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The importance of creating inclusive policy cannot be overstated. In response to this challenge, the UW Tech Policy Lab (TPL) developed the Diverse Voices method in 2015. The method uses short, targeted conversations about emerging technology with "experiential experts" from under-represented groups to provide feedback on draft tech policy documents. This process works to increase the likelihood that the language in the finalized tech policy document addresses the perspectives and circumstances of broader groups of people— ideally averting injustice and exclusion.
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Fractional Repeat counts?
From: John Navil Joseph
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:58:10 +0530
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SMIL 2.0 supports fractional repeat counts (ex. repeatCount = "0.75").
Consider the following example.
I suppose that the standard assumes that the intrinsic duration of
is available beforehand for this to work correctly. But on small hand held
devices it may be very expensive to calculate the exact intrinsic duration
of the
streams. (especially for elementary streams as that of MPEG4, AAC).
How does the standard expect the SMIL players to deal with these
situations in which
the intrinsic duration of the media objects is simply "unknown"?
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itself you can also make a separate BFS partition yourself and then copy over the contents of the image to that partition. You will need a platform supporting BFS to do that obviously, which leaves you with two possible options. Either you use a version of BeOS to do the setup with DriveSetup or mkbfs or you use Haiku itself with the Installer or DriveSetup. Once you've created and initialized the target partition you can mount the image (using tools like Mount Image or through the Terminal) and copy over all the files. If you are under Haiku, you can just as well use the Installer to make a duplicate of your currently booted installation.
3. Getting Bootable
Now that you have installed Haiku in some way or another there might remain steps to take to actually make this installation bootable. As you saw above, there are quite a few things involved when booting an OS. Some of the parts differ between OSes, not everyone might split boot loader and kernel, but essentially the steps are the same. Most of the things can and will be further automated when Haiku will be released, but others are more complicated and not within the power of Haiku.
3.1 Making the Partition Bootable
If you built from source directly to a partition the build system has most probably done the required steps to make the partition bootable automatically. If so you can skip this point and continue with configuring the boot manager below.
When you just create a plain partition and initialize it to a BFS filesystem or if you copy over a complete Haiku image, this doesn't necessarily make the partition bootable. The partition boot record may be missing, or the partition offset could be misconfigured. The prebuilt images for example contain a partition offset of 0 for example, since they are not actually partitioned. They only consist of a direct BFS filesystem, so the offset to that is 0. This will work in exactly one case, where you don't actually put it into a partition. If you for example copy such an image directly to a USB drive starting from 0, overwriting the MBR (destoying all partitions already there), then this will boot. If you however copy an image to the first partition on your harddisk, this will not work out of the box, as the boot code in the partition boot record won't find the desired filesystem at offset 0 (that's where the MBR still is).
To make sure a partition boot record is there and it contains the right partition offset, you can use the tool "makebootable". Makebootable will do both, write the partition boot code to the beginning of the partition and detect and write the partition offset to where it is needed. You can use the makebootable from BeOS if you have a BeOS installation that has access to the partition in question. To do that, mount the volume you have Haiku installed to and use:
Where "/HaikuMountpoint" is where you have mounted your Haiku volume to. Note that the BeOS makebootable can be used, because the partition boot record does only load the zbeos boot loader. As Haiku does provide a zbeos as well and there is no information passed from the partition boot code to the boot loader, this is compatible between BeOS and Haiku and you can use a BeOS makebootable with a Haiku boot loader and the other way around.
If you already have some Haiku medium capable of booting Haiku (like a USB drive) you could also boot into Haiku and run makebootable from there. Note that there is currently a bug in makebootable that will require you to run it from the location it resides in like so:
If you are on Linux or another build platform that has support for makebootable and have the sources available you can run:
jam run ":makebootable" /dev/sdaX
Where the "/dev/sdaX" is the partition that is supposed to be made bootable. Under Windows this is currently not possible.
3.2 Configuring the Boot Manager
When the partition itself is bootable, i.e. contains a partition boot record and the correct partition offset, there needs to be a way to get it executed. If you installed Haiku by copying an image to the complete beginning of a disk or USB drive, this will already be the case. There is no boot manager and no MBR at all, but straight the partition boot code, which should then work out of the box. So if you have it installed this way, go right ahead and boot.
If you use a boot manager like GRUB however, you need to instruct it to load from that partition. You do that for GRUB by adding an entry to its menu.lst usually located at "/boot/grub/menu.lst". The following would instruct it to switch to the partition and then just chainload the partition boot record:
That would work if you installed to disk "0" and partition "3". Note that the GRUB naming is one-off the Linux one, so if you have it installed to "/dev/sda4" that would translate to disk "0" (sda == 0, sdb == 1,...) and partition "3" (4 - 1).
In case you are using the BeOS boot manager, just re-run the "bootman" command and add the new Haiku partition to the boot menu.
If you have another boot manager consult its documentation on how to chainload partitions, most should support such a thing, possibly named a bit different. In doubt just add an entry for the partition, probably this will cause it to chainload, even if not explicitly named so.
4. Easy Installation through USB Drives
The above steps should get you going in most cases, but maybe sound a bit scary or involved. My personally recommended method that should work on most current hardware would be to make a dedicated USB drive like a USB memory stick to boot Haiku. To do that, you can take a relatively small USB drive that has enough space to fit the image onto. Then you just copy that image directly to the raw drive, not to a partition, replacing everything including the MBR, destroying all the partitions that were on there (see above as to tools to use). This is destructive and you can't use anything after the image size of that drive, but if you get some cheap small USB memory stick just for that purpose it's certainly one of the easiest ways to boot Haiku. Once you've booted Haiku you can also do an installation from there, initializing partitions with BFS using DriveSetup and using the Installer to do a proper installation. Note that you cannot currently create partitions under Haiku. Use your preferred partition tool to create a dedicated partition before booting Haiku. Note also that the Installer doesn't have a link in the Haiku menu, therefore just run it from the Terminal. If you additionally execute it from "/bin" this works around the makebootable problem, giving you the commands:
That should work and be pretty usable to boot devices that you have no other means to put Haiku onto otherwise. This works for example out of the box on the Asus EEE, but really should work for every USB bootable x86 machine. If it doesn't, please make sure that your issue is documented in a bug report at our bug tracker. We cannot fix it if we don't know that it's broken.
I hope this clears up some things. If nothing else this should get you a better starting point for troubleshooting if it indeed doesn't boot.

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The RadTileAnimation type exposes the following members.
Properties
 NameDescription
Public propertyInOutAnimationMode
Gets or sets the in out animation mode.
Public propertyIsTranslationEnabled
Determines whether plane projection will be combined with a translate transform to enable the Turnstile effect.
Public propertyItemAnimationDuration
Gets or sets the duration of the item animation.
Public propertyPerspectiveAngleX
Gets or sets the starting angle of the perspective rotation along the X axis.
Public propertyPerspectiveAngleY
Gets or sets the starting angle of the perspective rotation along the Y axis.
Public propertySelectedItemDelay
Gets or sets the selected item delay.
Public propertySequentialItemDelay
Gets or sets the delay between the items start animation.
Public propertySequentialMode
Gets or sets the sequential mode.
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Absorption edge
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An absorption edge, absorption discontinuity or absorption limit is a sharp discontinuity in the absorption spectrum of a substance. These discontinuities occur at wavelengths where the energy of an absorbed photon corresponds to an electronic transition or ionization potential. When the quantum energy of the incident radiation becomes smaller than the work required to eject an electron from one or other quantum states in the constituent absorbing atom, the incident radiation ceases to be absorbed by that state. For example, incident radiation on an atom of a wavelength that has a corresponding energy just below the binding energy of the K-shell electron in that atom cannot eject the K-shell electron.[1]
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Oldest Observatory in Americas Discovered in Peru
Richard A. Lovett
for National Geographic News
|May 16, 2006|
The oldest astronomical observatory in the Western Hemisphere has been discovered on a hillside a few miles north of Lima, Peru, archaeologists recently reported.
Researchers also found ornate carvings more sophisticated than any before seen in the region.
The site dates back 4,200 years800 years before such artistic and scientific skill was previously known to have existed in the Americas.
The find was part of an ancient temple built by an unnamed civilization from Peru's "pre-ceramic" period, which predated the better-known Inca culture by thousands of years.
Temple structures, including a giant carving of what looks like a frowning face, align with the directions of sunrise and sunset at critical points in the agricultural calendar, including December 21, the start of the Southern Hemisphere's growing season, and June 21, the end of harvest.
This proves that the ancient civilization was already highly dependent on agriculture, said Robert Benfer, anthropologist at the University of Missouri, Columbia, who was one of the lead researchers of the find.
"These people went to a lot of trouble to mark the agricultural calendar," Benfer said.
(See a National Geographic magazine feature on the Andes' pre-Inca empires.)
Benfer's team also found a sculpture of a life-size musician playing a shell trumpet.
"The torso is in the round," he said, referring to the fact that the sculpture is three-dimensional and can be viewed from different angles. "The legs are over the edge of a balcony in high relief."
It's a significant artistic find because of the round torso, Benfer explained. All other known Andean sculptures from that era were two-dimensional reliefs and not done in the round.
"We were in no way prepared for finding this kind of stuff," Benfer said. "It was absolutely unexpected."
Benfer's conservation work on the sculpture was funded by the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration. (National Geographic News is part of the National Geographic Society.)
Benfer announced his discovery at an April meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Puerto Rico.
The sculptures were beautifully preserved thanks to the temple-builders' habit of using temples for only a short time before carefully covering them up and building new ones on top.
Even so, Benfer said, archaeologists were lucky that the site hadn't been looted.
Treasure hunters had dug a 20-foot (6-meter) wide hole 7 feet (2 meters) deep into the layers above the site, he said.
The would-be looters stopped only inches from the temple.
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First Ride: Pinarello Dogma F8
The Italian brand rethinks its Tour de France-winning Dogma platform
May 28, 2014
New F8 tube shapes include a flat trailing edge behind the down tube and seat tube. (Matt Phillips)
Pinarello relied on the aerodynamic experience and high-dollar computational-fluid-dynamics (CFD) software of fellow Sky-sponsor Jaguar automobiles to develop, test, and iterate more than 300 designs in a virtual space before making physical models to test in the wind tunnel. At the launch in Italy, Jaguar's principal CFD aerodynamics engineer, John Pitman, stressed that the F8's aerodynamics were designed with the rider taken into consideration and optimized for real-world conditions.
Shapes were additionally influenced by the confines of the high stiffness and low weight required for a top-level race bike. "The tube shape from an aerodynamics point of view was generally driven toward those that had better lateral-stiffness and vertical-compliance properties, not such thinner airfoil shapes," said Pitman.
What results from all the considerations and compromises is a pointed leading edge, outward-bowed walls, and flat back similar to other bicycle frames, like the Cervelo Rca and Trek Madone, using truncated airfoil shapes. In addition, the headtube gets a pronounced beak—which also helps inset the front-brake caliper slightly—and more depth; the fork has a bow-legged stance to move the blades away from the wheel; the rear-derailleur cable or wire exits from the back of the dropout; the external collar was eliminated, and the seatstay wishbone was asymmetrically shaped to shield the rear-brake caliper's housing-stop arm. Compared to the Dogma 65.1, the F8 is 26 percent more aerodynamic by itself and 6.1 percent more aerodynamic with a rider (when averaged across a range of wind angles). Pinarello did not supply figures comparing the F8 to competing frames from other makers.
To improve stiffness, Pinarello developed new tube shapes and used new materials. According to engineer Paolo Visentin, the new tube shapes alone yielded a 12-percent stiffness boost. Further improvement, says Visentin, comes from the use of Torayca's T11001K fiber, which Pinarello has exclusive use of in the bicycle industry for one year. Pinarello claims the material is exceptionally strong and stiff, allowing engineers to boost stiffness while also reducing weight. When you consider both the tube shapes and new carbon, the F8's stiffness improves more than 20 percent compared to the 65.1 Think 2.
Along with raw stiffness, Pinarello claims that refinements to the bike's asymmetric design create a more balanced frame. According to Pinarello, inputs at the pedals put a balanced load on the frame—the loads from the left pedal are a mirror image of the loads from the right pedal. However, the drivetrain creates an asymmetric load because the chain tries to pull the drive-side dropout toward the chainrings. The challenge for designers is to counteract the oscillating left/right pedal loads individually, and also the loads on the right side of the frame from the drivetrain that occur with every half crank revolution. Pinarello's answer, which it debuted in the first carbon Dogma in 2009, is to give every frame tube except the head tube an asymmetric shape. Pinarello claims the F8 frame is 47-percent more symmetrical (which means the frame deflection from the left pedal and right pedal is more evenly balanced) than the previous Dogma.
As for weight, Pinarello claims it shed 80 grams from the frame, bringing it down to 860 grams (54cm frame, unpainted). Fork weight is a claimed 360 grams. Additionally, Pinarello says the F8 is more compliant than the 65.1 Think 2 and we agree. Based on our initial test rides at the launch, this is among the biggest differences from the previous version.
Geometry, at Sky's request, has not changed, but we'd have guessed otherwise. The F8 is much more reactive and lively than the 65.1 Think 2. It loses none of its stability, but gains a lighter, more precise feel.
One anachronistic detail is the use of an Italian-threaded bottom bracket. Pinarello says Sky's mechanics requested a threaded system for maintenance and reliability purposes. As for Italian versus British threading, Pinarello says (we're not making this up) Italian is stiffer.
The F8 retains the Think 2 system cable routing of the previous Dogma that works with electronic and mechanical-shift drivetrains. The seatpost will accept Shimano's internal Di2 battery; for Campagnolo EPS, Pinarello recommends placing the V2 internal battery in the seat tube. The bike's front derailleur tab can be removed to save weight and improve aerodynamics when using a single-ring drivetrain. Pinarello claims this is for time trails, but we wonder if this also hints at future road drivetrains. Three bottle mount-holes on the downtube allow the rider to lower the bottle in the frame for better aerodynamics, says Pinarello, or raise it for easier access.
Pinarello will begin shipping a limited number of framesets to bike shops immediately. They will retail for $5,750. Read a full review of the Dogma F8 in our August issue.
After our initial test rides, the F8 feels notably more efficient than the previous Dogma. (Courtesy)


Talent Acquisition vs Recruiting: What's the Difference?
When it comes to bringing on new hires, the process may look a little different than ever before. Video and phone conversations are taking over in-person interviews as the new norm. Now more than ever it is important to stay up to date with your current recruiting practices. With many individuals currently looking for new opportunities, understanding the difference between talent acquisition and recruiting could make a difference in who you bring on to fill current vacancies.
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Defining Talent Acquisition
Talent Acquisition is a continuous and proactive process that is geared toward focused competencies (i.e. knowledge, skills and behaviors) for a long-term fit, broad systems, and networking. The process is cyclical and revolves around building relationships, anticipating your future hiring needs and creating a pool of candidates from those relationships.
This approach involves planning and strategy since you need to establish a solid understanding on what your workplace will need now and in the future. Looking at your company through a wider lens will allow you to understand the inner workings of your company and the skills and experiences that each position requires for success.
What is Recruitment?
While Talent Acquisition is an ongoing approach, recruitment is more of a reactive, linear process. Recruitment is often seen as reactive because a position is vacant and someone must be recruited to fill it; typically, very quickly. The process is usually streamlined by the human resources or management team and it primarily involves searching for, evaluating and hiring experienced people to fill the vacancy.
But What's the Difference?
Recruitment focuses more on a tactical process for an immediate problem whereas talent acquisition is a holistic strategy that a company uses to find specialists, leaders and other future top talent based on the knowledge, skills, and behaviors needed within your company. Recruitment focuses on the now and talent acquisition focuses on the long term.
Which Should Your Company Use?
When deciding between talent acquisition and recruitment, you obviously will need both from time to time based on the urgency and position. Yet, for most roles, there should be a clear strategy, network, and targeted system in place to ensure you are adding the "right person to the bus" vs. just filling a role.
Talent Acquisition vs Recruiting: What's the Difference?


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This project is part of the Lions Park work in Greensboro, Alabama. Two teams, one tasked with creating the Skatepark and the other the Concessions Stand, began their work by creating a master plan. After all, a park that serves many purposes should have thoughtfully integrated components, and construction on one project can contribute to other features. Such is the case with the Skatepark: Students began their work in 2008, and these teams constructed a social hub dubbed the "Great Lawn" (sized for 3 regulation volleyball courts), a second basketball court, and a combination pee-wee football/soccer field. The football/soccer field generated excess dirt from grading, and students used that material to create earth forms for the Skatepark, as well as to create two mounds to bound the Great Lawn, a space that is also anchored by an existing barbecue pavilion that the students renovated.
The Skatepark's earth forms minimized the cost of concrete on the project, allowing a $25,000 grant from the Tony Hawk Foundation to cover the other costs. The team of three students developed the project as a series of concrete strips the size of a sidewalk. The width and configuration of these strips ensured that the team building the project could construct them. The strips begin at the front edge as a series of skate trails that connect the parking lot to the Skatepark, and terminate in the skate bowl.

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Consumers were faced with the almost impossible task of making accurate comparisons of products containing fulvic acid because suppliers used different methods of measurement — Ralf Ostertag
Kalamazoo, Michigan (PRWEB)
July 10, 2017
AgTonik LLC and its affiliated company Mineral Logic LLC have adopted technical standards that give consumers a reliable and accurate way to compare products containing fulvic acid by just reading the product labels.
AgTonik, a manufacturer and supplier of fulvic acid products for plant and livestock use, and Mineral Logic, which makes and sells fulvic acid products for human consumption, both have adopted the Lamar Standardized Method for measuring the concentration of fulvic acid — a method that has become the de facto standard accepted by leading industry trade groups.
"Up until now, consumers were faced with the almost impossible task of making accurate comparisons of products containing fulvic acid because suppliers used different methods of measurement that could produce widely varying results," said Ralf Ostertag, chief science officer at AgTonik and Mineral Logic.
Companies that use methods that measure both humic acid and fulvic acid as one substance generally overstate the concentration of fulvic acid on product labels, Ostertag said. Consumers who buy products tested under these methods will get an inaccurate sense of the strength of the fulvic acid component.
"Product samples that once tested between 9 and 10 percent fulvic acid content are coming in at less than 3 percent using the Lamar method," he said. "Some samples of leonardite extractions that typically showed a 2 percent fulvic acid content will now result in…


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Axle Position Histogram
The Axle Position Histogram is a histogram of inter-axle spacings within vehicles. This report will usually have a characteristic shape corresponding to common axle spacings, making it an extremely useful tool for verifying data quality.
The Axle Position Histogram can be characterised by:
 1. A group of spikes representing the most common passenger vehicles, and light trucks.
 2. Spikes corresponding to the double and triple axle groups of heavy vehicles (for datasets containing a noticeable percentage of these vehicles).
 3. Smaller spikes corresponding to the longer inter-axle spans in heavy vehicles, such as buses.
 Axle Position Histogram Sample
 Axle Position Histogram Sample
The Axle Position Histogram can be used to check for:
 - matching sensor length, and
 - correct sensor spacing.
Characteristic spikes in the histogram can be checked against known good data from the same area. If these spikes deviate in position by a significant amount, one of these problems may exist, and speed and classification should be considered suspect for this dataset.
For example, it is possible to target the double axle group on the back of an articulated truck, which is usually one of a few standard distances apart. Selecting Properties from the report's right-click menu will display the axle spacings filter.
Inter-axle spacings
Inter-axle spacings
Selecting SP4 in this case will display only the spacings between axles four and five. Note also the X-axis scale can be modified to increase resolution.
Filtering should create a few clearly defined spikes that can be verified using the cross-hairs. Again, deviation from known values may indicate a sensor installation problem.
Filtered Axle Position Histogram
Filtered Axle Position Histogram
For bidirectional data with a suspected problem, it is possible to distinguish between different sensor length and incorrect spacing. Different sensor length will result in spacings that are too short in one direction, and too long in the other. If filtering for one direction using the report Profile's direction filter moves the Axle Position Histogram left or right, this indicates different sensor length. If the report is unmoved, then incorrect spacing is the likely cause.


Multi-groups functions
General information
To be able to synchronize current operations like group start or stop, set mark or rollback, usual functions dedicated to these tasks have twin-functions that process several tables groups in a single call.
The resulting advantages are:
 - to process all tables group in a single transaction,
 - to lock tables belonging to all groups at the beginning of the operation to minimize the risk of deadlock.
Functions list
The following table lists the multi-groups functions, with their relative mono-group functions, some of them being discussed later.
Multi-groups functions Relative mono-group function
emaj.emaj_alter_groups() emaj.emaj_alter_group()
emaj.emaj_start_groups() emaj.emaj_start_group()
emaj.emaj_stop_groups() emaj.emaj_stop_group()
emaj.emaj_set_mark_groups() emaj.emaj_set_mark_group()
emaj.emaj_rollback_groups() emaj.emaj_rollback_group()
emaj.emaj_logged_rollback_groups() emaj.emaj_logged_rollback_group
emaj.emaj_estimate_rollback_groups() emaj.emaj_estimate_rollback_group()
emaj.emaj_log_stat_groups() emaj.emaj_log_stat_group()
emaj.emaj_detailed_log_stat_groups() emaj.emaj_detailed_log_stat_group()
emaj.emaj_gen_sql_groups() emaj.emaj_gen_sql_group()
The parameters of multi-groups functions are the same as those of their related mono-group function, except the first one. The TEXT table group parameter is replaced by a TEXT ARRAY parameter representing a tables groups list.
Syntax for groups array
The SQL type of the <groups.array> parameter passed to the multi-groups functions is TEXT[ ], i.e. an array of text data.
According to SQL standard, there are 2 possible syntaxes to specify a groups array, using either braces { }, or the ARRAY function.
When using { and }, the full list is written between single quotes, then braces frame the comma separated elements list, each element been placed between double quotes. For instance, in our case, we can write:
' { "group 1" , "group 2" , "group 3" } '
The SQL function ARRAY builds an array of data. The list of values is placed between brackets [ ], and values are separated by comma. For instance, in our case, we can write:
ARRAY [ 'group 1' , 'group 2' , 'group 3' ]
Both syntax are equivalent.
Other considerations
The order of the groups in the groups list is not meaningful. During the E-Maj operation, the processing order of tables only depends on the priority level defined for each table, and, for tables having the same priority level, from the alphabetic order of their schema and table names.
It is possible to call a multi-groups function to process a list of … one group, or even an empty list. This may allows a set oriented build of this list, using for instance the array_agg() function.
A tables groups list may contain duplicate values, NULL values or empty strings. These NULL values or empty strings are simply ignored. If a tables group name is listed several times, only one occurrence is kept.
Format and usage of these functions are strictly equivalent to those of their twin-functions.
However, an additional condition exists for rollback functions: the supplied mark must correspond to the same point in time for all groups. In other words, this mark must have been set by the same emaj_set_mark_group() function call.


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We're pretty big on Babbel, the online language learning platform, and wanted to let Free Language readers know that in June they released a new browser-based speech recognition feature.
This unique tool encourages users to practice the language they are learning out loud and gives them the opportunity to fine-tune their pronunciation. Some traditional e-learning software includes this sort of tool, but none of them do it online in quite the same way. It is also one of the first applications to incorporate the new Adobe Flash Player 10.1.
Language Learning System Babbel Introduces Speech Recognition
- Foreign language pronunciation training online
- Real-time technology based on the new Adobe Flash Player 10.1
- Speech recognition with Babbel iPhone apps also planned
Babbel integrates a unique speech recognition tool into its language learning system. The feature encourages practice and gives the opportunity to fine-tune pronunciation skills. This adds yet another dynamic dimension to online language learning.
The browser-based speech analysis gives learners an instant evaluation, letting them know how close their pronunciation is to that of a native speaker. Included in all Babbel courses, the feature will take effect automatically. No installation is necessary beyond the latest Flash Player.
Many students of foreign languages, regardless of their level, lack speaking practice and often shy away from direct communication. Breaking out of the shell can take courage that is not always at hand. The idea of the speech recognition feature is to give them the confidence to open their mouths. "We're encouraging learners to speak and improve their pronunciation with a technical tool before they have to face real-life situations", says Markus Witte, Managing Director of Babbel.
In a new kind of exercise integrated into the Babbel courses, learners hear a word or phrase and are prompted to repeat it back. The quality of the pronunciation is then rated on a scale of 0-100. A result of 50 or higher means that the utterance is generally understandable. Beyond that point, the user can continue to polish their pronunciation to desired perfection.
New technology from audio software experts
The Babbel founders have an extensive background in audio technology. Among them are the original developers of TRAKTOR, the world renowned DJ software. This professional-level technology has been channeled into the online language learning system Babbel and made accessible for anyone online.
The new speech recognition tool marks a milestone in online language learning and underscores Babbel's technological lead. It works directly with the popular Flash Player and is the first to make use of its new capabilities
Another implementation of speech recognition technology is planned for the recently released Babbel iPhone apps.
Babbel is an online language learning system. Along with the website, there are apps for iPhone and a downloadable vocabulary trainer. Both beginners and returning learners will find interactive exercises for studying English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Swedish. Among diverse kinds of courses there are Basic and Advanced Vocabulary, grammatical exercises and pronunciation training. More than 700,000 people from over 200 countries have already registered with Babbel, while the iPhone apps have had at least 100,000 downloads.
We have reviewed Babbel for the seven languages it's currently working for. Have a look at our articles to find out much more about this unique language-learning platform:

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R Question
Error in contrasts when defining a linear model in R
When I try to define my linear model in R as follows:
lm1 <- lm(predictorvariable ~ x1+x2+x3, data=dataframe.df)
I get the following error message:
Error in 'contrasts<-'('*tmp*', value = contr.funs[1 + isOF[nn]]) :
contrasts can be applied only to factors with 2 or more levels
Is there any way to ignore this or fix it? Some of the variables are factors and some are not.
Answer Source
If your independent variable (RHS variable) is a factor or a character taking only one value then that type of error occurs.
Example: iris data in R
model1<-lm(Sepal.Length~Sepal.Width+Species,data=iris)
> model1
Call:
lm(formula = Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width + Species, data = iris)
Coefficients:
 (Intercept) Sepal.Width Speciesversicolor Speciesvirginica
 2.2514 0.8036 1.4587 1.9468
Now, if your data consists of only one species:
model1<-lm(Sepal.Length~Sepal.Width+Species,data=iris[iris$Species=="setosa",])
Error in 'contrasts<-'('*tmp*', value = contr.funs[1 + isOF[nn]]) :
 contrasts can be applied only to factors with 2 or more levels
If the variable is numeric (Sepal.Width) but taking only a single value say 3, then the model runs but you will get NA as coefficient of that variable as follows:
model2<-lm(Sepal.Length~Sepal.Width+Species,data=iris[iris$Sepal.Width==3,])
> model2
Call:
lm(formula = Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width + Species, data = iris[iris$Sepal.Width ==
 3, ])
Coefficients:
 (Intercept) Sepal.Width Speciesversicolor Speciesvirginica
 4.700 NA 1.250 2.017
Solution: There is no enough variation in dependent variable with only one value. So, you need to drop that variable, irrespective of whether that is numeric or character or factor variable.
Updated as per comments: Since you know that the error will only occur with factor/character, you can focus only on those and see whether the length of levels of those factor variables is 1 (DROP) or greater than 1 (NODROP).
To see, whether the variable is a factor or not, use the following code:
l<-sapply(iris,function(x)is.factor(x))
>l
Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
 FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE
Then you can get the data frame of factor variables only
m<-iris[,names(which(l=="TRUE"))]
Now, find the number of levels of factor variables, if this is one you need to drop that
ifelse(n<-sapply(m,function(x)length(levels(x)))==1,"DROP","NODROP")
Note: If the levels of factor variable is only one then that is the variable, you have to drop.


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Rotated factor analysis (RFA) is a powerful tool for climatic regionalization and delineation of rainy regions.Using this technique, we detect three main precipitation regions with different mechanisms in Iran. The first and the most important rainy region runs along Caspian Sea coasts. In this region rainfall mainly occurs during summer and fall. The second region coincides with Zagros Ranges. Winter is the most rainy season in this region. The third rainy region of the country covers northwestern and northeastern parts of Iran with more precipitation in spring.


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Pathways to Professional Development
Benefits of Participating in the Career Lattice
- Strengthen the employment opportunities in the early childhood field. Statistics show there is a high rate of turnover in the early care and education field. Statistics also show offering training opportunities to staff enhances recruitment and retention. A professional development system can provide a means to enhancing recruitment and retention of staff.
- Improve the quality of care to children. Professional training and education enhances adult caregiver knowledge and skills, which leads to increased quality of care provided to children and families.
- Offer paths allowing practitioners to further their education and encourage their individual efforts to improve skills and knowledge. The Career Lattice offers recognition for a variety of paths practitioners can follow to continually develop their professional abilities such as:
- enrichment training,
- a national recognized Child Development Associate (CDA) credential,
- associate's degree, and more.
- Each practitioner determines her or his own path. Increased compensation should be attainable as people move from one level of the Career Lattice to the next.
- Encourage the development of articulation agreements supporting a continual pathway for transfer of education credits.
Training opportunities should support a practitioner's ability to advance her or his career in meaningful ways. Through the Pathways project, practitioners can support efforts early childhood training programs are making to recognize the previous training individuals have completed as they move forward to more advanced training levels.
- Enhance public recognition of early childhood practitioners as professionals. The foundation of the Pathways project is to promote public awareness of the important role that practitioners play in every community in South Dakota. By registering with the Career Lattice, a practitioner's professional achievements will be recognized within her or his program and local community.
- Offer support to new early childhood professionals.
The Pathways project is a professional movement providing training and support critical to retaining qualified people who have a passion for working with children and families.
- Encourage efforts toward increased compensation.
The early education field is one of low pay and little or no recognition, partly because there are minimal requirements to open a small child care business or to work in a child care program. Individuals who take the initiative to increase their training and education through the professional development system should see their compensation increase as a result.
- Combine resources and join forces allowing for more accessible, higher quality training. Individual practitioners, programs, early childhood agencies and organizations need to unite and share resources in innovative ways to increase the availability and affordability of quality training and professional development opportunities.
- Provide a consumer education tool for parents who have the right to learn about the qualifications an early childhood practitioner should have. The Career Lattice serves as a tool for parents to learn about the qualifications a practitioner should have in order to provide quality care and education to their children.


Leading question
Leading question,
Definition of Leading question:
 1. A question that prompts or encourages the desired answer.
 2. Legal: In witness examination, leading questions are those that try to stack the deck of evidence one way or the other by putting words in the witness mouth. Such questions are usually not allowed in the direct examination of the witness, but are generally permissible in cross examination or where the subject matter has already been put in evidence by the other side.
 3. Market research: Query that uses emotionally loaded (prodding) words, and usually elicits a predictable Yes or No answer from a respondent in a survey. Statistical results based on leading questions are prone to give an unrealistic picture of the consumer opinions or trends.
How to use Leading question in a sentence?
 1. When the attorney attempted to solicit a specific answer from his client via the substance of his question, the opposing counsel objected that the attorney had posed a leading question.
 2. You need to try and figure out where someone is trying to take you any time they ask you a leading question.
 3. After a few leading questions about his earlier life, he talked almost nonstop.
 4. The leading question was a form of bait that the witness ate hook line and sinker as the prosecutions plan worked well.
Meaning of Leading question & Leading question Definition


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Using the osql Utility
Topic last updated -- January 2004
The osql utility is a Microsoft® Win32® command prompt utility for ad hoc, interactive execution of Transact-SQL statements and scripts.
The osql utility is typically used in these ways:
- Users interactively enter Transact-SQL statements in a manner similar to working on the command prompt. The results are displayed in the command prompt window.
- Users submit an osql job either specifying a single Transact-SQL statement to execute or pointing the utility to a text file that contains Transact-SQL statements to execute. The output is usually directed to a text file, but it also can be displayed in the command prompt window.
To use osql interactively or to build script files to be run using osql, users must understand Transact-SQL. The following sections of SQL Server Books Online document building Transact-SQL statements:
|Accessing and Changing Relational Data Overview||Documents how to build Transact-SQL statements from individual syntax elements and to build multiple Transact-SQL statements into batches or scripts.|
|Creating and Maintaining Databases Overview||Documents how to use Transact-SQL statements to create databases and all the data objects in a database. Also documents some database maintenance functions.|
|Administering SQL Server Overview||Documents the administration tasks that can be performed on instances of SQL Server and SQL Server databases. The topic for each administration task indicates any Transact-SQL statement that can be used to perform the task.|
|Transact-SQL Overview||This is the start of the Transact-SQL Reference, which documents the full syntax of every Transact-SQL statement.|
Comparing the osql and isql Utilities
The osql utility uses the ODBC database application programming interface (API). It is a replacement for the isql command prompt utility based on the DB-Library API. Both utilities are provided with Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000. The DB-Library API remains at a SQL Server 6.5 level; therefore, applications that depend on DB-Library, such as isql, do not support some SQL Server 2000 features. For example, isql cannot access columns defined with the ntext data type and truncates any char, varchar, nchar, or nvarchar columns longer than 255 bytes. It also cannot retrieve results as XML documents. Except for these limitations in isql, both osql and isql support the same features. For more information about features not supported by isql, see Connecting Early Version Clients to SQL Server 2000.


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Table of contents:
- First, What Is Order Picking?
- So What Are Robotic Picking Systems?
- Types of Robotic Picking Systems
> How inVia Steps In to Reduce Walking Time
- Making picking and navigating easier and more intuitive
- Types of Order-Picking Robots
> Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS)
> Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)
> Pick and Place Robots
Warehouse order fulfillment involves many repetitive tasks. The most important and foundational one is order picking. It's usually one of the biggest expenses in a distribution center, often making up more than half of operational costs.
That's why it's critical to understand the different robotic picking systems and assess which can improve the operational efficiency of your distribution center. The right fulfillment technology can realize significant gains in productivity, minimize idle time, lower costs, and speed up order delivery times. Quick and accurate robotic solutions and innovative picking algorithms can lead to optimal operational efficiency, happy consumers and higher loyalty and retention rates.
First, What Is Order Picking?
Order picking is the process of selecting items from warehouse inventory to fulfill orders placed by customers, often through e-commerce purchases. It is the basis of warehouse workflows and the most labor-intensive and expensive order fulfillment tasks. Traditionally, it is done manually by people walking through long warehouse aisles to retrieve ordered items and bring them back to the packing station to ship out to consumers.
Consumers are now expecting faster delivery times with multi-SKU orders shipped directly to their homes. Given the impact of order-picking on costs, operational efficiency, and accuracy, businesses are looking toward new robotic technologies and processes to improve productivity. Robotic picking algorithms increase pick time, while minimizing idle time to ensure SLA commitments are always met.
So What Are Robotic Picking Systems?
In the simplest of terms, a robotic picking system is an order fulfillment system that uses robots and warehouse execution system software to automate all or part of the picking process in an e-commerce warehouse.
These robotic systems work alongside your warehouse staff. They take on the dull, repetitive tasks that can lead to burnout, freeing up your people so they can focus on more meaningful work.
Types of Robotic Picking Systems
1. Person-to-Goods (PTG) Automation
As the name suggests, Person-to-Goods order-picking technology involves people going out into the aisles of a warehouse or retail facility to pick items. Various forms of automation can help make the PTG process less tiring, time-consuming, and more efficient. A popular automation solution is a smart cart-type AMR robot. The warehouse associate meets up with the robot at the pick site, removes the items from the inventory rack, puts them into the robot, and then each goes their separate way to another pick location. People walk less because they stay in a zone – often an aisle or two.
Person-to-goods warehouse picking
2. Goods-to-Person (GTP) Automation
The Goods-To-Person picking system involves robotic systems that bring the goods to the order picker. The picker is stationary or at least is not walking through the aisles of the warehouse. GTP automation results in higher order-picking productivity than PTG, because it minimizes walking. Examples of Goods-To-Person automation include AS/RS and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) solutions, such as Racks-to-Person or Totes-to-Person picking robots. We discuss these types of robotic systems in more detail later in the article.
Goods-to-Person Automation – inVia Picker Robots
3. Goods-to-Robot (GTR) Automation
This involves a more complex robotic manipulation, where one robotic system brings the inventory from the shelves to a robot that picks the items for the order. This solution uses pick-and-place robots in place of human pickers.
Types of Order-Picking Robots
The term "warehouse automation" brings to mind images of large, vertical industrial robots such as carousels and conveyors, but there is a variety of picking robots that can be deployed in the eCommerce distribution centers. Many of the newer robotic picking systems are designed to work within your existing infrastructure, so you can avoid costly construction projects or warehouse redesigns. In general, the picking robots fall under the following categories:
1. Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS)
AS/RS are large, fixed systems that use robotic cranes or conveyors to move products to and from storage. These Goods-to-Person (GTP) robotic order-picking systems deliver high productivity rates, reduce the amount of foot traffic for warehouse workers, and provide high storage density. However, they are expensive and require considerable investment in infrastructure.
2. Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)
AMRs are smaller, more scalable and flexible. They navigate the warehouse autonomously using onboard sensors to detect obstacles and automatically navigate around them. There is a wide range of mobile robotic picking systems on the market today:
– Cobot/Smart Cart AMRs are collaborative self-driving carts that travel to the aisle and shelf where the inventory container is located. They are met by an associate, who takes the item off the shelf and places it into the mobile robot, scanning it to verify the right item was chosen. This solution is based on Person-to-Goods (PTG) fulfillment method.
– Racks-to-Person AMRs are low-profile robots that go underneath an entire shelf of goods, lift up the shelving unit and carry it to an order-picking station. While an improvement from the order-picking cobots, this Goods-to-Person automation solution does not eliminate the dependencies between people and robots, which may result in bottlenecks. It's important to keep in mind that in addition to the potential bottlenecks, implementing racks-to-person AMRs can also be associated with high infrastructure costs, as it may require modifications to the existing shelving units and other warehouse infrastructure.
– Totes-to-Person AMRs further refine Goods-to-Person automation by enabling mobile robots to remove inventory containers from the storage shelves containing items to be picked. The robot then travels independently, bringing the tote from the warehouse shelves to an associate.
inVia Robotics uses a patented "Totes-to-Person" approach, where inVia Picker robots navigate the warehouse and autonomously remove inventory containers from the racks and deliver them to the inVia PickerWall, a dynamic high-density pick/put wall that inVia's AMR robots build with each day's orders. The system decouples dependencies between people and robots, allowing people to work in bursts, while robots operate tirelessly 24/7. This highly efficient system delivers 5x+ increase in picking productivity.
inVia PickerWall, a Totes-to-Person system, that decouples dependencies between people and robots.
3. Pick and Place Robots
Pick and place robots are used in eCommerce fulfillment distribution centers to automate the process of picking individual items from storage locations and placing them into shipping cartons or totes. These robots are typically equipped with a robotic arm and a gripper or suction cup to pick up and manipulate items with precision and accuracy.
There is a wide selection of robotic picking systems that can help you realize significant gains in productivity, minimize idle time, lower costs, and increase customer satisfaction. Systems that minimize warehouse walking and decouple the dependencies between people and robots can have the biggest impact on a fulfillment operation.
Goods-to-Person automation offers more favorable results in the areas that matter most to 3PLs warehouse operators and online retailers: speeding orders, sharply boosting pick rates, reducing idle time, and increasing productivity. Choose a mobile robotic system to minimize CapEx and costly infrastructure changes.
Curious to Learn More?
It's easy to get overwhelmed by acronyms and new fulfillment technologies. Our The New Way to Warehouse white paper will explain best practices when choosing warehouse automation amid labor shortages and a multi-SKU environment.
Request a demo to learn more about inVia's unique Totes-to-Person automation system.


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Researchers at the Alaska Volcano Observatory say that Mount Redoubt may erupt within days.
The mountain, which lies about 100 miles to the southwest across the Cook Inlet from Anchorage last erupted in 1989. That event, according to the Anchorage Daily News, "disrupted international air traffic and coated Anchorage in a thin layer of volcanic dust."
It is quite unlikely that this eruption will really affect us here in Portland, but if you - like many Oregonians - have friends or family in Alaska, please pass on these volcano safety tips.
And it's never a bad time for us Oregonians to brush up on our safety knowledge since we have dozens of volcanoes along our beautiful Cascade Range.


Classical Splendor Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, Peggy A. Olley, Jeffrey A. Cohen
Publication date:
03 Jan 2017
Yale University Press
160 pages: 254 x 279mm
170 color + 22 b-w illus.
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This handsome book explores in depth a group of stunning painted and gilded furniture designed by the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764–1820), best known for originating the plans for the United States Capitol. The furniture was made in Philadelphia for one of the city's finest houses—the home of William and Mary Wilcocks Waln, which Latrobe also designed. Drawing on a multiyear conservation and research project, Classical Splendor reveals new insights into the patrons, makers, and history behind these extraordinary pieces. In addition to extensively documenting each item, the book attests to Latrobe's significant contributions to American furniture design—his pieces for the Waln house introduced, and served as exemplars of, a classical style rooted in ancient Greek and Roman design.
Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley is the Montgomery-Garvan Curator of American Decorative Arts and Peggy A. Olley is the associate conservator of furniture and woodwork, both at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Jeffrey A. Cohen is senior lecturer and chair of the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr College.


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A new Rice University-led study of ancient predators remains reveals new information about how prehistoric humans found – or did not find – food.
For more than three decades, archaeologists thought that one potential source of meat — crucial for the development of the early human brain — was the flesh abandoned from sabertooth cat kills. Until very recently, researchers thought that prehistoric humans stripped flesh from abandoned animal carcasses to consume, but these ancient remains suggest that was not the case. The new research, conducted on fossil remains from 1.5 million years ago, reveals that sabertooth cats fully devoured the flesh of their prey and even consumed some bones.
These iconic ancient predators, named for their enormous upper canines, roamed the landscapes of Africa, Eurasia and the Americas from the Miocene to the late Pleistocene. Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, a visiting professor of anthropology at Rice and the study's first author, was able to determine together with his colleagues the eating habits of these prehistoric cats based on their skeletons and those of their prey.
The discovery is significant, according to Dominguez-Rodrigo, because it indicates that early humans relied on various methods to find protein sources. It lends credence to the notion that early humans were already skilled hunters.
Dominguez-Rodrigo said the research helps further this area of study as it eliminates a source of this important type of food for ancient humans. However, he said, there are still a lot of unanswered questions about how prehistoric humans hunted and gathered food, and these topics will be the focus of future work.
Cover Photo: Examples of African warthog carcasses consumed by modern lions.
Source: Rice University


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Three Dutch companies which import stone from abroad have bought granite from quarries in India where child labour is used, Trouw said on Wednesday.
Some of the workers in the quarries are also vulnerable to debt slavery because of debts owed to their employer, according to a new report by three Dutch NGOs. The NGOs base their claims on an investigation into working conditions and export data.
The three firms supply granite for worktops for kitchen suppliers, window sills for the building industry and stone tiles for gardens, floors and bathrooms. All three say they are taking action to stop the abuse.
India is the largest exporter of granite in the world. The researchers interviewed 172 employees at 22 quarries in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana. They found evidence of child labour at seven of the quarries and debt slavery at 19. In total, 22 western companies were found to have bought stone from a quarry using child labour.
The paper also states that the Dutch stone importers association VNNI has withdrawn from talks within the government's SER advisory group which was working on a covenant for the sector. The VNNI says that the process is too expensive and that the companies concerned import relatively little stone from India.
According to the VNNI, debt slavery is also a bigger problem than child labour in the quarries. 'The quarries are in remote areas and there is often no school nearby so parents take their children with them to the quarry,' VNN's treasurer Niels Ros told the paper.
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James Henry Greathead
James Henry Greathead, engraving after a photo, 1896.The Mansell Collection/Art Resource, New York
James Henry Greathead, (born Aug. 6, 1844Grahamstown, S.Af.—died Oct. 21, 1896London, Eng.), British civil engineer who improved the tunneling shield, the basic tool of underwater tunneling, essentially to its modern form.
Greathead arrived in 1859 in England, where he studied with the noted civil engineer Peter W. Barlow between 1864 and 1867. The tunneling shield invented by Marc Isambard Brunel and used to build the Thames Tunnel was large and unwieldy. Barlow designed a smaller shield, circular in cross section, which Greathead modified to complete the Tower Subway (1869) under the River Thames near the Tower of London. As the shield was pushed forward by screw jacks, the tunnel behind it was lined with cast-iron rings.
In 1886 Greathead began work to carry the City and South London Railway under the Thames near London Bridge, using a larger version of his shield, with which he bored twin tunnels about 10 feet (3 metres) in diameter. In this project he pioneered the use of compressed air in conjunction with the circular shield. His shield, compressed air, and the cast-iron rings used to line the tunnels came to be adopted generally in tunnel construction.


access features have become a common property: they also appeal to healthy people who use iPhones and iPads.
With the default settings, incoming calls and alerts on the iPhone are accompanied by a polyphonic ring and vibration, which is created by a built-in phone motor.
The Flash On iPhone
Owners of smartphones can choose their own melodies, select the vibration individually for contacts in the control center. This is enough for most users, but you can also enable flicker for incoming calls.
The ability to turn on the light signal during a call appeared only with iOS version 5. However, many people have not heard about it for a long time. The light turns on and flashes when you make a call. The notification light function is also supported.
Developers have not removed this feature to this day because they believe it is in demand. Many smartphones have notification indicators. Usually, they are not conspicuous, but Apple developers decided to make this feature bright on their products.
Despite the benefit, this feature soon begins to irritate many. And then users ask themselves the diametrically opposite question, how to turn off the flash during calls.
Reducing the brightness of the LED does not work. The only solution to the problem would be to turn off the flash on calls.
LED Flashing Enabled Features
All models of smartphones at the moment are equipped with backlighting on the back panel. The main task is considered to set the lighting for photo and video shooting. But it can also be set to blink as a warning of a call.
LED flash blinking can not only allow you to take high-quality photos but also notify you about incoming calls and messages. Such a useful feature will allow you to learn about notifications even if the owner has problems with hearing.
This feature in the control center is necessary in the following cases:
 - if you cannot miss calls, messages, notifications in messengers and social networks on the lock screen;
 - to draw attention to notifications and calls in a loud environment: at work and at leisure in noisy places;
 - when you have to turn off the sound and vibration, but may receive an important call on the lock screen;
 - use in conjunction with an alarm clock to make it easier to wake up.
This feature is found not only on iPhones but also on Android. To do this, you need to carefully study the settings of your smartphone.
How to Make a Flashing When Calling on iPhone 12, 12 Mini, 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max, iPhone XS
If the ringtone and vibration are no longer enough to keep track of what's happening on your smartphone, you can activate an additional option.
This will be quite handy because when your phone isn't around and you can't physically hear it, the flashing flash will come in handy.
Here's how you can turn it on:
 - go to Settings and open Universal Access;
 - swipe to Hearing and locate Audio Visualization;
 - activate the Alert Flash (the Silent mode option will appear, but it's up to you).
Turning on the Flash for Photos and Videos
When taking photos or shooting videos on the iPhone, the user can turn on the flash for better image quality. This feature is almost devoid of settings and is built-in on iOS phones.
 - Go to the Camera app.
 - Click the lightning bolt icon in the upper left corner of the screen.
How to Turn Flash on iPhone 12 - Detailed Manual for You
In total, the standard camera app on your iPhone offers 3 choices:
 - Enable auto flash – then the device will detect and turn on the flash itself based on your external surroundings.
 - Enabling simple flash – in which this function will always be on and work regardless of external conditions and image quality.
 - Disable flash – the camera will shoot normally without the use of auxiliary light.
When shooting a video, follow the same steps (1-3) to adjust the flash.
You can also turn on the auxiliary light using apps downloaded from the official App Store. They usually contain additional settings that cannot be found in the standard iPhone camera.
Wondering how to put a flash on your iPhone's front camera? The iPhone 6s and newer have a front camera flash that will illuminate your face during selfies. Setting it up is just as easy.
 - Open the Camera app.
 - Switch to the front camera.
 - Tap the lightning flashlight icon at the top of the screen and select one of the options.
Triggering the Flash as iPhone 12 Flashlight
The flash can be either an instant flash or a constant flash. The latter is called a flashlight and is turned on through iOS built-in tools or by using a third-party app from the App Store.
How to Turn Flash on iPhone 12 - Detailed Manual for You
By downloading this app, the user gets the same flashlight, but with extended functionality. You can change the brightness and configure special modes, such as its flashing.
 - After opening the app, click the flashlight icon in the middle – the flashlight will activate and will burn continuously.
 - The next scale adjusts the brightness of the light.
 - The "Color" button changes the color of the flashlight, but this feature does not work on all models, be careful.
 - Tapping the "Morse" button takes the user to a special window where the desired text can be entered and the app will start broadcasting the text using Morse code, using the flashlight flashes.
 - If necessary, you can activate SOS mode and the flashlight will flash quickly.
Standard iPhone Flashlight Icon
The standard flashlight icon in the iPhone differs on different versions of iOS.
Standard iPhone Flashlight Icon
For example, starting with iOS 11, it got a brightness adjustment feature, which wasn't there before. But the activation itself is not particularly different, so the following steps should be taken:
 - Open the quick access bar by swiping up from the bottom edge of the screen. You can do this either on a locked screen or by unlocking the device with your fingerprint or password.
 - Tap the flashlight icon and it will turn on the flashlight.
Does the iPhone 12 Have Night Vision
On supported iPhone models, you can use night vision mode to take photos when the camera detects low light. You can use night vision mode on iphone 13 vs iphone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max.
Why Doesn't the Flashlight Work on Your iPhone
Reboot your iPhone.
Turning your iPhone off and on again can update the software and restore the flashlight to work. Hold down the Sleep/Wake button on your iPhone until the option "Slide to Shut Down" appears and turn the phone off or perform a forced restart.
How to Turn Flash on iPhone 12 - Detailed Manual for You
A Few Setup Warnings
The feature will work when the phone is locked or in sleep mode. For the new functionality to take effect, you need to reboot your device. This is especially true for older iPhones.
It's worth remembering that you can see the flicker only if the smartphone is lying with the lock screen down. The indicator should work in the following situations:
 - if the silent mode is on;
 - in case the vibration is turned off;
 - If the ringer switch on the side of the phone is off.
Visual alerts work better in combination with vibration, presented by the system as default settings.
However, this type of indication should also work well as the only source of alerts, since it is intended as an additional option for hearing-impaired people.
How to Turn Flash on iPhone 12 - Detailed Manual for You
Up until version 10, there were serious flaws associated with the fact that additional applications were used to force the LED flash icon on.
iPhone owners who know how to turn on the flashlight when calling use this feature on a regular basis. It is not necessary for everyone, but it can come in handy in certain situations when the phone will not be heard. Flashing will allow you to quickly understand that someone has started calling or just sent a message.
How to Put SIM Card in iPhone 12 – Detailed Manual
You have bought yourself a brand new iPhone 12. Before you turn it on, it is advisable to insert a new SIM card. That's exactly what we're going to do today, we're going to look at how to put SIM card in iPhone 12.
What SIM Card is in the iPhone 12
Standard sim cards of large size (rarely used in modern smartphones) are suitable only for the first generation 3G and 3Gs. Owners of second-generation iPhones (4 and 4s) can use a micro sim. All subsequent models use the nano-sim – the smallest available. Its dimensions:
 - length – 12,3 mm;
 - width – 8.8 mm;
 - thickness – 0.67 mm.
To get a sim card of the right size is better in the official center of the mobile operator, so as not to unknowingly damage the chip in an attempt to do it yourself. It is only possible to get a micro-SIM.
Nano SIM is another type of SIM, in which the chip itself has smaller dimensions, so even if you completely cut off the plastic part, you cannot insert it into the iPhone.
Although on the network there are craftsmen who have managed to cut the standard sim card with scissors or a special stapler. Repeat their experience is not recommended if you are unsure of your abilities.
Absolutely all the new models (this is the iPhone 12, 12 mini, 12 Pro, and 12 Pro Max), support two sim cards.
This is a physical nano-SIM and electronic eSIM. Now let's break down how to insert the physical version in the SIM tray.
How to Install the new SIM Card in the iPhone 12
To begin the setup process, locate the SIM tray and in the box of your iPhone 12,


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In doing more research, I have made the following connections.
William D. "Bill" Tullis is the son of Temple Christopher Tullos and Sarah Stovall. Temple C. was the son of Abraham Tullos and Nancy Mobley. Abraham was the son of Richmond Templeton "Temple" Tullos and Thankful Mills. Richmond was the son of Richard Tullos and Elizabeth Barrett. Richard was the son of John Tullos and Barbara Mason. John was the son of Claudius Cloud Tullos. Claudius has been traced back to Scotland around 1621, most likely to the Fife area. Before that, little has been discovered about the Tullos / Tullis family. There are, however, proposed tenative links to Roman heritage.
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I have a road shapefile (lines) and and speed limit signs (points) near the roads. Now I want to create points on every 5m on the roads between these signs so every single created point should have a speed limit information of a speed for that part of road in that direction (for example if I have a road part between signs where the speed limits are from 60 to 80 and the road direction is from sign 60 to sign 80 all created 5m points should have a speed limit information of 60). Also these points must to contain information of roads too. This is how I have start working:
- I have joined line attributes to the signs using join by location tool.
- I have snapped points to the lines
- I have split the lines on these snapped points.
- I have created the points on every 5m on these splited lines.
Because I don't have that what I want using my previously described solution I want to know how to solve this using ArcGIS.


International Education Committee
The purpose of the International Education committee is to facilitate international, multicultural and cross-cultural experiences for faculty, staff and students of the Kremen School of Education and Human Development.
2012-2013 Goals:
 1. To seek funding and support for such international experiences.
 2. To establish priorities related to International Education.
 3. To consult on methods for the recruitment of international students.
 4. To engage in international recruitment, with the purpose of fulfilling a Kremen goal, "to negotiate at least one successful partnership with an overseas university to facilitate student and faculty exchange."


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Agence France-PresseMarch 23, 2014 10:27
It's a global health fad with millions of fans in Europe and the United States, and yet in Greece, many people have never heard of 'Greek yoghurt'.
Equally surprising in an age when billions are spent on marketing, the term 'Greek yoghurt' is basically a quirk of fate.
"What is known abroad as 'Greek yoghurt' is called 'straggisto' (strained yoghurt) in Greece," explained Prokopis Ploumbis, a cheesemaker in the rural outskirts of Athens.
"The secret lies in the milk," he adds.


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Since x-rays are used to obtain CT images, the density of a structure affects the final image of a CT in a similar manner.
Dense structures, like bone, attenuate more of the x-ray beam and appear white. Less dense structures, like air, attenuate less of the x-ray beam and appear black. Soft tissue structures are of intermediate densities and appear as varying shades of gray.
The CT detectors are much more sensitive than conventional radiograph cassettes. With the detector and beam rotation allowing for the accumulation of many data points in one slice, spatial resolution is excellent, and subtle differences in soft tissue densities are visible which are not noted on routine x-ray.


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Network architecture for large-scale CVE
Jiang, Bo Hong
Date of Issue2000
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
This dissertation begins with a literature survey of the considerations for CVE system, data distribution and related works. A hybrid client-server with peer-to-peer audio/video communication network architecture is then proposed and implemented to address the issue of potential server bottleneck. The proposed architecture solves the Acting Server's potential bottleneck problem for including video/audio communication in CVE systems. Through directly streaming media communication between users, the workload of Acting Server is reduced tremendously. Thus each Acting Server can maintain the static and dynamic data efficiently, handle more simultaneous access to the same virtual environment, and make the system more robust and fault tolerant. It provides a solution to scalability of CVE system that supports audio/video real time communication.
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Nanyang Technological University


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Meredith McKittrick's first book explores the gendered and generational dynamics of the creation of a large and youthful Christian community in northern Namibia in the late 19th and 20th centuries. During research for that book, she came to realize the extent to which control over the region's water resources underlay religious practice, political authority, and community identities. This led to her current book project, which examines how local communities, colonial governments, and post-colonial states have claimed and utilized river resources in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola. She teaches a variety of African history courses, including resistance and rebellion, gender and generation, environmental history, and comparative US-South African history; she's also taught global history and agricultural history. In 2010, she won the Georgetown College Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. She is from Texas, worked as a journalist, and has raised chickens and heritage turkeys. She lives in rural Maryland with her spouse and three children.


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While many LGBT vacationers opt for the cool, queer-friendly climes of Fire Island or Provincetown, there's another option for those who prefer to take the road less traveled: the Yellow Brick Road.
Yes, folks, that Yellow Brick Road. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, historian John Curran has identified a stretch of yellow-bricked road in Peekskill, New York as the inspiration for the one that Dorothy famously traveled in L. Frank Baum's children's novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Although scholars in other parts of the country might beg to differ, Curran has conducted years of research and concluded that this bit of road is the one that sparked Baum's imagination. Curran's argument is based in part on fact: Baum lived two years of his young life in Peekskill, attending a military academy there. Legend has it that when he stepped off the boat and asked for directions to the school, he was told to "follow the yellow brick road".
Unfortunately for Curran — not to mention historians, preservationists, and literary types — only a small portion of the yellow brick road still exists today, and even that is being threatened with blacktop "improvements". If you're the sort of vacationer who likes to say, "I was there!", we'd suggest getting your pic on Peekskill's yellow brick road sooner rather than later.


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Baldwin V of Jerusalem
Baldwin V (1177 – 1186) was the son of Sibylla of Jerusalem and her first husband, William of Montferrat. He was crowned co-King of Jerusalem with his uncle, Baldwin IV in 1183, and once his uncle died, became the nominal king from 1185 to 1186, under the regency of Raymond III of Tripoli.
In 1182 a rift developed between Baldwin IV and his brother-in-law, Sibylla's second husband Guy of Lusignan. Baldwin IV deposed Guy from his position as regent, and for the next few months Baldwin IV attempted to have his sister's marriage to Guy annulled, with no success. As Sibylla was his heir, he summoned the Haute Cour and they jointly agreed to advance Baldwin V's claim to the throne, preceding Sibylla's claim. Sibylla and Guy allied with Raynald of Chatillon against Raymond III of Tripoli, who acted as Baldwin V's regent.
During Baldwin V's reign, Saladin continued to advance into the kingdom, which had been weakened during the reign of the leprous Baldwin IV. Baldwin V died soon after his accession, and after his funeral Sibylla was proclaimed Queen by the Patriarch, which the Haute Cour later endorsed.
- Medieval Women, edited by Derek Baker, Ecclesiatical Historical Society 1978.
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C Question
How to run multiple copies of another program - C
I have 2 files file1.c and file2.c
I want to run multiple copies of file1.c From My main file file2.c
Check the system calls fork() and exec(). A fork allows to copy the current process and all its memory. An exec call allows to replace to code to execute for the current process.
Basically, from your main process, you would fork multiple times. If the result of fork is 0, call exec with the command line for your child process.
int i;
 // fork() returns 0 for the child process,
 // and the actual pid of the new process for the parent process.
 pid_t pid = fork();
 if (!pid) {
 // This if will be executed only by the child process.
 // execvp() first argument is the executable file,
 // the second argument is a varargs for each arguments of the command line.
However, for this to work, both c files must be compiled into executables.


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Visualize and interactively explore biological sequences
seqviewer opens the Sequence Viewer app.
seqviewer(Seq) loads a sequence Seq into the app, where you can view and interactively explore the sequence.
seqviewer(Seq,Name,Value) opens the app with additional options specified by one or more Name,Value pair arguments.
seqviewer('close') closes the Sequence Viewer app.
Input Arguments
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Amino acid or nucleotide sequence, specified as:
Name-Value Pair Arguments
Example: 'Alphabet','AA' specifies that the aligned sequences are amino acid sequences.
Type of aligned sequences, specified as 'AA' for amino acid sequences or 'NT' for nucleotide sequences.
Example: 'Alphabet','AA'
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Retrieve a sequence from the GenBank® database.
S = getgenbank('M10051');
Load the sequence into the Sequence Viewer app.
Alternatively, you can click Sequence Viewer on the Apps tab to open the app, and view the biological sequence S.
Close the app.
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Goodnestone Serpentine Walk and Avenue, Kent
Goodnestone is a grade II* park and garden near Canterbury, famous for its association with Jane Austen. It also has a celebrated walled garden and an equally good woodland garden. As part of the restoration of the historic landscape and the development of the site as a visitor attraction, acta restored a walk leading from the garden, around the park boundary, past the façade of the restored ice house and back to the mansion. This required detailed tree and shrub specification, preparation of contract documents and site supervision. The walk is now a popular feature of visits to the park. In a later piece of work we established a new 500m-long plane tree avenue, leading from the mansion to the village.
Client - Lord Julian Fitzwalter
 1. Substantial sections of the walk have abundant daffodils, probably planted between the wars in a previous version of the walk
 2. The walk takes its name from a formal section laid out in the eighteenth century as a sequence of regular curves. This could not be traced on the ground and our alignment followed a straightened-out later version
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Brunfelsia lactea, commonly known as the Lady of the Night, is a large shrub hailing from the tropical regions of Puerto Rico. It grows up to 10 feet in height, forming an upright structure with a rounded shape. Its small, oval-shaped leaves are deep green in color, giving this shrub an attractive, bushy appearance.
The most striking feature of the Lady of the Night is its flowers. They bloom in clusters of 3 to 6, and range in color from off-white to white, each flower measuring an inch or two in length. What makes this plant so special is that the flowers are deeply fragrant, especially at night, and attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
In terms of care, the Lady of the Night grows best when planted in semi-shade and watered regularly, but it doesn't need too much attention. It can be grown in USDA Zones 9-11. When growing in a pot in cold regions, take extra care to protect the plant during winter and the temperature should not fall below 30°F.
The Lady of the Night is toxic, so children and pets should be kept away from it.


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Chubby Bunny Game
Summary: A hilarious action game that involves stuffing marshmallows in your mouth and trying to yell, "Chubby Bunny!"
Ages: 10 and up. Recommended number of players: 3 and up. Messiness factor: Have a trash can and paper towels ready for a marshmallow mess. Materials required: A few bags of medium to large sized marshmallows.
Chubby Bunny
Chubby Bunny is a simple yet hilarious game that involves adding marshmallows to players' mouths, one at a time, and getting players to yell the words "Chubby Bunny."
How to play: Have three or more players go to the front of the room. Have paper towels or a large trash can ready, as this game can end up being a bit messy. Open up a bag of medium to large sized marshmallows. Give a marshmallow to each player, and have them insert it into their mouth. Do not let them chew or swallow the marshmallow. After each player has inserted a marshmallow in their mouth, each player takes turns screaming, "Chubby Bunny!"
If each person is successful in yelling the words with the marshmallow in their mouth, they survive and continue playing the game. Give each player another marshmallow. They must insert this marshmallow and yell "Chubby Bunny!" again. This process continues, and each player's mouth will start to become full of marshmallows. As long as the player can yell "Chubby Bunny" successfully without losing any marshmallows out of their mouth, they keep playing. When a person is unable to yell "Chubby Bunny," they are out of the game.
Warning: Be careful! This game can lead to choking if improperly played. Always supervise players. Safety first!
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interested in the morphology
of the folk tale
, Propp used the formalist approach
(breaking sentences down into elements called morpheme
s) to analyse by analogy
the folk tales.
Propp used for his investigations the Russian folk tale (he studied more than 450 tales), and he defined 31 generic themes.
Moreover, Propp tried to identify the rules by which these morphemes are combined, and found that some of them came in pairs, and that the order in which are shown seems constant.
Vladimir Propp, along with Joseph Campbell and Jorge Luis Borges, among others, has been inspired by Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious. The study of "master plots" in universal literature shows similar patterns between different cultures and, the most important, demonstrates how we can easily identify with any kind of world literature.


How to Set up Voicemail on Vodacom South Africa
Are you looking for information on how to set up voicemail on Vodacom South Africa? If yes, then you have come to the right place. Activating voicemail on Vodacom is something that everyone on the network needs to do. It gives people the opportunity to leave you voice messages in the event that you are not able to answer your phone. The messages are stored by Vodacom and can be retrieved at your convenience. Below is how to activate voicemail on Vodacom South Africa. This article has the following sections;
 1. How to activate Vodacom voicemail.
 2. How to check voicemail on Vodacom.
Vodacom Voicemail activation steps
The following are the steps to set up voicemail on Vodacom in South Africa;
 1. First, you need to dial 132 on your Vodacom phone.
 2. The first time that you dial 132, you will be directed to activate your Voicemail.
 3. Next, you can proceed to setup various option in your Voicemail box.
 4. To do that, dial 132.
 5. From there, choose option 2. That's the option to change your mailbox settings.
 6. Next, choose option 3 for changing your Voicemail box notifications.
 7. There are several options here. Follow the prompts that you get to set up your phone for voicemail.
 8. Once the facility has been activated on your phone, you will get and SMS whenever someone leaves you a voicemail message.
Why is voicemail important?
Voicemail can be important, particularly for the hyper busy. Perhaps you are in a meeting and have turned off your phone. Or maybe you have gone off the beaten path and are just not available. Whatever your reasons for being off the grid, voicemail activation on Vodacom allows people to leave you messages whenever your phone cannot be reached.
You will get an SMS notifying you that somebody has left you a voicemail. You can then check the voicemail message using the code for doing so.
Anyway, those are the steps for activating voicemail on South Africa's largest mobile communications network. The process is really easy. And the facility brings you a lot of convenience. One possible issue is that not many people around the country are used to leaving people voicemail messages.
So, you may find after a while that your voicemail inbox is still empty. It's probably a cultural issue. People are just not used to the practice. But activation of Voicemail is easy and can be a life saver.
Can I personalize my voicemail greeting?
Yes, this is something that you can do during the process of getting set up. Most people like to leave a personalized voicemail message. Something like; "Hello! This is John! I am not around right now, so please leave a message after the tone. So, if you have been dying to get a personalized message like that on your phone, now is your chance!
Check out our article on how to check voicemail messages on Vodacom in South Africa. Also check out our article on how to borrow Vodacom South African airtime.
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 1. Trying to setup my voicemail with Vodacom on my Samsung phone by dialing 133. Response "The number does not exist.
 1. Hi James. Thanks for the heads-up. We have now updated the article after reaching out to Vodacom. Apparently, the 133 bit is for Lesotho but it's on the Vodacom South Africa website. Hence the confusion.
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When I lecture about keeping a spreadsheet research log, I always tell the audience there is one thing they can definitely do WRONG. That is not keeping and using a research log.
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This article examines the formation of the rules and regulations for the Qing administration, beginning with the establishment of the six boards in 1631 and ending with the publication of the first Da Qing huidian, or administrative code, in 1690. It charts the administrative problems that arose during the early Qing, and how state-makers turned to the Ming Huidian for answers but consistently found it unable to provide solutions to Qing-specific problems. In response, Qing officials called for the compilation of a Qing Huidian that would account for the emergent Qing-specific administrative structure and apparatus. The article shows that the Qing Hudian was not merely a copy of the Ming document of the same name; rather, it was a compilation of the regulations that developed in response to administrative and political problems over a sixty-year period, and did so in tandem with the emergence of the Qing state. The article further argues that the Qing had administrative law. The intent behind the regulations of the Huidian was to lay out enforceable procedural requirements that regulated administrative activity, as well as to set binding rules about the organizational structure of the state and the relations among actors and internal agencies.


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Ashford Green Corridor Nature Reserve
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The Great Stour floodplain runs through urban Ashford and provides valuable green space and wildlife habitats. Most of this area is designated as a local nature reserve, and supports wildlife including voles, kingfishers and bats. Detailed information and an interactive map can be found online at the virtual visitor centre _URL_.
All the Green Corridor areas marked on the interactive map are open to the public, although in some places access is restricted. Visitors to the reserve can enjoy a walk or cycle ride along most of the corridor. There are open spaces for games, sports pitches and play areas at many sites along the corridor. Many local people use the network of foot and cycle paths to take a stroll, go on a relaxing bike ride, walk the dog or simply get around town, avoiding busy roads.
The Corridor also forms links to rural areas, allowing people to walk and cycle from the town to the countryside around Ashford. The network of surfaced paths along many routes increases their accessibility to those with mobility problems, including wheelchair users. For specific information, visitors are advised to go to the interactive map, click on the relevant part of the route and look for information under the heading Disabled Access.
Where the Green Corridor reaches the outskirts of the town are 'gateways' to the countryside – ideal places to start exploring rural areas, using the network of lanes and public rights of way, and walking trails such as the Stour Valley Walk. The National Cycle Route 18, from Canterbury to Royal Tunbridge Wells, runs through the Ashford Green Corridor alongside the footpath.
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This park and open space has well surfaced routes suitable for visitors with pushchairs and/or wheelchairs, and has no width restricting features, such as stiles or non RADAR kissing gates.


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Principals from Abilene ISD middle schools will continue with a proposal to enact standardized dress for students on their campuses.
On Monday, AISD's school board gave principals the green light to establish a committee to develop and present a final proposal in March.
Before making the decision, the board listened to a report that included feedback from parents regarding the proposal Monday.
Standardized dress was originally proposed last spring. Principals at Abilene middle schools then held six informational meetings.
The school district said approval wouldn't force students to wear uniforms. Instead, it would require them to choose from a "flexible" selection of clothing.
Monday's report stated about 100 parents attended the meetings, including 95 in favor of the proposal. The biggest complaint was that students wouldn't have freedom to express themselves through clothing.
"There still will be diversity in what they're doing because no kid looks alike, so you don't have to worry about that," Abilene ISD board member Dr. Kelvin Kelley said. "The kids don't look alike. They're all different. DNA has already determined that. But what you're doing is really providing an environment where students can really begin to focus on education – and that's keeping the main thing, the main thing."
Principals said they will work with local retailers to find cost friendly options for parents. They said several school districts in Texas already use a standardized dress code. Those include Midland, Odessa, San Antonio and Dallas.
If the final proposal is approved by the board, the dress code would be enforced during the 2014-2015 school year.
Meanwhile, the board also discussed and moved forward a proposal to change the boundaries for two Abilene middle schools.
According to the proposal, Craig Middle School is overcrowded after increased enrollment while Mann Middle School's population has been unchanged.
Associate Superintendent Scott McLean is proposing moving the school's boundaries to balance enrollments at the schools. McLean said the change would impact about 80 students.
Two public information meetings have been scheduled regarding the proposed boundary changes: 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 21, at Mann Middle School and 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 28, at Craig Middle School.


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Here's another resource in our ongoing coverage of query techniques:
Learn how to create queries to find all the records in one table that don't have corresponding records in another table. If you're not familiar with the difference between Inner Join, Outer Join, Left Join and Right Join, check out our paper on Microsoft Access Outer Join Query: Finding All Records in One Table but Not Another and Creating "Not In" Queries on these important query feature. It'll save you tons of time trying to code this yourself and will surely give you new ideas on how to better retrieve and analyze your data. The techniques apply to both Microsoft Access and SQL Server queries.


Orihimechan no Hoppeta (Hand-made Bakery aLzo)
Orihimechan no Hoppeta means Orihimechan's cheek. Orihimechan is the Katano's industrial promotion character. The concept of the character comes from the Tale of Tanabata. In the story, Orihime is a female deity of weaving.
She fell in love with a deity of cowherd – Hikoboshi. As a result, people's lives were gradually decayed due to the fact that they didn't take their responsibilities as deity. Orihime's father who was very upset about the situation decided their separation. Although people's lives returned to normal, Orihime really missed Hikoboshi every night. In the end, her father allowed Orihime to meet up with Hikoboshi at Amanogawa River (the Milky Way) once a year.
Katano is deeply relating to the Tale of Tanabata. For example, in Katano, there are a lot of Tanabata's spots such as Hatamono Shrine, Hoshida Myokengu Shrine, Amanogawa River, and Aiai Bridge. The reason is that the landscape of Katano is quite similar to that of the tale of Tanabata. Hence, in the Heian period, the Heian nobles who used Katano as a vacation place put Tanabata-related names to each place.
The Hand-made Bakery aLzo started to make very soft bread using Katano's local produce. aLzo is one of Katano's unique bakeries which make original breads.


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Region: East Iceland
Coordinates: 64.696888° N 14._PHONE_° W
Mt Bulandstindur is one of the most beautifully shaped mountains of the country and the symbol of the Djupivogur County between the two bays, Berufiord and Hamarsfiord. It is a pyramid shaped stack of basaltic strata, reaching 1069 m above sea level. The Castle of the Gods (Godaborg) is a 700 m high mountain ridge to the east of Mt Bulandstindur. Immediately after the acceptance of Christianity in the year 1000, the chieftains, who were also pagan priests, demolished the statues of the gods in their temples. The chieftain of this area had them taken up to this ridge and thrown over the edge. This mountain is counted among the few power centres of the country. The Buland Valley is to the south of Mt Bulandstindur and rising above its end is the highest elevation of the area, Mt Hrossatindur (1156m).
The abandoned farm Bulandsnes was a manor, the seat of County Sheriffs and medical practitioners. Buland is rather a large headland east of village Djupivogur. It consists mainly of barren and glacier eroded cliffs with bogs and swamps between them and many coves, which are gradually being filled with sand and silt. The cove Breidivogur on the southern side is the beach of Djupivogur and the outermost one is called Brandsvogur, named after the reverend and missionary Thangbrandur. In 1952, about 5 ha of land were fenced of for forestation purposes.
Nowhere else in the country are greater clusters of basaltic dykes than in this area and many of them are like pieces of art. The filling of sub terrain fissures during the active period of the Alftafiord central volcano a few million years ago, created them. Then the ice age set in and its glaciation carved at least 1,200 m from the surface and brought them into plain sight.
The Buland Islets are just south of the Buland Peninsula. Many of them are now landlocked because of the constant transport of sand and silt by the rivers. In earlier times, they were renowned for their bird breeding colonies and belonged to the farms Bulandsnes and Berufjordur.