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Environmental Health Indicators
An environmental health indicator is a measure of health, environmental quality, or sociodemographics used to help monitor the overall health of the population. The Environmental Health Investigations Branch compiled a report in 2001 which established criteria for such indicators and proposed 18 environmental health indicators for California in seven topic areas: (1) Sociodemographic; (2) Air Quality; (3) Pesticides; (4) Water Quality; (5) Waste/Topics; (6) Health; and (7) the California/Baja California Border Region. Basic statistical data are presented for each indicator, along with a definition, formula, significance, data characteristics, data limitations, and additional information. The National Environmental Health Tracking Program, in which California participates, also is recording environmental health indicators on a number of topics including asthma, air quality, water quality, carbon monoxide poisonings, and birth defects.
California Environmental Health Indicators Report
An environmental health indicator is a measure of health, environmental quality, or sociodemographics which is important for monitoring the overall health of the population of California....
California's New Environmental Health Tracking Programs
In the wake of 9/11, renewed resources and attention have been given to the nation's public health infrastructure, especially in the areas of surveillance of acute infectious illnesses and monitoring the...
Trends in the sex ratio of California births, 1960–1996
Study objective: The male sex ratio at birth (or the proportion of male births in a population) has been suggested as a sentinel environmental health indicator....
California Environmental Health Tracking Program (CEHTP)
-- California Environmental Health Tracking Program Improving Public Health With Better Information air quality asthma birth defects cancer carbon monoxide poisoning climate change drinking...
Environmental Health Indicator Report
-- An environmental health indicator is a measure of health, environmental quality, or sociodemographics which is important for monitoring the overall health of the population of California....
Geographic Information System (GIS) for the Border Region
-- Initiated in 2007, the Border GIS project inventories various types of environmental data for the Border region and assesses Environmental Health Indicators....
Sex Ratio Among California Births, _PHONE_
-- The male sex ratio at birth (or the proportion of births in a population that is male) has been suggested as a sentinel environmental health indicator....
NCEH Environmental Public Health Indicators Project
-- From CDC National Center for Environmental Health -- Environmental public health indicators (EPHIs) can be used to assess our health status or risk as it relates to our environment. They may be used to assess baseline status and trends, track program goals and objectives, and build core surveillance capacity in state and local agencies.
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How to Store Cilantro
Cilantro is one of the essential ingredients in a lot of recipes that pays to always have on hand so here are various methods to preserve them.
Cilantro is an amazing cooking herb that is healthy and matches well with a lot of dishes, so it's good to know how you can store cilantro to make sure you'll always have a supply for tasty cooking escapades. There are better ways of storing cilantro than just popping it directly in the fridge (you can, but that doesn't make it last very long). Here are 7 simple ways on how to Store Cilantro to last you a week or more.
Storing Cilantro Method 1: Store in the Fridge
First up is the simplest way to store cilantro and is also the most basic way of keeping it fresh for kitchen use. Make no mistake, this is not a plop it and go situation. Here's how to properly store cilantro in your refrigerator:
 1. Put freshly cut cilantro stems in a container filled with water.
 2. Cover the top loosely with a plastic bag.
 3. Store in the fridge. Set it, but don't forget it entirely. You don't have to watch your stored cilantro like a hawk, but every so often, keep an eye on the leaves and cut them off as they wilt. Also, check the water if the color starts to change and replace it.
Storing Cilantro Method 2: Use an Airtight Container
To go with this cilantro storage method is to go the hydrophobic route. Keep your bunch away from water and DO NOT wash the cilantro! The goal is to try and remove the excess moisture.
 1. Using some paper towels, pat to dry off the cilantro.
 2. After gently patting the bunch, wrap the cilantro with new paper towels.
 3. Store the wrapped cilantro inside an airtight container. Every time you use this type of stored cilantro, try to check for wilted leaves and take those out. Watch out! You should only wash cilantro if you'll be using it straight away because it wilts easy.
Storing Cilantro Method 3: Blanch and Freeze
This method of storing cilantro embraces the use of water more than the previous one because it involves a blanching method.
 1. To blanch, boil some hot water in a pot.
 2. Add in the cilantro until wilted (should be a few seconds).
 3. When done, take out the boiled cilantro and plunge it into a bowl of ice water for a maximum of 30 seconds.
 4. Take out the blanched cilantro bunch and give it a little shake or slight squeeze to remove excess water.
 5. Get some paper towels ready and pat the cilantro dry.
 6. Remove the stems of the cilantro and store the leaves inside a Ziplock bag for freezing. Try to remove excess air from the bag to keep it flat for storage.
Storing Cilantro Method 4: Store as Cubes
Think of this method as cryonics, but a little less morbid with cilantro leaves and water.
 1. Wash the cilantro.
 2. After that, take it aside and allow water to drip off it to dry.
 3. Get some paper towels and pat to remove more moisture.
 4. Coarsely chop the cilantro and transfer that directly to an ice tray. When you split the chopped cilantro for the sections of the ice tray, you may choose to "listen to your ancestors" and go by feeling, or you could take a more measured approach by setting a specific amount for each section so you know how much you are using when you cook with it.
 5. Fill the tray with water and freeze.
Storing Cilantro Method 5: Liquify to Cubify (More Freezing)
Consider this storing technique if you're not particular about preserving the original shape of the cilantro herb, yet want to keep the taste. With this storing method, you can choose to wash or blanch your cilantro before proceeding with the steps below.
 1. Coarsely chop the cilantro.
 2. Place the chopped cilantro inside a food processor or blender and add some olive oil.
 3. Puree the mixture.
 4. Get an ice tray and transfer the liquified cilantro to it for freezing. Again, you can go by feeling or measure a specific amount for each cube.
Storing Cilantro Method 6: Make it Butter
Make it better with butter! You can choose to preserve and enhance the taste of cilantro by storing it like butter. Cilantro butter might sound weird, but boy is it flavorful and really easy to do. All you need are 2-3 cups of finely chopped cilantro leaves for every stick of butter.
 1. First, you have to soften the butter stick by leaving it out at room temperature.
 2. While that's happening, go on ahead and finely chop the cilantro leaves (add lemon zest for a little zing).
 3. When everything is ready, put all ingredients in a bowl and mash them all together (add in some salt if preferred).
 4. Scoop the mashed butter into the baking paper.
 5. Shape the cilantro butter into a regular butter stick or cylinder and wrap it with the baking paper.
 6. Refrigerate the butter and use sit how you would regular butter.
Storing Cilantro Method 7: Dehydrated Cilantro
Dry your cilantro for storage by use of a convection oven or a microwave. Consider this storing technique if you want the longest shelf life possible for your stored cilantro (up to a year!). Although it keeps the original shape of the cilantro, you might have to sacrifice losing a bit of the taste.
 1. To start, preheat your convection oven to 250-300 °F.
 2. Make sure you have clean cilantro by washing it and letting it drip to dry.
 3. For good measure, get some paper towels and pat the cilantro bunch dry.
 4. You'll only be using the leaves so you have to strip or cut them off from the stem using a kitchen knife of scissors.
 5. Get microwave-safe paper towels or regular baking sheets on a tray and lay out the leaves on top as you would when baking cookies.
 6. Place the sheet in a convection oven for 25 minutes or so, keeping an eye on the color. Careful to not let them turn brown.
*If you are using a microwave oven, place the sheet inside and microwave for about 2 minutes. If you aren't happy with the color, continue to microwave in increments if 10-20 seconds.
 1. Take out the tray or sheet and allow the leaves to cool for a few minutes.
 2. Carefully transfer the dried cilantro leaves into a jar using your preferred utensil. You can store them as dried cilantro leaves or crushed cilantro.
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Alternative names Klena, Klejne, Kleina, Kleyna, Fattigmann
Type Doughnut
Region or state Northern Europe
Main ingredients flour, egg yolks, sugar, margarine or butter
Cookbook: Klenät Media: Klenät
Klenät, klena, klejne, kleina, kleyna, and fattigmann are all names for a fried pastry common in the Nordic countries. It is also found in nearby countries (such as Lithuania, under the name Žagarėliai). The name is related to klen, the Swedish term for "slender",[1] but is originally of Low German origin, which may indicate that the pastry was originally German. It is made from flattened dough cut into small trapezoids. A slit is cut in the middle and then one end pulled through the slit to form a "knot". The kleina is then deep-fried in oil or another kind of fat.
In mainland Scandinavia, klenäter are traditionally eaten around Christmas,[2][3] most commonly in the southern parts of Sweden,[3][4] but also in Iceland, Norway and Denmark, the Baltic states, as well as Northern Germany.[4] They may be sprinkled with sugar. Icelandic Kleinur are a very common everyday pastry, sold in bakeries (singly) and stores (in bags of ten or so) all around the country, and eaten plain.[5]
The pastries are used as part of a Christmas game in Scandinavian culture[citation needed]. They are tied to a string and hung in an open doorway. The game requires two people to play, but a crowd must be present to enjoy. One participant must attempt to bite the kleina off the string, using only his or her mouth (no hands!), while the other participant manipulates the unadorned end of the string.
Klenäter are an old type of pastry[4] and are mentioned in Icelandic cookbooks as early as 1800.[6] They are also referenced in a Swedish poem by Anna Maria Lenngren from 1800, called Grevinnans besök (English: The Countess' Visit). In the poem, a countess is invited to a dinner party at the home of a pastor, where she is served klenäter as part of the entrée.[7][8] Klenäter also frequently appear in Christmas stories by famous Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909.[9]
Regional variations[edit]
In Norway, klenäter are known as Fattigmann and tend to be made with cardamom.
In Norway, klenäter are known as fattigmann (English: poor man), or Fattigmannbakkels (English: poor man pastry), because, it was said, the high cost of making the cookies could leave you impoverished (fattig).[10] Fattigmann tend to be made with cinnamon, cardamom and a dash of cognac as well as the other ingredients listed above.[11]
They are also eaten in the areas of North America where Scandinavians settled during the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.[12][13]
Preparing klejner in Denmark.
The dough for klenäter is made from flour, egg yolks, sugar,[3][14] and margarine or butter.[15] The dough is rolled out and then cut into strips,[4] in Iceland often with a special cutting wheel called a kleinujárn. (A pizza cutter can also be used.) The size may vary, but about 10 centimetres (3.9 in) long is typical. The uncooked strips are covered with plastic wrap and left to rest for two hours in a cold place.[16] They are then fried in oil or sometimes lard and the dough expands into shape.[3] Traditionally, Icelanders fried kleinur in sheep tallow, but today oil is typically used.
Lemon juice,[15] brännvin or cognac are optional ingredients in klenäter. Water mixed with acetic acid can be used instead.[4][15] An alternative type of klenäter is smördegsklenätter (English: puff pastry klenäter).
Klenäter should be kept in a dry place.[4] The non-fried dough can be preserved in a refrigerator for a week. Klenäter are best served medium-warm and newly baked.[17]
See also[edit]
 1. ^ "Matlexicon - Klenät" (in Swedish). Milda (Unilever). Archived from the original on November 9, 2003. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
 2. ^ "Liten ordbok om mat". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). December 1998. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
 3. ^ a b c d "Klenät". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 2009-11-09.
 4. ^ a b c d e f "Klenäter (klenor)" (in Swedish). Menyse.com. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
 5. ^ Inés Pacheco, Let's Go: Europe on a Budget 2008, New York: Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 978-0-312-37858-5, p. 536.
 6. ^ Marta María Stephensen, Einfaldt Matreidslu Vasa—Qver fyrir heldri manna Húss-freyjur, Leirárgørdum vid Leirá, 1800, OCLC 82628726.
 7. ^ Lenngren, Anna Maria (1852). Skalde-försök (in Swedish). Bonnier. p. 83.
 8. ^ "Grevinnans besök" (in Swedish). Portal Dagensvisa. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
 9. ^ Sewall, Lena. "I Selmas julspår". Nya Wermlands-Tidningen (in Swedish). Retrieved 2009-11-09.
 10. ^ "Fattigmann". Uncle Phaedrus. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
 11. ^ "Fattigmann | Kaker | TINE.no".
 12. ^ "Term: fattigmanns bakkels (food)". Dictionary of Wisconsin History. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
 13. ^ Burckhardt, Ann (2004). A cook's tour of Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-87351-468-2.
 14. ^ Friis, Margit (1948). Bord duka dig: Margit Friis' kokbok (in Swedish). Allhem. p. 78.
 15. ^ a b c "Klenäter". Hemmets Journal (in Swedish). Retrieved 2009-11-09.
 16. ^ "Klenäter" (in Swedish). MixWell. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
 17. ^ "Bakning" (in Swedish). Dansukker. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
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These chapters are growing in parallel with ACS International Chemical Sciences Chapters, which now number 16 (C&EN, June 22, 2015, page 43). To remain active, student chapters need to maintain a minimum of six paid ACS members and submit a report at least once every three years.
The student chapters give international student members of ACS an opportunity to learn more about the society and its resources, build a community around chemistry, and stay engaged with ACS, says Nicole Di Fabio, manager of undergraduate programs at ACS. It's also an opportunity for students to gain cross-cultural experiences. Some of the student chapter members, for example, have attended ACS national meetings in the U.S., where they've presented their research.
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Seriously? You care enough about temporal accuracy buy an atomic clock but you don't know how to build one? We won't tell.Thankfully DIY Physics has a great tutorial on how to build your own with parts from eBay.
The core of the makeshift atomic clock is an Efratom Model M-100 Rubidium Frequency Standard oscillator originally designed for use in military communications and navigation. They can now apparently be found online in the $150 to $200 price range, and rely on the radioactive element Rubidium 87 to provide a constant stable 10 MHz signal.
But turning it into the source signal for an atomic clock takes a little more know-how than building the Radio Shack electronics kits of yesteryear. Keeping it at the perfect temperature is critical for an accurate signal, and you'll need to supply 25 volts of DC power to fire it up.
So it's not quite an after school activity, but if you're a technically-inclined helicopter pilot parent who likes to help—aka do everything—with your kids schoolwork, this is an A+ science fair project waiting to happen. [DIYPhysics via Make]

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What is the difference between:
Quiero que coma
Is it a certain nuance between saying "I want to eat" and "I want that I could eat?"
I'm a little confused here!
I am a little confused too :))
What you are saying in Spanish: quiero que coma and querer comer don't correspond with the English:
"I want to eat" and "I want that I could eat".
If you mean the difference between "I want to eat" and "I want you to eat", this would be:
Quiero comer (I want to eat)
Quiero que comas (I want you to eat)
The second one using que + subjunctive because it is two different subjects.
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Apus ( /ˈeɪpəs/) is a faint constellation in the southern sky, first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a bird-of-paradise (which were once believed to lack feet). It is bordered by Triangulum Australe, Circinus, Musca, Chamaeleon, Octans, Pavo and Ara. Its genitive is "Apodis".
Apus was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35 cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. Plancius called the constellation "Paradysvogel Apis Indica"; the first word is Dutch for 'bird of paradise', but the others are Latin for "Indian Bee"; "apis" (Latin for "bee") is presumably an error for "avis" or "bird". The name "Apus" is derived from the Greek "apous", meaning "without feet", which referred to the Western conception of a bird-of-paradise as one without feet, a…


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The logbook stores the logs of your recorded activities. The maximum number of logs and the maximum duration of a single log depends on how much information is recorded in each activity. GPS accuracy (see GPS accuracy and power saving), for example, directly impact the number and duration of logs that can be stored.
You can view the log summary of your activity right after you have stopped recording or through the Logbook under the start menu.
The information shown in the log summary is dynamic: it changes depending on factors such as sport mode and whether or not you used an heart rate belt or GPS. By default, all logs include at minimum the following information:
If the log includes GPS data, the logbook entry includes a view of the full route track as well as the altitude profile of the track.
You can see many more details of your recorded activities in Suunto app.
To view log summary after stopping a recording:
You can also view the summaries of all your recorded sessions(logs) in the logbook. In the logbook recorded sessions are listed according to date and time.
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I am using windows form for my application. I am loading another form on click of panel. Now I want to show sliding effect for opening and closing of form.I am able to add negative sliding effect while opening as form opens from right to left by overloading OnLoad event of form. But I am not able to hide the form with positive slide effect using AnimateWindow function. Is there any way to do this?
This is what I have used to show the form:
protected override void OnLoad(System.EventArgs e)
 NativeMethods.AnimateWindow(this.Handle, 500,
 AW_ACTIVATE | AW_SLIDE | AW_HOR_NEGATIVE);
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Can you show the code you use to hide the form and describe what happens when you call it? – stuartd Aug 31 '12 at 12:33
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Using your existing pattern - OnClosing + AW_HIDE does it in reverse.
protected override void OnClosing(CancelEventArgs e)
 AnimateWindow(this.Handle, 500, AW_ACTIVATE | AW_SLIDE | AW_HOR_NEGATIVE | AW_HIDE);
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Why don't use simply Form.Location property.
Increase or decrease it's relative values to achieve sliding animation effect you want.
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This library might be able to do what you want.
Example code from the site, which could, in your case, be placed in the Closing event.
Transition t = new Transition(new TransitionType_EaseInEaseOut(2000));
t.add(pictureBox1, "Left", 300);
t.add(pictureBox1, "Top", 200);
Once you've done the animation, you can use the TransitionCompletedEvent event to hide the form. (or you could animate the Opacity property of your form)
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I have a product table with a jsonb column named 'metadata' in a PostgreSQL 10 database. It's my first time working with documents and Postgres. jsonb values look something like this:
{
 "name" : "l33t shirt",
 "price" : "1200",
 "quantity": "60",
 "options" :
 {
 "type" : "radio",
 "title" : "color",
 "opts" : [
 {"value" : "red" , "price" : "-100" , "qty" : "30" },
 {"value" : "blue" , "price" : "+200" , "qty" : "10" },
 {"value" : "green" , "price" : "+300" , "qty" : "20" }
 ]
 }
}
Two questions:
1. How can I select a specific element in the "opts" array?
select metadata->'options'->'opts'->(element here) from product
where metadata->'options'->'opts' @> '[{"value" : "blue"}]'
2. How to update the "qty" (subtract from its current "qty") when one or more of them is sold?
Further links to guides / notes are appreciated.
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 1. How can I select a specific element in "opts" array?
Use the index of the element number as instructed in the manual. For longer paths, the path notation is shorter:
SELECT metadata -> 'options' -> 'opts' -> 0 AS elem0
 , metadata #> '{options, opts, 0}' AS elem0_path
FROM product;
Gets the nth element, like the question title asks (JSON array index starts with 0). But your example indicates you actually want the element with "value":"blue". That's not as trivial. You could unnest the nested JSON array with jsonb_array_elements() in a LATERAL join and filter the one you want.
SELECT opt AS elem_blue
-- , metadata #> '{options, opts}' -> (arr.ord::int - 1) AS elem_blue2
FROM product
 , jsonb_array_elements(metadata #> '{options, opts}') WITH ORDINALITY arr(opt, ord)
WHERE opt ->> 'value' = 'blue';
Returns nothing if no matching element is found.
WITH ORDNALITY and elem_blue2 are not needed here, but demonstrate a technique we are going to use in the next step.
More explanation:
2.how to update the "qty" (subtract from its current qty) when one or more of them is sold?
Since Postgres 9.5, there is jsonb_set(). To update the value of the qty key of the first element:
UPDATE product
SET metadata = jsonb_set(metadata, '{options, opts, 0, qty}', '"29"', false)
WHERE ... -- some filter
Aside: Any reason your integer numbers in qty are stored as strings ("30"), not as numbers (30)?
To update the "blue" element, we determine the array index with the technique demonstrated above, plus some UPDATE magic to make the it fully dynamic:
UPDATE product p
SET metadata = jsonb_set(p.metadata, path, qty, false)
FROM product p1
 , LATERAL ( -- move computations to subquery
 SELECT ARRAY['options', 'opts', (ord - 1)::text, 'qty'] AS path -- fix off-by-one
 , to_jsonb((opt ->> 'qty')::int - 1) AS qty -- subtract here!
 FROM jsonb_array_elements(p1.metadata #> '{options, opts}') WITH ORDINALITY arr(opt, ord)
 WHERE opt ->> 'value' = 'blue'
-- AND ... -- more filters
-- FOR UPDATE -- see below
 ) opt
WHERE p1.product_id = p.product_id -- use PK for match
The last query writes a number to "qty" ('9'), not a string ('"9"'), assuming you fixed that as commented.
We need to list the table product in the FROM clause another time to allow the LATERAL join (which wouldn't be possible otherwise) - and self-join to it.
Note a tiny race condition. Under heavy concurrent write load, you might want to add a lock clause to the subquery (FOR UPDATE) to prevent other transactions from changing the row between the inner SELECT and the outer UPDATE. See:
But you shouldn't, really. As you can see, jsonb (or any document type for that matter) is ill-suited for regular updates to single attributes. That's cumbersome and comparatively expensive. A new row with a new version of the complete document has to be written every time. Use a normalized DB design instead, where only a comparatively very small row has to be rewritten and other parts as well as indexes remain untouched.
If only the quantity is updated regularly, you might move that to a 1:n table and merge it into the JSON document in a VIEW or MATERIALIZED VIEW. The redesign is beyond the scope of this question.
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 - i was expecting you with your great answers.you answer with care.a:(i stored integer as strings by mistake,my bad). 1.in update query whats the best way to get current value of 'qty' and subtract desired amount from it on the fly? 2.i take your advise about changing design.but i cant figure it out.i think its okay to keep my products info in this document and just change parts require frequent updates.so what you suggest for options part?is it good idea to make 'qty' value point to a FK of another table that keeps all of item quantities?
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 - @ArashMoosapour: 1. I built that and some more into query. 2. Yes, separate 1:n table with scalar column. The redesign depends on the complete situation, I added a bit above. Dec 19, 2017 at 23:43
 - @ErwinBrandstetter all your answers are superb, will you write a book about advanced PostgreSQL some day ? Jul 31, 2018 at 11:46
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By Arash Sabet
Digital Silo collects stateless tasks, aka Grains, and executes them in an asynchronous scalable serverless environment on the Microsoft Azure Cloud technology. It accelerates the steps of making an application serverless-ready by eliminating the burden of infrastructure-driven implementation and letting developers concentrate on coding their business logic.
Major components in Digital Silo
Digital Silo consists of the following major components:
Features
Gateway Web API is the entry point of the system to receive grains' payloads in JSON format. It has no role in running the business logic encapsulated in the grain. The only task it carries out is to deliver the grains' payloads to the serverless infrastructure for further processing. However, it can manage a virtual queue of submitted grains' payloads as well. Developers can also define the grains' chaining keys in the payloads, and the Gateway can figure out how to line them up in a row to submit to the silo. The subsequent grain's payload in the queue is picked up and processed if its predecessor finishes successfully. Gateway will not send a grain's payload to the serverless part if its predecessor has already failed or terminated.
The serverless infrastructure is the entity that takes care of processing grains statelessly. It can track the progress of grains and resumes their execution from the point where they left off if the grains fail due to any reason. It can also execute grains with delays should such a request is made through the grain's payload.
Depending on the deployment pipeline's configuration, the serverless infrastructure can run on a consumption plan or a bit more real-time mode, i.e. premium plan when necessary.
The SignalR Service provides a real-time communication channel between the client application interested in observing grains' status and the backend progress.
Developers traditionally introduce GET and POST actions in their web API implementation to communicate with the backend. The number of such GET and POST actions depends on the complexity of the application's business logic, and it can well grow to tens of web actions, no matter how they segregate them and introduce distinctive microservices. Digital Silo's pattern is quite different, and there is only one POST request collecting grains' JSON payloads. The developers can focus only on developing their grains' JSON payloads without introducing new POST actions.
High-Level Architecture diagram
The following diagram depicts the infrastructure and the major components of Digital Silo:
Digital Silo HLA Diagram
Developing Grains
Environment
To develop and test grains, we will need a full-blown Digital Silo infrastructure on Azure provisioned by a Terraform script found here. The service plans and the capacity of Azure services are at their minimal costs in the Terraform script. Should additional horsepower is required, one can incorporate higher-level SKUs in the Terraform script.
Silo, the processing component
The Terraform script provisions the entire Digital Silo infrastructure just within a few minutes on Azure. Once the infrastructure is ready, a storage account becomes available to retain the developed grains' DLLs. The infrastructure knows where to fetch and download the developed grains' DLLs from the storage and turn them into an integral part of the silo's infrastructure. At this point, the grains are ready and fully engaged in executing the business logic after receiving their respective payloads via Gateway.
Optionally a client application in C# or typescript may subscribe to the provisioned SignalR Service instance to listen to grains' progress status.
Grain
A grain is a stateless component that encapsulates a specific business logic that runs throughout Digital Silo. Please consult the following section to learn about the details of grain development steps.
Development steps
Prerequisites
The following tools are required to start developing grains:
Introducing a grain
After adding a reference to the DigitalSilo.Grain package, the following class that defines the basics of a grain becomes available to inherit from:
public class Grain<TResponse> : Grain, IRequest<TResponse>
where TResponse : Response, new()
TResponse has to be an instance of the Response abstract class defined in the DigitalSilo.Grain.Abstracts namespace.
Let's imagine that we want to have Digital Silo compute the perimeter of a rectangular. We will need grain to define a rectangular and a respective response class where the computed perimeter is stored.
using DigitalSilo.Grain.Abstracts;
using DigitalSilo.Grain;
public class PerimeterResponse : Response
{
 public int Perimeter { get; set; }
}
public class RectangularGrain : Grain<PerimeterResponse>
{
 public int Length { get; set; }
 public int Width { get; set; }
}
We can even define a record to represent a rectangular object and use that object's instance in the grain definition per the following slightly-refactored rectangular grain definition:
public record Rectangular
{
 public int Length { get; set; }
 public int Width { get; set; }
}
public class RectangularGrain : Grain<PerimeterResponse>
{
 public Rectangular Rectangular { get; set; }
}
Implementing grain processor
Processing a grain occurs in a separate class from the grain definition. To implement a processor class, one must derive the processor class from the following abstract class available in DigitalSilo.Grain.Abstracts.Grain namespace:
public abstract class GrainProcessor<TGrain, TResponse> :
where TGrain : Grain<TResponse>, new()
where TResponse : Response, new()
So, the declaration of perimeter calculator class would look like the following example:
using DigitalSilo.Grain.Abstracts.Grain;
public class RectangularPerimeterCalculator : GrainProcessor<RectangularGrain, PerimeterResponse>
{
}
The following two abstract methods have to be overridden in the derived grain processor class:
protected abstract Task<TResponse> ProcessAsync(TGrain request, CancellationToken cancellationToken);
protected abstract Task FinalizeAsync();
ProcessAsync is the method that usually carries the business logic, and FinalizeAsync is a method that can optionally be implemented. Usually, tasks like closing a network connection, removing unnecessary files, cleanups, etc., would happen in FinalizeAsync() method. So, the implementation of ProcessAsync method to calculate the rectangular's perimeter would look like the following code snippet:
protected override Task<PerimeterResponse> ProcessAsync(RectangularGrain request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
 var response = new PerimeterResponse
 {
 ResultCode = DigitalSilo.Grain.ResultCode.Success.GetCode()
 Perimeter = 2 * request.Rectangular.Width + 2 * request.Rectangular.Length
 };
 return Task.FromResult(response);
}
That's it! This pattern has illustrated how simple it is to define a grain and its associated processor. This pattern can easily be applied to more complex scenarios, e.g. database operations, sending emails, etc.
Validating grains
Digital Silo's validation mechanism has been constructed based on the FluentValidation library. One must complete the following two steps to have Digital Silo validate a grain's data:
Step 1) The grain's validator class should inherit the following abstract class:
using DigitalSilo.Grain.Abstracts.Grain.Validators;
public abstract class GrainValidator<TGrain>{ ... }
Step 2) The grain class should implement the following interface:
using FluentValidation;
namespace DigitalSilo.Grain.Abstracts.Validators
{
 public interface IValidatorProvider<T>
 where T : DigitalSilo.Grain.Grain
 {
 bool EnableAsyncValidation { get; set; }
 IValidator<T> GetValidator();
 }
}
So, the validator class of RectangularGrain will look like the following code snippet:
using FluentValidation;
public class RectangularGrainValidator : GrainValidator<RectangularGrain>
{
 public RectangularGrainValidator()
 : base()
 {
 RuleFor(grain => grain.Rectangular).NotNull();
 RuleFor(grain => grain.Recyangular.Length).GreaterThan(0).When(grain => grain.Rectangular != default);
 RuleFor(grain => grain.Recyangular.Width).GreaterThan(0).When(grain => grain.Rectangular != default);
 }
}
A developer must augment the initial definition of RectangularGrain class per the following code snippet to accommodate validation:
public class RectangularGrain : Grain<PerimeterResponse>, IValidatorProvider<RectangularGrain>
{
 public Rectangular Rectangular { get; set; }
 public bool EnableAsyncValidation { get; set; } = false;
 public IValidator<T> GetValidator() => new RectangularGrainValidator();
}
A real-world example
This Github repository contains three working Digital Silo grain examples whose source codes are available within the "src" folder in the repo.
FibonacciGrain computes Fibonacci Sequence, ReverseFibbonacciGrain computes Fibonacci Sequence in the reverse order, and WorkerGrain uses Bogus library to generate some fictitious users' data in the example repo. Please


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Pokémon sprite corruptions (Generation I)
'''This article is a summary page for different variations of a glitches, etc. when talked about as a whole.
Pokémon sprite corruptions in Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow are typically caused whenever either the front or back sprite of a glitch Pokémon is viewed. There are many different types of corruption.
Hall of Fame corruption
Possibly the most infamous sprite corruption. When a problematic sprite (such as Red/Blue regular MissingNo.'s front or back sprite) is viewed after the player's induction into the Hall of Fame, it will cause the Hall of Fame data to become corrupted.
This glitch does not apply if the player's first team to become the Pokémon League Champion included a (normally problematic) glitch Pokémon, however viewing a problematic glitch Pokémon's sprite in battle after getting at least one Hall of Fame entry will still corrupt the Hall of Fame even if the player doesn't save and resets the game.
The cause of the glitch is to be blamed on a combination of factors:
 - Pokémon front and back pictures are stored in ROM compressed, and each compressed image has an header defining the horizontal and vertical sizes (in number of 8x8 tiles) of the picturepokered:home/pic.asm.
 - Glitch Pokémon are not guaranteed to have these sizes set to reasonable amounts.
 - Compressed graphics are extracted to the second or third of three sprite buffers located at the start of bank 0 of the game card's SRAM (which is therefore being used here as an expansion of the console's RAM); the Hall of Fame contents are also located in bank 0 after this temporary area (separated by a 256 byte unused area), but not the count of League wins (which is located in bank 1 along with the main save data).
 - The code responsible for decompressing the graphics is not limited in size of output, meaning that an excessively large picture will overwrite the Hall of Fame.
 - In particular, a size of 0 underflows and is assumed to mean 256 rows or columns, a size far exceeding the intended dimensions of up to 7 units
 The number of HoF entries being stored separately explains the apparent lack of consequences if the League was not already beaten: the HoF corruption is not avoided, but the next time an entry will be added, the memory reserved for the first entry will be correctly set and so will the number of entries (1), therefore averting any visible effects.
 Walking characters glitch
 The walking characters effect is a glitch in Pokémon Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow, which is caused by some glitch Pokémon.
 While this effect is active, NPCs will appear and walk in a pattern on the screen.
 Applicable glitch Pokémon
 - MissingNo. (English Yellow non-Fossil/non-Ghost variants)
 - ヅ (0xBF) (Red/Green)
 - Glitch Pokémon (0xD6) (Red/Green)
 - アネﾞデパミﾞ (0xFF) (Yellow)
 Inverted sprites glitch
 Bulbapedia also has an article about.
 Many glitch Pokémon including regular MissingNo. and 'M (00) cause the inverse sprites glitch after encountering them or viewing their Pokémon summary.
 This glitch causes Pokémon front and back sprites to appear fixed. The problem can be fixed by viewing the summary screen of any non-glitch Pokémon (or some glitch Pokémon).
 The inverse sprites glitch is useful for catching Horsea (English versions) or Pikachu (Japanese versions) for CoolTrainer♀ corruption.
 This glitch occurs when memory address 0xD0AA (Red/Blue) or 0xD0A9 (Yellow) is a non-00 value.
 Sound and/or sound bank corruption
 Some glitch Pokémon sprites lead to the corruption of music, including potentially the sound bank.
 The sound bank (located at C0EF, C0F0) controls the 'type' of music to play, and valid values include 02 (locations 1/overworld), 08 (battle), 1F (locations 2/in doors) and 20 (special music).
 When the sound bank is an invalid value, it can lead to potentially a freeze and/or tile corruption.
 Sound bank corruption is notably caused by both Yellow MissingNo. and ♀. (0xC1), with glitch music and sometimes a repeating "(POKéMON) is trying to learn" message.
 Sometimes the music will be corrupted but the game will not freeze.
 Both?/ (0xEC) and ♂ p ゥ (0xF4) are also capable of corrupting the music via their Pokémon summary.
 Other effects
 - Game freeze
 - Corrupted tileset (アネﾞデパミﾞ (0xFF) in Japanese Yellow)
 - Corruption of the next number of Poké Ball rolls (Yellow regular MissingNo.)
 - Misaligned character
 - If the player tries to Dig or Escape Rope away after the corruption, then the player's sprite may move up and wrap around the screen possibly indefinitely
 - 0xC109 ('facing direction') corruption. Can be used to cause facing direction arbitrary code execution after using Lg- (hex:6E) (Yellow regular MissingNo.)


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Tailler History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The distinguished surname Tailler is one of the many names that came to England in the wake of the Norman Conquest of 1066. The name is derived from the Old French "tailleor" or "tailleur," meaning "a tailor."
Early Origins of the Tailler family
The surname Tailler was first found in Somerset, and in Kent where they were granted lands by King William for their assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D. The name is widespread and can be found throughout England and Scotland.
Early History of the Tailler family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Tailler research. Another 147 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1180, 1182, 1202, 1601, 1602, 1645, 1729, 1779, 1784, and 1850 are included under the topic Early Tailler History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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Spelling variations of this family name include: Taylor, Taylour, Taylur, Tailler, Taillefer and many more.
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Migration of the Tailler family
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The National Map
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Quick Answer: Can You Get Hepatitis From Toilet Water?
How far can toilet water splash?
15 feetPhilip Tierno, a microbiologist at New York University, says that aerosol plumes can reach as high as 15 feet..
Can you get a yeast infection from toilet water?
It's unlikely that a yeast infection can be transmitted directly through bath water, but there are some caveats that you should keep in mind. As a rule, showers are better than baths when you're in the process of treating a yeast infection.
Which hepatitis is spread through water?
Wells, if properly installed and maintained, provide a safe source of water in the U.S. When any water source, including private wells, is contaminated with feces from infected humans, the water can potentially spread the Hepatitis A virus.
Can Hep C virus survive in water?
How long can hep C live in liquid?
They found that in a liquid environment, HCV was detectable for up to five months at lower temperatures. that HCV could survive in a liquid medium for two days at 98ºF (body temperature),16 days at 77 ºF and at least six weeks at 40ºF (average refrigerator temperature).
Is it OK to drink toilet water?
What STD can you get from a toilet seat?
Which hepatitis is not curable?
Can you get chlamydia from toilet water?
It can also be passed by a pregnant woman to her baby. Chlamydia cannot be passed on through casual contact, such as kissing and hugging, or from sharing baths, towels, swimming pools, toilet seats or cutlery.
Can you get diseases from toilet water?
Don't worry. HIV, syphilis, and other sexually transmitted infections are not transmitted by toilets, toilet water, or toilet brushes. Even if you have been biting your nails, you do not need to worry about getting an STI this way.
Is it bad if toilet water splashes on you?
Dr. Cullins warns, "Anything that brings bacteria in contact with the vulva and/or urethra can cause a UTI. This can happen when germs enter the urethra during sex, unwashed hands touching genitals, or even when toilet water back splashes." Yeah, you can get a UTI from the bacteria in toilet water back splash.
How many germs are in toilet water?
After swabbing the same four areas on five separate toilet bowls found in five different homes, the team found that on average, the toilets contained 125.55 colony-forming units of bacteria per square inch. That means that on a standard, 16.5-inch toilet bowl there could be more than 34,000 units of bacteria in total.
Can hepatitis B spread by toilet seat?
There is no risk of infection from normal social contact. You cannot catch hepatitis B or Hepatitis C from a toilet seat, by touching or hugging an infected person. Crockery and cutlery used by someone with Hepatitis B or C can be washed in hot soapy water or dishwasher in the normal way.
Can Hep B survive in water?
How long does Hep C live on clothes?
Is there bacteria in toilet water?
"Since the water in the toilet bowl contains bacteria and other microbes from feces, urine and maybe even vomit, there will be some in the water droplets. Every gram of human feces contains billions and billions of bacteria, as well as viruses and even some fungi."
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text: We explore direct interaction of human and multi-rotor robots and its applications for entertainment. In this paper, we present our system that realises direct and multimodal interaction using onboard cameras and a microphone. With these onboard sensors to detect human actions, the robots' reaction chains and expands one after another. In addition, as all the processing is executed within the onboard computer, there is no need to use external devices. We describe its interaction scenario from take-off to landing, and present the pilot evaluation of our system.


text: We present a first quantification of the near-infrared (NIR) water vapor continuum absorption from an atmospheric radiative closure experiment carried out at the Zugspitze (47.42° N, 10.98° E; 2964 m a.s.l.). Continuum quantification is achieved via radiative closure using radiometrically calibrated solar Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) absorption spectra covering the 2500 to 7800 cm−1 spectral range. The dry atmospheric conditions at the Zugspitze site (IWV 1.4 to 3.3 mm) enable continuum quantification even within water vapor absorption bands, while upper limits for continuum absorption can be provided in the centers of window regions. Throughout 75 % of the 2500 to 7800 cm−1 spectral range, the Zugspitze results agree within our estimated uncertainty with the widely used MT_CKD 2.5.2 model (Mlawer et al., 2012). In the wings of water vapor absorption bands, our measurements indicate about 2–5 times stronger continuum absorption than MT_CKD, namely in the 2800 to 3000 cm−1 and 4100 to 4200 cm−1 spectral ranges. The measurements are consistent with the laboratory measurements of Mondelain et al. (2015), which rely on cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CDRS), and the calorimetric–interferometric measurements of Bicknell et al. ... mehr(2006). Compared to the recent FTIR laboratory studies of Ptashnik et al. (2012, 2013), our measurements are consistent within the estimated errors throughout most of the spectral range. However, in the wings of water vapor absorption bands our measurements indicate typically 2–3 times weaker continuum absorption under atmospheric conditions, namely in the 3200 to 3400, 4050 to 4200, and 6950 to 7050 cm−1 spectral regions.


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Assessment Cycle Policy
UWE Bristol has developed a University Assessment Cycle policy for all taught provision, including collaborative provision. The policy underpins and supports how assessment and feedback form a critical aspect of the learning process.
Principles of the Assessment Cycle Policy
- Outlines the key stages of assessment and recognises the journey from design conception, marking and moderation to enhancement/review.
- Articulation of assessment both as part of the learning process and as the means by which academic staff form judgements about the extent to which learning outcomes are met.
- Promotes the concept of 'assessment literacy' and how this should be developed in students.
- Promotes and facilitates the sharing of good practice across the University through a common framework and terminology.
- Alignment with the QAA Quality Code Chapter B3: Learning and Teaching and Chapter B6: Assessment of Students and the Recognition of Prior Learning
When is the policy applicable?
The Assessment Cycle Policy is applicable in all circumstances to all taught provision including curriculum delivered by our collaborative partners.
Further guidance is provided in the documents below.
Guidance for students
This short film has been made for students in order to explain the Assessment Cycle Policy and the different stages of the assessment process at UWE Bristol.
Staff guidance film
This short film that has been compiled for staff explaining the internal marking processes and moderation at Stages 5 and 6 of The Assessment Cycle.
A full list of UWE Bristol policies can be found on our policies web page.
If you have any questions regarding The Assessment Cycle Policy please email the Curriculum Enhancement Manager Rebecca Smith at _EMAIL_.


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What is the capital of Sri Lanka?
#26580. Asked by sushil sarda. (Jan 17 03 9:39 AM)
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The capital was located in Polonnaruwa for about three centuries until persistent South Indian invasions caused its displacement in the 13th century to Dambadenia about 110 km to the south-west of here and later to Panduvasnavara close by.
Colombo is the commercial capital.
The administrative, political and state capital is Sri Jayawardenepura.
The sacred ancient city Anuradhapura is the ancient capital.
Senkadagala (Kandy) was the capital when last ruled by the King of Sri Lanka.
Colombo ceased to be the capital of Sri Lanka in 1982 with the shifting of the national parliament to the adjoining town of Sri Jayawardenapura, Kotte which is now officially the capital city.
Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo has become one of the world's top slum cities overtaking Calcutta in India, Sri Lanka's Housing Minister Mangala Samaraweera said Wednesday. However, Colombo continued to be the commercial centre with diplomatic missions too having their embassies here rather than at Sri Jayawardenapura, Kotte.
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3.2. Link Analysis Module
Link Analysis module of the Ethernet Link Inspector plots the behavior of an Ethernet IP link based on specific signals captured from Signal Tap Logic Analyzer.
When an Ethernet IP core is configured in a KR/CR configuration (which includes Auto Negotiation and Link Training), the local device can be in either one of the following four operational modes starting from power-up to the device operation of the IP core:
 1. Sequencer Initialize mode (SEQ_Initialize)
 2. Auto Negotiation mode (Auto_Neg)
 3. Link Training mode (Link_Training)
 4. Data mode (Data)
The local device implements various internal states as part of the Sequencer State Machine to represent the four modes above. The local device may use one or more of the internal states to represent any one of the above mode. Refer to Sequencer State Machine for more details.


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Nano-sized titania (anatase) and sodium and potassium titanate nanotubes were studied via in situ Raman spectroscopy at hydrostatic pressures up to 6 GPa. Analysis by scanning electron microscopy shows a uniform dispersion of sodium and potassium cations in the nanotubes. The effect of the pressure was observed by significant shifts in the Raman band structure of nano-sized anatase crystals and nanotube titanate. In nano-particulate anatase, the phonon frequencies (143, 395, 517, and 639 cm−1) increase linearly with pressure. In contrast, the upward frequency shifts in the sodium titanate nanotubes (NaTNT) and potassium-modified nanotubes (NaTNT+K) occur in a stepwise fashion. These stepwise changes occur in the nanotube samples between 2 and 4 GPa (ambient pressure phonon bands in NaTNT at 274, 444, 650, and 906 cm−1) and between 4.5 and 5.5 GPa, (phonons 273 cm−1 and 436 cm−1 in NaTNT+K at an ambient pressure). Post-pressure high-resolution transmission electron microscopy analysis shows evidence of nanotube distortions and a 5% contraction in the interlaminar spacing of both NaTNT and NaTNT+K.
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ignore such records. On failure, returns -1 and sets errno.
- Retrieve the next record (key and value) from a cursor. Note that records are not guaranteed to be returned in any particular order. On failure, returns -1 and sets errno.
- Retrieve the next several keys and values from a cursor. Up to maxnum keys and values will be stored in the arrays pointed to by the keys and vals arguments. Returns the number of records retrieved. On failure, returns -1 and sets errno.
- Returns true if the cursor has reached the end of the quota store.
- Resets a cursor to point to the beginning of the quota store, allowing another pass over the data.
- For old-style quota v1 implementations, this function enables quotas for the specified ID type. To ensure that the quota files are consistent with the file system state, quotacheck(8) must have been run beforehand. As described above, the file system volume must be listed in fstab(5) and the corresponding old-style mount option, userquota or groupquota, must be set therein. The path name for the quota file is retrieved from fstab(5) and passed to the kernel. This function will fail if used on newer quota implementations with in-file-system quotas.
- For old-style quotas, this function disables quotas for the specified ID type. This function will fail if used on newer quota implementations with in-file-system quotas.
- A convenience function for initializing a struct quotaval instance to the default empty state.
ERRORSError conditions include:
- An inconsistency was detected during quotacursor_get() or quotacursor_getn(). The application should discard information collected so far and use quotacursor_rewind() to start the iteration over.
- The quota information requested from quota_get() does not exist.
- The path passed to quota_open() was on a volume whose quota support is not enabled.
- The path passed to quota_open() was on a volume that has no quota support. Or, the iterator functions, quota_put(), or other unsupported operations were attempted on an NFS volume, or on some other volume type that does not support the full semantic range of quota information.
SEE ALSOquota(1), edquota(8), mount_ffs(8), mount_nfs(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8), rpc.rquotad(8)
HISTORYThe libquota library first appeared in NetBSD 6.0.
AUTHORSThe libquota library was written by.
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00:00 in the caption file aligns with the first frame of your sequence, no matter what time code the sequence starts at, I.e. the caption file time codes are not linked to the sequence time codes. See this diagram for a visual explanation.
 If your FCP sequence starts at 00:59:50:00 and the first caption is supposed to appear at 01:00:01:00, the first caption time in MacCaption should be 00:00:11:00, because the caption appears 11:00 seconds after the first frame of the sequence. If you incorrectly set the caption time code at 01:00:01:00 in MacCaption, the first caption will not appear until 01:59:51:00!
 The easiest way to work around this issue is to make sure your proxy/reference movie (for time stamping) includes the whole sequence from the very first frame (including any leaders which are on the timeline), and that the Movie Time in MacCaption/CaptionMaker is set to start at 00:00:00:00. This will ensure that everything syncs up both in MacCaption and in FCP.
 Another way to work with this in MacCaption is to have your Movie Time start at the FCP sequence start time (e.g. 01:00:00:00), and also have the captions match up with this movie time (e.g. first dialog in movie is at 01:00:01:00, and the first caption is at 01:00:01:00). In this case, when you export the QuickTime CC track, you MUST enable the checkbox called "Use Movie Time to position captions at 00:00:00:00". That checkbox should always be checked if the captions are timed relative to the movie's time code track instead of relative to 00:00:00:00.
 Note that the FCP generated leader options in the Edit to Tape/Print to Video dialog (such as FCP's bars & tone, countdown, etc.) DO NOT count towards the sequence time code. The caption track will start when the actual sequence starts to play. However, any bars/leaders/etc. which are in the sequence DO count towards the sequence time code.
 One more note about FCP: If the caption file is shorter in duration than the sequence, FCP will start to loop the captions from the beginning when it reaches the end of the caption file. This sometimes shows up as the first captions from the start of the movie start playing during the ending credits or during the tail after the movie. If you did not caption anything during the credits, the last caption in your project ends before the FCP sequence does, so the captions start to loop. The solution is simple: The caption file must be longer (or at least just as long) as the FCP sequence. You can fix this by putting a blank caption at the end of your project, and make sure that blank caption's time is at or after the end of the FCP sequence.
 - My first caption was cut off or appears late.
 Pop-on captions need a few seconds to pre-load the data before the caption actually appears. If you have a caption that starts very close to the start of the program or a cut point, the data for that caption might get cut off and the caption won't appear. See the "lowest limit" feature in the manual for more information. The workaround is to either set the lowest limit, or make the first caption in paint-on mode (which requires far less time to pre-load a caption).
 - Transcription issues: How to do it, speech recognition options, etc.
 There is no special trick to transcription. It is by far the most time-consuming aspect of the closed captioning/subtitling process. But, there are methods that ensure that you are transcribing in the most efficient way possible. Below are a few methods to transcribe a video.
 Use a Video File
 If you are not already doing so, make sure that you are using a video file, and not videotape, as your video source. Trying to transcribe from a tape can wear out your tape deck, and you'll spend too much time starting and stopping the tape.
 USB Foot Pedal
 A very popular tool for transcribing is a USB Foot Pedal. The VPedal is a tool that allows you to control QuickTime, Windows Media Video, and a number of other types of digital media. You can start, stop, rewind, and fast-forward your digital video with your foot, while typing directly into your word processor. What makes the foot pedal method so efficient is that you never have to take your hands off the keyboard. Eventually, you're able to get into a rhythm with your hands and foot so that you are constantly typing.
 Speech Recognition Software
 Speech Recognition Software has advanced greatly in the past few years, and has become a reliable transcription tool. The transcription method using speech-recognition employs "shadow speaking", whereby the user repeats what he or she hears in the video into a microphone. Before you use any type of speech-recognition software, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking or MacSpeech, you'll need to train with the software. This usually consists of reading stories provided by the software. After you've read a story, the software analyzes your voice and compares it to the text in the story. You'll also need to practice the technique of shadow speaking, which isn't difficult but takes time to get good at.
 At this time, there is no technology that can reliably take a video or audio file and automatically transcribe all of the text without human intervention. Speaker-independent speech recognition systems typically achieve around 60-70% accuracy, whereas 90-95% accuracy is the minimum for closed captioning.
 Transcription Service
 Often, it is more cost-effective to simply pay a service to transcribe your material. Transcription is faster and much less expensive than farming out the whole captioning process, so you can still save time and money by doing the captioning steps in-house. There are many online services that allow you to upload an.mp3 and they will provide you with a text transcription within a day. Ideally, you should be able to find a local individual whom you can trust for quick and accurate transcription.
 - How do I monitor my HD captions?
 See this white paper about the different options for monitoring HD closed captions. Basically, you can't monitor HD captions via HDMI or component outputs. The only baseband HD video that carries closed captions is HD-SDI. Also, most devices (except for the Matrox MXO2 and AJA FS-1) do not preserve the captions when down-converting HD to SD. You need an HD-SDI device that can decode HD (CEA-708) captions. Not all monitoring devices follow the complete CEA-708 spec, so the captions may not always appear exactly as intended.
 - How do I down-convert HD video with captions to SD without losing the captions?
 Only a few hardware devices (such as the Matrox MXO2 and the AJA FS-1) can preserve the closed captioning when down/up-converting a video. For other devices, you must use a separate workflow or separate output step to create the SD video with closed captions. For example, if you have a HD sequence in FCP, you can render this into a SD sequence and then use the SD captioning workflow. Or, you can print to SD tape (taking advantage of hardware down-convert), then capture SD back in and caption it using the SD workflow.
 See the AJA / Blackmagic / Matrox workflow pages for more info.
 - My Sony HD deck won't record HD video with closed captions.
 By default, most Sony HD decks are factory set to not record VANC Line 9 where the HD closed captions are stored. You must go into the deck setup or maintenance menu and look for the "VANC Packet RX" setting. This should be set to: VANC Line 9, DID 61, SDID 01. The exact menu depends on your deck. See this page for some of the settings we know, or please contact Sony for more information.
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How does the sunlight affect the height of a plant
How does sunlight affect the color of a plant?
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It also affects the height because sunlight is needed by the plant to produce energy. A plant uses that energy to build new cells, which are like building blocks. Without those building block like cells, the plant can not grow taller.
Sunlight affects the height of a plant because if it doesn't have any sunlight it will die because it only have water


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This Film Is More Than 100 Years Old
To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909)
To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly is a very short educational film (it's only a minute long), made using stop-motion animation to explain how spiders travel across unexpectedly large distances. It was directed by F. Percy Smith, a naturalist and photographer who helped pioneer the use of many now-familiar film-making techniques, such as time-lapse sequences.
I love spiders and I love stop-motion creatures and I utterly love this. What a wonderful thing.
And a hundred and ten years old.
1. I watched this, yes, via the BFI Player – To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly
2. I think this may be my favourite thing
3. I just wish I'd seen it earlier so I could have incorporated this knowledge into Spiders Are Wonderful (multiple winner of the factual book of the year award in 2011).
Film Information
Title: To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly
Director: F. Percy Smith
Year: 1909
Runtime: 1 minute


text: Making a difference in the pursuit of a more sustainable world increasingly requires the ability to contend successfully with the wicked problem that is sustainability, and this shift needs to happen at the societal as well as the organizational level. Dealing successfully with issues of sustainability means creating greater system resilience and using resources more wisely, which means working successfully across boundaries, be they sector, organizational, policy, or functional ones. Wicked problems are poorly formulated, confusing, and have many different constituents or stakeholders with conflicting values. This article argues that developing wicked (good) leadership that is collaboratively oriented and wicked (good) solutions that enhance system resilience are two potential strategies for creating change to reduce systemic problems associated with sustainability. Although these approaches do not deal with the problem of resource overuse, they may provide a basis for generating more sustainable approaches to resource use.


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Crotty Dam also known earlier as the King River Dam is an 82metre high concrete faced rock and gravel fill dam in Western Tasmania. It is one of two dams that contain Lake Burbury, which forms the headwaters for the King River Hydroelectric Power Development on Tasmania's West Coast. The other is Darwin Dam.
The dam is located in the upper reaches of the King River gorge where the river breaks through the West Coast Range. It captures the high rainfall in the catchment of the King River and allows diversion of water through a tunnel to the John Butters Power Station some 8 kilometres downstream of the dam.


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Consider a stock worth $25 that can go up or down by 15% per period. The risk-free rate is 10%. Use one binomial period to.
a. Determine the two possible stock prices at the end of the period.
b. Determine the fair value at expiration of a European call option with an exercise price of $25.
c. Construct a hedge portfolio. Assuming that the call sells for the value you obtained in part c.
The question belongs to Finance and it discusses about using one binomial period for determining two possible stock prices at the end of the period, the fair value at expiration of call option and to construct a hedge portfolio, assuming the call sells for the value.
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The Entrance
Free Module 2: Shapes & Form Feng Shui
Chapter 17: The Entrance
The House:-
Avoid the following bad influences on a house:-
1. A 'T' or 'Y' shaped road in front of the house.
2. A house at the dead-end of a road.
3. An inverted 'U' shaped which acts like a knife' slicing the house.
4. A river in front of the house.
5. House must not face or next to a:-
- cemetery.
- funeral parlor.
- any religious prayer sites.
- brothel.
- police station.
- buildings in the shape of a fire element e.g. sharp pointed roofs.
5. A big tree or a single lamb post facing the house.
6. Look out for the corner of a neighbour's roof pointing to the front of the house.
7. A canal or river at the back of the house.
8. House must not face a bridge or an overpass.
9. An expressway 'cutting/slicing' into the house.
10. Avoid a house built on a former cemetery site or an area where massacre happened.
For those living next to a cemetery or places with concentration of YIN, one remedy is to brightly lit that side of the house or paint that side of the wall red or pink to activate the 'YANG' element.
11. Avoid having an opening (open air courtyard) or windows in the centre ceiling of the house.
12. Avoid having the toilet in the center of the house.
13. The house should be higher than the road.
14. Avoid a 'U' shaped house.
15. A house should not be 'sandwiched' between two tall buildings.
16. Do not place the water tank on the roof in the centre of the house.
17. Public sewerage pipes must not pass under the house.
18. Do not have the fire place in the centre of the house.
19. Avoid having a pond in the centre of the house.
1. Avoid having fencing with varying heights.
2. The fence or brick wall should not be too close to the house.
3. Fence or brick wall should not be higher than the house else it acts like a 'prison' environment.
4. For the garage, do not have the master bedroom above the garage.
5. The driveway should not directly face the main house's door.
6. Do not install barbed wires over the top of the main gate. (For goodness sake your house is not an army camp or a gangster's hideout!)
For exterior of the Main Door:-
1. It should not face a tree or a lamp post.
2. It should not face any corner, chimney, or water storage tank.
3. It should not face a neighbour's gate, main door or driveway.
For interior of the Main Door:-
1. It should not face the staircase or a 'sharp' corner pointing towards the door.
2. It should not be immediately blocked by a wall.
3. It should not face the back door.
4. It should not face a wash basin, sink or water pipe.
5. It should not face any bedroom, toilet or kitchen or fireplace.
6. The backdoor must be smaller than the main door.
7. The size of the main door should be proportional to the size of the house.
8. If the main door is made of two panels, both panels must be of equal size.
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The Old McHenry County Courthouse, in McHenry County, Illinois, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1974. Once the courthouse in the county seat of McHenry County, Woodstock, today the courthouse is occupied by various private tenants including a restaurant and an art gallery. It is one of the key structures in the Woodstock Square Historic District.HistoryThe 1857 Italianate Old Courthouse was constructed to closely resemble the 1853 Cook County Courthouse (which was eventually destroyed during the Great Chicago Fire). The structure was designed by John M. Van Osdel, the first licensed architect in Chicago. The adjoining structure, the Sheriff's House and Jail was built in 1887. It was there, in the Sheriff's House and Jail that Eugene Debs was held for his refusal to comply with an injunction during the Pullman Strike. Until 1973 McHenry County government office were located in the Old Courthouse. When the government moved out, the building was threatened with demolition, as it stood on prime commercial property. On November 1, 1974, it was recognized by the National Park Service on the National Register of Historic Places. Eight years later it was listed as a contributing property to the Woodstock Square Historic District, a 13acre corridor in downtown Woodstock. Today the two buildings house two restaurants, one in each building, and art gallery (in the courthouse), a pottery shop (in the jail building) and the Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum.
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Lidar and PX4Flow mounting
To mount these parts on the frame you will need:
- A drill with a set of common drill bits (2-4 mm diameter)
- A soldering station with a nice third-hand and some heatshrink
- M3x10 button socket head cap screws (same ones are already used on Iris+) - available for example from here
- M3x0.5 hex nuts, available here
- Electrical or Kapton tape
- A 4-pin DF13 cable
- Remove the top cover of the Iris+. You will need to unplug the RC radio, the magnetometer and maybe a couple of other things. Make sure to note the location of anything you unplug for reassembly later.
- Remove the bottom cover. You will need to unplug the I2C LED and unscrew the USB port
- Put the bottom cover flat. Optionally remove the battery bay door. Place the PX4Flow and the lidar as shown in the picture below. Orient the lidar with its connector facing towards the battery bay door, the PX4Flow with the camera closer to the bay door, and the sonar closer to the camera mount.
- We want to place both sensors on the flatter part of the belly, just before it starts tapering down towards the camera holder:
- The lidar and the PX4Flow camera share two mounting holes. We will drill 6 holes total, following the layout of the sensors:
- We recommend using a small marking bit to mark the location of the holes (you can use tape to hold the sensors in place), and then drilling final holes for M3 screws with a larger drill bit. Here is an illustration of the process; the smaller guide hole is on the bottom, larger final one is on the top:
Drill small hole first, then use a bigger bit
- Now mount the sensors. The screw head will be inside the frame, and the nylon nuts are on the sensors side. You will need to use multiple nuts to give the sensors enough space so they don't touch the plastic directly.
Sensors mounted - view from inside of the frame
- Use a thin slice of tape to cover the screw heads in the inside. There is enough clearance from the capacitors on the ESC board, but we don't want to take any chances here:
Covered screw heads, just in case
- Now we need to add the I2C cable to connect to the PX4Flow. We have to cut a little notch in the top cover so we don't pinch the cables:
Cut a small notch for the cables
Detail of the same
- Now it is a good time to solder the lidar cable. Get the lidar cable and a 4-pin DF13 I2C cable. Cut the I2C cable in half, since we will need to solder it to the lidar cable. We need to connect:
- Lidar red -> PX4 red (VCC)
- Lidar black -> PX4 pin#4, furthest away from the red (GND)
- Lidar Green -> PX4 pin#2 next to the red (SCL)
- Lidar Blue -> PX4 pin#3 (the last one free) (SDA)
The third hand comes in handy here. Use some heatshrink to protect the solder joints. Once you have the cable ready, connect it to the lidar on one side and to the I2C splitter on the other. Below are the pinouts:
Lidar lite wiring harness
Pixhawk I2C connector (for reference)
- Finally, don't forget to twist all the cables to cut down on unwanted noise.
Twisted i2c cable
And that is it!
If your lidar doesn't initialize properly at each power-up, you might need to add a large capacitor ~1000uF at the power rails (as described in Sparkfun discussion):


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PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POMEGRANATE FRUIT (Punica granatum L.), OF CV. KARAMUSTAFA
Pomegranate is well-adapted fruit species to arid and semi-arid conditions and highly valued crop widely cultivated in Mediterranean and Near Asia countries. The most important pomegranate cultivars in Macedonia are Bejnarija, Lifanka and Karamustafa. The objective of this study was the physical parameters of the pomegranate fruit and chemical properties of juice from pomegranate fruit Karamustafa cultivar, grown in two different location of R. Macedonia. The physical parameters including fruit fresh weight, percentage of grain (%), weight of 100 berries (g), percentage of juice (%) and morphological characteristics (equatorial diameter, calyx diameter, fruit height without calyx, total fruit height, calyx height). Based on the results we found significant differences in the weight of the fruit, the content of total acids and the content of total polyphenols in the juice.


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1. a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
2. any of various implements, objects, or parts resembling or suggesting this.
3. a spoonful.
4. Also called spoon' bait". Angling.a lure used in casting or trolling for fish, consisting of a bright spoon-shaped piece of metal or the like, swiveled above one or more fishhooks, and revolving as it is drawn through the water.
5. Also called number three wood. Golf.a club with a wooden head whose face has a greater slope than the brassie or driver, for hitting long, high drives from the fairway.
6. a curved piece projecting from the top of a torpedo tube to guide the torpedo horizontally and prevent it from striking the side of the ship from which it was fired.
7. born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born into a wealthy family; having an inherited fortune: She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and never worked a day in her life.
1. to eat with, take up, or transfer in or as in a spoon.
2. to hollow out or shape like a spoon.
a. to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion instead of striking it soundly, as in croquet or golf.
b. to hit (a ball) up in the air, as in cricket.
4. Informal.to show affection or love toward by kissing and caressing, esp. in an openly sentimental manner.
1. Informal.to show affection or love by kissing and caressing, esp. in an openly sentimental manner.
2. Games.to spoon a ball.
3. Angling.to fish with a spoon.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.


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Circumstances in the MENA region invite us to redirect our attention to geographic areas that emerged as primary sites of power-contest. This paper looks into emerging trends in the unraveling of bounded sovereign territoriality in borderlands by examining the contest over military, economic, and socio-political spaces in the wake of the devolution of the monopoly of violence and the rise of a multitude of new and old actors to local prominence. Since 2011, borderlands in the MENA region transformed into considerable sites of contested power by a plethora of actors. The paper points out emergent patterns of deterritorialization and reterritorialization of power in its various forms and manifestations in borderlands. The dynamics of 'place and performance' in the borderlands of Syria and Iraq showcase the variety of ways borders were instrumentalized under circumstances of state atrophy and their destructive tendencies for borderlands.
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.


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The setambun is the close relative of the rambai (B. motleyana) which tastes much like the langsat or duku. The genus belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae which has important members like the Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) and the important ingredients of yummy nonya kuah thickener, the buah keras (Aleurites moluccana). In Mid-March quite a number of the individuals were in flower in MacRitchie and its not easy to miss the flowering tree as the flowers, set on longish slender stalks are bunched around the trunk like a skirt (cauliflory is a term describing the position of flowers on the trunk of a tree) and give off a pleasant lemon-scent. The long stalks were laden with fruits by early June when we visited the spot again. It is noted to flower gregariously after a dry spell.
Corner, E.J.H. (1988). Wayside Trees of Malaya.Vol 1. The Malayan Nature Society, KL, Malaysia. p 274-278.


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What can you make with a sheet of paper? You could: fold it into a paper airplane, an origami swan, or even a telescope. But what if, with a few cuts, you could transform it into something that's as useful as it is beautiful? Enter the paper cone nightlight, a lamp you can make with paper and just a few small parts.
The components are simple: a few sheets of white paper, some scissors and tape, and a few electrical components from Adafruit, an open-source hardware and electronics company. But the results will be anything but.
What You'll Need
- 3.7 volt Lithium Ion Battery ($5.95 at Adafruit)
- Micro Lipo with MicroUSB Jack USB Li-Ion Charger ($6.95 at Adafruit)
- One JST 2-Pin Cable ($.75 at Adafruit)
- Diffused White10mm LED light ($.50 at Sparkfun; $11.95 for a 25-pack at Adafruit)
- Letter-sized white office copy paper (Ideal: 20lb with a brightness of at least 92)
- Scissors and/or an X-Acto Knife
- Transparent Tape/Scotch Magic or Similar. (Optional)
How to Build a Paper Cone Nightlight
Step 1: Cut out and assemble your paper cones
A: On sheets of white office paper, draw and cut out circles of different sizes. Make your largest circle as big as you can on the paper and your smallest circles about half that size (two circles on a single sheet of paper). If you can fit three circles on a single sheet, your circles are too small. Each circle with make one cone. You can make your nightlight with just one cone or by stacking as many as you like. Just for fun, let's start with four.
B: Once you've cut out the circles, remove a pizza slice from each one. Your slices may be as large or as small as you like. The size of each slice will affect the height of the cone, once you roll the paper into a cone shape.
C: Make your cones by connecting the two straight edges to each other. Align one straight edge with the other and place a piece of scotch tape across the joint. In order to stack your cones, snip off the tip of the cone. You can do this by removing a smaller circle around the center of the larger circle, creating what's called a flat-top cone.
Step 2: Wire Your LED
A: Strip 3/4" of the red and black coating from the ends of the JST cable wires. If you don't have a wire stripper, you can use a knife to cut through the coating. Pull the coating off by squeezing it between your fingernails.
B: Attach the red lead of the JST Cable to the "BAT" terminal on the Micro Lipo board. Attach the black lead to the "GND" terminal. If you have a soldering iron, solder this connection. If you don't, wrap the wires around the terminals making sure the wires do not touch each other.
C: Connect the battery to the Micro Lipo board and plug in the LED. Plug the positive lead (the longer lead) into the red wire socket and the negative lead into the black wire socket. The LED should immediately light up. To turn off the light, unplug the LED. (To charge the battery, connect a micro USB cord from your computer to the USB port on the Micro Lip board.)
Step 3: Assemble Your Light
A: Turn on your LED and place it on a table.
B: Cover the LED with one of your paper cones. Note how the light changes the look of the cone. If you put the LED under a flat top cone (a cone with a hole at the top) light will escape through this hole.
C: Try stacking different sized cones on top of one another by altering the direction each cone is pointing.
D: Once you have a tower you like, try repositioning the LED inside the tower.
When your nightlight is complete, it will look something like these — or whichever configuration of cones you can dream up:
Downloadable Instructions + Templates
To make the assembly process as simple and straightforward as possible, we've put together these instructions and templates to get you started. In this downloadable PDF, we've included a few pages with starter circles, which have built in tabs and slots. If you have access to an X-Acto knife (or a laser cutter), you can skip the tape and use the tabs/slots instead.


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Malleable grasping forceps for manipulation and cauterization. New handle design allows for better control and less tip movement. Insulated shaft permits cauterization.The Daniel Endoscopic Forehead instruments have been developed for multiple endoscopic procedures.
- New innovative thumb-actuated ring handles provide greater tactile feedback with less unwanted tip movement than traditional ringhandle instruments.
- Shafts are malleable and insulated making the instrument more versatile for multiple applications.
- Multiple instrument tips allow for a greater range of procedure techniques.


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2. Adverb. (archaic) Twofold. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twyfold
1. twofold [adj]
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twyfold (current term)
Literary usage of Twyfold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Remember," next We heard, " those unblest creatures of the clouds,' How they their twyfold bosoms,..."
2. Christian Iconography: Or, The History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages by Adolphe Napoléon Didron (1851)
"As the sun strikes a mirror, even thus Within those orbs the twyfold being shone; For ever varying, in one figure now Reflected now in other...."


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This page contains information about the modern and authentic didgeridoos
we carry. Although we don't claim that it is exhaustive, we hope it gives
you a solid basic understanding of your instrument. If you need clarification
or have something you feel would be useful to add, please contact us.
We'd be happy to help!
To Play Your Didgeridoo
Position and Technique - The didjeridu can be played
while seated, standing. If you have heard an experienced didj player
you are probably familiar with the variety of sounds that one can make
with this simple instrument. Although you should not expect yourself
to be making overtones and efficiently circular breathing all within
10 minutes of beginning to play, by following these instructions, and
patiently practicing, you'll soon get the drone going.
- Step 1 - Warm up and loosen the lips by closing them
softly and blowing air through, making the "motorboat" sound.
- Step 2 - When you feel warmed up, lightly place the
lips on the beeswax mouthpiece. Most experienced players position the
mouth slightly off center, but beginners may find it easier placing
the lips squarely over the center of the mouthpiece.
- Step 3 - Begin with a small burst of air (like making
a "puh" sound) and continue to buzz the lips. The most common
mistake when learning to play is making the lips to tight and blowing
too hard. Try to relax the lips as much as possible, and don't waste
all of your breath in the first 5 seconds!
Step 4 - Once you can produce a steady drone, play
around with different vowel sounds, changing the size of the mouth cavity,
vocal noises and overtones, and continuous breathing.
How To Care for and Maintain
- Transport and Exposure - Although your didjeridu
is made with durability and mobility in mind, you should avoid exposing
it to the elements for prolonged periods of time (dampness, rain, snow,
etc.). Changes in humidity and altitude will not affect the instrument.
You must NEVER LEAVE YOUR DIDJERIDU IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT or in a very
warm room (including your car, near a heater vent, etc.) because the
beeswax mouthpiece will melt. Don't use your didj as a lever, cane,
bat, or weapon.
- Cleaning - Your didjeridu may be cleaned with a damp
cloth, but don't apply cleansing agents or other cleaning tools.
Avoid playing with dirty hands or leaving your didj exposed to sand
- Maintenance - Should you want or need to remold the
mouthpiece simply warm it under running warm water until it is the consistency
of playdough or silly putty. Overwarming can cause it to become flakey,
which should be avoided. When reinstalling the mouthpiece make sure
there is a consistent seal around the entire top rim of the didj by
pressing the beeswax firmly against the inside wall.
- Transport and Exposure - Eucalyptus is a very hard,
dense wood, which makes it resiliant. However, you should care for your
didgeridoo as you would any other valuable musical instrument. Do not
expose your didj to rain, snow, or sand, and do not leave it in extreme
conditions, such as very hot or very cold temperatures. You must NEVER
LEAVE YOUR DIDJERIDU IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT or in a very warm room (including
your car, near a heater vent, etc.) because the beeswax mouthpiece will
melt. If you need to travel with your didj we would recommend a well
padded travel bag, and some extra padding around the bell and mouth
ends if you anticipate a rough journey. High impacts may crack the wood,
and should be avoided.
- Cleaning - You may clean the outside of your didj
with a damp cloth, but don't use any cleansing agents or scrubbing tools.
After playing your eucalyptus didgeridoo for some time it may develop
a unique odor due to the wood's absorption of the moisture in your breath.
This is natural and will not damage your didgeridoo. If you would like
to restore the natural eucalyptus smell you can use some essential oils,
mixed with water, or other natural anticeptics such as tea tree oil.
Spray a few squirts into the mouth end of your didj, and let it dry.
- Maintenance -
- RIGHT AWAY: When you first get your didjeridu it will need to
adjust to its new home. Avoid playing for longer than 20 minutes
at a time for the first week or so. This will give the wood inside
the bore hole a chance to dry, and will prevent moisture buildup
- LONG TERM: Your eucalyptus didgeridoo was treated with linseed
oil before it was exported from Australia. The exterior was treated,
as well as the inside. Some didjs were stained before they were
oiled. With time the wood may appear dry, and perhaps could use
another coat of linseed oil. However, as linseed oil is a hardening
oil (i.e. when left exposed to air it will harden), it will serve
to harden the wood after it has been absorbed. This will prevent
future coats of linseed oil from soaking in, so only apply very
thin coats, giving many months for the oil to fully dry and harden.
You should not need to apply linseed oil more than once or twice
more in its lifetime.
- SPLITS IN WOOD: All wood is hygoroscopic, meaning it readily
takes up and releases water depending on relative humidity and
exposure to moisture. In dryer climates your didj may develop
some small hairline cracks on the bell or mouth end. These are
inconsequential and will not affect the sound of the didj, and
will often close up when in a more humid environment. And as
you play the didj the moisture from you breath will be absorbed
and released continually to some degree, and may eventually
cause some splitting. Occassionally a check will develop that
goes all the way through the wood, and allows air to escape.
If this is the case you can seal the crack yourself by using
one of the following methods:
- Soften pure beeswax
and mold it into the crack. The wax will harden and seal up
the leak. We have 1
OZ bars of beeswax available for this purpose.
- Super Glue works very well as a permanent fix. The wood will
absorb the glue first, then the glue will build up to fill the
hole. If the crack is too large to be filled with plain Super
Glue, fill the split with fine sawdust, then soak the sawdust
with the glue. This will create a very hard material that is
permanently stuck to the didj. Sand down any lumps or rough
- Size - The size of the opening does affect the playability
and versatility: the larger the hole the easier to play, while a smaller
hole facilitates circular breathing, sustained droning, and vocal tricks.
Beginners will probably appreciate a large mouthpiece opening.
- Reshaping - When played for a long period of time
the mouthpiece will soften because of the heat from the mouth. Taking
small breaks and remolding the mouthpiece will solve the problem. Gently
press the wax into the shape you want and let it cool until firm enough
- Installing a new mouthpiece - Don't be intimidated!
Installing or repairing a mouthpiece is very simple and intuitive. Follow
the steps below for some basic guidelines, and feel free to experiment.
- HEAT AND ROLL: Heat the bar of wax by either placing it in warm
water, heating in microwave on low for short amounts of time, or
using a blow drier on light heat. Be careful to not allow the wax
to melt, as this will alter the properties of the wax and make it
less useable as a mouthpiece. It should be soft enough to easily
- PREPARE DIDJ: Heat a small bit of wax until extremely soft, and
smear this onto the end of the cleaned mouth end of the didj. Also
apply to inside of bore hole about 1" down.
- INSTALL WAX ROLL: Making sure the wax on the mouth end, and the
wax roll are warm and malleable, place roll onto didj end and push
down firmly with thumb and index finger. Be sure to create a tight
seal between the wax and the wood. The inside wall should have wax
extending down about 1", gradually tapered from the top to
- SMOOTH OUTSIDE LIP: Once you have a solid seal shape the outside
of the wax. It shoud be rounded and comfortable to play. Make sure
the size is optimal for your player level and preference.
- CLEAN IT UP: After getting the shape you want remove any excess
wax from the outside that may be hanging over the wood or have uneven
edges. You should be able to peel it off with your fingers, or you
can use a knife for a cleaner line.
History of the Didgeridoo
The didjeridu (did-jury-doo) is possibly the most ancient
woodwind instrument known to man. The native Aborigines of Australia
use the didjerid