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The place you reference is Ouachita County, Arkansas. Ouachita County was created on 29 November 1842 from Union County. There have been some minor county boundary changes since that time in 1850, 1852, 1853, and 1871. The county is part of the Camden Micropolitan Statistical District. I suggest that you begin your search by consulting the FamilySearch Library Catalog for Ouachita County, Arkansas. You will find that the Library has a number of records from that county including cemetery records, censu records, church history, court records, land and property records, maps, military records, probate records, school records, taxation records and vital records. You can also check out the entries in the FamilySearch Research Wiki for Ouachita County. There are a few additional references there. I also suggest contacting the Ouachita County Historical Society.
It depends on whether or not the form has been filed with the county in which the real estate is located, and whether the county has computerized records or not.
County Records was created in 1963.
Kern County Hall of Records was created in 1909.
Marriage records are usually held in the courthouse in the county in which the marriage took place. If the county does not exist any longer, a nearby county likely has the records.
The County Auditor is responsible for making sure that county financial records are kept. The County Auditor also makes sure that financial records are accurate.
Howard W. Woodruff has written: 'The marriage records of cass (Van Buren) County, Missouri' -- subject(s): Marriage records, Genealogy 'John Wagner and his twelve children of Harrison County, Ohio and surrounding counties, _PHONE_' -- subject(s): Family, Genealogy 'Marriage records, Perry County, Missouri, Book \\' -- subject(s): Marriage records, Genealogy 'Marriage records, St. Francois County, Missouri' -- subject(s): Marriage records, Genealogy 'Marriage records, Franklin County, Missouri' -- subject(s): Marriage records, Genealogy 'Marriage records, Crawford County, Missouri' -- subject(s): Marriage records, Genealogy 'Marriage records, Osage County, Missouri, book \\' -- subject(s): Marriage records, Genealogy 'Marriage records, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, book \\' -- subject(s): Marriage records, Genealogy 'Marriage records, Greene County, Missouri, Book A and B, _PHONE_' -- subject(s): Marriage records, Genealogy
Los Angeles County Hall of Records was created in 1962.
Ruth M. Slevin has written: 'Pike County, Indiana, marriage records, _PHONE_' -- subject(s): Genealogy, Marriage records 'Scott County, Indiana, marriage records, _PHONE_' -- subject(s): Genealogy, Marriage records 'LaGrange County, Indiana, marriages, _PHONE_' -- subject(s): Genealogy, Marriage records 'Decatur County, Indiana, marriage records, _PHONE_' -- subject(s): Decatur County, Genealogy, Indiana, Marriage records 'Monroe County, Indiana will records, _PHONE_'
The county clerk
County registrars are appointed by the Irish government. The County Registrar, within the County to which he is assigned, is the proper officer of the Court in respect of all its jurisdiction, and is responsible for the discharge of all duties imposed upon him or upon the Office, by Statute or otherwise, and for the safe custody of all documents and records of the Court.
At this time, Carter County Oklahoma offers several different public record searches online:Property tax and assessment recordsCarter County recorded documents - property records, vital records, tax liensInmate recordsSex offenders
Some public records can be accessed online it just depends on what type of record that you are researching Some public records such as property records, vital records and recorded documents are maintained at the County level. You can search by state, county or city through the website Free Public Records Directory. Camilla is located in Mitchell County, Georgia so attached is a link to Mitchell County through Free Public Records.
The county clerk manages elections and maintains the state's records.
If you have the Bronze Star award on your Military Discharge, or if you have the Citation for it, take them to a Veteran Service Officer at any US Federal Building (some county offices have them, too). They will help you.
It depends on the land records system in that jurisdiction. Some organize land records by town and some by county. You can perform an online search using the town, county + land records to find the land records office in any particular jurisdiction.
You probably won't find arrest records online but you can search Volusia County Florida court records. Volusia County allows you to search case records, citations and violations, official records, court documents, judgments, liens and probate records. You can search these records by case or citation number, case type, name, date, location or document type.
Usually these are filed with the county court.
where are census records for washington county indiana kept
You can check the history of land in the land records office. They are usually listed by county. You can usually find the land records office by searching "land records- the county and state".
To find public records for Lucerne County, Pa, you can visit the courthouse or you can access certain records online depending on what type of record that you are looking for. You can access contact information or certain online links by going to the "Free Public Records Directory" for Lucerne County at the related link.
Harris County District Clerk Office
For property tax records for your county - go to the county Tax Assessor's office. For personal income information - that is confidential and not a public record.
There are some jurisdictions that have that information available. For divorce, you should perform an online search using the county, state + county + divorce records. They would not be in the same system as marriage records since a divorce takes place in the county court system.


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Bronze bell from a Buddhist temple
Edo period, 17th-18th century AD
Temple bells were used to announce the time of events during the course of the day. They were hung suspended within covered towers, and rung by striking them on the outside on a raised boss using a wooden ram suspended horizontally by ropes. The bell is hung by an integral loop at the top, usually in the form of opposed dragons with the hōjū, or wishing jewel between them.
The matrices of raised nipples around the upper part of the bell derive originally from Chinese bells of the Shang dynasty (about 12th-11th century BC).

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


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Bridge health monitoring is a method of evaluating the ability of a bridge to perform its required task (also called fitness for purpose) by monitoring the response of the bridge to the traffic loads it has to withstand.
This research project, carried out in 1998–1999, is part of stage 2 of the short-term health monitoring and 'fitness for purpose' assessment of 10 bridges on New Zealand highways, in order to develop and evaluate the methodology. The Otauru Bridge, on State Highway 57, crosses the Otauru Stream between Levin and Palmerston North, Manawatū Region, North Island, and is essentially a large reinforced concrete culvert. It was selected as one of these 10 because it has a large crack at midspan, and the structure was visibly deflecting under traffic. The fitness for purpose evaluation indicates that intervention is required.
Keywords: bridges, bridge dynamics, bridge health, bridge loads, heavy vehicles, loading, monitoring, New Zealand, performance, roads, superstructure, traffic

source: m-a-p/FineFineWeb


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Tanya shares the Mirror stamping technique with us today, combined with Chameleon pens.
By Tanya Batrak
Tanya explains her inspiration for this technique" I like that Chameleon pens can draw on different surfaces, and vellum is one of them. This ability will help you if you want to try a mirror stamping technique."
Materials Used: Chameleon Color Tones Deluxe Set; Warm Sunset (YO3); Olive Green (OL3); Deep Violet (VO4); floral stamp; watercolor paper; American Crafts ribbon.
- Stamp image several times on a scrap piece of paper to make a border. If you are happy with the result, now you can proceed on a card.
- Make 4 ¼ x 7"card from card stock.
- Draw a horizontal line with the pencil to divide the front side of a card in two.
- Stamp image several times over the pencil line to make a border.
- Color each image with the brush tip using Warm Sunset, Olive Green and Deep Violet infusing each color before coloring for 3 seconds.
- Cut a piece of vellum (3x7").
- Stamp the same image several times on a piece of vellum.
- Flip the vellum and you will see that the images now look down.
- Color each image on a vellum with the brush tip using Warm Sunset and Olive Green infusing each color before coloring for 3 seconds.
- Die cut the flower petals or cut them with scissors. Color each petal with the brush tip using Deep Violet infusing the color before coloring for 5 seconds. Add strokes with the same color with the bullet tip. Adhere all petals together. Color the center of a flower with Warm Sunset and adhere it on the flower.
- Adhere vellum, ribbon, flower and two petals on a card base.
This is such a great way to reverse the image of a stamp to get a mirrored effect, we will be bringing you more techniques soon from the team so do pop back soon!


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Definition of hatched
imp. & p. p. - of Hatch 2
The word "hatched" uses 7 letters: A C D E H H T.
No direct anagrams for hatched found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after hatched (in bold), or to acdehht in any order:
t - thatched
Shorter words found within hatched:
ace aced ache ached act acted ad ae ah at ate cad cade cadet cat cate chad chat cheat chetah cheth dace dah date de death detach each eat eath ed edh eh et eta etch eth ha had hade hae haed haet hah hat hatch hate hated hath he head heat heath heh het heth ta tace tach tache tad tae tea teach ted thae the theca
List shorter words within hatched, sorted by length
All words formed from hatched by changing one letter
Browse words starting with hatched by next letter

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


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Tags: Time Period Tags
The purpose of tags is to make information relatively easy to find. The purpose of this essay is, firstly, to explain how I'm using the tags for general eras. The second purpose is to provide a tag list that the visitor can use to explore the site. The number of tags used in the project, and the organization into four different categories, doesn't lend itself to a traditional tag-cloud. I'll be setting up one of these tag essays for Place and Time Period tags, and probably multiple topic-specific essays for the Event/Person and Misc. tag-sets.
General Eras
There is little usefulness to providing century-by-century tags for information relating to pre-medieval sources, although sometimes a specific date is available. Any topics falling before the beginning of the Common Era (i.e., the year 1) will be tagged only generally. Later material will be grouped by century unless the coverage is broad and general, or no specific date is given. At the time I'm writing this, the Renaissance and Early Modern tags haven't been used, because a specific date is almost always available for material falling in those periods.
 - Bronze Age: Archaeologically, this era is defined by technology, but consider the tag to indicate roughly 3000-1000 BCE. Generally entries tagged with this will involve art.
 - Classical Era: This tag is used to indicate the eras dominated by Greek and Roman civilization. In regions where those cultures had no influence, consider it to indicate roughly 1000 BCE to the early centuries of the Common Era. If a more specific date in the Common Era is known, that will be used.
 - Post-Roman/Early Medieval: This tag is used when a more specific date isn't available, covering very roughly the first millennium.
 - Medieval (general): This tag is used when a more specific date isn't available covering very roughly the 11-14th centuries.
 - Renaissance (general): The Renaissance is defined differently in different countries, and generally a more specific date will be used. Consider this to cover roughly the 15-16th centuries.
 - Early Modern (general): This tag is used when a more specific date isn't available, but consider it to cover roughly the 17-18th centuries. This tag is unlikely to be used much.
Keep in mind that entries aren't always tagged by time period unless a specific dated document or person is discussed. If you don't seem to be finding anything in a date range, try searching by place or topic instead.


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Secret DNR report details warming dangers in SC
COLUMBIA — South Carolina's wildlife agency gathered a team of scientists more than a year ago to study what could happen if temperatures in the state continue to warm, but have never released their report.
A draft of the committee's findings determined that if temperatures rise in the South by 9 degrees as projected by some over the next 70 years, South Carolina would see more beach flooding and invasion of non-native species such as piranha and Asian swamp eels, according to a draft of the report obtained by The State of Columbia.
One scientist involved in the initial work on the report for the Department of Natural Resources said there were political concerns whether readers of the report would accept that global warming was happening and was a danger.
"There were concerns about the political nature of it," Barry Beasley said.
But the new DNR director said the report needs more work before it is released. The agency also is busy with other environmental matters such as port expansion and a massive gold mine planned for Lancaster County, DNR Director Alvin Taylor said.
The group had 18 members, including seven PhDs, a climatologist and at least five other agency biologists.
"Scientists in all divisions of the DNR are concerned over the potential impacts of climate change on natural resources," the draft report says. "DNR recognizes climate change as a real phenomenon, grounded in numerous scientific studies, and DNR recognizes that thoughtful and careful planning is needed in order to protect the natural resources of the Palmetto State.


use Tk; $top = MainWindow->new(); $canvas = $top->Canvas('-width' => 300, -height => 245)->pack(); # Draw a set of circles along an archimedean spiral # The centers of these circles move along the spiral # (radius of spiral = constant * theta) $origin_x = 110; $origin_y = 70; $PI = 3._PHONE_; $circle_radius = 5; $path_radius = 0; for ($angle = 0; $angle <= 180; $path_radius += 7, $circle_radius += 3, $angle += 10) { $path_x = $path_radius * cos ($angle * $PI / 90) + $origin_x; $path_y = $origin_y - $path_radius * sin($angle * $PI/90) ; # Calculate Topleft corner of circle $canvas->create ('oval', $path_x - $circle_radius, $path_y - $circle_radius, $path_x + $circle_radius, $path_y + $circle_radius, -fill => 'white'); $canvas->create ('line', $origin_x, $origin_y, $path_x, $path_y, -fill => 'slategray'); } MainLoop;


CAPP for Advisors
CAPP is the degree evaluation system used by all students with a catalog year prior to Fall 2012.
Monitor your progress as a student and see if you are fulfilling the requirements of your academic program
The online degree evaluation is not available to students of catalog years earlier than Fall 2001.
 1. Login to Patriot Web
 2. Select Faculty and Advisor Services
 3. Select Degree Evaluation and Advisee Listing
 4. Select Degree Evaluation Menu
 5. Select CAPP
 6. Select a term and click Submit
 7. Click Generate New Evaluation
 8. Select the academic program
 9. Click Generate Request
 10. Select Detail Requirements
 11. Click Submit
Double Major Students
If you have declared a double major, you must run a "what-if" degree evaluation for each program.
"What-If" Analysis Directions:
 1. Follow steps #1 – #6 above
 2. Instead of selecting Generate New Evaluation, select What-If Analysis
 3. Select the student's catalog year from the drop down menu and click Continue
 4. Select student's major from Program
 5. Click Add More to add a concentration or minor
 6. Click Submit
 7. Click Generate Request
 8. Select Detail Requirements
 9. Click Submit


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Definition of Bloody sputum
Bloody sputum: Coughed up blood or bloody mucus. Bloody sputum can be caused by infection in the lungs and airways, such as acute bronchitis or pneumonia, or cancer. Whenever bloody sputum is present and cannot be attributed to a curable infectious condition, a complete lung evaluation is warranted, including bronchoscopy, to be certain cancer is not present. Also known as hemoptysis.
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BACKGROUND: Nailfold capillaroscopy (NC) is an important diagnostic tool in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Confirmation of NC as a prognostic factor could facilitate earlier intervention and slow disease progression in SSc. We undertook a systematic literature review to evaluate the prognostic value of NC in predicting SSc disease progression.
METHODS: Standardised searches of EMBASE and MEDLINE were undertaken to identify longitudinal studies of adult subjects with SSc reporting the prognostic value of NC for any aspect of disease progression and/or survival. Non-English, non-original research, animal studies, non-adult studies and non-full length reports were excluded from the analysis (PROSPERO 2017:CRD42017071719). Wide heterogeneity in study design, prognostic factor measurement and study outcomes necessitated a qualitative data synthesis. The "QUality In Prognosis Studies" (QUIPS) risk-of-bias tool was used to assess study quality. Study selection, data extraction and risk-of-bias assessment were each undertaken independently by 2 reviewers and consensus reached where necessary.
RESULTS: Of 942 retrieved articles, 18 studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The majority of studies (17/18, 94%) reported positive associations between baseline NC appearances (using a variety of qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative NC endpoints) and clinical outcomes including digital ulcer (DU) occurrence/healing, survival, disease progression (using domains of Medsger disease severity scale), calcinosis, skin progression, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), and/or a composite analysis of "cardiovascular events". Application of the QUIPS tool identified a moderate-high risk of potential bias in 6/18 studies for study participation, 3/18 studies for study attrition, 10/18 for prognostic factor measurement, 5/18 for outcome measurement, 13/18 for confounders and 13/18 for statistical analyses. Study quality limited the strength of the conclusions drawn from these studies. The most important source of potential bias across the studies was insufficient adjustment for potential confounders; such as existing DU disease in studies evaluating future DU occurrence. Recent work suggests NC evolution is an important predictor of disease progression in SSc.
CONCLUSIONS: High levels of potential bias relating to study confounding and statistical analysis make it difficult to draw conclusions regarding the prognostic role of NC in SSc. There is strong evidence supporting an association between NC abnormalities (particularly capillary loss) and disease severity (particularly vascular manifestations such as DU, calcinosis and PAH). Evolution of NC appearances may represent a more important predictor of disease progression which could have important implications for the future use of NC in the routine longitudinal assessment and management of SSc.
- Journal Article
- Systemic sclerosis
- Nailfold capillaroscopy
- Clinical phenotype
- Systematic literature review
- Microscopic Angioscopy
- Disease Progression
- Scleroderma, Systemic/diagnosis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine


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The critical clearing angle is defined as the maximum change in the load angle curve before clearing the fault without loss of synchronism. In other words, when the fault occurs in the system the load angle curve begin to increase, and the system becomes unstable. The angle at which the fault becomes clear and the system becomes stable is called critical clearing angle.
When the initial load is given, then there is a critical clearing angle, and if the actual clearing angle exceeds a critical clearing angle, the system becomes unstable otherwise it is stable. Let the curve A represents the power angle curve for a healthy condition; curve B represents the power angle curve for faulty condition and curve C represents the power angle curve after isolation of fault as shown below.
Where γ1 is the ratio of system reactance in healthy condition to that of during the fault and γ2 is the ratio of steady state limit of the system after the isolation of fault and that of system under the initial condition.
For transient stability limit, two areas A1 = A2 or in other words the area under curve adec (rectangle) is equal to the area under the curve da'b'bce.


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function prandtl2(g)
% PRANDTL2 Prandtl number for an equilibrium H/O gas mixture.
%
% This example does the same thing as prandtl1, but using
% the multicomponent expression for the thermal conductivity.
%
help prandtl2
if nargin == 1
 gas = g;
else
 gas = GRI30('Multi');
end
pr = zeros(31,31);
xh2 = zeros(31,31);
visc = zeros(31,31);
lambda = zeros(31,31);
t = [];
xo2 = [];
io2 = speciesIndex(gas,'O2');
ih2 = speciesIndex(gas,'H2');
ih = speciesIndex(gas,'H');
ih2o = speciesIndex(gas,'H2O');
minT = minTemp(gas);
maxT = maxTemp(gas);
dT = (maxT - minT)/30.0;
atm = oneatm;
t0 = cputime;
for i = 1:31
 t(i) = minT + dT*(i-1);
 for j = 1:31
 xo2(j) = 0.99*(j-1)/30.0;
 x = zeros(nSpecies(gas),1);
 x(io2) = xo2(j);
 x(ih2) = 1.0 - xo2(j);
 set(gas,'T',t(i),'P',oneatm,'X',x);
 equilibrate(gas,'TP');
 visc(i,j) = viscosity(gas);
 lambda(i,j) = thermalConductivity(gas);
 pr(i,j) = visc(i,j)*cp_mass(gas)/lambda(i,j);
 x = moleFractions(gas);
 xh2(i,j) = x(ih2);
 end
end
disp(['CPU time = ' num2str(cputime - t0)]);
% plot results
clf;
subplot(2,2,1);
surf(xo2,t,pr);
xlabel('Elemental O/(O+H)');
ylabel('Temperature (K)');
zlabel('Prandtl Number');
subplot(2,2,2);
surf(xo2,t,xh2);
xlabel('Elemental O/(O+H)');
ylabel('Temperature (K)');
zlabel('H_2 Mole Fraction');
subplot(2,2,3);
surf(xo2,t,visc);
xlabel('Elemental O/(O+H)');
ylabel('Temperature (K)');
zlabel('Viscosity');
subplot(2,2,4);
surf(xo2,t,lambda);
xlabel('Elemental O/(O+H)');
ylabel('Temperature (K)');
zlabel('Thermal Conductivity');


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Driving Skills for Life Video Game is Newest Tool for New Drivers
There are many ways to a teenager's heart and one of them is through video games. With that in mind, Ford Driving Skills for Life (DFSL) and Michigan State University (MSU) have teamed up to produce a new video game that is designed to capture young hearts and minds to help keep them safe behind the wheel.
"Research has found driving simulation can effectively introduce new drivers to potentially life-saving skills," says Jim Graham, manager, Ford Driving Skills for Life. "Tens of thousands of new drivers have attended our driving clinics, but this new game will provide millions of new drivers the opportunity to test and develop their skills online and on their schedule."
The online video game is patterned after DSFL's award-winning driving exercises – a key element of the program. The game was developed by MSU's Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab. Using the latest gaming technology, the game simulates the hands-on driving exercises taught in traditional Ford DSFL driving clinics. The new game can be accessed on the Ford Driving Skills for Life website.
"Many drivers in training have been playing video games for years. Through the game, we are able to leverage the engagement and fun of gaming technology and use it to create an educational experience that is appealing to these new drivers," states Brian Winn, Director of the Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab at Michigan State University. "Given the safety of the game environment, we are able to put players in situations that simulate hands-on training, thereby avoiding making potentially deadly mistakes in the real-world."
More than 3,000 teens ages 15-19 are killed each year on American roads, making traffic fatalities the leading cause of death of American teens, according to government statistics. As the most comprehensive driving skills program in the U.S., Ford DSFL is designed to make a difference by reducing these preventable tragedies. Now in its ninth year, Ford DSFL is a partnership between Ford Motor Company Fund and the Governors Highway Safety Association. The program includes free professional driver instruction, a Web-based curriculum, free educational materials, state grants and statewide education partnerships.
Ford DSFL, in partnership with AAA Michigan, Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning and Henry Ford Hospital-West Bloomfield, also is launched "Strive for a Safer Drive" – a Michigan statewide effort that includes peer-to-peer safe driving campaigns, use of simulators in schools and professional hands-on driving clinics. The program will reach more than 30 high schools during the six-month period and is patterned after a similar DSFL partnership that helped reduce teen traffic fatalities by 45 percent in Illinois.


The ObservSMART system is a proximity solution designed to solve one of the most significant challenges behavioral health facilities face on a daily basis: consistent, validated patient observation. Healthcare providers can rely on ObservSMART to monitor patients and ensure staff compliance using customized parameters that cater to the needs of their unique unit.
Shaina Smolowe, Director of Customer Success at InvisAlert Solutions, explains how the ObservSMART system serves as an indispensable tool for behavioral health professionals.
Q&A: How ObservSMART helps behavioral health patients and staff
Q: What is ObservSMART?
A: ObservSMART is a patented product that improves Q15 compliance, ensuring overall better patient safety and quality of care. This is achieved through patient wristbands that sync with software to perform patient checks. This equipment relies on proximity — health checks can only be performed and documented if a staff member is near the patient, therefore ensuring compliance.
Q: Why is ObservSMART important?
A: Patient safety is the number one priority. Patients go to these [behavioral health] facilities because it is the safer and better option for them. It is crucial that staff are seeing the patient on regular intervals to ensure that they are providing the safest environment possible.
And this remains especially true during the pandemic. Mental health didn't go anywhere — people are still suffering. Now, facilities are being overrun with patients who are seeking help during these difficult times.
Q: Why is ObservSMART more efficient than traditional Q15 checks?
A: Using traditional methods for patient checks, everything is documented on paper or e-tablets, but there is no validated compliance. If there was a sentinel event, leadership would have to gather everyone's paper records, check cameras, and document what was seen in order to understand if the event was avoidable. They check to see if the staff were doing their rounds like they were supposed to.
ObservSmart ensures compliance. The data that we provide on rounding and proximity is essential and eliminates the uncertainty of using paper. Seeing how close in proximity staff was to a patient is an invaluable measure that other systems aren't able to provide. There are supervisory alerts to help avoid sentinel events, so supervisors can intervene in real-time to make sure that the patient is getting the best care.
Q: Is ObservSMART flexible to specific patient needs?
A: Yes. For example, the health checks can be adjusted to intervals other than fifteen minutes. I have seen them as low as 5 minutes and as high as an hour.
It depends on the type of facility, whether it's inpatient, residential, substance abuse or detox. 15 minutes is the standard for inpatient, which is the most common interval. Now, we are seeing many more variables as we are growing and branching out to different types of facilities. We also accommodate 1:1 rounding for higher acuity patients.
Heart and Head for Patient Safety Checks
Q: Does ObservSMART actually improve client experience and patient safety?
A: Many organizations have reported noticeable improvements as a result of ObservSMART.
We've heard things like, "it helps me sleep better at night," and, "it's the smartest thing we've ever done," from our clients who have implemented ObservSMART in their facilities.
Melissa Larkin-Skinner, regional CEO of Centerstone, a not-for-profit health system, said in a press release, "This technology is vastly enhancing the way we observe and monitor patients in our care. Our staff is able to manage more efficiently the required round-the-clock 15-minute checks that are standard care for behavioral health patients. In turn, supervisory staff can validate that patients are being observed and clinicians can provide real-time feedback and care instructions."
Q: How does ObservSMART affect staff workload and workflow?
A: Designed by and for behavioral health staff, our solution supports the most complex workflows and improves communication among staff. Our proprietary management processes help you operationalize and offer your team the appropriate tools to effectively and efficiently perform their responsibilities. After implementation, our clients report an overall decrease in workload.
A decrease in workload and improvement of communication can allow for better overall quality of staff productivity.
Q: Why is analytics in healthcare important? How does it affect employee performance?
A: Staff and leadership can see real-time performance to quickly understand, if improvements need to be made. It also allows staff to be recognized when they are doing a good job.
We recommend pairing weaker performers with stronger performers. We find when a facility meets more regularly with the staff about compliance, these numbers start to go up and staff compliance improves.
Q: What happens after we implement ObersvSMART in our facility?
A: We develop strong customer relationships, and if we can work together to improve patient safety, then we are doing our job. After implementation, we meet with leadership weekly until they are comfortable, and then quarterly to keep everyone on track. We are invested in your success.
With ObservSMART's experience with other clients, we can help drive best practices and allow for positive changes.
As healthcare professionals ourselves, improving safety is our number-one priority. We designed ObservSMART to give healthcare staff — and patients — the peace of mind they deserve. With its ability to record essential patient data, improve staff workflow and performance, and set and ensure patient monitoring parameters, ObservSMART is a powerful tool capable of keeping patients safe and improving care.
Contact us to learn how InvisAlert Solutions can make your behavioral health facility a safer place for everyone.
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The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has expressed satisfaction with the level of compliance with the post-acquisition plan by APM Terminals and other terminal operators at the Lagos Port Complex, Apapa.
APM Terminals Apapa, which took over the concession at Lagos' Apapa Container Terminal in 2006, has invested a total of USD350 million to date to develop infrastructure, acquire sophisticated cargo handling equipment, modernisation of the terminal, IT hardware and software systems, and additional capacity.
The investment has resulted in significant improvements in productivity, with zero waiting times for vessel berthing and a doubling of container volume.
In 2016, the leading global terminal operator acquired four additional (Rubber Tyre Gantry cranes (RTGs), increasing the total to 14, which is the highest by any port operator in Nigeria.
In 2013, the terminal restored a regular rail service, running three times per week to the inland cities of Kaduna, 730km (455 miles) and Kano, 960km (600 miles).
In 2014, the terminal was named the "Most Environmentally Conscious Port Operator at the Lagos Port Complex" by the Nigerian Port Authority's Environment Department of the Health, Safety and Environment Division. It has since maintained these high standards.
In addition to meeting international security requirements outlined by the International Ships and Ports Facility Security Code (ISPS Code), and APM Terminals global safety requirements, the terminal operates a truck safety program that ensures that designated, physically protected areas are provided for drivers conducting operational activities outside of their truck cabs, as well as safety instructions specific to each facility's layout and traffic flow. For training crane operators, the terminals uses a the most advanced crane simulator on the African continent.
BPE's Director in charge of Post Privatisation Department, Yusuf Adamu, after a monitoring the activities of the terminal operators at the Lagos Port Complex, Apapa, recently said the investments and revenue contribution by the port concessionaires to government in the last 13 years has been massive.
He said, "Before the concession, this place was like a market, with uncontrolled movements of people leading to rampant thievery. Some of the quay areas you see now were taken up as residential places until after the concession.
"You can see the level of investments and expansion made by the concessionaires which is in millions of dollars, and these facilities will eventually revert to government at the end of the agreed period. This is outside their regular throughput and annual lease fees, which they have never defaulted since takeover in 2006, which is in millions of dollars.
"Meanwhile, before concession, these agencies that are now contributing revenue and employment generation were some of the drain pipes of the national treasury."
APM Terminals and other operators at the Apapa port had earlier briefed the BPE team on their investments in line with the Post-Acquisition Plan, and equally took them round for verification and clarification of issues.
The Managing Director of APM Terminals Apapa, Martin Jacob, speaking recently after the BPE visit, assured of the company's commitment to supporting the growth of the Nigerian economy. He also expressed support for the Federal Government's non-oil export drive.
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A Suffolk farmer is believed to have become the first human victim of 'rabbit flu', following his death earlier this month.
A post-mortem examination of John Freeman, from Aspall in Suffolk, discovered that the young farmer has been infected with the bacteria pasteurella multocida, which causes flu-like symptoms in rabbits.
Although a common animal infection, it is not thought that there have been any other instances of animal-to-human transmission, although a few non-fatal cases caught from cats and dogs are recorded.
Mr Freeman is though to have unwittingly contracted the infection from a dead rabbit on his farm. He developed flu-like symptoms soon afterwards, and then collapsed days later as a result of septicaemia.
If caught early enough, the infection can be quickly treated with antibiotics, preventing it from entering the bloodstream.
However, problems arise when the infection is caught less obviously, from a cut or graze rather than through an animal bite.


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Bunnell Street Arts Center located in Homer, Alaska received a $1,000 mini-grant for their Seward Artists in the Schools Program. The program places professional artists in K-12 classrooms for residencies in Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (KPBSD) schools. It aims to support KPBSD's Art Curriculum by inspiring Alaska's youth with greater knowledge and respect for the arts and promoting appreciation for cultural diversity and world heritage.
In late March, Seward Middle and High Schools welcomed back Dasha Kelly-Hamilton and Kima Hamilton for the fourth year of their Spoken Word Poetry Workshop. "When I posted Flyers around the school, students immediately buzzed about Dasha and Kima's return," said Jennifer Swander, a Language Arts teacher at Seward High School. "A true connection has been made here."
The Hamilton's provided a dynamic unit in poetry and spoken word that empowered Seward Middle and High School students to further their knowledge and skills in writing poetry. Seward Middle and High School teachers created a schedule whereby the entire student body could participate in the workshop through their language arts classes. Dasha and Kima could design a curriculum based on each class's experiences and needs. The workshop ended with a schoolwide poetry slam, where students were encouraged to perform the poems they wrote during the week.
"Students have learned how to express themselves through spoken word poetry," said Jennifer Swander. "Some have been encouraged to come out of their shells, while others challenge themselves to read poems at open mic events at the community coffeehouse or compete at a national level. Whatever the case may be, the impact these workshops have had on students is quite evident."
Since 2000 Bunnell Street Arts Center has sponsored an independent Artists in Schools program (AIS) following the model set forth by the Alaska State Council on the Arts (AKSCA). Bunnell's AIS program places professional artists approved by AKSCA in K–12 classrooms for residencies in all Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (KPBSD) schools.
Funding for this grant came from the Seward Community Foundation Fund. If you would like to learn about how you can support projects like these, visit our website or email: _EMAIL_.
Grantee Highlight by Teal Hall, SCF Advisor


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Connecting SMA Cables to LANforge
Goal: Connect the antennas of your device under test to LANforge using SMA cables and a fixed attenuator.
Many WiFi testing scenarios benefit from some amount of WiFi isolation. Connecting the radios of the Device Under Test (DUT) to LANforge's radios using SMA cables can improve connection quality. Using a fixed attenuator can reduce a direct signal so that it is heard by the radios without distortion.

 1. The polarities of the cables must match screenshot
 2. Begin by connecting the SMA Female end of the fixed attenuator to the SMA adapter. screenshot
 3. We see that the exposed end of the sma_adapter is RP-SMA-Male. RP means Reverse Polarity. screenshot
 4. Connect the attached attenuator and adapter to the LANforge radio antenna. This exposes the SMA Male end of the attenuator. Your DUT might not have adequate space to mount a fixed attenuator to it, so we suggested connecting it to the LANforge. screenshot
 5. The polarities of the cable end must match the end of the fixed attenuator. The cable end for this side is SMA-Female. screenshot
 6. See how the cable connected to the lanforge has both the adapter and the attenuator. It should be safe to use the attenuator and adapter anywhere along a SMA path. screenshot
 7. Connect the other end of the cable to the Device Under Test (DUT). Your DUT might use different antennas so you might need to use another adapter. screenshot
 8. We have connected one antenna of our DUT to the one antenna of our LANforge. Repeat this for multiple antennas. screenshot
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Node TAP 18.4.0
tap Custom Reporters
The easiest way to write fancy custom reports for node-tap is by using the facilities provided by the @tapjs/reporter module. The documentation for the module is shown below.
@tapjs/reporter
A set of ink based reporters for tap, and utilities you can use to write your own.
The modern reincarnation of treport.
Reporters in Node-Tap#
The following reporters are built into this module, and always available in node-tap.
base#
--reporter=base is the default. It provides a reasonable amount of information about what's going on, without too much noise. If you run tap with --passes, then it'll show all the passing assertions, though that's often excessive, so it's off by default.
terse#
As the name suggests, the terse report shows much less information than base. But otherwise, they are very similar. If tests pass, it shows a very brief summary. When tests fail, it shows the same diffs, traces, and so on.
min#
More terse than terse. Shows information about failures and todo items, but no summaries, counts, etc. For successful test runs, this is equivalent to silent.
silent#
The silent report prints nothing at all to the terminal, but still exits with an error status code if the tests did not pass.
tap#
The --reporter=tap option will output raw the TAP content, similar to just running the test programs directly.
junit#
XML output format used by JUnit. The testmoapp/junitxml repo has a good description of the format.
json#
A single JSON object, somewhat similar in shape to the XML produced by the junit reporter.
Suite objects contain metadata about a test, and a list of suites and cases (ie, test point assertions). Suites can contain other suites.
jsonstream#
The same data as the json format, but streamed as newline-delimited JSON.
Each line is an array with two members. The first is a string, one of 'start', 'end', 'pass', 'fail', 'skip' or 'todo'. The second is a data object, as follows:
markdown#
Similar data as shown by the jsonstream report, but formatted in Markdown.
Other Reporters#
The reporter config option can also be set to:
Writing Custom Reporters#
For streams and command-line reporters written in JavaScript, the tap-parser module is the best way to parse the incoming TAP stream. For other languages, there are many other TAP consumer libraries available.
For React component reporters, the components, hooks, and utilities in this package are likely very useful.
The easiest way to write a custom React reporter is as an ESM-only module that default exports its Reporter function on the main package module. Then, users can do --reporter <package-name> in their configs to use it.
Another way, if a reporter comes along with some other plugin functionality, is to add it to the default set via the API presented here. However, some care must be taken in that case, because @tapjs/reporter is ESM-only, and plugins must be compatible with both CommonJS and ESM. The @tapjs/dummy-plugin package contains an example of this.
@tapjs/reporter API#
The API available at import '@tapjs/reporter'.
interface TapReportOpts#
The options provided to reports.
interface TapReportOpts {
 test: TestBase
 config: LoadedConfig
}
type Reporter#
Alias for React.FC<TapReportOpts>
types: Record<string, Reporter>#
A record of all the known reporters, indexed by their config name.
addType(name: string, reporter: Reporter)#
Add a reporter at the name provided, so that it can be used on the --reporter config.
report(Type: string | Reporter, tap: TAP, config: LoadedConfig)#
Render the specified reporter with the tap object and loaded config.
Base#
The --reporter=base implementation
Terse#
The --reporter=terse implementation
hooks#
Alias for the @tapjs/reporter/hooks module
components#
Alias for the @tapjs/reporter/components module
utils#
Alias for the @tapjs/reporter/utils module
@tapjs/reporter/components API#
This provides a collection of useful components for building tap reports.
The relevant tags are listed here, but this module also exports several types and interfaces that they use for their property definitions.
BailedOut#
<BailedOut test={tap} />
Print a bold red "Bailout!" message if the test bails out.
Diff#
<Diff diff={diffString} />
Create a colorized diff from a patch string.
HangingIndent#
<HangingIndent indent={4}>
 Some very long string, which might wrap to multiple lines. Every
 line after the first is indented.
</HangingIndent>
Indent every line after the first, useful when printing long stack frame lines.
Any ink Text properties are allowed.
Log#
<Log includeTests test={tap} config={loadedConfig} />
Creates an ink <Static /> component containing console output, standard output, and (if includeTests is set) tests as they complete.
TestLogLine#
The component used by <Log /> to show lines for each test as it completes.
ConsoleLogLine#
The component used by <Log /> to show console output in the runner process.
StdioLogLine#
The component used by <Log /> to show stdio output from child test processes.
ResultDetailList#
<ResultDetailList
 test={tap}
 filter={t =>
 !!t.counts.fail ||
 !!t.counts.skip ||
 !!t.counts.todo ||
 !t.parser.ok
 }
 Banner={
 <Box>
 <Text>tests complete</Text>
 </Box>
 }
/>
When the test suite is completed, this prints the Banner if provided, and then the detailed results of all tests that pass the filter.
By default, passing tests are excluded from this report.
ResultDetails#
<ResultDetails result={result} />
Print detailed information about a test point's diagnostics.
Runs#
<Runs test={tap} />
Print a line for each test in progress, removing the line when it completes.
Source#
<Source source={result.diag.source} at={result.diag.at} />
Pass in a test result.diag that has a source and callsite, and it'll return a prettied up source line with the callsite highlighted.
Stack#
<Stack stack={stackString} />
Print a stack string nicely.
Long lines are given a hanging indent, and local filenames are highlighted.
SuiteSummary#
<SuiteSummary test={tap} />
The 10 pass 3 fail 2 skip of 18 complete lines at the bottom of the test run.
Also prints Bailout! and Timeout messages.
TestBadge#
<TestBadge test={subtest} />
The PASS, FAIL, etc. badges for a subtest.
TestResultsList#
<TestResultsList test={subtest} details />
Show the list of results for a completed test. (Shows nothing if the test is not yet complete.)
details is set in the display in the final test summary, false when used in the log.
TestSummary#
<TestSummary test={subtest} details omitPassing />
Show the summary for a completed test with its test badge, result details, and so on.
The details flag will cause it to print the full diagnostic output for failing test points. It is set false when printing in the log, true when printing in the final test results report.
TimedOut#
<TimedOut test={tap} />
Print a bold red Timeout message when the suite times out.
@tapjs/reporter/hooks API#
Hook functions that can be used in components providing helpful test information that updates at the appropriate times.
useAssertTotals(test: TestBase)#
An up to date test.assertTotals
useBailedOut(test: Base)#
true or the bailout reason if/when the test bails out. false otherwise.
useCleanup(effect: CleanupEffect, deps: any[])#
The CleanupEffect type is a function that may take an array of cleanup methods as its first argument, and a doCleanup function as its second, and can optionally return a cleanup function as well.
By pushing onto the array, or returning a cleanup function of its own, the effect will be properly disposed as needed.
Useful in cases where you need to listen to multiple events, and clean them all up at the appropriate time.
Example:
import { useCleanup } from '@tapjs/reporter/hooks'
import { listenCleanup } from '@tapjs/reporter/utils'
const useMyHook = emitter => {
 const [firsts, updateFirsts] = useState([])
 const [seconds, updateSeconds] = useState(


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Illinois Tool Works Direct Fuel System (DFS) is a refueling system for vehicles that eliminates the need for gas caps. The user simply opens the vehicle fuel door, inserts the gasoline pump nozzle and the DFS system takes over. It guides the nozzle into the fuel pipe, sealing the system, keeping contaminants out, while eliminating vapor escape and the potential for a thermal event (fire).
The system features a rotating ball and shutter system, to guide the nozzle into the assembly, which consists of a filler pipe connector, primary fuel shut-off, as well as the surface interface. The sealed system assures a secure connection and closing without the customer having to twist a gas cap back on properly. This eliminates the "check engine light" associated with an improperly seated gas cap, which often causes sensing of a fuel leak. This reduces frequent but needless service requirements and warranty costs.
The customer convenience factors are very significant, as well. The DFS system would enable a much easier operation for people who may have physical difficulties that make fueling difficult, or may simply not like handling gas caps. In addition, there are no more caps to lose, broken nails or soiled hands. Having a cleaner and safer vehicle, of course, is of the utmost importance, and there is a guaranteed reduction in VOC emission.
The innovation originated at ITW, located in Glenview, Illinois. The DFS is now in production and featured on the Ford GT. It is a popular attraction on various auto show concept vehicles and SEMA displays. It will have a significant impact on the fuel systems market, having the potential to eliminate gas caps altogether, and even fuel doors in the future.


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NSNotification objects encapsulate information so that it can be broadcast to other objects by an NSNotificationCenter object. An NSNotification object (referred to as a notification) contains a name, an object, and an optional dictionary. The name is a tag identifying the notification. The object is any object that the poster of the notification wants to send to observers of that notification (typically, it is the object that posted the notification). The dictionary stores other related objects, if any. NSNotification objects are immutable objects.
Basically - you are handed these objects when you receive a notification - the original poster of the notification can put objects into an NSDictionary, you can get this dictionary using the userInfo: method.


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The Iowa State University Extension explains one way to differentiate between a spruce tree and a pine tree is to look at the needles. Spruce needles grow directly from a branch individually, and pine needles grow in bunches of two, three or five. Also, the bark of a spruce tree is rough rather than smooth, which sets them apart from fir trees.Continue Reading
The needles of spruce trees are sharp, pointed and square. One reliable way to identify a spruce tree is to take a needle and roll it between two fingers. If the needle rolls easily between the fingers, it is a spruce tree. Fir tree needles are flat, are soft and don't roll easily between fingers.
Spruce needles are attached to their branches with stalk-like projections. When the tree sheds its needles, these projections remain on the tree. The color and length of needles aren't reliable indicators for identifying spruce trees because these characteristics vary.
Cones of spruce trees are long and flexible rather than rigid. The scales on spruce tree cones are thinner and less woody than those on pine trees. These cones grow to between 8 and 26 inches long, and their size varies from tree to tree.Learn more about Trees & Bushes


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Many people are wondering whether learning Fusion 360 or other CAD tools is worth it. I had the same queries in the first year of college. This post will tell you about the benefits of learning Fusion 360 and the time and effort you should put into learning it. However, you can find a brief answer in the below paragraph:
Modeling with Fusion 360 is easy, simple, fast, and powerful enough for most design projects, so it is worth pursuing. Fusion 360 has many standard features of a professional CAD program. If you want to learn simple, free, yet powerful CAD software, Fusion 360 is the right choice.
Learning a suitable CAD program is essential. Your choice can lead to affecting your carrier or wasting your time. So let's dive into different aspects of Fusion 360 before making our decision.
Main features that make Fusion 360 worth learning
Fusion 360 is cloud-based CAD software that is designed for 3D modeling. It is a perfect choice for engineering students and hobbyists to learn CAD software because of several factors.
First of all, reliable CAD software should be robust. You don't want to struggle with the shortcomings of software while trying to implement your ideas. So it's crucial to design and change a model while you are thinking about it.
CAD programs should have a user-friendly interface, precise sketching features, and various modifier tools to fulfill your needs.
Fusion 360 has an excellent interface. It's easy to navigate and find different commands. The design tree of Fusion 360 is similar to other software like SolidWorks. It helps with quick editing and history commands.
Sketching and adding dimensions in Fusion 360 is also an effortless task. The concept of sketching is the same as drawing with AutoCAD. You can learn this process in less than a week.
Learning how to sketch has other benefits too. Once you master this skill, you can implement this skill in any other CAD tool. There are also sketching job opportunities in the building and construction industry. Sketching with one app can be a starting point for other design branches and tools.
Suppose you have experience working with other programs like SolidWorks (another popular CAD program). In that case, you already have enough mastery to use Fusion 360.
This software uses features like Extrude, Revolve, Sweep, Loft, etc., to create 3D objects out of 2D sketches. These are standard features among the most popular CAD tools.
Even though the feature's names may be different through other programs, they all use the same concepts to create a model. So by learning Fusion 360, you can learn the base of many other CAD programs!
Things to consider before choosing
Fusion 360 is a convenient tool to design models for simple to moderate projects. However, it doesn't provide advanced features of professional CAD programs, so it's not quite suitable for intricate designs.
Unlike other professional programs like CATIA or SolidWorks, there are not many add-ons for Fusion 360.
Let's say CATIA has the essential Part, Assembly, and drafting spaces for basic 3D modeling. It also has a Mold design environment for designing molds and others like Piping, Duct design, etc. However, Fusion has fewer specific design environments.
Learning Fusion 360 is easy, but it's not the easiest. Other straightforward CAD design software like FreeCAD is much simpler though they have fewer design features as a trade-off.
Fusion 360 is a functional modeling program. Even though it has a useful sculpt mode, it's not meant for creating complex organic objects. You can use an organic modeling program like Blender for such designs.
How is Fusion 360 compared to other CAD software?
Fusion 360 is more widespread among 3D printing hobbyists and individual users due to the named features. Many small companies prefer to use it instead of crazy expensive programs.
Many Mechanical engineers and industrial designers use SolidWorks for different projects. It's a little harder to learn but has some more features, and big companies use it. However, SolidWorks is not free.
One standalone license of SolidWorks is $3,995. An annular subscription service with technical support and upgrades costs $1,295. However, there are ways to use it freely.
The best way is to use Student Access Licensing, which is available to schools with SolidWorks' networked seats.
If the school has 45 or more networked seats, it's probably qualified for the Student Design Kit program. With this offer, students have access to SolidWorks Standard. So you can get to use the standard version of SolidWorks if you study in such institutions.
Students in an institution with over 100 networked seats can install and use the SolidWorks Premium program.
CATIA is another popular CAD program in many fields. It's the world's design and engineering leading software. It is used to design, analyze, simulate, optimize, and manufacture products in many industries, including automotive, industrial machinery, aerospace, etc.
Even giant automotive companies like BMW, Volvo, Porsche, Tesla Motors, and Audi use CATIA to varying degrees. So you should already be able to guess how powerful it is.
However, as an old saying goes, you get what you pay for. CATIA's fully functional base license can be bought at a one-time purchase cost of $11000 with annular maintenance of $2000. However, in most cases, purchasing the whole package is not necessary.
There are many more CAD programs to consider, but a complete comparison of all of them is beyond this article's scope. Different countries and companies use various programs. However, SolidWorks and CATIA are the best alternatives for Fusion 360.
You can also check Inventor, Rhino, and AutoCAD, which are quite similar to SolidWorks.
Is Fusion 360 free?
Autodesk, the developer of Fusion 360, provides fully functional versions of the software for users to test. There is also a free full version of Fusion 360 for students.
To use Fusion 360 after the 30d day trial, simply select the Trial Counter in the toolbar of Fusion 360 and select individual/hobbyist or startup license.
Is Fusion 360 worth learning?
You can become a professional designer and work for different companies, design for 3D printing projects, start freelancing, or even sell your models on the internet! The moment you master the program, the things you can do are immeasurable, and the road ahead of you is endless.
How much time does it take to master Fusion 360?
Learning different commands of Fusion 360 isn't difficult. Anyone can learn how to design simple objects in less than two weeks. However, mastering the program is not so easily done.
If you put enough practice into it, you can reach a perfect designing level in about three months. After this period, you see a meaningful difference between your first and last projects.


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Today marks the Anniversary of the Death of Queen Maria of Yugoslavia, who died on this day in 1961! The Romanian Princess who married the first Yugoslavia King that was assassinated and later became the mother of the last King of Yugoslavia before spending decades in exile in the United Kingdom, Queen Maria lived a fascinating life, and possessed an intriguing jewellery collection, which included this Cartier Diamond Eagle!
When Princess Maria of Romania married King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1922, she received Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna's Emerald Tiara and Parure as a wedding gift from her husband, and soon afterwards the King gave her this spectacular double-headed Diamond Eagle made by Cartier. The double-headed eagle is one of the most important Serbian symbols and the Order of the White Eagle was one of the most important Yugoslavian Orders.
Queen Maria notably wore her Cartier Diamond Eagle suspended from a Diamond Chain she usually wore to extend her Emerald Necklaces, for the Wedding of her younger sister, Princess Ileana of Romania, to Archduke Anton of Austria in 1931.
Following King Alexander's assassination, Queen Maria retreated to England and Yugoslavia was represented by Prince Regent Paul and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia. Despite the contentious relationship between the two women, Queen Maria seems to have loaned her Cartier Diamond Eagle to Princess Olga for a Gala at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1937, following the Coronation of King George VI, at which they were pictured with Queen Maria's nephew, King Michael of Romania.
By the 1960s, Queen Maria had been in exile for a few decades and her impressive personal fortune had dwindled. As personal property, the Cartier Diamond Eagle was not among the jewels, like Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna's Emerald Tiara and Parure, that were reluctantly handed over to her daughter-in-law, Queen Alexandra, and in 1960, Queen Maria wore the Diamond Eagle with Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna's Fringe Tiara for a series of promotional portraits before both jewels were auctioned.
The Auction Notes for the Diamond Eagle stated:
An important Diamond Corsage Ornament in the form of a double-headed eagle, pavé-set with cushion-shaped diamonds and with a fringe of larger stones pendent below. by Cartier
This Ornament was given to Her Majesty by her late hushand King Alexander, and was worn by her on all State occasions.
The Cartier Diamond Eagle was sold for 2,450 to 'Lublines' at Sotheby's on July 21st, 1960, and hasn't been publicly seen since. Its current whereabouts are unknown, but an almost identical Diamond Eagle Brooch from the family of Queen Maria's sister, Princess Ileana, was auctioned at Sotheby's in 2021.


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To successfully develop and monitor the progress of the development of the data economy in Europe, a sound measurement approach allowing an evidence-based assessment is essential.
Challenges of a cross-country analysis regarding the data economy
- Availability of representative data and metrics
- Common taxonomies that make indicators comparable across countries
The proposed analysis focuses on a restricted number of relevant indicators, published as part of official statistics or in relevant studies. The identified determinants of the data economy represent complex and multidimensional phenomena that can only be captured by several indicators, where each one of them reflects only some aspects of the underlying phenomenon. To get more comprehensive information on the capabilities of countries with respect to specific phenomena, different characteristics were combined to indices. For this purpose, the indicators used to measure the characteristics had to be normalised and weighted. Key determinants and indices used in the context of the observatory are provided below.
- Business sector performance
- Business environment
- Innovation potential of data economy
- Social participation in data related activities
- Infrastructural conditions
- Diffusion of Big Data related Technologies
- Security related aspects
- Privacy Protection
- Data openness
- Policy framework conditions
Composed EuDEco indices
- Business sector performance index
- Innovation potential index
- Index of social participation in data-related activities
- Key enabling technologies index
- Security index
- Privacy protection index
Get to know the EuDEco observatory of the European data economy and find out where the strengths of your country lie!


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-30°C-60°C low temperature freezer medical freezer is equipped with high-quality refrigeration system for fast cooling. The high-precision temperature control system can display various parameters simultaneously, including power voltage, temperature inside the cabinet and environmental temperature, which can indicate the operation status clearly. And you are free to set the temperature inside the cabinet in the range of -30°C to -60°C. The two-layer heat insulation foamed door with airbag-typed outer steal can prevent loss of refrigerating capacity in an effective way. The liner is made of 304 stainless steel, which is safe for medical use.
High efficiency Refrigeration system
Freon-free refrigerant, compressor supplied by an international famous brand and EBM fan can guarantee fast cooling and are energy-saving and environmentally friendly. Refrigerating circuit with proprietary intellectual property rights ensures high efficiency and stability. Two-layer heat insulating foamed door and the insulation design of the outer door system with multiple patents can prevent loss of refrigerating capacity in an effective way.
Six sides of the cabinet are made from high-performance vacuum insulation material, improving thermal insulation performance to a large extent.
High-precision Temperature control system
High-precision microcomputer temperature control system and platinum resistor temperature sensors ensure more precise temperature control.
High-quality steel plate structure with phosphate coating, stainless steel liner and low noise design can create a comfortable environment.
* Here are the power wheels and door hinges;
* Here are the power wheels and door hinges;
Product is deeply trusted and supported by clients on reasonable structure , eximiousperformance and exquisite craftwork.
* Durable the world famous compressor unit;
* We uesd the refrigerant, efficiency and environmental friendly;
* All-copper-aluminum fin heat exchange and evaporation system;
Features of -60 Degree Ultra -low Temperature Freezer
- The digital temperature display can show various parameters simultaneously, such as temperature inside the cabinet, power voltage and environmental temperature, indicating operating status clearly
- The high-precision microcomputer temperature control system and platinum resistor temperature sensors enable users to set temperature inside the cabinet within a range from -30℃ to -60℃
- The compressor supplied by an international famous brand and EBM fan is powerful, energy-saving and highly efficient The large-area finned condenser is characterized by a space equal to or less than 2mm between fins, providing a large area for heat dissipation and satisfactory performance
- The two-layer heat insulating foamed door with airbag-typed outer seal and the insulation design of the outer door system with multiple patents can prevent loss of refrigerating capacity in an effective way The six sides of the cabinet are made from high-performance vacuum insulation material, improving thermal insulation performance to a large extent
- The well-developed alarm system has multiple alarm functions: high temperature/low temperature alarm, door opening alarm, power outage alarm, abnormal voltage alarm, sensor failure alarm, low battery alarm, alarm of poor heat dissipation of condenser, system failure alarm, etc.
- The turn-on delay and stopping interval protection function can ensure reliability in running The keyboard lock function and password protection function can prevent any adjustment of operating parameters without permission
- The rotating handle facilitates door opening The adjustable layered structure is convenient for storage of various things
- The liner made from stainless steel 304 for medical use is low- temperature tolerant and corrosion-resistant, which has a long service life and is easy to clean
|Temp.Range(°C)||-30 ~ -60||Ambient Temperature||16°C – 32°C|
|Cooling||Direct cooling||Evaportor||D-form copper tube|
|Data Output||USB||Defrost||Manual defrost|
|Alarm||Visual & Audio;
High/low temperature alarm, power failure alarm, senor error alarm, high ambient temperature alarm
|Compressor||1 pc||Fan Motor||EBM|
|Compressor Brand||Secop (danfoss)||Inner Material||stainless steel|
|Casters||4pcs||External Material||SPCC steel with powder coating|
|Access Test Port||1 pc||Sealing Material||MVQ|
Scope of Application
Suitable for freezing of ice bars and storage of various things needing refrigerated storage such as blood plasma, reagent, etc. Suitable for use in hospitals, clinics, health and disease prevention systems, blood banks, laboratories in colleges & universities, the frozen food industry and catering industry, etc.
- Provide 24-hour technical consulting reply;
- Provide professional quoted price;
- Provide detailed product performance specification;
- According to product's using condition, technicians will offer rationalization proposals to assist clients to select proper product types;
- Provide other corollary equipment according to client requirements.
- Begin to supervise from raw material, its qualified rate can reach to 100%;
- Whole manufacturing process are in strict accordance with promised procedure requirements, product qualified rate can reach to 100%;
- Provide product's inspection record of key junctures to customers;
- Provide production schedule photos to customers at regular intervals;
- Package and transport products strictly accordance with export standard;
- Provide transportation schedule information to clients timely.
- Provide targeted installation video;
- Under the premise of correct installation, normal maintenance and using, we guarantee one-year warranty period;
- When warranty period has expired, our sold products enjoys lifetime guarantee repair, we only charge cost price for changing product's standard component and sealing component;
- During installation and adjustment period, our after-sale service staff will communicate with customers frequently to know product's running state in time. Assist customers to install and adjust products until customers are satisfied;
- If product has malfunction during operation period, we'll offer you satisfied answer in time. We'll reply you within 1 hour and provide solution or send staff to spot within 24 hours after receiving maintenance notification.
- Lifelong free technical support. Conduct satisfaction survey and inquiry equipment running condition to clients by telephone or e-mail semiannually from the first day of equipment running, put on records of acquired information;
- Provide assistant service if product is damaged during transportation.
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Q. Our organization has a position called "director's advisor." There are about sixteen such advisors. I am editing a human resources paper on this position, and I have to figure out what the plural should be. There is an argument for making it "director's advisors," on the grounds that the job title itself is immutable, so if the text refers to several of them, an s should simply be placed at the end of the title. However, if there is one farmer and he has a field, it is a "farmer's field." The fields of several farmers would be referred to as "farmers' fields." Any assistance you can give in resolving this issue would be much appreciated!
A. If there is more than one director, then your analogy to farmers' fields is apt, and "directors' advisors" will work. (There's nothing "immutable" about a title that prevents pluralizing it in this way.) If there is only one director, you don't multiply her by having more than one advisor; in that case, the plural is "director's advisors."


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e-Health Tech is the portal to Aalborg University's research and innovation activities related to welfare technology. The new multi-disciplinary research center unifies the existing strongholds at Aalborg Univeristy within the fields of ICT and health technology. e-Health Tech aims to continue improving these health-ICT competences and to create cutting edge welfare technologies.
The core of e-Health Tech:
- Information and communication technologies for improved health
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Recent Examples of ammonia from the Web
The most common corrosive liquids are bleach, ammonia and acid.
The waste accumulates in the form of ammonia and can travel to the brain, causing coma or death, according to the National Urea Cycle Disorders Foundation.
Two days later, she was pronounced brain dead and diagnosed with urea cycle disorder, a rare genetic condition that can be treated with diet and medication, but oftentimes goes undiagnosed, allowing ammonia to build up in the bloodstream.
The biologist argued that the additive in question—which is created by using a centrifuge to spin off muscle meat from layers of fat and then treating it with ammonia—was not real ground beef.
A 100-foot sheen was reportedly emanating from the barge, which was carrying 2,500 tons anhydrous ammonia and 800 gallons of diesel fuel, according to the Coast Guard.
The truck plant over the weekend acknowledged a spill of urea, a substance that turned into deadly ammonia in the water.
Fujitsu Microelectronics, July 20, 1995 (Gresham): Eighteen people are taken to the hospital after an ammonia leak.
Authorities noted the overwhelming odor of ammonia, animals with no access to food or water and homemade incubators, the report said.
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Determinants of regional unemployment: some evidence from Austria
Badinger H. and Url T. (2002) Determinants of regional unemployment: some evidence from Austria, Reg. Studies 36, 977-988. Using a spatial filtering technique we estimate an empirical model of regional unemployment for a sample of Austrian regions. The spatial filtering technique removes the spatial correlation from the data and allows us to assess the importance of purely spatial effects. We find significant relations between the regional unemployment rate and relative regional wages transaction costs as reflected by the share of public housing, job vacancies, the share of employees in the manufacturing sector and a social assistance variable. Spatial effects account for about one-fifth of the variation in the unemployment rate.
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OBSOLETE UNITS PACKAGE SYMBOL
As of version 9.0, unit functionality is built into Mathematica
is a unit of temperature.
- To use, you first need to load the Units Package using Needs["Units'"].
- A temperature range of one is equivalent to one Kelvin (SI units).
- ConvertTemperature[n, Centigrade, newscale] converts n degrees into the temperature scale newscale.


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The word cupola comes from Latin meaning "little cupo" or little dome, originally referring to small domes atop cathedrals, which allowed light to enter the sanctuary. After being in storage for more than 30 years, the lantern of the cupola was restored to its original location with the rehabilitation of the Legislative Building in 2004. The lantern shines brightly atop the 287-foot dome with energy from the sun. The Legislative Building solar project was installed in 2004 as part of the rehabilitation of the structure. The solar power project consists of two separate 10-kilowatt solar arrays placed on the fifth-floor roof. Even in a cloudy climate, the 144 modules produce up to 20,000 kilo-watt hours of electricity annually. This is enough electricity to illuminate the lantern and exterior colonnade.
From left: Restoring the lantern and the Cupola in 2004, Solar arrays placed on the fifth-floor roof and The lantern at night


Problem Description
"HOR!! You want jacket or you want me ><" Rar the Cat asks.
"Me jacket" His beloved girlfriend answers.
Rar the Cat is devastated. Really? Does a jacket have more worth than him? Determined to find out the true answer, Rar the Cat sneaks into his girlfriend's house during her sleep, and records down everything she says in her sleep, to determine her true thoughts. However, due to his horrible note-taking skills, he is only able to take down a long string of upper-case letters! Help Rar the Cat figure out his worth by counting the number of times "RANALD" and "JACKET" appears in the string of letters. If there are more "JACKET"s than "RANALD"s, output "JACKET" to indicate that the jacket is more important. Else, output "RANALD".
The input will consist of one upper-case string, the one that Rar the Cat took down.
Your output should be either "JACKET" or "RANALD", according the number of times it appears in the long string.
Subtask 1 (30%): Length of string will always be less than 1,000 characters.
Subtask 2 (70%): Length of string will always be less than 10,000,000 characters.
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Charles Plumier (20 April 1646 – 20 November 1704) was a French botanist, after whom the Frangipani genus Plumeria is named. Plumier is considered one of the most important of the botanical explorers of his time. He made three botanizing expeditions to the West Indies, which resulted in a massive work Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera (1703–04) and was appointed botanist to king Louis XIV of France.
Born in Marseille, at the age of sixteen he entered the religious order of the Minims. He devoted himself to the study of mathematics and physics, made physical instruments, and was an excellent draughtsman, painter, and turner.
On being sent to the French monastery of Trinità dei Monti at Rome, Plumier studied botany under two members of the order, and especially under the Cistercian botanist, Paolo Boccone. After his return to France, he became a pupil of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, whom he accompanied on botanical expeditions.
He also explored the coasts of Provence and Languedoc. His work began in 1689, when, by order of the government, he accompanied the collector Joseph Donat Surian to the French Antilles, as Surian's illustrator and writer. They remained a year and a half. As this first journey, written up by Plumier as Description des Plantes d'Amérique (1693), proved very successful, Plumier was appointed royal botanist. In 1693, by command of Louis XIV of France, he made his second journey, and in 1695 his third journey to the Antilles. While in the West Indies, he was assisted by the Dominican botanist Jean-Baptiste Labat. The material gathered was prodigious: besides the Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera it filled the volumes of Plumier's Filicetum Americanum (1703) and several shorter pieces for the Journal des Savants and the Memoires de Trévoux.
In 1704, with his Traité des Fougères de l'Amérique in the press and about to start on his fourth journey, intending to visit the home of the true cinchona tree in Peru, he was taken ill with pleurisy and died at Puerto de Santa Maria near Cadiz.
At his death Plumier left thirty-one manuscript volumes containing notes and descriptions, and about 6,000 drawings, 4,000 of which were of plants, while the remainder reproduced American animals of nearly all classes, especially birds and fishes. The botanist Herman Boerhaave had 508 of these drawings copied at Paris; these were published later in a hommage by Burmann, Professor of Botany at Amsterdam, under the title: "Plantarum americanarum, quas olim Carolus Plumerius botanicorum princeps detexit", fasc. I-X (Amsterdam, 1755–1760), containing 262 plates. Plumier also wrote treatises for the Journal des Savants and for the Mémoires de Trévoux. Through his observations in Martinique, Plumier proved that the cochineal belongs to the animal kingdom and should be classed among the insects.
All natural scientists of the 18th century spoke of him with admiration. Tournefort and Linnaeus named in his honour the genus Plumiera, which belongs to the family Apocynaceae and is indigenous in about forty species to Central America. It is now called Plumeria, with the name of Plumeroideae, for its first subfamily.
- Plumier identified and described Fuchsia, which he discovered on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean in 1696-7. He published his first description of Fuchsia (Fuchsia triphylla, flore coccineo) in 1703.
- The French explorer and botanist Louis Feuillée was one of his pupils.
- His first work was Description des plantes de l'Amérique (Paris, 1693); it contained 108 plates, half of which represented ferns. This was followed by Nova plantarum americanarum genera (Paris, 1703–04), with 40 plates; in this work about one hundred genera, with about seven hundred species, were redescribed. At a later date, Linnaeus adopted in his system, almost without change, these and other newly described genera arranged by Plumier. Plumier left a work in French and Latin ready to be printed entitled Traité des fougères de l'Amérique (Paris, 1705), which contained 170 excellent plates. The publication "Filicetum Americanum" (Paris, 1703), with 222 plates, was compiled from those already mentioned. Plumier also wrote another book of an entirely different character on turning, L'Art de tourner (Lyons, 1701; Paris, 1749); this was translated into Russian by Peter the Great. The manuscript of the translation is at St. Petersburg.
Digitized works
- Description des plantes de l'Amérique on Botanicus.
- Plantarum americanarum...on Botanicus.
- Traité des fougères de l'Amérique on SICD Universities of Strasbourg
- L'Art de Tourner en Perfection edition of 1749 digitized by Christian LAVIGNE (Ars Mathematica), from the copy in the Bibliothèque de Verdun (Meuse, France)
See also
- Ronald H. Petersen, New World Botany: Columbus to Darwin (2001:155).
- Petersen 2001:155.
- Pietsch, T. W. 2001. Charles Plumier (1646–1704) and his drawings of French and American fishes. Arch. Nat. Hist., 28(1):1–57.
- Journal des Savants, May 1756:314, advertises the first installment.
- "Author Query for 'Plum.'". International Plant Names Index.


The Corona Simulator
The Corona Simulator
In this guide we'll walk through the basic functionality of the Corona Simulator.
There are three files that will launch the simulator. Two are meant to be run from the terminal, and the other by itself. The terminal-launched versions will give you access to the debugger as well as display any errors that may occur. These three files are named 'Corona Simulator', 'simulator' and 'debugger'.
To launch the Corona Simulator, simply double click its icon. In the dialog that appears, navigate to your project directory and click "Open".
The project simulator itself has all the similar features across the three versions mentioned earlier:
 - Re-launching: If you modify your code, rather than restarting the simulator, you can relaunch from within the simulator by either going to 'File' and choosing 'Relaunch' or typing 'command-R'. If you've saved the changes to your main.lua file, you will now see the latest version in the simulator.
 - Video Recording: if you want to show off your app or need to demonstrate a functionality or a bug, you can record a video of it at 15fps. To access this, go to the 'File' menu and select 'Record Video' or hit 'control-R'. You will then be prompted for a file name and location to save your video. Once you have done this, your video will start recording. To stop, simply go back to the 'File' menu and select 'Stop Recording' or 'control-S'. The file is saved in quicktime format.
 - Accelerometer Control: You can change the simulated orientation of the device or send a 'shake' command by accessing the 'Hardware' menu, or by pressing 'Command' along with the left, right, or up arrows.
 - Suspend: You can suspend your simulation at any time by accessing the 'Hardware' menu and selecting 'Suspend' or 'Command' and the down arrow. This will pause your project's simulation. To resume, access the 'Hardware' menu again and select 'Resume' or press 'Command' and the down arrow again.
To access the terminal launch versions, simply drag either the 'simulator' or 'debugger' to the terminal and hit 'Return', or double-click them to launch a terminal window automatically. Both will ask you to navigate to your project directory and click "Open". The debugger requires a command in order to begin. Type 'help' at the prompt for a list of those commands.


Segisaurus is an Early Jurassic meat-eater that seemed adapted for life in a dry, sandy environment. Though all early dinosaur predators had evolved to be quicker than the animals they replaced, scientists believe Segisaurus has features that made it extra fast.
The North American landscape where Segisaurus lived was very arid and sandy. This little dinosaur seemed to have features that would have made it well adapted to squatting down and sitting out a sandstorm. With only post-cranial remains, the exact look of this dinosaur is unknown.[1]
Wikipedia has a more detailed and comprehensive article on Segisaurus
Segisaurus map icon.
A Segisaurus' icon was located on a map of the Jurassic Park brochure, but the animal was never seen on-screen. On the map, the Segisaurus enclosure is located at the far southern end of the island where the tourist route does not connect. However, it is unknown if this enclosure was ever constructed.[2][3] Segisaurus was planned to be an attraction in Jurassic Park, with 48% of its genome being completed,[4] but sadly, this had to be put on hold due to the Isla Nublar Incident of 1993.
It is unknown what happened to the Segisaurus populations in 2018, but it is known that Segisaurus was subject to cruelty at some point in the past.[5]
 - The map logo of the Segisaurus features a skull. However, the only known Segisaurus skeleton does not have a skull.[6]
 - Segisaurus appeared on the Jurassic Park Institute website, in the Dinopedia section. The picture in the entry, and shown in the infobox on this page, is the only image of the Segisaurus in the entire franchise.
 1. 1.0 1.1 Jurassic Park Institute: Dinopedia. Retrieved from _URL_
 2. The computer screens in the film don't show a "Segisaurus Paddock" (see image).
 3. Segisaurus does not appear in Jurassic World: The Game media: the brochure, Tour the Island website, InGen Field Guide or InGen Field Journal.
 4. InGen's Dinosaur Information guide leaked by DPG, page 4.
 5. DPG banner "Dinosaurs are mortal. Cruelty is timeless"


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Ship's bell
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Ship's bell on USS Chancellorsville
A ship's bell is used to indicate the time aboard a ship and hence to regulate the sailors' duty watches. The bell itself is usually made of brass or bronze and normally has the ship's name engraved or cast on it.
Timing of duty periods[edit]
Unlike civil clock bells, the strikes of the bell do not accord to the number of the hour. Instead, there are eight bells, one for each half-hour of a four-hour watch. In the age of sailing, watches were timed with a 30-minute hourglass. Bells would be struck every time the glass was turned, and in a pattern of pairs for easier counting, with any odd bells at the end of the sequence.
The classical system was:
Bell from the Titanic
Number of bells Bell pattern Middle
One bell. 0:30 4:30 8:30 12:30 16:30 18:30† 20:30
Two bells.. 1:00 5:00 9:00 13:00 17:00 19:00† 21:00
Three bells... 1:30 5:30 9:30 13:30 17:30 19:30† 21:30
Four bells.... 2:00 6:00 10:00 14:00 18:00 22:00
Five bells..... 2:30 6:30 10:30 14:30 18:30 22:30
Six bells...... 3:00 7:00 11:00 15:00 19:00 23:00
Seven bells....... 3:30 7:30 11:30 15:30 19:30 23:30
Eight bells........ 4:00 8:00 12:00‡ 16:00 20:00 0:00
† British usage after the Nore mutiny[1]
‡ Before the introduction of time zones, noon was not struck by the glass, but when the captain or officer of the deck confirmed local noon by the sun, using a sextant.
An underwater archaeologist with the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program in St. Augustine, Florida, recording the ship's bell discovered on the 18th century "Storm Wreck."
"Eight bells" by Winslow Homer, 1887
At midnight on New Year's Eve sixteen bells would be struck – eight bells for the old year and eight bells for the new.
Most of the crew of a ship would be divided up into between two and four groups called watches. Each watch would take its turn with the essential activities of manning the helm, navigating, trimming sails, and keeping a lookout.
The hours between 16:00 and 20:00 are so arranged because that watch (the "dog watch") was divided into two. The odd number of watches aimed to give each man a different watch each day. It also allows the entire crew of a vessel to eat an evening meal, the normal time being at 1700 with First Dog watchmen eating at 1800.[1]
Some "ship's bell" clocks use a simpler system:
Number of bells Bell pattern Hour (a.m. and p.m.)
One bell. 12:30 4:30 8:30
"Eight bells" can also be a way of saying that a sailor's watch is over, for instance, in his or her obituary, as a nautical euphemism for "finished".
Other uses[edit]
Ship's bells are also used for safety in foggy conditions, their most important modern use.[2] On naval vessels, bells additionally are rung as "boat gongs" for officers and dignitaries coming aboard or leaving the ship, in a number equivalent to the number of sideboys to which the visitor is entitled.
Name of the ship[edit]
Ship's bell of HMS Cavalier
The ship's name is traditionally engraved or cast onto the surface of the bell, often with the year the ship was launched as well. Occasionally (especially on more modern ships) the bell will also carry the name of the shipyard that built the ship. If a ship's name is changed, maritime tradition is that the original bell carrying the original name will remain with the vessel. A ship's bell is a prized possession when a ship is broken up[2] and often provides the only positive means of identification in the case of a shipwreck.
Number of bells[edit]
Most United States Navy ships of the post-World War II era have actually carried two ship's bells: the official bell on deck and a smaller one in the pilot house at the 1MC (public address) station, used when the ship is underway.
Cook and boatswain[edit]
According to seafaring legend, the ship's cooks and boatswain's mates had a duty arrangement to give the cooks more sleep. The boatswain's mates, who worked 24 hours a day on watches, would build the fire in the stove, so the cook could get up a little while later and the fire would be already going so he could begin preparing breakfast. In return, between meals, the cooks would shine the bell, which was traditionally the boatswain's mates' responsibility.
Baptizing children[edit]
Ship's bell as Baptismal font at chapel, Yeo Hall, Royal Military College of Canada
Baby is baptized with holy water from the ship's bell
It is a naval tradition to baptize children using the ship's bell as a baptismal font and to engrave the names of the children on the bell afterwards. Christening information from the bells held by the Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt Museum has been entered into a searchable data archive.[3]
See also[edit]
 1. ^ a b Tony Gray. "Workshop Hints: Ship's Bells". The British Horological Institute. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
 2. ^ a b "Ship's Bell". National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original on 9 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
 3. ^ "The Christening Bells Project". CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
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How Do You Fix a Loose Truck Bed?
A loose truck bed can cause a lot of problems. Not only does it make for an uncomfortable ride, but it also increases the risk of your cargo shifting during transit and potentially damaging your truck. Luckily, there are a few easy ways to fix a loose truck bed and get it back to its original state.
Step 1: Inspect the bed to determine where the problem is located. There are several different areas that can cause a loose truck bed, such as the bolts or clamps that hold the bed to the frame, or any worn out rubber bushings between the frame and bed.
Step 2: Replace any parts that need to be fixed. This could be replacing worn out rubber bushings with new ones or tightening up any bolts or clamps that might have come loose over time.
Step 3: After replacing any parts, you should check for signs of wear and tear on other parts of the truck bed as well. This includes looking for rust spots or cracking in the metal that could cause further damage if not taken care of.
Step 4: If everything looks good, you can use some sealant around any seams or joints on your truck bed to help keep it secure and tight. This will help prevent water from getting in and causing further damage.
Conclusion:
Fixing a loose truck bed is relatively simple if you know what you're doing. Just remember to inspect the area thoroughly before making any repairs, replace any parts if necessary, check for signs of wear and tear on other parts of the truck bed, and use some sealant around any seams or joints once everything looks good. With these steps in mind, you'll be able to fix a loose truck bed in no time!
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Chromatic Polynomials of Oriented Graphs. (arXiv:1810.05590v1 [cs.DM])
The oriented chromatic polynomial of a oriented graph outputs the number of oriented $k$-colourings for any input $k$. We fully classify those oriented graphs for which the oriented graph has the same chromatic polynomial as the underlying simple graph, closing an open problem posed by Sopena. We find that such oriented graphs admit a forbidden subgraph characterization, and such graphs can be both identified and constructed in polynomial time. We study the analytic properties of this polynomial and show that there exist oriented graphs which have chromatic polynomials have roots, including negative real roots, that cannot be realized as the root of any chromatic polynomial of a simple graph.查看全文
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