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Traffic studies in Iowa
Recently, Shauna Hallmark, transportation engineer, has been working on three Iowa traffic safety studies sponsored by the Iowa DOT. Tom McDonald, safety circuit rider, collaborated with her on two projects.
Milled-in rumble strips soon be painted over with edge line striping resulting in a "rumble stripe."
Edge line paint can lose its visibility after several months of service. Hallmark and McDonald are evaluating whether edge lines painted over rumble strips, otherwise known as rumble stripes, will improve edge line paint durability and visibility.
Rumble stripes have been installed on six county road sites as part of a research project that seeks to reduce the incidence and severity of run-off-road crashes. Test sites were chosen based on the Iowa DOT's list of the top 5 percent of road sections with run-off-road crashes from 2001–2006. Evaluations are taking place on local roads in several Iowa counties. Most test sections are on horizontal curves. Since most county roads do not have paved shoulders, the narrow rumble stripes will be installed along the pavement edge.
Along with the Iowa DOT, the project is sponsored by the Iowa Highway Research Board and FHWA.
"We're mainly looking for increased visibility of the paint line," says McDonald. "Increased noise or vibration from the rumble strip is a side benefit." During the first year after installation, the team will investigate the following:
- Wet weather visibility of rumble stripes versus traditional edge line painting
- Long-term durability of the painted edge line
- Driver travel distance from the edge line before and after installation of rumble stripes
An additional period of at least five years will be necessary to collect and analyze crash data valid for comparison with data collected before the installation of the rumble stripes.
Low-cost traffic calming techniques
The main street through many small rural Iowa communities is a state or county highway with high speeds outside the city limits and a reduced speed section through the rural community. Consequently, drivers passing through the community often enter at high speeds and then maintain those speeds throughout.
When speeds in rural communities are problematic, traffic calming provides a potential solution. Traffic-calming measures are generally used in larger urban areas, and their effectiveness in small communities is unknown.
- two gateway treatments in Union and Roland, Iowa, and
- five single-measure treatments (speed table, on-pavement "SLOW" markings, driver speed feedback sign, tubular markers, and on-pavement entrance treatment) in Gilbert, Slater, and Dexter, Iowa.
Data were analyzed 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after the measures were installed.
Successful speed table in Gilbert, Iowa
- In Gilbert, a speed table was successful in decreasing speeds both immediately upstream and downstream of the speed table.
- In Union, the transverse markings appeared to be moderately effective in decreasing vehicle speeds directly downstream of the markings for all three locations, although none of the differences were large. The lane narrowing did not appear to be effective. Once the speed feedback signs were installed, significant speed decreases resulted.
- In Dexter, a "35 mph," on-street pavement marking and an 8-in. edgeline were installed. The treatments were effective in reducing speeds at all three of the locations where they were tested. The effectiveness varied over time. Nine months after installation, the effectiveness of the treatments appeared to decrease, most likely due to the fact that the markings had faded over time. The treatments were re-painted, and the effectiveness increased again at the 12-month data collection period.
- In Roland, the gateway entrance treatments, which consisted of converging chevrons and a "25 mph" on-street pavement marking, were reasonably effective. Speeds decreased at all of the data-collection locations, and decreases remained constant over the year-long data collection period.
- In Slater, results indicate that the longitudinal channelizers used to form a center island for the southern section of R-38 reduced speeds significantly. The driver speed feedback sign was also found to be effective in reducing speeds. Use of the on-pavement "SLOW" markings did not appear to be effective.
In many cases, even the most effective treatments only reduced mean and 85th percentile speeds by a modest amount. Their true effectiveness is their ability to significantly reduce the number of vehicles traveling over the speed limit.
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Front view of a red light running camera
Automatic red light running enforcement
A statewide analysis of red light running (RLR) crashes, using crash data from 2001 to 2006, indicates that an average of 1,682 red light running crashes occur at signalized intersections every year. As a result, red light running poses a significant safety issue for communities.
In Iowa, three communities have used camera enforcement.
Results of the research indicate that RLR cameras were very successful in reducing crashes related to red light running in Davenport and Council Bluffs.
- In Davenport, a 40 percent reduction in RLR crashes was found.
- In Council Bluffs, a 90 percent reduction was found. Total crashes also decreased at intersections with RLR camera enforcement.
Reductions in total crashes of 20 percent and 44 percent were found in Davenport and Council Bluffs, respectively.
The reduction in RLR violations was evaluated for Clive. However, a crash analysis could not be conducted since there was less than one year of crash data. The number of RLR violations for intersections with no RLR cameras was compared against RLR violations at camera-enforced intersections. Results of a statistical analysis indicate that on average, RLR violations were 25 times higher in locations without cameras than with cameras.
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FREE opportunity for talented people to engage with professional artists and UofC mentors!Here are some project logistics and details:
- "Ode to the City" is a grassroots project that targets communities with stories to tell and art to create by providing neighborhood members with free resources and platform to tell those stories.
- ALL people are welcome, regardless of experience, background, identity, age, etc.
- Mixed media workshops make up an 8-week program in a variety of places with a wide-range of artistic mediums: visual arts, poetry, radio, performance art, and more. Students will be exposed to professional artists from different backgrounds, artistic mediums, and communities. For example, Jamila Woods!
- Participants will have the opportunity to work within these spaces, with free supplies, teachers, mentors, the ability to connect with their community, and an opportunity to exhibit their work.
- The intensive visual arts track will be held weekly and is geared toward participants with great interest and any experience in visual arts.
- Workshops will tackle specific themes (e.g., race/ethnicity, faith, spirituality, gender, sexuality, and more)
- Our community partners include: Young Chicago Authors, The Rebuild Foundation, The Poetry Foundation, StoryArts, Bing Bookstore, the UChicago Arts Incubator, and Living Hope Church.Project schedule:
- Mixed Media Workshops (Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative, Greater Grand Crossing; Saturdays, 1-3 pm):July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30August 6, 13, 20, 27
- Mixed Media Workshops (Bing Art Books, Washington Park; Tuesdays, 6-8 pm)July 5, 12, 19, 26,August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
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Mountains 101 is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the University of Alberta teaches a comprehensive overview of Mountain Studies. Mountains 101 will cover an interdisciplinary field of study focusing on the physical, biological, and human dimensions of mountain places in Alberta, Canada, and around the world.
This course will provide students with a broad and integrated overview of the mountain world.
- Study the geological origins of mountains, how they're built-up and worn-down over time.
- Learn about their importance for biodiversity and water cycles, globally and locally.
- Explore their cultural significance to societies around the globe, and how that relationship has evolved over time.
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Novice riders use of Powered-Two-Wheelers for commuting: insight using the theory of planned behaviour
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Globally the rapid growth of motorisation is creating increasing concerns that affect urban mobility and amenity. Increased motor vehicle ownership and use in urban areas, particularly in developed countries including Australia, has led to the increase of vehicle congestion, elongating travel times and the need to provide more parking facilities in already crowded urban areas. While considerable research attention has been focussing on the challenges associated with increasing private car travel in urban areas, relatively little research has been conducted on the use of alternative motorised forms of private personal transport, specifically motorcycles and motor scooters collectively referred to as Powered-Two-Wheel (PTW) vehicles. The aim of this research was to develop understanding of the parameters contributing enormously to the use of PTW for commuting, particularly by novice riders who have recently taken up riding. In this context, many studies, which have sought to engage PTW riders in travel related research, as opposed to road safety research, have struggled to recruit participants. An explicit dimension of this research was to examine the effectiveness of strategies designed to maximise the recruitment and retention of study participants. The empirical results highlight the value of using reminders along with a prize draw with one high value prize rather than a number of lower value prizes. Higher recruitment of younger riders was achieved using a professionally designed postcard with a Quick Response Code (QR code), which provided direct access to the survey web site for respondents using a Smartphone. Results of this research provide valuable insight into the range of techniques, which can be used to increase response rate in the researches aiming to recruit PTW riders. In this research, the extent to, which novice riders commute using a PTW has been analysed through the lens of the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Data collected in a panel survey of novice riders in Victoria, Australia was used to develop a model of commuting by the use of PTW. Attitudinal parameters along with the advantages associated with the use of PTW for commuting were found to explain 55 percent of the variation in the travel behaviour of respondents. Social norms were not found to have a significant effect on the extent to, which novice riders used a PTW for commuting. Results of this research provide new and valuable insights into the researches aiming to develop travel mode choice models, travel assignment models and PTW safety models.

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text: Question: Someone told me that a way to check to see if a surface was getting too hot was to take the ambient temperature plus a certain number of degrees. Does anyone know the number of degrees for this equation? Answer: Gasman gave the numbers in one of our earlier QA. You can use one of those new fancy and inexpensive infrared thermometers to get an idea of the temperature. Some things to keep in mind.... If it gets anywhere near those termperatures, it should be protected. It is unlikely that any of your normal "testing" fires bring the surface up to it's highest possible temperature...in other words, it is likely to get a LOT hotter at some point then the temp you see. Darl materials soak up radiant heat much faster. In the spirit of keeping a great margin of error, many people use the "rule of thumb" which states that you should be able to put your hand on a combustible surface for a couple of seconds without being burnt. Since 120 degrees is abou the maximum comfortable temperature for your skin to touch something, this give a decent margin of safety. Some other comparables: Water at 130 degrees will burn you. The temperature of radiators and hot water heating pipes are normally a maximum of about 180 dregrees. Although wood ignites at temperatures of over 500 degrees, prolonged exposure to temperatures as low as 250 degrees causes charring of the woods and lowers the ignition temperature. My figures may not be exact, but they are close. The rule of ambient plus 117 would normally equal about 190 degrees. Again, keep in mind a good margin. Even much lower temps can affect paint and finishes. If it were my house, I'd try to keep things below 130.

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Background and Aim: The purpose of this study was to describe the CT findings of sorafenib-treated hepatic tumors in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and correlate the findings to the overall survival.
Methods: Sorafenib-treated twenty eight patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with viable hepatic tumors between June 2007 and March 2008 were enrolled. Dynamic CT findings were analyzed with regard to the response of the tumor based on the response evaluation criteria in solid tumor, version 1.1, and the attenuation values of the tumors during the late arterial and portal venous phases. Survival analyses according to early changes of the tumors were also performed.
Results: In all patients, the tumor responses were stable disease or progressive disease on follow-up CT scans. Prior to the treatment, the mean attenuation values of the tumors were 93.0 ± 20.0 HU at the late arterial phase and 107.9 ± 23.0HU at the portal venous phase. On the first follow-up CT scans, the mean attenuation values of the later arterial and portal venous phases were 76.9 ± 26.5 HU and 94.2 ± 29.1 HU, respectively (p < 0.01). The median overall survival was better for the patients with the response of stable disease than the patients with progressive disease (p = 0.013).
Conclusions: In patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who were treated by sorafenib, the size of the hepatic tumors was not significantly reduced. However, the median survival was better for the patients with the response of stable disease. The attenuation values of the tumors became smaller after treatment as compared to the baseline CT scans.


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Patellar Luxation Part 1: Pathoanatomy, Diagnostic Tips and Client Education
This lecture begins with a discussion of what determines whether the patella tracks normally or it luxates. Understanding of this relevant pathoanatomy guides the veterinarian in their diagnostic methods, client education, case selection, and surgical techniques. Diagnostic tips include a discussion of breeds at risk for medial patellar luxation (MPL) vs. lateral patellar luxation (LPL), gait patterns typical of MPL and LPL, the importance of the standing examination and hip extension, video demonstration of cruciate ligament evaluation and common radiographic errors that can be avoided. This module concludes with a discussion of evidence-based answers to questions commonly asked by pet owners. After attending this lecture, attendees will be better able to understand and diagnose patellar luxation (including the difficult cases) and to educate pet owners with regard to their commonly asked questions.


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Endoscopic system for sexing day-old chicks
Sexing day-old chicks is very important for poultry production. Females are used exclusively for commercial layers, whereas males are preferable in commercial broilers due to their fast growth.
Several methods of chick sexing have been developed, the most popular method being vent sexing, which is performed just by looking for the presence or absence of a rudimentary male sex organ. Although this method is fast and accurate, it requires the observer to be well trained and to have a great deal of practice.
Another method is feather sexing, which uses sex-linked feather characteristics genes. Although this method is easy in practice, it can be applied only to a limited number of chicken breeds and cross breeds.
High accuracy with endoscope sexing
Molecular sexing techniques, which are accurate, but difficult to apply to large number of chicks, are available as well. A modified endoscope system for small animals, based on the 'Chick tester'; a monitor probe to be inserted into the intestine of a chick, used in the 1960-70s, was developed to determine the sex of day-old chicks quickly and accurately.
The probe of the endoscope was inserted from the cloaca into the intestine of a chick, and the presence of testes or ovary was observed through the wall of the intestine. Tests were performed in White leghorn and Rhode Island red chicks using this new system. The accuracy of sexing was 91.1% in White leghorn chicks and 88.3% in Rhode island red chicks, overall accuracy of sexing was 90.2% Data were confirmed by observing gonads after laparotomy or appearances at 80 d of age. Accuracy of sexing male chicks (95.0%) was higher than that of female chicks (86.0%). It is expected that the accuracy would be improved by continuous training in the handling of the endoscope.
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St. Patrick's Day Brawl between Massachusetts and Virginia Lines
Q.Is there any truth to the story about the St. Patrick's Day Brawl between Massachusetts and Virginia Lines? It seems the Pennsylvania Line place a Leprechaun/Scarecrow in the company street of a Virginia regiment who blamed a Massachusetts regiment and a brawl erupted. Washington watched this and without saying a word, the men stopped the fight and went back to their cabins. (Source: Birthplace of an Army)
Bradley Finfrock, Graduate Student, Sterling, VA
A.Trussell in his "Birthplace" book cites a couple of sources for the story: "Washington at Valley Forge" by Theodore W. Bean and "Valley Forge" by Harry Emerson Wildes
John Stoudt also recounts the event in his "Ordeal at Valley Forge" under March 17, 1778
"Today a brawl developed between the various Pennsylvania Troops, German and Irish. The German troops rigged up a grotesque Paddym and displayed it in Camp. This caused the Irish to be indignant, but ascribing it to New England Troops, proceeded to wreak their vengeance upon them. His Excellency quashed it and ordered a grog for all."
Stoudt does not cite specifically where each of his statements come from in his book. It is a compilation of the various events — a daily record — from a number of sources. The account from Bean is not cited as well.
Trussell also relates in his book (p.107): "No contemporary records, official or otherwise, has been found to substanitate this story."
SAS, Courtesy The Valley Forge Historical Society


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I heard that the context analysis diagram has different levels. I couldn't find this in.Net, but I have seen that a DFD has different levels.
Do context diagrams have any levels (level0, level1, level2)? If yes, please suggest some examples.
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The answer depends upon what type of Context Diagram you are referring to.
This diagram is the highest level view of a system.
 - IDEF0 Top Level Context Diagrams have a single top-level context diagram and then have optional 'child' diagrams below that. So the answer here would be "Yes."
The IDEF0 process starts with the identification of the prime function to be decomposed. This function is identified on a "Top Level Context Diagram," that defines the scope of the particular IDEF0 analysis.... From this diagram lower-level diagrams are generated.
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Economic Impact Of Wildlife Tourism In Oman
- List the wild animals that are found in Oman.
- Number of tourist in Oman per year in the last 3 years; what attracts them to Oman.
- Explain why wildlife should be a major tourist attraction in Oman and find solutions and make adjustments in the way it is perceived.
- Discuss what is the economic contribution of wildlife tourism in Oman.
- Review the different ways that the wildlife conservations can take to change and strengthen their impact in the economy of Oman
- Compare wildlife tourism of Oman and other countries.
- Identify why the shuwamia in Masirah has not been developed to attract even more tourist to the fishery and cetacean tourism in Oman.
Significance / Relevance of the study
To give light to the wildlife conservation in Oman and its contribution to the overall economy of the country, get a better understanding of why it has not been given a better focus/priority as a major tourist attraction.
Scope and Limitations
- The research scope is to identify all the wildlife Oman has to offer and see the total tourists visiting Oman are attracted to the wildlife conservation.
- It will be able to analyse and understand why wild life is not a main attraction in Oman tourism package.
- It will dive in deep into the economic contribution of wildlife conservations and other sources like fisheries to the overall tourism sector in Oman.
- The research will be able to identify the weaknesses in the wildlife tourism marketing and ways to improve and gain more attraction.
- Finally it will be able to delve into the success of shuwaimia in masirah in attracting tourists to the fisheries and what should the government do to be able to maintain and increase the number of visits.
Relevant Theory and Literature Review
Omani wildlife is the flora and fauna of the country from the southern corner of the Arabian Peninsula to the coasts on the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. Oman climate can be described as hot and dry apart from the south eastern coast. Oman has variety of habitats for wildlife which include the mountains, valleys, deserts, coastal plains and sea coasts.
When one speaks about the tourism sector in Oman and its contribution to the overall country economy one usually means the Historical sites, commercial and industrial field. Rarely do we see or hear the wildlife in Oman being the focal point in attracting tourist to Oman.
According to Anita Isalska in her 2016 article with Rough Guides; she says the capital of Oman is a breath of fresh air when compared to UAE (Dubai and Abu Dhabi) and Bahrain. She mentions the dazzling Mattrah souk and superb seafood and says the terrains bring the biggest thrills. She mentions the Hajr mountain Trek the deserts at dawn, spot dolphins at sundown and overall hospitality of the Omani people. She mentions the Historical sites in Nizwa and in the city. In her article there is no mention of the wildlife of Oman as a tourist attraction which is surprising as Oman is home to a variety of endangered species. (Isalska, 2016)
When you imagine Oman what comes to mind is the harsh environment (Desert) in the Arab Peninsula. Oman is rich with variety of landscapes and is home to many different species. One of the most common desert animal in Oman is the Camel; they can be spotted everywhere in Oman from the Coast to the mountains in the desert.
Oman is also home to Sea turtles that migrate annually from the Arabian Gulf to lay their eggs on the Omani shores; the most common is the green turtle but an overall five to seven different species come from different locations. Tourist should be marketed the experience of seeing the migrating process and the morning tour of the Al Jinz turtle reserve where tourist have the opportunity to see and snorkel alongside the turtle. (Ross, 1987)
Oman is also home to the Dolphins and whales, it is said that the best spot to come across a dolphin or a whale is the Musandam Peninsula and the shores of Oman. One of the attraction in the Omani wildlife is its rich marine diversity especially cetaceans such as the humpback whales that is isolated and endangered and the only non migratory population is the world. If advertised well tourists would come from all over the world for a chance to see the magnificent site. Other than the humpback whale Oman is home to the bryde whales, sperm whales, false killer whales, riso dolphins, spinner dolphins, bottlenose dolphins and Indo pacific humpback dolphins and the occasional killer whale. (Kennedy, Fergus, 2016)
Masirah Island is one of the new spots opened for tourism; one can only get to the Island by ferry that is managed by the National Ferry company that runs six times a day between Shannah to Marirah. At this moment Masirah is not developed to accommodate a vast number of tourists. The Island has very few high end hotels and a kite surfing camp. For kite surfers Masirah is an attractive spot in the summer because of the monsoon winds; the Island is also an important hatching ground for the loggerhead sea turtles it is similar in importance to the beaches in Ras al Hadd and the nearby Ras al Jinz and a hatching ground for green sea turtles. Furthermore the endangered and most unique population of the humpback whales also migrate to the waters surrounding the island and Masirah Gulf (Surfer Today, 2014)
Finally Oman is home to the elusive and most endangered animal the Arabian Leopard in the mountains; their is approximately 200 left in the Arabian Peninsula. Oman is known as the last place the Arabian Leopard survives. In the Dhofari mountains of southern Oman and the Jabal Samhan Natural Reserves that was set up to protect the endangered wildcats. Another sanctuary that was set up was the Arabian Oryx sanctuary that helps the conservation of the Arabian Oryx and is the home of the sand gazelle, mountain gazelle, the Nubian Ibex, the honey badger, the red fox, the caracal, the sand cats and the Arabian wildcat (UNESCO, 2015).
As mentioned by Aljazeera (2014) majority of Oman's economy depends on it oil production; a whopping 75% of the overall economy has been accounted in the oil production sector. Omani government had made plans to make Tourism sector a major player in building the Omani economy and in the year 2014 tourism contributed to Oman's overall GDP by 6.4% and had anticipated it to grow to 8.4% by 2024.
As noted by the Ministry of Tourism; Oman has vast potential when it comes to the growth in the tourism sector. It is home to long coastlines, dramatic mountain scenery and numerous historical sites which include four UNESCO heritage sites, the tourism sector is the focal point of diversification in Oman. The Ministry of tourism has aimed in attracting 12 million visitors by the year 2020. Oman received 1.36 million tourists in 2007 (Ministry of Tourism 2011); the figure further increased to 1.96 million visitors in 2013 (NCSI 2014). According to the World Travel & Tourism Council, the direct contribution of tourism to Oman's GDP amounts to 3.3 percent of Oman's GDP (2014) and with 37,000 jobs generated, it accounts for 3.5 percent of total employment (2014). With these results, Oman is ahead of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar, but behind the UAE and Bahrain.
As claimed by MEED, the reality of the tourism sector in Oman does not match to the country's potential. Omani nationals spend a lot more on foreign trips than the income Oman receives from their international visitors/tourist. The tourism trade gap was calculated to around 380 million USD in 2011 (MEED). MEED also sites the lack of infrastructural and investment to the tourism sector. (Fanak.com, 2018)
Qualitative methodology was used when researching the paper; Secondary data was mainly used; information was collected from different journals on the Oman economy and tourism sector. e books that explain more on the importance of tourism to an economy, websites / blogs that talk about the tourist experience in Oman and newspapers that give historical facts on the growth of the tourism sector in Oman.
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What's the difference between bacon and pork belly?
With the popularity of keto diets and new research on the impact of carbohydrates on weight and overall health, bacon and pork belly have emerged from the dark corners of foods formerly written off as entirely "bad" for you.But what is it about these particular pork options that earned them the label of "unhealthy" in the first place? Are pork belly and bacon equal in nutrition? What is the difference between the two, exactly?
How is bacon made?
Although bacon can be made from other meats, when most people think of this traditional American breakfast side dish, they think of pork. Large slabs of meat are cut from the underside of the pig, known as pork belly. The pork belly is later seasoned, smoked, and sliced to make bacon. Many producers cure the meat by adding synthetic nitrates or nitrites and also choose to add sugar. This isn't the only way to make bacon, however.
Is there such a thing as healthy bacon?
Fortunately, sugar isn't required to make good-tasting bacon either, and there are other, more natural options for preservation. Pederson's Natural Farms doesn't cure its meats, choosing instead to extend the shelf life of our products naturally, without the use of added chemicals. Not adding sugar to our products also makes them friendlier to health-conscious eaters without sacrificing that bacon flavor.
What is pork belly?
Although bacon may hail from the pork belly, the two are very different. Pork belly is not processed. Most people like to cook it slowly to melt down the fat content and create a richly flavored, tender protein.Just like the bacon trending toward not being all bad, pork belly is exploding in popularity. This forefather to bacon was once eschewed for its visibly fatty content. Now pork belly seems to be popping up on menus everywhere. But why?
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Keto Whole30 Approved No Sugar Added Uncured Dry Rub Bacon
Keto Whole30 Approved No Sugar Added Uncured Dry Rub Bacon
Can pork belly be eaten as part of a healthy diet?
Fat, once treated as the evil enemy of the health-minded individual, is being looked at differently by many in the realm of food and nutritional science. Keto and other high-fat, low-carb diets encourage increasing the amount of fat consumed and severely reducing the amount of carbohydrate-laden foods as a means of controlling weight and improving overall health.There are many ways to eat for your health, and what is suitable for one person isn't always ideal for another. There's no one right answer for everyone. And what is known today may tomorrow be old news. The good news is that there are more options now than ever.


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My question "Is it possible to create an negative energy space or area using electromagnetism in varied methods" is very general. I understand that, but at this time and instance I ask that you all humor me as I can not narrow it down further.
My question originates from the possibility of creating an compression field using electromagnetism in an unascertained method. The general hypothesis will have varied application, one being the measurement of negative energy and as of which the further applications will domino effect further out.
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There are two very well known examples of the "negative energy in space", namely, in interactions of charged particles. For example, a proton "creates" a negative potential energy for an electron, so they attract each other and tend to get closer. The closest state, though, is not something of a zero size, but a Hydrogen atom.
The same proton "creates" a positive potential energy for another proton or another positively charged particle, so they repulse each other.
Concerning QFT, there is a phenomenon called annihilation and it happens that an electron and a positron may create a Hydrogen-like "positronium" atom, but it is unstable and decays into several photons.
If you are speaking of the electromagnetic field energy solely, it is a positively defined quantity since it is an integral of positive functions $\int\left(E^2+H^2\right)dV$. But you should keep in mind that the fields have their "sources" and "sinks" - charged particles in motion.
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Searches for the public method with the specified name.
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The string containing the name of the public method to get.
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An object that represents the public method with the specified name, if found; otherwise, null.
The search for name is case-sensitive. The search includes public static and public instance methods.
You cannot omit parameters when looking up constructors and methods. You can only omit parameters when invoking.
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Consider this code:
procedure SplitAt(const _Input: string; _Position: integer; out _Head, _Tail: string);
 _Head := Copy(_Input, 1, _Position-1);
 _Tail := Copy(_Input, _Position);
It's meant to split a given string into two parts at the given position.
Nothing fancy, really, isn't it?
Now, consider this call to the procedure above:
 s1: string;
 s2: string;
 s1 := 'hello world';
 SplitAt(s1, 5, s1, s2);
 WriteLn('s1: "', s1, '"');
 WriteLn('s2: "', s2, '"');
Which output do you expect?
The output I got certainly wasn't what I expected:
s1: ""
s2: ""
I took me a while to understand what happened:
It has been brought to my attention, that the following explanation is wrong:
The compiler passes the parameters right to left, so the first parameter it passes is s2, then s1, then 5 and last s1 again as the input. Since the two rightmost parameters are *out* parameters it clears them before passing them, so s1 is already an empty string when it gets passed as input.
What actually happens is that regardless of the order in which the parameters are passed clearing of the out parameters happens. This clears s1 and it doesn't matter whether it was already passed as Input or not since strings in Delphi are always passed as pointers.
Not quite what I would have expected. It doesn't help to remove the const modifier either.
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Biscuits have always been a delightful treat for people of all ages. Whether enjoyed with morning coffee or as a snack during tea time, they can instantly elevate your mood. However, using a biscuit making machine opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Apart from traditional biscuit flavors, you can experiment with various ingredients to create unique and personalized biscuits. In this article, we will explore different flavors and ingredients that can be incorporated into your biscuit making machine, allowing you to unleash your creativity and delight your taste buds.
Subsection 1: Spice up your biscuit game with herbs and spices
Herbs and spices add depth and complexity to your biscuit flavors, transforming them into unique creations. By incorporating ingredients like rosemary, thyme, cinnamon, nutmeg, or ginger into your biscuit dough, you can create biscuits with a distinct twist. These herbs and spices not only enhance the taste but also provide additional health benefits. Experiment with different combinations to satisfy your personal preferences and discover new favorite flavors.
Subsection 2: Sweet-tooth indulgence with chocolate and fruits
For those with a sweet tooth, incorporating chocolates and fruits in your biscuit making machine is a great way to satisfy cravings. By adding chocolate chips, cocoa powder, or even melted chocolate into your biscuit dough, you can create delectable chocolate biscuits that are sure to please. Similarly, including dried fruits like cranberries, raisins, or apricots can provide bursts of natural sweetness and delightful textures. The combinations are endless, and you can even mix and match to create your own signature biscuit recipes.
Subsection 3: Take a savory turn with cheese and herbs
If you prefer savory flavors, consider incorporating cheese and herbs into your biscuit making machine. By adding grated cheese such as cheddar, Parmesan, or Gruyere, you can create cheesy biscuits that can be enjoyed on their own or paired with savory dips. Additionally, herbs like basil, oregano, or dill can add a fresh and aromatic element to your biscuits, elevating their taste and making them a perfect accompaniment to soups or salads. These savory biscuits are ideal for gatherings or as a delicious snack during cozy evenings.
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I am trying to wrote a program to manage a Database through a Scala Gui, and have been running into alot of trouble formatting my data in such a way as to input it into a Table and have the Column Headers populate. To do this, I have been told I would need to use an Array[Array[Any]] instead of an ArrayBuffer[ArrayBuffer[String]] as I have been using.
My problem is that the way I am trying to fill these arrays is modular: I am trying to use the same function to draw from different tables in a MySQL database, each of which has a different number of columns and entries.
I have been able to (I think) define a 2-D array with
val Data = new Array[Array[String]](numColumns)(numRows)
but I haven't found any ways of editing individual cells in this new array.
Data(i)(j)=Value //or
do not work, and give me errors about "Update" functionality
I am sure this can't possibly be as complicated as I have been making it, so what is the easy way of managing these things in this language?
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You don't need to read your data into an Array of Arrays - you just need to convert it to that format when you feed it to the Table constuctor - which is easy, as demonstrated my answer to your other question: How do I configure the Column names in a Scala Table?
If you're creating a 2D array, the idiom you want is
val data = Array.ofDim[String](numColumms, numRows)
(There is also new Array[String](numColumns, numRows), but that's deprecated.)
You access element (i, j) of an Array data with data(i)(j) (remember they start from 0).
But in general you should avoid mutable collections (like Array, ArrayBuffer) unless there's a good reason. Try Vector instead.
Without knowing the format in which you're retrieving data from the database it's not possible to say how to put it into a collection.
You can alternatively put the type information on the left hand side, so the following are equivalent (decide for yourself which you prefer):
val a: Array[Array[String]] = Array.ofDim(2,2)
val a = Array.ofDim[String](2,2)
To explain the syntax for accessing / updating elements: as in Java, a multi-dimensional array is just an array of arrays. So here, a(i) is element i of a, which an Array[String], and so a(i)(j) is element j of that array, which is a String.
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Luigi's answer is great, but I'd like to shed some light on why your code isn't working.
does not do what you expect it to do. The new Array[Array[String]](numColumns) part does create an array of array of strings with numColumns entries, with all entries (arrys of strings) being null, and returns it. The following (numRows) then just calls the apply function on that returned object, which returns the numRowsth entry in that list, which is null.
You can try that out in the scala REPL: When you input
new Array[Array[String]](10)(9)
you get this as output:
res0: Array[String] = null
Luigi's solution, instead
does the right thing:
res1: Array[Array[String]] = Array(Array(null, null), Array(null, null))
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It's rather ugly, but you can update a multidimensional array with update
> val data = Array.ofDim[String](2,2)
> data(0).update(0, "foo")
> data
data: Array[Array[String]] = Array(Array(foo, null), Array(null, null))
Not sure about the efficiency of this technique.
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Luigi's answer is great, but I just wanted to point out another way of initialising an Array that is more idiomatic/functional – using tabulate. This takes a function that takes the array cell coordinates as input and produces the cell value:
scala> Array.tabulate[String](4, 4) _
res0: (Int, Int) => String => Array[Array[String]] =
scala> val data = Array.tabulate(4, 4) {case (x, y) => x * y }
data: Array[Array[Int]] = Array(Array(0, 0, 0, 0), Array(0, 1, 2, 3), Array(0, 2, 4, 6), Array(0, 3, 6, 9))
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As soon as the university campus in kulmbach starts teaching in two years, many young people will come to the city who want to get from a to b quickly. The bicycle is the perfect means of transport – if there is a good network of cycle paths and enough secure parking spaces. Both are still expandable in kulmbach, says professor stephan clemens of the university of bayreuth. The passionate cyclist is the founding dean of the kulmbach campus and is convinced: "if you make it possible, many more people will use the bike. In this case the offer creates the demand."
Three areas are particularly important to clemens and campus managing director matthias kaiser: the connections between and to the kulmbach campus buildings, rapid movement in the city center in general, and the train station and its immediate surroundings.
A short way to the MRI
Matthias kaiser sees a need for change in the area around the guterbahnhof, which is favored as a future campus location. "Something has to happen in terms of traffic engineering. Two busy roads have to be crossed between the site and the administration building in the spinnerei villa, and there is no direct connection to the city center." Kaiser thought it would be great if the planned bike path connection between guterbahnhof and the max-rubner-institute could be realized.
To niggle at a missing or at least incomplete bike path concept in and around kulmbach is far from clemens and kaiser's mind, but they are convinced: "if we work together on good ideas now, everyone will benefit from it in the end."
The development into a university location is also seen as an opportunity at city hall to take up the topic of bicycle traffic in principle, says press spokesman simon ries. "Of course, the infrastructure has to keep up with the development, from the train connection to the opnv and bike paths to the high-speed internet. It's all going to take on more meaning."
However, it would be premature at this point in time to speculate about bicycle path connections to and from the guterbahnhof area. "The location question has not yet been finally decided." The land negotiations have not yet been concluded. Only when it has been clarified where the campus will be located can further planning be undertaken.
Independently of this, the campus directors at the university of bayreuth are developing ideas for the future – and are happy to think a little more broadly in the process. Matthias kaiser: "we are a green faculty and want to not only teach a healthy lifestyle, but also live it. The people who study and work with us have the right attitude and want such opportunities."
The dream of the cycle track
Stephan clemens dreams of a bicycle expressway between bayreuth and kulmbach "on which you can ride quickly and safely without any obstacles". The university professor is aware that such a project cannot be implemented overnight. "But we believe it will enhance the attractiveness of the location." Unfortunately, there is not even a continuous cycle path from kulmbach to bayreuth.
The district of kulmbach is on the same page as the campus management when it comes to improving the public transport system and planning cycle paths, and would like to push ahead with the corresponding ideas. District administrator klaus peter sollner () has already written to government president heidrun piwernetz regarding the application for a campus bike path between the bayreuth and kulmbach sites. He advocates the creation of corresponding lighthouse projects not only in the metropolitan areas, but also in rural areas.
The campus brings new tasks for the district administration, says michael beck from the district office, who is responsible for public transport, among other things. Important tasks are a semester ticket for the opnv, but also a bicycle-friendly development and connection of the future campus area.
A concept is to emerge
The bike lanes and the current development planning along federal highway 85 are patchy, confirms andreas schulein of the district office's high and civil engineering department. This is to change: "it is planned to have a cycle path concept drawn up for the district. We see ourselves first and foremost as a coordinator in this area."
The county rarely builds its own bike lanes. Why? Traffic volume on county roads is too low to generate a demand for bike lane construction. And along the federal roads is the state construction office responsible.


In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, recruited characters have support conversations with other members of Byleth's house. These conversations flesh out the backstories and develop the relationships between multiple characters. Although the students have great support conversations with each other, they have equally insightful, funny, and clever support conversations with the church staff as well.
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Most of the staff are a little older than the students, so they usually have some kind of wisdom to impart. However, their lessons are not always entirely successful. The staff also learn a lot from the students, learning to pursue their dreams or finding new ways to give back to the world.
10 Seteth Motivated Hilda To Be Less Lazy
Hilda And Seteth speak about making books
At first, Hilda did whatever she could to avoid Seteth, who would always find an embarrassingly roundabout way to tell her to stop being lazy. It didn't work, so he told her a story that he wrote for Flayn, about a hardworking squirrel and a lazy fox who suffered since it didn't gather anything for the winter.
Although Hilda initially brushed off the story as something cute, she motivated Seteth to write more stories for children, while she drew pictures to accompany them. In their shared ending, these stories were extremely beloved.
9 Bernadetta Only Fled From Seteth Once
Seteth and Bernadetta discuss their book's illustrations
Although this sounds entirely unimpressive, Bernadetta only ran from Seteth one time. It was not uncommon for her to run away from people, as she had a difficult time socializing with others. Seteth seemed to know how to make her relax in later encounters, telling her stories about Saint Indech, who was similar to Bernadetta.
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Saint Indech was an accomplished man, and Seteth told her that it would be possible for her to achieve great things even if she kept to herself. The two eventually got married, but Bernadetta remained a recluse, which Seteth never seemed to mind.
8 Hanneman Told Edelgard Why He Was Obsessed With Crests
Edelgard and Hanneman talk about his sister
On the surface, Hanneman appeared to like Crests. He was constantly focused on his research and got excited whenever he discovered something new. Even Edelgard was initially wary of Hanneman, and dug into his past.
Hanneman didn't seem to mind it, and confessed that his goal was to give everyone a Crest, which would have the same effect as Edelgard's goal to do away with all Crests. He was only so devoted to his research because he didn't want anyone to suffer like his sister did, who was married off in the hopes of bearing children with Crests.
7 Ferdinand Showered Manuela With The Praise She Deserved
Manuela thanks Ferdinand for his kind words
Manuela was used to having no luck with men, which was a frequent cause of her misery. When Ferdinand praised her singing skills in such a direct way, Manuela had a hard time believing the sincerity of his words.
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She believed that she was past her prime, and did not have the skills that she did years ago. However, it clearly touched her that he was so inspired by her song and sword dance, and the two were happily married right after he became a Duke.
6 Dimitri Actually Laughed At Alois' Jokes
Dimitri laughs at a bad joke
Alois told jokes that were so terrible that they were often met with groans or stony silence. However, he managed to make Dimitri laugh, which shocked everyone who saw it.
Dimitri didn't acknowledge the jokes as good, but stated that they were funny because they were so bad. Not knowing how to respond to Dimitri's laughter, the other soldiers felt like they had no choice but to awkwardly join in.
5 Mercedes Helped Alois With His Fear Of Ghosts
Alois asks Mercedes not to tell too scary of a story
Alois went to Mercedes to ask her for help, as she was known for her ghost stories. He was terrified of ghosts, and wished to hear a few of her stories to get over his fear. At the beginning, he never felt mentally prepared, and would nearly faint before the stories were even complete.
However, he got better at handling his fear thanks to her stories, despite her slightly sadistic promises to find him scarier stories each time. In their shared ending, Alois was known as a fearless knight, thanks to her help.
4 Alois Tricked Leonie Into Inheriting Jeralt's Debt
Leonie regrets becoming Jeralt's successor
Leonie would often approach Alois and ask him to tell her a story about Jeralt. She really admired Jeralt, and despite the fact that Jeralt did plenty of horrible things in the stories, her view of Jeralt never changed.
Alois buttered Leonie up until she agreed to be Jeralt's successor, leading to Alois gleefully bestowing upon her the massive debt Jeralt owed to multiple bars. Alois had been paying for it for ages, so he was more than happy to make it someone else's problem.
3 Shamir Taught Raphael How To Be More Sneaky
Raphael attempts breathing exercises
Raphael asked Shamir to teach him how to hide his presence the same way that she does. She told him that he had too much presence, and showed him a breathing exercise to help him conceal himself. He practiced what she taught him, but his breathing sounded like the ragged, desperate gasps of air of a fish above land.
He eventually managed to sneak up on her, which impressed her enough for her to take him with her on a scouting mission.
2 Ashe & Cyril Developed A Wholesome Friendship
Cyril finds Ashe after hearing he went missing
Cyril had a hard time accepting help from anyone, given that he felt that he had to work hard to earn his place at the monastery. Ashe insisted on helping him regardless, which Cyril discovered he was thankful for.
Ashe offered to be Cyril's friend, and said that they would help each other. Cyril took this to heart, and grew to care for Ashe, enough to abandon his post when he heard that Ashe had gone missing.
1 Lysithea Taught Cyril How To Read
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Lysithea was the type who wanted to prove that she was an adult capable of taking care of herself. She insisted on helping Cyril carry a log, but naturally, she failed at such a difficult task. She later learned that Cyril never learned how to read.
She gladly helped him, and Cyril made fast progress. He even wrote her a letter to thank her, which made her happy. Lysithea and Cyril enjoyed spending time together, to the point where they eventually got married after he became a soldier.
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- Educate the Princeton community about the ethical options that underlie their apparel choices.
- Motivate individuals to act on their values and their rationality.
- Inspire people to think of their smallest actions as having the potential to contribute to human welfare.
- Connect people to organizations and companies that compensate workers with a living wage.
To educate organizations and individuals on the importance of a "living wage" and to connect those who want to start making a difference to organizations that work specifically with living wage contractors by emphasizing the morality and rationality of buying living wage made products.


mapping all five binds.
There are several scenarios where optional binds may be useful:
 - A service may have some default functionality which may be overridden at load-time by mapping an optional binding. Perhaps you have some kind of artifact repository service that, in the absence of a "remote-store" bind stores data on the local filesystem. However, if remote-store is bound to an appropriate S3 API-compatible service, such as Minio, it could modify its behavior to store data remotely.
 - A service can be optionally bind to a service to unlock additional features. For example, say you have an application that may run with or without a caching layer. You can model this using an optional bind named (say), "cache". If you wish to run without the caching functionality enabled, you can start the service without specifying a service group mapping for the "cache" bind. Since the bind is optional, it is not needed for Chef Habitat to run your service. However, if you do wish to run with the caching enabled, you can specify a service group mapping, e.g. hab svc load acme/my-app --bind=cache:redis.prod. In this scenario, your service's configuration can pull configuration values from the redis.prod service group, enabling it to use Redis as a caching layer.
 - A service may can optionally bind one of several services; if bind "X" is mapped, operate this way; if "Y" is mapped, operate that way. An application that could use either a Redis backend or a PostgreSQL backend, depending on the deployment scenario, could declare optional "redis" and "postgresql" bindings, and pick which one to map at service load-time. If this is your use case, Chef Habitat does not have a way to encode the fact that "one and only one of these optional bindings should be mapped", so you will have to manage that on your own.
Service Start-up Behavior
Prior to Chef Habitat 0.56.0, if the service group that you bound to was not present in the Supervisor network census, or had no live members, your service would not start until the group was present with live members. While this can be desirable behavior in some cases, as with running certain legacy applications, it is not always desirable, particularly for modern microservice applications, which should be able to gracefully cope with the absence of their networked dependencies.
With 0.56.0, however, this behavior can be modified using the new runtime service option --binding-mode. By setting --binding-mode=relaxed when loading a service, that service can start immediately, whether there are any members of a bound service group present or not. (Setting --binding-mode=strict will give you the previous, start-only-after-all-bound-groups-are-present behavior. This is also the current default, though relaxed will be the eventual default for Chef Habitat 1.0.0.). Such a service should have configuration and lifecycle hook templates written in such a way that the service can remain operational (though perhaps with reduced functionality) when there are no live members of a bound service group present in the network census.
The Difference Between Required Binds, Optional Binds, and Binding Mode
While there is a bit of overlap in these concepts, they are distinct. It's best to think of required and optional binds as defining "how applications can be wired together" (specifically, which "wires" must be connected in order to provide the minimal amount of information needed to run a service). Binding mode, on the other hand, defines how the application's start-up behavior is affected the presence or absence of its networked dependencies.
Another useful thing to keep in mind when thinking about required and optional binds is that service group mappings currently cannot be dynamically changed at runtime. They can only be changed by stopping a service, reloading the service with a new set of options, and then starting it up again. This constraint (which may change in future versions of Chef Habitat) may help guide your choice between what should be a required bind, and what should be optional, particularly when using the relaxed binding mode.
Using Runtime Binds with Consumer Services
Once you've defined both ends of the contract, you can leverage the bind in any of your package's hooks or configuration files. Given the two example services above, a section of a configuration file for session-server might look like this:
{{~#each bind.database.members as |member|}}
database = "{{member.sys.ip}}:{{member.cfg.port}}"
database-secure = "{{member.sys.ip}}:{{member.cfg.ssl-port}}"
{{~/each}}
Here, bind.<BINDING_NAME> will be "truthy" (and can thus be used in boolean expressions) only if the bind has been satisfied, and bind.<BINDING_NAME>.members will be an array of only active members.
(Prior to Chef Habitat 0.56.0, bind.<BINDING_NAME> was always present, and bind.<BINDING_NAME>.members had all members, even ones that had left the Supervisor network long ago. This necessitated using the eachAlive helper function, instead of just each.)
Starting a Consumer Service
Since your application server defined database as a required bind, you'll need to provide the name of a service group running a package which fulfills the contract using the --bind parameter to the Supervisor. For example, running the following:
$ hab svc load <ORIGIN>/<NAME> --bind database:amnesia.default
would create a bind aliasing database to the amnesia service in the default service group.
The service group passed to --bind database:{service}.{group} doesn't need to be the service amnesia. This bind can be any service as long as they export a configuration key for port and ssl-port.
You can declare bindings to multiple service groups in your templates by using the --bind option multiple times on the command line. Your service will not start if your package has declared a required bind and a value for it was not specified by --bind.
Plan Builds
Packages need to be signed with a private origin key at buildtime. Generate an origin key pair manually by running the following command on your host machine:
$ hab origin key generate <ORIGIN>
The hab-origin subcommand will place the origin key files, originname-timestamp.sig.key (the private key) and originname-timestamp.pub files (the public key), in the $HOME/.hab/cache/keys directory. If you're creating origin keys in the Studio container, or you are running as root on a Linux machine, your keys will be stored in /hab/cache/keys.
Because the private key is used to sign your artifact, it should not be shared freely; however, if anyone wants to download and use your artifact, then they must have your public key (.pub) installed in their local $HOME/.hab/cache/keys or /hab/cache/keys directory. If the origin's public key is not present, Chef Habitat attempts to download it from the Builder endpoint specified by the --url argument (_URL_ by default) to hab pkg install.
Passing Origin Keys into the Studio
The Habitat Studio is a self-contained and minimal environment, which means that you'll need to share your private origin keys with the Studio to sign artifacts. You can do this in three ways:
 1. Set HAB_ORIGIN to the name of the origin you intend to use before entering the Studio:
xport HAB_ORIGIN=originname
This approach overrides the HAB_ORIGIN environment variable and imports your public and private origin keys into the Studio environment. It also overrides any pkg_origin values in the packages that you build. This is useful because you can use it to build your own artifact, as well as to build your own artifacts from other packages' source code, for example, originname/node or originname/glibc.
 1. Set HAB_ORIGIN_KEYS to the names of your origins. If you're using more than one origin, separate them with commas:
xport HAB_ORIGIN_KEYS=originname-internal,originname-test,originname
This imports the private origin keys, which must exactly match the origin names for the plans you intend to build.
 1. Use the -k flag (short for "keys") which accepts one or more key names separated by commas with:
ab studio -k originname-internal,originname-test enter
This imports the private origin keys, which must exactly match the origin names for the plans you intend to build.
After you create or receive your private origin key, you can start up the Studio and build your artifact.
Interactive Build
Any build that you perform from a Chef Habitat Studio is an interactive build. Studio interactive builds allow you to examine the build environment before, during, and after the build.
The directory where your plan is located is known as the plan context.
 1. Change to the parent directory of the plan context.
 2. Create and enter a new Chef Habitat Studio. If you have defined an origin and origin key during ha


noise:
>>> t = 100 * rand.random(60)
>>> dy = 1.0
>>> y = np.sin(2 * np.pi * t) + dy * rand.standard_normal(60)
>>> ls = LombScargle(t, y, dy)
>>> freq, power = ls.autopower()
>>> print(power.max())
0.29154492887882927
The peak of the periodogram has a value of 0.33, but how significant is this peak? We can address this question using the false_alarm_probability() method:
>>> ls.false_alarm_probability(power.max())
0.028959671719328808
What this tells us is that under the assumption that there is no periodic signal in the data, we will observe a peak this high or higher approximately 0.4% of the time, which gives a strong indication that a periodic signal is present in the data.
Note
Users must interpret this probability carefully: it is a measurement conditioned on the assumption of the null hypothesis of no signal; in symbols, you might write \(P({\rm data} \mid {\rm noise-only})\).
Although it may seem like this quantity could be interpreted with a statement such as "there is an 0.4% chance that this data is noise only," this is not a correct statement; in symbols, this statement describes the quantity \(P({\rm noise-only} \mid {\rm data})\), and in general \(P(A\mid B) \ne P(B\mid A)\).
See [11] for a more detailed discussion of such caveats.
We might also wish to compute the required peak height to attain any given false alarm probability, which can be done with the false_alarm_level() method:
>>> probabilities = [0.1, 0.05, 0.01]
>>> ls.false_alarm_level(probabilities)
array([0.25681381, 0.27663466, 0.31928202])
This tells us that to attain a 10% false alarm probability requires the highest periodogram peak to be approximately 0.25; 5% requires 0.27, and 1% requires 0.32.
False Alarm Approximations
Although the false alarm probability at any particular frequency is analytically computable, there is no closed-form analytic expression for the more relevant quantity of the false alarm level of the highest peak in a particular periodogram. This must be either determined through bootstrap simulations, or approximated by various means.
astropy provides four options for approximating the false alarm probability, which can be chosen using the method keyword:
 - method="baluev" (the default) implements the approximation proposed by Baluev 2008 [8], which employs extreme value statistics to compute an upper bound of the false alarm probability for the alias-free case. Experiments show that the bound is also useful even for highly aliased observing patterns.
>>> ls.false_alarm_probability(power.max(), method='baluev')
0.028959671719328808
 - method="bootstrap" implements a bootstrap simulation: effectively it computes many Lomb-Scargle periodograms on simulated data at the same observation times. The bootstrap approach can very accurately determine the false alarm probability, but is very computationally expensive. To estimate the level corresponding to a false alarm probability \(P_{false}\), it requires on order \(n_{boot} \approx 10/P_{false}\) individual periodograms to be computed for the dataset.
>>> ls.false_alarm_probability(power.max(), method='bootstrap')
0.0030000000000000027
 - method="davies" is related to the Baluev method, but loses accuracy at large false alarm probabilities.
>>> ls.false_alarm_probability(power.max(), method='davies')
0.029387277355227746
 - method="naive" is a basic method based on the assumption that well-separated areas in the periodogram are independent. In general, it provides a very poor estimate of the false alarm probability and should not be used in practice, but is included for completeness.
>>> ls.false_alarm_probability(power.max(), method='naive')
0.00810080828660202
The following figure compares these false alarm estimates at a range of peak heights for 100 observations with a heavily aliased observing pattern:
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../_images/lombscargle-5.png
In general, users should use the bootstrap approach when computationally feasible, and the Baluev approach otherwise.
In all of this, it is important to keep in mind a few caveats:
 - False alarm probabilities are computed relative to a particular set of observing times, and a particular choice of frequency grid.
 - False alarm probabilities are conditioned upon the null hypothesis of data with no periodic component, and in particular say nothing quantitative about whether the data are actually consistent with a periodic model.
 - False alarm probabilities are not related to the question of whether the highest peak in a periodogram is the correct peak, and in particular are not especially useful in the case of observations with a strong aliasing pattern.
For a detailed discussion of these caveats and others when computing and interpreting false alarm probabilities, please refer to [11].
Periodogram Algorithms
The LombScargle class makes available several complementary implementations of the Lomb-Scargle periodogram, which can be selected using the method keyword of the Lomb-Scargle power. By design all methods will return the same results (some approximate), and each has its advantages and disadvantages.
For example, to compute a periodogram using the Fast Chi-squared method of Palmer (2009) [9], you can specify method='fastchi2':
>>> frequency, power = LombScargle(t, y).autopower(method='fastchi2')
There are currently six methods available in the package:
method='auto'
The auto method is the default, and will attempt to select the best option from the following methods using heuristics driven by the input data.
method='slow'
The slow method is a pure Python implementation of the original Lomb-Scargle periodogram ([1], [2]), enhanced to account for observational noise, and to allow a floating mean (sometimes called the generalized periodogram; see [10]). The method is not particularly fast, scaling approximately as \(O[NM]\) for \(N\) data points and \(M\) frequencies.
method='cython'
The cython method is a Cython implementation of the same algorithm used for method='slow'. It is slightly faster than the pure Python implementation, but much more memory-efficient as the size of the inputs grow. The computational scaling is approximately \(O[NM]\) for \(N\) data points and \(M\) frequencies.
method='scipy'
The scipy method wraps the C implementation of the original Lomb-Scargle periodogram which is available in scipy.signal.lombscargle(). This is slightly faster than the slow method, but does not allow for errors in data or extensions such as the floating mean. The scaling is approximately \(O[NM]\) for \(N\) data points and \(M\) frequencies.
method='fast'
The fast method is a pure Python implementation of the fast periodogram of Press & Rybicki [3]. It uses an extrapolation approach to approximate the periodogram frequencies using a fast Fourier transform. As with the slow method, it can handle data errors and floating mean. The scaling is approximately \(O[N\log M]\) for \(N\) data points and \(M\) frequencies. The fast algorithm trades accuracy for speed, and produces a close approximation to the true periodogram. In particular, you may observe powers less than zero in some cases.
method='chi2'
The chi2 method is a pure Python implementation based on matrix algebra (see [7]). It utilizes the fact that the Lomb-Scargle periodogram at each frequency is equivalent to the least-squares fit of a sinusoid to the data. The advantage of the chi2 method is that it allows extensions of the periodogram to multiple Fourier terms, specified by the nterms parameter. For the standard problem, it is slightly slower than method='slow' and scales as \(O[n_fNM]\) for \(N\) data points, \(M\) frequencies, and \(n_f\) Fourier terms.
method='fastchi2'
The Fast Chi-squared method of Palmer (2009) [9] is


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Updated February 24, 2016 at 10:40 pm: A map showing the various options for a Pape-Queen routing to downtown has been added at the end of this article.
The City of Toronto Planning Division has released the detailed technical scoring for evaluation of six possible routes for a Relief Line linking the core area to the Danforth subway.
The possible routes that survived a preliminary cull were:
- A: Broadview to Queen crossing the Don River at Queen
- B1: Pape to Queen crossing the Don River at Queen
- B2: Pape to Queen, dodging south to serve the Unilever site before crossing the Don and swinging back to Queen Street
- C: Broadview to King crossing the Don River at Queen
- D1: Pape to King crossing the Don River at Queen
- D2: Pape to King crossing the Don River at the Unilever site
Of these, the two Broadview options don't fare very well, and the real debate is between the four remaining Pape options.
The scoring extends through many categories and pages, but to simplify things and understand just how each factor was ranked, I have consolidated the scores into a spreadsheet. (For the detailed evaluation, refer to the scoring document linked above.)
In place of the scoring system used in the city summary, I have converted each of the symbols to a numeric value:
- Full moon = 4 points
- 3/4 moon = 3 points
- Half moon = 2 points
- 1/4 moon = 1 point
- New moon = 0 points
Within each major grouping of scores, the values were totalled and then normalized to the range of zero to one. For example, if a group contained 4 topics, then the maximum possible score is 16, and each alignment's score is divided 16 to get a normalized value. This allows the scores from each group to be compared with each other.
At the end, the scores can either be summer individually (each topic counts equally), or the group averages can be totalled (each group count equally regardless of how many topics it contains) and normalized.
On a grand total basis, both the city's technical evaluation and public feedback came to the same conclusion: even though there are variations between the four alignments, they all average out to a 3/4 score.
The point scores also come out close to the same with higher values on one item balancing lower values on others for, overall, an even ranking.
Quite simply, all other things being equal, the four alignments are more or less equivalent using this scoring system. However, the City opted for alignment B1 because, among other things, is is claimed to be cheaper and simpler to build.
The costs estimates in the City's evaluation [at p.19] are:
- $3.7-billion for either of the Pape via Queen options regardless of whether they follow Queen or King to the core
- $4.0-billion for the Pape-Unilever-King option
- $4.1-billion for the Pape-Unilever-Queen option
The ridership estimates are generally higher for the via King options, and higher still for the routes serving the Unilever site. In all cases, off-peak riding tends to be low compared to the rest of the network with roughly 2/3 of all boardings on the Relief Line being during the AM or PM peak. The effect is even more striking for configuration where frequent SmartTrack service at 12 trains/hour competes with the Relief Line for customers. This demonstrates the problem of a line aimed at primarily peak period "relief". As and when we see projections for longer versions of the RL (to Eglinton or Sheppard), the balance of off-peak travel may change because the route will serve new subway territory, not simply provide an alternate route for existing trips.
Despite the even scoring overall, the preferred corridor was selected based on giving some criteria additional weight as shown in the table below.
This evaluation, like so much other recent work, depends very much on the presumed presence of frequent SmartTrack service in the rail corridor. If that is found to be impractical, then the relative importance of the RL changes along with its appropriate alignment to serve the core. This is particularly critical at the Unilever site which would have only SmartTrack serving it if the RL stays on Queen Street.
One point above misrepresents the technical evaluation: both of the Queen Street crossing routes have the same cost estimate regardless of which route they take to the core area (Queen or King) and they share the same river crossing characteristics.
In summary, the choice "makes sense" in the limited context that a frequent SmartTrack service will actually be feasible and will be built. If SmartTrack cannot be provided on a five minute headway with a low fare, then the entire planning process will require a major rethink.
Updated February 24, 2016: The following map shows possible alignments for a route from Pape & Danforth to the core area. Notes on the map talk of a track connection at Danforth to provide access to Greenwood Yard. The technical scoring paper also mentions a southerly route under the rail corridor from Gerrard & Pape eastward. While this is longer, it would avoid the complexity of adding linking curves at Danforth.


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ChatGPT can't read long prompts
I'll post a prompt of, for example, 2,000 words, but the AI can only summarize the first 827 words. If I ask it about anything past that, it doesn't know the answer. It says there's no hard limit to how much it can read at once.
Can you provide a reference for that?
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Hi @dented.r33
There'a definitely a context length for ChatGPT and if your message exceeds that, it throws and error telling that the message is too long.
Consider breaking your message into chunks and then sending them as parts.
e.g part 1/3, 2/3, 3/3
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Just from the AI's resonse.
Do you know what an AI hallucination is?
If not then you have now seen one. ChatGPT created that to give you an answer. Notice that it did not provide any references. ChatGPT is not like a search engine such as Google that links to other pages for its results.
From: ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue
ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers.
From: What are tokens and how to count them?
Tokens can be thought of as pieces of words. Before the API processes the prompts, the input is broken down into tokens. These tokens are not cut up exactly where the words start or end - tokens can include trailing spaces and even sub-words.
Depending on the model used, requests can use up to 4097 tokens shared between prompt and completion. If your prompt is 4000 tokens, your completion can be 97 tokens at most.
Try the tokenizer page to better understand tokens.
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Hmm interesting. Does around 800 words seem like the limit you've experienced? I've never received this message.
Ah, I was afraid of that. Thanks for the input!
FYI
On sites that have likes image (the empty heart at the bottom of each post) just clicking the like
 - is quicker
 - shows others that this was a useful post
 - helps others learn who is giving out useful information
Also for those with notifications on, it doesn't result in an audible on the device resulting in a break in thought to read the new post just to see the thanks. :slightly_smiling_face:
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You might find that the first post in a new conversation will allow you to summarize longer text. ChatGPT is silently adding your chat history to each request in the background to give it context.
As the chat continues, this eats into your available tokens for the completion part.
Only the developers know the exact number, but I suspect the history grows until it hits about 1000 to 1500 tokens. Once it hits this limit, it drops the oldest interaction off the list to become a moving window.
There will be no history when you first start a conversation - so I think you may get a longer response. It is worth a go.
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Makes sense, is there an official post about this. I would like to include this knowledge in a ChatGPT topic on another Discourse site but would like to have an official reference to go along with it. Helpful hints about using ChatGPT - Wiki - SWI-Prolog
Along the same lines have you tried this. Create a New chat on the first line enter proofread skip a line and then add something to proofread. Submit the prompt. Then edit the first prompt keeping the proofread but changing the text, and click Save & Submit. After repeating several times I find that it seems to get odder as if ChatGPT is remembering the info from the previous edits.
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There is no documentation for how ChatGPT works behind the scenes.
This is based on how I would make the Chat have some context of previous interactions. This also explains why "continue" works as a prompt
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I can't say for sure, and I haven't found any Information on the exact context length of chatGPT from OpenAI.
However, given that chatGPT is a sibling model of InstructGPT, they could have similar context length.
Also consider this, if the book was released before ChatGPT training data cutoff date, it would have information on it or might have had the complete book as part of training dataset.
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I've heard rumors here and there of 8k tokens, but no way to know for sure from the outside… 8k seems reasonable if they've improved performance and old max was 4k and even earlier 2k…
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8k sounds great - We get to burn through tokens twice as fast :wink:
Indeed. I tried to past a C++ program of about 8000 lines to have it explained by ChatGPT but I got this answer back and the model has no cue (seemingly) to the input constraints imposed on the GUI.
Even separating the program in 3 chunks was too much. It would be helpful to have somewhere a clear limit displayed to the user instead of the generic one saying that the input is just too long, thanks.
"The model has no clue", typo, LOL
This is simply "abusing the model".
What do you expect when you pass 8000 lines of code to an LLM?
Why not 80,000 lines? Or why not 800,000 ? Or send ChatGPT 8,000,000 lines of code and post when that fails as well?
Break up your code into small modules and submit small components to LLMs.
:slight_smile:
It would be more helpful to have CLEAR limits exposed, e.g. not more than 2000 characters per prompt or 500 words, etc.
What is actually the size of the attention span window?
I also said that I tried to chunk the code in 3 consecutive pieces. With proper instructions, I could have chuncked it in, say 10 or 20 pieces…
Best regards,
S-
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Use InstructGPT and not ChatGPT.
If it's very long you can cluster the information and send it as batches.
We have such an incredible technology that requires just a little bit of understanding and legwork to operate efficiently. If you learn how to use it, you will be able to understand and summarize whatever you send it.
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"I walked quite a way out, but it was still only about waist deep."
You're at the beach with your family. You've gone in the water and were surprised by how shallow it was. You tell your wife, who hasn't gone in the ocean yet, about it.
I walked quite a way out, but it was still only about waist deep.
This casual expression means "quite far" or "pretty far". You use it with a direction word like one of these:
quite a way up
quite a way down
quite a way away
(This sometimes becomes "quite a ways away" in casual speech, although that's ungrammatical.)
To explain how deep some water is in a pool, ocean, lake, etc., English speakers sometimes explain what part of their body the water reached to. To do this, they use the expression "___ deep":
Don't be scared. It's only waist deep.
Aside from "waist deep", we also use the expressions:
When someone is swimming in the ocean, a lake, etc., you explain where they are by saying how far "out" they are from the shore:
She was swimming about twenty yards out, and suddenly I saw her start to splash and wave her arms.
You use the same phrase when someone is riding in a boat:
To catch the really big fish, you have to go a few miles out.


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We have from long time 3.2.3 breeding group CB.
Our Pseudemys nelsoni are all captive bred. The males are bigger then the females. The biggest male is about 28 cm SCL and 1,8 kg. They are housed for all the year in a large and deep pond with others Emididae like Chrysemys and Graptemys. We don't never notice aggressive behaviours among these turtles, because all the specimen have a lot of space available. We feed Pseudemys nelsoni only once a week with vegetables, grass, fruit, and once a month with dead fish and shrimps; in the pond they can find food everytime they need.


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A few drops of conc HCL are added to about 10cm³ of…
A few drops of conc HCL are added to about 10cm³ of a solution of PH 3.4. The PH of the resulting mixture is?
A. less than 3.4
B. greater than 3.4
D. the same as that of the pure water
Addition of drops of concentrated acids to a solution increases the concentration of hydrogen ions in the solution. When the concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution increases, the PH value decreases, this implies that the PH of the resulting mixture in the set up above will be less than 3.4
Now for the right answer to the above question:
- Option A is correct. the concentration of hydrogen ion will increase, thereby reducing the PH value.
- Option B is incorrect. adding drops of base, or water will do this.
- C is incorrect. PH values only remain unaltered in BUFFERS.
- D is not the correct answer. the PH of pure water is 7, this is not likely to be the result.
You may please note these/this:
- Only buffer solutions will have their PH values unaltered when drops of acids or bases are added.
- If more acids are dropped on a solution, the number of hydrogen ions will increase.
- If the number of hydrogen ions in a solution increases, the PH value will reduce.
- If more bases are dropped on a solution, the number of hydroxide ions will increase.
- If the number of hydroxide ions in a solution increases, the PH value will increase.
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Bluetooth LE and Bluetooth SPP are both Bluetooth profiles (sometimes called "pairing modes"). One practical difference between the two aforementioned Bluetooth profiles is the pairing process. Bluetooth SPP typically requires you to pair with the host operating system (through Bluetooth settings), then with the individual application (such as SerialMagic Gears or Cloud-In-Hand Mobile Grid). On the other hand, Bluetooth LE only requires that you pair with the individual application. Unlike Bluetooth SPP (which isn't supported on iOS devices; iPhones and iPads use Apple's proprietary profile Bluetooth iAP/MFi instead), the process for pairing via BLE is the same on iOS and Android applications.
Bluetooth SPP (Serial Port Profile) is intended to replace RS-232 cables (or other serial communication interfaces). SPP is excellent for sending and receiving bursts of data/information between two devices.
Bluetooth LE (also known as Bluetooth Smart or Bluetooth 4.0) is a significant release of the Bluetooth standard designed to optimize energy consumption and speed to work with extremely low power applications. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) also simplifies the user experience by circumventing the typical process of having to pair through the host device's Bluetooth settings before the application — with BLE the user need only pair through the application itself. However, this improvement does not come without some drawbacks; BLE sacrifices range to achieve faster speeds (up to 10 times faster than other Bluetooth profiles) and decreased energy consumption.
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Tse YM's Flexi Plasmid Draw Basic
Copyright reserved by Maverick Tse Yuk Man, 2008
version 1.8 release
 1. Enter the name(optional) and size of a plasmid (any positive integer, required field) in the first two fields
 2. Enter the starting co-ordinate of your plasmid feature (in bp)
 3. Enter the ending co-ordinate of the feature. If this value is less than the starting co-ordinate, the arrow will be drawn anti-clockwise.Note that feature cannot span across the top most point of the circle. The illusion of a feature spanning across the top of circle can be done by creating 2 features (Feature 1: x-->plasmid size; Feature 2: 0 -->y)
 4. Add all the features required (up to 15). The the features can overlap each other without problem.
 5. Tick the 'visibility' checkboxes on the left to show only the features that you want.
 6. Click "Generate SVG Code" button to get your plasmid map as SVG code in the text box at the bottom.
 7. Copy and save the SVG code in a text file with the extension.svg
 8. View the plasmid by opening the svg file with Firefox or Opera browser. The image can be edited visually with Inkscape and save as PNG or WMF files for use with other software. If you are REALLY lazy or you cannot run Inkscape, you can view the image in Firefox and hit PrintScreen and edit the captured bitmap.
Other Options Color Reference
Rainbow Color Wheel and RGB percentage values
Red-Yellow Spectrum
Yellow-Green Spectrum
Green-Blue Spectrum
Blue-Red Spectrum
Hint: You can draw a truncated circle or arrow by making a box-shaped feature white, and cover the feature/backbone at the bottom. Note that features that are drawn later can cover the features drawn earlier. e.g. Feature 5 can cover Feature 3 but not the reverse. To see what this program is capable of, see Example 1, Example 2 and Example 3.
Required Input
Optional Settings
Plasmid size:bp
Plasmid name:
Canvas Width(px):
Canvas Height(px):
Feature width:
Arrow angle (degree):
Wing size (px):
Text size(px):
Show text: Show plasmid size: Show backbone:
Backbone Thinkness:
Feature List:
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What does the baby name Abiodun mean? Learn about what Abiodun means, its history & origin, popularity in our random name database, pronunciation, similar names, nicknames & spelling variations.
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- A-B-I-O-D-U-N, is a 7-letter male given name.
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