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Canary Islands Move To Lessen Salt
As first reported in the islands' Round Town News in January, the Canary Islands is considering taking an unprecedented step toward tackling rising salt levels in their territorial waters. The culprit is also an island necessity: the same desalination plants that provide the island chain with fresh tap water also discharge high levels of brine into the ocean during the process.
Desalination processes are big business in the largely affluent Canary Islands and throughout Mediterranean Spain, where drought and water shortages are an acute fact of life. The Spanish Ministry of Environment, therefore, awarded a grant of nearly 600,000 euros to Instituto Tecnologico de Canarias in hopes that the Institute will develop a means of desalination that does not emit such high levels of salt into the surrounding waters, out of concern for the health of marine life, fish stocks, and sea plants on the coast. As population rises in both Spain and its island territories, desalination will, of course, increase as a necessary tool for clean water production, and hopes are high that the grant will help further clean up a valuable commodity.
Other organizations are hoping the same, as the Institute is being joined by a who's who of Canary Island research organizations, including the islands' Institute for Marine Sciences and the Center for Research and Experimentation of Public Works.
-Equatorial Press Staff Report. Photo Courtesy of Fab.


text: At the moment, millimeter waves attract close attention not only of the scientific community, but also of the communication industry. Number of studies worldwide are currently focused on finding efficient solutions for the transceiver technologies compatible with beamforming and carrier frequencies beyond 100 GHz. It was recently demonstrated that the technology of integrated silicon photonic crystals provides decent propagation loss and low fabrication complexity upon implementation of waveguide components for the submmWave band. In this paper, we report on the millimeter wave photonic crystal waveguides fabricated from high permittivity PCB laminate by the means of direct machining. Inspection of the fabricated waveguide samples reveals no violation of the photonic crystal geometry due to the fabrication tolerances. The photonic crystals are designed for operation at frequencies 140–160 GHz, and we measure the power attenuation coefficient attributed to the waveguide geometry of 0.02 dB/mm at 145 GHz. The design considerations, including justification of the laminate choice, and detailed results of performance tests are presented in the paper.

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Places of Worship
Sports & Leisure
SHELTON HISTORY QUIZ
How well do you know your hometown's history? Try taking this quiz. Don't worry, this is a fun one. The answers are drawn from material which appeared in the 175 original Hometown History articles since the column was inaugurated in February of 1995.
Simply click each of your answers to see if you are correct.
1) Shelton was originally a part of ________, a town which was first settled in ____.
a) Stratford, 1717
b) Milford, 1698
c) Stratford, 1639
d) Milford, 1717
2) European settlement began in Shelton around 1700. Which area was the first to be settled?
a) Long Hill
b) Huntington Center
c) downtown Shelton
d) Oronquage Plain.
3) Shelton's oldest church building is
a) Huntington Congregational
b) Shelton Congregational
c) St. Paul's Episcopal
d) White Hills Baptist Church.
4) Shelton's oldest remaining cemetery is
a) Behind St. Paul's
b) Next to White Hills Baptist
c) Lower White Hills on Maple Avenue
d) Long Hill Burial Ground.
5) Shelton's most famous Revolutionary War Hero is
a) Gen. David Humphreys
b) Gen. David Wooster
c) Commodore Isaac Hull
d) Gen. Benedict Arnold
6) Commodore Isaac Hull, who spent his childhood at Huntington Landing, was the famous commander of the USS ________, better known as "Old Ironsides".
7) Huntington Landing is disappeared. It was located on
a) Riverview Park
b) near Indian Well
c) on Riverdale Avenue
d) near Huntington Center
8) Shelton's Civil War Monument is located
a) On Huntington Green
b) On Derby Green
c) On Riverview Park
d) In front of City Hall
9) During its initial development in the 1870s, the downtown was called
a) West Birmingham
d) All of the above
10) The most pivotal event in 1870 was
a) Building a new covered bridge over the river
b) Building the Ousatonic Dam and canal
c) The elimination of the toll booths on the Huntington (Rte. 108) and Wells Hollow (Bridgeport Ave.) Turnpikes
d) The catching of a 145 lb. sturgeon in the Housatonic
e) All of the Above
11) Pine Rock Park was originally conceived as
a) a balloon launching site
b) a tuberculosis clinic
c) a nature preserve
d) an amusement park
12) White Hills' Lincoln Spruce, is so named because
a) it was planted the day President Lincoln was inaugurated
b) it was planted the day President Lincoln was assassinated
c) a family named Lincoln lived nearby
d) it was planted on Lincoln Day
13) Shelton is named after
a) Daniel Shelton
b) Sheltonshire, England
c) Dr. Gould Shelton
d) Edward N. Shelton
14) Clarence Chamberlin was buried at Lawn Cemetery in 1976. He is best known as
a) the first person to fly across the Atlantic with a passenger
b) author of the best selling novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
c) A long-time missionary to China
d) One of the organizers of the Smithsonian Institution
15) 1975 is best known for
a) The firebombing of Sponge Rubber Plant 4
b) The Shelton Teachers' Strike
c) The opening of the new Route 8 expressway
d) The dedication of the new Shelton High School
e) A helicopter crash in Huntington
f) All of the Above
Copyright ©1998 The Electronic Valley. All rights reserved.

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Label Best Practices
John Harris
Labels are a means for describing and identifying components that make up an application with arbitrary key/value pairs. Labels are attached to Kubernetes API objects at time of creation or can also be added/modified/removed at a later time. Labels are simple pieces of metadata that can help with organization and administration of an application's lifecycle.
Labels are not always arbitrary, and are sometimes applied automatically to some API objects by Kubernetes, typically via the kubelet.
Using Labels
Label Example
Here's an example of some labels attached to a pod manifest:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
 name: my_app
 namespace: my_app
 app: my_app
 version: 1.0.0
 component: frontend
Labels with Selectors
Selectors enable you to select Kubernetes API objects based on the labels applied to them. This is useful when defining what workloads should be routed to or from a service and their underlying components, such as what pods should be managed by a replica set. A selector achieves this by specifying which key/value pairs to search for within API object metadata (typically, but not limited to pod specifications) to be able to properly perform these tasks, and is one of the main purposes for labels.
Selector Example
Here's an example of using a service to expose pods identified by their applied labels.
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
 name: myapp_db_svc
 namespace: my_app
 app: my_app_db
 version: 1.0.0
 component: backend
 app: my_app_db
 version: 1.0.0
 component: backend
 type: ClusterIP
 - protocol: TCP
 port: 3306
 targetPort: 3306
Identifying Application Components with Labels
The Kubernetes API can be queried with the kubectl client to list specific components with specific labels. There are three operators that can be used to perform these queries: =, ==, and!=.
=equal to or is
==equal to or is
!=not equal to or is not
Label Query Examples
Find all components in Kubernetes that are related to running MySQL (app: mysql) and not production (environment: production).
kubectl get all -l name==mysql,environment!=production -A
In the command above:
 - get: lists the API objects
 - all: is equivalent to all component/API object types
 - -l: label(s) to query/filter on
 - name==mysql: label with key name is/equals mysql
 -,: comma separator for multiple label queries
 - environment!=production: label with key environment is not/not equal to production
 - -A: from all namespaces in Kubernetes.
Considerations when Creating Labeling Standards
As you can see from the prior sections, labels have a fairly important place in successful application deployment within Kubernetes. It is important to standardize labels in every component within a Kubernetes environment. These design decisions will make locating and managing components easier in the long run.
Some recommended labels per the Kubernetes documentation include:
nameThe name of the applicationmysql
instanceA unique name identifying the instance of an applicationfrontend-green
versionThe current version of the application (e.g., a semantic version, revision hash, etc.)1.0.0
componentThe component within the architecturedatabase
part-ofThe name of a parent application this application is part ofwordpress
managed-byThe tool being used to manage the operation of an applicationapp-manager
VMware recommends you extend the above labels with the following, where relevant.
tierThe tier in the overall application architecturefrontend
environmentThe environment in reference to the systems development lifecycledev
purposeThe purpose of this particular application componentqueue
ownerThe team or individual responsible for deploying or maintaining the application component"John Doe"
owner-emailThe email address of the responsible team or individual for deploying or maintaining the application _EMAIL_
repositoryA URL to the repository that contains this application's source code"github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes"
managed-byThe tool being used to manage the operation of an applicationhelm
business-unitThe business unit who owns this application"finance"


Ir/Rational – Lighting and Video
Conceived and choreographed by: Erika Tsimbrovsky
Scenery and Costumes by Vadim Puyandaev
Original Music by: Joan Jeanranaud and PC Muñoz
Ir/Rational was conceived as a ficticious meeting between Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots. The dance and music moved through myriad performance styles from slow abstract movement to contemporary structured improvisation and then looping back to Renaissance musical and dance forms.
The video was built starting with historical documents such as a 16th century map of London, the execution letter written by Elizabeth for Mary, and historical paintings. Original footage of the dancers was also shot and incorporated into the work. Animations were made combining live footage of the dancers with historical paintings and then rotoscoped to create a moving painting that was projected. Various elements were music reactive as well. By taking a live music feed from the musicians and routing it through the video to manipulate and distort it I was able to match both movement and music to the images.
These images were obscured through various geometric masks that were echoed in the lighting. Boxes, diamonds, and parallelograms all created various feelings of confinement and separation for the two queens. Handwritten text scrolled over dancers and lit them as both an environmental element and a lighting source. One set of projectors were placed overhead to blend and create a single wide image on the rear cyc while a third projector sat on the ground serving as footlights. Knowing the two projected images would blend on the cyc, I created the visual imagery to work as a composite of the two sources with fun and interesting shadow play resulting from the floor mounted fixture.
Photography by Aleksey Bochkovsky


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Racial, ethnic and gender differentials in socio-economic status : the Israeli labor market case
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In the present study, data from the Labor Force Surveys of Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) for the years 1990 and 2000 are used to examine the occupational segregation in the Israeli labor market based on the 5 ethnic sub-samples including European-American Jews, Asian-African Jews, Russian Jews, Native-Born Jews and Non-Jews who mainly represent the Arab citizens of Israel. The analysis is done separately for men and women to avoid interaction since men and women demonstrate different labor market characteristics in general and in Israel. OLS regression analysis and decomposition techniques are used to differentiate between the effects of human capital and labor credentials and the other factors on the socioeconomic gaps between different ethnic and racial groups. The results indicate that there are significant socioeconomic differences both among different Jewish groups and between Jewish and non-Jewish. Moreover the differences among the groups can only partially be explained by the differences in labor credentials of the groups.

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SWEEP: The angle measuring how far the outline of the fin is curved backwards; also referred to as rake. Sweep has a direct influence on pivot. Fins with more sweep produce a longer turning arc, less sweep offers a tighter turning arc.
FLEX: The distortion of the fin from its original shape caused by lateral pressure during a manoeuvre. Flex influences the response characteristics of a fin. Fins with little flex (stiff) produce instant response, speed and drive. Fins with more flex (flexy) are more forgiving and offer a whipping sensation.


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Event Phases organize activities and modules to add workflow to your events. Each event is made up of a series of phases that guide end users through their recap completion.
This article will walk you through how to submit event phases.
- Submitting event phases
Submitting Event Phases
Each event phase is made up of a series of activities and/or modules. In order to submit your event phase for approval, you must complete all required items.
For example, the image below shows a phase that is not yet ready to submit. The Submit button is light red and the progress indicator is 0% complete. We can also see that several activities are required. These activities much be complete in order to submit the phase.
How to Submit a Phase
1. Complete all required activities. See How to Submit an Activity.
2. Complete all required modules. The Media Gallery and expenses are examples of modules.
3. Once all required information has been captured, the red Submit will turn deep red. Click the button to submit your phase.


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is a priority to God's invitations. Some of God's invitations
can be realized at once, others require waiting. Most of God's
invitations are best understood when there is help available to
understand and comprehend the invitation.
of priorities. Salvation needs to come first and
confessing and believing results in salvation. The
invitation to love your neighbor is not a once and done
act. It is ongoing and growing.
God nudges' you in a direction it requires you to first hear and
then respond. The responding however may require
additional listening and time for growth and perception.
that represent growth often happen in the context of sharing
with other believers. Such invitations are often involve
spiritual perception and knowledge. Spiritual perception
and knowledge are cumulative in growth.


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Nannyberry (Viburnum Lentago) Seeds 100+ Seeds
Shrub to small tree depending on pruning
The Nannyberry grows best under full sun to part shade. It cannot grow in soggy soils. Space plants 4-5 feet apart. It is a very hardy plant, tolerating temperatures down to about -25 degrees. The seed is best sown when the weather is mildly cold. Germination is slow and takes more than 18 months. They can be planted out in their permanent locations in late spring or early summer next year. In late winter you can prune them into shape.


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Are Minnesotans really more 'Cold Hardy' than everyone else? Or are we making that up?
This week Minnesota and Florida share the same weather, but residents have two very different reactions to it. Does that mean Minnesotans are more "cold hardy?"
Up here we like to think of ourselves as hardy Minnesotans.
To us, a 30-degree day is a walk in the park.
But down in Florida, 30-degrees to many Floridians feels like the end of the world.
This week, both states have similar temperatures, but the way residents feel about them couldn't be more different.
In Minnesota, residents see 30-degrees as a respite from the cold, but in Florida, theme parks are shutting down and iguanas are falling from the trees.
If you haven't seen the videos yet, check it out.
Iguanas are literally so cold in this 30-degree weather that their bodies are shutting down, stunning them, and sending them crashing to the ground.
It got us thinking, do humans have similar physiological reactions to cold and hot weather?
Can we literally evolve or adapt to our surroundings and become more tolerant of the weather?
Many Minnesotans pride themselves on being "cold hardy" but is that actually a real thing?
Turns out "cold hardiness" has little to do with our bodies, it's mostly our minds.
"There's nothing in our body that makes us cold hardy," Hennepin Healthcare emergency physician Dr. Ashley Strobel says.
"It's because we're mentally used to this, we're prepared. It's an attitude. It's a perspective."
Think about it this way, in Minnesota, a 40-degree day in October, you're running to grab your coat.
But 40-degrees in April it's like bring on the shorts!
Same temperature, same place, but mentally it's different.
"It's all about your perspective. In the Fall you're coming off hot temps in the summer and colder weather might feel even colder. In the spring you're coming off winter and the same temperature will feel warmer. You're mentally prepared to think and feel the weather a certain way," Strobel says.
Now, there are exceptions to all of this.
Certain medical conditions will affect the way you adjust to cold and hot weather.
Your weight, age and metabolism can also play a role, and certain people, scientists don't exactly know why, are just better at dealing with cold and hot weather.
"If you're someone who is always on the go, always moving, you can't sit still, perhaps you have a higher basal metabolic rate, so then, you may feel like you run a little bit warmer than others and that's because you're turning and burning energy continuously and so you are creating some of your own heat," Strobel explains.
But this whole idea that up here in the north our bodies have somehow evolved to handle the cold, that's just not the case.
"The truth is there's not much to that. That's not what research has shown," Strobel says.
"One could say it is something in us, because it's our fortitude. It's mental toughness. So, maybe you could say Minnesotans are tougher than Floridians? I don't know, there might be something to that."


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What does Time-Span do?
i-lign's Time-Span feature allows you to plan your Tasks by effort, rather than percentage of time, and then deliver the prescribed effort within a set period, defined by start and end dates.
This means that you can choose, for example, to carry out five days of effort within a thirty day period.
We will assume that you are in a New/Edit Task/Activity screen. In these instructions, we will refer only to to Tasks, but the same applies in the New/Edit Activity screens.
- In the Scheduling Panel, go to the drop-down box beside Calculation Method, and choose Time-span.
- You will see that the field for Planned end date goes live. Enter a date by which the Task needs to be finished. For training purposes, choose a date several weeks away from the start date.
Using Time-span, you can edit both Planned Start and Planned End Dates for the Task. In contrast, Effort-based determines the end date based on the effort and Resources assigned, and Duration-based defines the end date based on the number of days assigned.
- As when you are designing an Effort-based Task, you can assign Action Items to people and click 'Use effort for Task'.
- The Percentage complete and days remaining fields are manually updated in tasks only. Percentage complete does not apply to activities.
Allocating across the Time-Span
You have four options for allocating the time over the time period:
- Distributed evenly across the entire time period.
- Distributed across the beginning of the period.
- Distributed across the middle of the period.
- Distributed across the end of the period.
- In the Allocation Rates, go to the drop-down list beside Allocation approach.
- Click between Even spread, Beginning, Middle, and End. Watch the difference that your choice makes to the Allocation graphs of Resources allocated to your Task.


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- stannous •
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Made of, containing, or otherwise pertaining to tin.
Notes: The active ingredient in fluoride toothpaste is stannous fluoride (SnF2), an antimicrobial chemical that bonds with the enamel to deter the effects of the acid and plaque buildup that eat away at the enamel. The acids and plaque are produced by microorganisms enjoying the carbohydrates and sugars in our mouths (another reason for reducing sugar and carbs). Of course, don't overdo it: you don't want stannous teeth like those of Jaws in the James Bond movies Moonraker and The Spy who Loved me.
In Play: The term stannous fluoride sounds so scientific that it is easy to overlook the fact that it refers to a common household metal. This word would have come in handy earlier in the century when wags called Henry Ford's Model T a Tin Lizzy. Owners could have retorted, "'Tis a Stannous Elizabeth that I own." It says the same thing but in classier terms. Wouldn't you rather eat food from a stannous container than a tin can? Are you musical or do you have a stannous ear. OK, OK, I'll stop.
Word History: Today's Good Word comes to us from Late Latin stannum "tin," originally an alloy of silver and lead. This word came from an earlier form, stagnum, whence Italian stagno, Spanish estaño, Portuguese estanho, Old French estain and Modern French étain. The Romance languages do not like words beginning with [s] + a consonant and resolve the problem by adding an initial [e]. Attaching the [e] still didn't satisfy the French, so they eliminated the [s] after appending the [e], hence étain. They do it all the time: état "state" and école "school". Stagnum may be of Celtic origin but that remains unclear.
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Dutch medical appeal for nuclear disarmament
In September 2015, on the UN International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, a medical appeal for nuclear disarmament was presented in Amsterdam. This declaration, signed with remarkable enthusiasm by 100 leading Dutch healthcare executives, clinicians, and scientists, is meant to put the urgent need for nuclear disarmament back on the societal and political agenda—not from an ideological or political viewpoint, but from a medical humanitarian one. It is now circulating within the Dutch medical community, and will be officially presented to Parliament in the coming months.
That day the NVMP, the Dutch affiliate of the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, organised a symposium about nuclear weapons for physicians and other medical professionals. It covered the medical humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapon use, and the position and role of Dutch healthcare and its allies.


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Where is Sydney's main water catchment area?
Sydney is the largest city in Australia, with over 4.6 million people and covering over 12,000 square kilometers. Because Sydney is settled in a Coastal Basin, it must get the majority of its fresh water from rivers and lakes inland. Any area where the landscape collects water without human intervention is called a Catchment; the Sydney Catchment Authority is the agency tasked with protecting, managing, and operating the various catchment areas around the city.
The SCA is a New South Wales government agency, and it operates the largest fresh water catchments. In managing the natural landscape, the SCA has built several dams which allow the natural water flow to collect into man-made lakes, thus ensuring a greater natural supply of water in times of need.
Collecting water from five rivers into a natural ravine, the Warragamba Dam creates Lake Burragorang in Australia, with about 9,051square kilometers of water storage. From the SCA website:
Lake Burragorang is the largest urban water supply in Australia, containing four times the volume of water of Sydney Harbour. It provides about 80 per cent of the water supply for nearly four million people in the Sydney region.
As well as supplying fresh water to three filtration plants, the Warragamba Dam contains a 50 megawatt hydroelectric power station, which operates only when the lake is at a high level.
Properly maintaining catchment areas is of vital importance to the well-being of Australian citizens. Without a reliable and healthy source of fresh water, living conditions would be worse and agriculture would suffer. As of 2006, Australia used 493 litres of water per person per day, the second highest water usage in the world. Fresh water is a vital resource and the SCA is dedicated to keeping Sydney's Water Catchment areas intact, productive, and secure.


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(C) Fiscal Services Function
Shown here is a sample of Fiscal Services and associated sub-functions. Typically, human services agencies have fairly complex fiscal systems. This particularly relates to revenues that often come from multiple government and private funders and through numerous insurance and other payers reimbursing services related costs. Additionally, these multiple funding sources frequently require separate reporting processes and audit procedures.
· Oversee budgeting and fiscal planning, including developing and monitoring SSIs budget, planning for future agency requirements, and projecting future resources and expenses. Additionally, separate funders normally require budgets and financial projections related to their particular funds or grants. Beyond these needs, budgeting and fiscal planning activities are reflected in annual reports, promotional materials, development materials, and numerous other SSI documents and processes.
· Oversee and manage receivable and payable activities, including accessing and tracking grant and other external funding streams, billing appropriate payers for agency services, paying agency expenses, managing payroll and taxes, tracking use of credit cards and other staff generated expenses, and managing audits and required documentation and reporting for all fiscal activities.
· Develop processes for and manage cost accounting including development and management of strategies and processes to track and measure the cost of providing services. SSI tracks and accounts for all of its resources on a complete, detailed, and continuous basis, including knowing the cost of each aspect of its operation.
As is the case with Administrative Services, Fiscal Services are transparent to SSI clients and visitors, and generally transparent to SSI staff. Like any other well-managed secondary function, Fiscal Services support and sustain the primary Service Function without interference or calling attention to itself. The internal SSI eco system functions smoothly and quietly. Anything less than efficient, effective Fiscal Services represents noise or static disrupting the quiet functioning of the SSI eco system. It would be but another example of the negative energy discussed in Chapter Four. As noted there, the agency eco system is relatively fragile and its tolerance for static and negative energy is quite low.
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How far would you go for a gameshow host?
Gameshow hosts are powerful people.
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Gameshow hosts are powerful people. Photo / Thinkstock
Gameshow hosts have so much power over people that contestants are willing to do anything they're told, including torture each other to death, research suggests.
Psychologists from the University of Paris simulated the recording of a new programme in a real TV studio with an audience and a well-known weather girl as the host.
Recruiters found 80 contestants to take part in what they thought was a show called Zone Xtreme. They were introduced to another contestant called 'Jean Paul', played by an actor, who was sent to a separate part of the studio where he could be heard but not seen.
Each of the contestants was told by the host to ask 'Jean Paul' a series of 27 questions and apply what they thought was an electric shock of increasing strength for each wrong answer.
More than eight in ten - 64 contestants - administered the maximum 460 volts, which could cause death, despite hearing 'Jean Paul' cry out, scream and beg to stop the game.
If they wavered, Miss Young intervened with lines such as "Don't let yourself get upset" and "Go on, we are taking all the responsibility for this".
Only 16 of the 80 contestants refused to continue with the programme.
The experiment was broadcast as part of a documentary entitled Game of Death for French network, France 2, in 2010, but the analysis and findings have just been published in the European Review of Applied Psychology.
"It has long been known that television and television hosts had influence on viewers," the researchers said.
"We suspected they could also have prescriptive powers to [influence] people's behaviour, including cruel and immoral behaviours. Until now this had never been shown."
The experiment was a twist on the 1960s research by US academic Stanley Milgram, who examined why ordinary people were prepared to commit horrific atrocities in Nazi Germany.
He found 80 per cent of his subjects inflicted pain on a stranger when ordered to do so by a figure in authority such as a scientist.
The French experiment reveals that this "authority figure" is far broader than previously realised.
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New Codex Entry – Ornan's Dark Plate
Ornan's Dark Plate is a powerful artifact that used to belong to a zealotic warlord, worshipping a God lost to history.
Age of Rifts II
Aside from its owner, it is unknown who forged this ancient armor or how it was imbued with the powerful dark magic that still courses dimly through its interlocking chains. This mail was able to set the leathers of adventurers into a blaze, or superheat a knight's armor to fuse with their own flesh. At the same time, granting the wearer the ability to resist its radiant light. During the Second Age of Rifts however, or some time prior, Ornan was killed by a worshipper of Urgathoa. Their slayer donned the mail, and it became a staple of the legends that made many fear their presence.
Age of Order
After the Age of Exile, this worshipper seemingly vanished from the Ancient World, entrusting various bits and pieces of his legacy to various friends, for a time this plate rested in the hands of a long lasting group known for its vast wealth of other numerous artifacts. They locked it away in the deepest reaches of their vaults, hoping to have the worshippers legacy archived forever.
Age of Ruin
The mail was retrieved from its vault by an unknown interloper, and found a new owner. Its current whereabouts are unknown.


Radius Location Selection
Defined under the namespace Scandit.Datacapture.Core
RadiusLocationSelection
class RadiusLocationSelection : LocationSelection
Added in version 6.1.0
Location selection for selecting codes inside a circle with the given radius, centered on the point of interest. Any object that touches the circle is returned, objects that do not intersect the circle are filtered out.
constructor(radius)
constructor(radius: NumberWithUnit)
Added in version 6.1.0
Creates a new radius location selection instance with the specified radius.
radius
get radius(): NumberWithUnit
Added in version 6.1.0
The radius of the circle. When using fractional coordinates, the radius is measured relative to the view's width.


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In marketing, a coupon is a ticket or document that can be exchanged for a financial discount or rebate when purchasing a product.
Customarily, coupons are issued by manufacturers of consumer packaged goods or by retailers, to be used in retail stores as a part of sales promotions.
They are often widely distributed through mail, magazines, newspapers, the Internet, and mobile devices such as cell phones. Internet coupons have become popular recently, because there is no postal cost, and the printing cost is borne by the user (who prints the coupons) rather than the businesses issuing them.
With the help of Coupons tab, you can manage your VirtueMart consumers Coupons.
The main operations you can perform in the corresponding section of Store Manager are Refresh, Add, Edit, Delete Coupons:
When you press Add or Edit buttons Store Manager calls 'Edit Coupon' window:
'Coupon Properties' form includes:
- Coupon ID.
- Published - you can tick this checkbox if rule works or leave blank, if it does not work. Can be used for seasonal changes in prices.
- Coupon Code - unique number, that is automatically is provided by Store Manager.
- Value - enter your coupon value or calculate it.
- Percent or Total - establish the percentage or total equivalent of your coupon.
- Coupon Type - specify the type of coupon as a permanent or one-time gift.
- Minimum Total Order.
- Start and Expires date of the coupon.
Press 'Apply' button to save changes.


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The first state agencies formed for the purpose of constructing roadways were established in 1895. In that year, the Bureau
of Highways was created to study the laws, physical features, and economic and legal status of highways in the State (Stats. 1895, ch. 203). In addition, a Tahoe Wagon Road Commissioner was appointed to investigate the possibilities of construction
of a road to Lake Tahoe (Stats. 1895, ch. 119).
For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the California State Archives. Permission for reproduction or publication
is given on behalf of the California State Archives as the owner of the physical items. The researcher assumes all responsibility
for possible infringement which may arise from reproduction or publication of materials from the California State Archives


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[ MFC ] - Changing progressbar colour of CProgressCtrl
1. Introduction
A "Progress Bar Control" can be used to show the progress of a long running operation. In MFC, "CProgressCtrl" class is associated the progress bar control. In this article, we will see how to set the progress bar background as well as the progress colour. The background colour can be set using the class member function directly. But, for setting the bar colour we need to send the message to progress bar from the containing parent.
This article is applicable to Visual Studio 2005 or earlier. If you use, 2005 later versions, you can set the bar colour using "SetBarColor" member function of the CProgressCtrl.
2. About the Example
Have a look at the below screenshot:
MFC Progress Bar Colour
Fig 1. MFC Progress Control with Different bar colour
The Start Progress button will start progress in default Gray background and blue bar colour (Depends on your windows Theme). The bar animation is simulated with an introduction of small delay while progressing. The Reset Progress button will reset the progress to the start of the progress. The Set Red button of the sample changes the background colour to white and foreground colour to Red.
3. Create the Application
Create a dialog-based application and name it as PrgrsClr. After the project is created, drag and drop a "Progress Control" from the toolbox to the dialog. In our example, the progress control ID is set to IDC_PROG_BAR. Similarly, add the other buttons as shown in the previous section. Handle the "BN_CLICKED" event for the buttons Start Progress, Reset Progress, Set Red. The below screen shot shows handling the BN_CLICKED for the Start Progress button.
Button Click Handler
Fig 2. Button Click Handler
Add a control variable for the Progress bar as shown in the below screenshot:
Adding CProgressCtrl control variable
Fig 3. Adding CProgressCtrl Control variable
1) Invoke Add Variable dialog from the Context menu by right clicking the class name from the class view tab (Marked as 1)
2) In the Add Member variable dialog, select the progress bar control id (Marked as 2)
3) Make sure the Category is set to Control (Marked as 3)
4) Provide the control variable name as m_ctrl_progress (Marked as 4) and click the finish button (Marked as 5)
4. Initialize Progress Bar
1) First, declare a function the header file, which we can use for initializing the progress bar. The code is below:
//Sample 01: Initialize Progress Bar
void InitProgress();
2) In the CPP file, the function InitProgress is implemented. The "CProgressCtrl::SetRange" function sets the progress bar range from number x -> y. In our case, we set the range for out progress control from 0 to 100. That means, when the progress control value is at 5, the bar appears at the initial stage and when the value is at 90 the bar approaches towards the end. In our case, each progress unit represents 1%. Next, the position is set at 0 using "CProgressCtrl::SetPos". The progress control's current position at zero indicates that the progress is not yet started.
//Sample 02: Initialize Progress Control
void CPrgrsClrDlg::InitProgress()
3) In the OnInitDialog of the class CPrgrsClrDlg, make a call to the InitProgress so that when the dialog appears, the progress control initialized to 0-100 Range and control start position is at zero. Below is the code:
// when the application's main window is not a dialog
SetIcon(m_hIcon, TRUE); // Set big icon
SetIcon(m_hIcon, FALSE); // Set small icon
//Sample 03: Make a call to Progress Control
5. Capturing the Progress - Simulated
1) In the Start Progress button click handler increment the progress bar position one by one with a delay of 100 milliseconds. Here a loop that runs for 100 times is used to increment the progress position. To set the delay of 100 milliseconds "Sleep" function is used. Below is the code:
void CPrgrsClrDlg::OnBnClickedButtonStart()
 //Sample 04: Start Progressing with a Delay
2) Make a call to the InitProgress in the Reset Progress button click handler. Below is the code:
void CPrgrsClrDlg::OnBnClickedButtonReset()
 //Sample 05: Reset the Progress Status
6. Changing the progress bar color
In the Set Red button click handler, the progress bar's background color, as well as the Bar's color, is changed. The background color is set to white whereas the Bar color is set to Red. In VS2005 and earlier versions, the bar color can be set by sending the PBM_SETBARCOLOR" message to the progress bar. Below is the code:
void CPrgrsClrDlg::OnBnClickedButtonRed()
 //Sample 06: Change Background to white and Bar color to Red
 m_ctrl_progress.SetBkColor(RGB(255, 255, 255));
 m_ctrl_progress.SendMessage(PBM_SETBARCOLOR,0,RGB(255, 0, 0));
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But that's what researchers are calling the ancient food storage system found on Russell Island's beach in British Columbia. The clam gardens were discovered six years ago, and University of Victoria students are still helping to sift gravel, sand, and shells to figure out the origins and purpose of the gardens.
The clam gardens aren't gardens in the traditional sense of the word—ie. where you'd find an abundance of plant life—but rather they're locations where clams are able to grow naturally, abundantly, and where the environment in those locations can be manipulated to increase clam production. Sort of like feeding compost to a backyard garden to help it grow.
It's thought that the clam gardens are at least 1,000 years old, but possibly older. The gardens look like small fields constructed on the beach at low tide (a necessity!), with rock walls surrounding the locations. The walls would have helped provide a barrier to stop seaweed and predators from getting inside the garden and damaging or disturbing the growing clams.
And just like a backyard gardener does when taking care of his or her plants, whoever tended the clam garden would have needed to till the sand (so to speak) to keep the oxygen flowing.
Who built the clam gardens is another question entirely. A thousand years ago, an aboriginal community lived on the island, so it's possible that the clams were used for both food and trade—but that said, clam gardens are a new(ish) discovery for Canadian archaeologists, with the first one discovered only as recently as 1995.
Inevitably, there's still much to be learned about these ancient clam gardens, and it's possible that there are many more out there still to be discovered.


Spatial + Temporal Scope [MGD Sections]
REDD+ Activities [MGD Sections]
Forest Definition [MGD Sections]
Carbon Pools [MGD Sections]
5.2 Emissions/removals factors Previous topic Parent topic Child topic Next topic
This section is mainly about emissions and removals factors used in REDD+ estimation. In some cases modelling is involved, to establish allometrics, or more complex Tier 3 models. The section also refers to the model parameters relevant in these cases which are used for emissions and removals estimation but are not part of the activity data estimation. These parameters can be regarded as emission or removals factors in a general sense, although the equations in which they are used may be more complicated than a simple activity data x emission factor product.


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Summer is when most people are thinking about vacations and leisure activities. But along with nice weather, summer also brings humidity and drenching thunderstorms. This can be problematic for contractors since summer is also prime construction season.
Many building owners will be rushing to complete masonry work before fall. Hot weather can really impact a construction schedule. Most contractors don't concern themselves with weather because the temperature is usually ideal. However, masons should pay attention to summer conditions since weather can change drastically from morning to afternoon.
Early in the day, before the sun is at its highest, buildings are shaded. However, in the afternoon, humidity increases, and the sun really heats up. Sun beating down on masonry work rapidly evaporates the water from the mortar, creating cracks.
Protecting Materials is Essential
Unfortunately, many contractors don't have protection plans in place during the summer. Safeguards such as burlap blankets or tarps should be used to protect the new work. These provisions are essential for doing masonry correctly in the heat.
Protecting masonry materials in summer is of vital importance. These materials include mortar, sand, and cool water. All materials need to be as cool as possible before use. The mortar used should be at less than 120°F. It can be tempered again with cool water to maintain consistency in the heat. Sand should be kept in a loose, damp condition by sprinkling it with water and leaving it uncovered.
These protections, once put in place, should prevent rapid loss of moisture from the new masonry work. Combined with proper masonry techniques, the result should be a building that will last for years.
In the Chicago area your best option for any tuckpointing and masonry work is Arrow Masonry and Exteriors, Inc. Located in Palatine, Arrow Masonry has been providing quality masonry restoration services to commercial and residential customers for over 50 years. Arrow Masonry takes pride in customer satisfaction and stands by all its work. Call Arrow today at _PHONE_ or visit their website to learn more about hot weather masonry work.


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Women face 45% 'motherhood penalty' on earnings
UCL researchers used the British Household Panel Survey to compare the earnings of childfree women with those who had children between 1995 and 2005 across the first six years of parenthood.
It found that in the first year, wages typically dropped by 28%, equivalent to an average of £306 a month. This 'motherhood penalty' rose to 45% cent when the next six years were taken into account according to the study.
Mothers aged over 30 and those who were highly educated suffered a smaller penalty, potentially because they had already established a career with an employer who valued their progression in the company when they returned to work.
The number of hours worked after the birth of their children was found to be a key factor in the size of the motherhood penalty. Those who returned part-time suffered a bigger reduction in earnings than those who were able to work full time.
Dr Giacomo Vagni, a researcher at UCL's Institute of Education, said: "We found that mothers who are able to maintain full-time working hours experience little to no penalty. However, few mothers manage to do so. After the birth of their first child, few manage to return to their pre-birth working hours.
"One of the most important mechanisms through which motherhood affects a woman's career is that the birth of a child creates a very difficult 'work-care balance' for mothers.
"The UK is a country with a very expensive private childcare system. Mothers are much more likely to be the ones putting their career aside with the birth of a child. Therefore, motherhood takes mothers away from the labour market during the prime years of career development. Mothers with young children miss out on important job opportunities and promotions."
Dr Vagni added that employers "also take advantage of the fact that mothers are looking for flexible working arrangements and might offer them lower wages in return" and fathers "do not face this trade-off because they generally manage to take the back seat and enjoy the ride of parenthood".
Maike Currie, investment director at Fidelity International, said: "Many women may, at some point in their working lives, take time off from their careers to have children or to raise children. However, this can have a substantial impact not only on their income during this period, but also on their future finances.
"In fact, the so-called childbearing or child rearing years for women – increasingly in their mid to late thirties – is also the time when the gender pension gap begins to widen, as time taken away from work can result in less money being saved into a pension.
"Research from our Global Women & Money Study found 23% of women in the UK suffered a fall in their income last year, with an average £463 lost per month. This could equate to £5,556 over the course of a year – close to a quarter of the average annual salary for women (£20, 515)*. For working women either with children, or considering them in the future, last year's drops in income can mean the difference between being able to afford the cost of childcare or having to take time away from work – causing a knock-on effect on future retirement savings.
"For years women have faced the challenge of both the gender pay and pension gap. However, with the 'motherhood penalty' seemingly getting worse following the pandemic more needs to be done to practically support women, so that the trade-off between raising a family and having a secure financial future ends once and for all."


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RFC 1166 has an out-of-date list of IP address ranges. To find out to whom an IP address belongs, you can use various "WHOIS" services:
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At its core, the Assessment package defines a hierarchical container model of a "survey", "questionnaire" or "form". This approach not only follows the precedent of existing work; it also makes excellent sense and no one has come up with a better idea.
We choose the terms Assessment-Sections-Items-Choices over Surveys-Sectdions-Questions-Choices partly to reduce naming clashes during the transition from Survey/Questionnaire packages, but mostly because these terms are more general and thus suit the broader applicability intended for this package.
As is the custom in the OpenACS framework, all RDBMS tables in the package will be prepended with "as_" to prevent further prefent naming clashes. Judicious use of namespaces will also be made in keeping with current OpenACS best practice.
Several of the Metadata entities have direct counterparts in the Data-related partition of the data model. Some standards (notably CDISC) rigorously name all metadata entities with a "_def" suffix and all data entities with a "_data" suffix -- thus "as_item_def" and "as_item_data" tables in our case. We think this is overkill since there are far more metadata entities than data entities and in only a few cases do distinctions between the two become important. In those cases, we will add the "_data" suffix to data entities to make this difference clear.
A final general point (that we revisit for specific entities below): the Assessment package data model exercises the Content Repository (CR) in the OpenACS framework heavily. In fact, this use of the CR for most important entities represents one of the main advances of this package compared to the earlier versions. The decision to use the CR is partly driven by the universal need for versioning and reuse within the functional requirements, and partly by the fact that the CR has become "the Right Way" to build OpenACS systems. Note that one implication of this is that we can't use a couple column names in our derived tables because of naming clashes with columns in cr_items and cr_revisions: title and description. Furthermore we can handle versioning and internationalization through the CR.
Synopsis of The Data Model
Here's a detailed summary view of the entities in the Assessment package. Note that in addition to the partitioning of the entities between Metadata Elements and Collected Data Elements, we identify the various subsystems in the package that perform basic functions.
We discuss the following stuff in detail through the subsequent pages, and we use a sort of "bird's eye view" of this global graphic to keep the schema for each subsystem in perspective while homing in on the relevant detail. Here's a brief introduction to each of these section
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The results are presented concerning the experimental studies of noise and vibration spectra during abrasive treatment of welded joints of the body and rod structures. Welding is related to one of the most popular technologies for joining metal structures. One of the mandatory steps after welding operations is the weld dressing. Mechanical grinding of the weld after welding due to its accessibility is very popular. The studies were carried out both at manual abrasive treatment of the welds, and on the flat-grinding machines in the open space, and in the conditions of industrial premises. In the course of experimental studies, dangerous and harmful production factors arising during welded structures processing were established. The spectral composition of the acoustic characteristics was identified. Based on the results of measurements, the empirical dependence was obtained related to the vibration reduction depending on the distance to the source on the rod elements and body structures. The obtained data are confirmed by the correctness of theoretical conclusions on the regularities of the formation of noise and vibration spectra, as well as the contribution of noise sources to the sound field at the operator workplace. The results of the research allow to confirm the appropriateness of the theoretical approach to the description of the regularities of the noise and vibration process.
The established regularities in the formation of noise spectra, as well as the fact that the difference in the calculated and experimental sound pressure levels actually correspond to the measurement errors, allow to perform acoustic noise protection systems at the design stage of similar technological processes in accordance with the sanitary noise norms at the operator workplaces.


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Children are significantly more likely to maintain a relationship with financial institutions and have greater financial assets later in life when they own a savings account earlier in life. However, some children gain access to savings accounts while others do not—an inequity that tends to be based on parents' socio-economic status. This paper explores the case for extending financial inclusion to children by improving access to basic financial services. Such an approach may offer a number of economic benefits, especially among those children whose parents have limited financial resources. Policy innovations that make savings accounts widely available to children may be a valuable tool to trigger increased savings behavior that can continue into adulthood and lead to improved financial outcomes over the long-term.
This paper builds a case for extending early financial inclusion to children by discussing how early financial inclusion might accelerate their capabilities to save and presents research findings on the current state of children's savings. The paper discusses policy innovations and recommendations for designing an infrastructure that extends financial inclusion to children. The paper also presents research findings by Friedline and colleagues that inform how children experience early financial inclusion by predicting their financial outcomes, including savings accounts and amount saved.
Finally, research findings are used to describe how policies might be re-envisioned to develop infrastructure around children's savings and maximize benefits to children whose parents have few financial resources. The paper expands on the ASPIRE Act (a legislative proposal that would provide every American child with a savings account at birth for post-secondary education, homeownership and retirement) by proposing infrastructure improvements that more successfully extend financial inclusion to all children.
Click here to read the full paper.


Jewish city feared by Stalin is rediscovered
Breaking News
It was mentioned in medieval travellers' accounts but Soviet dictator Josef Stalin banned any research into the city and the Khazars, fearing it would prove Russia was descended from a Jewish state.
The city made a fortune from trade but its prosperity declined and in the 14th century it was flooded by the Caspian Sea.
Now a nine-year dig has unearthed the city including the foundations of a fortress, according to archeologists at Russia's Astrakhan State University....
Yevgeny Satanovsky, director of the Middle Eastern Institute in Moscow, said he believes the Khazar elite chose Judaism out of political expediency – to remain independent of neighboring Muslim and Christian states. "They embraced Judaism because they wanted to remain neutral, like Switzerland these days," he said.
The study of the Khazar empire was discouraged in the Soviet Union. Stalin detested the idea that a Jewish empire had come before Russia's own. He ordered references to Khazar history removed from textbooks because they "disproved his theory of Russian statehood," Mr Satanovsky added.
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"Wingbone Turkey Call" by Frank Miniter
Outdoor Life April 1998
The wingbone turkey call dates back to antiquity, when North American Indians made yelpers form the bones in a turkey wing (they also used turkey spurs for the tips of their arrows and the bird's feathers for fletchings). Early settlers quickly caught on and modified the calls to their liking, with wooden tubes or even bones from other animals.
If anything, the wingbone call's age can be an advantage on hard-hunting birds. That's because its unique notes of love are not instantly associated with danger by gobblers who think they've "heard it all." Beside, there's just something special about using natural materials to call in your prey. Like rattling with a pair of shed antlers from your hunting grounds, this "organic" call brings more life to the hunt.
The traditional wingbone yelper is made from a wild hen's wing. The wing bones of a domestic bird are just too thin and fragile for the call-wing bones from jakes taken in the fall have similar problems.
Wild toms have large bones that emit deeper tones that better imitate gobblers-as a result, it's better to call with them in autumn, while hunting gobbler flocks.
Not only are there differences in male and female bones, but the bones from different hen's yield individual pitches and volumes. Some hunters even swear that a young turkey's bones (being small) will sound like a young turkey, and so on.
The radius, ulna and humerus are the bones most commonly used in calls-with the radius as a mouthpiece, the ulna in the middle and humerus at the end. All three bones are found in the wing. Different constructions can also be used. Some hunters prefer to omit the humerus, but a few inventive souls will substitute some other hollow object, such as an old brass shotshell.
Cooking does not ruin the bones for calling purposes; just don't crunch down to hard at Sunday dinner, because bones that have been cooked are drier and can crack or splinter more easily.
It's best to remove and clean both sets of wing bones from your turkey. This will give you more options later, if you want to combine bones for different sounds or styles.
Materials Needed
 - Knife, steel wool or sand paper
 - Tapered file or hacksaw
 - Small rifle-bore brush or piece of wire
 - Dish detergent, bleach or other cleaning material
 - Epoxy, glue or other type of adhesive
 - Saucepan (for boiling bones)
I. (A) Radius, need for the mouthpiece. (B) Ulna, Commonly used as the midsection. (C) Humerus, the largest of the three bones, it is used as an end piece. The humerus is optional. Some hunters prefer a two-bone call, and others attach substitute hollow objects to the end of the call in place of the humerus for cosmetic purposes.
II. Remove the bones from the wing with a knife and scrape clean. Cut the bones with a hacksaw where the straight section meets the knob on the end. Make sure the marrow-filled center is completely exposed in the round section of the bone. Keep the diameter of the cut ends as close to the diameter of the rest of the bone as possible. III. Push a small rifle-bore brush or a piece of wire through the center and push out as much marrow as possible, being sure to go completely through. Boil the bones in water, and add a tablespoon of dish detergent to soften up the marrow. Boil until all of the marrow can be extracted--add bleach to avoid discoloration.
IV. Fit the bones together, placing the ulna over the radius and the humerus over the ulna. Cut and sand the bones as needed to obtain a tight fit. Turn the bones to achieve a shape that feels most comfortable to you when cupped in your hands. Epoxy the bones together, being careful not to block the passageway. V. The wingbone turkey call is ingeniously simple. Once the call is mastered you will find that turkey sounds can be made from almost any small hollow tube, including a straw or a pen. The different bones in the yelper vibrate different speeds and bring the air down increasingly small shafts, giving it surprising versatility and sound. And its tone remains the same whether wet or dry.
The wingbone call is used by sucking air through the call with puckered lips and letting air escape at desired intervals. There's no question that it takes practice to master the wingbone, but what better way to satisfy the anticipation of the hunt than to drive your family to madness by smacking your lips against a handful of dried turkey bones?
Hand position on the call is key. Place the larger end of the call at the top of your palm between your index finger and thumb. Put the top of your other palm onto the bottom of your pinkie. Bring your lower thumb up and curl your top pointer-finger down to the base of the thumb with the rest of your fingers following in suit one atop the other. Tighten your hands into a cupped position. You can then use your cupped hands to direct and control the airflow.
Sound is made by the vibration of your lips when you suck air out of the call. It will be hard at first, but as you smack your lips against the call it will begin to make sounds. When your lips are good and sore and you're hearing sounds that are "sort of" like a turkey, it's time to move on to the next step, which is working on the tone.
Begin by trying to make sustained notes. They probably won't sound much like a turkey's at this point but they'll help you learn how to maintain a steady note. After that requisite is mastered, the fun really starts-it's time to try shattering window with high notes and making the floor shake with low notes. Developing a wide span of sounds will help you pinpoint the turkey's tones within that range.
Finally, learn to use your throat instead of smacking your lips on the call. This technique helps to keep the sounds constant, while you do a long series of notes. Remember that volume is controlled by the amount of air that is sucked through, while pitch is controlled by the tightness of your lips. Eventually it will all come together, and squeaks and squawks will turn into yelps and putts.
A rubber faucet washer can be slipped over the radius bone (mouthpiece) to give you lops something to feel and to ensure that the call is positioned correctly each time. You can also use the base of a shogun shell (without the primer), twine, cork or something out of your own ingenuity to improve a mouthpiece.
A lanyard can be fixed to the call in any number of ways, First, measure and cut a piece of twine or leather shoelace to the proper length. The lanyard should be just long enough to hand the call from your neck without undue flopping around, while still being comfortable enough to use when it's brought to your mouth. A fly-rod guide or bent wire can be glued to the ulna and then a strap run through, or the lanyard can simply be tied on. If you're really into "primitive hunting," use a round piece of the radius that was cut off while fitting for the lanyard. Find the middle of your lanyard, fold it together at that point, push it through the short, hollow piece of bone, then slip it over the call and sure it with an overhand knot.


An international egg thief is on the run in South America after Brazilian authorities lost track of his whereabouts. He had been released on bail after being arrested for the theft of four exceedingly rare albino falcon eggs.
Zimbabwean Jeffrey Lendrum, 55, has gained global notoriety for his daring escapades in which he has grappled his way down cliff edges and even hung out of helicopters in order to get his hands on highly valued falcon eggs for wealthy Arab clients, according to The Times.
His most recent heist took place in Patagonia, Argentina, where he managed to scoop the aforementioned albino falcon eggs. He was caught at an airport in São Paulo heading from Chile to Dubai after an anonymous tip-off but then vanished when released on bail to appeal against his sentence.
Lendrum, a former Rhodesian SAS man, was jailed in 2010 for stealing 14 peregrine falcon eggs worth an estimated £70,000 ($86,000) from nests in south Wales, the UK and is still believed to pose a threat to falcons on the British Isles.
Andy McWilliam, investigations officer for the National Wildlife Crime Unit, said: "I think he's been coming to the UK on an annual basis and taking peregrine falcon [eggs]. There has been an increase in value in peregrine falcons and increased demand in the Middle East."
Mr McWilliam interviewed Lendrum before he was jailed in Britain and admitted he had a grudging respect for a "worthy adversary". He said: "I remember we found notebooks and diaries among his possessions. I kept them because I was so impressed.
"He was visiting Sri Lanka during the breeding season of a bird called the black shaheen, a breed of peregrine falcon. The notes had details of most sites he had visited, including military activity in the area. He goes into detail on security at the airport: how often they search people and if they have X-ray."
It is reported that peregrine falcon eggs can fetch more than £5,000 each. The peregrine is the fastest bird in the world, reaching speeds of up to 242mph. The birds are protected by British law and by the Convention on International Endangered Species.


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Y09-8P 28.3L/min Airborne particle counter
Y09-8P Airborne particle counter is a device for measuring particle dust with a sampling flow rate of 28.3LPM. As a particle count, the real-time display of the particle data of 0.3, 0.5, 1.0, 3.0, 5.0, 10μm 6 channels can be selected to switch to display the actual particle number or particle concentration value (1m3). Built-in long-life laser diode, light collecting oval lens, unique optical system to provide concentration measurement range. The dust particle counter has a built-in lithium battery, vacuum pump, constant velocity sampling head, micro-processing circuit, computer interface, and all information is displayed on the touch screen.


How do impact windows work?
Impact windows are made of laminated glass and contain an interlayer that is formed by bonding two pieces of glass together with a plastic film called polyvinyl butyral (PVB). The interlayer is placed between the two layers and then passed through rollers. It is then heated to approximately 158 °F (70 °C), which forms the initial bond. When impact windows are struck by extreme winds and debris, the glass may crack, but the window will not break apart, because it is still being held together by the interlayer.
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Almost 10,000 people presented to hospitals in Ireland last year as a result of more than 12,500 episodes of self-harm, according to a new report being launched today.
The National Suicide Research Foundation's 2018 Annual Report of the National Self-Harm Registry Ireland shows a 6% rise in the rate of individuals presenting to hospital as a result of self-harm last year, compared with the rate in 2017 — and 12% higher than the rate in 2007.
According to the report, the National Self-Harm Registry Ireland recorded 12,588 presentations to hospital due to self-harm last year, involving 9,785 persons.
According to the NSRF, the increase in hospital- presenting self-harm in 2018 was observed across all age groups and for both men and women, and the highest rates of self-harm were consistently recorded in young people.
"The findings of this report show a further increase in self-harm among young people aged 10-24 years, particularly for males, following a 21% increase in rates between 2007 and 2017," it said.
Last year also saw an increase in the use of street drugs, involved in one in 10 intentional drug overdoses.
Cannabis was the most common street drug recorded, particularly among young men.
Last year, 72% of those who presented following self-harm received a mental health assessment in the hospital emergency department, but there was "considerable variation in the management of self-harm" observed across hospitals.
According to the NSRF: "The trends highlighted in this year's report underline the need to further develop mental health services in Ireland for individuals engaging in self-harm, particularly young people.
Ella Arensman, chief scientist at the NSRF, said the increasing trend of self-harm among children and adolescents requires an urgent response, while Eve Griffin, NSRF research fellow, said the rise in the incidence of illegal substances in self-harm presentations is of concern.


Interpreting Milk Test Data
Jump to Individual Doe Sheet or CDCB Data
Lab Results
Why does it say "cow" when these are all goats?
Milk test was originally designed for cows and that's the way it remains today. Whether you're testing a goat, sheep, or a camel, all of your paperwork will say "cow".
Ok, so what do all of these numbers mean?
Tell me more about SCC!
Somatic cells are basically anything in the milk that isn't milk. It's usually white blood cells but it can also be bits of tissue. Milk will never be completely free of somatic cells but lower numbers are better. Higher numbers can indicate an injury (kids nursing roughly) or an infection (mastitis). Each goat will have her own "normal" SCC count so you just want to pay attention if her count suddenly spikes. Most of my does are usually between 50 and 300.
What about MUN?
I don't get MUN reports so it doesn't show on my lab results, but it is an option at many labs. MUN stands for "Milk Urea Nitrogen". Nitrogen in urea (found in bodily fluids such as blood and milk) is a result of the breakdown of protein. Anything not absorbed and used by the body will be expelled and can be measured. High MUN levels indicate a goat isn't using all the protein she is being fed. Essentially, it's being wasted and you might want to reevaluate what you are feeding her.
Individual Doe Sheet
Your lab will send your milk test data to your processing center so they can do their magic (algorithms) and estimate how much your does produce between tests. I use Amelicor. Data sheets from other processing centers will look different but should have all the same information. Let's take a closer look at each section!
Top of the Sheet
Test Day and Lactation Data
Bottom of the Sheet
If the goat is registered with ADGA, there is a quick and easy way to access this data! Go to ADGA Genetics and lookup the goat by name or registration number:
Click on "CDCB Data" on the left side of the goat's page:
The first time you use this link you will have to sign up for a free account with CDCB. When that is accomplished, go back to the ADGA Genetics page and click the "CDCB Data" link again.
Let's take a closer look at each section!
Top of the Page
Bottom of the Page
All the data for each lactation! I won't explain what has already been explained above but here is what's different:
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Where do you begin when you want to move an entire studio, including the walls, and everything in the room? In some ways Francis Bacon's studio was like a jigsaw puzzle. A specially trained team of people, including archaeologists, noted the exact location of everything in the studio by making drawings and maps of the studio. There were over 7000 items in Francis Bacon's studio and these included his brushes, paint tubes, drawings, canvases, music records, photographs, books and letters he had written and received from his friends. When drawings and photographs of their location were made, all Francis Bacon's belongings were carefully placed in boxes and brought to Dublin.
In Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane each item was studied and the information gathered was put onto a computer database so more can be learned about how Francis Bacon painted and what his inspirations were. The studio was reconstructed and each item was carefully replaced piece by piece exactly where it was.


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A Europe Made of Money
The Emergence of the European Monetary System
A Europe Made of Money is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS), based on extensive archive research. Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol highlights two long-term processes in the monetary and economic negotiations in the decade leading up to the founding of the EMS in 1979. The first is a transnational learning process involving a powerful, networked European monetary elite that shaped a habit of cooperation among technocrats. The second stresses the importance of the European Council, which held regular meetings between heads of government beginning in 1974, giving EEC legitimacy to monetary initiatives that had previously involved semisecret and bilateral negotiations. The interaction of these two features changed the EMS from a fairly trivial piece of administrative business to a tremendously important political agreement.
The inception of the EMS was greeted as one of the landmark achievements of regional cooperation, a major leap forward in the creation of a unified Europe. Yet Mourlon-Druol's account stresses that the EMS is much more than a success story of financial cooperation. The technical suggestions made by its architects reveal how state elites conceptualized the larger project of integration. And their monetary policy became a marker for the conception of European identity. The unveiling of the EMS, Mourlon-Druol concludes, represented the convergence of material interests and symbolic, identity-based concerns.


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Admin/API
Galaxy has an Applications Programming Interface (API) that enables access to Galaxy from scripts. This page describes the administrative aspects of the API. See Learn/API for information on using the Galaxy API.
Scripts
Explanation of where the scripts are, what they do, and where they go.
display.py
library_create_library.py
library_create_folder.py
library_upload_from_import_dir.py
Configuration
universe_wsgi.ini
Set these options in universe_wsgi.ini and (re)start the server:
 1 admin_users = _EMAIL_
 2 library_import_dir = /path/to/some/directory
In the directory you specified for library_import_dir, create some subdirectories, and put (or symlink) files to import into Galaxy into those subdirectories.
→ Need more explanation of above bold statement. Are these the scripts from scripts/api/? What are the subdirectories to create?
Generate the Admin Account API Key
In Galaxy, create an account that matches the address you put in admin_users, then browse to that user's preferences and generate a new API Key.
Navigate to User → API Keys:
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Click on Generate a new key now:
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And your new API key will be set:
Copy the key to your clipboard. You will need it in the next steps.
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Please pay attention to the note:
 - Please note that this key acts as an alternate means to access your account, and should be treated with the same care as your login password.
If the key to your admin account is leaked, whoever has that key has admin access to your Galaxy instance.
Run Setup Scripts
Run these scripts:
% ./display.py my_key http://localhost:4096/api/libraries
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0 elements in collection
% ./library_create_library.py my_key http://localhost:4096/api/libraries api_test 'API Test Library'
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/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006
 name: api_test
 id: f3f73e481f432006
% ./display.py my_key http://localhost:4096/api/libraries
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/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006
 name: api_test
 id: f3f73e481f432006
% ./display.py my_key http://localhost:4096/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006
Member Information
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synopsis: None
contents_url: /api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents
description: API Test Library
name: api_test
% ./display.py my_key http://localhost:4096/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents
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/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents/28202595c0d2591f61ddda595d2c3670
 name: /
 type: folder
 id: 28202595c0d2591f61ddda595d2c3670
% ./library_create_folder.py my_key http://localhost:4096/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents 28202595c0d2591f61ddda595d2c3670 api_test_folder1 'API Test Folder 1'
Response
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/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents/28202595c0d2591fa4f9089d2303fd89
 name: api_test_folder1
 id: 28202595c0d2591fa4f9089d2303fd89
% ./library_upload_from_import_dir.py my_key http://localhost:4096/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents 28202595c0d2591fa4f9089d2303fd89 bed bed hg19
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/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents/e9ef7fdb2db87d7b
 name: 2.bed
 id: e9ef7fdb2db87d7b
/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents/3b7f6a31f80a5018
 name: 3.bed
 id: 3b7f6a31f80a5018
% ./display.py my_key http://localhost:4096/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents
Collection Members
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/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents/28202595c0d2591f61ddda595d2c3670
 name: /
 type: folder
 id: 28202595c0d2591f61ddda595d2c3670
/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents/28202595c0d2591fa4f9089d2303fd89
 name: /api_test_folder1
 type: folder
 id: 28202595c0d2591fa4f9089d2303fd89
/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents/e9ef7fdb2db87d7b
 name: /api_test_folder1/2.bed
 type: file
 id: e9ef7fdb2db87d7b
/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents/3b7f6a31f80a5018
 name: /api_test_folder1/3.bed
 type: file
 id: 3b7f6a31f80a5018
% ./display.py my_key http://localhost:4096/api/libraries/f3f73e481f432006/contents/e9ef7fdb2db87d7b
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misc_blurb: 68 regions
metadata_endCol: 3
data_type: bed
metadata_columns: 6
metadata_nameCol: 4
uploaded_by: nate@...
metadata_strandCol: 6
name: 2.bed
genome_build: hg19
metadata_comment_lines: None
metadata_startCol: 2
metadata_chromCol: 1
file_size: 4272
metadata_data_lines: 68
message:
metadata_dbkey: hg19
misc_info: uploaded bed file
date_uploaded: 2010-06-22T17:01:51.266119
metadata_column_types: str, int, int, str, int, str
Other parameters are valid when uploading, they are the same parameters as are used in the web form, like 'link_data_only' and etc.
The request and response format should be considered alpha and are subject to change.
Example Configurations
Explain the format, how these are created.


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BULACAN STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
CITY OF MALOLOS, BULACAN
BASIC INPUT-OUTPUT SYSTEM (BIOS)
In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements in Research and Technical Writing A Thesis Proposal Presented to Professor Marjorie M. Miguel
Ayeng, Katrina N.
Manila, Kimberly R.
Manio, Klarryze Jenel B.
Mundo, Justine DB.
Salamat, Norman Jan R.
PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
The Importance and Functions of the Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) Introduction
Nowadays, many computer users around the world encounter a problem regarding Basic Input-Output System (BIOS). It is usually seen when a computer failed to shut down successfully where one can read the phrase "Enter BIOS system" on the options but not everyone knows what is it for, how does it function and is it necessary to be familiar with. That is why we have chosen to conduct a research paper regarding BIOS. It is important to have knowledge or idea about it because of its many uses, importance and functions on a computer system that will be stated on the following chapters of this research paper. It is an exciting and interesting topic to be discussed and to be researched. Not only that, in this research paper, one can learn or have ideas on upgrading BIOS, what are the effects of upgrading it and why is it necessary to be upgraded and updated.
Statement of the Problem/ Objectives
What are the importance and functions of Basic Input-Output System (BIOS)? 1. To know the importance or significance of Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) in a computer system. 2. To increase the knowledge of people about Basic Input-Output System (BIOS); to know its history. 3. To enumerate the functions of Basic Input-Output System (BIOS). 4. To lessen the number of people who doesn't know Basic Input-Output System (BIOS). 5. To contribute new ideas about Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) in the field of computers.
Significance of the Study
The research contributes to knowledge production in general about BIOS. The purpose of this research is to gain a better understanding of the importance, uses and functions of Basic Input-Output System (BIOS). The benefit of the study is for the ordinary student and for the people to have deeper understanding about BIOs problems. * Students, who were in the field of computer. This will help them to have more information about BIOS and how this affects the performance of a computer. * Teachers/Professors. For them to have an additional information about BIOS and what are the things that they need to tackle more to their students in the field of computer. * Specialists/Developer of computers. For them to have an idea on the things that they need to develop more based on its functions and performance. * Ordinary students/people. To correct their misconceptions about BIOS.
Scope and Delimitation
The coverage of this study is all about the definition, importance and functions of Basic Input-Output System (BIOS). It focuses on every student who uses computer on their field of studies and also to those people who use computer in their everyday life and looks for information about BIOS.
This study limits its coverage on the hardware system particularly Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) only and to those people who encounters regarding BIOS.
"If it is not broken, don't fix it" (Perkins, David N, 2007). "Intel says that if the mobo is working properly that bios and drivers shouldn't be updated. Mine is working properly and I know if it isn't broke don't fix it, but what are the advantages and disadvantages to updating it anyway?" (webhead68, 2007) (Intel,2006 para. 2) stated that update the BIOS on your computer only if the newer BIOS version specifically solves a problem you have. It is not recommend updating your BIOS for computers that do not need it.
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Saville Assessment
An international occupational psychology consultancy now part of Willis Towers Watson.
About Saville Assessment (a Willis Towers Watson company)
Founded by Peter Saville, co-foudner of SHL, Saville Assessment is an international occupational psychology consultancy. They are also a large player in test publishing of psychometric tests - which are used by companies large or small around the world. They personality questionnaires are particularly popular, as both these and their tests are known for their thorough research - making them well validated.
Formerly known as Saville Consulting, they rebranded themselves under the new name of Saville Assessment.
Prepare for Saville Assessment tests
Our practice test packs are suitable for preparing for Saville Assessment tests. Our practice tests come with solutions included.
Saville Assessment aptitude tests
Saville Assessment provide psychometric ability tests at most levels of position, and are known for their particular specification request. These tests include numerlca, verbal, abstract, mechanical and error checking. Given that Saville Assessment was founded under Peter Saville who also founded SHL, the tests are very similar. Saville Assesssment has tests with strong validity. We give a list here of the most commonly used Saville Assessment aptitude tests:
 - Verbal aptitude: Verbal reasoning tests will test your ability to understand and make logical deductions based on verbal/written data. Verbal psychometric tests used in selection usually take the form of a written passage followed by a series of questions with possible True, False or Cannot Say responses.
 - Numerical aptitude: The maths required in a numerical psychometric test is determined by the difficulty of GCSE level. The part required from you, is to interpret and figure out what calculation is required from the question, and under pressure of time. The topics are generally relevant to the workplace, meaning that the questions can be similar, and therefore realistic, to the role you are being recruited for.
 - Diagrammatic aptitude: Diagrammatic aptitude, oftentimes called inductive or abstract reasoning, involves noticing patterns as operations and applying them to diagrammatic situations. A candidate will typically be provided with a key and a set of diagrams and must fill in a missing operation in the sequence.
 - Error checking aptitude: Candidates will be provided with two sets of transposed data, with one set containing errors. These errors must be successfully identified by the candidate. Candidates will then be assessed on their ability to check and identify verbal, numerical and coding errors.
 - Spatial aptitude: Spatial aptitude is the ability to apply spatial judgement and visualise objects from multiple angles. These tests will assess candidates' ability to solve rotational and transformation problems, visualise objects and notice inconsistencies. This ability may be tested for positions requiring technical ability such as science and engineering.
 - Mechanical aptitude: The mechanical reasoning test measures a candidate's understanding of basic mechanical principles. This typically involves the use and application of devices such as gears, handles and pulleys.
Saville Assessment personality questionnaires
Saville Asssessment publish one of the most psychometrically valid personality questionnaires on the market, the Saville Wave ®. Their personality questionnaires assess personality and behavioural preferences in the workplace, and they generate a profile based on the self-reported data from the candidate themselves. These can be used to assess whether your personality is a good fit for the role being considered. Saville questionnaires include:
 - Wave ® Professional Styles: This 40 minute personality questionnaire gives an in-depth assessment of candidates' personality in the work place, providing a detailed report based on that profile, including strengths, areas for development and recommended culture-orientation fit.
 - Wave ® Focus Styles: The Focus styles is a shorter, 13 minute questionnaire, featuring the same questions as the professional styles, with the same objectives but with less questionnaire items.
Preparing for Saville Assessment psychometric tests
Saville Assessment have a dedicated webpage for test takers: Saville AssessmentThe company you are applying to should also be able to explain more about the test you will have to take.
Find out more about Saville Assessment
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