The significance of the entrance slit and the diffraction grating in forming a spectral image of the incident light in the image plane is discussed in the articles “An Introduction to a Spectrometer: The Slit” and “An Introduction to a Spectrometer: Diffraction Grating.”
In traditional spectrometer (monochrometer) designs, a second slit is located in the image plane, called the exit slit. Usually, this exit slit the same size as the entrance slit, given that the width of the entrance slit is one of the limiting factors on the spectrometer’s resolution.
In this configuration, an element detector is positioned behind the exit slit and this is followed by rotating the grating to scan the spectral image across the slit. Thus, the intensity of the light is measured as a function of wavelength.
In modern spectrometers, linear detector and CCD arrays have enabled the development of “fixed grating” spectrometers. When the pixels across the CCD are hit by the incident light, each pixel represents a part of the spectrum that the electronics can translate and display with a given intensity using software.
This development has made it possible to construct spectrometers without any moving parts, considerably reducing the size and power consumption. Compact multi-element detectors have enabled the development of a new class of low-cost, compact spectrometers that are generally known as “miniature spectrometers.”
Although there are different ways to characterize photodetectors, the most significant differentiator is the detector material. Si and InGaAs are the two most common semiconductor materials employed in miniature spectrometers.
When designing a spectrometer, it is important to choose the right detector material because the upper wavelength limit (λmax) is detected by the bandgap energy (Egap) of the semiconductor. λmax can be detected by the relationship given below:
Where, c is the speed of light and h is Plank’s constant.
The speed of light and the product of Plank’s constant can be expressed as 1.24 eV•µm or 1240 eV•nm to simplify the conversion of energy into wavelength. For instance, Si’s bandgap energy is 1.11 eV which corresponds to the maximum wavelength of 1117.117 nm.
On the other hand, InGaAs is an alloy formed by mixing InAs and GaAs, which have respective bandgap energies of 0.36 eV and 1.43 eV. The bandgap energy, based on In and Ga ratios, can be tuned in between those two values.
However, not all ratios of In and Ga can be easily fabricated due to various factors and, therefore the standard configuration for InGaAs detector arrays is 1.7 µm (or 0.73 eV). Extended InGaAs arrays can also be used, which can detect out to 2.6 µm or 2.2 µm, but these detectors are not only more expensive, but also noisier than conventional InGaAs detectors.
It is slightly harder to quantify the lower detection limit of a material, because it is determined by the absorbance characteristics of the semiconductor material, and can differ widely with the detector thickness.
The detection limit of the detector can also be lowered by placing a fluorescent coating on the window of the detector, which will then absorb the higher energy photons and reemit lower energy photons, which are subsequently detected by the sensor. A comparison of the detectivity (D*) as a function of wavelength for both InGaAs and Si (CCD), is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Approximate D* values as a function of wavelength for some typical detectors
CCDs, BT-CCDs, and PDAs
Currently, InGaAs detector arrays are only available in one configuration, but Si multi-element detectors are available in three different subcategories - back-thinned charge coupled devices (BT-CCDs), charge coupled devices (CCDs), and photodiode arrays (PDAs).
CCD technology enables the construction of small pixel size (~14 µm) detectors as it removes the requirement of direct readout circuitry from individual pixels. To achieve this, the charge is transferred from one pixel to another, enabling all of the information along the array to be read out from one pixel.
CCDs are an ideal option for most miniature spectrometers, as they can be designed quite inexpensively. However, they come with two disadvantages; first, the gate structure located on the front of the CCD can make the incident light scatter, which means it won't be absorbed, and second, a relatively large P-Si substrate is required by CCDs to ease low cost production, but this also limits the detector’s efficiency (particularly at shorter wavelengths) as a result of absorption through the Player.
BT-CCDs provide the ideal option to mitigate these problems in spectroscopy applications where very high sensitivity is required. BT-CCDs are designed by etching the CCD’s P-Si substrate to a thickness of about 10 µm. This process not only reduces the amount of absorption, but also increases the detector’s overall efficiency.
In addition, the detector is also illuminated from the back side (P-Si region), removing the effects from the gate structure on the detector surface. Figure 2 depicts a typical comparison of the quantum efficiency between a back-illuminated BT-CCD and a traditional front-illuminated CCD.
Figure 2. Typical quantum efficiency of front-illuminated CCD and back-illuminated CCD
While the use of BT-CCDs in spectroscopy provides clear benefits, there are two key drawbacks that should be taken into account. First, this process considerably increases the production cost, and second (as the detector is very thin) an etaloning effect can be caused by reflections off the front and back surfaces of the detector.
Although the etaloning effect associated with BT-CCDs can be mitigated by a deep depletion process, this will again increase the cost of the production process.
PDA detectors are more conventional linear detectors that contain a set of individual photodiodes arranged in a linear fashion using CMOS technology. While PDA detectors lack high sensitivity and small pixel size, they provide several benefits compared to BT-CCD and CCD detectors.
First, the absence of charge transfer removes the requirement for a gate structure on the front surface of the detector, and considerably increases the readout speed. Second, the well depth of a PDA detector is relatively higher than the well depth of a CCD - the well depth of a typical PDA detector is ~156,000,000e- compared to ~65,000e- for a typical CCD.
Due to the larger well depth, PDA detectors have an extremely linear response and a very large dynamic range ~50,000:1. These properties make these detectors suitable for applications where small changes in large signals, such as LED monitoring need to be detected.
Different types of detectors and the role they play in miniature spectrometers were discussed in the previous sections. However, noise sources are also equally important and no discussion of detectors will be complete without covering these factors and how they can be mitigated with TE Cooling.
Readout noise, fixed pattern noise, dark noise, and shot noise are the main sources of noise found in an array detector.
Readout noise is caused by electronic noise in the detector output stage and associated circuitry, which mainly dictates the spectrometer’s detection limit.
Shot noise is associated with the statistical variation in the number of photons incident on the detector, which follows a Poisson distribution. As a result, shot noise is proportional to the square root of the incident photon flux.
Dark noise is related to the statistical variation in the number of electrons produced in a dark state. Even when no incident light is present, a photo detector exhibits a small output. This is called the dark output or dark current.
Dark current strongly relies on ambient temperatures and is caused by thermally generated electron movements. Dark noise, similar to shot noise, also follows a Poisson distribution; therefore, dark noise is proportional to the square root of the dark current.
The fixed pattern noise is the variation in photo-response between adjacent pixels. This variation largely results from variations in the quantum efficiency among pixels caused by non-uniformities in the film thickness and aperture area that occur during fabrication.
The total noise of an array detector is the root square sum of these four noise sources.
An effective way to reduce dark noise and improve the dynamic range and detection limit is by cooling an array detector with a built-in thermoelectric cooler (TEC). For Si detectors, dark current halves when the temperature decreases by about 5 to 7 °C and doubles when the temperature increases by about 5 to 7 °C.
Figure 3 illustrates the dark noise for a cooled and un-cooled CCD detector at an integration time of 60 seconds. When operating at room temperature, the dark noise almost saturates the un-cooled CCD. When the CCD is TEC-cooled to only 10 °C, the dark noise is reduced by about two times and the dark current is reduced by about four times. This makes the CCD to operate at a longer integration time for detecting weak optical signals.
When a CCD-based spectrometer is used in non-demanding high light level applications such as LED measurement, the reduced dark noise caused by TE cooling is minimal due to the relatively short integration time used.
Figure 3. Dark current for cooled and un-cooled CCD detector (integration time = 60 s)
As a rule of thumb, the detector operates in a read noise limited state when the integration time of a CCD spectrometer is set to less than 200 ms. As a result, no major noise reduction occurs due to the TE cooling; although the temperature regulation under these conditions will be advantageous for long-term baseline stability.
This information has been sourced, reviewed and adapted from materials provided by B&W Tek.
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Following a few months of planning, AKKG is excited and proud to announce the launch of our brand-new website – we hope you like it!
Our new site will tell our story of how AKKG came to be, give you clear details of the classes we run and a little insight into the team behind AKKG.
You may not know it, but we have been at the forefront of martial arts teaching in Aberdeen for over 20 years. With AKKG, we don’t intend to be the same as your average martial arts group. We strive to be a little bit different from the norm.
This website has been created to help us get our message to you.
It was important for us that the website not only showcased AKKG and the class timetables but that it reflected our team’s personality and truly represented who we are and what we are all about.
Now we did do some fairly extensive testing before launching, but if something isn’t right, please send us an email should you encounter any issues or even have some suggestions – we would love your feedback.

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Prima to hold open house
Prima North America is holding an open house May 23 - 24 at its Chicopee, Mass., Technology Center to debut its new Syncrono laser cutting machine.
Visitors also will be able to view demonstrations of the company's 2-D/3-D laser systems (Platino, Domino, Rapido); its automatic load/unload system with a 10-shelf tower; 2-D and 3-D programming software; and high-speed tube cutting on a CNC rotary axis. Attendees will be able to interact with the company's technical experts.
Attendees will receive complimentary lunch and refreshments. Registration is required to attend. To register, contact Lynn Morin at 800-527-3670 or firstname.lastname@example.org(please specify day).


N320 porous handgun and shotgun powder16.05.2017
The N320, formerly known as 3N22, is a fast burning, porous handgun powder. N320 is one of our most popular handgun powders and can be used for a wide range of pistol calibers from .32 to .45. It is most commonly used by sport and hobby shooters, but as a very reliable powder it is also suitable for authority applications. The powder type is tubular, with grain dimensions 1,1 mm x 0,8 mm (length x diameter), and as all our reloading powders it includes the added anti-fouling agent.
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As an extremely clean burning and accurate powder, N320 is also a big favourite of Gene Pearcey aka “Evil Roy”, the famous Cowboy Action Shooter using Vihtavuori Powders. Speaking to Vihtavuori at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas earlier this year, Evil Roy concluded:
“I’ve been using the N320 powder for quite a long time now, and it’s definitely my favourite powder. I use it for .45 ACP, .45 Colt, 9 mm and .38 Special, so I use it for a lot of things. And it just occurred to me some time ago, that I have been using that powder for years, and I haven’t cleaned my powder measure one time – not one single time.”
The N320 is also suitable for shotguns, and shot shell reloading data will be available in the near future. N320 is available in containers of 0,5 kg and 2 kg containers, and in the USA in 1 lbs and 4 lbs containers.
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N320 works nicely for 9 mm Luger with a FMJ bullet for low velocity applications that still require accuracy.
Suggested load by our pros:
- 8,0 g / 124 grs Lapua FMJ bullet
- 0,26 g / 4.0 grs load (if needed, go down to 0,22 g / 3.4 grs)
- Cartridge overall length: 29,0 mm / 1.142’’
We offer load data for N320 in the following calibers:
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iPhone 5 vs Galaxy S4 Specs, Camera: How Will iPhone 5S, 6 Compare? [VIDEO]
The epic rivalry between the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy S4 is about to meet another contender: the iPhone 5S.
The Galaxy S4 is 5.39 inches in height, with a width of 2.7 inches. The display has a definition 4-inch screen with a 1,910 x 1,080 resolution. The screen is 14% heavier than the iPhone 5. Meanwhile, the iPhone 5 screen measures at 1,136 x 640 pixels, larger than its predecessors. The height of the Apple phone is 4.87 inches tall with a width of 2.31 inches. The iPhone 5 weighs in at 3.95 ounces.
The Galaxy S4 trumps the iPhone in terms of processor performance. The Galaxy S4 operates on a Qualcomm 1.9 GHz Quad Core Processor, with 2GB of RAM and a 600 processor. The iPhone 5 boasts a 1.3GHz A6 processor and 1GB of RAM.
The Galaxy S4's camera also poses a great challenge to the iPhone 5. The Galaxy S4 includes a "Zoom Ring," or a feature that allows the user to take photos during a phone call. As previously reported, the user can twist the camera from the base of the phone to activate an "in-call photo," and snap the shot and send it to the caller on the line.
According to The Register, the new Samsung Galaxy S4 beat out Apple's iPhone 5 in a speed test. The Galaxy S4 scored 91.6% better than the iPhone 5 on the test and 14% better than the number two phone, the HTC One.
The new Samsung Galaxy S4 camera interface is greatly improved. When you tap on the screen to change the settings, a new panel appears offering quick settings including Flash, HDR, Exposure, and front-facing camera.
How will the iPhone 5S compare to these devices?
As previously reported, sources have been suggesting that the iPhone 5S will debut in three colors: black, white, and champagne. However, recent images surfaced of a fourth, secret color: graphite gray. Sonny Dickinson posted images of iPhone 5S shells that he had obtained on his blog, suggesting that Apple's next device may be "gray or graphite with a black trim."
The iPhone 5S or 6 will feature an A7 quad core processor with 3GB of RAM, a larger screen display, and an 13-megapixel back camera and up to 128GB of internal storage. It also may feature a fingerprint sensor and a dual-flash camera.
Watch the video comparison of the iPhone 5 vs the Galaxy S4.


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A "Jerry Bear" drawing I did years ago with my tablet in Flash. They are many different colors and are recognized as a symbol of the Grateful Dead.

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Sykes brings in a real snake and plans to poison Delia by planting a snake in her washing basket knowing that she has a fear of them. “There lay the snake in the basket! He moved sluggishly at first, but even as she turned round and round, jumped up and down in an insanity of fear, he began to stir vigorously” (Hurston 8). She got away and fall asleep in the barn. Not knowing the snake’s whereabouts Sykes walks in and gets bitten.
It snapped and slithers away. The kids believed they catched away the evil creature but in actuality it did permanent damage to the family. The snake bite Ruth May and in a few moments, she was gone. Leah was the first one of the Price sister to notice their sister being bitten by seeing “Ruth May’s bare left shoulder, where two rd puncture wounds stood out.” (Kingsolver 364)
However, his life is abruptly cut short despite wandering in own home. The death occurring in the snake’s territory makes his death even more cruel. After the death of the snake, the narrator envisions him departing over “twilit sands.” In the man’s daydream, the snake is shown the desert leaving peacefully instead of dying. The author’s choice to end the story with the image of snake adds to the already dismal mood.
This is revealed on page 10, stating, “‘Mrs, Wynnes, how did you know that cobra was in the room?’A faint smile lights up the woman’s face as she replies: ‘Because it was crawling across my foot.’” Toward the end of the story, it is revealed that Mrs. Wynnes had encountered the snake before the American naturalist realized it was in the room. She had, instead of screaming and causing hysteria like the colonel claimed she would, calmly addressed the situation by calling for a young boy to set bait for the snake in order to lure it away from the guests. By doing this, Mrs. Wynnes disproved the colonel’s statement that women perform lesser than men while reacting to a crisis by showing him firsthand.
In the essay, “Do Insects Think?” the author Robert Benchley satirizes the scientific community in order to copy the pretentious air of superiority that scientists exude. One way the author proved his point was by using personification. Personification is defined as when human characteristics are given to a non-sentient object or thing.
For example, in the book, when Inigo and Fezzik visit they have to go through many hardships in the Zoo of Death. Arabian Garstini, a very dangerous snake, is one of the animals in the Zoo of Death. Suddenly it starts coiling around them “and the fourth coil, the final coil, [coils around their] throat” which is terrifying. This builds a lot of tension and causes the readers to really get involved in the story. But, in the movie, there is no Zoo of Death and Fezzik and Inigo easily go inside the Pit of Despair.
In the beginnning of the story Skyes pretends to have a snake fall near her by placing a whip a moving it in a slithering motion, and Delia says ¨Skyes, what you throw dat whip on me like dat? You know it would skeer me—looks just like a snake,an´ you knows how skeered Ah is of snakes.¨ He did this because he enjoys seeing her in fear because that’s his goal, but her evolution has no longer let him do that. Until one day after many days of being together in silence, Skyes appears once again at the house. This time with a soap box that he left but Delia didn’t pay much attention to it.
In the end, the evil snake is the thing that ends up killing Sykes, much to the shock of the readers. My interpretation was that the snake was used as a symbol of the evilness of Sykes and how in the end, it came back to literally bite him, which resulted in his demise. In conclusion, Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston what I consider to be the greatest work of short fiction I’ve read so far. I praise it for bringing up issues that black women specifically had to bear in that time period, such as working day and day out to survive and serve upper-class white folks in society.
However, the way in which Steinbeck implements this “colorful language” is key to understanding why he used it at all. Ordinarily, an author would describe a character by their physical human traits rather than accentuating animal-like characteristics, which is how Steinbeck depicts Lennie. As a result of the utilization of Lennie’s animal-like depiction, Steinbeck subliminally dehumanizes Lennie in the reader's mind and justifies the death of animals at the hands of their masters. Ultimately, in Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck dehumanizes Lennie to the reader through the use of animal imagery, in order to allow the reader to justify Lennie’s death at the hands of his best friend, George as a warranted act of
Extermination and Assimilation Laura’s illness has gotten worse and then other people realize how her dreams are not only dreams. Her dreams or rather, her nightmares that people told her not to be afraid of, were actual part of the illness. The source of Laura’s illness is found when a doctor finds marks of vampire bites upon Laura which frightens them that such a creature exists. The doctor mentions how about a female vampire and then Carmilla’ true identity was revealed.
All king snakes ar non-venomous, but ar powerful constrictors and typically kill their prey through suffocation. The "king" in their name refers to their propensity to hunt and consume totally different snakes, still as venomous rattlesnakes that ar usually nocturnal to their natural geographical area. Calif. king snakes ar naturally mothproof to the venom of rattlesnakes. They profit of pit vipers once the possibility arises and a pit viper will
Truman Capote enlightened the world with an insight to the brutal murders committed by Perry Smith and Dick Hickock of the six innocent lives of the Clutter Family. It was entirely clear that the victims’ lives were taken out of spite. Capote exposes the murderers’ mentality and its relation to family by expertly exploiting the characters, accentuating the setting, and constantly foreshadowing the outcome.. Due to the fact that the crime was committed by two people, Dick and Perry, it is essential to fully comprehend these characters and who they were.
The seemingly endless national struggle, otherwise known as the War on Drugs, has been around for decades; with policies being enacted hoping to end this epidemic. But after numerous failed attempts, officials have hit a wall in the fact that they don’t know what else they can do to end it. If history has taught America anything at all, it is that it repeats itself, as shown by Prohibition; which made alcohol illegal during the Great Depression. This begs the question: Why are officials so set on prohibiting the use of drugs when history has proven its’ effects?
In the book “Of Mice and Men,” John Steinbeck uses characterization to demonstrate the humans are self centered, and that they don’t pay much attention to others. To begin with, Steinbeck shows that humans are self centered through the use of characterization. After Lennie dies, Carlson says, “now what the hell you suppose is eatin’ them two guys.” (Steinbeck 107). This dialogue serves to remind us that even though someone just died right in front of them, they don’t honestly care.

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Regions help boost UK commercial property market | 07 August 2013
Regional commercial property investments around the UK have reached a two-year high, bdaily.co.uk reports.
Over recent years, the UK’s regional commercial property market has paled in comparison to that of London, with the capital attracting significantly more deals than many other towns and cities combined.
This disparity may soon be coming to an end, however, as the UK’s regions have been boosted by some high profile deals of late that offered the best quarterly results in almost two years.
New research by Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) found that deals outside of London worth a combined £334 million were signed during Q2 2013. On a quarter-by-quarter basis, this represents a 267 per cent increase.
Much of this, it was claimed, came from high-profile deals as large investors begin showing their trust in the regions with big money investments. These included deals in Leeds, York, Doncaster and Bradford, which all welcomed contracts of over £37 million.
Despite the strong regional figures, London also welcomed an upturn in investment, which helped the UK record a two per cent rise during Q2 to a nationwide total of £8.24 billion.
Commenting, LSH chief executive Ezra Nahome told thebusinessdesk.com: “Central London offices still remain the most popular asset class – accounting for over 50 per cent of the quarterly investment total.
“But regional investment volumes are on the up, reaching their highest point since Q3 2011. his activity can be attributed to the slight easing in the debt markets, an improvement in sentiment towards the regions, momentum behind the economy starting to grow and investors taking advantages of historical highs in the yield gap between London and the regions.”
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Part of Netflix’s decision to renew “Too Hot to Handle” for a fourth season has to do a lot with ratings. Deadline reported that the first season of the show was watched by approximately 51 million people, whereas the second season dipped a bit with only 29 million viewers tuning in. However, Netflix still makes mega money from its shows and that money has been invested into the production of the new season.
Compared to other reality shows, “Too Hot to Handle” is expensive to produce because of the locations in which it films. Seasons 2 and 3 were filmed in a villa at the Turtle Tail Estate in Turks and Caicos, per Marie Claire. The outlet notes, via The Caribbean Journal, that the villa costs $10,000 to rent, which is not cheap for Netflix.
Perhaps the price has become a little too steep for the streaming platform, as Season 4 will be filmed at a different villa in Turks & Caicos, according to Digital Spy. But viewers will have to wait and see if the scenery lives up to previous seasons when Season 4 premieres later this summer.

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I am sure most of you in the Jamaica and SE Queens are not even aware of the huge sex trafficking of young underage girls of color being kidnapped and forced into prostitution in our own communities by the fucking hood rats in the community. Sure you hear about Thailand, China and the adult Asian women, but when do you hear about young underage girls of color in our own communities, right here in the good old USA.
So this is a WAKE-UP CALL.
And where are the so-called elected officials of the area, Comrie, Miller, Wills, Cook, Meeks, Vanel, Hydman, Lancman, Katz, all of them. Where are all the church leaders, I mean this community only has like a 1000 damn churches. WHEN have you heard any of them bring this up or when have you heard one of them bring up the young 15 year girl who was pimped out by St. Alban’s Joseph Gilbert for FOUR MONTHS inside Rev. Floyd Flake’s Greater Allen Cathedral Senior Residence on Merrick Blvd, which is a HUD building as well and where that scum Gilbert was staying with a drug addicted senior citizen at this facility. PLUS, to this day, the Flakes and Greater Allen Church have not made one comment or returned any calls from reporters on this issue. WHY? What are they hiding?
AND where is Public Advocate Tish James or our Mayor. Let it be some illegal immigrant and they will jump up on a podium to let their voice be heard.
And for these do nothing and corrupt elected officials, where the hell are you on this issue. Instead asshole elected officials want to waste time on crap like this: https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170609/central-harlem/harlem-soha-fine-realtors-brian-benjamin-legislation-state-senate
Where are the folks standing up for these young women of color in this community?
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A man is accused of forcing a girl into prostitution at this senior residence.
A St. Albans man has been indicted on charges of sex trafficking after allegedly holding a teenage girl against her will at a Jamaica senior residence and forcing her to work as a prostitute, the Queens district attorney announced on Thursday.
Joseph Gilbert, 24, was charged with first- and second-degree kidnapping, compelling prostitution, sex trafficking, second-degree promoting prostitution, second-degree and third-degree assault, third degree rape, third-degree criminal sexual act and endangering the welfare of a child. He faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted.
In December 2016, Gilbert allegedly forced a 15-year-old girl into prostitution. Whenever the girl expressed a desire to stop, Gilbert would allegedly beat her with his fists and threaten her, the DA said. Additionally, Gilbert allegedly forced the teenager to take drugs that would keep her awake, so she could work for Gilbert for longer periods of time.
In March 2017, the girl escaped from the senior residence, where she was being held against her will. Gilbert was allegedly staying with an older resident who was addicted to drugs.
“The defendant is accused of entering into an unlawful sexual relationship with the victim when she was just 15 years of age,” said Queens DA Richard Brown. “Thereafter, he is accused of holding her against her will, forcing her to engage in prostitution acts and to turn over to him all the money that she earned as a prostitute. If convicted, the defendant faces a lengthy term behind bars for sex trafficking—one of the most exploitive and degrading crimes against women and society.”
While the announcement released by the Queens DA did not list the name of the senior residence, a June 1 report by the New York Daily News identified the location as the Allen Cathedral Senior Residence, a building with senior affordable housing units that is affiliated with the Greater Allen AME Cathedral of New York.
The Greater Allen AME Cathedral did not respond to emailed questions by press time.
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Jamaica man facing sex trafficking, rape charges: DA
JAMAICA — A 28-year-old man has been arraigned on a 76-point indictment charging him with sex trafficking, rape and other crimes, according to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.
Brown identified the defendant as Reagan “Flex” Conception, of Jamaica, who allegedly forced a 14-year-old girl into prostitution and pocketed the proceeds over the course of three months.
Conception was arraigned last Friday before Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter, charging him with kidnapping, rape, criminal sexual act, sex trafficking, compelling prostitution, promoting prostitution, assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
Conception, who faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted, was ordered held without bail, with his next court appearance set for July 5.

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Elevated body mass index correlates with higher seminal plasma interleukin 8 levels and ultrasonographic abnormalities of the prostate in men attending an andrology clinic for infertility.J Endocrinol Invest. 2011 Nov; 34(10):e336-42.JE
Obesity is associated with a systemic, low-grade inflammatory state. Although the relationship between obesity and semen parameters or prostate diseases has been previously investigated, the association between body mass index (BMI), prostate inflammatory diseases and color- Doppler ultrasound (CDU) of the male genital tract (MGT) has been poorly studied.
To evaluate the association between BMI and CDU features of the MGT, signs and symptoms of prostate inflammation, semen parameters.
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We studied 222 men seeking medical care for couple infertility. According to the World Health Organization classification, subjects were divided into 3 groups: normal weight (no.=131, BMI=18.5-24.9 kg/m2), overweight (no.=71, BMI=25.0-29.9 kg/m2), obese (no.=20, BMI≥30.0 kg/m2). All patients underwent simultaneous testosterone evaluation and seminal analysis, including interleukin 8 (sIL-8), along with scrotal and transrectal CDU, before and after ejaculation. Prostatitis symptoms were evaluated by National Institutes of Health- Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index questionnaire.
After adjusting for age and testosterone levels, higher BMI was significantly related to higher prostate volume and several CDU features of the prostate, including macro-calcifications, inhomogeneity, higher arterial peak systolic velocity (the latter adjusted also for blood pressure), but not with abnormalities of testis, epididymis, seminal vesicles. Furthermore, higher BMI and BMI class were significantly related to higher sIL-8, a reliable surrogate marker of prostate inflammatory diseases, even after adjustment for age. Conversely, no associations among BMI, clinical symptoms of prostatitis or semen parameters were observed.
Subjects with higher BMI might develop CDU and biochemical signs suggestive of prostate inflammation, although not clinically overt.

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Using herbs and vegetables from the garden along with convenient pantry items makes this hearty soup easy and fast to fix. Your family will devour it. —Roxanne Chan, Albany, California
- 2 cups diced peeled butternut squash
- 1 small carrot, finely chopped
- 1 green onion, sliced
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 cups vegetable broth, divided
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 3 ounces cream cheese, cubed
- 1/4 cup minced fresh basil
- 1 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce, chopped
- 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (11 ounces) Mexicorn, drained
- 2 cups fresh baby spinach
- Fresh sage, optional
- 1. In a large saucepan, saute the squash, carrot, onion and cumin in oil for 10 minutes. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Add 1-1/2 cups broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 10-12 minutes or until vegetables are tender; cool slightly.
- 2. Transfer mixture to a blender; add the tomatoes, cream cheese, basil, chipotle pepper and remaining broth. Cover and process for 1-2 minutes or until smooth.
- 3. Return to the saucepan; stir in the beans, corn and spinach. Cook and stir until spinach is wilted and soup is heated through. If desired, sprinkle with fresh sage. Yield: 5 servings.
1-1/3 cups equals 279 calories, 9 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 19 mg cholesterol, 1,097 mg sodium, 43 g carbohydrate, 10 g fiber, 10 g protein.
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A beautiful weekend for watching birds demands beautiful people watching birds. Were you out there?
I enjoyed a nice selection of sparrows and raptors in Pennsylvania farm country, with a pair of bold and noisy Red-shouldered Hawks taking the prize. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the 76 the Queens County Bird Club recorded during the Big Sit on Saturday at the hawk watch platform at Fort Tilden. The bird was a Dickcissel and it was identified by voice as it flew over. Not bad!
How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
Not a bird but the sighting of a huge male Wild Boar in broad daylight in the forests above Heidelberg/Germany. My first daylight observation since around 2006…
No Big Sit for me because I was guiding a trip in southeastern Costa Rica. No luck with any super rare migrants but always great birding there at this time of year anyways- thousands of migrating raptors, hundreds of Red-eyed Vireos, and various other migrants. This will sound strange but beating out Collared Forest-Falcon, two puffbird species, antbirds, and 150 other species was probably Least Flycatcher- my first for the year and a rare migrant here. Almost at 650 for the year.
Best bird of the weekend was probably seeing a male, and later a female, American Kestrel sprinting past an otherwise slow day at Hawk Mountain in Kempton, PA.
But best overall birding experience was without a doubt finally visiting Alexander Wilson’s grave, thanks to the BirdPhilly/Delaware Valley Ornithological Club’s superfun birdwalk!
Birded my patch all weekend (we had a long weekend off school, yay!) and was rewarded with two lifers- Wilson’s Warbler and locally rare Clay-colored Sparrow!


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The human EAG1 potassium channel belongs to the superfamily of KCNH voltage-gated potassium channels that have roles in cardiac repolarization and neuronal excitability. EAG1 is strongly inhibited by Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM) through a mechanism that is not understood. We determined the binding properties of CaM with each one of three previously identified binding sites (BDN, BDC1, and BDC2), analyzed binding to protein stretches that include more than one site, and determined the effect of neighboring globular domains on the binding properties. The determination of the crystal structure of CaM bound to BDC2 shows the channel fragment interacting with only the C lobe of calmodulin and adopting an unusual bent conformation. Based on this structure and on a functional and biochemical analysis of mutants, we propose a model for the mechanism of inhibition whereby the local conformational change induced by CaM binding at BDC2 lies at the basis of channel modulation.
Protein modifications, whether chemically induced or post-translational (PTMs), play an essential role for the biological activity of proteins. Understanding biological processes and alterations thereof will rely on the quantification of these modifications on individual residues. Here we present SSPaQ, a subtractive method for the parallel quantification of the extent of modification at each possible site of a protein. The method combines uniform isotopic labeling and proteolysis with MS, followed by a segmentation approach, a powerful tool to refine the quantification of the degree of modification of a peptide to a segment containing a single modifiable amino acid. The strength of this strategy resides in : (1) quantification of all modifiable sites in a protein without prior knowledge of the type(s) of modified residues ; (2) insensitivity to changes in the solubility and ionization efficiency of peptides upon modification ; and (3) detection of missed cleavages caused by the modification for mitigation. The SSPaQ method was applied to quantify modifications resulting from the interaction of human phosphatidyl ethanolamine binding protein 1 (hPEBP1), a metastasis suppressor gene product, with locostatin, a covalent ligand and antimigratory compound with demonstrated activity towards hPEBP1. Locostatin is shown to react with several residues of the protein. SSPaQ can more generally be applied to induced modification in the context of drugs that covalently bind their target protein. With an alternate front-end protocol, it could also be applied to the quantification of protein PTMs, provided a removal tool is available for that PTM.
The function of neutrophil protease 3 (PR3) is poorly understood despite of its role in autoimmune vasculitides and its possible involvement in cell apoptosis. This makes it different from its structural homologue neutrophil elastase (HNE). Endogenous inhibitors of human neutrophil serine proteases preferentially inhibit HNE and to a lesser extent PR3. We constructed a single-residue mutant PR3 (I217R) to investigate the S4 subsite preferences of PR3 and HNE and used the best peptide substrate sequences to develop selective phosphonate inhibitors with the structure : Ac-peptidylP(O-C6H4-4-Cl)2. The combination of a prolyl residue at P4 and an aspartyl residue at P2 was totally selective for PR3. We then synthesized N-terminally biotinylated peptidyl-phosphonates to identify PR3 in complex biological samples. These inhibitors resisted proteolytic degradation and rapidly inactivated PR3 in biological fluids such as inflammatory lung secretions and the urine of patients with bladder cancer. One of these inhibitors revealed intracellular PR3 in permeabilized neutrophils and on the surface of activated cells. They hardly inhibited PR3 bound to the surface of stimulated neutrophils, despite their low molecular mass, suggesting that the conformation and reactivity of membrane-bound PR3 is altered. This finding is relevant for autoantibody binding and the subsequent activation of neutrophils in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly Wegener disease). These are the first inhibitors that can be used as probes to monitor, detect and control PR3 activity in a variety of inflammatory diseases.
Genomic plasticity mediated by transposable elements can have a dramatic impact on genome integrity. In order to minimize its genotoxic effects, it is tightly regulated either by intrinsic mechanisms (linked to the element itself) or by host-mediated mechanisms. Using mass spectrometry, we show here for the first time that MOS1, the transposase driving the mobility of the mariner Mos1 element, is phosphorylated. We also show that the transposition activity of MOS1 is down regulated by PKA phosphorylation at S170, which renders the transposase unable to promote Mos1 transposition. One step in the transposition cycle, the assembly of the paired-end complex, is specifically inhibited. At the cellular level, we provide evidence that phosphorylation at S170 prevents the active transport of the transposase into the nucleus. Our data suggest that PKA phosphorylation may play a double role in the early stages of genome invasion by mariner elements.
Greglin is an 83-residue serine protease inhibitor purified from the ovaries of the locust Schistocerca gregaria. Greglin is a strong inhibitor of subtilisin and human neutrophil elastase, acting at sub-nanomolar and nanomolar concentrations, respectively ; it also inhibits neutrophil cathepsin G, α-chymotrypsin and porcine pancreatic elastase, but to a lesser extent. In the present study, we show that greglin resists denaturation at high temperature (95 °C) and after exposure to acetonitrile and acidic or basic pH. Greglin is composed of two domains consisting of residues 1–20 and 21–83. Mass spectrometry indicates that the N-terminal domain (1–20) is post-translationally modified by phosphorylations at three sites and probably contains a glycosylation site. The crystal structure of the region of greglin comprising residues 21–78 in complex with subtilisin was determined at 1.75 Å resolution. Greglin represents a novel member of the non-classical Kazal inhibitors, as it has a unique additional C-terminal region (70–83) connected to the core of the molecule via a supplementary disulfide bond. The stability of greglin was compared with that of an ovomucoid inhibitor. The thermostability and inhibitory specificity of greglin are discussed in light of its structure. In particular, we propose that the C-terminal region is responsible for non-favourable interactions with the autolysis loop (140-loop) of serine proteases of the chymotrypsin family, and thus governs specificity.
KCNH channels are voltage-gated potassium channels with important physiological functions. In these channels, a C-terminal cytoplasmic region, known as the cyclic nucleotide binding homology (CNB-homology) domain displays strong sequence similarity to cyclic nucleotide binding (CNB) domains. However, the isolated domain does not bind cyclic nucleotides. Here, we report the X-ray structure of the CNB-homology domain from the mouse EAG1 channel. Through comparison with the recently determined structure of the CNB-homology domain from the zebrafish ELK (eag‐like K+) channel and the CNB domains from the MlotiK1 and HCN (hyperpolarization‐activated cyclic nucleotide‐gated) potassium channels, we establish the structural features of CNB-homology domains that explain the low affinity for cyclic nucleotides. Our structure establishes that the “self-liganded” conformation, where two residues of the C-terminus of the domain are bound in an equivalent position to cyclic nucleotides in CNB domains, is a conserved feature of CNB-homology domains. Importantly, we provide biochemical evidence that suggests that there is also an unliganded conformation where the C-terminus of the domain peels away from its bound position. A functional characterization of this unliganded conformation reveals a role of the CNB-homology domain in channel gating.
Somatic embryogenesis was induced from in vitro-derived leaf explants of Rosa chinensis cultivar (cv) Old Blush. Calli producing embryos with expanded cotyledons (RcOBType1 embryos) were obtained. Further refinements of the callus maintenance medium generated a more typical rose embryogenic callus (RcOBType2) displaying high levels of secondary embryogenesis and embryos with limited cotyledon expansion Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation assays using β-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene showed that both types of embryos were competent for transformation. Under selection conditions, transformed RcOBType1 explants produced non chimaeric transformed embryos, from which shoots could be adventitiously regenerated. In contrast to RcOBType1, transformed RcOBType2 embryos directly yielded transformed shoots when repeatedly cultured in selective regeneration conditions. Transformation efficiency ranged between three to nine percent and shoots suitable for rooting were obtained within 6–8 months. Transgenic plants were transferred into the greenhouse and molecularly confirmed. The availability of transformation methods in a diploid rose, R. chinensis cv. Old Blush, will be useful for gene functional studies.

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A physician from Mexico is improving diabetes care for 800 Hispanic youngsters and their families at the Barbara Davis Center.
New nutrition labeling will make eating healthy easier with additional categories like added sugar, a CU dietitian says.
The soaring cost of EpiPens means some patients with severe allergies cannot afford them, and researchers have cut back on their use.
A proposal to increase the tobacco tax by $1.75 per pack in Colorado would reduce smoking and help fund needed anti-smoking programs, CU faculty say.
University of Colorado Hospital has opened a clinic serving mental health needs of the LGBTQ community.
A CU addiction clinic plans to begin offering an implant that can curb craving and ease withdrawal symptoms from heroin and painkillers.
Eating fat doesn't make you fat, but it can make you unhealthy if you eat the wrong kind, a CU expert says.
Cancer patients at Children's Hospital Colorado heal better if they can develop a friendship with a dog who has had a similar illness.
CU residents will train at Memorial Hospital for the first time in the Colorado Springs hospital's history.
A CU physician offers free health care to the homeless and uninsured in encampments around the metro area.
Kids with sports head injuries used to be back in the game without much delay. Parents and doctors are taking concussions much more seriously now.
A new law will allow out-of-state physicians to more easily practice in Colorado and help patients in rural and underserved areas.
A cure for Alzheimer's remains elusive, so CU researchers say it's best to take steps to prevent and prepare for the disease.
University of Colorado Hospital has devoted 1,500-square-feet of garden space to growing vegetables for patient meals.
Mitchell Jay Cohen, MD, will join Denver Health Medical as the Director of Surgery and the CU School of Medicine as a professor in the Department of Surgery.


Telstra trying to kick last click attribution "drug", ramping up in-house studio, says dynamic creative "not easy"
Telstra is pinning hopes on Markov models and Google’s data clean room to kick last click attribution into touch. The telco is also “massively ramping up” in-house creative studio work, but admits dynamic creative tech remains work in progress.
What you need to know:
- Telco using Markov model and moving to Google Ads Data Hub to gauge which ads and channels contributed to sale.
- Also ramping up in-house ad output, but says dynamic creative tech not up to scratch.
- Optus also looking for “pointier” personalised creative that better drives results.
Last click for us is a drug that people are addicted to, it’s really terrible.
Telstra is building out more sophisticated methods of working out how different media channels are driving sales in a bid to kick a last click attribution habit, according to Amanda Nazar, Group Manager, Digital Marketing.
“Last click for us is a drug that people are addicted to, it’s really terrible,” Nazar told Ashton Media’s Programmatic Summit, suggesting it is akin to blaming the last drink of a session for getting you drunk, rather than all of the drinks along the way.
“So we’ve doubled down on attribution. We’ve always had a Markov model, but we are also moving over to ADH [Ads Data Hub], which is Google’s Markov solution,” said Nazar. (A Markov attribution model is a probabilistic model that shows buyer journeys as a graph.)
“We are getting every single stakeholder in the business behind the idea of moving away from last click. It is all about getting more insight into what’s actually driving sales. Using Markov has really shifted that. Using ADH and the [data] clean rooms is going to amplify that even more.”
However, speaking on the same panel Sven Lindell, CMO at Winning Group, said he is yet to be convinced by complex attribution models.
“The way attribution is calculated, there is no consistency to it. With any model, you have to give yourself consistency and measure it over time. Then you also need comparability over time,” said Lindell.
While first and last click models are imperfect, “anything in between is quite debatable, and there are lots of providers out there that try to put fancy algorithms in place to say 'this is how we attribute the equation,” said Lindell.
"But there is no consistency. You ask Facebook to do attribution, they will do it their way; ask Google to do it, and they will do it their way.” As such, he believes it is simpler for teams to understand "indisputable" first or last click approaches.
Telstra’s Nazar countered by suggesting that a “layered measurement approach” using marketing mix modelling and lift analysis “provides validation” that marketers using those approaches are “heading in the right direction”.
“And if your studies show that last click is the right model for your business, do it,” she said, “but don't do it blindly”.
Meanwhile, Telstra’s move to in-house more creative work is also paying off, said Nazar.
“We have an in-house studio and it's ramping up massively. Over the last couple of months, we've ramped up again and we're bringing more remit into the internal studio, which has been really interesting. It's made them go faster [and that is enabling] a more positive return.”
The telco hopes to dynamically personalise creative, but Nazar indicated the technology is not there yet.
“We have a project called ‘create once, distribute everywhere’ that we are trying to get up and running. It’s going to be great when we can ‘templatise’ as much as we can, being able to put in an asset and create all the different variants that you need.
“But it is not as easy as it sounds,” she said. “It is great in theory, but really hard to maintain.”
Optus dials up pressure
Optus Director of Revenue and Growth, Lamberto Di Gioia, also outlined the need for greater creative personalisation at the summit – and sharper results.
“Ultimately, creative is going to have to do a much better job at converting quicker. Third party cookies are disappearing … so creative will have to be a lot more pointy,” she said.
“There is going to be a bit more pressure on creative agencies for sure, just to ensure that they're delivering that [personalised] message … No doubt it will be a bit more challenging going forward.”
The marketing and publishing worlds continue to watch with anticipation and unease as the rules of digital marketing are overturned via the recent Apple iOS changes and the impending cookie crumble. As the demand for greater privacy and transparency regarding access and use of personal data grows, after years of normalising tracking consumer behaviour online via apps and the web, the tide is turning. Consumers are now more informed and able to make the choice as to whether they accept these terms, whether the value exchange for use of their data is worth it, and the resounding answer appears to be no. So where does that leave the world of audience targeting?
The data doesn’t lie: women are feeling confident and empowered when it comes to purchasing cars, but according to the latest research, the automotive marketing industry still has a long way to go to catch up.
Are Media has dug into the data from its inaugural HERpulse Auto survey to reveal that although the majority of women are the key decision-maker when it comes to buying a car for the family, many still feel patronised and unrepresented throughout the marketing and sales cycle.


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I’m continuing the protesting on Sunday as well, when I’m going on the Acura Bike Tour, as part of the Ride de No Guerre. That’s the anti-war protest on bikes which is riding along as a sub-group. The Tour overlaps a bit with the “F&@% Acura Bike Tour”, the group of bike activists who find it hypocritical that a car company is sponsoring a bike ride, and who are not paying to register in protest. I couldn’t go THAT far though. I’m registering – although I’d probably refuse to do so if it was the Ford Bike Marathon instead. More info on all rides is on the BikeBoom calendar. See you all on the streets!


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James Taylor has earned a reputation as the ultimate singer/songwriter over a legendary career that has spanned four decades. His best known hits include Something In The Way She Moves, Fire &Rain, Carolina In My Mind, and You've Got A Friend.
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Welcome to Absurdistan, a small village in the high desert mountains, just on the outskirts of reality, where magical visions and bizarre events fuse together.
The village is facing a water shortage, but the men are too lazy to fix a rickety pipeline and the women are getting fed up with their good-for-nothing husbands. Led by young Aya, the women make a simple vow: "No water, no sex." The men's only hope is Temelko, whose long promised wedding with Aya is put on hold until he finds a solution for the water problem.
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Reportedly based on a true story (though with quite a bit of legendary embellishment, one assumes, at least in its more fantastical elements), "Absurdistan" takes place in a remote village where the women wage a full-fledged battle-of-the-sexes, agreeing to withhold their conjugal duties until the men in the community repair the pipe that for decades has brought water to the town. The story also features Tamelko (Max Mauff) and Aya (Kristyna Malerova) as two teenagers whose own plans to finally consummate their relationship must now be put on hold.
Homespun in appearance and humanistic in tone, "Absurdistan" (a German film done in Russian) is highly reminiscent of those quirky Czech comedies that enjoyed such popularity here in the States back in the 1960s. The scenes set in the past have been deliberately designed to look like aging home movies - grainy, washed-out, and scratchy - while those set in the present are crisp, clean and bursting with color.
The movie blends small town humor with touches of magic realism and the occasional flight of fancy. There are times, admittedly, when the movie gets a little too silly and cutesy for its own good, but, on the positive side, it never takes itself too seriously or condescends to its characters. The mood is upbeat and the details charming in what amounts to a modern-day (but not TOO modern-day) version of "Lysistrata."
Absurdistan has a problem: the water supply that comes from a complex well system in the mountains outside the town has diminished to a trickle. The men of the town ignore their wives' complaints, preferring instead to gather daily in the local teahouse, leaving the women to not only tend to their homes but also finish the work of the men.Read more ›
His "Tuvalu" and his "Absurdistan" bring you to magical places. At times in these remarkable films--perhaps because they are so unique--there are moments of disbelief. They soon pass because--if you are open to his magic--you will believe in his characters and in their worlds fully and forever.
But the movie has no location. It was filmed in Azerbeidjan, but we don't know where the story is to take place. Smaller parts of the movie were filmed elsewhere, even though the story itself never moves far from the village. Also, director Veit Helmer casted dozens of actors from a dozen or so countries - they all have impressive faces, but they look too heterogenous. So all in all the movie feels homeless.
Then, the story didn't nicely roll off. There is the village plot and the couple's plot, vaguely intertwined. There are some meagre subplots, some of them showing the villagers as utmost dumb and/or horny. All in all the movie feels like a string of episodes, held together by a theme, but not by a plot. The movie's title Absurdistan doesn't help to give you a sense of development and meaning. The whole endeavour is more playful than disciplined.
The dusty, isolated Asian village reminded me of other movies with a similar, almost desert-like setting - especially it brought to mind Nadine Labaki's Where Do We Go Now (2011), staged in Lebanon; and just like Absurdistan, Labaki's movie has a gender confrontation and a troupe of relatively urban show girls coming to the remote village. My other association was Ashutosh Gowariker's Swades, showing a dry Indian village somewhere in the bush, which - like Absurdistan - ends with finally receiving a much-desired water line.
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Beautiful story. Outstanding screenplay. A movie that could only be made in Central Asia.Published 9 months ago by Fred Taylor
I watched first 15 minutes of this movie and I had to turn the TV off. The movie is boring and the humor in there is ridiculously dull. Read morePublished on January 4, 2010 by Andrey Semenov


What do you want to achieve?
I want to understand why files that used to be generated under /libraries/ui/src in my arduino project (eg libraries/ui/src/images and assorted .c files) are now being generated under libraries/ui/ after I added a second screen.
Also, I’d like to understand if the generated ui.h file is updated (eg edited in place) on a change in studio and generate cycle or completely regenerated from scratch.
What have you tried so far?
Nothing, I have no explanation.
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SquareLine Studio version: 1.3.0
Operating system: Linux
Target hardware: STM32 Arm - Arduino
Actual is 1.3.4 and ui and other all generated files is on export generated from scratch except ui_events …
Thanks for the information, what I’d like to know is whether ui.h is re-generated on export or edited in-place. In other words, if I add a new screen, does it overwrite ui.h in entirety or does it insert the required new declararions into ui.h?
1.3.0 is the last release that didn’t have show stopping defects for me. As a result I decided not to take 1.3.4 due to the effort involved in dealing with the impact of the prior release problems on my project. Studio is very capable but the software quality has not been there recently. Do you know if 1.3.4 been tested any better than the previous releases?
All the files in the ‘ui’ folder are totally overwritten on export. (Except in ui_events.c where your function bodies won’t be overwritten.)
SquareLine Studio 1.3.4 have many improvements and bugs fixed. In case you still have issues please report them here at the forum.
SquareLine Studio 1.3.4 have many improvements and bugs fixed
Is the QA process the same or has there been an improved level of testing for this release.
There were many fixes in the 1.3.4 version, you can see them in the ChangeLog at: Changelog | SquareLine Studio
I understand but you’ll appreciate that having experienced a set of very unreliable versions I’d like to understand whether the QA process has improved before committing hours of work to upgrade and test. I don’t think SquareLine really understands the amount of wasted time that’s created across its user base by a sequence of unreliable releases. It knocks its reputation which isn’t great marketing. If they did understand this there would be some statement about QA improvements.
We improved our QA further by involving more people in testing, detecting, reporting and fixing issues.


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Christmas in Constantinople
This Christmas, journey through time and space with Cappella Romana to experience the holiday in Constantinople. Hear Byzantine music in Greek for Christmas, first performed in the Great Cathedral of Hagia Sophia. Spyridon Antonopoulos, regular singer in Cappella Romana, Byzantine music scholar, and founder and director of Boston-based Byzantine chant ensemble Psaltikon, conducts the men of Cappella in this joyful program.
Artists on this Program
Spyridon Antonopoulos, guest conductor
SPYRIDON ANTONOPOULOS is the Founder and Director of PSALTIKON. He is Honorary Research Fellow at City, University of London, where he obtained his PhD in Musicology in 2015, completing a thesis on the fifteenth-century Constantinopolitan composer and theorist Manuel Chrysaphes.… Read More…


City Council Fails to Consider Reforms to Prevent Conflicts of Interest
The Irvine city council turned their backs on the citizens of Irvine last night when they failed to even consider the strong conflict of interest protections proposed by citizen representatives of the Oaks Project. One Oaks Project volunteer chastised the city council, applying the infamous ad line “Where’s the Beef?” to the City’s toothless reform proposal.
A city committee met with the Oaks Project several times over the past year and a half to discuss their anti-kickback proposal supported by the signatures of over 9,500 Irvine voters. However, the committee presented unrelated recommendations to city council last night, proposing the placement of campaign disclosure documents online and the discouragement of gifts to public officials.
“We are sadly disappointed in the council’s lack of action on this issue,” testified Oaks Project Director, Carmen Balber, at the council meeting. “Two years ago, the egregious conduct of one of their own members forced the Irvine city council to address the problem of conflicts of interest. Now, as the scandal fades from the public eye, so does Irvine’s commitment to implementing real reform. The proposals they adopted last night are toothless actions which will prevent not one misdeed from happening.”
Advocates with the Oaks Project charged that the committee report should, at very least, have accurately outlined the committee discussions. A number of concerns with the conflict of interest proposal voiced at the council meeting had already been addressed in the committee.
Citizen volunteers with the Oaks Project urged the city council to adopt the reforms outlined in the Taxpayer Protection Amendment which was supported by Irvine voters but missed qualifying for the ballot by just 81 signatures. The measure would prevent public officials from accepting campaign cash, gifts or employment from those they have awarded taxpayer dollars for a specified period of time. Similar measures were passed by voters in five other California cities in 2000 and 2001.


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Agriculture is by far the most water demanding sector in the Mediterranean and a sustainable use of water, combined with economic growth, cannot be achieved without improving irrigation efficiency and water productivity. The current heavy depletion of water sources is leading to water scarcity and degradation, deterioration of ecosystem services, conflicts with domestic and industrial uses and, in general, it poses limitations to economic growth. These trends will be exacerbated by CC.
The ACQUAOUNT project aims to improve IWRM and sustainable irrigation through the deployment of innovative tools, smart water services and solutions, for public and private use, while contributing to climate resilience.
50 months from 01/07/2021 to 31/08/2025
ACQUAOUNT will demonstrate through the deployment of a semantic WoT platform in
different pilot sites how to provide accessible and accurate information to support optimization of irrigation practices for farmers and basin level water allocation for water managers.
CMCC is the coordinator of the project and is the leader of the following WP:
- WP1 coordination and management;
- WP5 decision support tool;
- co-leader of WP7 dissemination, exploitation, communication, and outreach.
CMCC is in charge of the project coordination and it is responsible for the administrative and final management, as well as for the quality assurance.
CMCC researchers will provide on-site analytics and Edge computing through the elaboration of data-driven algorithm for demand forecasting. Simulations under different climate scenarios will be made for providing evaluation of uncertainties associated with climate modelling.
Finally, CMCC will maximize the project impact through the development and implementation of proper dissemination and communication actions, to ensure knowledge transfer to different types of public and support policy makers and practitioners in their decision.
A WoT platform able to provide near real-time services to end-users (farmers and water managers) and support information for long term planning by decision makers (DST).
A large-scale demonstration actions to sustain operational and governance approach in the 4 pilot sites.
A business plan for AQUAOUNT IWRM, and its associated tools, aiming to upscale the IWRM use across the Mediterranean region.
An increased knowledge of strategies for a sustainable water management and CC adaptation among the project beneficiaries.
- UNISS University of Sassari;
- Nature4 Nature 4.0 Soc. Benefit Srl;
- ABI ABINSULA SRL;
- EUT FUNDACIO EURECAT;
- NARC National Agricultural Research Center;
- LARI Lebanese Agriculture Research Institute;
- IRA Institut des Regions Arides

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Boddhi Tree Umma
The Boddhi Tree Umma guesthouse is a traditional style house renovated and furnished in a contemporary style using locally produced décor.
We have created a beautiful, lush garden for our guests to enjoy providing a surprisingly quiet and shady haven in the centre of Phnom Penh.
Take time to relax, maybe with a book and a drink, on one of our shady balconies or in our garden restaurant.
Boddhi Tree Umma has 7 tastefully furnished double and single rooms in a traditional style house. All have fans and mosquito nets, some have ensuite bathrooms and air conditioning. Wireless internet is available throughout the guest house and garden. It is located at #50, Street 113.
Please review details of our rooms and then check availability and place a booking using the form below.
Large Double Fan Room - Room 1
Double fan room, shared bathroom, mosquito net. Light and bright, plenty of cushions , king size European mattress.
Large Double Fan Room - Rooms 4 & 5
Double fan room, shared bathroom, mosquito net.light and bright, plenty cushions , king size european mattress.
Ensuite Double a/c Room - Rooms 2, 3, 6, & 7
Ensuite double a/c rooms. Asian decor mosquito net. Glass & wooden sliding doors. Room 7 has a private garden patio and is our largest room.
#50, St. 113, (opposite Toul Sleng Museum), Beong Keng Kong III, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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