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Bremen/Freiburg, 03. November 2022. OHB has cemented its partnership with deep tech start-up constellr by providing capital through its strategic investment arm OHB Venture Capital GmbH in the framework of the latest financing round. A total of $10 million (EUR 10 million) was made available by various investors led by Lakestar and VSquared. constellr will use the funds to work towards its goal of ensuring global food security despite the challenges posed by the effects of climate change and the ever-growing world population. To this end, the company plans to launch a constellation of microsatellites that can precisely measure the health of crops from space. A cloud-based data platform will be used to make the results available to the agricultural sector. OHB is not only supporting constellr with funds but is also involved in developing the thermal infrared payloads for the satellite constellation and defining additional potential applications for the data obtained.
Climate change and a steadily growing world population: Agriculture under pressure
Climate change and the ever-growing world population pose increasing challenges to agricultural production worldwide. Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource and, in order to protect nature, the use of fertilisers is being increasingly regulated. As a result, crops often suffer from drought stress and nutrient deficiencies.
Monitoring fields from space
To identify affected crops from space, constellr plans to launch a constellation of microsatellites. By using thermal infrared cameras, the water content of plants can be determined on the basis of leaf temperature. The advantage of taking measurements from space is that very large areas can be covered in a short amount of time. The data can easily be compiled into maps that allow the targeted use of artificial irrigation and thus save precious water.
"We are very excited about the mission and team behind constellr. OHB has been working with the team from the very beginning when the idea first began to materialise. We are very happy that we can continue supporting them, not only with financing but also with their technical developments", says Egbert Jan van der Veen, Managing Director of OHB Venture Capital.
Max Gulde, CEO of constellr adds: "The team has worked tirelessly on all fronts, removing obstacle after obstacle, getting a first camera in space and pilot customers on board. And now, we are incredibly proud to partner with what will become our mission control: Lakestar, VSquared, FTTF and IQT for deep tech, Amathaon, Natural Ventures, EIT Food and Next Humanity for agriculture, and Seraphim, OHB and Spacebel for space. Together, we just ignited the second stage towards a global water monitoring system."
constellr is a German deep tech start-up from Freiburg that operates at the interface of Earth Observation and agriculture. A spin-off of the Fraunhofer, Europe's largest organisation for applied science, constellr is dedicated to supporting global food security in times of climate
change. Based on a proprietary space infrastructure with unique sensing capabilities, constellr offers precise and plot-level water monitoring for the agricultural sector worldwide. As a space data and services company, constellr is leading the way in delivering daily, global land surface temperature data for the agri-tech industry. constellr provides the fundamental global data for smart crop monitoring, identifying changes in crop health days to weeks before they become visible and enabling farmers to react early to and mitigate for potential
crop risks and losses. This advanced warning means the risk of crop failure or damage is significantly reduced, allowing more accurate crop yield forecasting and thus better stability and management across supply chains.


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Supermarket shelves across the UK are no longer selling free range eggs amid the "largest ever outbreak" of bird flu due to wide measures introduced to tackle the avian flu.
In late November 2021 the UK imposed a wide range of measures to tackle bird flu which resulted in hens being kept inside large barns for many months for commercial flocks.
On Monday the grace period ended after 16 weeks after the government allowed farmers to keep the "free range status" for eggs as to protect human and animal health the birds were placed into barns.
Eggs now sold in the UK are to be labelled "barn eggs" and no longer free range, this will remain until the Environment Department (Defra) lift the current health and safety measures.
A Defra spokesperson said, "We are experiencing our largest ever outbreak of avian flu and housing measures remain in force to protect poultry and other birds from this highly infectious and unpleasant disease.
"We continue to provide support for the poultry sector throughout this challenging time.
"The 16-week grace period we allowed for free range eggs has now been exceeded, and eggs must now be marketed as 'barn eggs.'
"We have worked closely with the sector and retailers to implement these changes as smoothly as possible."

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text: A Croatian legend is that the Croatian king Suronja beat the Venetian doge in a chess game for a number of Croatian islands. The Croatian coat of arms was supposed to have been evolved from the chess board of 64 squares. The first written trace of chess in Croatia dates to 1385. A Croatian merchant had an inventory of a small table and a chess set. Correspondence chess was being played between Croatian and Venetian merchants as early as 1650. The first Croatian chess column appeared in 1875. The first chess tournament was played in Zagreb in 1886. The first Croation chess club was founded on March 11, 1886. The first chess book published in Croatia occurred in 1893. The first book in Croatian was published in 1909.The Croatian Chess Federation was formed in 1912.

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What is big HATRED or LOVE??
If it was love that was big then how can a person leave another person, because then ego just drops, and then there are not two entities, there's only one!
And, if it was hatred that was big, then there should be no longing after the person has left!
If the longing still persists after the person has left, then does it mean that the person was just confused to decide or take decision?
But if a person claims that he/she is not confused, and still longs for that person, then it means the ego has not been dropped! And, since two entities did not become one, then there was no love AT ALL?

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Legislated FCSS Requirements
FCSS Program Requirements
Below are some of the guidelines for FCSS programs. For a full listing of programs, services and approaches that generally meet the FCSS Act, please refer to the FCSS Program Advice Inventory (pdf).
FCSS funded programs must also do one or more of the following:
- Help people to develop independence, strengthen coping skills and become more resistant to crisis.
- Help people to develop awareness of social needs.
- Help people to develop interpersonal and group skills which enhance constructive relationships among people.
- Help people and communities to assume responsibility for decisions and actions which affect them.
- Provide supports that help sustain people as active participants in the community.
FCSS must not fund services that:
- Provide primarily for the recreational needs or leisure time pursuits of individuals,
- Offer direct assistance, including money, food, clothing or shelter, to sustain an individual or family,
- Are rehabilitative in nature (as that is in conflict with "prevention"), or
- Duplicate services that are ordinarily provided by a government or government agency.
As is the case with all funded programs, Red Deer and District FCSS is required to meet outcomes and financial accountability as set by the Province. On a random basis, the Red Deer & District FCSS program is audited directly by provincial FCSS staff with the last audit being in 2013.


Efforts aim to reduce burning of sugar cane fields
Smoke fills the air as a sugar cane field burns Wednesday morning near Main Project Road in Schriever.
Chris Heller/Staff
Published: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 7:35 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 7:35 p.m.
Like football and the leaves changing colors, burning sugar cane crops is a fall tradition that helps growers but irritates others.
Louisiana farmers are being educated about how to minimize the impact of field burning on the public and there is ongoing research to determine how to lessen the need to burn crops.
The reason the crops are burned is to remove mulch after harvesting so a new sugar cane crop can begin to grow.
Mulch "will actually rot the cane and kill it and the seed bed," said Michael Daigle, president of the Thibodaux-based American Sugar Cane League.
Sugar cane stalks continue to grow for several years — up to four crops of cane from one planting, Daigle said. Even after the surface plant dies, the roots will go dormant in the winter and sprout again when the soil temperature rises.
Without removal, mulch may delay the emergence of plant sprouts by two weeks, and farmers could lose up to 35 percent of the crop, he said.
In recent years, scientists have begun researching ways to reduce and possibly eliminate sugar cane burning but have yet to find a sustainable and cost-effective method to do so. Scientists have experimented with mechanical removal and creating new varieties of cane that can tolerate mulch while still remaining strong and healthy.
"We have conducted at least 10 experiments every season for the last 10 years looking at ways to mitigate the effects of cane mulch," Ryan Viator, former sugar cane researcher with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Research, said last year.
The LSU AgCenter and the state Department of Agriculture and Forestry developed a course to teach farmers about safety, the best time to burn, fire behavior and other burn-management techniques, said Ken Gravois, LSU AgCenter sugar cane researcher.
"It's strongly recommended that farmers and their employees be certified by the state as a certified prescribed burn manager and only burn when the weather conditions are safe," he said.
"(The farmers) get certification and the sugar mills provide weather data to all of the farmers every morning. If the farmer has a field next to a hospital, church, subdivision, and the wind is blowing that way, they can't burn that particular field. They're very conscientious of the environment and their neighbors," Daigle said.
Because cane-burning season coincides with the ragweed allergy season, sometimes it's hard to tell which is affecting a person who gets irritated outside.
Dr. Matthew Beyer, ear, nose and throat specialist with the Hagen-Beyer Clinic in Houma and Thibodaux, said smoke from cane burning can aggravate allergy symptoms but is not always the cause of respiratory illness.
"We'll see patients that come in because their sinuses are irritated, but that's not a true allergic reaction. It's not due to the person's system overreacting to something," Beyer said. "You can think of it as if you inhaled pepper and start sneezing. You're not allergic to pepper, but it causes a response."
To determine the difference between a ragweed infection and smoke irritation, Dr. David Hagen, who works with Beyer, said he'll often look at the patient's medical history and location. If the person is repeatedly being treated for sinus problems around this time of year, it's more likely he or she is dealing with ragweed. However, if the problem is inconsistent and the person is near cane fields, smoke may be the problem.
Smoke irritation, ragweed season, and colds and flu combine to make the late fall and early winter the "upper respiratory tract season," Hagen said
"(The smoke) is kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back. All of those things are hitting at the same time," he said.
Doctors said some people are more sensitive than others to smoke and similar irritants. That can depend on family history or other conditions like asthma or sinus problems.
To minimize the impacts of smoke on your respiratory system, you should stay indoors during the peak cane-burning hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Using a sinus rise can also help alleviate symptoms. But if it doesn't, you should visit your doctor.
The amount of patients being seen as a result of the cane smoke has dropped in recent years because farmers are taking more precautions, Hagen said.
But Beyer said that doesn't mean residents shouldn't be careful.
"There are no known demographic risks of burning sugar cane. But we do know that the smoke is toxic to an extent," Beyer said. "It's just like any other smoke. It's not a major public health risk, but I wouldn't recommend going out and running around in it."
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Adding Customer Attribute Tutorial
In this tutorial, we will walk through the two different ways you can keep track of personalized attributes for your customers. We will demonstrate the easy way of simply storing the attributes in the customerAttributes object and the slightly more customized (but still easy) way of extending the Broadleaf CustomerImpl class. Also, please note that while we're going through extending a Customer in this tutorial, the same patterns apply for all Broadleaf provided objects.
Using the provided CustomerAttributes object
If you're only wanting to save off simple String values to be referenced later, the easiest way is to use the CustomerAttributes. This is exactly what we'll do to store a referral code on our Customer.
First, we need to modify the UI to pass in a referral code to our controller. We'll do that by extending the RegisterCustomerForm to carry our referral code along.
public class HCRegisterCustomerForm extends RegisterCustomerForm {
 public String referralCode;
 public String getReferralCode() {
 return referralCode;
 public void setReferralCode(String referralCode) {
 this.referralCode = referralCode;
Then, we need to modify RegisterController to initialize our extended form. If we look at the source of the parent BroadleafRegisterController, we can see that it initializes a RegisterCustomerForm and simply sets the customer object. Therefore, we can utilize the super method and just modify it slightly:
 public HCRegisterCustomerForm initCustomerRegistrationForm() {
 RegisterCustomerForm superForm = super.initCustomerRegistrationForm();
 HCRegisterCustomerForm form = new HCRegisterCustomerForm();
 return form;
Then, we can add the new field to ajax/register.html, right below the confirm password field:

 Referral Code

Note: We are not attaching any validation to this field. It is completely optional for the sake of this tutorial.
At this, point, when you click on Register, you should see your additional field:
Referral Code field
All that's left is to save our referral code into our customer. We want to do this if the registration was successful. So, in RegisterController, we want to modify the processRegister method to look like this:
String url = super.processRegister(registerCustomerForm, errors, request, response, model);
 if (url.equals(getRegisterSuccessView())) {
 // Grab the current customer from the request
 Customer newCustomer = CustomerState.getCustomer();
 // Create the referralCode CustomerAttribute
 CustomerAttribute referralCodeAttr = new CustomerAttributeImpl();
 // Update our customer object
 newCustomer.getCustomerAttributes().put("referralCode", referralCodeAttr);
 newCustomer = customerService.saveCustomer(newCustomer);
 // Place the new customer onto the request
return url;
It's as easy as that!


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Business efficiency is a difficult task for energy managers because of various reasons. One is that energy consumption is not dependent only on one night. It takes months to decrease the energy usage and takes years to see a return on investment of energy-saving projects. To make things running smoothly, the energy managers must work on it.
Following are the signs of low energy consumption for businesses.
1. Helps to Decrease Cost
The first and foremost advantage of low energy consumption for business is that it reduces the cost level. If you want to make your business's energy efficiency better, you should also save your money. A few years ago, people thought that energy consumption is an uncontrollable task. Still, nowadays, people understand local energy consumption methods and how to reduce energy consumption in businesses, which is good for the business' financial conditions. The quantity of energy consumed and the usage of the organization have a significant influence on it, both favorably and adversely.
Low consumption energy also helps in managing the cost level in an organization. Energy managers should manage the energy on different energy efficiency projects for a long time. Energy consumption is also reduced by monitoring it.
2. Prevent and Reduce Risk
Nowadays, global energy in the markets is increasing, and the prices have fluctuated greatly. People are facing very high, perhaps doubled, energy costs. Low energy consumption also helps you prevent and reduce the risk of getting more energy by limiting the effect of volatile and energy markets. You can think to generate your own energy on-site, but this is not possible for everyone. So, low consumption of energy is the best option for your business.
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3. Improves the Working Employees
Low consumption energy can reduce the cost of the energy and improve the brand's reputation, which is a great advantage. It also has an influence on employee training because, in the past, energy consumption was regarded as a tough responsibility. However, new study indicates that this is not the case. Employee comfort, as well as their working capabilities and performance, are improved as a result of increased energy usage. Employees that work for a company and take their energy levels seriously are more productive than others.
4. Good for Environmental Conditions
High energy consumption is really bad for environmental conditions. Energy consumption such as greenhouse gas emissions predominantly causes climate change. Everyone is engaged in using high energy, which is creating a bad impact on our environment. The lesser the consumption of energy, the better the environment.
Low energy consumption for business is difficult in many cases, but once you know its benefits and learn how to manage it, it gives you many benefits. Less energy consumption can reduce your business's energy cost and also improve your brand reputation.
Energy consumption also has an impact on employees' productivity. Low energy consumption is also beneficial to environmental conditions since we live in an environment that is also our family's homeland, and we should take precautions to preserve it from dangerous elements.


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Pearson Test of English (PTE-A) is designed to test your English reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. The test takes approximately 3 hours to complete. This includes an un-timed introduction to the test and one optional scheduled break of up to 10 minutes. During the three-hour test session there will be three main parts to the test: speaking and writing (together), listening and reading. There are twenty different question formats, ranging from multiple choice through to essay writing and interpreting information. PTE-A Academic assesses real-life, academic content, so you will hear excerpts from lectures and view graphs and charts. You will hear a range of accents in the test, from British and American to non-native speakers, so you will be exposed to the type of accents you will encounter in everyday life.
PART 1: SPEAKING & WRITING (77 – 93 minutes):
Answer short question
PART 2: READING (32 – 41 minutes):
Multiple choice questions (x2)
Fill in the blanks (x2)
A ten minute break is optional
PART 3: LISTENING (45 – 57 minutes):
Summarize spoken text
Multiple choice x2
Fill the blanks
Highlight the correct summary
Select missing word
Highlight incorrect words
Write from dictation
PTE-A Academic is scored against the Global Scale of English, a thermometer-style scale that gives you an accurate overview of your skills. The Global Scale of English aligns with a variety of popular tests and scales around the world. The PTE-A Academic Score Report includes your overall score, communicative skills scores and enabling skills scores. The overall score reflects your overall English language ability. The score is based on performance on all items in the test. The range for the overall score is 10-90 points.
Scores for communicative skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing) are based on all test items that assess these skills, either as a single skill or together with other skills. The range for each communicative skill score is 10-90 points.
Scores for enabling skills (grammar, oral fluency, pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary and written discourse) are based on all test items assessing one or more of these skills. The range for each enabling skill score is 10-90 points.
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Vertical multistage Jockey Pumps (GCR Series)
- For thin, non-explosive, not containing solid particles or fibers, non-corrosive liquids are suitable.
- For liquid transfer, circulation and pressure boosting of cold or hot clean water.
- For water supply systems, pressure boosting systems, liquid transfer and irrigation works.
- Flow range : 0.3 to 180 m³/h
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Dolphin Pregnancy Is a Drag, Literally
A bottlenose dolphin.
CREDIT: Chris Johnson – earthOCEAN
The extreme physical changes that come during pregnancy may be most evident in humans, but they plague other animals as well. New research shows that pregnant dolphins are so hefty the increased drag on the body makes them swim slower.
"They have this huge body and that creates a large frontal surface area and that drag is going to pull at them," study researcher Shawn Noren, of the University of California, at Santa Cruz, told LiveScience. "Swim performance is lower as well."
It's possible that this extra effort to swim fast could have an impact on the species' survival. If the pregnant dolphins can't escape predators or keep up with their group when chased by tuna fishermen, it could explain why the population isn't rebounding as quickly as expected, Noren said. (Groups of dolphins and groups of tuna tend to live in close proximity, so tuna fishermen chase down dolphins to get to the tuna that usually live below them.)
Dolphins in action
Noren filmed two pregnant dolphins at Dolphin Quest in Hawaii. They were nearly full term. She compared these videos with video taken two years after the pregnancy and found that not only did the larger fully pregnant females produce more drag as they swam through the water, their swimming technique was also altered.
An analysis showed that by having a greater surface area due to their pregnant bellies, which meant more water for the dolphins to push out of their way as they swam, the drag on their bodies increased by about 50 percent compared with their svelte, non-pregnant state.
"When this animal is not pregnant it can swim exactly twice as fast and get the same drag," Noren said.
Because of where the baby dolphin sits (near the mama's tail) during development, the mothers also didn't have as much flexibility at near full-term. They couldn't flip their tails up and down as far as they could after giving birth, so they compensated by flipping their tails about 14 percent more often. [Infographic: How Long Are Animals Pregnant?]
"That whole second half of the animal's body is what the dolphins use to swim, and that fetus is sitting back there toward the back part of the tail," Noren said. "We measured the same animals after birth [of their baby], and they were moving their tail flukes higher when they weren't pregnant than when they were."
These weighed-down mamas might have more trouble outrunning predators (or tuna fishermen) in the wild. Noren notes that their wild predators, which include sharks and some whales, can reach speeds faster than these pregnant dolphins and so might be able to overtake them in a chase.
During these chases, fleeing either aquatic or human predators, young, sick or pregnant dolphins may lose their group, which, Noren said, "could explain why the population isn't recoveringat the expected rate."
This kind of pregnancy drag is likely present in every animal. Birds and land animals (and even insects) need to fight against gravity to keep moving, and as they grow larger this gets more difficult.
"Every animal has shown reduced performance [during pregnancy] and becomes quite sedentary," Noren said. Not many studies have been able to show exactly how much of a drag pregnancy can be.
The study was published Nov. 24 in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
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Windows Vista: Slow or hanging logon scripts
When you are in the process of implementing Windows Vista in an enterprise environment, you may run into the following situation: You have a logon script that writes a file to disk or queries AD with ADSI. For no apparent reason the script hangs for minutes before it finishes without any error message. On further […]
When you are in the process of implementing Windows Vista in an enterprise environment, you may run into the following situation:
You have a logon script that writes a file to disk or queries AD with ADSI. For no apparent reason the script hangs for minutes before it finishes without any error message. On further investigation you will find no issues regarding the network, memory or disk resources. When you manually start the script it always runs fast without issues. What is happening here?
Get ready for a long story.
Windows Vista has a number features that are supposed to improve the user experience during system startup and logon. One of these is Boxing. Boxing is a feature that makes sure that programs that start while you logon are no longer able to start fighting for all available resources eating all disk resources and CPU. Usually programs like the Adobe Updater, Winzip Quicklauncher, iTunes quicklaunch or whatever these programs are called, are not really of interest for the user in terms of how fast they startup. But they will slow down the system significantly when Windows threats them just as equal as you manually try to start after logon (like Outlook or Word for example). Windows Vista lowers the thread priority level for startup applications to " Below Normal" and will not allow them to raise their thread priority during the first 60 seconds after logon. In this way Vista slows down the execution of these applications and leaves resources available for programs that the user actually wants to start.
So far so good. Vista uses this mechanism for programs started from the following locations:
 - Startup folder in the Start Menu
 - Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key in the Registry
 - Scheduled tasks initiated at Logon
 - Defined in Group Policy in: User Configuration | Administrative Templates | System| Logon | Run these programs a user logon
Windows Vista actually lowers the thread priority level of these applications to BelowNormal and disables their normal ability to bump up their own thread level during the first minute after logon. Maarten from the Vista product team wrote a little piece about this behavior in their blog. At the same time Vista lowers the application' s I/O priority level to "very low I/O priority level". This is a new feature that did not exist before Windows Vista. Normally a process that writes a file to disk does not directly access the disk, but uses a mechanism called the file cache. When using the file cache, a program writes data into a RAM based memory cache first. Then Windows will take care of actually writing the data to disk when it's convenient for the system. Writing data to the file cache is really fast and programs usually hardly wait for data being written to the file cache. Processes running at the very low I/O priority level do not make use of the file cache, but write their data directly to disk when the Windows file system driver thinks it is convenient. This makes writing data to disk very very slow while the application is being "boxed".


output location.
Access functions:
QUrl outputLocation() const
bool setOutputLocation(const QUrl &location)
state : const QMediaRecorder::State
This property holds the current state of the media recorder.
The state property represents the user request and is changed synchronously during record(), pause() or stop() calls. Recorder state may also change asynchronously when recording fails.
Access functions:
State state() const
Notifier signal:
void stateChanged(QMediaRecorder::State state)
status : const QMediaRecorder::Status
This property holds the current status of the media recorder.
The status is changed asynchronously and represents the actual status of media recorder.
Access functions:
Status status() const
Notifier signal:
void statusChanged(QMediaRecorder::Status status)
volume : qreal
This property holds the current recording audio volume.
The volume is scaled linearly from 0.0 (silence) to 1.0 (full volume). Values outside this range will be clamped.
The default volume is 1.0.
UI volume controls should usually be scaled nonlinearly. For example, using a logarithmic scale will produce linear changes in perceived loudness, which is what a user would normally expect from a volume control. See QAudio::convertVolume() for more details.
Access functions:
qreal volume() const
void setVolume(qreal volume)
Notifier signal:
void volumeChanged(qreal volume)
Member Function Documentation
QMediaRecorder::QMediaRecorder(QMediaObject *mediaObject, QObject *parent = Q_NULLPTR)
Constructs a media recorder which records the media produced by mediaObject.
The parent is passed to QMediaObject.
QMediaRecorder::~QMediaRecorder()
Destroys a media recorder object.
[signal] void QMediaRecorder::actualLocationChanged(const QUrl &location)
Signals that the actual location of the recorded media has changed. This signal is usually emitted when recording starts.
Note: Notifier signal for property actualLocation.
QString QMediaRecorder::audioCodecDescription(const QString &codec) const
Returns a description of an audio codec.
QAudioEncoderSettings QMediaRecorder::audioSettings() const
Returns the audio encoder settings being used.
See also setAudioSettings() and setEncodingSettings().
QMultimedia::AvailabilityStatus QMediaRecorder::availability() const
Returns the availability of this functionality.
See also availabilityChanged().
[signal] void QMediaRecorder::availabilityChanged(bool available)
Signals that the media recorder is now available (if available is true), or not.
Note: Signal availabilityChanged is overloaded in this class. To connect to this one using the function pointer syntax, you must specify the signal type in a static cast, as shown in this example:
connect(mediaRecorder, static_cast<void(QMediaRecorder::*)(bool)>(&QMediaRecorder::availabilityChanged),
 [=](bool available){ /* ... */ });
[signal] void QMediaRecorder::availabilityChanged(QMultimedia::AvailabilityStatus availability)
Signals that the service availability has changed to availability.
Note: Signal availabilityChanged is overloaded in this class. To connect to this one using the function pointer syntax, you must specify the signal type in a static cast, as shown in this example:
connect(mediaRecorder, static_cast<void(QMediaRecorder::*)(QMultimedia::AvailabilityStatus)>(&QMediaRecorder::availabilityChanged),
 [=](QMultimedia::AvailabilityStatus availability){ /* ... */ });
QStringList QMediaRecorder::availableMetaData() const
Returns a list of keys there is meta-data available for.
QString QMediaRecorder::containerDescription(const QString &format) const
Returns a description of a container format.
QString QMediaRecorder::containerFormat() const
Returns the selected container format.
See also setContainerFormat().
[signal] void QMediaRecorder::durationChanged(qint64 duration)
Signals that the duration of the recorded media has changed.
Note: Notifier signal for property duration.
Error QMediaRecorder::error() const
Returns the current error state.
See also errorString().
[signal] void QMediaRecorder::error(QMediaRecorder::Error error)
Signals that an error has occurred.
Note: Signal error is overloaded in this class. To connect to this one using the function pointer syntax, you must specify the signal type in a static cast, as shown in this example:
connect(mediaRecorder, static_cast<void(QMediaRecorder::*)(QMediaRecorder::Error)>(&QMediaRecorder::error),
 [=](QMediaRecorder::Error error){ /* ... */ });
QString QMediaRecorder::errorString() const
Returns a string describing the current error state.
See also error().
bool QMediaRecorder::isAvailable() const
Returns true if media recorder service ready to use.
See also availabilityChanged().
[override virtual] QMediaObject *QMediaRecorder::mediaObject() const
Reimplemented from QMediaBindableInterface::mediaObject().
Returns the QMediaObject instance that this QMediaRecorder is bound too, or 0 otherwise.
QVariant QMediaRecorder::metaData(const QString &key) const
Returns the value associated with a meta-data key.
See also setMetaData().
[signal] void QMediaRecorder::metaDataAvailableChanged(bool available)
Signals that the available state of a media object's meta-data has changed.
Note: Notifier signal for property metaDataAvailable.
[signal] void QMediaRecorder::metaDataChanged()
Signals that a media object's meta-data has changed.
If multiple meta-data elements are changed, metaDataChanged(const QString &key, const QVariant &value) signal is emitted for each of them with metaDataChanged() changed emitted once.
Note: Signal metaDataChanged is overloaded in this class. To connect to this one using the function pointer syntax, you must specify the signal type in a static cast, as shown in this example:
connect(mediaRecorder, static_cast<void(QMediaRecorder::*)()>(&QMediaRecorder::metaDataChanged),
 [=](){ /* ... */ });
[signal] void QMediaRecorder::metaDataChanged(const QString &key, const QVariant &value)
Signal the changes of one meta-data element value with the given key.
Note: Signal metaDataChanged is overloaded in this class. To connect to this one using the function pointer syntax, you must specify the signal type in a static cast, as shown in this example:
connect(mediaRecorder, static_cast<void(QMediaRecorder::*)(const QString &, const QVariant &)>(&QMediaRecorder::metaDataChanged),
 [=](const QString &key, const QVariant &value){ /* ... */ });
[signal] void QMediaRecorder::metaDataWritableChanged(bool writable)
Signals that the writable state of a media object's meta-data has changed.
Note: Notifier signal for property metaDataWritable.
[signal] void QMediaRecorder::mutedChanged(bool muted)
Signals that the muted state has changed. If true the recording is being muted.
Note: Notifier signal for property muted.
[slot] void QMediaRecorder::pause()
Pause recording.
The recorder state is changed to QMediaRecorder::PausedState.
Depending on platform recording pause may be not supported, in this case the recorder state stays unchanged.
[slot] void QMediaRecorder::record()
Start recording.
While the recorder state is changed immediately to QMediaRecorder::RecordingState, recording may start asynchronously, with statusChanged(QMediaRecorder::RecordingStatus) signal emitted when recording starts.
If recording fails error() signal is emitted with recorder state being reset back to


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This is a tool that is used by the Microsoft PSS team to analyze PSSDiag data. This tool has the capability of loading the Profiler Traces collected (provided ReadTrace is installed on the box).
In addition to this, it also loads the other.OUT files and the PerfStats script output file into the Nexus database. I use this tool regularly to analyze PSSDIAG data due to the following reasons:
1. Saves me time from manually opening each file and looking through them
2. Based on the graphs provided in the reports, I can quickly drilldown to the major bottleneck
The SQL Nexus reports act as a brilliant guide when you are analyzing PSSDIAG for the following scenarios:
1. High CPU
3. High IO
4. General Performance Problems
Since, the SQL Nexus Reports use Reporting Services client-side report viewer, you can create your own reports to work against the Nexus database and then deploy them to the %appdata%/SQL Nexus/Reports folder. Once, this is done, the new reports would show up along with the defult reports every time SQL Nexus is launched.
What are the advantages of this tool?
1. Shows aggregation reports for the Profiler Traces loaded into it
2. Blocking and wait statistics information based on the PerfStats script output. This helps in analyzing blocking on the server
3. Since, the data collected are loaded into tables, you can run queries against the database to draw inferences. If you use these queries frequently enough, you can create your own reports and deploy them to the above mentioned location
4. You can export the data from the SQL Nexus Reports into files (.XLS,.PDF,.JPG etc) and send them as reports
5. The reports let you narrow down to specific time frames which makes analysis easier
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Addition: April 4, 2011
A list of known issues documented with SQL Nexus:
Addition: April 6, 2011
A very common issue that I worked on multiple times after which I realized that it warranted a blog post:


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Do you want to grow turnip seeds in Ohio, but don't know when to start them?
Starting turnip seeds is not as easy as it seems.
- Turnip Seeds must be consistenly watered, receive at least 8 hours of sunlight a day, & be kept at room temperature of at least 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
So if you don't consistently water them they won't germinate. If they aren't in a room that is at least 70 degrees Fahrenheit they won't sprout. And if it receives 8 hours of sunlight the plant itself won't grow.
- Because Ohio's growing season is not long enough, turnip seeds cannot be sowed outside and should only be started indoors.
Because of this, I'm going to teach you the ideal time to start turnip seeds indoors in Ohio:
- To Learn More About HOW to Grow Turnips, Check Out This GUIDE!
When to Start Turnip Seeds Indoors
Depending on the type of turnip, it takes roughly 14-21 days (2 to 3 weeks) to grow turnips from seed indoors before you can transplant them into your garden.
The approximate date of when you should start your turnip seeds indoors can be found by:
- Finding the last average frost date HERE
- And then subtract 21 days from it
You can also find the average last frost date for most major cities in the below chart that I have created:
To help ensure the greatest success of your turnip seeds germinating you should:
- Use a heat mat to ensure the gardening pot remains at 70 degrees Fahrenheit
- Use a grow light to control how much light your turnip seeds receive
- Water your seeds with a spray bottle to ensure your seeds are not overwatered
It should also be noted that you will not want to introduce your turnip plants into your garden until 2 weeks after your last frost or else your plant will potentially die or not bear vegetables.
If you want to learn WHEN to start ANY Vegetable Seed in Ohio, head over to HERE and just type in the vegetable you want to grow.


Automated Coin Toll System (ACTS)
AT&T developed and used a system for over 25 years that handled automated dial-direct long distance coin-based telephone calls. This system was known as ACTS (Automated Coin Toll System). This page describes the history of the system and its eventual disconnection.
History & Overview | How did ACTS Work?
Transition to OSPS | Why did AT&T discontinue ACTS?
ACTS lives on.. sort of
History and Overview of ACTS
Before automated operator systems, all pay phone based long distance calls had to be completed with the help of an operator. People dialed "0" and told the operator the desired number and she had to handle all charged manually (known as a manual ticket), as in the old days of long distance before automated billing systems.
The Bell System (AT&T Long Lines) invented the TSPS (Traffic Service Position System) automated operator system in 1969, based upon the #1ESS switch. With this system, 0+ (zero plus) operator assisted dialing was possible. This means that operator-assisted calls could be direct dialed and automatically billed.
However, this significantly helped operators with pay phone based long distance calls. Now pay phone customers could direct dial-their own long distance "1+" calls (as they could at home) as well as operator-assisted "0+" calls. TSPS was a significant step forward in operator bases services.
Even with TSPS, the operator still had to verbally inform the pay phone customer the amount the charges were, and in some cases, had to stay on the line to verify answer supervision (since some pay phones were not capable of coin return). Also, an operator had to be summoned every few minutes to collect extra money, and to collect money after a call had been completed.
AT&T needed a way to automate the process and to keep down the use of actual operators. Hence ACTS (Automated Coin Toll System) was invented.
ACTS debuted in Phoenix, AZ in 1977 as part of an already existing TSPS. Other TSPS systems were modified by the early 1980s for ACTS.
How did ACTS work?
ACTS was a combination of three separate systems that worked in unison. The first was the TSPS system. The second was the ACTS system (with voice prompt announcements) working in conjunction with TSPS, and the third part were the pay phones themselves.
Pay Phones
Pay phones send multi-frequency tones in response to money deposited in the coin slot. These signals are as follows:
Nickel Signal: 1700hz + 2200hz at 60 ms long
Dime Signal: 1700hz + 2200hz at 60 ms on, 60 ms off, twice repeating
Quarter Signal: 1700hz + 2200hz at 33 ms on, 33 ms off, 5 times repeating
TSPS switches handled answer supervision and billing. Also handles coin collection and coin return. TSPS control signals from the TSPS to the central office that physically controls the pay phone are as follows:
TSPS Coin Collect 700Hz + 1100 Hz at 1 second
TSPS Coin Return 1100 Hz + 1700 Hz at 1 second
TSPS Ringback 700Hz + 1700Hz at 2 seconds
(Note: All of these are proceeded with a 2600Hz "wink" of 33 ms on/33ms off/33 ms on)
ACTS sub-system (part of TSPS)
The ACTS sub-system of TSPS handled the automated voice announcements ("Please deposit 50 cents for the next 3 minutes") and worked with TSPS for coin deposit (start of call) coin collection/coin return (at end of call).
Transition to OSPS
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, AT&T phased out the original TSPS system with a more modern OSPS system (Operator Services Position System) which is based upon the AT&T/Lucent #5ESS switch. ACTS had a seamless transition and for many, the system was identically the same as it had been in the TSPS system.
When and why did AT&T discontinue ACTS?
By the early 1990s, many companies, including AT&T were issuing pre-paid calling cards. The use of pre-paid calling cards significantly reduced the cost of long distance calls from pay phones. (Long distance calls via ACTS, even if customer dialed, were still billed at very expensive Operator Assisted rates).
COCOTs (Customer Owned Coin Telephones) came into being shortly after post-divestiture of AT&T in 1984. The number of telephone company controlled pay phones were decreasing at an enormous rate. Most COCOTs handled their own long distance call billing. And by the 1990s, a number of telephone company pay phones were converted to COCOT like technology. They too handled their own billing.
What was the final nail in the coffin was the wide availability of inexpensive cellular phones. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, more than half of the US population had a cell phone. Many of these cell phone plans have a large number of minutes and free nationwide long distance. So for many people, the pay phone became obsolete.
AT&T wanted out of the long distance pay phone business for a number of years. They were forced to stay in the business by FCC mandate as part of the AT&T breakup in 1984. But by the early 2000s, they were charging extremely high rates - as much as $6 (and more) for a 3 minute out-of-state phone call! As a result, many people didn't use pay phone based long distance services for a number of years.
In addition, AT&T had to have special operator trunks to handle pay phones. These special trunks (known as Feature Group C) were able to "hold your line" so that the operator had complete control of the phone line and would not release it until they wanted to. ACTS also had this capability. Feature Group C trunks were more expensive than Feature Group D trunks, which do not have line holding capabilities.
Armed with this information, AT&T petitioned the FCC that they drop the requirement that AT&T had to provide coin telephone long distance. The FCC granted dropping of the requirement.
Starting in the early summer of 2002, AT&T started changing from Feature Group C to Feature Group D operator trunks. Telephone companies, one by one, started to block Inter-LATA (outside of your home LATA) pay phone long distance calls to OSPS. At the same time, OSPS was blocking long distance calls coming to it. In both cases, the caller received rejection recordings. Very rarely callers were able to know why, as most were given "generic" messages that the call could not be completed as dialed. Qwest was one of the first companies to start the disconnection, and Verizon was one of the last ones to drop Inter-LATA pay phone long distance. By October 2002, AT&T's ACTS was history.
ACTS lives on... sort of
ACTS technology is not completely dead, yet. Many RBOCs (Regional Bell Operating Companies) such as Qwest, SBC and Verizon still have Intra-LATA (inside your own LATA) pay phone long distance services.
Some RBOCs (including Verizon and Qwest) use Nortel's TOPS (Toll Operator Position Station) for their operator services platform - based upon their DMS-200 tandem switch. TOPS systems were installed in the 1980s when RBOCs were forced to start their own operator services and "break away" from using AT&T.
The TOPS system has their own ACTS-like system for handling coin phone based long distance. The system works in a very similar way that the TSPS and OSPS based ACTS system did. However, the voice prompts are different, as they use a woman's voice that has a French Canadian accent.
However, RBOCs are not handling Inter-LATA coin phone based long distance services via TOPS. If they do offer coin phone based long distance services, they offer it though pay phones that use COCOT technology, rather than using ACTS like technology.
Listen to TOPS based ACTS from SBC (1 min) (Source: Strom Carlson)
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Objectives: Health care services in Malaysia are widely available and accessible at a minimal cost. However, in pursuing with the health care reform, policy-makers and hospital managers need to know the unit cost for the purpose of planning and efficiency of providing the services. This study estimated the cost of out-patient services in a public hospital
Methods:The study was conducted in a 341 bedded hospital that provide secondary level care to 24,486 in-patients and 127,389 specialist out-patients in 2010. The costs were estimated using a step-down approach where the costs were allocated to the different cost-centres. Capital costs were annualised cost of capital item with life expectancy of more than 1 year and recurrent cost were all inputs consumed within a year. Total costs were then allocated to the in-patient and out-patient services based on historical financial data with a ratio of 1: 4. This was then followed by a stepwise approach of allocating the ancillary department cost centres to the clinical department cost centres. The unit cost per patient visit was calculated based on the number of visits for each department. Base year of 2010 was used to calculate the cost and patients visits. Costs were calculated from the perspective of the hospital.
Conclusions: The findings provide an estimate of the costs for out-patient visit. At the current minimal fee of MYR 5.00 (USD 1.5), the Ministry of Health is subsidising more than 95.0% of the health care cost for each patient. These estimates provide the policy-makers with an understanding of the cost data should they need to establish a cost basis for payment rates.
* Title and MeSH Headings from MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.


Jiu-Jitsu: Turning Anger into Confidence
On September 4th, 2019, The First Guild (TFG) co-founder, Lana David interviewed a 30-year Jiu-Jitsu black belt and master instructor Gerson Sanginitto, owner of Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Culver City, CA.
Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Culver City - Black Belt Ceremony - Gerson is in the center of the group in blue uniform.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is one of the fastest growing martial arts in the world. The benefits you can gain from BJJ are both physical and mental.
Lana is the one of the developers of Project: The First Guild (TFG), a large scale community project targeted to help young people with difficulty in the traditional educational system, to acquire the mental, emotional and entrepreneurial skills necessary to make a successful transition from youth to adulthood.
Project: TFG aims to reach youth coping with a good deal of anger, frustration, confusion and anxiety – a range of behaviors that need to be addressed beyond just verbal communication.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a proven system that can help to detox and re-channel such energy constructively.
BJJ is a major educational component of Project: TFG and we are honored to have Gerson as our Community Partner.
Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Culver City
Lana: Our program candidates are foster youth coping with a good deal of anger, frustration, confusion and anxiety often caused by distressing life circumstances. How can Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu help them go beyond the trauma and succeed in life? Could you provide examples.
Gerson: Here is a good example. I am 5 feet 2 inches tall. I was always the smallest in my school. If you are small, if you are the skinny one, usually someone is going to bully you, that's how it goes.
Nothing changed from my time. My daughter is now 11. She's just going to middle school and I told her, hey, it's the same when I was 11. She started to train in BJJ when she was four, I was lucky to start when I was seven years old.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was created not to make the strong, stronger, it was was created to give the opportunity to the weak person fight a strong person.
Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Culver City - Gerson's Students
Lana: Project TFG is all about building a strong identity, which we believe is the foundation for success in life. How does BJJ relate to identity formation?
Gerson: It translates completely to identity. People come here and they cannot look me in my eyes. And you can see that their self esteem is very low because life is put them down somehow.
I was just talking to one of my students who is a higher belt here. I remember him one year ago. He changed completely. You see how he's acting now – he stands up, he looks into your eyes, he talks to you like a man, he demands respect, he gives respect. He's not like that guy that he was a year ago who could not look into my eyes and looked to the side when I ask him a question.
Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Culver City - Gerson is in the center of the group in blue shorts.
Lana: What is the advantage of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu over other forms of martial arts?
Gerson: In my opinion, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is the closest martial art to reality. I'm not talking less about other martial arts such as strike martial arts. To me this is one of the most important points of BJJ, it is the closest to reality than other martial arts.
BJJ fighting is closest to the street situation. It's going to be completely the same if someone attacks you on the street. You are not going to feel overwhelmed.That's what we do here every day. You defend yourself every day, fighting every single day.
There are situations with Jiu Jitsu that you feel completely uncomfortable. You cannot breathe well and there is someone bigger is stronger than you on top, trying to suffocate you and make you tap** by a choke hold or joint lock and you still find the strength to survive and get out there. That goes to each day of your life. It's not just the physical aspect. Most important is the mental aspect, that makes you stronger. (** to "tap" is to demonstrate submission and terminate the sparring session).
Video taken on 4/28/18: Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Culver City – Tarjei Hass (in white uniform ) will assist Gerson in training students of "project: The First Guild" Read our blog post: "Interview with Tarjei Hass: Why Jiu-Jitsu?"
Lana: I read that BJJ discourages an athlete from attacking an unaware or unprepared person. What is the philosophy behind this?
Gerson: If I tell you to go to that bag every single day and punch it 500 times as hard as you can – first day, first week, first month. you're not going to punch 500 times. After a year you are going to punch that bag 500 times very strong. If something happens and you need to defend yourself, the first thing you're going to do is to punch the person in the face. If I don't teach you anything and you have the anger in you and someone comes and attacks you first, you're gonna try to kick and punch the person.
In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu we teach you how to defend yourself without harm to the other person, stop that person, control that person. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu teaches you being in control without anger. Fear makes you do a lot of bad things, but when you don't have that fear inside of you, when you know that you can just defend yourself from someone, you're not going to hurt a person…. unless you have to.
So when you don't have that fear inside of you, when your confidence is up, the fear goes down… the complete opposite direction.
Gerson Sanginitto Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Culver City - Gerson's Students training
Lana: I read that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athletes are strictly discouraged from using techniques that aim at injuring the opponent. Athletes are responsible for the safety of their opponent. Could you comment on this.
Gerson: Exactly. Because we need each other. We become a family and not just here. If you're trained in Jiu Jitsu, you're gonna be well received at any place on this planet.
Also there is the philosophy of the martial arts – we teach respect and good values in general. Respect each other, respect yourself.
I keep joking with my students, but I'm serious: "Jiu Jitsu is like life. Some days you lose, some days you win. You have to know how to lose. You lose and win with grace. You know, everyone wants to win. What you have to do is to prepare to be the winner, that's the thing."
And not just that. We teach dedication, we teach discipline, we teach hierarchy. We have the rank of 5 belts: white, blue, purple, brown, and black. You start with a white belt moving to blue. So why to move to everybody. Blue moves to purple, brown, and black. Purple moves to brown, and black. And that's how you start to understand hierarchy and respect for a higher rank, somebody who's been doing this for much longer than you.
I've been training my whole life since I was seven years old. Next month I'll be 54 and I'm feeling like I'm 34 I'm not kidding. You see my fingers were all broken and I have a pride of this because that shows my work. I don't just sell JJ to those guys. I sell a lifestyle. This is a lifestyle.
Gerson BJJ
Lana: Could you elaborate on what you mean by "Lifestyle" and give examples. Also how quickly can someone get results in Jiu-Jitsu?
Gerson: A young guy about 40 years old who is a CEO of a company just signed with me three weeks ago. This guy told me when he came: "look, I need something because I'm going crazy with work. I heard a lot about Jiu-Jitsu, I have friends who talk a lot about JJ with me. So finally I decided to try."
I said: "We offer two free classes. Try and see if you're like it."
Last Monday, he came after the roll* to me and said: "man, thank you very much! It's only been three weeks, but it's already changed my life." (* "roll" or "rolling" is a form of 'sparring', a way for students to test their skills and abilities against their teammates).
I said: "Yeah man, you are only 40. In 10 years or less, you're going to be a black belt. And it is a journey that will never stop. This journey for me will stop when I die."
And you know, it's very powerful because it gives you power. And this why you don't need to prove or show your power. It is the way you feel.
Here is another example: One day came here a big guy, maybe six-foot


text: - A Michelson-type unequal path interferometer for measuring the effective thickness of dielectric slabs is presented. Due to unequal paths, this interferometer is frequency dependent so that frequency tuning of the source controls the phase difference between the two paths and serves as a phase shifter. FM modulation of the source enables determination of the null point with an electronic sensitivity of 0.02°. High spatial resolution (≃ λ/2) is achieved by spacing a suitable horn antenna close to the dielectric surface. Detailed design considerations and experimental results concerning an X-band interferometer are presented.


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Previous interest in light hydrocarbons from geothermal systems has focused principally on the origin of the methane1 and the estimation of subsurface temperatures from the carbon isotopic content of coexisting methane and carbon dioxide1-3. Higher molecular weight hydrocarbons were first reported in gases from Yellowstone National Park4, and have since been found to occur commonly in geothermal emanations in the western United States5. Isotopic measurements of individual geothermal hydrocarbons are now reported which help to explain the origin of these hydrocarbons. The thermal decomposition of sedimentary or groundwater organic matter is a principal source of hydrocarbons in four geothermal areas in western North America.?? 1981 Nature Publishing Group.
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Molecular carbon isotopic evidence for the origin of geothermal hydrocarbons


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How to measure your cat?
Each cat is unique in size, select the size with the closest measurements. To ensure accurate measurements, make sure that your cat is standing properly, not sitting or lying down. Use the size chart below as a guide. We recommend using a fabric measuring tape when determining your cat's measurements and allow some leeway to ensure a comfortable fit. If you do not have a fabric measuring tape, use a shoelace or any other string and measure it up against a ruler.
1. Chest: measure the widest part of the chest, which is usually 1-2 inches or 3-5 centimeters behind his/her front legs.
2. Length: measure along his/her backbone from the base of the neck to the base of his/her tail.
3. Weight: if you do not know the weight of your cat, weigh yourself holding and not holding your cat. Subtract the numbers, and now you have your cats weight.


Fundamentals of Fluid Flow in Porous Media
Chapter 5
Miscible Displacement
Fluid Properties in Miscible Displacement: Macroscopic Displacement Efficiency
Mobility Ratio
The mobility of a fluid (i) is defined as :
Mobility of fluid equation
μi = Viscosity,
Ki = Effective permeability of the rock to fluid i.
The mobility ratio (M) of a displacement process is defined as the mobility of displacing fluid divided by the mobility of the displaced fluid. Mobility ratio is one of the most important parameters of a miscible displacement and has a profound influence on volumetric (macroscopic) sweep efficiency of the solvent and on the integrity of solvent slugs. Consider an idealized situation where solvent displaces oil at the irreducible water saturation (secondary recovery process) and where mixing of solvent with the oil is negligible. No water is flowing and the permeabilities to oil and solvent are equal. Mobility ratio in this case is simply the ratio of oil and solvent viscosities:
In practice mixing of solvent and oil does occur during the course of the displacement, which can result in an effective viscosity ratio that is less than the ratio of pure component viscosities. The viscosities of miscible solvent are typically small (< 0.1 cp) and thus the mobility ratios are greater than one. Viscosity ratio or mobility ratio, as defined by eq. (5‑34), ranges from 4 to 86 in the different MCM processes. Stalkup[2] reports data on a number of FCM projects. For these, the viscosity ratio ranges from 4 to 40. When the mobility ratio is smaller than one it is called favorable mobility ratio and called unfavorable when it is greater than one. Solvent/water injection is a technique to reduce solvent mobility by reducing solvent relative permeability. The most accepted mobility ratio definition at presence of mobile water is:
equation mobility ratio definition at presence of mobile water
Figure 5‑32 gives areal sweep efficiency (fraction of the pattern area invaded by pure solvent) at breakthrough of the displacing fluid as a function of M. the upper curve is based on photographs taken during displacement of one colored liquid by a second, miscible colored liquid in a scaled model, while the lower one is based on a material balance calculation made from the known volume of injected liquid and assuming piston like displacement. Because of mixing along the liquid-liquid interface, the area measurement yields a slightly larger areal sweep value than material balance result. As indicated in Fig. 4.4, the difference in the two curves is a measure of the mixing that occurs at the interface.
As seen, the areal sweep efficiency (EA) at breakthrough is a strong function of M. at M=1.0, areal sweep is about 70%. It increases slightly at smaller, favorable mobility ratios and decreases very sharply as M is increased. The poorer performance at larger M values occurs for two reasons: first viscous fingering occurs at M > 1.0 and become more noticeable as M increases. Second for M > 1.0 the geometry contribute to the early breakthrough. Because of the geometry, the smallest flow resistance and therefore the larger flow velocity is along the center line connecting the injection and production wells. Fluid flowing along this line breaks through first in a homogeneous reservoir. When M > 1.0 the fluid with lower mobility value (displaced fluid), is replaced by the injected fluid (with higher mobility). Because the major flow is along the center line path (as the shortest pass), the resistance along that path is reduced more than along any other line other than path. The result is that the larger the value of M the earlier breakthrough occurs.
Areal Sweep Efficiency as a Function of Mobility Ratio
Figure 5-32: Areal Sweep Efficiency as a Function of Mobility Ratio[3]
[1] "Enhanced Oil Recovery", Don, W. Green, G. Paul Willhite, 1998
[2] "Miscible Dispalcement", Stulkup Jr., F.I., Monograph series, SPE, Richardson, TX(1983).
[3] "Efficiencies of miscible displacement as a function of mobility ratio", Trans, AIME (1960)219, 264-72


The story of York Barbell all begins with one man, Bob Hoffman. Hoffman first began lifting and making weights in his oil burner factory in York, PA in 1929. The athletic club at that factory quickly took up weightlifting until eventually it would be the main staple of the club. The name was then changed to the York Barbell Club and attracted musclemen from all over the world into the little town of York.
During the 1932 Olympic Games the United States showed an extremely poor performance in weightlifting. Shortly after this Hoffman began promoting weightlifting heavily and began publishing his own magazine on the topic. From this effort stemmed new interest in the sport and the first US victory in weightlifting since 1904 in the 1936 Olympic Games. The winner, it just so happened, was a member of the York Barbell Club.
Two years later Hoffman sold off his interest in the oil burner company and in 1938 York Barbells began its concentration on weightlifting equipment. The interest caused by this company is part of the reason that by the late 40's York was known as "Muscletown."
After over a half-century York Barbell is still the industry standard in weights. The York name appears on more barbells than any other name in the world and is currently the only Olympic certified United States based manufacturer of weights.


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Famine and the Final Years
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Famine and the Final Years book
In June 1845 Loch had claimed in his own defence that there had been no calamitous famine in Sutherland since 1817. In the following November the first fears of the potato blight were reported from the Highlands. During that winter there was little panic, and the disease does not appear to have caught hold of Sutherland crops. But great care was taken to persuade the people to preserve their potato seed for the coming season.


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This article reproduces an excerpt of Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) (usually referred to as DCRM(B)) concerning signature statements in catalog records, along with (eventually) notes and observations on Folger practice.
DCRM(B) on signatures
7B9.1. General rule. Make a note giving details of the signatures of a volume, if considered important. Give these signature details according to the formula in Philip Gaskell's A New Introduction to Bibliography (see p. 328-332), insofar as typographical facilities permit. Preface this note with the word "Signatures" and a colon.
- Signatures: [A]4 B-C4 D2 E-G4 H2
- Signatures: A-C4 D4(-D3) E-F4
- Signatures: A-2Z8, 2A-M8
- Signatures: [1-68]
- (Comment: Volume is completely unsigned)
It is generally desirable to give signatures for incunabula, especially if identical signatures are not given in a standard bibliographic source. It is also desirable to provide signatures when a volume has no pagination or foliation.
7B9.2. Unavailable characters. If the gatherings are signed with a mark of contraction (see 0G8.2, Appendix G3) that cannot be reproduced using available typographical facilities, substitute the spelled out form and enclose it in square brackets.
- Signatures: )(8 a-z8 &8 [con]8 [rum]8
If the gatherings are signed with other unavailable characters, substitute a descriptive term or an abbreviation for that term if a standard one exists.
7B9.3. Special uses of pi and chi. Indicate unsigned leaves that fall outside the signature sequence (see Gaskell, p. 330) by using the words pi and chi. Do not enclose the words in square brackets. Do not use the Greek characters π and χ, as these will give the impression that the leaves have actually been signed with Greek letters (see 7B9.9).
- Signatures: pi4 A-C4 chi2 D-Z4
Indicate partial duplications of an alphabet (see Gaskell, p. 331) by using superscript pi and superscript chi or, if superscript letters are not available, by substituting "[superscript pi]" and "[superscript chi]."
- Signatures: piA4 A-D4 chiD4 E-F4
- Signatures: [superscript pi]A4 A-D4 [superscript chi]D4 E-F4
7B9.4. Non-conventional Latin alphabet. If the gatherings are signed with roman letters according to a pattern other than the conventional 23-letter Latin alphabet (i.e., A-Z, less I or J, U or V, and W), make this explicit by recording the additional letters in the signature statement.
- Signatures: A-V4 W4 X-Z4
- (Comment: Printer used a 24-letter alphabet)
- Signatures: A-I8 J8 K-U8 V8 W8 X-2I8 2J8 2K-2M8
- (Comment: Printer used a 26-letter alphabet)
7B9.5. Signatures do not match gatherings. If it can be determined that the signing of the volume does not match its actual gatherings, indicate this in the note.
- Signatures: 8 2-38; volume actually gathered in twelves
7B9.6. Concurrent signatures. If the volume is signed using two concurrent sequences, provide both sets of signatures in the note. Give the signatures that correspond to the actual gatherings first, if this can be determined.
- Signatures: 1-1212; also signed A-S8
- Signatures: 1-1212 and A-S8; actual gatherings cannot be determined


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Products made from sea-grass mat production waste
This collection was developed for Viet Trang, a sea-grass SME in Vietnam. The project was carried out under the umbrella of two institutions - SPIN and UNIDO.
The project looked at using the waste generated by mainstream sea-grass mat processing for a new products. We bundled the waste together and connected them to form a surface. The resulting surface had the benefits of the sea-grass texture and in addition a springiness that the original mat lacked.
Another strategy applied was to use the traditional technique of stencilling on sea grass mats to create contemporary motifs that would align the mats with alternate lifestyle markets. Yoga mats were developed using bold, black stencils of asanas, using resized loom woven sea-grass mats


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Environmental Stewardship and Social Responsibility
The Society of American Florists strongly encourages environmental stewardship and social responsibility by floral industry business owners in every part of the chain of distribution.
When applied to a business model, environmental stewardship means operating a business in a way that reduces its impact on the environment for the benefit of both present and future generations.
A business that is socially responsible is one that operates under a code of behavior that serves employees, customers and the general community in an ethical and lawful way and is committed to providing a pleasant and productive workplace.
The Society of American Florists also supports efforts by other organizations including local, state or federal governments, as well as foreign governments, to encourage environmental stewardship and social responsibility for all. At the same time, SAF asserts the need for open communication between government officials and the industry to ensure a climate that promotes and encourages business prosperity.
- American National Standards Institute
- Florverde® Sustainable Flowers
- Leonardo Academy
- Flor Ecuador
- Fair Flowers, Fair Plants
- Fair Trade Certified Flowers
- Clearinghouse for certification programs
What does "sustainability" mean?
The 2005 World Summit defined the pillars of sustainable development as:
- Economic Development
- Social Development
- Environmental Protection
Businesses that practice sustainability operate with the goal of preserving quality interactions with the environment, economy and social systems.


text: We introduce wavelet packet correlation filter classifiers. Correlation filters are traditionally designed in the image domain by minimizing some criterion function of the image training set. Instead we perform classification in wavelet spaces that have training set representations which provide better solutions to the optimization problem in the filter design. We propose a pruning algorithm to find these wavelet spaces using a correlation energy cost function, and we describe a match score fusion algorithm for applying the filters trained across the packet tree. The proposed classification algorithm is suitable for any object recognition task. We present results by implementing a biometric recognition system using the NIST 24 fingerprint database, and show that applying correlation filters in the wavelet domain results in considerable improvement of the standard correlation filter algorithm.


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Water bridge (5mm length, 1mm diameter) between two glasses filled with heavy water, under a voltage of 15 kV.
In 1893 Sir William Armstrong reported a remarkable experiment: if a high voltage is established between two wine-glasses filled to the brim with pure water and connected by a cotton thread, a rope of water is formed and remains suspended between the lips of the two glasses. This "water bridge" can subsist for a few seconds even once the thread has been removed.
Recently, a group of physicists from Graz University, Austria succeeded on establishing a bridge (without any thread!) between the two glasses under a voltage of 20 kV. The length of the bridge may reach values larger than 1 cm, its diameter is of the order of a few mm and the lifetime currently exceeds 1 hour. Under the effect of the electrical field, the local temperature increases and reaches 60° C, a temperature sufficient to break the bridge. More...
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Carpet Recycling UK will again be providing advice for retailers on sustainable disposal routes for carpet fitting waste and uplifted post-consumer carpets at the 2015 Buying Groups' National Flooring Show in Solihull on May 12 and 13.
Visitors to CRUK's stand at the Cranmore Park event can find out how clean installation waste take-back schemes and the rising numbers of outlets processing carpet waste for new uses offer many business benefits for retailers.
The industry-backed association for recycling and reusing waste carpet offers retailers opportunities to enhance their business and green credentials, as well as potentially save on disposal costs, by diverting waste material from landfill.
"In less than ten years we have created a nationwide network of recyclers and outlets that provide genuine and sustainable alternative disposal routes for waste carpet," comments CRUK Director, Laurance Bird. "This is both good news for the sector and good news for the environment.
"Consumers feel better knowing their waste carpet is diverted from landfill, while retailers can reduce the frequency of their general waste collections, as uplifted and fitting waste material can be recycled into new products."
Last year, a record-breaking 113,000 tonnes of carpet were reused, recycled or recovered for energy, representing a landfill diversion rate of 28%. CRUK's new target is 60% diversion from landfill by 2020. Some 400,000 tonnes of carpet waste arises each year in the UK.
Carpet Recycling UK welcomes enquiries from all types of organisations interested in finding new outlets for their waste carpet. It can be contacted on 0161 _PHONE_ or visit _URL_.


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Based in California and the UK, Moon Picnic is dedicated to curating a collection of toys and craft kits from artists around the world who share the same goal of providing magic, wonder and inspiration into a child's every day life. Moon Picnic always strives to use safe and sustainable materials such as beech wood and non-toxic paints and dyes.
Let's learn about weather! Move the weather meter, turn the dials, slide the thermometer. This fun & educational interactive toy has 4 movable parts and 5 weather symbols to display so little meteorologists can report and forecast the weather.
- Made of solid beech wood from sustainable forests
- Non-toxic paint
- Encourages interest in weather education
- 1 base
- 4 movable dials & slider
- 5 weather pieces
- Cotton storage bag
- Instruction card
- Age recommendation: 3 years +
- Dimensions: 11.6″ x 9.4″ / 29.4 x 23.8 cm


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Meaning of muskmelon
Pronunciation: (musk'mel"un), [key]
- a round or oblong melon, occurring in many varieties, having a juicy, often aromatic, sweet, yellow, white, or green, edible flesh.
- the plant, Cucumis melo reticulatus, of the gourd family, bearing this fruit.
- cantaloupe (def. 1).
- muskmelon (Thesaurus)


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Coorg epitomises the increasingly popular idea of eco-tourism, which provides an exciting adventure for those interested in participating. Essentially eco-tourism offers people the opportunity to seek out scenic yet hard to access areas such as rain forests or mountains, and this fragile bio-diverse area has plenty of these features.
Eco-tourism is after all welcomed here as it can turn out to be the best seasonal income generating activity for the local Coorg people.
The concept of eco-tourism in this region should help improve the income and living standards of the local people either directly or indirectly. The revenue generated from these means that resources can be provided for the protection of natural resources and help the local people.
This form of vacation or trip has become very popular for people interested in environmental conservation. Eco-tourism in Coorg will provide visitors with exciting trips to places such as Nagarhole National Park, Brahmagiri Reserve Forests and other fragile biodiverse places, whilst ensuring that the eco-system is not disturbed in anyway.
The key for anyone visiting this area is to respect the landscape, the people and their customs. Eco-tourism in Coorg can hopefully ensure that future generations will enjoy the same misty hills, lush forests, flora and fauna, and breathtaking views of the valley as people are doing today.


NOIS Spring Symposium
Friday, May 3, 2013
Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall
The 12th Annual Symposium of Native & Indigenous Scholarship at the University of Washington
University of Washington Seattle Campus, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall
May 3, 2012
"Reminds Me of Home: The Cultural Shaping of Our Senses"
Oiwi Maoli scholar Manulani Aluli Meyers stated, "our senses are culturally shaped." Starting here and asking if culture shapes how we taste, touch, hear, see, and smell, then how do our culturally informed senses influence our research? How do our senses shape our methodologies and focus? How do they help us see the stories in our data and the ways in which we share those stories? How is our culture embodied in our work?
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An introduction to mechanized reasoning
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
Colleges, School and Institutes
Mechanized reasoning uses computers to verify proofs and to help discover new theorems. Computer scientists have applied mechanized reasoning to economic problems but–to date–this work has not yet been properly presented in economics journals. We introduce mechanized reasoning to economists in three ways. First, we introduce mechanized reasoning in general, describing both the techniques and their successful applications. Second, we explain how mechanized reasoning has been applied to economic problems, concentrating on the two domains that have attracted the most attention: social choice theory and auction theory. Finally, we present a detailed example of mechanized reasoning in practice by means of a proof of Vickrey's familiar theorem on second-price auctions.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)26-39
Number of pages14
JournalJournal of Mathematical Economics
Early online date18 Jul 2016
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2016
 - mechanized reasoning, formal methods, social choice theory, auction theory


text: An integrated modeling system is developed to simulate the far-field dispersions of concentrate discharges along the Saudi coast of the Red Sea. It comprises the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model for simulating the atmospheric circulations, the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) for simulating the large-scale ocean conditions, and the Connectivity Modeling System (CMS) for tracking particle pathways. We use the system outputs and remote sensing altimetry data to study and analyze the atmospheric and oceanic conditions along the Saudi coast of the Red Sea and to conduct particle tracking experiments. The model simulations show distinctive patterns of seasonal variations in both the atmospheric conditions and the large-scale ocean circulation in the Red Sea, which are also reflected in the salinity and temperature distributions along the Saudi coast. The impact of this seasonality on the far-field dispersion of concentrate discharges are illustrated in seasonal dispersion scenarios with discharging outfalls located at the northern, central and southern Saudi coasts of the Red Sea.


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With the recent discovery of water on Mars what better time than now to think of fresh new ways of space exploration and data visualization as well as how we view the third rock from the sun?
On October 12 to 14 join our CEO Javier de la Torre at ESRIN in Frascati Italy to explore the new challenges and opportunities for Earth Observation (EO) research created by the rapid advances in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). This includes open tools and software data-intensive science virtual research environment citizen science and crowdsourcing advanced visualization e-learning and education of the new generation of data scientists.
Javier will deliver a keynote at the innovative Earth Observation Scientific Exploitation Programme: Earth Observation Open Science 2.0. His address titled Making the Most of Earth Observation through Visualization is at session C1A during the Scientific and Visualization portion of the program.
The program's objective is to maximize the scientific benefits of EO data by capitalizing on the digital revolution and is organized by The European Space Agency (ESA) an intergovernmental organization dedicated to the exploration
Participation to the conference is free and will be followed by a Hackathon on October 15 and 16.
Happy data mapping and see you in Frascati!


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Atmospheric corrosion of historical organ pipes: The influence of environment and materials
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2008
The corrosion of lead-rich pipes in historical organs in different parts of Europe has been investigated. The influence of the environment and the composition and microstructure of the pipe metal was studied. Pipe Corrosion was documented by visual inspection (boroscope). The corrosion attack and the composition and microstructure of the metal were characterized by OM, SEM, XRD, IC and FAAS. It is shown that the degree of corrosion of the pipes is correlated to the concentration of gaseous acetic and formic acid in the organ. The organic acids are emitted by the wood from which the wind system is built. It is also shown that pipe corrosion decreases with increasing tin content in the range 0-4% (wt). Possible conservation strategies are discussed. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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A law on agricultural biogas plants and biofuels, prepared at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, was unanimously approved at a recent session of the Polish Parliament. It is expected to contribute, among other things. to lower the cost of agricultural and processing operations, reduce air pollution, and increase energy independence in rural areas.
The Law on Agricultural Biogas Plants and Biofuels provides, among other things:
- Accelerating the process of building agricultural biogas plants;
- facilitating the issuance of conditions for connecting an agricultural biogas plant to the grid;
- No need to change the use of agricultural land occupied by an agricultural biogas plant;
- freeing certain safe types of biomass from restrictive waste regulations;
- easier management of the digestate product as fertilizer.
Law on agricultural biogas plants and biofuels – changes in biofuels and biocomponents
The Law on Agricultural Biogas Plants and Biofuels, which was just passed, also introduces changes to biofuels and biocomponents:
- as of January 1, 2024. the European e10 gasoline standard will be introduced into widespread use – an opportunity that offers farmers a real and concrete prospect of managing grain production surpluses, primarily corn, of more than 500,000. t per year;
- Permanent determination of the level of the reduction factor – strengthening Poland's energy security while fully respecting the principles of sustainable development. Up to 3.5 million tons of agricultural raw materials will be able to be developed with the prepared regulations.
Possibilities of using agricultural biogas plants in Poland
As of April 19, 2023. The register of agricultural biogas producers, maintained by the National Center for Agricultural Support, includes 125 agricultural biogas producers, operating 150 installations with a total installed capacity of 144.8 MW.
The prepared Law on Agricultural Biogas Plants and Biofuels responds to the urgent need to increase the number of stable, controllable and resilient to changing meteorological conditions and external factors renewable energy installations. It is assumed that agricultural biogas plants can produce energy for up to 8,000. hours per year (90% of the time), in contrast to other RES installations, whose energy efficiency ranges from 10% to 30%.
In light of the current geopolitical situation and in the era of the energy crisis, increasing the share of stable and independent from external energy suppliers is particularly important. The development of agricultural biogas plants is a tool for the efficient use of available resources on farms. The draft law on facilitating the preparation and implementation of investments in agricultural biogas plants, as well as their operation, along with the justification, adopted by the Polish Parliament, can be found on the website of the Polish Parliament.
For more on rural measures, read the article: On-farm investments in RES and energy efficiency improvements under CAP 2023 – 2027.


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Franklin Township may refer to the following places in the United States:
Famous quotes containing the words franklin and/or township:
"We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
—Benjamin Franklin (_PHONE_)
"A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey."
—Henry David Thoreau (_PHONE_)


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It looks like some fish are (sort of) warm-blooded. From How Hot Tuna (and Some Sharks) Stay Warm:
Scientists now have direct evidence that the north Pacific salmon shark maintains its red muscle (RM) at 68-86 degrees Fahrenheit (F), much warmer than the 47 F water in which it lives. The elevated muscle temperature presumably helps the salmon shark survive the cold waters of the north Pacific and take advantage of the abundant food supply there. The heat also appears to factor into the fish's impressive swimming ability.
Salmon sharks are lamnids, a group of sharks that also includes the mako and great white. Numerous studies have shown that lamnid sharks and tunas share many anatomical and physiological specializations that endow them with their impressive swimming power and speed. In contrast to other fish where the RM is near the skin, the RM of these sharks and tunas is near the backbone. Even though the ancestors of bony tuna and cartilaginous sharks diverged more than 400 million years ago, selection pressure for high-performance swimming in each group seems to have occurred independently about 50 million years ago.
Throughout its life, a salmon shark never stops swimming because it will sink. The body heat generated from continuous swimming elevates the RM temperature, which in turn, warms the surrounding white muscle and allows the shark to survive the frigid waters of the north Pacific. If a shark stops swimming, it could die from cold exposure.


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Choosing the Right LED for Medical Diagnostics and BioAnalytical Systems
Duration 1 hour
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There are several factors to consider when choosing a light source for medical or bioanalytical diagnostic equipment. OEMs continue to look for ways to improve performance, quality and reliability.
With recent advancements in LED technology emerging, OEMs are presented with new possibilities through a growing number of light source options. So, how does one choose the right light source? There are key factors to consider when determining which light source is best suited for your application: wavelengths; uniformity; technology platforms; thermal management; light delivery; power budget and economy of space. Which light source will provide reliable and repeatable results? How does one transition from lamp to LED? Why are thermals important? What is the best color spectrum for your application? How can these factors expedite path to market and ensure success?
This webinar will discuss these key factors in more detail and their impact on biomedical or diagnostic design, engineering and integration.
Kavita Aswani, PhD
Dr. Kavita Aswani is the Senior Applications Scientist for the Life Sciences products at Excelitas Technologies. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and has 7 years of scientific research experience and over 15 years of applications experience in the microscopy and fluorescence industry. Kavita has authored and reviewed several publications as well as journal articles. She has worked in the areas of widefield illumination microscopy, laser scanning microscopy and flow cytometry. She is an active member of the Society for Neuroscience and the Royal Microscopical Society.
Tom Papanek, PhD
Tom Papanek is Director of Global Product Development for Excelitas Technologies, Solid State Lighting. He has extensive experience working closely with customers to design LED systems in a wide range of medical, scientific, industrial, and aerospace applications. Tom holds a PhD in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tom has over thirty years of product development experience in photonic systems, semiconductor wafer equipment, medical devices, and analytical instruments. Tom has authored several publications and holds over ten patents.
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Kidaptive, creator of an award-winning iPad app for preschool learners, tapped frog's venture design services to create a companion experience for parents to engage in their child's learning process. The result was Learner Mosaic, a mobile app for parents that offers insights about their preschooler's development and personalized recommendations to support the child's progress.
Kidaptive's first product, the Leo's Pad Enrichment Program, is an iPad app that immerses preschoolers in a series of learning games and puzzles. As a child plays Leo's Pad, Kidaptive's Adaptive Learning Platform collects data and surfaces insights about the child's progress. The insights come together to form a unique mosaic of the young learner, showing how the child is developing across dozens of skill areas, and highlighting where they shine or may need guidance.
Because a parent is a child's first and most important teacher, Kidaptive asked frog to design an app that would harness data from its Adaptive Learning Platform and curate key insights for parents. The objective was to make it easy for parents to participate more actively in their child's learning and development, even when confronted with busy schedules.
frog began by interviewing parents and testing feature concepts to inform and inspire the design process. We learned that while parents want to know what their child is learning when they play educational games, they have limited time for parenting apps. Accordingly, while parents value information on their child's progress and input from trusted advisors, they need simple, clear, and specific guidance in order to best support their child's learning and development.
These observations about parents are reflected in frog's design of Learner Mosaic. The app offers parents quick, meaningful tips and personalized activity suggestions, helping them thoughtfully and substantively shape their child's learning experience.
To enable parents to engage effectively, we created four categories of actions that they can take with their child, ranging from simply celebrating an educational accomplishment to offering more focused support. The app recommends specific actions parents can take based on how a child is progressing within a particular skill area. For example, if the child is learning about shape recognition on Leo's Pad, Learner Mosaic might suggest that the parent spend time tracing or making puzzles with their child to augment their learning experience with hands-on activities.
Designed to evolve with each child's play, Learner Mosaic also grows more powerful with every new release on Kidaptive's Adaptive Learning Platform. By turning daily interactions into meaningful learning moments, then weaving these together into a holistic view of a child's progress, frog and Kidaptive are engaging parents to help young learners thrive.


Reprisal in a Sentence 🔊
Definition of Reprisal
an act of retaliation
Examples of Reprisal in a sentence
Outraged at failing his French class, Matt keyed the teacher's car in reprisal. 🔊
Even in the most extreme circumstances, back and forth reprisal is generally not the best way to resolve conflict. 🔊
With rumors of reprisal coming from all his most reliable sources, the king ordered that every entrance to the castle be barricaded. 🔊
No one knows for certain, but it is widely believed that the drive-by shooting was in reprisal to some offense committed by a rival gang. 🔊
He felt secure enough in his information that he announced his opinion on the matter without fear of reprisal. 🔊
After taking such violent measures, the colonel began to regret his role in taking reprisal against the natives. 🔊
When Jeanette's parents were told about the bullying tactics she had used in reprisal for the gossip against her, she was grounded and had to miss the winter dance. 🔊
Now that the drug cartels have toned down their acts of reprisal against each other, more people are traveling to Mexico for pleasure. 🔊
Junior high school is a place where insecurity, peer pressure, hurt feelings, and acts of reprisal plague the lives of adolescents. 🔊
The newspapers carried the story about the soldiers' reprisal against the enemies who had attacked a village of women and children. 🔊
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In this case, you can simply create a CSV file with the new team member names, then upload the file to AccessAlly.
How To Upload Multiple Team Members With a CSV File
1. Prepare Your CSV File
Prepare your CSV file. You can do this in either of two ways:
- Export the CSV file from your CRM
- Create the CSV file manually using a spreadsheet app (Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, etc.). For proper formatting, the first row must be the header that includes the following columns: "First Name", "Last Name", and "Email"
Then, save the CSV file in a place that is easily accessible for Step 3 of this tutorial.
2. Locate the Team
Go to: AccessAlly > Teams > Manage
Here, you can search for the leader of the team by contact ID or email.
3. Import Your CSV File
Now, scroll down to the Batch Import section. Here, you can click on the Choose File button to search for and upload the file you created in step 1 of this tutorial.
Once the file is uploaded, you will see the names and emails of each user from the CSV file. Please review this carefully to make sure the information is correct.
4. Review Import Status
As each user is imported properly, the status will say Client added successfully, as in this screenshot:
NOTE: If the number of imports exceeds the number of available team spaces, you will see an error message:
In this case, simply increase the team size (tutorial here), then re-import your CSV file.
Once the import is completed successfully, the team leader will see each user listed on the management page.


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Which is the first Indian 3D film?
My Dear Kuttichathan
The first Indian 3D movie My Dear Kuttichathan,which released 27 years ago and was later dubbed in Hindi as Chhota Chetan,will soon hit the screen in its digitalised version with some new characters and situations to make it more enjoyable.
Which Hindi movie made in 3D in 1998?
Development. My Dear Kuttichathan was the first Indian film to be filmed in 3D.
Is Kalabhavan Mani acted in My Dear Kuttichathan?
Kalabhavan Mani began his acting debut in feature films at the age of 13. He was seen as a magician in the popular children's movie My Dear Kuttichathan in 1984. He then went on to play small roles in films, working his way up the career ladder to play the lead roles in several films later on.
Who suggested the name My Dear Kuttichathan?
The upside-down song But Raghunath Paleri came up with the idea of the Kuttichathan using his magical powers to walk up a wall, and onto the ceiling. When Paleri pitched it to Sheker, he proposed the idea be re-written for a song. The idea sounded simple.
What is the first Colour film in India?
Kisan Kanya was known as India's first colour film but did not start the colour era in Indian Cinema. Kisan Kanya was shot in Cinecolor. Colour era in Indian Cinema started in the mid 1950s.
Which cartoon is most popular?
Number 9: X-Men: The Animated Series (1992)
Who is the first film actor in India?
King Harishchandra) is a 1913 Indian silent film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke. It is often considered the first full-length Indian feature film….Raja Harishchandra.
|Cinematography||Trymbak B. Telang|
|Edited by||Dadasaheb Phalke|
|Production company||Phalke Films Company|
|Release date||3 May 1913|
Who is known as the lady of Indian film?
Its founders Devika Rai and her husband Himanshu Rai had only one motivation – to bring homegrown movies at par with the West. Devika Rani is also called the first lady of Indian cinema.


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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
No two microchips are exactly the same, even if they come from the same factory and production line. But US Navy researchers think this quirk of modern manufacturing could be turned into an advantage, as it provides a clever way to authenticate the microchips used in many modern ID cards.
Each chip has hundreds of thousands of transistors and wires that all vary very slightly in size and qualities, meaning no two chips are truly identical. These differences are not enough to affect the way each chip works but can be detected by sending signals through each device and measuring the resulting delays.
These variations can be used to generate a unique identifying code for each chip. The code could be held by an authenticating party, like a bank, and then checked each time the card is used in a reader. If someone tries to clone the card, the reader will warn that the chip's electrical signature does not match that of the original.
Read the full smart-card fingerprints patent application