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WASHINGTON -- Weekly World News has uncovered the shocking discovery
a race of underground Mole People living 20 miles beneath the Earth,
using secret tunnels to enter the United States!
This discovery was made not by archaeologists, but by NASA scientists
tunneling deep inside the Earth -- and they're trying to keep the
existence of this race covered up!
A NASA insider has leaked exclusive photos and information about these
"cave people" under the condition of anonymity. "This story has to be
told," says the source. "It's just too big to keep under wraps."
The source excitedly spilled some big secrets about the Mole People.
"They seem to be a friendly race," he says, "But they're very
primitive. We're trying to communicate with them, but it's a
complicated task since they don't speak English.
"The Mole People, as we've nicknamed them, have easy access to the
surface world," states the source. "That said, President Bush is
handling the situation with an abundance of caution.
"One wrong move could result in the creatures declaring war on the
surface. We're not even sure how many of them there are. We've only
seen one city so far, with an estimated 2,000 Mole People in
"But it's been suggested that there likely are several million of them
living in sprawling and cavernous underground cities, scattered
the Earth's surface."
The creatures have some strong similarities to humans -- but also a
significant differences.
"Like us, they walk on two legs, but they're much taller than the
average human -- standing 8 to 10 feet tall. Their fingers are
claw-like. And their hands are webbed and designed for digging, not
unlike the claws of a mole.
"Their skin is super-tough. It has to withstand the intense heat and
rugged conditions found below the Earth's surface."
There seems to have been some contact and interplay between humans and
the subterraneans at some point in history -- they speak a language
similar to an old Navajo dialect.
The source says the Mole People have ultradense musculature, making
them capable of extreme violence.
"When one member of the expedition lit a cigarette lighter, the Mole
People interpreted it as a threat and attacked him.
"They pounced on him like jungle cats, nearly snuffing him out along
with his cigarette. He was lucky to escape with his life."
The Mole People are reportedly very curious about the surface world --
our clothes, our gadgets and especially our foods. They particularly
enjoy our fresh fruit.
"I brought them some grapes, and they acted like it was a feast," the
source says. "Obviously they can't grow fruit of their own, living 20
miles beneath the Earth's surface."
NASA is reportedly eager to study the Mole People. "We want to find
everything about them -- what they eat, how they live, and, most
importantly, what is their relationship to the human race.
"We're curious if they are related to us in some way. Are they the
genetic ancestors of modern man?"
Experts say speculation has been widely varied on the Mole People.
"They could be anything from Yetis to space aliens to descendants of
the survivors of the lost city of Atlantis.
Experts say this discovery has raised a number of serious and
questions, including:
Are the towering inhabitants of the civilization hostile and warlike
friendly and cooperative?
Will they make territorial claims on the surface of Earth? And what
about crucial oil and mineral reserves below the surface? Who owns
them: the Mole People -- or us?
How is it that NASA -- whose official mission is to explore outer
-- discovered the underground culture?
Tight-lippped NASA spokesmen would neither confirm nor deny the
Pressured by reporters, a White House spokesman promised information
"as I am authorized to provide it." But he warned: "That won't be
anytime soon."
According to the source, NASA "stumbled on" the underground
civilization in August while running a classified project code-named
Operation Mole Hole -- an initiative that reporters now believe may
have involved spying on China, using new "underground technologies."
"So far NASA has found secret cavern entrances to the underground
in areas around Washington State's Mount Shasta, Mammoth Cave in
Kentucky and also scattered throughout the southwestern U.S.," said
For centuries, man has speculated about the existence of creatures
beneath the Earth's surface.
Now, for the first time, it seems those suspicions have been proven
But whether these creatures are benevolent or enemies of all mankind
remains to be seen.
Webmaster Note: Personally I believe that if they are of a previous race from a forgotten time and have lived among or under us all this time, why would the government even think of them as
enemies and fearful of an attack. Iam quite convinced that if this was their plan, they would have done it along time ago.
Below I have submitted the Agartha Map and you can compare tunnel entrances located on it with the previous article.
Here is the information I have on our Alien Description Site concerning the Dero and Tero, both subterrain races.
I found several descriptions describing the Teros and Deros. I will submit what has been presented to me and leave it up to you to draw your own conclusions.
The First:
A term describing various human groups who inhabit the cavern systems
and re-established antediluvian cities beneath the North American
continent. Many of these may be descended from early American
colonists, while others are apparently descended from older
civilizations such as ancient native Americans who went underground
hundreds and/or thousands of years ago.
The nemesis of the Tero are
the 'Dero', which apparently consist of draconian or reptilian
controlled elements.
The Second:
Explains the Teros as an underground civilization as well, but refer to them as non-humans.
The Teros are more friendly and help keep the Deros, who are more demented from having
excessive power.
They live in underground tunnels, cities and sometimes under the sea.
A problem I have with the Dero name NASA gives to the subterrean people they found is that by all of the descriptions I have found on the Dero they were more of a Dwarf-like creature...never
have I seen one described as 8-10 foot tall. Let's check out some of the other inner-world races and see if we can find a more fitting description and name for what NASA has descovered.............
Beneath our Earth's surface is the 'Inner World' with seemingly endless natural caverns and artificial tunnels spreading out and down into the earth. These passages have their own peculiar
underground ecology of water-dwellers and lichens, mosses and fungi. In its upper levels, this dark realm is inhabited by humanoids of every sort. Farther down are stranger races, most hostile
to surface-dwellers.
Drow, the evil dark elves, thrive in ''Inner Earth'. They trade with or war on other races there and on the surface, and are renowned as spellcasters.
Duergar, the gray dwarves, inhabit deep regions and seldom venture to the surface. Organized and intelligent, they easily hold their own against other subterranean races. They are masters of
stoneand metalworking, but hate their cousins, the hill and mountain dwarves.
The stunted dwarflike derro are among the worst of the Under-Oerth races. They crave magic, power and slaves. They are hated and distrusted even by other evil races, which avoid them. Every
twenty years, derro explode outward through the underworld, attacking anything they encounter and destroying or enslaving weaker races.
Jermlaine look like miniature humans that stand twelve to eighteen inches high. These troublesome gremlins love to swarm and rob larger beings, leaving the stripped victims for monsters to find.
Jermlaine like rats, and share their lairs.
Troglodytes are manlike reptiles that dwell underground. These creatures emit a nasty musk in battle that disables humans, demihumans and humanoids, allowing the trogs to kill quickly and
take the bodies back to their lair for a feast.
For more information on human abductions by these creatures click here
Kuo-toa are fish-men, the descendants of an ancient race almost completely destroyed by humanity. The few survivors found refuge beneath the earth. Now they struggle to hold their own
against smarter, faster, more powerful races.
Wererats are frequently seen in the upper levels of the Inner Earth, particularly beneath the Hellfurnaces and in the sewers of cities and towns they have infiltrated in their human forms. They
conduct trade with other races, both under-and aboveground.
Beholders may have come to Earth from another world or plane. A beholder resembles a sphere about four to six feet across, with a single huge eye, a fang-filled mouth and ten eyestalks
crowning the sphere. A beholder can levitate to any height, floating at the speed of a slowly walking human. Xenophobic and cruel, beholders cast powerful magical rays from their eyestalks; the
central eye can cancel out magic used against the beholder. Very few people ever ever see a Beholder. Fewer still will


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How to Look On Top of the World, When You're Actually Crashing
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Looking like a winner when you feel down and out is essential for survival. Perception is reality and success depends on how that perception is crafted. Here are some tips to make it appear that business is booming:
- Show success in the face of adversity. Create a newsworthy story that shows how business is transcending economic challenges. Instead of relying on a hard luck story, excite consumers with a relevant story of how the company is thriving, growing and trend setting;
- Have a consistent message. In a sound-bite world, sales people and staff must convey the same upbeat message and tone quickly and effectively. Create talking points for everyone in the company to follow. Locate and accentuate the positives of the business and the corresponding benefits they bring. Then, construct the story that will establish that message to clients in unison. This simple act of consistency may seem simple but the wrong information in the right hands can spell disaster. The right story, being told simultaneously, can create a wave of momentum;
- Demonstrate your impact. When a magic trick is performed, it's hard to dispute what was just seen, regardless of jaded beliefs. Anytime a product or service can be demonstrated or shown to be effective, it's a win. Collect and use testimonials of customer results as a backbone to build image and credibility. Also, using case studies dispels "smoke and mirrors" criticism, fueling much needed self-belief and public trust.
Looking like you are on top of the world when you're actually crashing is vital to inspire consumer buying, maintain cash flow, drive company morale and increase profit. Not to mention, feeling like a superstar never hurt anyone.
This article was written by Ryan Prucker, an image specialist and award-winning marketing executive and national media contributor. He is also the author of the book and audio program "The Image to Succeed."
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Brighton-based Lee Baker was our first artist in residency at Metal Peterborough. His work takes the form of painstaking large-format paintings and installations, utilizing vivid color and extreme perspective to 'build' meta-cities and architectural environments, often set against a stormy backdrop of ashen clouds, pending night and potential destruction. His fine art practice explores stark visions of the indestructible meta-city against the indiscriminate forces of nature. Drawing on the narrative and scenic elements of films such as Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, Disney's Tron, and further exploring the idea of a self-aware 'thinking' city, developed in films such as 'Tekkonkinkreet' and Makoto Shinkai's 'A Place Promised in our Early Years'. His most recent work, investigates the idea of future archeology and mythology, exploring the idea of the projection of history onto megalithic structures such as Stonehenge in England or Ahu Tongariki on Easter Island.
Baker creates his own megaliths, abstracting and simplifying, building constructs and giving them meaning. 'Refractive Monolith', for instance, is a three-dimensional reaction to or conversation with Lee Baker's paintings. Utilizing approximately 10 thousand metres of acrylic yarn, he has 'drawn' and occupied the space with this imposing architectural shape, forcing its perspective upon the viewer. As with Baker's paintings, the joyous colors give a false sense of security while at the same time the full spectrum of laser-like yarn represents the building's volatile infrastructure and relative weakness. The graded gray walls delineating the building's silhouette serve to enhance to colours while implying the finality of the structure's life.
For more information, see Lee Baker's website.


North Korea food shortage: Kim Jong-un's COVID-19 policy could lead to mass starvation
24 Jun 2021
North Korea's Kim Jong-un has stated publicly that the country is facing a food shortage, a rare admission for the country's leader, who blamed the pandemic and a recent typhoon.
Last year, speaking at an anniversary event of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim urged his people to "remain firm in the face of 'tremendous challenges' posed by the pandemic". One such challenge Kim has warned of is the potential for a famine echoing the "arduous march" of the late 1990s, when the country faced a period of mass starvation that reportedly killed millions.
Kim's response to COVID-19 has made North Korea even more isolated, leading to food shortages that are likely to impact millions. His slimmer look may also indicate Kim's own lack of access to the food he used to have.
Is North Korea on its way toward another arduous march?
A country isolated
North Korea was one of the first countries to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak by closing its borders in January 2020. North Korea still claims zero positive COVID-19 cases, which no one can really confirm.
There have been signs of a devastating economic situation in North Korea associated with the closed border, which entirely blocked existing illegal trades. Due to existing sanctions, there were not many legitimate trade activities in North Korea, apart from with China, but smuggling has sustained supply and demand chains in general.
At the moment, North Korea is facing its toughest international sanctions yet, imposed in 2017 over its sixth nuclear test. The first such sanctions were put in place by the UN in 2006 over North Korea's ballistic missile tests, and were expanded when the country conducted its first nuclear test that same year.
It is believed that the COVID-19 border closure has affected the North Korean economy even more than the sanctions, resulting in a more than 50% decrease in trade with China compared to 2018.
The border closure has resulted in a lack of access to agricultural materials such as fertiliser and machinery, making it hard for North Koreans to have a sufficient grain harvest. Additionally, food imports and humanitarian aid are not being allowed due to the lockdown.
Lack of access to agricultural supplies due to border closures is threatening harvests in North Korea.BJ Warnick / Newscom / Alamy stock photo
Vaccination troubles
During the initial arduous march, North Korea received a massive amount of food aid from the international community. It is a reasonable assumption that it is in need of more aid this time. But despite calls from the international community to provide humanitarian aid to North Korea, Kim's regime has not allowed them into the country.
When Kim Jong-un became leader, he promised his people that they "would never have to tighten their belt again". Now, he has decided to announce another arduous march rather than engage with the international community, risking a hit to his credibility.
There seem to be two main reasons why North Korea is hesitant to reopen its borders while people suffer from serious lack of food nationwide.
First, there is a huge risk of a COVID-19 outbreak with current measures. The country lacks capacity to deal with the pandemic, so massive and effective vaccination will be the only solution for North Korea to control the spread of the virus in the country. North Korea was initially approved to receive nearly 2 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from Covax, the global vaccination distribution programme. However, this number has been reduced to 1.7 million which covers only about 3.3% of its entire population.
On top of this, delivery has been delayed as North Korea did not participate in the required consultation process. The international community seems to be ready to provide more vaccines once Kim agrees to cooperate on vaccine supply.
Jangmadang and cultural influx
The second reason why Kim is willing to risk his credibility over accepting international aid is his fear of continuous information influx.
During the first arduous march, North Korean political leaders observed humanitarian workers sharing external information with local people, which was then prohibited by authorities. However, this was not a significant problem for leadership as ordinary North Koreans did not have access to the outside world, and were effectively brainwashed by state propaganda.
This time, North Koreans have more access than ever to the outside world. They have wider use of mobile phones, and USBs and SD cards containing K-Pop and South Korean films and dramas have been smuggled into the daily life of North Koreans through jangmadang (grey markets – literally, "outdoor market" in Korean). Higher levels of information influx combined with less ideology education has caused people to rethink their regime, and domestic discontent has developed as a result.
Jangmadang became a core part of North Koreans' survival system when the government was unable to provide rations and necessities during the 1990s. For the jangmadang generation, daily life survival was more important than regime survival. They could not attend school, and thus were not subject to intense state ideology education. Jangmadang and younger generations now tend to place more value on money and South Korean cultural influence than Jucheism – North Korean state ideology – weakening their loyalty to the regime.
Fortunately for Kim, this phenomenon has slowed due to the current border closure. But once the border is reopened, there will be a surge of information into the country again. Thus, Kim would want to ensure the revival of strong state ideology before he reopens doors to the international community. He has conducted strong punishments against those who possess and/or spread foreign media among people, and emphasised the need for enhanced ideological education. In April, Kim sent a letter to the Youth League aiming to "root out anti-socialist and non-socialist practices, and improve ideological education".
Kim's isolation may have successfully blocked the spread of COVID-19 and external cultural influence among the population, but it has also blocked the channels to basic necessity. Kim will need to reopen the borders in order to avert the second arduous march, but it will be hard for him to find immediate alternatives to mitigate the risks to his regime.
There are signs of gradual resumption of trade between North Korea and China, but it has been limited. As Kim has announced that North Korea needs to prepare for "both dialogue and confrontation" with the US, the international community could take this as an opportunity to approach North Korea again, but with more productive and practical solutions for its isolated people.
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Education is felt to be very important in Togo. The Togolese government has built primary
schools all over the country, and 70% of children in Togo spend at least five years in
primary education. The authorities would like to provide free schooling, but do not have
enough money, so parents have to pay fees. The annual cost per child is around £15, a
considerable sum in a country where unemployment levels are very high, wages are low and
people may go for months without receiving their wages. Many thousands of Togolese parents
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Most of the schools in Togo are state schools, but
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individuals (usually former teachers). Some of the private schools in Lomé have excellent
facilities and provide a first-rate education.
The secondary schools in Togo follow a
similar curriculum to those in France and French is the language used in school (at
primary level children are taught in French and the local tribal language). Only a small
proportion of Togolese children go to high school.
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Origin Energy were preparing for the listing for sale of the entity, Lattice Energy, to the open market. They required high-performance low-latency Cloud VM infrastructure and Cloud Storage to support their critical and performance demanding Geosciences applications and data sets.
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- Maintained a productive workforce in Milton – the change was almost transparent.
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Mount Tabor Seismic Stability Analysis
The Mount Tabor reservoir complex was built between 1894 and 1911 and was an integral part of the City of Portland's water supply system. The Mount Tabor complex includes dam No.'s 1, 5, and 6. The dam at Reservoir No. 1 is a 30-foot high concrete structure with a downstream earthfill buttress. The dam at Reservoir No.5 is similar but 55 feet high. Both are built on the upper slopes of Mount Tabor, a dormant volcanic vent. The dam enclosing Reservoir No. 6 is an earth embankment 2,100 feet long and up to 28 feet high. The complex includes the ability to generate power from the 110 feet of head between Reservoirs No. 5 and No. 6.
The foundation below the embankment dam at Reservoir No. 6 contains clean, alluvial sand deposits, 14 to 47 feet thick. A FERC dam safety study raised concern about potential liquefaction of the foundation sands. Cornforth Consultants was retained by the Portland Water Bureau to assess the liquefaction hazard and risk posed to the reservoirs. The study included 19 exploratory borings to evaluate soil type and density; gradation testing to determine silt content; a probabilistic seismic hazard evaluation to develop the design earthquake; a finite element analysis to determine in-situ stresses below the embankment; and an assessment of cyclic stresses within the foundation.
The results of the analyses determined that localized pockets of foundation sand could liquefy; however, the vulnerable pockets were isolated and not laterally continuous. Therefore; excess pore-water pressures generated in the localized pockets would dissipate into denser soil without threatening the stability of the embankment.

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Instead of turning Motion Detection on/off on your Camera devices one by one, you can now integrate Google Assistant with your Android Viewer devices to streamline your Alfred experience. Please note that this feature is currently only available in English.
- What are some requirements to use this integration?
- How do I set up Google Assistant on Alfred?
- How do I use Google Assistant with Alfred?
What are some requirements to use this integration?
- Your Viewer is an Android phone/tablet
- Your device language is English
How do I set up Google Assistant on Alfred?
- Go to the More tab
- Tap Settings > Google Assistant
- Tap the authorization code to copy it
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Once you've completed the steps above, you should be able to use Google Assistant with AlfredCamera.
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You can use Google Assistant to turn on/off Motion Detection for all Camera devices at once.
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A friction hinge is also referred to as a torque hinge, friction clutch or friction engine. A friction hinge is usually used to hold a pivoting member in a set position until acted upon by another force which exceeds its' rated torque rating. Common applications are all around us in our everyday lives, but they are embedded in a host system to hide them. We design them for use in notebook computers, lcd applications, cell phones,medical devices, aerospace systems, computer racks, advertising components, recreational vehicles, cabinet doors, gate systems and automotive components like armrests and visors. What differentiates friction hinges is the mechanical means in which the friction is engineered to hold the pivoting member in place. Most applications create frictional hold by having interference between 2 components which exert a force on each other to impede movement. The amount of torque produced is a function of the interference among other variables such as material, lubrication, contact area and temperature of the environment it is used. Of course different applications require different materials for their construction. Extreme high temperatures might require a steel or carbon impregnated friction element. A hinge for a laptop might need high cycle life of 50,000+ without loosing appreciable torque. Clean room applications need a hinge which must not particulate past a certain criteria. Some hinges must not conduct electricity, have any backlash or produce any noise over their useful life. At Mechanical Motion Technologies we can design for your specific application and specifications. Contact us to discuss your application at _URL_
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Computer Engineering | Robotics
In this paper we evaluate the use of a novel spatial histogram called the terrain spatiogram as a common representation for exchanging landmark information between robots working as a team to map an area. Individual robots use range sensors to provide the spatial dimension of the spatiogram and video for the image dimension. We have previously shown that terrain spatiograms can be shared between robots in a heterogeneous team to recognize landmarks and to fuse observations from multiple sensors or multiple platforms. A terrain spatiogram using a mixture of Gaussians (MOG) model is introduced and a corresponding normalized spatiogram similarity measure defined. Two methods to generate a MOG terrain spatiogram are presented and compared experimentally using indoor and outdoor landmark information transferred between two different models of robot equipped with differently configured stereocameras.
Lyons, Damian M., "Sharing Landmark Information using Mixture of Gaussian Terrain Spatiograms" (2009). Faculty Publications. 18.


text: Buffered crossbar switches have received great attention recently because they have become technologically feasible, have simpler scheduling algorithms, and achieve better performance than a bufferless crossbar switch. Buffered crossbar switches have a buffer placed at each crosspoint. A cell is first delivered to a crosspoint buffer and then transferred to the output port. With a speedup of two, a buffered crossbar switch has previously been proved to provide 100% throughput. We propose what we believe is the first feasible scheduling scheme that can achieve 100% throughput without speedup and a finite crosspoint buffer. The proposed scheme is called SQUISH: a Stable Queue Input-output Scheduler with Hamiltonian walk. With SQUISH, each input/output first makes decisions based on the information from the virtual output queues and crosspoint buffers. Then it is compared with a Hamiltonian walk schedule to avoid possible "bad" states. We then prove that SQUISH can achieve 100% throughput with a speedup of one. Our simulation results also show good delay performance for SQUISH.


text: This work encompasses an analytical procedure and experimental tests for the study of creep/recovery, stress relaxation, and viscoelastic behavior, focusing on the glassy state, of carbon fiber-reinforced epoxy filament wound composites of distinct fiber orientation: 4, 4, and 4. The laminate with longitudinally aligned fibers did not show significant creep and its storage modulus was the highest in comparison to the other angles. Both creep and recovery responses were studied based on a Weibull distribution approach at two stress levels (2 and 5 MPa) and the results were found more comprehensive for the highest level. Stress relaxation modulus was calculated using 1% strain and decreased with the fiber orientation angle. The results were corroborated by those of isothermal tests based on non-linear regression.


Which was the first European nation to be absorbed by Nazi Germany?
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The answer to this depends on what you mean by "absorb." There will be a different answer if you are talking about Germany taking a country over without fighting than there will be if you are talking about military conquest and absorption.
If you are talking about military conquest, the correct answer would be Poland. Germany invaded Poland in September of 1939. It defeated Poland in about six weeks. It divided up conquered Poland with the Soviet Union as it had agreed to do before the war started.
However, I think that the better answer is Austria. This was the first country that Germany absorbed before the war started. It did so in a semi-voluntary annexation that is known as the "Anschluss." Much of the population of Austria welcomed this union with Germany because the people of both countries were ethnically German. Even so, Austria ceased to exist as a country for that time. Therefore, it is proper to say that Germany absorbed Austria.
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Samuel King was a minister for the Baptist Church of Christ in Wendell, Massachusetts. The church was founded in 1799 and until 1819 the congregation met in various public buildings until its own meetinghouse was built. In these diary excerpts from 1806, King mentions where he visited and what he preached. It is interesting to note that on June 5, 1806, he attended the execution of Dominic Daley and James Halligan in Northampton, MA. These two Irish immigrants were accused on May 12, 1805, of killing Marcus Lyon. Despite their insistence that they were innocent, Daley and Halligan were executed in a wave of anti-Irish, anti-Catholic sentiment. King was one of about 15,000 people who viewed the execution. Years later, another man confessed to having committed the murder for which Daley and Halligan were hanged.


The Need to Value Yourself
You value yourself as a person. You also need to value yourself by investing in yourself regarding your career advancement. Things change in life and in the working world., which is why you will need to make an effort to take charge of your career advancement by investing in yourself. To help you, we mention some reasons why this is important, along with valuable assets to help you invest in yourself along the path of career advancement.
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When you invest in yourself to advance in your career, you will be getting something valuable. You will then be able to achieve your goals more clearly. You will see positive results when you take the right steps and implement the best elements to advance your career. That could be developing a new skill or even switching to a different type of career altogether.
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When you invest in yourself to advance in your career, this gives you a sense of empowerment. You will feel good about driving the direction of your next steps in your career. You will be able to nurture your growth and development because no one else will do this for you.
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PHOENIX— Biologists in Arizona are trying to stop the spread of apple snails, an invasive species that could overrun the food chain on the lower Salt River, leaving native fish and wildlife with little to eat.
State and federal biologists are asking for help in containing the snails, which floaters of the Phoenix-area river can do by knocking down the bright pink egg clusters laid along the water, The Arizona Republic reported.
The snails have spread downstream and infested connected waterways since fishermen reported them to the Arizona Game and Fish Department in 2011. The South American snails were introduced in the state through the pet trade, said Jeff Sorensen, a department biologist.
"Somebody's unwanted aquarium pets were illegally introduced into the wild," Sorensen said. "And now they become everybody's problem."
The snails do not have natural predators in the state, and they eat other snails' eggs. They also easily adapt to new environments and appear to thrive in heat and drought. Their numbers are increasing.
"With the drought, as long as there's some kind of water they'll do really well," said Israel Garcia, the department's aquatic invasive species specialist. "Like much of the invasives, they out-compete the native species."
The snails lay eggs every couple of weeks in calm backwaters and river banks. A sole female snail can lay up to 15,000 eggs each year.
Sorensen hopes local predators will adapt to eat snails one day. Until that happens, biologists are chipping away at the population so native pond snails can hold on to their niche in the ecosystem. In a recent week, a crew captured 642 snails from the river and likely drowned 1.6 million eggs, Sorensen said.
While there isn't an estimate on how many snails have invaded the Salt River, it appears to be so many that eradication isn't realistic goal yet, Sorensen said.


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set the fonts of text values, set its size. We can also set the name of the
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extends java.lang.Object and is used to represent a font used in workbook.
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An Integrator-Backstepping-Based Dynamic Surface Control Method for a Two-Axis Piezoelectric Micropositioning Stage
ABSTRACT In this paper, an integrator-backstepping-based dynamic surface control method for a two-axis piezoelectric micropositioning stage is proposed. First, according to the dynamics of motion of a mechanical mass-spring system, mathematical equations that contain a linear viscous friction, a varied elasticity with cross-coupling effect due to mechanical bending, and dynamics of a hysteresis variable is proposed to describe the motion dynamics of the two-axis piezopositioning stage. Next, from the equations, a state-space model in which the applied voltage to the stage is defined as an output of an integrator is derived. On the basis of this state-space model, the integrator-backstepping-based dynamic surface control is proposed. By using the proposed control method to trajectory tracking of the two-axis piezopositioning stage, the dynamic performance, robustness to parameter variations, and trajectory tracking error can be improved. Experimental results of the time responses from the computer-controlled two-axis piezopositioning stage illustrate the validity of the proposed control method for practical applications in trajectory tracking.
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ABSTRACT: The XY table is composed of two piezo electric actuators (PEA) and a positioning mechanism (PM). Due to existence of hysteretic nonlinearity in the PEA and the friction in the PM, the high precision control for the XY table is a challenging task. This paper discusses the high precision adaptive control for the XY talbe, where the hysteresis is described by Prandtl-Ishlinskii model. The proposed control law ensures the global stability of the controlled stage, and the position error can be controlled to approach to zero asymptotically. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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Imidazolium-modification enhances photocatalytic CO2 reduction on ZnSe quantum dots.
Colloidal photocatalysts can utilize solar light for the conversion of CO2 to carbon-based fuels, but controlling the product selectivity for CO2 reduction remains challenging, in particular in aqueous solution. Here, we present an organic surface modification strategy to tune the product selectivity of colloidal ZnSe quantum dots (QDs) towards photocatalytic CO2 reduction even in the absence of transition metal co-catalysts. Besides H2, imidazolium-modified ZnSe QDs evolve up to 2.4 mmolCO gZnSe -1 (TONQD > 370) after 10 h of visible light irradiation (AM 1.5G, λ > 400 nm) in aqueous ascorbate solution with a CO-selectivity of up to 20%. This represents a four-fold increase in CO-formation yield and 13-fold increase in CO-selectivity compared to non-functionalized ZnSe QDs. The binding of the thiolated imidazolium ligand to the QD surface is characterized quantitatively using 1H-NMR spectroscopy and isothermal titration calorimetry, revealing that a subset of 12 to 17 ligands interacts strongly with the QDs. Transient absorption spectroscopy reveals an influence of the ligand on the intrinsic charge carrier dynamics through passivating Zn surface sites. Density functional theory calculations indicate that the imidazolium capping ligand plays a key role in stabilizing the surface-bound *CO2 - intermediate, increasing the yield and selectivity toward CO production. Overall, this work unveils a powerful tool of using organic capping ligands to modify the chemical environment on colloids, thus enabling control over the product selectivity within photocatalyzed CO2 reduction.


um04,Mau05,AZ05,Tum05}, and here denoted {\sf GRWf}, the PO is given by ''events'' in space-time called flashes, mathematically described by points in space-time. This is, admittedly, an unusual PO, but it is a possible one nonetheless. In {\sf GRWf} matter is neither made of particles following world lines, such as in classical or Bohmian mechanics, nor of a continuous distribution of matter such as in {\sf GRWm}, but rather of discrete points in space--time, in fact finitely many points in every bounded space-time region, see Figure~\ref{flashes}. \begin{figure}[ht]\begin{center}\includegraphics[width=.4 \textwidth]{flashes.eps}\end{center}\caption{A typical pattern of flashes in space-time, and thus a possible world according to the {\sf GRWf} theory}\label{flashes}\end{figure} In the {\sf GRWf} theory, the space-time locations of the flashes can be read off from the history of the wave function {given by \eqref{eq:psit} and \eqref{eq:long}}: every flash corresponds to one of the spontaneous collapses of the wave function, and its space-time location is just the space-time location of that collapse. Accordingly, equation \eqref{nflashdist} gives the joint distribution of the first $n$ flashes, after some initial time $t_0$. The flashes form the set \[ F=\{(X_{1},T_{1}), \ldots, (X_{k},T_{k}), \ldots\} \] (with $T_10, $ be the restriction mapping $\Omega_0 \to \Omega_t$, and $T_{\tau}$ the time translation mapping $\Omega_t \to \Omega_{t+\tau}$; then $S_t = T_{-t} \circ R_t : \Omega_0 \to \Omega_0$ is the time shift. Consider an association $\psi \mapsto \PPP^{\psi}$ where $\PPP^{\psi}$ is a probability measure on $\Omega_0$ that is compatible with the dynamics of the theory. We say that this association is \textit{equivariant} relative to a deterministic evolution $\psi \mapsto \psi_t$ if $S_t^{\star} \PPP^{\psi} = \PPP^{\psi_t}$, where ${\star}$ denotes the action of the mapping on measures. More generally, for an evolution that may be stochastic, we say that the association is \textit{equivariant} relative to the evolution if \begin{equation}S_t^{\star} \PPP^{\psi} = \EEE \PPP^{\psi_t},\end{equation} where $\EEE$ denotes the average over the random $\psi_t$. With this definition, {\sf BM} is equivariant relative to the Schr\"odinger evolution, and {\sf GRWf} and {\sf GRWm} are equivariant relative to the {\sf GRW} evolution. \section{A Plethora of Theories} \label{sec:differences} One may wonder whether some primitive ontologies (flashes and continuous matter density) work only with {\sf GRW}-type theories while others (particle trajectories) work only with Bohm-type theories. This is not the case, as we shall explain in this section. \subsection{Particles, Fields, and Flashes} Let us analyze, with the aid of Table 1, several possibilities: \begin{table}[t!] \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|c||c|c|c|}\hline & Particles & Fields & Flashes \\\hline\hline Deterministic & {\sf BM} & {\sf BQFT}, {\sf Sm} & \\\hline Indeterministic & {\sf SM}, {\sf BTQFT}, {\sf BMW}, {\sf GRWp} & {\sf GRWm} & {\sf GRWf}, {\sf Sf}, {\sf Sf$'$} \\\hline \end{tabular} \caption{\small{Different possibilities for the PO of a theory are presented: particles, fields and flashes. These different primitive ontologies can evolve according to either deterministic or stochastic laws. Corresponding to these possibilities we have a variety of physical theories: Bohmian mechanics ({\sf BM}), Bohmian quantum field theory ({\sf BQFT}), a mass density field theory with Schr\"odinger evolving wave function ({\sf Sm}), stochastic mechanics ({\sf SM}), Bell-type quantum field theory ({\sf BTQFT}), Bell's version of many-worlds ({\sf BMW}), a particle {\sf GRW} theory ({\sf GRWp}), {\sf GRW} theory with mass density ({\sf GRWm}), {\sf GRW} theory with flashes ({\sf GRWf}), and two theories with flashes governed by Schr\"odinger (or Dirac) wave functions ({\sf Sf} and {\sf Sf$'$}). For a detailed description of these theories, see the text.}} \end{center} \label{defaulttable} \end{table} there can be at least three different kinds of primitive ontologies for a fundamental physical theory, namely particles, fields, and flashes. Those primitive ontologies can evolve either according to a deterministic or to a stochastic law and this law can be implemented with the aid of a wave function evolving either stochastically or deterministically. {\sf BM} is the prototype of a theory in which we have a particle ontology that evolves deterministically according to a law specified by a wave function that also evolves deterministically. The natural analog for a theory with particle ontology with indeterministic evolution is stochastic mechanics ({\sf SM}), in which the law of evolution of the particles is given by a diffusion process while the evolution of the wave function, the usual Schr\"odin\-ger evolution, remains deterministic (see \cite{stochmech1,stochmech2} for details). Another example involving stochastically evolving particles with a deterministically evolving wave function is provided by a Bell-type quantum field theory ({\sf BTQFT}) in which, despite the name, the PO is given by particles evolving indeterministically to allow for creation and annihilation (for a description, see \cite{crlet,crea2B,Bell86}). Another possibility for a stochastic theory of particles is a theory {\sf GRWp} in which the particle motion is governed by \eqref{Bohm} but with a wave function that obeys a {\sf GRW}-like evolution in which the collapses occur exactly as in {\sf GRW} except that, once the time and label for the collapse has been chosen, the collapse is centered at the actual position of the particle with the chosen label, rather than at random according to equation \eqref{p}. (A garbled formulation of this theory is presented in \cite[p. 346]{BohmHiley}.) What in Table 1 we call a Bohmian quantum field theory ({\sf BQFT}) involves only fields, evolving deterministically \cite{Bohm52}, \cite{westman}. Another example is provided by the theory {\sf Sm} in which the PO is given by the mass density field \eqref{mdef} but evolving with a Schr\"odinger wave function --- always evolving according to Schr\"odinger's equation, with no collapses. {\sf GRWm} provides an example of a theory of fields that evolve stochastically. Concerning theories with flashes, these are inevitably stochastic, and {\sf GRWf}, in which the flashes track the collapses of the wave function, is the prototype. However, there are also theories with flashes in which the wave function never collapses. Such theories are thus arguably closer to {\sf BM} than to {\sf GRWf}. We consider two examples. In the first example, denoted by {\sf Sf},\footnote{Here {\sf S} stands for Schr\"odinger (evolution). Using this notation we have that {\sf BM} = {\sf Sp}.} the PO consists of flashes with their distribution determined by a Schr\"odinger wave function $\psi =\psi (q_1, \ldots, q_N)$, that evolves always unitarily, as in {\sf BM}, according to the $N$--''particle'' Schr\"odinger evolution \eqref{Schr}. The flashes are generated by the wave function exactly as in {\sf GRWf}. Thus, the algorithm, whose output is the flashes, is the same as the one described in Section \ref{sec:GRW}, with steps 1., 2. and 3., with the following difference: the first sentence in step 2. is dropped, since no collapse takes place. In other words, in {\sf Sf} flashes occur with rate \eqref{rate} but are accompanied by no changes in the wave function.\footnote{Accordingly, equation \eqref{nflashdist} is replaced by \begin{multline} \PPP\bigl( X_1\in d x_1, T_1 \in d t_1, I_1 = i_1, \ldots, X_n \in dx_n, T_n \in d t_n, I_n = i_n | \


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Lot 473. A rare ormolu-mounted Longquan celadon vase, Yuan dynasty (_PHONE_); overall 49.5 cm. Estimate: 60,000 - 80,000 HKD. Lot sold: 75,600HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's.
Provenance: Collection of Alberto Pinto.
Christie's Paris, 12th-14th September 2017, lot 885.
Note: A larger vase of this type in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Longquan qingci [Longquan celadon], Beijing, 1966, pl. 41; and vases also with their mouths reduced, in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, are published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. 1, London, 1986, nos 204 and 205. Smaller and simpler examples have been found on a shipwreck off the coast of Sinan, South Korea, datable to approximately the third decade of the 14th century, and were included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found Off Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, cat. no. 23.
Sotheby's. CHINA / 5000 YEARS, Hong Kong, 26 May 2021


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The organisation does not function as a traditional grant-making agency. Instead, using established programming parameters, the Foundation conceptualises and launches projects with credible and experienced implementation partners.
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The solution is to distinguish call demands from product demands. Consider again:
let f = \ x. \ y.... in
 ...(f 1 2)...(f 3 4)...
The demands placed on f by the first and second call get bothed together to yield SM(SM(T)). But this is incorrect. Consider:
let f = \ x. \ y....
 frob = f 1 in
 ...(f 1 2)...(frob 2)...(frob 3)...
Here, the demands placed on f by the body of frob and by the call to f in the let-body get bothed together: S1(T) & S1(S1(T)) = SM(SM(T)). Note that this is the same as the demand placed on f above, yet we want to distinguish between the two situations, because in the first example, the inner lambda in f's rhs is only called once.
The solution is to treat call demands and product demands differently, and to define the both function for call demands to have the same behavior as lub. Then in the first example, f has demand SM(S1(T)) placed on it, and in the second, SM(T). This is what we want; now, if f has demand D(D(T) placed on it, that implies f is always called with two arguments.
Why does this make sense? Consider what it means if we see an example like:
let baz = lazyF p in
 case p of
 (a,b) -> strictF a b
(where lazyF is lazy in p, and strictF is strict in a and b). p is used both with demand L (in the call to lazyF and with demand S(SS) (in the call to strictF). This means it's perfectly same to strictly evaluate p, so when we both together the two demands, we should get S(SS). On the other hand, if a function is called once with one argument and once with two, we don't want to treat it as a function that's always called with two arguments; we're only interested in functions that are always called with n arguments for a given n. Hence, both should behave the same way as lub for call demands.
The following code inserts extra fields into closures when ticky is enabled (and so had to be commented out):
staticTickyHdr :: [CmmLit]
-- The ticky header words in a static closure
staticTickyHdr =
 | not opt_DoTickyProfiling = []
 | otherwise = [zeroCLit]
in compiler/codeGen/CgTicky.hs.
Other relevant functions: emitTickyCounter in compiler/codeGen/CgTicky.hs (called by closureCodeBody in compiler/codeGen/CgClosure.lhs).
Argh! I spent days tracking down this bug: idInfoLabelType in compiler/cmm/CLabel.hs needs to return DataLabel for labels of type RednCount (i.e., labels for ticky counters.) By default, it was returning CodeLabel, which caused the ticky counter labels to get declared with the wrong type in the generated C, which caused C compiler errors.
Declarations for ticky counters
emitTickyCounter spits out C declarations that look like this:
static char c16O_str[] = "main:Main.$wrepeated{v r4}";
static char c16Q_str[] = "i";
StgWord Main_zdwrepeated_ct[] = {
0x0, 0x1U, 0x1U, 0x0, (W_)&c16O_str, (W_)&c16Q_str, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
Here, Main_zdwrepeated_ct is actually an StgEntCounter (this type is declared in includes/StgTicky.h). The counters get used by printRegisteredCounterInfo in rts/Ticky.c, which prints out the ticky reports. The counter fields are accessed using offsets defined in includes/GHCConstants.h (oFFSET_StgEntCounter_*), which in turn get generated from includes/mkDerivedConstants.c (change it and then run make in includes/.
Note that the first 3 fields of the counters are 16-bit ints and so the generated ticky-counter registration code has to reflect that (I fixed a bug where the first field was getting treated as a 32-bit int.) I modified the StgEntCounter type so that all fields are StgWords, because it seems that the code generator can't cope with anything else anyway (i.e., in the declaration above, Main_zdwrepeated_ct[] is an array of StgWords, even though the C type declaration implies that some fields are halfwords.)
In emitBlackHoleCode in compiler/codeGen/CgClosure.lhs, "eager blackholing" was getting employed in the case where ticky was turned on; this was causing programs to <> when they wouldn't with ticky disabled, so I turned that off.
Strictness and let-floating
We run into the following problem in the transform nofib benchmark: suppose we have:
f x =
 let foo = stuff in
 foo + x
where stuff doesn't depend on x. Demand analysis says that foo has a strict demand placed on it. Later, foo gets floated to the top level because it doesn't depend on x (in reality it's more complicated because in this case foo probably would have gotten floated out before demand analysis, but bear with me). foo still has a strict demand signature, which a top-level binding isn't allowed to have. Currently this manifests itself as an assertion failure in compiler/simplCore/SimplEnv.lhs.
There are two possible easy solutions: don't float out bindings for strict things, or "both" the demand for a binder with Lazy when its binding gets floated out. The question is, is it better to do the let-floating and lose the strictness into or to evaluate something strictly but lose sharing?
When we run into an expression like (Cast e co) that we're placing demand d on, we analyze e to get dmd_ty, then check whether the depth of e is equal to the depth of dmd_ty or not. This is necessary because we might be casting a function to a non-function type. So, if d and dmd_ty have equal depth, we return dmd_ty as is; if d's arity is less, we drop the appropriate number of args from dmd_ty; if dmd_ty's arity is less, we add the appropriate number of dummy argument demands to it.
WARN: arity /= dmdTypeDepth rhs_dmd_ty && not (exprIsTrivial rhs)
This warning can happen for (at least) two reasons:
 - lambdas with a strict non-call demand placed on them were being handled wrong (see the first two examples in [Commentary/Compiler/StrictnessAnalysis/Examples])
 - coercions were being handled wrong, resulting in a demand type with depth 0 being assigned to an rhs consisting of a cast from/to a function type


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Subspaces that Minimize the Condition Number of a Matrix
S. Joshi and S. Boyd
Rejecta Mathematica, 1(1):4-9, July 2009.
We define the condition number of a nonsingular matrix on a subspace, and consider the problem of finding a subspace of given dimension that minimizes the condition number of a given matrix. We give a general solution to this problem, and show in particular that when the given dimension is less than half the dimension of the matrix, a subspace can be found on which the condition number of the matrix is one.


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New media has rapidly become the important way of college students' school life and interpersonal communication for its fast spread, strong interaction, and universality. When the new media provides hope and opportunities for the ideological and political work in colleges and universities, it also brings impacts and challenges to the traditional way of education. Colleges and universities ought to actively seek for strategies of the adaptability of ideological and political education under the era of new media by strengthening the building of staff, improving political consciousness, building college new media platform, reinforcing college students media literacy education and introducing the new field of college ideological and political education.
Wang Cuiting, Zhu Shasha


ExponentFunction
ExponentFunction
is an option for NumberForm and related functions that determines the exponent to use in printing approximate real numbers.
Details
 - Functions like NumberForm first find the exponent that would make exactly one digit appear to the left of the decimal point when the number is printed in scientific notation. Then they take this exponent and apply the function specified by ExponentFunction to it. If the value obtained from this function is an integer, it is used as the exponent of the number. If it is Null, then the number is printed without scientific notation.
 - The argument provided for the function specified by ExponentFunction is always an integer.
 - In NumberForm, the default setting for ExponentFunction never modifies the exponent, but returns Null for machine numbers with exponents between -5 and 5, and for highprecision numbers where insignificant zeros would have to be inserted if the number were not printed in scientific notation.
 - In ScientificForm, the default setting for ExponentFunction returns Null only for real numbers with single-digit integer parts.
 - In EngineeringForm, the default setting for ExponentFunction returns an exponent that is a multiple of 3.
 - In AccountingForm, the default setting for ExponentFunction always returns Null.
Examples
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Basic Examples (1)
Compute approximate powers of :
Default formatting to 5 digits:
Restrict exponents to multiples of 3:
Scope (3)
Use ExponentFunction with PaddedForm:
EngineeringForm:
ScientificForm:
AccountingForm:
Include exponents only for powers with absolute value greater than 10:
Format numbers without using scientific notation:
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The Oslon Black Flat is the new LED from Osram Opto Semiconductors for automotive frontlighting systems.
Equipped with a ceramic converter, the new LED contains a UX:3 chip that delivers high light output even at high currents, according to Osram. With a power draw of 2.3W and an operating current of 700mA, the Oslon Black Flat achieves a typical luminous flux of 200 lm (at 25 degrees C). If operated at 1.2A it can achieve up to 270 lumen - despite an application temperature of 100 degrees C in the chip.
The Oslon Black Flat was developed in Regensburg and has been designed to function without a lens. Its light can therefore be injected very close to light guides or lenses, said Osram. Its luminance, in other words what the human eye perceives as the brightness of a particular surface, is 2-5 times higher than comparable LEDs in its class at 70 -100 Mcd/m2 (million candelas per square meter).


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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made public the final regulations aimed at cutting pollution from taconite plants that causes haze over northern Minnesota wild areas.
Included in the regulations is the Northshore Mining Co. operation in Silver Bay.
The regulations come after months of delay and will force some taconite operations to add expensive new pollution control equipment to curb nitrogen oxides, or NOx, and sulfur dioxides, SO2.
According to a Duluth News Tribune report Thursday morning, environmental and public-health groups, and now the EPA, say that pollution causes haze over pristine areas like the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Isle Royale and Voyageurs national parks. The groups and the EPA say it also can cause lung ailments in people.
The plan "will reduce pollutants that are harmful to people's health and impair visibility in national parks and wilderness areas," the EPA said in announcing the final rule. The agency said the pollution controls are expected to reduce NOx emissions by about 22,000 tons per year and SO2 emissions by about 2,000 tons per year.
The News Tribune reports the rules affect all six taconite operations in Minnesota as well as the lone taconite operation on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. New plants also would be expected to meet the standards. Many coal-fired power plants already have been required to make similar upgrades.
The federal government stepped in after regulators concluded that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency didn't go far enough to limit haze from taconite plants. The state in April essentially said the industry was doing all it could within reason to control haze pollution.
The feds issued their own rule last summer that said taconite plants must go further and do it faster including installing low-NOx burners to bake their taconite pellets — a so-called best available retrofit technology. The regulations go as far as setting specific limits on how much haze-causing air pollution each plant can emit.
The technology to reduce haze already has been tested at U.S. Steel Minntac operations in Mountain Iron and apparently worked well, state officials have said.


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Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Squee's mother react when he tells her he is frightened?
(a) She doesn't respond because she is asleep.
(b) She ignores him and tells him to go see his father.
(c) She screams that she never wanted him.
(d) She tells him to stop worrying and go back to bed.
2. What does Squee do when he sees the survey taker?
(a) He knocks on Johnny's door to ask for help.
(b) He tells his parents.
(c) He screams and runs.
(d) He stops and asks him a question.
3. Who is Happy Noodle Boy?
(a) A character in a comic strip drawn by Johnny.
(b) Johnny's alter-ego.
(c) An inanimate object that serves as the voice of reason for Johnny.
(d) Squee's teddy bear.
4. Who is the first character to be introduced?
(a) Happy Noodle Boy.
(b) Shmee.
(c) Squee.
(d) Johnny.
5. What is the name of Squee's teddy bear?
(a) D-Boy.
(b) Shmee.
(c) Dixi.
(d) Mister Boo.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is Squee frightened at the beginning of the book?
2. How does Squee's father respond when Squee tells him he is frightened?
3. What is Johnny's house number?
4. What does the survey taker say about Johnny's answers to his questions?
5. Who is Johnny's voice of insanity, who drives him further into his illness?
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What exactly is a wahoo?
August 23, 2012
Lahaina News
LAHAINA - Most of the Lahaina Charter fleet landed ono during July, with 116 hitting the docks.
With the nice weather holding for a couple of days, the boats headed to Molokai.
The best day saw 30 ono caught, with two other days seeing 19 fish hanging.
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Most often the peak ono season is between late spring and early fall. They are normally found in abundance during the summer.
Wahoo, better known in Hawaiian waters as ono, are the biggest, fastest and meanest mackerel in America. It can reach speeds of up to 45 miles per hour in short bursts, allowing quick capture of prey species.
What exactly is a wahoo? It is a unique member of the tuna family called Scombridae; a "tribe" line of the tunas and mackerels called seerfish. That "tribe" contains the 18 species of Scomberomorus (king and Spanish mackerels) around the world, with the unique wahoo in its only species, Acanthocybium solandri.
Even the names, both common and scientific, are interesting. In 1769, the crew on James Cook's Endeavour, north of Tahiti, caught the first of these speedsters to be recorded in the Western world. It was scientifically named (Solandri) to honor the great Swedish scientist on board the Endeavour, Dr. D.C. Solander.
The name "wahoo" logically dates from the early whalers and missionary settlers seeing and utilizing the fine edible species in the Hawaiian Islands. Then and now, Oahu, which they pronounced and sometimes spelled "Wahoo," was an important base. The Hawaiians had long recognized the quality of wahoo with their name "ono," meaning delicious or tasty.
Wahoo are open ocean swimmers found near the surface in tropical and subtropical waters around the world. Wahoo live in tropical waters year-round but move with the changing seasons, traveling into cooler waters during warm summer months.
Most often the peak ono season is between late spring and early fall, and they are normally found in abundance during the summer. They are frequently found alone or in small, loosely connected groups rather than in compact schools. They are also often found near banks, pinnacles and flotsam (natural debris drifting in the ocean).
They grow fast, attaining a length of three-and-a-half feet the first year. Twoand three-year-olds are five feet long. The maximum reported size for the wahoo is 98 inches total length with a maximum weight of 184 pounds.
Typically, individuals attain a size of 39 to 66 inches. After reaching a length of 38 to 41 inches, individuals grow at a rate of 1.2 to 1.5 inches per month. Latitude appears to influence size, with average weight increasing with distance from the equator, apparently correlated to cooler temperatures.
A 58.4-pound fish caught was five feet, three inches long; a 66-pound fish was five feet, three-and-a-half inches long; with a 71.7-pound fish five feet and six inches long. A 183-pounder was almost seven feet long. Not only do they get long, they get girthy.
The current IGFA all-tackle record is by a woman at 184 pounds, eight ounces on 80-pound test from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in 2005. The Hawaii state record is 133 pounds, three ounces in 2000 off Pohoiki, Hawaii. The Lahaina Harbor record is 78 pounds aboard the Charger back in 1984 by Capt. Mike Kearns and crewman Shadow.
Wahoo are sexually mature at one to two years of age. They usually live to about six years of age but can live longer. Male wahoo appear to reach maturity at a smaller size and possibly younger age than females.
Males are able to reproduce when they reach 2.8 feet in length; females are sexually mature when they reach 3.3 feet. They are usually about a year old at this size.
Wahoo start breeding at one-year-old. Female wahoo are very fertile, averaging approximately 40,000 mature eggs per two pounds of body weight. Females can produce up to 60 million eggs during spawning. The larvae are pelagic and prefer shallower water (less than 300 feet or so). The size of wahoo at hatching is 2.5 millimeters. Babies are two-thirds fish and one-third alligator.
Wahoo spawn year-round in tropical waters and during the summer in higher latitudes, including Hawaii, when sea surface temperatures are over 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Individual wahoo spawn multiple times throughout the spawning season. They are very productive, releasing millions of eggs per year to compensate for eggs that might not survive to adulthood.
In the subtropical Pacific Ocean, the wahoo spawning season extends for five months, although in equatorial regions of the Pacific, larval wahoo have been found year-round, suggesting a more prolonged spawning season.
The condition and abundance of wahoo appear to be related to a simple annual reproductive cycle. The condition of wahoo is highest in May before the spawning season and declines through the spawning season, reaching a minimum in July-August. Catch peaks in summer, during the spawning season, suggest that wahoo may gather near the islands to spawn.
Migration related to reproduction may also explain some of the seasonality in catch rates of wahoo near the Hawaiian Islands. The occurrence of wahoo larvae in plankton tows within 15 miles from shore of the main Hawaiian Islands has been reported during June-September.
It appears that wahoo migrate from the open ocean to the islands and banks to reproduce, then leave the islands and banks to feed in the open ocean. Surface currents and eddies generated in the island wakes are mechanisms that could transport larvae and juveniles to the open ocean.
A limited amount of spawning could also occur offshore. However, a move to nearshore waters in May for spawning throughout the summer would be consistent with the increase in condition and catch rates in the nearshore fisheries. The highest abundance areas for wahoo are southwest of the islands year-round but spread northward into coastal banks distributed over 1,200 square miles in summer.
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Kitted out in welly boots we take the children on a weekly walk around the village to help them connect with their local surroundings and embrace the great outdoors! Jumping in muddy puddles, building dens, climbing through bushes, exploring the woods or visiting a local farm – Welly Walk Thursdays are all about adventure!
During this time outdoors the children will be given a task or activity to complete, such as making a stick person, collecting different coloured leaves or searching for seasonal items – perhaps a conker or a tadpole!
These outdoor trips always provide a lot of fun and wonder – but they also develop practical skills such as listening and communication as the children learn the importance of staying safe and keeping together as a group.


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Elon is looking into buying an electric car, however he is worried that it will affect his ability to go on long road trips. In particular, he is planning a road trip from Toronto to Vancouver this summer and he will need a car that can take him all the way there.
There are \(N\) cities with electric charging stations in North America and \(M\) roads between them. Elon can use a road only if it is shorter than the range of his electric vehicle. What is the minimum range that Elon's vehicle must have so that he could complete his road trip?
Input Specification
The first line of input contains two integers \(N, M\) \((2 \le N, M \le 100\ 000)\), the number of cities and roads, respectively. Cities are numbered from 1 to \(N\), with Toronto being city 1 and Vancouver being city \(N\). The next \(M\) lines each contain three integers \(A, B, L\) \((1 \le A, B \le N, 1 \le L \le 10^9)\), which represent a road between cities \(A\) and \(B\) of length \(L\).
Output Specification
Output the minimum range that Elon's car must have in order for him to complete his road trip, or -1 if it is impossible for Elon to reach Vancouver.
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3 2
1 2 100
2 3 200
Sample Output 1
200
Sample Input 2
3 3
1 3 500
1 2 400
2 3 400
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The definition of betwixt is between.(adverb)
When you are in between two things, this is an example of a time when you are betwixt.
See betwixt in Webster's New World College Dictionary
Origin: ME bitwix < OE betwix < be, by + a form related to twegen, twain; -t is unhistoric
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adverb & prep.
Origin: Middle English bitwixt
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Bowman Wright was a skilled metal charmer who lived in Godric's Hollow sometime during the Middle Ages. Born to a witch mother and a Muggle father, he invented the Golden Snitch as a replacement for the endangered Golden Snidget, combining his interest in science, magic, and sports.
The English "wright" is a word referring to a skilled craftsman.
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- Bowman shares the same last name as Bonnie Wright, who portrays Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films. Incidentally, Bonnie Wright's parents, Gary Wright and Sheila Teague, are both jewellers.
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How does volume affect resin cure?
Heat is released during the chemical reaction that converts liquid part A and part B into solid epoxy. The amount of heat released depends on the epoxy's chemistry and the amount of epoxy used. That is, a certain amount of mixed part A and part B will result in the release in a certain amount of heat.
The curing epoxy must be able to shed the heat it generates efficiently enough to avoid overheating. The ability to shed heat is largely governed by the ratio of top surface area that is open to the air relative to the volume.
For the same resin system, thinner castings will have greater top surface areas in comparison to overall volume and will shed heat more efficiently. Thicker castings cannot shed heat as efficiently and may overheat.
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Wild Cooking | Bannock Bread Recipe
Wild Cooking | Bannock Bread Recipe
Coming from the Gaelic bannach, bonnach or bhannag (meaning 'morsel'), Bannock Bread is a simple flatbread that originated in Scotland. There are many opinions on where the word bannock came from however the actual translation means "to panic".
Bannock is not to be confused with Australian Damper though. Bannock refers to any large round article baked or cooked from grain. Damper on the other hand is traditionally baked or cooked from wheat flour and water.
Bannock was taken to North America by the Scottish explorers and traders. This inevitably lead to the indigenous people of the Northern Great Plains adopting bannock into their own cuisine.
There are now an infinite number of variations available on this simple recipe of what is essentially flour and water. Bannock is a great source of carbohydrates, and can compliment stews, meats and many other dishes.
Bannock can be made entirely from foraged natural resources in the wilderness, but only if you are lucky enough to be in a suitable location with the right seeds and roots avaialble.
Seasonal fruits, nuts and maple, birch and also sycamore sap can be used instead of water (or as well as) for binding the ingredients.
Bannock is easy to prepare and so many ingredients can work with it, making it a fun, simple and nourishing food source.
Below is a basic recipe that we have used for years. From this basic recipe you can add whatever you like. Great additions are seasonal fruits or nuts and if you want to pack some tasty additions; dried fruits, chocolate and honey are always a great start!
Bannock Recipe:
 - 3 mugs of flour (any type)
 - 2 mugs of milk powder
 - 1 tsp of baking powder
 - 1 tsp sugar
 - Enough water to make a nice thick dough
 - Anything else you want to add
Once you have a thick dough, you can either break it into patties or fill the bottom of your pot. Put the pot on some good embers and make sure you keep turning the bannock whilst cooking.
Times will vary enormously depending on how hot your fire is and how close your pot is to it. Keep checking for a golden brown colours and a hollow sound when you tap them.
A variation of this recipe (although some would argue is damper), is to twist the dough around a green stick (maybe an inch thick) and cook above the embers or near a fire until golden brown. When it's cooked, allow it to cool. Then remove the stick and you can fill the whole with jam, or a sausage like a hot dog!
There are plenty of variations on basic bannock bread. We would love for you to share your own personal variations on this bushcraft classic!
One controversial suggestion for damper bread - liberally coat the outside with warmed butter blended with Marmite! If it's kept warm, it'll go on with a pastry brush.
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Researchers in Kerala to use modern techniques for DNA analysis
Alison is not aware of her white cousin housed in a rescue centre at Puducherry. She, however, is on chattering terms with the grey striped version of her species scurrying about in a cage near hers in the laboratory of the Department of Zoology, University of Kerala, here.
Ever since she was captured from the outskirts of the city in 2008, the black squirrel, named after a United Kingdom-based scientist who helped identify the animal, has been the subject of intense scientific curiosity.
Following up on preliminary investigations that have confirmed the black and white animals to be variants of the Indian striped palm squirrel, researchers here have launched a mission to decipher the genetic causes of the colour change.
The multi-institutional project will use modern techniques for DNA analysis.
Efforts are focussed on identifying the chromosome responsible for the genetic mutation in the grey squirrel, and the resultant colour change.
"Apparently, one of the genes in the animal acted as a switch to activate the change in pigmentation," explains Oommen V. Oommen, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Emeritus Scientist, who heads the project.
While the research team has black and grey squirrels in its possession, the scientists have collected blood and hair samples of the white variant from Puducherry where the animal is kept in a rescue centre operated by the Forest Department.
Unlike the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada where the black squirrel has attained sizeable populations, there have been no reports of the mutant versions being sighted anywhere else in India.
"We had earlier carried out gene sequencing to establish that the black squirrel is a variant of Funambulus palmarum [Indian three-striped palm squirrel]. That work will have to be repeated to ascertain the mutation responsible for melanisation [black pigmentation]," says Dr. Oommen.
"Our attempt is to understand the basic science behind the colour change, what it is that throws the switch. The project could have far reaching implications for mankind. It would perhaps obviate the need to use bleaching creams for a fair skin or have a sunbath for a tan."
The sequencing programmes are expected to generate meaningful data in the next two months.
The team includes Dr. Sanal George, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology; Dr. Dileep Kumar, Anaswara Krishnan and Dr. Achuth Sankar S. Nair; Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; K. Ramachandran and A.S. Vijayasree, Department Of Zoology, University of Kerala; Dr. Divya, Central University, Kasaragode; Dr. Helen Mcrobie, East Anglia University, Cambridge; Dr. M.A. Akbarsha, Bharatidasan University; Dr. Anil Kumar, Deputy Conservator Of Forests, Puducherry; and Dr. Jacob Alexander, Veterinary surgeon, Thiruvananthapuram Zoo.
This is not the first time Dr. Oommen and his team have been on the trail of animals exhibiting abnormal colour characteristics. The scientists have already lined up their next project, to carry out gene sequencing of a hen that changes colour.
Belonging to a small-time farmer near here, the bird has acquired a celebrity status for its ability to change from black to white and back without shedding feathers. "Unlike the squirrel, the switch seems to be active throughout the life of the bird," says Dr. Oommen.


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If you want to define a JSON type, and reference it later in your JSON Schema, you can:
1. Name your JSON type can put it inside the "definitions" property. For example, "rating" as a JSON type can be defined as shown below:
{
 "definitions": {
 "rating": {
 "type": "integer",
 "minimum": 0,
 "maximum": 5
 }
 },
 ...
}
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{
 ...
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
 "clarity": {
 "$ref": "#/definitions/rating"
 },
 "efficiency": {
 "$ref": "#/definitions/rating"
 }
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}

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GigE Vision is a framework for transmitting images over an Ethernet connection. It consists of protocols that define how to configure a camera and to transfer the image data. Every computer with a fast Ethernet card is compatible with the GigE Vision framework. So GigE Vision requires only an ethernet card, whereas CoaXPress and Camera Link require a framegrabber.
The maximum transfer speed of a GigE Vision camera (assuming a gigabit Ethernet card in the computer) is 1000 Mb/s.