Consultants: 10 Mistakes that Most People Make
Tips on Finding a Political Expert
Campaigning periods in any country are normally very intense and full of controversies. A professional approach is therefore needed. A good consultant will help the candidate on pooling people together to go out and vote. He or she will also help in tackling the opposition and building media relation. Hence, manifestos will be sold to the public by the party through the help of a political consultant. These crucial roles are reason why they are always caught between scandals and media trolling. A consultant who can avoid the scandals or one that can turn attention from himself if caught in any should be considered for hire. When hiring a political consultant the following tips are important.
The most crucial tip to consider when hiring a political consultant is their specialty.A political consultant specialty should be the primary consideration when hiring. Identify the gap that is existing in one's campaign first. Always acquire from the interested consultant their area of specialty during an interview. Political consultancy has different areas of specialization hence the need. These areas include dealing with issues at the grassroots or consultancy at media level. If specialization matches the needs of the campaign, only then should one hire.
One ought to inquire on the level of experience. Provision of evidence of previous work done should be primary before hiring. A background history should also be demanded so that one can track their progress during their career period. A good political consultant should have a decent reputation for good skills and remarkable progress, growth.
One should gauge the reputation of a political consultant before hiring by asking around. A verbal communication is an important tool. Friends in the political arena should be consulted to inquire on the reputation of a certain political consultant. One may also evaluate their reputation any demanding on references. A prospective political consultant like Neal Kwatra should have well known and respected referees in his or her references. calling the provided referees from the potential specialist, is crucial to verify that the information given is true and authentic. The references should be consulted for a second opinion.
Always sign a contract before hiring the political consultant. By abiding one to the agreed terms and conditions, a contract therefore protects once resources. Ensuring that one is comfortable with the choice is paramount before the hiring party or politician signs the contract. One should hold on signing the contract in case some questions were not answered to satisfactory. It is primary that the interview be called back for an interview and hence addressing the issues first.
Finally, always work within your capital capacity. When hiring make sure to hire within the proposed budget. Negotiations on the demand of the political consultants should always take place. The higher percentage of the campaigns budget should be spent on the campaign activities and not on the political consultant fee.


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This video teaches you
How to Plane Wood
Before you use your hand plane, make sure you sharpen the blade. To do so, place a piece of 220-grit sandpaper on a flat surface and hold the plane at a 25 degree angle so the bevel is flat against the sandpaper. Then, rub the blade in a circle until metal shavings form along its back. Place the blade back in your hand plane and adjust the angle of the blade with the depth adjustment wheel. The angle you choose will determine how thick the shavings you remove will be. If you're unsure what angle to choose, opt for a shallow angle, since you can always increase the depth of the cut if necessary. When you're ready, place your plane against the edge of your wood. Hold the knob with your non-dominant hand and press down so the plane is flush with the wood. Then, hold the back handle with your dominant hand and press forward so you're working across the surface smoothly and methodically. When you're done, lay a straight edge along your wood to check and confirm it's perfectly flat.

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As documented here on MSDN the PropertyItem object does not have a public constructor.
What to do then when you want to add a property to an image, using Image.SetPropertyItem(..) method?
This post suggests you create some bank of all property items you want, hold it memory and clone from it.
A commenter on that blog suggested using reflection: Get the non-public parameter-less constructor and invoke it. Notable downside for this approach is reliance on internal implementation of the object. True. I'll risk it though.
In my implementation, I added a helper method which simply generates the PropertyItem using System.Activator like so:
public static PropertyItem CreatePropertyItem(int id, int length, short exifType, byte[] buffer)
 var instance = (PropertyItem)Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(PropertyItem), true);
 instance.Id = id;
 instance.Len = length;
 instance.Type = exifType;
 instance.Value = buffer;
 return instance;
Pretty clean and simple. Under the covers, Activator will use some reflection to create the instance, but would also utilize some caching and speed written by not-me. I like not-me code because it means I don't have to write it.
Since one of my my upcoming talks at _URL_ is on the subject of reflection, this all falls neatly into place.


DataStage – How to add or subtract from a date in a transformer stage
DataStage – How to add or subtract from a date in a transformer stage
From time to time there is a need to adjust a date within a DataStage transformer. It could be as small subtracting a day to set a batch processing date to yesterday or something bigger. If you need to adjust a date by a year, month and/or day the DateOffsetByComponents function is the method. The DateOffsetByComponents function can work with a fixed value or input from the job either; an input field, or a stage variable. The main thing is knowing what to put in which position in the offset values with the understanding that offsets values can be positive or negative, thereby, allowing the addition and subtraction of different part of a date in a dataStage transformer.
Purpose of DateOffsetByComponents Function
 - This function is used to obtain a specific required date by applying offset to a given date.
Syntax
DateOffsetByComponents(<<Input Date>>, year offset, month offset, day of month offset)
How to subtract a year
DateOffsetByComponents(dsjobstartdate,-1, 0, 0)
How to add a year
DateOffsetByComponents(dsjobstartdate ,1, 0, 0)
How to subtract a month
DateOffsetByComponents(dsjobstartdate, 0, -1, 0)
How to add a month
DateOffsetByComponents(dsjobstartdate, 0, 1, 0)
How to subtract a day
DateOffsetByComponents(dsjobstartdate, 0, 0, -1)
How to add a day
DateOffsetByComponents(dsjobstartdate, 0, 0, 1)
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Highly stretchable and oxidation-resistive Cu nanowire heater for replication of the feeling of heat in a virtual world†
A thermal haptic device (THD) is used to implement temperature information in many virtual environments. The THD enables a user to feel the temperature as well as the thermal conductivity. Moreover, as temperature influences human emotion and preference, the THD enriches senses and experiences in a virtual environment. In this paper, we propose laser-assisted dual-function copper nanowire (CuNW) polyurethane acrylate (PUA) patterns for use as feedback controllable stretchable heaters as a 12-pixels THD, with highly enhanced mechanical and chemical durability. The CuNW–PUA pattern retains the stretchability from its serpentine mesh form, and the CuNW embedded in the PUA structure provides mechanical and chemical stability, facilitating a stable resistance. The CuNW–PUA pattern serves as a simultaneous heater and thermometer with accurate temperature control. Furthermore, the CuNW–PUA pattern is fabricated using a simple, fast, and elaborate laser process under ambient conditions. Finally, the CuNW–PUA pattern was used to realize heat transfer in various virtual environments in the form of 12-pixels on a nylon glove, showing potential for stretchable applications in next generation devices.

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A comparative analysis of the primary sequences and characteristics of heparinases I, II, and III from Flavobacterium heparinum.
@article{Godavarti1996ACA,
 title={A comparative analysis of the primary sequences and characteristics of heparinases I, II, and III from Flavobacterium heparinum.},
 author={R Godavarti and Ram Sasisekharan},
 journal={Biochemical and biophysical research communications},
 year={1996},
 volume={229 3},
 pages={770-7}
}
Heparinases I, II and III from F. heparinum cleave heparin-like molecules, with a high degree of substrate specificity, at the glucosamine-uronate linkage by elimination, leaving an unsaturated C4-C5 bond in the uronic acid. The primary sequences of these enzymes have been reported earlier. In this study we perform a comparative analysis of the properties and primary sequences of heparinase I, II and III. Alignment of the primary sequences revealed little sequence homology (15% residue identity… CONTINUE READING
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 Example 6.3.1: Calculating Force
 What force is exerted on the tooth in Figure if the tension in the wire is 25.0 N? Note that the force applied to the tooth is smaller than the tension in the wire, but this is necessitated by practical considerations of how force can be applied in the mouth. Explicitly show how you follow steps in the Problem-Solving Strategy for Newton's laws of motion.
 Figure 6.3.1 Braces are used to apply forces to teeth to realign them. Shown in this figure are the tensions applied by the wire to the protruding tooth. The total force applied to the tooth by the wire, \(F_{app} \), points straight toward the back of the mouth.
 1. Use Newton's laws since we are looking for forces.
 2. Draw a free-body diagram:
 Figure 6.3.2.
 3. The tension is given as \( T = 25.0 \space N. \) Fond \(F_{app}.\) Using Newton's laws gives: \( \sum{F_y} = 0 \), so that applied force is due to the y-components of the two tensions: \(F_{app} = 2T \space sin \space \theta = 2(25.0 \space N) \space sin (15^o) = 12.9 \space N. \) The x-components of the tension cancel. \( \sum{F_x} = 0 \).
 4. This seems reasonable, since the applied tensions should be greater than the force applied to the tooth.
 Contact and Long Range Forces
 An interaction and the accompanying agent of interaction—the force—can occur between objects that are in contact as well as between objects that are widely separated in space. An example of the former is the force you apply on an object when you push it, or the force your bat exerts on a ball as you hit it into left field. An example of the latter is the force of gravity the Earth exerts on an orbiting satellite 200 miles above the surface of the Earth. The gravitational interaction between the Earth and other objects which may or may not be touching the Earth is said to be long range. The interaction and the force, the agent of the interaction, continue to exist, even when there is no direct contact. This is distinctly different from the example of the bat and ball. The force of the bat on the ball is often referred to as a contact force, since there is no interaction or force if the bat and ball are not in actual contact (in a macroscopic sense).


Rambo 1st Blood twenty fifth Anniversary Knife Evaluation
Knives can be found in homes, workplaces, activities, hobbies, and entertainment. There are butter knives, steak knives, cleavers, and paring knives in kitchens. Hikers carry pocket knives, soldiers carry utility knives, and hunters carry hunting knives. Knives, such as switchblade and daggers are used as weapons. Some entertainments consist of throwing knives. Knives are also used in some sports. Harvester knives are used for harvesting agriculture. There are also Rambo Survival Knives.
Rambo, first blood
Used in the movie, 'Rambo', where the character of Rambo used it quite often to save his own life. Rambo used the materials out of his survival kit to sew up his own wounds, other items he used from his survival kit were matches (to build fires), light torches, defending himself, and hunting. It was his preferred weapon, and the most important one.
It served as a multi-purpose tool. The franchise later created an identical knife and sold them to those who wanted to possess the trademark knife of the character 'Rambo'.
Once the movie 'First Blood' had been released, people rushed out to purchase a Rambo knife, everyone wanted one. They manufactured a crude version, with its handles available in many colors, also in camouflage. With real blades, and came with a survival kit. However, a huge controversy started over the knives being dangerous for children.
Check A Machete For A Bigger Slice of The Action.
A variety of blades & knives
With a variety of knives types used around the world, some that are considered as famous, and are collectible items. Some of them are the Long Skinny Bolo, from the Philippines (used for working with sugar cane), Machetes, from South America, American Bowie, Swiss, Curved Ghurkha, from the Ghurkha fighters in India, and more.
In today's modern world, knives are used more as a utensil, or for utility, rather than for survival like they had to in the old days.
Today they have a variety of different blades for sale. There are the Straight Back blades (normal blades), Clip Point, Curved Trailing Point, Spear Point, Drop Point, Spay Point, Needle Point, Tanto Style, Sheep's Foot, the Ulu, and the Wharncliffe blade. All of which were create with a specific use in mind, and several of them are still in use today. Any of the above knives should only be used by someone with the correct knowledge of how they are to be used, as they can otherwise be very dangerous and harmful to the user.
There are two different fashions of knives, the Fixed Blade knife, and Folding knives. Both of these are common, but, each one will have advantages and disadvantages of its own.
How to care for knives
In order for them to last, knives to be properly taken care of. They need sharpened with a wet grit stone, they should not ever be sharpened using an electrical grinding wheel, as this will leave the edges brittle. They also have to be held at a particular angle when sharpening. Always make sure your blade is sharp for a dull blade can cause injuries or accidents. To keep the edges from becoming dull they must be clean on a regular basis, and also properly stored.
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Brazil's National Department of Mineral Production (DNPM) is coordinating an analysis of the largest Brazilian sylvite beds found in the state of Amazonas, with the objective of establishing partnerships for exploration.
Sylvite is a mineral from which potassium chloride (KCl) is extracted to be used as a fertilizer. Currently, Brazil imports 85% of the total potassium chloride consumed in the country.
The remaining 15% come from the Taquari-Vassouras mine, located in the state of Sergipe, in the Northeast of the Brazil.
Amazon sylvite beds were found in the 1980s, by Petrobrás. Estimated reserves are to the order of 1 billion tons, more than twice the 450 million-ton beds found initially in Sergipe, where sylvite is explored by the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce.
Current annual production of potassium chloride is 600 thousand tons, which supplies part of the Center-South of the country.
One of Brazil's government priorities is to invest in mineral research and exploration, says minister of Mines and Energy, Dilma Rousseff.
According to the minister, if Brazil is to have development in mining, the government has to have an updated and modern mining department.
Brazil was told last year that Canadian mining interests could invest as much as US$ 2 billion in gold, nickel, copper and diamond operations in Brazil.
Last year the DNPM inaugurated a data bank network connecting its 25 districts nationwide at a cost of US$ 25 million.
Translation: Andréa Alves

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text: In this paper, we analyze a game called the lowest unique bid auction (LUBA). It is known that there is no closed form solution for the symmetric mixed strategy equilibria in LUBA. We propose two alternative approaches. We use weak dominance to identify upper bounds for players' bids. Under symmetry, we provide a method to compute a mixed strategy equilibrium by utilizing the recursive structure of the winning chances of the bids under one assumption.


The Obelisk
The Pyradym™ Obelisk Base Cabinet is a powerful accessory to use with the Pyradym BioResonance Healing Instrument, and together combine to create a modern obelisk embodiment in a portable form.
the obelisk
Whereas, the Pyradym uses a tactile device attached to the interior of the base panel of the instrument to create the articulated vibrational aspects of the generated sound, the Obelisk Base Cabinet significantly increases the sensorial impact of the instrument.
The sound that Pyradym generates is primarily, (but not exclusively), "felt" as the low frequency physioacoustic ("vibrational") component, presenting a higher SPL (Sound Pressure Level) into a bigger space requires a little more "oomph" if you're trying to cover a larger group of a dozen people or more.
The Obelisk Base Cabinet is ideal for "sound bath" applications, and is an ideal solution for churches, yoga studios, and large meditation rooms.
Although the term "subwoofer" is generally used as a descriptor for this application, a subwoofer's specific purpose is to accurately reproduce recorded music information, and are typically designed to be as acoustically "transparent" as possible and not influence the tonal "colour" of the any recording you play through them.
Sonically, the Obelisk is actually designed to enhance the sound of Pyradym and provide more of a "woodyness" to the larger tone being synthesized by Pyradym.
In a musical instrument context, you can think of it terms of where the strings of a Piano or Upright Bass generate the actual sound frequencies (notes) of the instrument, it is the WOOD and the construction of their cabinets that project the sound into the space around them and gives the instrument it's tonal character and natural "organic" feel.
Additionally, the Obelisk cabinet is designed to naturally resonate with Pyradym, meaning that the Obelisk cabinet will increase the volume of the Pyradym instrument without the electronics even being turned on.
While adding "breath" to Pyradym's sound, it energetically couples to the Base Cabinet to then function as the pointed "Benben" portion of an obelisk as once they did in ancient Egyptian temples.
In Egyptian creation texts, the Benben was stated as a physical Primeval Point of Origin, and a temple built around it became a source of knowledge and higher awareness for initiates who were of integrity and purity enough to follow the path into gnosis.
Stone Obelisks found throughout the world have their origins in the Atlantean culture, and were believed to have been the "anchor points" for that society's power grid technology, as well as being subtle energy "antenna" technology to be used for "tuning in" to the Universe.
An extremely powerful design, the Obelisk concept was carried forward in the thousands of Sacred Sites that were created by the many temple cultures that have existed over time who had incorporated the structure into their churches and standing stone circles.
Scattered throughout the world, a number of them still stand today as both a testimony and a reminder of a time when mankind would build such monuments to inspire and maintain a more intimate connection to the energy of our planet.
Regarded as "Oracles", these monolithic structures were placed in very specific locations within the temple site, where due to the location's telluric characteristics, connection with other levels of consciousness was enhanced and made more immediate.
These energetic "hot spots" were also sonically enhanced by the Obelisk, and were typically reserved for marriage ceremonies, sound healing sessions, and fertility rituals.
Occurrences of "out-of-body experiences" and prophetic visions during these activities were common.
Couple your Pyradym with an Obelisk today...
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Dimensions: 18" x 18" x 28" (approx.)
Weight: 45 pounds (net)
Max. Power Requirement: 120 VA
Enclosure Construction: Overlaid Cabinet-grade Hard Maple plywood;
Connexion: Molded 3-wire cordset, 10 ft. (non-removable)
Protection: User accessible fuse (Other finishes available by request at extra cost)
INPUT: The PYRADYM OBELISK BASE comes complete with a 3' long hard-wired signal input cable that is intended to plug directly into the EXT. AUDIO OUT connector of the PYRADYM Instrument.
Output Controls:
THRU AUDIO: Is a parallel audio send to the PYRADYM Instrument's AUDIO OUT, and can be connected to any external stereo line-level amplification or recording system by inserting a stereo phone plug into this jack.
(External Audio Output Impedance: 4.7K Ohms, 2.2v p-p)
VOLUME: Controls the PYRADYM OBELISK BASE cabinet's generated sound level. This control features the same "logarithmically damped contour" design feature that the PYRADYM instrument uses to create a more natural volume characteristic when the knob position is changed. In other words, when the knob is rotated to a new position, the volume change of the instrument will not be immediate, but will swell or diminish with a slow, natural time delay.
MUTE: This switch has a pushbutton toggle function which controls whether the sound will be output to the cabinet's internal transducer. Similar to the PYRADYM instrument, the associated GREEN indicator will light to indicate the tactile output is ON. This feature enables one to disengage the audio send to the cabinet, which also features the same logarithmic contour characteristic as the VOLUME control when changed.
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PYRADYM TM and OBELISK BASE CABINET TM are registered trademarks of AugusTara, LLC. US Patent #: 7,537,576
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The P550B gets last place in this chart. This doesn't sound weird, given its bad ripple suppression at 12V and the equally bad transient response performance.
The graph below depicts the cooling fan's average noise over the PSU's operating range, with an ambient temperature between 30 to 32 degrees Celsius (86 to 89.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
Low efficiency means increased thermal loads, so the fan has to work hard to protect and cool down the PSU. This translates to high noise output. The P550B is noisy, so if you want to build a quiet system, remove it from your list.
The following graph shows the PSU's average efficiency throughout its operating range with an ambient temperature close to 30 degrees Celsius.
This is a low-efficiency platform. If you need higher efficiency and lower thermal loads, better get something else.
Power Factor Rating
The following graph shows the PSU's average power factor reading throughout its operating range with an ambient temperature close to 30 degrees Celsius.
The power factor with 115V input is high enough. On the contrary, it is bottom low with 230V.
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Recently as some of us were getting ready to take a walk through the snow, somebody said to me "you're wearing sensible shoes". Now my shoes haven't developed cognitive abilities so far as I know (and I spend enough time with them that I think I would notice), but everyone there knew what this means. It's a common phrase in my experience, but it got me wondering. The adjective sensible here, while syntactically bound to the noun shoes, really applies to another noun in the sentence instead. Is there a term for this sort of modifier migration, or is this sentence technically ungrammatical?
I checked for alternate or obscure meanings of sensible but found none, and a Google search on the phrase turned up uses but no explanations. I also don't think this construct is limited to this particular phrase, but I don't have any more clever ideas.
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What do you mean when you say "The adjective sensible here, while syntactically bound to the noun shoes, really applies to another noun in the sentence instead"? What is the other noun? – Irene Feb 12 '12 at 20:34
_USER_, the other noun is "you" -- the speaker is saying that I was sensible for choosing those shoes, not that my shoes of their own volition made some sensible decision. – Monica Cellio Feb 12 '12 at 20:40
No, I don't think that applies. I agree with _USER_ Loy's answer. I saw his link, it gives a sound explanation of a further meaning of the word sensible (which, curiously enough, isn't included in other dictionaries I've checked). – Irene Feb 12 '12 at 20:42
A parallel that occurs to me is this sentence. "Bacon is not a very sensible thing to have for breakfast if your cholesterol is high". My bacon is about as cognitive as your shoes. – user16269 Feb 13 '12 at 10:14
Clearly the reason we describe your shoes as sensible is that they're able to be sensed. – Nathan Long Feb 13 '12 at 14:35
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An adjective modifying the "wrong" word in a sentence is known as a transferred epithet. This can be used for poetic or humourous effect, or, as in this case, the epithet may have become so strongly associated with the noun that it has no particular literary effect on the listener.
A simple example is "I spent a sleepless night" (it is I who was sleepless, not the night). My English teacher was rather fond of "a schoolboy once again in shivering shorts" from John Betjeman's Original Sin on the Sussex Coast. Of course, the schoolboy is shivering, not his shorts.
Wikipedia has a brief entry on the more general hypallage. I have rarely heard this term used in reference to English grammar or literature.
As noted by other answerers sensible shoes in particular has jumped the chasm from literary device to creating an alternative accepted meaning of sensible. Another example of such a jump is curious, as in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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Thank you! I see from the other answers here that I chose a poor example, but it is the construct, not "sensible" in particular, that I was asking about. "Sleepless night" is a great example of this. – Monica Cellio Feb 13 '12 at 1:06
+1 Hypallage sounds common to me as a term used in classics. – Cerberus Feb 13 '12 at 2:32
+1 Everyone knows why but not everyone can explain it so well. – Kris Feb 13 '12 at 14:10
The kind of answers that EL&U must have been conceived for!+1. Refreshing to see something other than the (now) jarring "What is the word/term/phrase for..... – Vaibhav Garg Feb 15 '12 at 4:21
The OALD lists sensible to mean useful rather than fashionable when referring to things like clothes. The CALD also lists sensible to mean practical rather than being attractive.
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Thanks; I hadn't seen that definition formalized anywhere before. – Monica Cellio Feb 12 '12 at 20:57
My local dictionary offers a similar definition: "sensible - (of an object) practical and functional rather than decorative." – MrHen Feb 12 '12 at 22:00
+1 An entirely plausible alternative. And undeniably right. – Kris Feb 13 '12 at 14:11
Of course sensible has a meaning "Characterized more by usefulness or practicality than by fashionableness, especially of clothing". Etymonline says, regarding sensible:
But note that terms like "sensible walking shoes" were in use already in the 1820's:
...oot wi' such daft-like things in such weather; they're liker dancin' schule pumps than sensible walkin' shoes. (The Inheritance, Susan Ferrier, 1825)
There's a very slight possibility that the term sensible shoes may have some relation to horseshoeing. Beginning in the early 1800's, sensible frequently appears in agricultural publications about horseshoes:
...with common shoes there is no pressure tracts,... The artificial frog, which is intended to the sensible frog, without any respite, must receive cover... (The Complete Farmer, 1807) has some defects in common with other shoes. It is attached with nails, and these nails may pinch the sensible parts within... (Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, 1831)
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Surely sensible in your last quotation means sensitive. The word has many meanings, but most aren't relevant here. – TimLymington Feb 12 '12 at 21:26
I don't think it's an unusual construction at all: would you think a clever idea had out-thought the originator, or a stupid joke likely to be teased by the other figures of speech? Quite a few adjectives can be applied either to the originator or the result: whether it's "the same meaning" may depend on your definitions.
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"Clever idea" was an intentional choice in my question. :-) Does this kind of construction have a name? – Monica Cellio Feb 12 '12 at 20:55
Oops, didn't see that :( It might be a transferred meaning, but I don't see how you determine which was the original. – TimLymington Feb 12 '12 at 21:23
It's not the shoes that are sensible.
Rather, "You have made a sensible choice in electing to wear this particular pair of shoes on this given occasion."
Your interlocutor simply cuts to the chase and states:
"You're wearing sensible shoes."
But the above meaning is implied. Humans are like that. They rely on a high degree of context to communicate meaning.
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Right, that's my point -- "sensible" applies to me, not to the shoes, but semantically the shortened sentence is problematic. I'm wondering if there is a language construct/rule that covers this, or if it's a case of "we all know what it means so it's ok". – Monica Cellio Feb 12 '12 at 20:55
"We all know what it means" is the basis of all communication. Meaning, we can't productively abstract this or any other utterance from its context. So, I think it a futile endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or interpret meaning independent of context. That, in my opinion, is simple a red herring. – Jack Robbin Feb 12 '12 at 21:02
_USER_: Based on my own dictionary and answers other than this one, the shoes are sensible. They are sensible shoes. Sensible just has an additional meaning when applied to objects. – MrHen Feb 12 '12 at 22:02
I don't doubt that sensible could have an additional meaning that applies to objects. However, I think it sensible to assume that in the first instance this meaning is applied to people and then extended to objects that relate to people. That is to say, the object is as sensible as it is in relation to a valuation made by people. – Jack Robbin Feb 13 '12 at 6:01
In other words, high-heels at the beach would not be sensible, but flip-flops would. – Jack Robbin Feb 13 '12 at 6:10
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Writing Tests for a Kafka Consumer
45 minutes
 - 2 Learning Objectives
About this Hands-on Lab
You can accomplish a great deal by implementing your own Kafka consumers. Like almost any source code, it is a good idea to build unit tests to verify the functionality of your consumer code. Kafka's 'MockConsumer' test fixture simplifies the process of building unit tests for producer code. In this lab, we will work with consumer test fixtures by writing a few unit tests for an existing consumer.
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
Clone the Starter Project from GitHub and Perform a Test Run
 1. Clone the starter project from GitHub:
 cd ~/
 git clone _URL_
 2. Perform a test run to make sure the code is able to compile and run:
 cd content-ccdak-consumer-tests-lab
 ./gradlew test
 The code should compile, but the tests should fail since they are not implemented yet.
Implement the Unit Tests for the 'MemberSignupsConsumer'
 1. Edit the test class for MemberSignupsConsumer:
 vi src/test/java/com/linuxacademy/ccdak/consumer/MemberSignupsConsumerTest.java
 2. Implement the testHandleRecords_output test:
 @Test
 public void testHandleRecords_output() {
 // Verify that the testHandleRecords writes the correct data to System.out
 // A text fixture called systemOutContent has already been set up in this class to capture System.out data.
 String topic = "member_signups";
 ConsumerRecord<Integer, String> record = new ConsumerRecord<>(topic, 0, 1, 2, "ROSENBERG, WILLOW");
 Map<TopicPartition, List<ConsumerRecord<Integer, String>>> records = new LinkedHashMap<>();
 records.put(new TopicPartition(topic, 0), Arrays.asList(record));
 ConsumerRecords<Integer, String> consumerRecords = new ConsumerRecords<>(records);

 memberSignupsConsumer.handleRecords(consumerRecords);
 Assert.assertEquals("key=2, value=ROSENBERG, WILLOW, topic=member_signups, partition=0, offset=1n", systemOutContent.toString());
 }
 3. Implement the testHandleRecords_none test:
 @Test
 public void testHandleRecords_none() {
 // Verify that testHandleRecords behaves correctly when processing no records.
 // A text fixture called systemOutContent has already been set up in this class to capture System.out data.
 String topic = "member_signups";
 Map<TopicPartition, List<ConsumerRecord<Integer, String>>> records = new LinkedHashMap<>();
 records.put(new TopicPartition(topic, 0), Arrays.asList());
 ConsumerRecords<Integer, String> consumerRecords = new ConsumerRecords<>(records);

 memberSignupsConsumer.handleRecords(consumerRecords);
 Assert.assertEquals("", systemOutContent.toString());
 }
 4. Implement the testHandleRecords_multiple test:
 @Test
 public void testHandleRecords_multiple() {
 // Verify that testHandleRecords behaves correctly when processing multiple records.
 // A text fixture called systemOutContent has already been set up in this class to capture System.out data.
 String topic = "member_signups";
 ConsumerRecord<Integer, String> record1 = new ConsumerRecord<>(topic, 0, 1, 2, "ROSENBERG, WILLOW");
 ConsumerRecord<Integer, String> record2 = new ConsumerRecord<>(topic, 3, 4, 5, "HARRIS, ALEXANDER");
 Map<TopicPartition, List<ConsumerRecord<Integer, String>>> records = new LinkedHashMap<>();
 records.put(new TopicPartition(topic, 0), Arrays.asList(record1, record2));
 ConsumerRecords<Integer, String> consumerRecords = new ConsumerRecords<>(records);

 memberSignupsConsumer.handleRecords(consumerRecords);
 Assert.assertEquals("key=2, value=ROSENBERG, WILLOW, topic=member_signups, partition=0, offset=1nkey=5, value=HARRIS, ALEXANDER, topic=member_signups, partition=3, offset=4n", systemOutContent.toString());
 }
 5. Run your tests and make sure they pass:
 ./gradlew test
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Your supermarket company has a consumer that consumes messages that are created when customers sign up for a membership program. This consumer simply logs the messages and their metadata to the console.
The company is reviewing the codebase for compliance with good practices, and this consumer has no unit tests. Your task is to write some unit tests for the consumer.
There is a project in GitHub that contains the code. Clone this project to the Dev server. The consumer class is located at src/main/java/com/linuxacademy/ccdak/consumer/MemberSignupsConsumer.java. You can find a test class at src/test/java/com/linuxacademy/ccdak/consumer/MemberSignupsConsumerTest.java. Edit the test class and implement your unit tests there. There are already test methods and some test fixtures set up in the class.
Note the test class contains a test fixture called systemOutContent. You can use this to access data written to System.out during the test like so:
systemOutContent.toString()
Here are some notes on the tests that need to be created:
 - testHandleRecords_output — This test should simply verify the output. Call the handleRecords and pass in a record. Test that the data is written to System.out in the expected format.
 - testHandleRecords_none — Test that handleRecords works as expected when the collection of records is empty.
 - testHandleRecords_multiple — Test that handleRecords works as expected when the collection of records contains more than one record.
If you get stuck, feel free to check out the solution video or the detailed instructions under each objective. Good luck!
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%A Mohammed, Zhana Fidakar %A Abdulla, Alan Anwer %D 2020 %T Thresholding-based White Blood Cells Segmentation from Microscopic Blood Images %K %X Digital image processing has a significant role in different research areas, including medical image processing, object detection, biometrics, information hiding, and image compression. Image segmentation, which is one of the most important steps in processing medical image, makes the objects inside images more meaningful. For example, from microscopic images, blood cancer can be identified which is known as leukemia; for this purpose at first, the white blood cells (WBCs) need to be segmented. This paper focuses on developing a segmentation technique for segmenting WBCs from microscopic blood images based on thresholding segmentation technique and it compares with the most commonly used segmentation technique which is known as color-k-means clustering. The comparison is done based on three well-known measurements, used for evaluating segmentation techniques which are probability random index, variance of information, and global consistency error. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed thresholding-based segmentation technique provides better results compared to color-k-means clustering technique for segmenting WBCs as well as the time consumption of the proposed technique is less than the color-k-means which are 70.8144 ms and _PHONE_ ms, respectively. %U _URL_ %J UHD Journal of Science and Technology %0 Journal Article %R 10.21928/uhdjst.v4n1y2020.pp9-17 %P 9-17%V 4 %N 1 %@ 2521-4217 %8 2020-02-13


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On a quest to find the tastiest watermelon for your Fourth of July cookout? There's an Israeli app for that.
After experiencing the bitter frustration of trying to choose a good watermelon – only to get it home and find it hollow and tasteless – three computer science students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology decided to use technology to solve that age-old challenge. The result? A prototype that uses a smartphone, sensors and an algorithm to determine the quality of a watermelon in a matter of seconds – without ever opening the watermelon.
Through meetings with agricultural engineers and biologists around the world, Technion students Salah Abed Alehlim, Adam Garah and Ayman Sarha'an concluded there's a correlation between a watermelon's external and internal properties. It turns out that tone, color, stripe patterns, shape, and the size of the circle at the bottom of the watermelon all help determine what's inside.
The app takes a picture of the watermelon from three angles, and uses an algorithm to analyze its external properties. The app then gives each watermelon a taste rating between 1 ("atrocious") and 5 ("divine").
Does it work? According to the students, the app (which is not yet available to the public) scored 100 percent accuracy in experiments on 30 watermelons. They also say it can be applied to examine the quality of other types of fruit.


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Preface:
I've been using ChatGPT as a development tool as of late. Prior to searching for possible bug fixes, I'll check to see if ChatGPT has an answer to what I would normally use as a query on Google or Bing. In this instance, I receive the following error after running service apache2 start.
Me:
AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using ::1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
ChatGPT:
This message is generated by the Apache web server and is indicating that the server is not configured with a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the current IP address.
To resolve this issue, you can set the ServerName directive globally in the Apache configuration file to specify the FQDN of your server. This can be done by following these steps:
 1. Open the Apache configuration file for editing. This is typically located at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf or /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.
 2. Search for the ServerName directive. If it is commented out (i.e., prefixed with a #), remove the # character to uncomment the line.
 3. If the ServerName directive does not exist, add it to the configuration file as follows:
ServerName yourserver.example.com
Replace yourserver.example.com with the FQDN of your server.
 1. Save the configuration file and restart the Apache service to apply the changes:
sudo service apache2 restart
After completing these steps, the message should no longer appear and the Apache web server should be able to determine the server's FQDN.
Result:
The error did not repeat itself.
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Introduced in 1931, the C-3 featured room for a passenger seated next to the pilot. Powered by a new 36hp Aeronca E-113 engine, the seating configuration made flight training much easier and many Aeronca owners often took to the skies with only five hours of instruction, largely because of the C-3's predictable flying characteristics. Both the C-2 and C-3 are often described as 'powered gliders' because of their gliding ability and gentle landing speeds.
The Museum's C-3 was imported into Canada in 1931 and bought by WJ Morgan of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1936. We acquired the fuselage from John Campbell in 1991 and plans are in place to restore the aircraft in the future.


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Building a gallery of thumbnails of same size in PHP
Creating Thumbnails: Part Two
In this second part, the script of thumbnails will be upgraded so that the height and width are both defined for all thumbnails, while keeping the proportions of the original images.
Indeed the disadvantage of the thumbnail script in the first part was to resize the image to a height or width given the choice, but the other dimension remained variable which does not allow to build galleries.
To achieve this, we will resize the image to create an intermediary thumbnail which retains the proportions, and then crop it either vertically or horizontally, depending in the form of the initial image.
Calculating the size of the intermediate thumbnail
The intermediate thumbnail will be either the width or the height of the final thumbnail, depending if the width or the height is less than the other side.
Dimensions of the final thumbnail
In the demo, the dimensions are 150 in height and 140 in width. Any other values could be choosen.
$thumbh = 150; $thumbw = 140;
Choice of formula
Should we crop on the height or width?
If the intermediate thumbnail has a height of 150, its width must be greater than or equal that 140.
If its width is 140, its height must be greater than or equal to 150.
To anticipate it, we calculate the ratio of height to width, for the source image and the thumbnail.
$ratio = $h / $w; $nratio = $thumbh / $thumbw;
If ratio, the original proportion, is more than nratio, the proportion of the final thumbnail, it must be cropped on the height, and on the width in the other case.
And if we crop on the height, the image is scaled depending on the width.
Resizing on the width
In case ratio is higher than nratio, in other words, the original image is too high compared to the thumbnail to achieve, the intermediate thumbnail is created on the base of the desired width:
$x = intval($w * $nh / $h);
if ($x < $nw)
$nh = intval($h * $nw / $w);
$nw = $x;
A temporary width of x is defined using the formula: w * nh / h.
If x is less than the desired width, the image is scaled on the height by
the formula nh = h * nw / w.
Otherwise the height is retained and the temporary value x is given to the width nw of the thumbnail.
Resizing on the height
If the new ratio nratio is bigger than the original ratio, the image is wider than high, it must be reduced on the basis of height, and then cropped horizontally.
$x = intval($h * $nw / $w);
if ($x < $nh)
$nw = intval($w * $nh / $h);
$nh = $x;
The calculations are inverted.
Creating the intermediate image
The PHP functions of the first part are used again to resize the image:
$resimage = imagecreatefromjpeg($oldname); $newimage = imagecreatetruecolor($nw, $nh); imageCopyResampled($newimage, $resimage,0,0,0,0,$nw, $nh, $w, $h);
But furthermore, we must crop the image, thus creating an empty image on which a part of the intermediate thumbnail is copied.
$viewimage = imagecreatetruecolor($thumbw, $thumbh); imagecopy($viewimage, $newimage, 0, 0, 0, 0, $nw, $nh);
Now we have just to save the thumbnail.
In the demo, an array of images is scanned by the foreach structure. See the complete source code below.
Thumbnail gallery created with the script
Click to display the original image.
- See the complete PHP script of thumbnail gallery.
- Download the archive including the script and images.


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- Do plants need salt?
- Is salt bad for soil?
- Is Fruit dead or alive?
- What are 5 non-living things?
- What are 10 living things?
- Can humans eat non-living things?
- Is salt the only non-living thing we eat?
- Is onion living or nonliving?
- What are 5 living things?
- Are dead leaves living things?
- Is salt water living or nonliving?
- Which things are nonliving?
- Does salt kill slugs?
- Does Salt Kill Grass?
- Is an apple dead or alive?
- Is everything we eat living?
- Is hair a living thing?
- Is water living or non-living?
- Is Sun a living thing?
- Why is a car not alive?
- Are bananas living or nonliving?
Do plants need salt?
Salt's Effect on Plants Salt is a very common substance in the soil as well in the sea.
Plants need a small amount of salinity to survive, since salt is one of the nutrients necessary for plants to grow, so the presence of some salt is necessary..
Is salt bad for soil?
In saline and saline-sodic soils, high concentrations of soluble salts reduce the amount of available water for plants to use. High levels of sodium can be toxic to certain plants. Also, the very high soil pH in high-salt soils greatly changes the nutrients available to the plants.
Is Fruit dead or alive?
The fruits and vegetables we buy in the grocery store are actually still alive, and it matters to them what time of day it is. … "Vegetables and fruits don't die the moment they are harvested," said lead researcher Dr. Janet Braam, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
What are 5 non-living things?
Some examples of important nonliving things in an ecosystem are sunlight, temperature, water, air, wind, rocks, and soil. Living things grow, change, produce waste, reproduce, and die. Some examples of living things are organisms such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria.
What are 10 living things?
10 Living things: human being, plants, bacteria, insects, animals, lichens, reptiles, mammals, trees, mosses. Non-Living things: chair, table, books, bed, newspaper, clothes, bed sheets, curtains, bag, pen.
Can humans eat non-living things?
We — along with all other animals — are not autotrophs, but heterotrophs. This means that we cannot produce organic compounds by ourselves but need to 'reuse' the ones that are produced by autotrophic organisms. That's why no human will ever be able to live without consuming other life.
Is salt the only non-living thing we eat?
The most common one is, of course, salt, aka halite, which provides us with sodium and chloride. Some humans who are unable to obtain enough calcium, potassium, iron, etc. from once-living food also eat other mineral substances such as various kinds of clay, ground-up seashells.
Is onion living or nonliving?
Onions are loaded with cells so onions must be a living thing.
What are 5 living things?
Living things are divided into five kingdoms: animal, plant, fungi, protist and monera. Living things are divided into five kingdoms: animal, plant, fungi, protist and monera.
Are dead leaves living things?
A leaf that has fallen off a tree is dead, which also means not alive. This must mean dead leaves are non-living things. People need water to live, so water must be a living thing too.
Is salt water living or nonliving?
High Biodiversity. Salt water ecosystems are the most diverse repository of living things on the planet. They support nearly half of all Earth's current known species, with possibly up to a million more still to be discovered.
Which things are nonliving?
Non-living things cannot move by themselves. They respire and exchange of gases takes place in their cells. Non-living things do not respire. Example: Humans, animals, plants, insects.
Does salt kill slugs?
Many people suggest controlling slugs with salt. But salt will kill them, rather than simply control them. … Making a direct slug kill using salt will draw out the water from a slug's moist body, resulting in death by dehydration.
Does Salt Kill Grass?
Because salt not only inhibits grass growth but also kills grass in high doses, you can destroy unwanted grass, such as grass sprouting in driveway crevices, by dosing it with salt. It absorbs moisture, preventing it from reaching the roots of all types of plants, including grass.
Is an apple dead or alive?
After apples are picked, they are still alive – they continue to carry out the chemical processes of a living plant, more or less, as they take in oxygen, create energy, and get closer and closer to ripeness.
Is everything we eat living?
Everything else is a heterotroph and must eat autotrophs for food. We can get nutrition from substances that were not once an organism themselves (milk and honey), but everything we eat comes from living organisms. everything we eat that you count as food is based on plant matter.
Is hair a living thing?
Even though the hair you can see isn't made of living cells, your hair is very much a living thing. Taking care of your hair properly can make all the difference in helping your hair strands last longer and look healthier.
Is water living or non-living?
Living things need food to grow, they move, respire, reproduce, excrete wastes from the body, respond to stimuli in the environment and have a definite life span. Water, sun, moon and stars do not show any of the above characteristics of living things. Hence, they are non-living things.
Is Sun a living thing?
For young students things are 'living' if they move or grow; for example, the sun, wind, clouds and lightning are considered living because they change and move. Others think plants and certain animals are non-living.
Why is a car not alive?
A car is not a living thing because it does not fulfill some key characteristics that define living things. All living things are composed of cells. … A car is not composed of cells. All living things grow and develop over time.
Are bananas living or nonliving?
Fruits and vegetables when they are in plants they grow and hence they are called as living things. But once plucked from the plants or trees, they do not grow and hence they become a non-living things.


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Macromerine
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Names
IUPAC name
1-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-2-(dimethylamino)ethanol
Identifiers
2970-95-8 YesY
3D model (Jmol) Interactive image
ChemSpider 144706 YesY
PubChem 165055
Properties
C12H19NO3
Molar mass 225.284 g/mol
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
YesY verify (what is YesYN ?)
Infobox references
Macromerine is a psychedelic phenethylamine derivative. It can be synthesized or extracted from the Doñana (Coryphantha macromeris), C. macromeris v. runyonii, C. elephantidens, and other related members of the Cactaceae family. The plants may have been used by Tarahumara shamans for their entheogenic effects.
Chemistry[edit]
Macromerine is in a family of chemicals called the phenethylamines, and it is a close analogue of mescaline. The full chemical name of macromerine is 1-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-2-(dimethylamino)ethanol.
Effects[edit]
Little is known about the psychedelic effects of macromerine. K. Trout states that a bioassay of macromerine-containing cactus, Doñana, "had been very mild and very strange, with many waves of intense nausea and extremely persistent after effects, such as distorted vision and a very weird feeling of unreality lasting for weeks after its use."
However, considering Doñana is usually no more than 0.1 percent macromerine, several pounds of the dried cactus would be required to consume a psychedelic dosage of macromerine. What is more likely is that the combination of all alkaloids present in the cactus produce the effects of Doñana.
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I am trying to do this by setting up the transparency of the layer, but the markers seem unaffected by this change.
Any ideas?
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Depending on what effect you are looking for. Possibly one workaround is to make other layers transparent and move your point layer down in the TOC. I have never seen anything like this other than a hollow symbol with no fill. – Brad Nesom Dec 30 '10 at 14:27
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The best way to import symbols in a map document is to use EMF format. This will maintain the vectors, allow resizing in ArcMap without loss of quality. Since there is no "background" to a vector drawing, it will appear correctly transparent in ArcMap.
Alternately, you can make the bitmap marker method work by filling the "transparent" background portions of your symbol with a key colour that does not appear elsewhere in your image be aware that using bitmap markers may adversely affect output quality.
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Is the EMF format the only image format in Layout that supports transparency still (Mid-2012)? – Roy Jun 1 '12 at 17:48
You are going to the marker layer's properties Display tab and changing the transparency, correct? As I'm guessing you know this is the main way to change the transparency of any layer, including marker symbols. If that doesn't work, I wonder if you don't have have some kind of read-only problem. May be worth trying to copy that layer and paste it in as a new layer and try to change the transparency on the new copied layer.
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A term used in medicine to refer to a doctor's overall collection of skills and tools to perform the art of healing. A physician's armamentarium may contain surgical procedures, access to an MRI scanner, bedside manner, the basic ability to diagnose illness and a prescription pad.
Armamentarium may also refer to a general collection of equipment possessed by a medical institution, or procedures available to the medical community in general.
In becoming a dermatologist, Dr. Fishman added many chemical peel procedures to her armamentarium.
Modern medicine has a massive armamentarium of antibiotic therapies for combating bacterial infection.


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In the present work we apply the cBΩ thermodynamic model to study the diffusion of Si in stishovite crystal at high pressure and in a wide temperature range. According to this model, the point defect activation Gibbs free energy is expressed as a function of the bulk properties of the material, i.e., gact = cBΩ, where B is the isothermal bulk modulus, Ω is the mean atomic volume, and c is a dimensionless constant. In this way, other important point defect parameters, such as the activation volume vact, the activation entropy sact, and the activation enthalpy hact may be estimated if the thermoelastic properties of the material are known over a wide temperature and pressure range. Our calculations are based on previously reported self-diffusion coefficients in stishovite single crystals measured at 14 GPa and at temperatures from 1400 to 1800 °C, in the and directions, by Shatskiy et al. (Am. Mineral. 2010, 95, 135–43). Furthermore, the EOS of stishovite, proposed by Wang et al. (J. Geophys. Res. 2012, 117, B06209) has been used for the accurate implementation of the cBΩ model. Our results suggest that the aforementioned point defect parameters exhibit considerable temperature dependence over the studied temperature range (1000–2000 °C). The estimated activation volumes (4.4–5.3 cm3/mol, in the range of 1400–1800 °C) are in agreement with reported experimental results. Our study confirms the potential of the cBΩ model for the theoretical investigation of diffusion processes in minerals, in order to overcome the experimental difficulties and the lack of experimental diffusion data in mantle conditions.
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Edward Janoff, MD, Tim Gill Professor of Medicine & Microbiology and Director, Mucosal and Vaccine Research Center, University of Colorado
Dr. Janoff focuses on diseases of international importance, such as diarrheal disease, respiratory infections, and HIV-1/AIDS. His team characterizes mucosal responses to Streptococcus pneumoniae in the lung and to HIV-1 in the intestine, reproductive tract, and in breast milk.
Each study has been supported by a field site in Africa (Uganda, Burkina Faso, Botswana and South Africa) with collaborators from these African nations, the U.S. and Europe. The goal of his laboratory is to provide a scientific foundation for mucosal vaccines to prevent pneumococcal infections and transmission of HIV /AIDS. He integrates clinical and basic laboratory approaches to determine how pathogens interact with the host at the mucosal surface and how innate and humeral mechanisms, individually and in concert, serve to protect against infection.
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All tasks inherit the monitoring settings from the device under which they were created. The device defines the monitoring settings, such as: Frequency, monitoring Agent list, Reporting options, Alerting options, and other settings that are specific to different Platforms.
Here are few ways you can create or edit several tasks at once:
- For the ServerView platform the easiest way to set up a few closely related HTTP(S) tasks is to record them using the EveryStep Scripting Tool.
- For UserView platform, as each UserView device contains only script, the best way to modify a complex monitoring script is to load it directly into the EveryStep Scripting Tool using the "Load Device" option:
- For all monitoring platforms, if you need to modify several tasks, it is safest to clone an existing device and then make the necessary changes:


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As we all know temperature of space is near to absolute zero.Then why super conductors aren't used there?
The intensity of the light from the Sun at the orbit of the Earth is around 1.4 kilowatts per square metre. For comparison, a domestic heater is usually around 3 kW, so a satellite with a 2m surface area (admittedly this is bigger than most satellites) facing the Sun needs to dissipate as much energy as used to heat your living room. This is in addition to the waste heat produced by the electronics on the satellite. For most satellites it's keeping cool that's the problem, and that's why they're wrapped in reflective foil.
Where you have a satellite that needs to stay really cool, such as the Herschel Space Observatory, the satellite has to carry a supply of liquid helium to cool itself. In fact the Herschel Space Observatory ran out of liquid helium at the end of April last year and can no longer operate.
It's certainly true that if you can stay out of sunlight space is a pretty cold place. If you could avoid all reflected light then in principle you could cool to the 2.7K temperature of the microwave background, and this is cold enough to use superconductors. However this isn't a practical way to operate most satellites.


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-Coach lead and carry out the debating activity between members.
-Topic: "If you find your friend cheating in test, will you tell the teacher", is given to the members to let them debate on.
-Members given some time to think about what they want to say.
-Every member should give their opinion about the topic.
-Members are separated into different groups.
-Coach correct the members' mistake if found.
-To improve their debating skills.
-To groom the confident of every member when talking or given a speech in front of people.
-Members learn to indicate their opinion and know to persuade others.


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How to Build a Current Sensor Circuit
Current
In this circuit, we will show how to build a current sensor circuit.
A current sensor circuit is a circuit that can sense current going through it. If the current reaches a certain threshold, then an indicator, such as an LED, will turn on.
This is not an ammeter circuit, where we know or are measuring the amount of current going through. That's a different thing entirely.
This is a current sensor circuit, where if we get to a certain level of current, then the output will turn on.
And we can build a current sensor circuit, simply by exploiting ohm's law.
Ohm's law states that, I= V/R, where I is the current, V is the voltage, and R is the resistance.
Say, we want to detect 5mA of current. We want 10mA to be the threshold. Any current 10mA or higher will trigger on the output of the circuit. So, we choose a resistor value of, say, 1KΩ. Now, rearranging ohm's law, V=IR, which means that V= (5mA)(1KΩ)= 5V.
So if you're a 1KΩ resistor in our circuit and it reaches a voltage of 10V, then we know, based on ohm's law, there is 10mA of current flowing through the resistor in the circuit. By monitoring the voltage, we can monitor the current because voltage has a direct relationship with current (V=IR). Therefore, to measure current, all we have to do is measure voltage.
So when we have our output voltage, we can know the current.
So, back to the circuit, we know that if the voltage is 10V, then this means that 10mA is flowing through it.
So we take this voltage and input it into a voltage comparator chip. If the voltage comparator detects 10V or higher, then we know that the current is 10mA or higher.
And this is how we can built a current sensor circuit with a voltage comparator chip. You can calculate any current threshold you want based on ohm's law formula and obtain the voltage that will produced with the current threshold you want.
Components
 - LM741
 - 1KΩ resistor
 - 470Ω resistor
 - LED
You can really use any voltage comparator chip that you have.
In this circuit, we will use the general LM741 operational amplifier to act and function as a voltage comparator.
The LM741 is an 8-pin chip.
If you would like to understand all the pin connections of the LM741 op amp, see LM741 Op Amp- Pinout Connections. This article explains all of the 8 pins of the LM741 and what each one does.
The LM741 pinout is shown below.
LM741 Pinout Diagram
How this chip functions a voltage comparator and how all voltage comparators work is we feed 2 voltage signals into each of the inputs of the op amp. An op amp has 2 inputs, the + input, or the noinverting input and the - input, or the inverting input.
If the voltage at the noninverting terminal is greater than at the inverting terminal, then the output will go HIGH to the voltage supplied at VCC of the chip.
If the voltage at the noninverting terminal is less, then the output will be LOW or at the level of V-.
Current Sensor Circuit
The current sensor circuit that we will build is shown below.
Current sensor circuit
If you want to see this circuit shown from the IC itself, see the following: Current Sensor Circuit shown from the LM741 IC.
The breadboard schematic of the above circuit is shown below.
Current sensor breadboard circuit
So the LM741 chip is an 8-pin. We only connect 5 out of the 8 pins.
Pin 1 is a NC (Not Connect) and pins 1 and 5 are offset nulls, which we don't connect for this circuit.
Now to power the circuit, we connect V+, pin 7, to 10V and V-, pin 4, to ground. This establishes power to the LM741 chip.
Next, we have the 2 inputs of the op amp of the Lm741.
We connect our reference voltage to the inverting terminal, which is pin 2. Since we want 10mA of current to be the threshold current that we want to detect and we're using a 1KΩ resistor, this means that our reference voltage will be 10V (V= IR= (10mA)(1KΩ)=10V).Thus, our reference voltage to detect for 10mA or higher is 10V. So we connect 10V to pin 3, the inverting terminal.
To the noninverting terminal, we connect a 1KΩ resistor and our current signal that we want to test to check if it reaches or is above the threshold current.
And, lastly, to the output pin of the LM741, which is pin 5, we connect our output which in this case is an LED along with a 470Ω current-limiting resistor so that the LED doesn't blow out.
This completes all the connections for our circuit.
How the Circuit Works
So, we have our reference voltage of 10V.
If the current being input into the noninverting terminal of the op amp is less than 10mA, the voltage at the inverting terminal will be less than 10V. This is because the resistor we are using is a 1KΩ resistor. Doing the math of ohm's law shows that, 9mA, for instance will produce a voltage of, V=IR= (9mA)(1KΩ)=9V.
As long as the voltage at the noninverting terminal is less than at the inverting terminal, the output of the LM741 will be LOW. Therefore, the LED will not light up.
The voltage the noninverting terminal must be greater than the voltage at the inverting terminal for the LED to light up. Since the voltage at the inverting terminal is 10V, the voltage at the noninverting terminal must be greater than 10V. This only happens when the current being fed into the inverting terminal is greater than 10mA. For instance, if it's 10.5mA, this produce a voltage of, V=IR= (10.5mA)(1KΩ)= 10.5V. So, in this instance, the voltage at the inverting terminal is greater, and the output will go HIGH, so the LED will turn on.
And this is how a current sensor can detect any level of current input.
When designing a current sensor, you can set any threshold current level that you want. Once you know the desired current that you want, then you just have to decide on the resistor value. And then from that, you can calculate the voltage.
when deciding on the value of the resistor that you're going to use, you have to consider the other parameters of current and voltage. You cannot choose a resistor value that is too low or too high. There has to be somewhat carefully chosen. For example, if you chose a resistor value of 100KΩ and you want a current threshold of 10mA, this would be bad choice, because in order to get 10mA with a 100KΩ resistor, you would have to use 1000V. Where you would get 1000V from? It wouldn't work. And even if you got 1000V, you wouldn't be able to incorporate it into a voltage comparator chip, because it can only handle about 20V or so, definitely not 1000V. Therefore, you have to use a much lower resistor value so that you can use a voltage that isn't ridiculous. Same thing for using a resistor value that is too low. If you use a 10Ω resistor and you want 10mA of current, this would need a voltage of, V=IR= (10mA)(10Ω) 0.1V. This is too small for a voltage comparator to work with. You want to have a more spaced out voltage than using tenths of a volt, which is difficult to manage. So carefully considering voltage and current needs dictates the resistor value that is appropriate for the circuit. You don't always have to use the 1KΩ resistor that is used in this circuit, but you do have to consider current and voltage needs.
And you can also do variations to this circuit. If you don't just want a single fixed current threshold, you can place a potentiometer in between either noninverting terminal or the inverting terminal. This will allow you vary threshold levels. The potentiometer you choose should be within a resistance range that fits in well with your voltage and current requirements.
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d deletes a command from a command interpreter. Once the call completes, attempts to invoke cmdName in interp will result in errors. If cmdName isn't bound as a command in interp then Tcl_DeleteCommand does nothing and returns -1; otherwise it returns 0. There are no restrictions on cmdName: it may refer to a built-in command, an application-specific command, or a Tcl procedure. If name contains any :: namespace qualifiers, the command is deleted from the specified namespace. Given a token returned by Tcl_CreateObjCommand, Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken deletes the command from a command interpreter. It will delete a command even if that command has been renamed. Once the call completes, attempts to invoke the command in interp will result in errors. If the command corresponding to token has already been deleted from interp then Tcl_DeleteCommand does nothing and returns -1; otherwise it returns 0. Tcl_GetCommandInfo checks to see whether its cmdName argument exists as a command in interp. cmdName may include :: namespace qualifiers to identify a command in a particular namespace. If the command is not found, then it returns 0. Otherwise it places information about the command in the Tcl_CmdInfo structure pointed to by infoPtr and returns 1. A Tcl_CmdInfo structure has the following fields: typedef struct Tcl_CmdInfo { int isNativeObjectProc; Tcl_ObjCmdProc *objProc; ClientData objClientData; Tcl_CmdProc *proc; ClientData clientData; Tcl_CmdDeleteProc *deleteProc; ClientData deleteData; Tcl_Namespace *namespacePtr; } Tcl_CmdInfo; The isNativeObjectProc field has the value 1 if Tcl_CreateObjCommand was called to register the command; it is 0 if only Tcl_CreateCommand was called. It allows a program to determine whether it is faster to call objProc or proc: objProc is normally faster if isNativeObject- Proc has the value 1. The fields objProc and objClientData have the same meaning as the proc and clientData arguments to Tcl_CreateObjCom- mand; they hold information about the object-based command procedure that the Tcl interpreter calls to implement the command. The fields proc and clientData hold information about the string-based command procedure that implements the command. If Tcl_CreateCommand was called for this command, this is the procedure passed to it; otherwise, this is a compatibility procedure registered by Tcl_CreateObjCommand that simply calls the command's object-based procedure after converting its string arguments to Tcl objects. The field deleteData is the ClientData value to pass to deleteProc; it is normally the same as clientData but may be set independently using the Tcl_SetCommandInfo procedure. The field namespacePtr holds a pointer to the Tcl_Namespace that contains the command. Tcl_GetCommandInfoFromToken is identical to Tcl_GetCommandInfo except that it uses a command token returned from Tcl_CreateObjCommand in place of the command name. If the token parameter is NULL, it returns 0; otherwise, it returns 1 and fills in the structure designated by infoPtr. Tcl_SetCommandInfo is used to modify the procedures and ClientData values associated with a command. Its cmdName argument is the name of a command in interp. cmdName may include :: namespace qualifiers to identify a command in a particular namespace. If this command does not exist then Tcl_SetCommandInfo returns 0. Otherwise, it copies the information from *infoPtr to Tcl's internal structure for the command and returns 1. Tcl_SetCommandInfoFromToken is identical to Tcl_SetCommandInfo except that it takes a command token as returned by Tcl_CreateObjCommand instead of the command name. If the token parameter is NULL, it returns 0. Otherwise, it copies the information from *infoPtr to Tcl's internal structure for the command and returns 1. Note that Tcl_SetCommandInfo and Tcl_SetCommandInfoFromToken both allow the ClientData for a command's deletion procedure to be given a different value than the ClientData for its command procedure. Note that neither Tcl_SetCommandInfo nor Tcl_SetCommandInfoFromToken will change a command's namespace. You must use Tcl_RenameCommand to do that. Tcl_GetCommandName provides a mechanism for tracking commands that have been renamed. Given a token returned by Tcl_CreateObjCommand when the command was created, Tcl_GetCommandName returns the string name of the command. If the command has been renamed since it was created, then Tcl_GetCommandName returns the current name. This name does not include any :: namespace qualifiers. The command corresponding to token must not have been deleted. The string returned by Tcl_GetCommandName is in dynamic memory owned by Tcl and is only guaranteed to retain its value as long as the command isn't deleted or renamed; callers should copy the string if they need to keep it for a long time. Tcl_GetCommandFullName produces the fully-qualified name of a command from a command token. The name, including all namespace prefixes, is appended to the object specified by objPtr. Tcl_GetCommandFromObj returns a token for the command specified by the name in a Tcl_Obj. The command name is resolved relative to the current namespace. Returns NULL if the command is not found. SEE ALSO
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How to run SQL queries from Python scripts
You may want to access your tables outside of Databricks notebooks. Besides connecting BI tools via JDBC, you can also access tables by using Python scripts. You can connect to a Spark cluster via JDBC using PyHive and then run a script. You should have PyHive installed on the machine where you are running the Python script.
Python 2 is considered end-of-life. You should use Python 3 to run the script provided in this article. If you have both Python 2 and Python 3 running on your system, you should make sure your version of pip is linked to Python 3 before you proceed.
You can check your version of pip by running pip -V at the command prompt. This command returns the version of pip and the version of Python it is using.
Install PyHive and Thrift
Use pip to install PyHive and Thrift.
 pip install pyhive thrift
Run SQL script
This sample Python script sends the SQL query show tables to your cluster and then displays the result of the query.
Do the following before you run the script:
 1. Replace with your Databricks API token.
 2. Replace with the domain name of your Databricks deployment.
 3. Replace with the Workspace ID.
 4. Replace with a cluster ID.
To get the API token, see Generate a token. To determine the other values, see How to get Workspace, Cluster, Notebook, and Job Details.
import os
import sys
from pyhive import hive
from thrift.transport import THttpClient
import base64
TOKEN = ""
WORKSPACE_URL = ""
WORKSPACE_ID = ""
CLUSTER_ID = ""
conn = 'https://%s/sql/protocolv1/o/%s/%s' % (WORKSPACE_URL, WORKSPACE_ID, CLUSTER_ID)
transport = THttpClient.THttpClient(conn)
auth = "token:%s" % TOKEN
PY_MAJOR = sys.version_info[0]
if PY_MAJOR < 3:
 auth = base64.standard_b64encode(auth)
 auth = base64.standard_b64encode(auth.encode()).decode()
transport.setCustomHeaders({"Authorization": "Basic %s" % auth})
cursor = hive.connect(thrift_transport=transport).cursor()
cursor.execute('show tables',async_=True)
pending_states = (
while cursor.poll().operationState in pending_states:
print("Done. Results:")
for table in cursor.fetchall():


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Strange Mysterious Monoliths appear all over the World
What are the strange mysterious monoliths appearing all over the world? Could they be an extraterrestrial device, a form of futuristic art or a simple global prank? Let's check all the appearances to date and decide if they are real of fake.
1. The Mysterious Monolith from Utah desert
The first metal monolith was found in November, 2020, by a team of biologists surveilling the Utah dessert and analyzing the fauna. However, during their trip, they noticed something peculiar in the middle of nowhere. They shared the pictures of the mysterious monolith on the social media, hoping that someone will know what the object is. The structure was between 10 – 12 feet and appeared to be made of aluminum. Many viewers saw a strange similarity with the famous monolith from the SF movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". In the movie, the strange monolith is meant to show itself to evolved beings to reveal them the meaning of life. Our monoliths are not as smart as the object in the movie, but it's worth checking out.
People started to visit the metal column and take picture with it. However, after a few days, a team disassembled the structure during the night, claiming that the metal structure was sparking too much attention and the people who came to visit it started to leave trash in the nature. Here is the video and you can see that the monolith is just an empty metal structure.
2. New mysterious strange monoliths appear in the world, in Romania
Soon, a new monolith appeared, this time, in Romania. In the town Piatra Neamt, people noticed in a natural protected area a tall strange-looking metal structure. It was 9ft tall, but it looked more rudimentary and the wielding were visible all over its surface. It was quite obvious that the metal structure was man-made, and it disappeared after the Utah monolith was taken down.
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3. Metal Monolith appears in California
And when we thought that the series of crazy monoliths ended a new metal column was found in California. The 3rd monolith was found in Pine Mountain in Atascadero. The three-sided object measured roughly 10ft and it was similar in shape and structure to the other monoliths. This object was first spotted by a hiker. Later, the monolith was taken down and removed by four men, at night.
It appears that these objects are becoming a trend and it is obvious by now that they are made by humans, but the question remains: Why?
4. 4th Monolith appears in New England – Mysterious Strange Monoliths
A new monolith appeared on the south coast of England sparking the curiosity once again. On the Isle of Wight, Tom Dunford spotted a new strange monolith while walking his dog. He was aware of the stories with the metal structure so he took pictures and videos of the newest metal object. The new monolith is 10 ft tall and has a very reflective surface, almost like a mirror. Now we can say that these monoliths are no longer mono, since they are not one of a kind.
We wonder if these monoliths will keep showing up everywhere in the world. Hopefully, we will find out what is their purpose and if they mean anything or are simple jokes.
5. Monolith appears in Belgium, in a potato field
After the monoliths from United States, Romania and UK, more monoliths appeared around the world. The people of a small town in Belgium were surprised to find a metal monolith in the muddy soil of a potato field, this week.
Later, more monoliths appeared, one in the town of Fayetteville and another one in Colombia. Check the posts from witnesses, below. The monolith from Chia, Colombia has a golden finish and the visitors believe it is controlling all of them, and that is cute…. 🙂
6. New Monolith found on a deserted beach in Romania, Constanta
This week, a new monolith was discovered on the Vadu beach in Constanta, Romania. This is the second mysterious strange monolith appearing in Romania. The size and shape is the same as usual, but this time the witness could also see car trails in the sand. This demonstrates that the metal structure was delivered using a car, and not an UFO.
Black monolith on deserted beach Constanta, Romania - twistofcreation
But if an actual extraterrestrial monolith were to show up in the future, we can definitely say that nobody will take it seriously. 🙂
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Eunicella cavolinii, commonly known as the yellow gorgonian or yellow sea whip, is a species of colonial soft coral in the family Gorgonidae. It is native to parts of the western Atlantic Ocean and most of the Mediterranean, where it is a common species.
Eunicella cavolini is a much-branched soft coral growing to a height of about 50 cm. It is fan-shaped with the irregular, cylindrical branches largely growing in a single plane. The stem has an enlarged base fixed to the substrate and the branches are smooth, short and about 3 mm thick. The coenenchyme (the thin fleshy covering of the stiff skeleton) is yellowish-orange. The polyps are white to yellow, about 2 mm long and arranged in four rows. Eunicella cavolini can be confused with the warty gorgonian (Eunicella verrucosa). Eunicella cavolini is common throughout the Mediterranean Sea. It grows mainly between 10 and 30 m but can be found as deep as 150 m.
The polyps expand their tentacles to catch zooplankton. The food fragments are passed to the mouth and then move into the gut to be digested. The nutrients are then transferred to all parts of the colony via channels in the living matrix of the branches. The fan is usually orientated perpendicular to the current so as to maximise the capture of prey.
 The growth rate is slow, at about 1 to 2 cm. per year.
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I'm having problems with 'Learning Perl 6th Edition' Chapter 5 Question 1.
The question is to write a program that acts like cat but reverses the order of the output lines.
The book gives the answer as print reverse <>;
I'm running Perl v5.14.2
My code is:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print reverse <>;
After this I ran chmod 755 on the file to make sure it was executable.
On the command line I'm trying:
./tac.pl I am the walrus
I'm getting this in return:
Useless use of reverse in void context at ./tac.pl line 3.
Can't open I: No such file or directory at ./tac.pl line 3.
Can't open am: No such file or directory at ./tac.pl line 3.
Can't open the: No such file or directory at ./tac.pl line 3.
Can't open walrus: No such file or directory at ./tac.pl line 3.
Use of uninitialized value in reverse at ./tac.pl line 3.
Any idea what's causing this issue?
 - Hint: run cat I am the walrus – this doesn't work either. You should put multiple lines into a file of their own: cat text.txt and ./tac.pl text.txt. – amon Dec 28 '13 at 22:12
 - I believe the book has that on subsequent lines … i.e.. press RETURN after ./tac.pl – BRPocock Dec 28 '13 at 22:19
 - It works now when it uses a file as an argument. I was trying, as amon showed using cat as an example, to incorrectly pass command line arguments directly to the program when I needed to use a text file. – Kontophoros Dec 28 '13 at 22:33
 - Useless use of reverse in void context? You also have a problem with line endings, since perl didn't see the print. Use a CRLF for a Windows build of Perl, and LF endings elsewhere, including cygwin. – ikegami Dec 29 '13 at 5:18
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The arguments on the command line are the names of the files that the line input operator reads. All of the the lines of all of the files are read, passed to reverse as a list, and that reversed list is passed to print.
Create these files:
fred
fred line one
fred line two
fred line three
barney
barney line 1
barney line 2
barney line 3
barney line 4
betty
betty line a
betty line b
betty line c
When you cat these, you get:
$ cat fred barney betty
fred line one
fred line two
fred line three
barney line 1
barney line 2
barney line 3
barney line 4
betty line a
betty line b
betty line c
Now, the Perl program we gave as the answer wants you to reverse that. betty line c should be first and fred line one should be last. When you run the program just as you have written it, that's what you should see:
$ perl tac.pl fred barney betty
betty line c
betty line b
betty line a
barney line 4
barney line 3
barney line 2
barney line 1
fred line three
fred line two
fred line one
In your question, you passed arguments to your program, but they didn't represent filenames. The line input operator, <>, had nothing to read because the magic that made that work fails when none of the files exist. That's where the weird warnings come in.
If you have further problems, adjust the question in the form I just showed you. Show the input files and exactly how ran your program. Good luck, :)
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You are running the program in the wrong way when you are using the diamond operator. The program expects to find files named "I", "am", "the", and "walrus" when you run it in that way. Run it without parameters and you will have a program that reads from STDIN. I thought the book told you this before you got this far through it.
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I really didn't know what type of scene to make for a forest like theme with when creating this next landscape lesson with a 'for kids' theme. After thinking of what else I could create that could help aid people with drawing specific backgrounds, I came up with the idea to do a tutorial on "how to draw a jungle for kids", step by step. This lesson is going to be full of trees, leaves, foothills, and a bunch of moss filled ground. A jungle is a place that has heated temperatures, with a muggy, misty, sticky feel. I had so much fun making this jungle because my little eight year old sister helped me out with the concept. I think that there is a lot of potential with this background because you can add some tropical birds, insects and even reptiles to accent the whole drawing. I was going to include some wild life, but I thought I would leave that up to you guys. Well, that's it, have fun with drawing a jungle for kids, and I will return in a bit with some more fun for you all.


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To convert 1 gram of salt into teaspoons, multiply 1 gram by 0.17. Although the conversion is not exact, there are approximately 6 grams in every teaspoon, translating to about 0.17 teaspoons per one gram.
- Measure the salt in grams
Use a kitchen scale to measure your salt in grams. Write down how much the salt weighs in grams.
- Multiply the amount of salt in grams by 0.17
The conversion from grams to teaspoons for salt is not exact. A gram is a measurement of mass, while a teaspoon is a measure of volume. Converting a measurement of mass to a measurement of volume can be done, but the result is approximate. If you have one gram of salt, you therefore must multiply by 0.17 in order to determine the salt's measurement in teaspoons.
- Use an online conversion calculator
If you want to calculate different measurements of salt from grams to teaspoons, go to TraditionalOven.com. In the search bar on the homepage, search for "salt converter", then click the first link. Once on the calculator, type the amount of salt in grams into the converter and hit Enter. The calculator automatically generates the conversion of salt from grams to teaspoons. You can also click "from teaspoons into grams" if you wish you toggle the conversion.


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Keys to Aging Cheddar Cheese
- Be sure that the cheese is in a controlled environment and the temperature is between 46°F and 52°F for best aging. At Golden Age Cheese we age our cheese at a constant 48°F.
- The Cheese must have a good seal so the cheese does not mold during the aging process.
- The cheese should not be exposed to natural light while in the aging process.
- Time is key! "The longer the cheese sits, the sharper it gets". A good start is 18 months for sharp Cheddar, but age it yourself for as long as you please.


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File folders are the darling of homeschool moms, who love to turn these ordinary, commonplace office staples into all sorts of fun projects. Publishing with flap books is a simple but effective way for children to showcase their writing!
Let's look at two ways you can use manila file folders to help your children publish their stories and reports.
Reveal Parts of a Story
Try publishing your children's writing projects in lapbook-style flap books. Flap books work especially well when a child wants to reveal one part of the story at a time or hide a surprise ending. They're simple and fun! Even the least crafty among your kids will enjoy producing a final draft like one of these!
1. Numbered Flaps
A younger child's short story can be displayed in a flap book like this one. It contains one numbered flap or mini book for every sentence in the story.
Depending on the child's level of interest, you could cut the flaps from brightly colored scrapbooking or construction paper. Then, affix the sentence strips to the colored paper.
2. Lift-the-Flaps: Beginning, Middle, and End
Publishing with flap books like this one is perfect for revealing the beginning, middle, and end of a story or short report.
Cut the front cover of a file folder horizontally to form two or three flaps.
Then cut the story into strips and glue the strips into the file folder under the corresponding flaps. If the story is longer than one page, simply staple additional (uncut) pages onto the back cover of the file folder.
Your child may also enjoy gluing clip art, magazine pictures, or a small map on the inside of each flap.
Showcase a Report or Narrative
Open up a manila folder and fold the edges into the center to make a different type of flap book (also called a lapbook). Your student can publish a nonfiction report by stapling it in the center and adding photos, illustrations, charts, maps, tables, or graphs to the two outside flaps.
Your child could also use this idea to publish a narrative. Encourage using photos or drawings to illustrate parts of the story.
How do you use manila file folders to display your children's writing assignments?


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Chapter 2. Installing VoltDB
VoltDB is available in both an open source and an enterprise edition. The open source, or community, edition provides basic database functionality with all the transactional performance benefits of VoltDB. The enterprise edition provides additional features needed to support production environments, such as high availability, durability, and dynamic scaling and schema management.
Depending on which version you choose, the VoltDB software comes as either pre-built distributions or as source code. This chapter explains the system requirements for running VoltDB, how to install and upgrade the software, and what resources are provided in the kit.
2.1. Operating System and Software Requirements
The following are the requirements for developing and running VoltDB applications.
Table 2.1. Operating System and Software Requirements
Operating System
VoltDB requires a 64-bit Linux-based operating system. Kits are built and qualified on the following platforms:
 - CentOS version 6.3 or later, including 7.0
 - Red Hat (RHEL) version 6.3 or later, including 7.0
 - Ubuntu versions 10.042, 12.04, and 14.04
Development builds are also available for Macintosh OS X 10.7 and later1.
CPU
 - Dual core3 x86_64 processor
 - 64 bit
 - 1.6 GHz
Memory4 Gbytes4
Java
Java 7 or 8 — VoltDB supports JDKs from OpenJDK or Oracle/Sun
Required Software
NTP5
Python 2.5 or later release of 2.x
Recommended Software
Eclipse 3.x (or other Java IDE)
Footnotes:
 1. CentOS 6.3, CentOS 7.0, RHEL 6.3, RHEL 7.0, and Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, and 14.04 are the only officially supported operating systems for VoltDB. However, VoltDB is tested on several other POSIX-compliant and Linux-based 64-bit operating systems, including Macintosh OS X 10.7.
 2. Support for Ubuntu 10.04 is deprecated and will be removed in an upcoming release.
 3. Dual core processors are a minimum requirement. Four or eight physical cores are recommended for optimal performance.
 4. Memory requirements are very specific to the storage needs of the application and the number of nodes in the cluster. However, 4 Gigabytes should be considered a minimum configuration.
 5. NTP minimizes time differences between nodes in a database cluster, which is critical for VoltDB. All nodes of the cluster should be configured to synchronize against the same NTP server. Using a single local NTP server is recommended, but not required.
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Dog bite injuries to a child's face are not an infrequent occurrence. They may require primary and revisional surgery. All result in permanent facial scars. This report describes the treatment and outcomes of dog bites of the face, scalp, and neck based on a case series of 107 children over a 10-year period.
The average children's age was 5.9 years. In cases where the dog was identified (95%), it was known to the victim and their family. The events leading to the dog bite were categorized as provoked (77%) in the majority of the cases.
The majority of wounds could be closed primarily without a significant risk of wound infection. Complex reconstructions were required in more severe cases. The majority of families (77%) opted for scar revision between 9 and 18 months after initial treatment to improve the aesthetic outcome.
Lawsuit actions resulted in 39 of the cases making good documentation an essential part of treatment.
Dogbite injuries to the face in children frequently require multiple scar revisions to obtain the best possible aesthetic outcome, and the family should be so counseled at the onset of treatment.


Barresi seeking $2,000 raises for all Okla. teachers
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OKLAHOMA CITYThe state superintendent is now turning her attention to Oklahoma's teacher shortage.
Janet Barresi convened the first meeting of the Teacher Shortage Task Force Monday morning.
The group came up with a list of factors impacting the district's ability to recruit and retain the best teachers.
Among them were teacher salaries, strong competition in the private sector and border state competition for higher paying jobs.
Currently, a first-year teacher in Oklahoma makes about $31,600 per year.
That puts us in the bottom ten states in the country when it comes to starter salaries.
The average teacher's salary in our state is just over $44,000 per year.
Teachers in 46 other states make more money, including our neighbors to the south in Texas.
Teachers there make an average of more than $48,000.
Barresi is asking that each teacher receive a $2,000 raise, which would make the Sooner State more competitive with surrounding states like Arkansas, Missouri and Texas.
She says the extra money could be funded by tapping into surplus funds and reducing schools' administrative overhead.
The group will meet up three other times before the end of the year.


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Nautical Archaeologists have recently discovered a Roman era shipwreck off of the coast of Albania. The wreck, which dates to the 1st century BCE was filled with amphorae used to store wine. Archaeologists believe that merchants were transporting the wine from Albania's vineyards to be sold throughout the Mediterranean.
In spite of its age and relatively shallow depth (50 m below sea level), the wreck is remarkably well preserved and nearly all of the vessel seem to be in tact. Both American and Albanian archaeologists will work together to excavate the findings and are excited about the potential for insight it provides about this period in Roman history.
To read more about the wreck and its findings, see this article on MSNBC.