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Growing up, watching Linus be disappointed by The Great Pumpkin was a tradition in many homes across the country. Linus believed so hard that this mythical creature would visit him if he could just persevere long enough in the pumpkin patch. But alas, his dream never came true. But Linus wasn't far off in how "great" the pumpkin is…as a matter of fact it played an important role in the survival of our early English settlers!
Today, is #NationalPumpkinDay, a fact I learned as I was perusing my weekly calendar earlier this week. And then ironically enough I came across an article with interesting facts about this autumnal orange orb on the New England Historical Society website and I thought I would share with you.
While today's pumpkins are often destined as filling in a pie or to decorate our stoops for Halloween, but in the early days of English settlers, the pumpkin or pompion, were a staple in the New World diet. Initial crops of wheat and corn planted by the early English settlers failed miserably and if it weren't for the abundance and heartiness of the pumpkin, many would not have survived the harsh New England winter. So let's pay a little homage to the GREAT pumpkin!
- Pumpkins were so vital to the early English settlers that they rated a verse in the very first American folk song titled "New England Annoyances"! The lyrics wer
- "For pottage and puddings and custards and pies,
- Our pumpkins and parsnips are common supplies.
- We have pumpkins at morning and pumpkins at noon,
- If it was not for pumpkin we should be undoon."
- The Connecticut Field pumpkin is one of the oldest variety of pumpkins in existence and has been the standard carving pumpkin since 1871!
- Henry David Thoreau is thought to to be the first person to a grow a giant pumpkin in America. This is evidenced in his 1857 book, "Wild Front". Thoreau wrote, "I planted six seeds sent from the Patent Office and labelled, I think, "Potiro Jaune Grosse (large yellow pumpkin). Two came up and one has become a pumpkin which weight 123 1/2 pounds. The other bore four weighing together 186 1/4 pounds. The big pumpkin took a premium at the Middlesex Show, that fall."
- Native Americans would flatten strips of pumpkin, dry them, weave them together and create mats that they would then use to trade.
- Pumpkins are extremely healthy, packing in lots of fibers, vitamin A, potassium, beta carotene and the seeds are high in magnesium. But despite being packed full of healthy, they are still 90% water.
- While Thoreau may have grown the first giant pumpkin on American soil, his pales in comparison to the current record holder which weighed in at a whopping 2,624.6 pounds (2016)! That's a whole lot of pies.
- In early colonial times, pumpkin shells were used as a hair cutting template! Colonists used them to ensure that their hair achieved a round and uniform cut. As a result of this practice, New Englanders earned the nickname "Pumpkinheads".
- Pumpkins can and are grown on every continent EXCEPT Antarctica.
- There are 1.5 BILLION pounds of pumpkins grown every year in the United States. Of this 1.5 billion pounds, 80% of the pumpkins are ripe and harvested in October!
As you can see by this sample of pumpkin facts, Linus was absolutely right in believing in the Great Pumpkin!
*How do you mend a broken jack-o-lantern?
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IPCC, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (2014)
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Meinhard Doelle, Steven Evans & Tony George Puthucherril, "The Role of the UNFCCC Regime in Ensuring Effective Adaptation in Developing Countries: Lessons from Bangladesh" (2014) 4:3-4 Climate Law 327
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This is a problem I have been working on for years but never really came up with a satisfying answer. I am starting a new Skyblock base and I am hoping that maybe someone out there has a "best practice" layo
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- Presence of mobs nearby will interfere with spawning.
- Mobs are either restricted to spawning at certain Y ranges, or have higher spawning rates at certain Y ranges.
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- It is also fairly obvious that you will want to place certain farms at certain locations. For example, I read that in recent versions mob spawn rates are highest near Y=0, so perhaps place the hostile mob farm, enderman farm and slime farms in the corners of Y=0.
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
Squirrel tales
The female who gnaws the antlers and her mate (I'm assuming "mate", but who knows?) have moved into my porch, behind the stacked firewood. There is no way I can shoo them out of there. I see them coming in with great mouthfuls of nesting material, and I hear them chattering behind the firewood. Little buggers.
I made one last attempt to get them out yesterday and I do believe the verdict is in, it failed.
I could trap them but...
What I did yesterday morning was nail cedar shingles over the two major holes in the porch that they use regularly. They were quite upset by all the hammering, I threw in some extra hammering on the wall next to their nest, yelling, Get out! Get out! I don't want you here, get out! I could hear one or more of them indoors squeaking and scurrying about in what I believe was consternation, and another one of them sat in a tree watching me hammer, squeaking her dismay loudly.
Later, I caught the female gnawing on the antlers and shooed her away; she attempted to exit by her usual route and discovered the way blocked, went on to the second exit and found it also blocked. Then she looked a little panicked. She actually ran straight at me in a last desperate search for another hole, found one, and was gone. If there is one thing this porch has, it's holes, lots of 'em.
Still later in the day I heard two of them knocking around over by the shed (literally knocking around, I could hear things falling off shelves) and thought, Oh good, they are scouting out a new nest location. They can have the shed, I don't care about that.
I went away for a couple of hours and came back. I needed to pee and was crouching on the ground behind the house, when two squirrels approached me. They came down a tree trunk, one at a time, watching me the entire time. They stopped a few feet away from me and just stood there. It was very clear to me that they were begging for their old place back. They were promising to behave. They seemed very sincere but I don't know how much you can trust a squirrel, sincere or otherwise.
But at any rate they're back. And they do seem better behaved. They used to quarrel a lot and generally carry on noisily behind the stacked fire wood, now they are very quiet. They don't come near my stuff, but they do occasionally come out from behind the firewood and look at me. There's been no gnawing on the antlers.
Of course the trap is always an option. The trouble is that I will soon be gone and with all the holes in the porch, there is nothing preventing a return, or a new set of squirrels moving in. So what's the point.
And I counted three of them; I just don't even want to know what kind of arrangement they have going on back there.
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You are a marvelous storyteller! I'm still laughing! I quite agree that well-behaved squirrels who are quiet beat those unknown types who might move in. I suppose your new skill is squirrel behaviorist. Ya think?!
When do you depart for points west? I know you love being in NS so this is a bittersweet time as the days there dwindle down.
Be good to you!
- October 5, 2009 at 1:03 PM
- Wisewebwoman said...
You need them to sign a lease, promising good orderly behaviour and no drinking and carousing after 10.00 p.m. Also mention adults only building, no pets or children. That should keep them in line in their little menage a trois.
- October 6, 2009 at 12:47 AM
- Annie said...
Oh yes, a lease agreement, that's sure to do it! Like those little buggers would keep their word on such a thing... Can you imagine me hauling them into Small Claims Court for breaking their lease agreement?
So far so good though, they are dead quiet after dark, and pretty subdued in the daytime. My landlady suggests moving the antlers to the shed, I may do that when I no longer get entertainment value from them.
Barbara Anne, my plans are still a bit vague, if not non-existent. I hope to beat the snow but am not committed to it. Mid to end of the month?
- October 6, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- Rain Trueax said...
We have this problem with gray diggers and I do use the live trap. What I do, since we have enough land, is trap them, carry them to the back, which is about 1/4 mile from the house, and hope they will stay there. I trap them all, one at a time, and back they go. The ones down by the barn, they have a tougher opponent as my husband will shoot them to keep their numbers down. Rodents carry disease and I know we can't have too many but even with the extra work (and those traps with mad squirrels sometimes two at a time) aren't easy to carry). I figure by taking them all back to the same place, they can form a new colony-- i hope.
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How to Research For a Resume
For your job interview you have to put a resume in place which will promote you as the right candidate for the position. The resume is the document which is going to make the most important impact on the interviewers even before they meet you. To get the desired effect you have to do some research on how to format your resume. You have to get to know more about the organization and the employer so that you can put in details in your resume which will count. This means there are a lot of enquiries to make before you get the final version of your resume in place.
When you sit down to make your resume for a particular position you have to first ensure that you have read the job description thoroughly and understand it well. Sit down and contemplate on a few facts and then put down the contents. You must make sure that you have the required qualifications for the job; have the expertise to perform well; know how to meet the job requirements and the employer's needs; make a list of your strengths and finally get a resume which will put you ahead of other applicants on the interviewer's table. Asking friends and relative for help in writing a resume is a good thing as they may know you better than yourself and could add some useful point to the resume.
The resume should ensure that you get an interview call because once you are there it is your other skills which will count and not the resume.
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I'm mildly obsessed with photography versus what is real, true. As a consequence, much of what I talk about presupposes that whatever you're pointing the camera at is real, true. As a general rule, though, this is obviously false. Lots and lots of photos are of some sort of artifice. A still life, an advertising shot, photographs of a play, or of performance art, virtually everything anyone posts on social media, and so on.
Consider a play. There's probably a story, a literal narrative. There might be a moral, or some sort of life lessons, or some other larger art-like experience in the play. A play, being built around dialog and motion, is not likely to translate particularly well to photographs. Your photographs will, if well done, accurately illustrate what the play looks like and convey in some way the experience of watching the play, but they are unlikely to reveal the narrative or larger meaning of the play. The story that we might find in the photos is different from the story we might find in the play itself. The photograph is, as it were, a picture of a mask, you cannot see the person behind the mask.
On the other hand, consider Gregory Crewdson, who arguably stages things that look a lot like a scene in a play. His set pieces are designed to be photographed, there is no dialog, no action. They look like a moment pulled out of a play, or a film, but are distinctly not -- specifically because you can read the underlying psychodrama in the photograph itself. You can, as it were, deduce the absence of dialog and action from the very fact that you can see the underlying story in the photograph. Crewdson gives us a transparent mask, allowing us to see past the notional play to the underlying story.
Take these are two endpoints.
An advertising photograph strives to be Crewdson-esque, in that you are supposed to see the story in the scene. You are supposed to see a photograph of a beautiful woman and a fast car, and to feel that story, to imagine yourself with them, driving very fast and having a great deal of fun. You are not supposed to see it as a photograph of a set, in the manner one might see a photograph of a play. Sometimes these things work, sometimes they do not.
Cindy Sherman also comes to mind, and again with mixed results. Her original work, of Untitled Film Stills was very much in the mode of Crewdson, except that instead of imagining something ambiguous -- maybe a play, maybe a film, maybe real people -- she specifically insists that we imagine a film. Later work becomes more ambiguous on this axis, we are to imagine some abstract larger story, and yet we recognize Cindy and know therefore that it is artifice.
In terms of larger meaning, this gives us a number of possibilities.
You might photograph a play in order to tell the story of going to the play. Or, if you are in Austin, perhaps you do it because apparently all theater actors in Austin are ludicrously beautiful people. Anyways, the story of attending a play is a perfectly reasonable story in the larger sense to tell. You could critique the play with photos, you could react to the play. All of this is quite separate from the story the play itself embodies.
More difficult is the game Crewdson and Sherman play. The artifice is clear, but they want you to see through the photograph, and then again through the artifice, to see a single underlying story (again, in the larger sense). Cultural criticism, feminist theory, whatever. They need to guide the viewer through not one but two separate layers of translation. They succeed, I think, because of the maniacal singularity and intensity of their underlying idea. Like a nova, if shines through layers of interpretation and nails the viewer between the eyes. Advertising seems to be to succeed or fail on roughly the same grounds, the intensity of vision in play, with a side serving of ability also required.
This brings us around to the item that triggered this whole thought process, a book reviewed by Colberg, which you can look at in its entirety by watching the video at the book's web page, or directly on Vimeo. Jörg's review is lightweight, of course; he sees a female photographer doing sexuality stuff and falls over himself, because, academia.
This is a book of pictures of performance art, of artifice. If you think any of this is remotely spontaneous, look at the colors. These are intensely styled pictures. In particular, the picture the book and Jörg both lead with, the nipple pinch, count a) the total number of colors in the frame, and b) the number of patches of color that match her shoes. For all its snapshot/selfie aesthetic, this shot (and most of the rest of the book) is styled with the intensity of a Gucci advert. Look at the labels hanging from the blinds.
So the question is, are we able to read through the artifice to an underlying story? Well. To my eye, not really. Sure, there's some muddled ideas of sexuality in here, quite a few of the pictures seem to be mining some "submissive man" motif, but by no means all. There's a lot material that seems to have been included simply because it's odd, or fun. While I agree with Jörg that it looks like fun, that is rather spoiled by the insistence of the actors on staring, dead-eyed, at the camera. The overall sensation that these are boring people with no ideas, who are nonetheless Deadly Serious About Their Art does this book no favors. It is possible that the thing is a wall of cultural references that I am simply not getting, but if so that makes the book mostly an in-joke, which is just another kind of boring.
If these is some radiant blaze of an idea in there someplace, it is buried under the Yoko Ono mannered weirdness flavored with a demand to be taken seriously.
If this were presented specifically as a bunch of pictures of performance art, that would be one thing. Pixy Liao seems, unfortunately, to be striving for more of a Crewdson/Sherman "through-reading" and not hitting it. Instead she's substituting in a bunch of modern tropes and hoping simple minded reviewers will assign profound thoughts to her.
I will say that while the content is pretty dull (this stuff hasn't been transgressive in decades, even in the USA, move on, Art Students) the styling is excellent. The consistency of look, the use of color, all these things are pretty great.


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Jack Kirby
October 1976
Jack saturates #202 w/ ideas, but they're all vaguely familiar & a bit too loose-limbed. The strongest, most sinister one has Falc & his gal brainwashed via ECT! This element of techno-coersion reiterates Kirby's interest in totalitarian indoctrination, tho' his villains here are pathetic, not evil.
[last issue: Captain America & the Falcon #201]
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Introducing some lesser-known stars in space …
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS)
Astronaut Neil Armstrong's first words as he set foot on the moon in 1969 still resound: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Yet in Hidden Figures, the inspirational true story about NASA's unsung women who were instrumental in the success of America's nascent space program, another quote comes to mind: "After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."
Today's frequent news articles addressing the dearth of female empowerment make Hidden Figures all the more welcome, with its heartening story about how three black female geniuses, referred to as the "human computers" took NASA by storm. Eventually. Because adding to the challenge of navigating 1960s chauvinistic waters was the fact that NASA's Langley Memorial Research Lab was situated in Virginia, a state that prior to 1964 was still part and parcel of the Jim Crow south. Not only were the three women of Hidden Figures of vital importance to the victory over Russia in the race to space, but their contributions also advanced the fight for civil rights.
Adapted from the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly – who relied on archival information, interviews and extensive research – the screenplay was written by director Theodore Melfi (St. Vincent) and Allison Schroeder. Schroeder, whose grandparents had significant roles at NASA (her grandmother was a programmer, her grandfather worked on the Mercury project), and who was an intern herself, had no knowledge of these three female pioneers. Yet eventually the word got out: in 2015, at the age of 97, Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson) received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
After an initial tease in which a 10-year-old Katherine is reciting prime numbers to herself while skipping down the lane, the film opens on the three lead characters derailed by a slight car problem on their way to work. As they banter, we're introduced to:
Taraji P. Henson's Katherine Johnson – a mathematical phenom, widow and mother of three little girls – who possesses both a heart of gold and a backbone of steel.
Octavia Spencer's Dorothy Vaughan, the undisputed mother hen. As the unofficial head of the West Computing Group (a/k/a the segregated female department of NASA), she performs supervisor duties without the title and without extra pay. While she publicly bears it with grace, she never gives up her quest to succeed in a white man's world.
Lastly, Janelle Monáe's Mary Jackson, the local Hampton, VA girl made good by garnering degrees in Physical Science and Mathematics, ultimately becoming the first black female Aerospace Engineer. Jackson, well aware of her good looks, knows how to use them to her advantage.
Speaking of appearances, the witty Katherine delivers a verbal bomb as she dresses down a potential suitor who has no idea that he's dealing with an Einstein in heels. "Yes, they let women do some things at NASA … and it's not because we wear skirts. It's because we wear glasses."
The film adroitly cuts between the women's professional and private lives. We get to know them not from lengthy back stories, but from how they connect with each other and their families – i.e., the carpool, church picnics, parties, weddings — as well as how they conduct themselves in the workplace. Aside from their well-honed senses of humor, the women all possess a strong sense of self-respect, unbowed despite the humiliating segregationist law of the land.
Melfi directs with a crisp pace. His and Schroeder's screenplay is smart and buoyant, brimming with humor and snappy zingers. (After all, these women are extraordinarily bright; it's only logical that their words would be as quick-witted as their minds.) However, levity aside, the filmmakers keep the issue of racial inequity on a slow simmer just beneath the surface. Whether it be the "colored ladies bathroom" that's a mile away from Katherine's workplace, or the white librarian who won't let Dorothy check out a book on computer science because it's not in the "negroes only" section, or Mary, who's barred from taking advanced engineering classes at a non-integrated school, Hidden Figures repeatedly reminds us that the challenge for black working women in the 1960s to further their careers was nearly impossible to surmount.
Performances are all-around terrific: Henson's go-to powerhouse persona is imbued with an unexpected, lovely sweetness; Spencer adds on to her gallery of superb performances with her Dorothy exhibiting a perfect blend of unshakeable strength and calm humor; and Monáe — known primarily as a pop star — proves that she can keep up with the other two leading ladies in this, her first major role. Additionally, Kevin Costner as Katherine's boss, the all-important Space Task Group Leader, delivers a strong portrayal of a workaholic who doesn't give a damn about gender, or the color of anyone's skin. For him, the only thing that matters is meeting — and exceeding — his expectations of excellence.
But here's the rub: In Hidden Figures, while the women face difficult challenges, their ultimate victories are perfect (as are their children, spouses and parents). Surely, given the tenor of the times, it seems ingenuous that those having to live within the confines of the Jim Crow south could all skip off into a Technicolor sunset.
However, all things considered, this point is a minor glitch on the launch pad. Opening on Christmas Day, consider Hidden Figures as the uplifting lift-off to this holiday season.
Rating on a scale of 5 requests from NASA to do the math: 4
Release date: December 25, 2016 (ltd); January 6, 2017 (wide)
Directed by: Theodore Melfi
Screenplay by: Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi
Based on the book by: Margot Lee Shetterly
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Glen Powell
Running Time: 127 minutes
Rating: PG
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The station also has an OLED display and can be controlled by only one knob. But what has changed and what is new?
Since firmware version 1.2 the serial console is included, that allows you to set and read the setpoint of the station, also you can read the current temperature and if any, the errors the station has. You simply can connect the station with a usb cable to the pc and use the arduino ide integrated terminal for the commands. Make sure that you use Newline or Carrigereturn as automatic lineend here. The supported commands can get get from the readme or by typing "help" in the terminal.
Besides that it is based on the Platino version some modifications have been applied. The most important step was to add broken thermocoupler detection to the input stage. If the tip has a bad contact, the station will no longer power the heater to prevent damaging the tip. Also the amplification of the imput voltage has been improved to get a better range, meaning we can better detect if we have a tip with overtemperature. Also you can now messure the current that is flowing through the tip.
For the user input only one rotary encoder (with integrated pushbuton) is needed to operate the iron, and the station has now a 0,96" OLED display instead of the 2x16 alphanumerical LCD used in the Platino version. All these small modifications also mean that we have got new software for the station. But lets take a look to what has changed in the circut.
The Hardware
As we can see from the image, the power stage is simple. We have a FET T1, IRF9540, and a driver in front of it. The driver for the FET consists of T3, T2 and T4. T2 and T4 from a push-pull driver and T3 is a level shifter to shift the AVR PWM signal from 5 V to VIN. A 20 mΩ resistor, R18, and an INA138 opamp, are used to measure the current supplied to the tip. But we also need MCP6002 as buffer to avoid the ADC input interfering with the high-impedance output of the INA138. The low-pass filter at the output of the buffer will average the measured current value.
The input for the temperature has a 1MΩ pull-up resitor to 5 V and a 10MΩ pull-down resistor to 0 V at the input. If for some reason the tip is not connected we will get a temperature reading beyond 600°C and can safely assume this to be due to malfuctioning.
The Weller RT tip has a thermo-element inside. Because it produces only a small temperature-dependent voltage amplification is required to use the full resultion of the MCU's ADC.
For the power input (24 V max) a small LDO is used for the MCU and the OLED. A diode to protect the board against reversed polarity is present.
A voltage divider R7-R9 allows the MCU to read the actual input voltage. The current firmware has a undervoltage or battery-low detection. If the voltage at the input goes below 10.8 V the tip is no longer powerd. As this is a pretty compact soldering station it can be used in the field powered by one of those cheap Lipo car starter packs.
Also of interest may be the rotary encoder. 100 nF capacitors were added to debounce the signals. This may come in handy when the encoder signals are processed in a completly interrupt-driven way. Also note the external pullup resistors that provide a well-defined value. The MCU has its own internally but their values specified to lie somewhere in the range of 20 kΩ to 60 kΩ, in our circuit they have a stable 10 kΩ value.
The OLED is connected to the SPI of the MCU, so nothing special here. Also the USB connection is done according tho the datasheet and doesn't contain any special tricks.
The SoftwareSoftware is often one of those things that magically appears from out of nowhere and is supposed to work. The software for the previous Platino soldering station was written without the Arduino framework even though it uses an ATmega328P as MCU. This requiered some rework to be done, in this case a new core for the software. As the new and the Platino soldering station have many things in common, the new software was built in a modular way. This means we now need only to maintain one firmware for both stations. The firmware is available at GitHub.
After powering the station a boot logo welcomes you, then the main screen appears. You can see the current temperature, the power supplied to the tip as bargraph and the target temperature set by the user. The station will heat up the tip as soon as the main screen appears. The target temperature is stored in the MCU's EEPROM.
If the station remains idle for ten minutes, it will enter a power down mode and reduce the temperatur to 100°C. If it then remains idle for another 10-minute period, the station will enter sleep mode and display a snoozing tip moving arround the screen. Press the rotary encoder's button to wake the station up again.
ErrorsIf something goes wrong an error screen will pop up displaying the reason of the problem. If for instance undervoltage is detected the current input voltage will be shown. There are also error codes:
1: tip is not heating;
3: temperature sensor connection is bad.
If these errors appear you can confirm them by pressing the rotary encoder's button. Then, if everything is well again, the station resumes working after ten seconds.
The last point to mention is the current limiter. The board will draw an average of 1.5 A by using a maximum duty-cycle of 50% for the PWM control signal. If you have a supply that can handle more than a 1.5 A load, you can adjust the value in the code. The parameter can be found at HW_150500.h for the station.


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We've all heard it said that maintaining an active lifestyle is a beneficial practice in order to maintain good health. This should come as no surprise. Our muscles, which enable our every movement, need to be frequently used to stay functional. You've heard of atrophy; it's what happens to unused muscles over time. As muscles atrophy they become weak, unstable, decrease in mass and respond poorly to nerve impulses.
Although many of us carefully keep our bodies in good shape, there are some very special muscles that are frequently neglected. Where can these special muscles be found?
In our eyes.
That's right, your eyes have muscles too, and just like every other muscle in your body, they require exercise. This may come as a surprise to you, because it's easy to think to yourself, "I use my eyes all the time. Aren't they getting all the exercise they need?". Perhaps they are, but before you jump to a conclusion, take a minute to think about your day.
Take the exact moment you find yourself in now, for example. You're reading dayprimer.com. You've been here for a few joy filled moments. Now think, how hard are your eyes working? As your eyes scroll through line after line of internet text, they're really not being utilized to their full extent.
For a more powerful example, consider a typical day for you. If you you're like a lot of people, your day probably goes something like this:
-Wake up, stumble to the shower and close your eyes for a few more peaceful minutes as the water tumbles over you.
-Get dressed, enjoy a warm cup of coffee as you glance through the daily paper.
-Get to work, spend the entire day in front of a computer or staring at your desk as you talk on the phone.
-Go home, relax in front of the TV, do a few things around the house before hitting the sack to rest up for another day.
As you can no doubt deduce, for a lot of people (and you may be one such person), there really aren't many opportunities for our eyes to get some proper use. Reading, watching TV and staring at a computer screen really aren't that intensive for our eyes, and so our eye muscles become weak and we lose quality in our visual acuity. Not to worry though, because you can exercise your eyes just like you can exercise any other muscle in your body, and it's easy to do.
So how do you exercise your eyes? To get you started, I've put together a short list of some eye exercises you can start doing right away:
Eye Exercise Program
1 - Sit comfortably on a chair. Rub your hands together until they feel warm. Close your eyes and cover them lightly with your cupped palms. Avoid applying pressure on your eyeballs. Place your palms so that the nose remains uncovered, and the eyes remain behind the slight hollow of the palms. Make sure that no light rays enter the eyes, and leave no gaps between fingers or between the edge of the palms and the nose. You may still see other lingering traces of colors. Imagine deep blackness and focus on the blackness. Take deep breaths slowly and evenly, while thinking of some happy incident; or visualize a distant scene. After your eyes see nothing but blackness, remove your palms from your eyes. Repeat the palming for 3 minutes or more.
2 - Close your eyes tightly for 3-5 seconds, then open them for 3-5 seconds. Repeat this 7 or 8 times.
3 - Move your eyes upwards as far as you can, and then downwards as far as you can. Repeat four more times. Blink quickly a few times to relax the eye muscles. Now do the same using points to your right and to your left, at eye level. Keep your raised fingers or two pencils on each side as guides and adjust them so that you can see them clearly when moving the eyes to the right and to the left, but without straining. Keeping the fingers at eye level, and moving only the eyes, look to the right at your chosen point, then to the left. Repeat four times. Blink several times, then close your eyes and rest.
4 - Sit and relax. Roll your eyes clockwise, then counter-clockwise. Repeat 5 times, and blink in between each time.
5 - Choose a point you can see from the right corner of your eyes when you raise them, and another that you can see from the left corner of your eyes when you lower them, half closing the lids. Remember to retain your original posture: spine erect, hands on knees, head straight and motionless. Look at your chosen point in right corner up, then to the one in left corner down. Repeat four times. Blink several times. Close the eyes and rest. Now do the same exercise in reverse. That is, first look to the left corner up, then to the right corner down. Repeat four times. Blink several times. Close the eyes and rest.
6 - Sit about 6 inches (200 mm) from the window. Make a mark on the glass at your eye level (a small sticker, black or red, would be perfect). Look through this mark and focus on something far away for 10-15 seconds; then focus on the mark again.
7 - Hold a pencil in front of you at arm's length. Move your arm slowly to your nose, and follow the pencil with your eyes until you can't keep it in focus. Repeat 10 times.
8 - Take a pencil, or use your finger, and hold it under the tip of your nose. Then start moving it away, without raising it, until you have fixed it at the closest possible distance where you can see it clearly without any blur. Then raise your eyes a little, look straight into the distance and there find a small point which you can also see very clearly. Now look at the closer point-the pencil or your finger tip then shift to the farther point in the distance. Repeat several times, blink, close your eyes and squeeze them tight.
9 - Look in front of you at the opposite wall and pretend that you are writing with your eyes, without turning your head. It may seem difficult at first, but with a bit of practice it is really fun. The bigger the letters, the better the effect.
10 - Imagine that you are standing in front of a really big clock. Look at the middle of the clock. Then look at any hour mark, without turning your head. Look back at the center. Then look at another hour mark. Do this at least 12 times. You can also do this exercise with your eyes closed.
It's that easy.
As you go through your day, try to incorporate some of the above eye exercises into your daily routine. Doing so will help reduce eye-strain, keep your eye muscles in good shape and may even naturally improve your vision.
If you job requires you to spend long hours on the computer or reading, try to plan in some 30 second breaks every 15 minutes or so to focus on something far away and do one of the above eye exercises.
Culled from dayprimer.com


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This article needs to be adapted to the Lost Boys Wiki Style.
Max (sire)
David (Vampire Brother)
Marko (Vampire Brother)
Paul (Vampire Brother)
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|Billy Wirth
Dwayne is the second vampire to appear in the film, and it is speculated that he carries a place in the hierarchy of the main group, as the second in command, as is implied with the order the boys are introduced in the film (David, Dwayne, Paul and Marko).
The stereotypical tall, dark and handsome vampire came to a gory demise when he was shot through the heart by Sam with a bow and arrow.
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Dwayne was portrayed as an enigma, strong and silent, rarely included in conversation, and is the epitome of the saying "Still waters run deep".
However, he still held a presence as the muscle of the group. This was demonstrated in the scene when Star was about to "go for a ride" with Michael Emerson; the boys all arrived at once, but Dwayne was the only one to brake in front of Michael's bike as an obstruction rather than part of the audience, implying he may be more reliable to fight than the other boys.
However, this is contradicted in the opening scene when David took it upon himself to flirt with a young blonde. Her boyfriend immediately became aggressive and grabbed Dwayne's collar (as David neatly managed to avoid his reach), only for Dwayne to attempt to break away as Marko and Paul began to throw the punches. This shows he carries the appearance of a fighter, but is reluctant to become involved with conflict.
One day, when the vampires were asleep, Michael, Sam and the Frog brothers, Edgar and Alan, went into The Cave, Michael retrieved Star and Laddie Thompson and put them in back of the car, where he collapsed and passed out, tired (as a half-vampire) from being awake during the day.
Meanwhile, Sam, Edgar and Alan found the sleeping vampires and staked Marko, which enraged the other vampires. The trio escaped in the car, with Star, Laddie and Michael in the back. Later that night, the vampires attacked the house. Paul was killed by Edgar, Alan and Sam's dog Nanook. Dwayne was the third to die when Sam shot an arrow through his heart. He collapsed on a radio, the arrow penetrated the controls, and caused Dwayne to be electrocuted, before exploding.
Dwayne is never named in the film, only in the credits.
Although it is seen that Paul is the only Lost Boy who demonstrates obvious communication with Laddie, the youngest boy in fact rides with Dwayne. In the brief conversation Dwayne had with Laddie, he refers to him as "bud", indicating friendship. Paul may be seen to have the rough-and-tumble affection towards the younger as an older brother, but Dwayne could easily be perceived as taking on the paternal role, not only with Laddie but with much the entire group.
This, however, excludes Star. It is noticeable that the only boy to speak to her, or generally acknowledge her presence, is David. This is speculated to have one of two meanings: David keeps her to himself and doesn't allow the others near her, or the boys have a shared distaste for her, for reasons unknown. When acting as the barrier to prevent Star going with Michael, Dwayne clearly has an expression of disapproval on his face, indicating his disinterest whether she went or stayed and could possibly only be the barrier on David's orders.


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Daylight is of primary importance for humans. It controls many human biological, physiological and mental processes. It is, for example, irreplaceable for the formation of vitamin D in the human body. We need it to be healthy, active and in a good mood. The positive influence of daylight for well-being as well as physical and mental health has not been investigated until the nineties. That's why the effect of daylight on humans was till then understudied and underestimated within the design of a building.
However, current studies give proof that lack of light is the cause of many diseases and dysfunctions. The most noted is the winter depression or "Seasonal Affective Disorder" (SAD). People who do not get enough daylight at their workstation often suffer from numerous ailments. They quickly feel exhausted or complain of a lack of concentration And children, who spend the day with learning in artificially lighted classrooms, suffer to an increasing degree from psychomotor retardation.
Light control for well-being
Making clever use of the daylight
When designing the lighting it should be the main objective to make the most of the daylight to profiting from its positive effects. At the same time, all other disturbing effects – like glare for example – should be eliminated. Within the private as well as the professional environment, this primarily means not to use artificial lighting as long as possible. Last but not least this demand effects the use of energy.
Here especially the Venetian blinds and outdoor blinds from HELLA can score with individually controllable slat positions. This means that the light is directed to the place where it is required. Everywhere where direct light could bother, shade may be provided. In combination with smart control devices and sensors – such as a sun sensor for example – it is possible to automatically provide the optimum light during the course of the day. Here the course of the sun is followed and cross-linked Venetian blinds, outdoor blinds and roller shutters are opened or closed to keep an earlier set lighting level.
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Venetian blinds and outdoor blinds from HELLA are characterised by highest manufacturing quality and uncompromising functionality. They control and dose the natural sunlight to ensure a perfect utilisation and to avoid glare.
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Besides the correct use of sunlight, an effective darkening is critical for the well-being of many people. Especially during the night an optimum darkening helps to eliminate disturbing light (e.g. street lighting) or the moon light from the bedroom. In this way a refreshing sleep, essential for the body to regain strength, can be ensured.
This is a hot topic for those who have another daily routine than the majority of the population. Shift workers, for example, who want to fall asleep after their night shift, need darkness in broad daylight; they have to beat their internal clock when living against the circadian rhythm. In these cases sun protection products help to handle the daylight as needed. Particularly roller shutters and interior blackout elements avoid most effectively the entering of light into the dark.
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Blackout elements
HELLA Blackout elements turn day into night. The sturdy blackout roller blinds for the interior close the windows completely and do not allow that annoying light from outdoor lightings, the sun or the moon enter the interior space.


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With the holiday season upon North Carolina, many blended families will be trying to figure out how to handle them for the first time. This can be a difficult task because instead of having one family, there are now multiple families. This means parents have to coordinate not only with their children's other parent but also with new family members, including new spouses and their families. As complicated as it can be, many families deal with it and make it work every year.
Perhaps these families can make the holiday season work because they have followed some advice from Operation:Parent. One great tip is for the new family to begin creating their own traditions. This can ease children into the new routines and help make the changes easier to handle. In addition, parents need to all work together. Everyone should be involved in creating a schedule of who will be where and when.
More advice for blended families tackling the holiday season comes from She Knows. Parents are encouraged to create a good atmosphere for the children involved. This means focusing on the future instead of the past and putting the focus on what is best for the children and not the adults. There may be traditions or customs that have to be dropped because there simply is not time for them or they do not fit into the schedule. This happens when trying to coordinate the schedules of multiple families. However, as long as the children are having a good time and not stressed out, the holidays should be enjoyable for everyone.


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August 12, 2019
Innisfil, ON – The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has placed Leonard's Beach under a swim advisory.
An advisory is a warning to swimmers, but it is not a beach closure. During an advisory, a beach is posted with warning signs when the water contains levels of bacteria that indicate there may be an increased risk of developing minor skin, eye, ear, nose and throat infections and stomach disorders. You may still choose to swim during an advisory but it may be best to avoid swallowing the water, or dunking your head underwater.
Testing is done at least weekly by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, and the results are listed on their website .


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Transparency Market Research Report Added "Ethylenediamine (EDA) Market" to its database.
Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/20/2015 -- Ethylenediamine (EDA) is an organic compound with chemical formula C2H4(NH2)2. It appears as a colorless clear liquid with a characteristic ammonia-like odor. Ethylenediamine (EDA) is a strong base and chelating agent. Ethylenediamine (EDA) can be produced at industrial scale through two processes. One process involves manufacture from ammonia and 1,2-dichloroethane under adjusted pressure at a temperature of 180 °C in an aqueous medium with triethylenetetramine (TETA) and Diethylenetriamine (DETA) as by products. Another commercially viable route involves the reaction of ammonia with ethanolamine in the presence of nickel bed as a heterogeneous catalyst. It is miscible in water and soluble in most acids including dilute nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, and sulfuric acid. Ethylenediamine (EDA) is highly corrosive and reacts rapidly with moist air to release a white misty vapor which is highly hazardous to health. Ethylenediamine (EDA) is classified as hazardous chemical substance and may cause serious health issues even in small quantities.
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Exposure to ethylenediamine (EDA) can cause severe skin and eye irritation and may even lead to blindness in cases of high exposure. Ingestion is highly dangerous and may lead to death if immediate medical care is not provided. Ethylenediamine (EDA) has high bio-accumulation potential and is toxic to aquatic life. Furthermore, EDA has a low flashpoint and easily catches fire.
Ethylenediamine (EDA) can be used for a variety of applications in wide range of industries including agrochemical, pharmaceutical, paints and coatings, fuel and energy, mining and textile among others. Ethylenediamine (EDA) is used as a building block for a variety of chemicals. It is used in bleach activators, chelating agents, corrosion inhibitors, elastomeric fibers, fungicides, fuel additives and lubricating oils, mineral processing aids, pharmaceuticals, plastic lubricants, polyamide resins, rubber processing additives, textile additives and urethane chemicals among others.
The ethylenediamine (EDA) market is primarily driven by its demand from growing end-use applications. However, hazardous nature of ethylenediamine (EDA) and stringent regulations for effective waste management from manufacturing facilities might hamper the market growth.
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In terms of geography, Asia Pacific is the largest consumer as well as producer of ethylenediamine (EDA). Major industrial economies including China, India, Japan, Australia, and South Korea are the major producers and consumers of ethylenediamine (EDA) for application in various industries such as additives in textiles, corrosion inhibitors in paints and coatings and as building blocks in the agrochemical, pharmaceutical and polymer industries. Two of the most populated countries, China and India are situated in Asia. Both these countries are growing rapidly and witnessing rising disposable income and purchase power parity of the general population. This high growth has lead to growth of end use products of ethylenediamine (EDA) such as paints and coatings and textiles. North America is another major consumer for ethylenediamine (EDA) especially in the chemical industry. Europe is expected to witness comparatively slower growth than other regions owing to recent economic meltdown and stringent regulations against hazardous chemical substances. There is very low scope of capacity expansion in the developed regions of North America and Western Europe due to over capacities, high land and labor costs and stringent regulations. China and India are the best prospects for capacity expansion to serve the growing local demand.
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15 Stay at Home Mom Wardrobe Essentials on a Budget
Tired of feeling frumpy? Hollywood stylist Erin Ross teaches stay at home moms how to create a comfortable capsule wardrobe on a budget that will make you feel like a million bucks!
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Prevent a "past date" from being entered in a "future date" field
One of our customers had an issue with updating their recurring order. The customer needed to update the expiration date for their credit card. The correct expiration year was 2021. The system saved the year as 1921. The customer is quite certain that they did not enter 1921 and they believed that they were only given a two digit option for the year, and that the system defaulted to 1921. This, of course, caused the next transaction to decline, but there was no feedback for the customer to know where the problem was with the information. In reviewing her record in the "back office," I was able to see that the expiration year was set to 1921, and knew the charge wouldn't go through with that date.
In general, the system should have an error message, that prevents someone from entering a "past date" in a "future date" field. In this case, for the field named "Card Expiration Date" there should never be an instance where a year entered in the 1900s should be allowed to be saved, and for that matter anything from 2016 back, and the system should produce an error message and not be allowed to be saved. If the customer did, in fact enter "21" because there is only a 2 digit option, and the system read it as 1921, then this is a major flaw in the system that needs to be corrected immediately.
I had a similar customer issue with the field named "Next Charge Date." Again, the customer should not be able to enter a past date, as this is a "Future Date" field. The customer entered a date in the past, and this caused the system to default to charging EVERY DAY, instead of monthly, until the date was edited. Fortunately, we caught the error on the 2nd day that the system charged the customer's card, and so we didn't have a major issue with our customer on our hands. If the system didn't allow a date in the past to be entered, the problem would have been avoided. If we had been dealing with a large amount of money being charged daily to the customer's card, this would have been a major issue.
It would be helpful to have a screen shots of the images that the customer sees when they are trying to update their recurring record, in the Help Library in the Recurring Orders section. I have no way of knowing if the system is set for a two digit or four digit year in the customer interface. From the "back office" side, the system needs a four digit entry, so I assume it is the same of the "Customer Interface," but I have no way of knowing this for sure, and it limits my ability to advise my customers over the phone.
Your consideration of these issues on your next software update would be greatly appreciated.