee:
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Italy's rain and snowfall levels are currently not sufficient to rectify the water deficit that nation has carried over from last year, the ANBI water resource association said.
It said the levels of the nation's largest freshwater reserves, the big lakes of northern Italy, were under the average for the time of year.
It added that the percentage that had been refilled during the wetter autumn and winter months was lower than in January 2022, which came before an "extraordinary season of drought" last year.
It said it was "impossible" make up the deficit with the "current rainfall levels".
Scientists say that longer droughts, irregular rainfall and more frequent and intense extreme-weather events are among the consequences of the climate crisis caused by human greenhouse-gas emissions.


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Mission: The Penobscot River Paddling Trail seeks to establish and maintain a paddling, camping and educational trail down the main stem of the Penobscot River.
Vision and Aspirations:
- Enable exceptional paddling and Leave No Trace camping experiences down the Penobscot River.
- Provide education to paddlers and non-paddlers concerning the ecology, natural history, Wabanaki history and current status, colonial history, industrial history, and present status of the Penobscot River.
- Promote and demonstrate an ethic of watershed conservation.
- Help to connect paddlers to upstream campsites on the West and East Branches of the river, to campsites of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, and to the saltwater campsites of the Maine Island Trail Association.
- Provide a vehicle for economic growth in the watershed by including commercial outfitters, guides, lodgings, campsites, restaurants and stores in our maps and materials.


Intersystem communication - IBM - AS/400
CICS intersystem communication allows a CICS system to access data and to run programs and transactions on remote CICS systems.In addition, distributed applications can be developed using the standard CICS application programming interface(API). Function may be spread between local CICS systems, remote CICS systems, and non-CICS systems that use advanced program-to-program communication(APPC). Function may be distributed to workstation-based clients. Moving the presentation logic to the workstation allows the development of user-friendly front-end processes that can take advantage of the graphical environment available on the workstation.
The communication facilities offered by CICS/400 are:
 1. Function shipping
 2. Function shipping allows your local transaction to request data from a CICS resource located at another CICS system. CICS/400 automatically routes the request to the required system. You are not aware that the request is being satisfied by a remote system.
 3. Transaction routing
 4. Transaction routing allows a user at any workstation to run any transaction in a remote CICS system. The transaction runs on the remote system but appears to the user as if it is running locally.
 5. Distributed program link
 6. Distributed program link (DPL) allows a local program to link to and run a program on another CICS system. When the remote program ends, control is returned to the initiating program. Distributed program link can be used to access host data that cannot be accessed by function shipping, such as DL/I and DB2 databases.
 7. Distributed transaction processing
 8. Distributed transaction processing (DTP) allows you to have a synchronous conversation between a local program and a remote program. The programs use CICS API commands to allocate and control Advanced Program-to-Program Communication (APPC) conversations. All this is transparent to the end user.
 9. Asynchronous transaction processing
 10. Asynchronous transaction processing allows you to initiate a remote transaction. The real significance of asynchronous transaction processing is that it can be used to balance the workload. You can control when the remote transaction is started by including a time in the parameters of the command that starts the remote transaction. This facility is usually considered as a form of function shipping with the resource being a transaction.
 11. Server support for workstation-based clients
 12. CICS/400 can act as a server to workstation-based client applications, allowing CICS/400 applications to have front-end graphical user interfaces.
Function shipping, distributed program link, and distributed transaction processing, take advantage of fully protected conversations (sync-level 2), where these are available. In this case, syncpoint control extends to both local and remote CICS resources, which means that the communicating systems cooperate to ensure that all involved recoverable resources are either committed or rolled back at each syncpoint. In the event of system or conversation failure, syncpoint control, together with CICS/400 support, takes the necessary steps to protect resources at the next available opportunity.
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David E. P. Lawrence
Charles G. Don
Dept. of Phys., Monash Univ., Melbourne, Victoria 3168, Australia
Impedance and wave-number predictions from a rigid-frame model of a porous medium, where only a single wave is assumed to propagate through the permeating fluid, are compared with results from a dual-wave theory where there is both a fast and a slow wave present. Both results are matched against experimental data obtained by acoustic impulse techniques that allowed both the characteristic impedance and the layer impedance to be deduced from 200 Hz to 10 kHz. The complex wave number was determined by placing two microphones a known distance apart inside a foam block and recording the waveforms as a pulse passed. The high-frequency wave-number limit permits the tortuosity to be established, while the effect of a pore shape factor is more evident in the attenuation data. The position and magnitude of the maxima in the layer impedance are very sensitive to the tortuosity and the shape factor. Both models adequately predict the experimental impedance curves, however, for a foam with a flow resistivity of 25100 N s m[sup -4] the presence of a slow wave is required to fit the low-frequency attenuation and wave speed results. An improved incorporation of the shape factor into the dual wave model is suggested.


Let's go to the Bastion The spirit of the Domaine
A unique place
À la découverte du bastion
"La Tour des filles "(Girls' tower) is part of the 5 bastions still present in Beaune. It was built at the beginning of the 16th century and was named after women with loose morals who lived nearby. It was renamed in the meantime "Bastion de l'Oratoire", because of the chapel adjoined. Used since the beginning of Domaine Chanson, the Bastion houses barrels where the wines of the domaine are aged.
When Mars and Bacchus meet
The construction of this real defence tower was decided under Louis XI and achieved under François Ier. Built as a defence tower and classified as an historic monument with its 8-metres thick walls, it became the property of Chanson under the Revolution. The constant temperature and humidity guaranteed by its walls make it an ideal cellar.
Today on 4 different levels, the fourth built in 1826, the Bastion Chanson is entirely dedicated to wine ageing. The first three house red wines where each floor is destined for a vintage. As for the fourth floor, it accommodates white wines.
À la découverte du bastion
Roots that stretch over several centuries... Discover Chanson history!


UVA's High Arctic pictures
UVA's High Arctic picturesNational Maritime Museum
The landscape is supposedly set 100 years in the future looking back at the glaciers that have been lost. The poem provides the continual narrative starting 1,500 years ago through early discovery and towards the melting of the ice caps at the end.
The crucial element of the exhibition is the fact that visitors use ultraviolet torches to navigate their way through the darkened space. These torches activate projections in what would be the torch's beam. As they weave their way through the ice islands, there are five open "pool" areas for visitors to explore with their torches.
Thanks to a network of 10 ceiling mounted cameras which track the UV lights and 10 projectors, the torches activate different projected animations in each of the "pools". These are stylised in the same way that the glaciers are and progressively become more polluted as visitors journey through the five different arctic stages. The more torches are in a certain area, the wider the beam of the projection appears in that particular pool. Some 70 people can explore the exhibition space simultaneously.
The projections are supported by a generative sonic landscape designed by Max Eastley and Henrik Ekeus which allows for the movement of gestures throughout the room, for example the sound of a gust of wind can blow down through the room "to give a cohesiveness over and above the individual interactions with the space", according to Clark.
The entire production, including the stage lighting, the projections, the camera tracking and the soundscape is controlled by UVA's proprietary D3 software, describes as "an integrated production tool for sculptural media installations".
Software director and co-founder Ash Nehru said that this marks a "depart from traditional exhibition". He explains: "It is more of a sensory, emotional space -- something that is more of a playful, musical, visual experience rather than just being a lecture. We want to make you feel something and stimulate your desire to learn stuff. If you are kid we want to make you want to find out more and be an explorer."
High Arctic will be on display at the National Maritime Museum this summer.
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A main character's name often gives you the first clue to what a novel is "about," especially when it's also the title of the book. A good example turns up in Olive Kitteridge, the collection of linked short stories that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A just-picked olive is as bitter — and the color olive is as drab — as the title character of the book appears at first to be. The salt added during curing removes the bitterness just as love, the salt in this book, removes some of Olive's. In Ireland a kitter is a left-handed person. And Olive is at least metaphorically left-handed: She's out of sync with others in her coastal town in Maine. A surname database says of Kitter: "This is an Olde English or Anglo-Saxon pre 10th Century name which derives from the word 'Cyta' and is a nickname of the medieval period generally given to one of fairly violent attitudes." Olive's views of life are "fairly violent," especially in the first story, when they are so angry they verge on caricature.
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LIFT IRRIGATION SCHEME
In LIS water is lifted from lower level to higher level with the help of pumps and other equipments. Construction of dams and canals helped tremendously to increase the irrigated area laying at lower level than the dam level, but scarcity of water remained the problem for higher level areas. So as to bring higher level area under irrigation L.I.S. are taken up.
Requirements of L.I.S
- Water Source: Suitable and constant water source should be available for whole year at the site of LIS. Water can be made available through Dams, K.T. Weir, River canal etc.
- Lifting Medium: To lift water to the desired location, lifting medium i.e. pumps are required. Depending upon the Duty point head, discharge the different types of pumps are selected.
- Conveying Medium: Rising main may be of steel, concrete or any other suitable material.
LIS Schematic Diagram
Advantages of L.I.S.
- L.I.S. made irrigation possible at higher level.
- Land acquisition problem in L.I.S. is less.
- Water losses are low.


The Biochemical Nature Oflight Detection And Emission
СОДЕРЖАНИЕ: The Biochemical Nature Of?light Detection And Emission Essay, Research Paper In this essay I aim to describe the range of biochemical pathways and mechanisms used by living organisms both to detect and to emit light.? I will discuss general principles employed,
The Biochemical Nature Of?light Detection And Emission Essay, Research Paper
In this essay I aim to describe the range of biochemical pathways and
mechanisms used by living organisms both to detect and to emit light.? I will discuss general principles employed,
and illustrate the range of different biochemistry involved by the use of many
specific examples.Light Detection ????
I will discuss the mechanism and function of light detection by five
groups of light detecting molecule.? The
biggest of these is the rhodopsin group of proteins, I will also look at the
role of phytochromes, cryptochromes, flavoproteins and porphirins in light
detection.????
Rhodopsins are found in a diverse array of organisms, all featuring a
retinoid prosthetic group linked to a an apo-protein, opsin via a protonated
schiff base linkage.? Electrons from the
schiff base lone pair occupy an extra orbital?
(the ?n orbital?), therefore electrons can undergo a n-p* transition as
well as a p-p* transition.? ?Retinal proteins were first discovered in 1876 by Bell, who
observed a reddish pigment that bleaches on exposure to light, which he called
visual purple.? Most rhodopsins contain
retinal as the prosthetic group, but some have one of the other chromophores as
shown below.?? For example freshwater
fish have a rhodopsin containing 3,4-didehydroretinal, which has a red shifted
UV absorption band.?? The opsins found
in all organisms show strong homology for one another.??
All rhodopsins seem to be involved in light detection, with the notable
exception of bacteriorhodopsin, which pumps protons using energy from light
photons in order to generate ATP in anaerobic conditions i.e. is not a light
sensing protein. ????
Halobacteria do however have two sensory rhodopsins.? Sensory rhodopsin I (archaeorhodopsin) has
all trans retinal as the prosthetic group in its native state.? It is photoisomerised by green-orange light
(lmax
= 587 nm) to the deprotonated 13-cis state (lmax = 370nm).? Reisomerisation to the all-trans state is
accelerated by absorption at 370nm.? A response is elucidated in the bacterium
by a pumping of protons by the rhodopsin.?
Sensory rhodopsin I causes the halobacteria to show a phototactic
response to green light (needed for bacteriorhodopsin function), and a
photophobic response to UV light (causes cell damage).?? Sensory rhodopsin II (photorhodopsin) also
has the retinal chromophore in the all-trans state.? Light absorption causes chloride ions to
be pumped across the membrane, triggering a photophobic response to blue-green
light. ???
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Bovine rhodopsin is the most extensively studied of mammalian
rhodopsins.? It is a single polypeptide
of 348 amino acids which forms 7 TM helices and has a Mr of approximately
38kDa.? Upon absorption of light it
follows the photocycle pictured below.????
The retinal chromophore shows a bathochromic shift on attachment to an
opsin.? This can be explained by an
interaction with two carboxylate groups which act as counter ions, shifting the
lmax
from 440nm (in methanol) to 500nm (in rhodopsin).?? The different absorption maximums of the cone cells of the
retina can be explained by differing counter ion structure in their opsins.? Glu 113 has been determined as a counter ion
by site directed mutagenesis experiments. ????
The photocycles of rhodopsins have been studied using time resolved
laser spectroscopy.? The intermediates
have been isolated by low-temperature spectroscopy, i.e. rapid cooling thus
blocking the normal decay of the intermediates.? For example the photocycle of Octopus rhodopsin was
elucidated.?? It was found that
metarhodopsin is thermostable , thus doesn?t bleach in the retina.? FTIR data has suggested that the interaction
of the chromophore with opsin in the batho state is very different to bovine
rhodopsin.????
Fly visual sense cells have a sensitizing pigment ? 3-hydroxyretinol,
which binds non-covalently to the rhodopsin.??
The sensitizing pigment absorbs in the UV, then transfers the energy to
11-cis 3-hydroxyretinal via radiationless dipole-dipole interactions.?? This allows flys to receive visual
information from wavelengths in the UV (lmax = 350nm). ????
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The physiological response to light absorption has been studied in
detail in higher animals.?? In mammals
the rhodopsin molecules are found in the membrane of the outer segment of the
retina?s rod (or cone) cells.? In the
dark sodium and calcium ions are able to enter the outer segment through cGMP
gated channels.? This inward movement
balances the outward flux of cations caused by the sodium-potassium pump. Upon
absorption of a photon and the isomerisation of retinal, the following
transduction cascade occurs. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
cGMP???????????????? inactive cGMP???????????????????????? active cGMP???????????????????????????????????? cation channnels phosphodiesterase??????????????????? phosphodiesterase??????????????????????????? close ???????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Technology and Modern Trends in Firearms
There has been an emergence in the advancement of technology, which has pushed the firearm industry to manufacture weapons and equipment that are more affordable, effective, and efficient, as well as technology like the Strikeman Dry-Fire Training System to help people hone their skills away from the firing range. Modern arms are created with pinpoint precision as a critical function, making them lighter, modular, and collapsible. These processes are made possible with the help of technology through fine-tuning, which makes them function better without compromising the user's safety.
Technology and Modern Trends in Firearms
What are some of the Modern Firearm Advancements?
Technology has enabled the testing of new polymer composites, which help in making these weapons lighter, more durable, and a higher ability to limit recoil. This means that modern weapons can withstand a more comprehensive range of optimum functioning in diverse locations with different climates. Advancement in the field has resulted in connecting continuous fibers, which can disperse the shock around throughout the weapon protecting the user.
At first, 3D printers were meant for making concept designs and models. This is no longer the case since 3D printers can process diverse materials, making them effective in designing and developing firearms. With the help of these printers, solid firearm concepts can easily be printed and assembled. They can do this basically because 3D-printed guns are accurate and robust.
Firearm manufacturers are capitalizing on the personalization of their products through modular weapons. Modern firearms can serve more than one purpose, basically changing specific parts to suit your intended purpose. A good example is the Special Operations Force Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR), a close-quarters battle rifle. Still, once you switch the barrel and other few attachments, it becomes a Designed Marksman Rifle (DMR) capable of reaching different targets.
Personalizing weapons has enabled manufacturers to design new weapons and a wide range of attachments and products to help enhance the overall user experience. Technology is playing a critical role in the firearm industry by improving firearm quality and enhanced first-time user experience.
What to Expect in the Future of Firearms
The future will be filled with high-tech firearms that are diverse and more capable, on the shelves of most firearm dealers. With technology enabling the manufacturers to make improved weapons, guns used today will be for sale as affordable second-hand products. This will help in the acquisition of attachments and ammunition of high quality because of technology.
All of these changes, although they've been in the works for years, are made possible through fine-tuned processes that are continuing to get better day-by-day. Modern advancements in technology have played a crucial role in enhancing first-time user experience, and ensuring safety for you and those around. For example, 80 Percent Arms builds best 80 lowers than the rest, and are rated the best 80% lowers in the industry. Firearm dealers are also shifting to more advanced products, to keep up with the ever increasing demand in quality, efficient and effective firearms.
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If you find a detection that you want to share, you can send the URL from the detection detail page to other ExtraHop users.
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Here are some important considerations about sharing detections:
- You must copy and share the entire URL.
- To view the detection, the ExtraHop user must have access to the Discover or Command appliance where the detection was identified.
The following steps show you how to select and share a detection:
- Log into the Web UI on a Discover or Command appliance, and then click Detections at the top of the page.
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Click the detection title, as shown in the following figure.
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Parthenocarpic, translated from the Latin basically means seedless or the fruit set without seed. Parthenocarpic cucumbers will produce produce seedless cucumbers if grown isolated from other varieties.
Once they have been pollinated by another cucumber, the resulting fruit is generally undesirable both in taste and form.
They are best suited for greenhouse or indoor scenarios where no pollinators are present. They differ slightly from Gynoecious in that pollination of a Gynoecious – Female Cucumber will not necessarily produce an undesirable fruit.
Parthenocarpic cucumbers are nearly all gynoecious, meaning that they only produce female flowers. However, not all gynoecious cucumbers are parthenocarpic.
A few examples of Parthenocarpic cucumbers are Little Leaf, Diva, Rocky, Socrates, Sweet Success, Tyria.


what does the '@' do?
This is a discussion on what does the '@' do? within the C Programming forums, part of the General Programming Boards category; I'm going through some code and found this line: volatile char LCD_DATA @ 0x200; I know it's naming a char ...
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 what does the '@' do?
 I'm going through some code and found this line:
 volatile char LCD_DATA @ 0x200;
 I know it's naming a char LCD_DATA but I'm not familiar with the @ symbol.
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 @ is used in various programming languages although there is not a consistent theme to its usage. For example:
 In C#, it denotes "verbatim strings", where no characters are escaped and two double-quote characters represent a single double-quote. As a prefix it also allows keywords to be used as identifiers.
 In Java, it is used to denote annotations, a kind of metadata, since version 5.0
 In modal logic, specifically when representing possible worlds, @ is sometimes used as a logical symbol to denote the actual world (the world we are 'at').
 In Pascal, @ is the "address of" operator (it tells the location at which a variable is found).
 In Perl, @ prefixes variables which contain arrays.
 In PHP, it is used just before an expression to make the interpreter suppress errors that would be generated from that expression.
 In Python 2.4 and up, it is used to decorate a function (wrap the function in another one at creation time).
 In Ruby, @ prefixes instance variables, and @@ prefixes class variables.
 In Scala, it is used to denote annotations (as in Java), and also to bind names to subpatterns in pattern-matching expressions.
 In ML, it denotes list concatenation.
 In Clipper, it is used to denote position on the screen. For example: @1,1 SAY "HELLO" to show the word "HELLO" in line 1, row 1.
 I could not find its any relation with C Programming Language.
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 Some embedded compilers use that notation to locate a variable at a specific address.
 In this case, your LCD_DATA variable will be located at address 0X200
 So when you do
 LCD_DATA = 'A';
 say, you may see an 'A' on your LCD.
 Read the docs for your LCD to find out more.
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 Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
 Some embedded compilers use that notation to locate a variable at a specific address.
 In this case, your LCD_DATA variable will be located at address 0X200
 So when you do
 LCD_DATA = 'A';
 say, you may see an 'A' on your LCD.
 Read the docs for your LCD to find out more.
 That kind of makes sense, but in that case, what's wrong with:
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 char *LCD_DATA = (char*)0x200;
 It seems kind of an overkill to add a new operator for that.
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 I'll post up some more code of how it's used"
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 //Module LM6733
 // Epson 1330/1335 LCD Display Controller Port Addresses
 volatile char LCD_DATA @ 0x200; /*lcd data address*/
 volatile char LCD_CMD @ 0x201; /*lcd CMD address*/

 while(LCD_DATA & 0x40) ; \
 LCD_CMD=(unsigned char)cmd; \
 _asm("bclr _PORTE,128"); }

 while(LCD_DATA & 0x40) ; \
 LCD_DATA=(unsigned char)data; \
 _asm("bclr _PORTE,128"); }
 This is being used with MC68HC812A4 CPU.
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How to Deal with Crowd Noise
Crowd noise can be a big challenge for road teams. Some stadiums and arenas can be very loud, making it hard to hear and communicate with your teammates. It can also be intimidating, which can negatively affect your emotions. As an athlete, you need to know how to deal with crowd noise so you can maintain peak performance.
The first thing you can do to deal with crowd noise better is to simply prepare for it. This is why many teams practice with artificial crowd noise during the week before a big road game. This gets players used to the noise so it doesn't bother them as much on game day. It also gives them the chance to improve their communication skills. This is very important because when the crowd is loud, you need to talk loud so your teammates can hear you clearly. You don't want to waste time repeating yourself, and you especially don't want any miscommunication. If you can do this, then you'll deal with the crowd noise quite well.
However, this isn't all that is needed. You also have to be able to emotionally cope with the crowd noise. You can't let the crowd distract, intimidate, or frustrate you. You have to learn how to focus on the task at hand and remain calm. Do not take the noise personally. It can help to think of the noise as neutral, meaning it isn't for you or against you. Or, during certain moments, you can pretend that the crowd is cheering for you, and use it to pump you up. You can also be motivated to "silence the crowd." Perhaps my biggest tip is to remember that the crowd noise is just noise. It shouldn't be able to affect your performance that much. YOU control your performance, not the people in the crowd. Focus just on you and your execution, and block out the crowd as best as you can.
If you prepare for crowd noise, get used to it, improve your communication skills, and improve your mental toughness and coping skills, then you'll be able to perform well even in the loudest stadiums and arenas!


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Seasons in Kerala
We are always asked; when is the best time to travel? Some people like to avoid the heat and some embrace it. Unlike the UK, Kerala only has 3 seasons: Summer, Monsoon and Winter. There is no Spring or Autumn season. Kerala has a slightly different climate to other Indian states. Here is some more information about the seasons in Kerala:
The height of the Summer season in Kerala is from February to May, with temperatures rising to 35ºC and beyond. Although there is no Autumn in Kerala, the heat scorches the leaves on the trees causing them to wilt and shed, similar to Autumn leaves. However, Summers in Kerala do tend to be cooler than the rest of India.
It generally rains throughout the year in Kerala. There are two Monsoon seasons: the South West Monsoon in Kerala, Edavappathi – as the rain starts by the middle of the Malayalam month Edavam. This is the main rainy season in Kerala and takes place from June to August. Average rainfall during this monsoon is 2250 – 2500 mm.
North East Monsoon in Kerala, Thulavarsham – as it rains during the Malayalam month of Thulam. This is the retreating or reversing monsoon and takes place in October and November (sometimes lasting until December)
The Winter Season in Kerala begins towards the end of the northeast monsoons. Typically from the end of November until the middle of February. The temperatures are much lower and cooler but otherwise this season does not differ much from the other seasons. In fact, the Winter season in Kerala has the lowest amount of rainfall.


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According to Commercial Law, it is possible to consider a company as the professional exercise of an organised economic activity, with the intention of acting in a goods and services market. It includes all company sizes, from big companies to SMEs. The points distinguishing a constitutive form of company are (Derecho en la Red 2012):
- Economic activity that allows to distinguish the activity of the company from merely artistic or intellectual activities.
- Organised activity, directed to accomplish a rational project.
- Activity continued, professional, systematic and thought to last with an intention to provide a benefit that constitutes a way of life, distinguishing it from other economic activities not exercised professionally.


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Nemrut Dağ VulkanThe caldera of Nemrut Dağ is one of the volcanoes near Van lake. It is one of the volcanoes that erupted in historic times.
Beschreibung:The diameter of the caldera is about 9 x 5 km and it is half filled by a crater lake. There happend post calderic volcanism, producing rhyolithic & basaltic material at the caldera rim and on its floor. Pyroclastic flows and the emission of glassy obsidian lava flows accompanied construction of lava domes within the caldera; later activity formed a series of cinder cones and lava domes erupted along N-S-trending fissures on the northern flank. The most recent activity has been concentrated along a NNW-trending fissure cutting the eastern caldera floor and extending beyond the north caldera rim; nearly two dozen cinder cones and lava domes were constructed on the caldera floor. Ash layers in Lake Van document numerous Holocene eruptions, and an historical eruption in 1441 AD from a north-flank fissure involved compositionally bimodal lava flows.


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The question of embracing the consecrated life is an important one . . . And once it is made, then the journey begins! But how does that journey really, literally begin?
All communities of consecrated life have times of formation, which give new members time to grow and become acquainted with the consecrated life in general and with their specific community. As you might imagine, each community does this a little differently, but most follow a fairly common pattern of formation. This article is meant to give you a sample, a closer look at the times of formation that we follow as Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary.
The candidature is an initial time of introduction in which those young women who have decided to enter our community are invited to come and live at our provincial house or main movement center. The candidature gives the young woman an opportunity to live in close proximity to our sisters, to organically grow into life in community, and to further discern her vocation. The time of the candidature depends on the individual and her circumstances, but it normally lasts from a few months to a year. This time period also enables other young women to join the forming course community.
The postulancy is the first formal time of education in the community. During the postulancy, which normally lasts for 6 months, the postulants live together in the provincial house. In this time of working and living together with the sisters, the postulants can get to know the community. Likewise, the community also gets to know the postulants and can further help in vocational discernment. In addition to some hours of daily work, the postulants have time each day for classes and study.
What is a COURSE?
A "course" refers to the group of young women who enter our community at the same time. A course not only has its times of education together, but it also becomes a small "community within the community," and a vital part of each sister's life for her time of formation and beyond. Because of the importance of the courses, our community does not officially begin the time of postulancy until a sufficient number of young women (at least 5-6) have expressed their intention to enter.
The novitiate, which lasts for 2 years, begins with a 6-month period of "closed" novitiate. The closed novitiate includes the preparation for the reception, when the novices receive our Marian dress. The time of closed novitiate is spent mainly in prayer, study, and classes. It is a time of introduction, as the novices are introduced into the life of a Sister of Mary and the principles of our community.
After the closed novitiate, the novices live and work in one of our house communities, and meet regularly for study days and weeks of instruction. The 2-year novitiate ends with the first Incorporation, when the novice receives the brooch bearing the image of the Mother Thrice Admirable, as a sign of her full membership in the community.
Our way of committing ourselves to God via the community is also a gradual one. At the first Incorporation, we seal our contract/consecration for 1 year. After that year, the sister can then choose to renew her commitment for 2 years, and then for 3 years. At the end of those 3 years, the contract/consecration is then sealed forever. This gives both the sister and the community the opportunity to prayerfully and carefully discern God's will with regard to her vocation.
Our formation continues with two 5-month tertianships one 3 years and the other 6 years after the end of the novitiate. The tertianships continue the education of our novitiate, and are times of increased prayer and study. They also enable the course community to grow together in unity and depth. The second tertianship ends with our final incorporation, when we pledge ourselves to God through the community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary forever.


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The Slack Line Monitoring and Control application helps to identify in advance undesired slack line conditions. It is also used to set the optimal operating pressure at critical points along a pipeline in order to reduce pump power consumption and to save costs.
The basic principle is a closed-loop control system to automatically keep a pressure at a defined value. A pressure set-point needs to be assigned and a PID controller is used to optimise the control response (i.e. pump speed or valve position).
At critical points where instrumentation is not available (e.g. highest points of elevations) the corresponding values will be provided by the RTTM.


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As part of a larger mixed-use development, Build Toronto—a real estate and development company—engaged superkül to develop retail concepts for an existing historic building in Toronto's downtown core. Originally the site of one of the city's four public markets, the current building was built in 1932 to house the Toronto Water Works. The southern section of the site has been used as a public park since the 1880s, and was the first city property "dedicated to, and equipped for, supervised children's play."
superkül's scope of work for the project included developing two conceptual design options for the 14,000-square-foot Water Works building, which will be integrated with a larger multi-unit residential development on the north side of the site. The first scheme, represented here, recalls the site's history as a public market and imagines the space as a food hall, complete with a large event space and winter garden. The second scheme develops the space as a children's toy store, along with an accompanying small movie theatre.
Deliverables included presentation plans and renderings.
Location: Toronto, ON
Size: 12,000 sf


text: Adler recognized career development as an integral component of life. His holistic view of lifestyle as active in career endeavors is a fundamental factor in many career theories. Although his work is often not recognized in career theories, many of the constructs used are similar to those professed by Adler. One emerging theory of career development and counseling uses many of the constructs presented in Individual Psychology. Career construction theory focuses on the counseling process and uses many autobiographical memory techniques to understand the client's motivation and movement. This article highlights Adler's many contributions to understanding career development.


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PSpice Optimizer is an optimization program used to improve performance of circuits including analog, mixed analog, and digital circuits. Optimization is defined as the process by which different design parameters are fine-tuned in order to see the expected or ideal performance. This program is able to run optimizations, explore performance tradeoffs and fit model parameters. A working design which does not have multiple states or cases is a prerequisite for this program. This is not intended for initial creation of working design.
PSpice Optimizer automatically simulates and calculates for the best option in an electronic working design. For instance, a user would like to check the best way by which he can drive a current of 1 milliampere through a diode using a 15 voltage source and resistor in a series circuit. The user can opt to do the calculations manually but this would be highly inefficient given the many options he could do to tweak and fine-tune the design. If the recommendation, which came up does not satisfy the user's needs, then he can still change the variable and parameters then recalculate. PSpice is able to perform optimizations for both constrained and constrained problems with either a single or multiple objective functions.


Bombscapes: Of War and Earth
Landscapes are never the same after war, which is why many scientists argue that "bombturbation" — a term for the violent mixing of soils and other ground features by heavy artillery — is a key marker of the Anthropocene. Families living in bomb-scarred Laos have come to understand this all too well.