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Early Years Home-Visiting Support
Home Link Family Support is a registered charity established in 1986. Based in Edinburgh, it operates throughout the city of Edinburgh and Midlothian, offering a range of home-visiting support services focusing on systemic family counselling, early years family support, young parents' support, ante- and post-natal support: all using an early intervention framework.
Home Link Family Support's five-year Lottery-funded project will provide comprehensive support to families with young children in Edinburgh. The programme will offer a range of services to encourage positive emotional development of children, healthy parent-child relationships, and to address issues that may impact negatively on the families.
We aim to support parents to fully engage with the positive emotional development of their children; to help nurture healthy parent-child relationships; and to encourage parents to fully understand and participate in their child's early years' learning. Through early intervention we seek to support families to bring up their children so that they can become successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens.
We will work in partnership with Home-Start Leith & North East Edinburgh and Home-Start Edinburgh West & South West to provide Early Years Home-Visiting Support across the whole of the city.
Home Link Family Support will prioritise referrals from Muirhouse, Pilton, City Centre, South West and South East localities.
We will deliver groups in South East and South West Edinburgh.
The services provided:
Ante- and post-natal support to families with children who are at risk of being accommodated or placed on the Child Protection Register. A dedicated service for pregnant mothers and fathers identified by Health/Social Work professionals as requiring support to help prepare them for the challenges of parenthood.
Early learning for pre-school age children, supporting families that are affected by, or at risk from, a range of negative issues, and providing parents with the skills and confidence to offer their children the best start in life. Services include trained volunteers making weekly home visits to support parent-child activities such as reading and play.
Family Group Work for pre-school children enabling them and their parents to participate in taster sessions of PEEP (Parents as Early Education Practitioners), Play@home, Bookbug, whilst using the focus of 'stay and play' to help reach a wider, isolated parenting peer group. This will be delivered with local partner organisations in the most deprived areas of South Edinburgh.
The One Stop Shop: Home Link Family Support will lead on providing a multi-agency Early Years Advisory Service to all parents living in the south of Edinburgh with children under 5 years of age. The One Stop Shop is a service offering parents:
An assessment of need including benefits check
Increase in uptake of Healthy Start vouchers
Support with accessing welfare services/provision
Access to literacy/numeracy support and learning opportunities
Practical help with bringing up children in their early years.
Weekly sessions will enable parents to drop in, access stay and play sessions, enquire about local resources. We are working in partnership with local Community Centres to create an Early Years Hub: the first one has started in Goodtrees Neighbourhood Centre in Moredun.
5. Steering Group: this will be set up to oversee the project. Members will consist of manager, staff, members of the local community, Board member, referral partners and families who are interested in being part of the group. The remit is to provide direction and advice on integrating the service in the new geographical areas of service delivery. The group will meet quarterly in year 1 and then 6- monthly throughout the life-time of the funding.
Over 5 years we will significantly benefit:
615 children by giving them a better start in life – through home visiting and group work
465 families by improving family cohesion through the parents' better understanding of the needs of their children and their abilities to be good parents, by offering home visiting and group work
150 pregnant women and 150 unborn babies who will be supported so that the mothers are healthier during their pregnancy and prepared for the birth and the first 12 months
250 parents who will be supported by the One Stop Shop
150 new volunteers who will gain new skills which could be of assistance in career progression
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Going the distance
Travis Kriens
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MEN'S SWIMMING
The 2010-11 SDSU's men's swimming and diving team seems poised to improve on their best Summit League finish last season with a squad made up of equally talented veterans and underclassmen.
The Jacks have five swimmers and divers at every class and may have had the best team, top to bottom, in the last five years.
"I think that the overall difference is the quality that we have coming in," said head coach Brad Erickson, who is entering his 35th season. "We only lost two seniors so we are very versatile and have options."
Erickson will look to seniors Jason Garder and Mark Sandager to lead. Both were a part of separate relay record setting teams at the conference championships.
The most outstanding swimmer of last season was freshman Kyle Ochsner. Ochsner excelled in distance freestyle events as was evident with his nine victories, three school records and earning Summit League swimmer of the week.
On the diving side, Brad Schoreit could not have started off his college career any better than by breaking the 29-year-old school record in 3-meter diving in the season opening meet vs. the University of North Dakota last season.
Schoreit was selected Summit League Athlete of the Week for his performance. The Omaha, Neb. native would go on to break the 3-meter record four times as well as the 1-meter record twice.
Another standout freshman from last year was Shea Patrick who competed in breaststroke and individual medley events. Patrick set career best marks in the 100 and 200 breaststroke as well as the 200 IM at the 2010 conference meet.
"All have made great improvements in that first year and we look for that to continue this year," Erickson said.
A pair of freshman that can be immediate impact performers according to Erickson are Chris Schreier and Phil Albu. Schreier is a butterflyer that is very versatile, while Albu will help the Jacks in the backstroke.
The mix of youth and experience will bode well for SDSU and give motivation for both sides.
"The veterans are going to look at those trying to keep their spot and improve on where they finished last season, while the young kids are shooting for those upperclassmen," Erickson said.
SDSU has always stayed steady or improved on their Summit League finishes each year they have been in the league, and this season should be no different.
"We would hope to improve on that fourth place finish from a year ago," Erickson said. "With the freshman that we have coming in and improvements with our divers, that will only help in scoring at conference. Those things added with the improvement of those that we already have on the squad will give us that depth and experience to improve in the standings."
WOMEN'S SWIMMING
After having experience to rely on in the past few seasons, this year's SDSU women's swimming and diving team will have an injection of youth like they have never seen before.
The Jacks will try and replace the nine seniors they lost from last season's second place Summit League squad with a record 15 freshmen.
That makes the teams two seniors, Alex Hoffman and Cassie Kozar, leadership skills much more significant, along with the six returning juniors.
"Those two seniors will definitely have leadership roles that will be developing and important," said head coach Brad Erickson who is entering his 35th season at the helm.
Hoffman is entering her final season of an outstanding career as a Jackrabbit. In her first two years, the Eureka native holds seven school records along with 35 wins, including 24 during last season.
With only two seniors, the SDSU junior class will have a chance to step up, led by Jessica Ferley and Ashley Valdez.
Ferley has excelled in freestyle and backstroke events, while Valdez has done the same in the butterfly. Over the past two years, both have solidified SDSU's relay teams with a combined 34 relay victories, as well as, rewriting the school record book. Valdez has been a part of two relay records, while Ferley has been a member of all five school- record relay events.
"The maturity and leadership that we lost from those seniors is big. We expect that each year our swimmers are here, they are developing leadership skills, so it doesn't necessarily have to be a senior. We have some juniors that are very capable of stepping in as well."
One of the biggest holes that SDSU will have to fill is the loss of Katie Budahl who ended her career with 42 wins and four school records in only two seasons. Erickson will look to freshmen Alanah Bird and Stephanie Young to pick up some of that slack, especially in Budahl's feature event: the breaststroke.
"Hopefully we can replace some of that quality lost with Budahl with a little bit of depth added by Bird and Young," Erickson said.
A few other freshmen that could have immediate impacts are Emma Gaulke-Janowski in distance freestyle, Fawn Weihl in mid-distance freestyle/butterfly and Emma Wright in butterfly and individual medley events.
Two names that will sound familiar are (Kayleigh) Boucher and (Katie) Budahl. Both were seniors that graduated, but both have freshmen siblings ready to take their place.
Kelsey Boucher will swim distance freestyle like her sister, but Andrea Budahl is just the opposite of hers. Andrea is very versatile and can compete in any event according to Erickson, except the breaststroke, which was Katie's specialty.
Even with the young team, Erickson sees no reason why the Jacks should take a step back.
"I would be very disappointed if we didn't hold on to that spot of runner-up at the conference meet. Our goal is obviously to win the conference and each year we have been in the league, we have moved up and narrowed the gap that separates Oakland and us."

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ESD protection is as important for the small scale operation like hobby construction, makers and small businesses so it is necessary to be able to provide ESD protection on a budget.
ESD is important for anyone building, testing or maintaining electronics equipment. It is necessary to protect against the effects of ESD otherwise equipment will fail if it is not handled properly while it is disassembled. However the precautions taken by electronics equipment manufacturers may appear daunting and rather unnecessary for the hobbyist.
Fortunately it is possible to set up an acceptable antistatic area for electronics hobbyists and implement ESD precautions for comparatively little cost. By taking precautions against ESD, constructional projects are likely to be more successful, and if any repair work is undertaken in computers or other modern electronic equipment, there is far less likelihood of damaging them through the effects of static discharge.
Many electronics stockists carry conductive rubber mats and wrist straps for very reasonable prices. These can be installed very easily and they can prove to be a very worth while investment if a large amount of construction is envisaged. In fact the total cost of a simple antistatic work-station consisting of a mat and wrist strap could be less than the cost of components for a single project. If installation of ESD precautions means that a project operates correctly and is completed, it could well save the money invested in it several times over.
When installing an antistatic work-station it is imperative that great care is taken in connecting it up. The mains earth is normally used for grounding, but this means that great care must be taken to ensure there is no possibility of the work-station becoming live. It is best to use one of the special connection plugs for this - often they may be specially coloured for this. For example in the UK these plugs are often coloured yellow. If a normal plug is used there is a possibility that the wire could be pulled loose and touch a live terminal.
While it is important to ensure that any components and circuits are not damaged during the construction of a circuit, it is equally important to ensure that they are not damaged when they are being stored.
While new ESD containers may be too expensive for many hobby applications, it is often possible to re-use old containers. Often ICs will be supplied in tubes and these can often be re-used, although it should be remembered that they do have a limited life. Alternatively some ICs may be supplied in black conductive foam and again this can be re-used.
The anti-static bags can also be re-used. The more conductive black bags are less widely used than the clear plastic static dissipative types. Beware of using the black plastic bags for boards that have on-board batteries as these antistatic bags have sufficient conductivity to discharge batteries over a period of time!
The most important item of equipment that needs to be designed and constructed to ensure that it does not damage circuits and components as a result of ESD is the soldering iron. Few other items used for home construction are likely to require measures to ensure they do not damage equipment.
There is a wide variety of soldering irons available on the market today. Many are quite suitable for work with static sensitive devices. The main requirement is that the bit used for soldering should be earthed. In general it is recommended that the resistance to earth should be less than five ohms. Any irons which are thermostatically controlled should ideally use a zero voltage switching system. This prevents large spikes caused by the switching of the thermostat from appearing at the tip of the iron and causing damage to the equipment.


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Flag to honour residential school survivors unveiled by National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation | CBC News Loaded
Flag to honour residential school survivors unveiled by National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation has unveiled a flag to honour residential school survivors.
Over 30 residential school survivors helped decide the elements of the flag
Rhiannon Johnson · CBC News · Posted: Sep 23, 2021 5:54 PM ET | Last Updated: September 24, 2021
The survivor's flag features nine elements that were chosen in consultation with over 30 residential school survivors. (NCTR)
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) has unveiled a flag to honour residential school survivors.
"It's an important symbol of bringing people together," said Garnet Angeconeb, who is a survivor of Pelican Lake residential school in Sioux Lookout, Ont.
"Our people know that there are so many unanswered questions in relation to what happened at residential schools but what happened earlier this spring was just a validation of what Indigenous people have been saying all along."
In late May, Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc announced preliminary findings of a ground penetrating radar search of the grounds of the former Kamloops residential school. Approximately 200 potential burial sites have been identified. Other searches are underway at sites across Canada.
'This is heavy truth': Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc chief says more to be done to identify unmarked graves
The concept for the survivors' flag emerged during a discussion on when it would be appropriate to raise the Canadian flag again after flags were lowered following the discovery at Kamloops, said Christine Lenze, who was the project lead.
"The project quickly grew into conversations with survivors individually, and this gave them space to share very personal experiences and thoughts around what messages the design should embody," Lenze said.
Garnet Angeconeb is one of the residential school survivors who was consulted on the design of the survivors' flag. (Submitted by Garnet Angeconeb)
The flag was designed during six weeks of consultation, discussion and collaboration with survivors from across Canada and the NCTR.
Concepts were sent to survivors for feedback and although not every idea could be included, Lenze said there were rich conversations around what was important to survivors and that made the project special.
How to watch and listen to National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on CBC
There are nine elements to the flag that were selected by over 30 survivors involved in the consultations with NCTR.
One of the elements of the flag is the inukshuk, used as a navigational guide by Inuit and linked to their traditions.
Levinia Brown says there is still a lot of healing to be done for residential school survivors. (submitted Nadia Ciccone)
Levinia Brown, an Inuk residential school survivor from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, said recognition of the children and their experiences has been a long time coming.
Brown said it's important Inuit be included in reconciliation processes because they also experienced residential schools and federal day schools.
"The healing process seems to be coming slowly together, but it's going to take some time," she said.
Rhiannon Johnson
Rhiannon Johnson is an Anishinaabe journalist from Hiawatha First Nation based in Toronto. She has been with the Indigenous unit since 2017 focusing on Indigenous life and experiences throughout Ontario. You can reach her at rhiannon.johnson@cbc.ca and on Twitter @rhijhnsn.
We finally have a national day for truth and reconciliation. But it's not nearly enough


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De Amiranten (Frans: Les Amirantes, Engels: Amirante Islands) zijn een groep eilanden en atollen van de Seychellen. De Amiranten behoren tot de buitenste eilanden van de Seychellen en liggen ten zuidwesten van het hoofdeiland Mahé.

Geschiedenis
Op zeekaarten van Arabische kooplieden uit de 9e eeuw stonden deze eilanden al getekend, maar ze kregen hun naam pas in 1502, nadat Vasco da Gama ze (her)ontdekt had. Op 16e-eeuwse kaarten worden de eilanden Ilhas do Amirante (Admiraalseilanden) genoemd, naar de benoeming van Vasco da Gama tot admiraal.

Geografie
De Amiranten bestaan uit acht aparte zandeilanden, waarvan er vijf lage (D'Arros, African Banks/Islands, Bertaut Reef, Étoile Cay en Boudeuse Cay) en drie hoger gelegen (Remire/Eagle, Marie-Louise en Desnœufs) zijn. Daarnaast zijn er drie atollen die in totaal uit zo'n 18 eilandjes bestaan. Twee zulke atollen zijn Desroches en Poivre. In totaal beslaan alle eilanden van de Amiranten 9,91 km². Alleen de vijf grootste eilanden zijn bewoond. Er wonen minder dan 100 mensen op de Amiranten, waarvan ongeveer 50 in Desroches.

Soms worden ook de Alphonse-eilanden bij de Amiranten gerekend. Dit zijn drie koraaleilanden zo'n 100 km ten zuiden van het zuidelijkste punt van de Amiranten. De Alphonse-eilanden bevatten Alphonse, Bijoutier en Saint-François en zijn allen onbewoond.

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Pachycraerus octostriatus är en skalbaggsart som beskrevs av Lewis 1898. Pachycraerus octostriatus ingår i släktet Pachycraerus och familjen stumpbaggar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Cammerata, Joaquín Riquelme
The chamber ensemble Cammerata was founded in 2009 and its work has been consistently acclaimed by audiences and critics alike ever since. Its young players, trained at the most prestigious music schools in Europe, approach their work with professionalism and a belief in innovation. All were involved in local youth orchestras in Murcia, and it was this network of connections that led to the formation of the ensemble in 2009.
Cammerata is now one of the best-known Spanish chamber ensembles, both nationally and internationally. Its philosophy revolves around ensuring that its audiences enjoy to the utmost every performance it gives. The ensemble's stylistic rigour, the eloquent beauty of its sound and the elegance and energy with which it stages its performances all help create a rewarding and fully-rounded artistic experience.
The Cammerata's members also play in such leading ensembles as the Spanish National Orchestra (ONE) and National Youth Orchestra (JONDE), Valencia's Palau de Les Arts Orchestra, the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra, Barcelona's Teatre del Liceu Orchestra, the Cadaqués Orchestra and Murcia Symphony and Youth Orchestras, as well as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands (NJO), Balthasar–Neumann Ensemble, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and the Iberoamerican Youth Orchestra.
The players' musical experience is also enriched by their participation as soloists in recitals and concerts across Europe, the Americas and Asia, at such leading venues as New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Berlin's Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, Cologne's Philharmonie, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and the Simón Bolívar Hall in Caracas, as well as other concert halls in Paris, Vienna, Chicago, Beijing, London Bratislava, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Murcia, among others.
By bringing to its artistic planning a strategic focus, an innovative perspective and a commitment to excellence, Cammerata hopes to create something of cultural and educational benefit to society.


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Dan Mazeau Working on a Script for 'The Flash'
Dan Mazeau Working on a Script for The Flash
While there had been some talk that all DC Comics-related films at Warner Brothers were currently on hold, that doesn't seem to have stopped some projects from racing forward - and when you discuss racing superheroes, it only makes sense that one of those projects is The Flash. The good folks at IESB got a chance to speak to Warner Brother's producer Chuck Roven, where he indirectly confirmed that Mazeau is working on the script.
When asked about how Mazeau's script compared to earlier drafts, Roven said:
You know, the problem... It's not only a problem, I can't really give you any information about The Flash. I can't even confirm that Dan is on it. What I'm saying is, probably for about the last six months or so, the decision was made to really kind of, unless there was a DC character project that was ready to be green lit, to just not talk about it. So there's nothing really that I can talk about at the moment.
But even though he wouldn't confirm the status of the film, he did give some hints about what he expects to see in a Flash film. "I was always a big fan of the comics. I was around for... Gosh, this is embarrassing, you know, the last two Flashes," Roven said. "The Flash that was the policeman and Kid Flash, Wally, and his uncle. Those are the two Flashes that I grew with, so I was excited to have the opportunity to try and see if I could actually translate those characters to the screen."
While this doesn't confirm anything, it certainly suggests that the film would somehow focus on both the second Flash, Barry Allen, who was the Flash portrayed in the CBS television series of The Flash, and also on his successor, Wally West - a fact that should make fans of the comic versions of the Flash very happy.
Keep reading MovieWeb and SuperheroFlix for more information about The Flash as it becomes available.


According to a "snake charmer," if you get bit by a snake, the best thing to do is bite it back until it's dead, which will apparently prevent you from dying — and is exactly what a man in Nepal did after getting bit by a deadly cobra earlier this week.
In this case, the snake charmer was right — the snake is dead. Mohammed Salmodin, a farmer who lives in a village about 125 miles from Nepal's capital of Katmandu, is very much alive.
The story first appeared on the BBC's website this morning, and describes the biting(s), as well as Salmodin's ill-advised faith in the advice of a snake charmer.
expected to survive. We'll go out on a limb and assume that anti-venom played more of a role in his recovery than his biting a cobra to death.


The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) enables you to have your database inside the AWS cloud without incurring the expenses normally associated with an on-premises infrastructure. This could consequence in noteworthy savings, but Amazon RDS will most likely be the major expense on your AWS bill.
The pricing model isn't just important for financial reasons, it's also important when it comes to performance. Failure to understand the pricing model can result in unnecessary expenses. RDS database instance expenses are based on several factors — instance class and storage being the most significant ones.
Database instance cost is the biggest expense for an Amazon RDS instance, but it's not the only one. There are several factors influencing the total price of Amazon RDS and they need to be included in any cost estimate calculation. The cost of the database instance is based on the instance class and the running time billed by the instance hour. The storage price is the cost of the storage space reserved for the database instance, billed per GB per month.
Your bill will be prorated if you scale your provisioned storage capacity within a month. Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) storage reserves resources so you are charged regardless of whether or not you used those reserved resources. When you're using PROVISIONED IOPS storage, you won't be charged for the throughput and provisioned IOPS rates even though you're using it.
If you're not using PROVISIONED IOPS storage, the number of I/O requests per month is included as a cost for Amazon RDS. Write I/O will be doubled if you're using Multi-AZ deployment for your database instance as Amazon RDS synchronously replicates your data to the standby database instance.
Backup storage is storage associated with a database instance that is used for automatic backups and manual snapshots. Amazon RDS doesn't charge for backup storage space for up to 100% of your provisioned database storage.
Data transfer, in and out of the Internet, is another expense. You need to factor in the transfer between AWS regions when you're estimating cost for your database instance; when cross-region replication is implemented, the cost of data transfer between AWS regions will increase.
From a comparison of the price of EC2 instances to the price of equivalent Amazon RDS instances, it's easy to see that the cost of EC2 is lower. Given that we know instance expenses are the single biggest cost a self-hosted database on an EC2 instance instead of an Amazon RDS database instance.
So using a No-SQL DB Like(Mongodb, Casandra) on EC2 instance with HA and Scalability for Analytics, Repetitive read information and redirecting all the read in the application to fetch the data from No-SQL DB will enable us to reduce the instance type for a large machine to an optimal configuration.
A Simple Mongodb cluster architecture as defined below can sustain heavy loads than RDS and is also highly available and Thanks to Arbiter mechanism built by Mongodb team which will automatically elects the next available instance a primary and helps to check the health of the db instances.
NoSQL databases sometimes show better performance, although it depends on the condition and is disputed.
You can add and remove "columns" without downtime. In most SQL servers, this takes a long time and takes up a load of load.
It is looked-for to separate the data storage from the logic. If one link and select things in SQL queries, they are mixing business logic with storage.


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Imaging interfacial micro- and nano-bubbles by scanning transmission soft X-ray microscopy
Lijuan Zhang,a* Binyu Zhao,a Lian Xue,a Zhi Guo,a Yaming Dong,b Haiping Fang,a Renzhong Taia* and Jun Hua*
aShanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, People's Republic of China, and bLife and Environment Science College, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, People's Republic of China
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(Received 12 October 2012; accepted 5 February 2013; online 16 March 2013)
Synchrotron-based scanning transmission soft X-ray microscopy (STXM) with nanometer resolution was used to investigate the existence and behavior of interfacial gas nanobubbles confined between two silicon nitride windows. The observed nanobubbles of SF6 and Ne with diameters smaller than 2.5 µm were quite stable. However, larger bubbles became unstable and grew during the soft X-ray imaging, indicating that stable nanobubbles may have a length scale, which is consistent with a previous report using atomic force microscopy [Zhang et al. (2010), Soft Matter, 6, 4515–4519]. Here, it is shown that STXM is a promising technique for studying the aggregation of gases near the solid/water interfaces at the nanometer scale.
Keywords: interfacial science; nanobubbles; scanning transmission soft X-ray microscopy.
Gas bubbles adsorbed at a liquid/solid interface is a classical phenomenon and plays an important role in many important physical, chemical and biological processes (Wallqvist & Berne, 1995 ; Huang et al., 2003 ; ten Wolde & Chandler, 2002 ; Liu et al., 2005 ; Ball, 2012 ). Recently, nanoscopic gas bubbles with heights of less than 100 nm but lateral sizes from several tens of nanometers to the micrometer scale have been found to exist at various surfaces immersed in water with a lifetime of hours and even days (Ohgaki et al., 2010 ; Zhang et al., 2007a , 2008a ; Brenner & Lohse, 2008 ; Ducker, 2009 ; Seddon et al., 2011 ). The astonishing stability of these nanobubbles contradicts classical thermodynamics. According to the Young–Laplace equation, such nanobubbles should not exist at all, since their small radius of curvature implies a high Laplace pressure inside the bubbles causing them to dissolve almost instantly (Simonsen et al., 2004 ; Borkent et al., 2010 ; Holmberg et al., 2003 ; Ljunggren & Eriksson, 1997 ). For micrometer- or nanometer-sized bubbles, classical theory predicts that they should disappear within tens of milliseconds or less (Ljunggren & Eriksson, 1997 ). Nanobubbles with such a long lifetime are very important, not only because they pose a number of challenges to our conventional understanding of gas behaviors at interfaces but also because they are expected to have potential applications in many fields such as protein folding, stability of colloids and emulsions, and boundary slip in flowing water, etc. (Nguyen et al., 2004 ; Vinogradova, 1995 ; Priezjev et al., 2005 ).
Despite the theoretical problems, during the last ten years experiments on nanobubbles have focused on their existence and stability. After Parker et al. firstly proposed the nanobubbles concept in 1994 based on the force measurements between two solid plates immersed in liquid water (Parker et al., 1994 ), many techniques have been employed to investigate the mysterious behavior of interfacial nanobubbles including attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy (Zhang et al., 2007a ), quartz crystal microbalance (Seo et al., 2007 ; Zhang, 2008 ), neutron reflectometry (Steitz et al., 2003 ) and X-ray reflectivity (Mezger et al., 2006 ). However, all of these techniques only measure the thickness of a gassy layer at the near-wall region at solid/liquid interfaces, typically a spatial average of many hundred square micrometers. Therefore, these techniques cannot distinguish between the distributed individual nanobubbles on the surface and a uniform gassy layer trapped between substrate and liquid. Since the distribution of the nanobubbles on a surface has been difficult to control in current experiments, the thicknesses of the gassy layer measured by those techniques usually varied quite a lot. If the density of the nanobubbles was too low, the gassy layer would not be detected, which has led to arguments about whether the nanobubbles indeed existed at all (Evans et al., 2004 ; Seo & Satija, 2006 ; Doshi et al., 2005 ).
Major progress was made by introducing high-resolution imaging techniques. Individual nanobubbles were first imaged by atomic force microscopy (AFM) in tapping mode (Lou et al., 2000 ; Ishida et al., 2000 ), whereby an immersed probe is rapidly tapped against a solid surface. AFM imaging proved the existence of individual nanobubbles with a lifetime as long as hours or even days. Moreover, AFM revealed detailed structures of the nanobubbles, and new nanoscopic gas morphology such as pancakes and multiple layers have also been discovered (Zhang et al., 2007b , 2008b , 2009 ; Seddon et al., 2010 ; Seddon & Zandvliet, 2010 ). Importantly, it is easy to provide a quantitative surface distribution of nanobubbles by simply counting their numbers on the surface per unit square in the AFM images. By comparing the density of nanobubbles prepared with and without degassing, it could clearly be shown that the observed nanobubbles were truly caused by dissolved gases, finally convincing many critics (Zhang et al., 2004 , 2006 ; Hui et al., 2009 ; Craig, 2011 ; Guan et al., 2012 ; Guo et al., 2012 ). However, AFM imaging is intrusive and it has been questioned whether an AFM tip could actually lead to the breakdown of a uniform gassy layer into nanobubbles. We could not tell whether the nanobubbles we observed were previously existing nanobubbles or just a result of being induced by the AFM tip. Also, one can imagine that if the nanobubbles on some surfaces are not sufficiently stable they would disappear after being disturbed by the AFM tip and would not be detected. In order to further explore the behavior of nanobubbles, there has been a call for new imaging techniques which have a high spatial resolution and are non-intrusive. Recently, optical interference-enhanced reflection microscopy and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) have been used to image nanobubbles on surfaces (Karpitschka et al., 2012 ; White et al., 2011 ). Even though the spatial resolution of optical interference-enhanced reflection microscopy is limited to ∼300 nm, and for STEM the sample preparation is usually quite difficult and the strong electron beams in STEM may have some unexpected influence on the behavior of nanobubbles, much useful information has been obtained (Karpitschka et al., 2012 ; White et al., 2011 ).
The X-ray absorption-based technique is a typical non-intrusive measurement which has long been widely used in many scientific fields. During recent years, with the development of synchrotron radiation techniques, zone-plate-based scanning transmission soft X-ray microscopy (STXM) has become a unique analysis tool which takes advantage of elemental absorption contrast to image samples down to about 15 nm (Chao et al., 2005 ). In principle, the non-intrusive measurement, nanoscopic spatial resolution and chemical sensitivity makes STXM an ideal technique for studying the properties and behavior of individual nanobubbles at interfaces.
In this paper we show that STXM with nanometer resolution could be used to image nanobubbles with gas contents of SF6 and Ne between two silicon nitride windows in water solutions. The stability of these nanobubbles with different length scales was investigated when exposed to soft X-ray irradiation.
2.1. Materials
Water with a conductivity of 18.2 MΩ cm was obtained from a Milli-Q system (Millipore Corp., Boston, MA, USA). Urea (<99.5%), α-cyclodextrin (α-CD, 99.5%) and carbon porous microspheres (<500 nm) were purchased from Sigma and used without further purification. Silicon nitride (Si3N4) windows (dimensions 5 mm × 5 mm, window 1.5 mm × 1.5 mm × 100 nm, SN-LDE-510-15, Shanghai NTI, China) served as the substrates for the nanobubbles.
2.2. Preparation of nanobubbles
Preparation of the nanobubbles was performed as follows. First, millipore water was degassed for ∼2 h at a pressure of 0.1 atm in a desiccator. Urea, α-CD or carbon microspheres were added to the degassed water to obtain the solutions (4.5–5.0 mg ml−1). Then SF6 gas (purity 99.9999%, from Wonik Materials) or Ne (purity 99.999%, from Shanghai Shenkai Gas) was injected into these solutions for ∼30 min in a washing bottle. The set-up is shown in Fig. 1 . At first, one droplet of the gas solution (about 3.0 µl) was deposited onto the surface of one Si3N4 window. Then another Si3N4 window was carefully put on top of this droplet. Vacuum glue (two components, from Agilent) was used to seal these two Si3N4 windows. After ∼1.5 h for the glue to solidify, the sample was loaded into the sample holder in the experimental chamber. Reference experiments were performed at the same time. The degassed systems before and after gas injection were measured.
Set-up of the gas injecting system. The white arrows indicate the directions of gas flow. The volume of the multi-porous washing bottle is 500 ml.
2.3. STXM imaging
The samples were investigated using the newly constructed BL08U1A STXM beamline at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), a 3.5 GeV third-generation synchrotron source. The detailed principle of STXM and the design of the microscope have been described elsewhere (Xue et al., 2010 ). As shown in Fig. 2 , the monochromatic X-ray beam was focused using a Fresnel zone plate to a 30 nm spot (this work) on the sample. The sample was raster scanned with synchronized detection of transmitted X-rays to generate the images. The sample was imaged in transmission mode in helium (He, ≥99.999%, Shanghai Chunyu Special Gas) at pressure (300–500 torr). The transmitted photon flux was measured using a photomultiplier tube (Hamamatsu, Japan). A 800 lines mm−1 grating and 50 µm exit slit were used for F or Ne K-edge imaging and spectroscopy, providing an energy resolution of 6000/700 eV (E/ΔE). Images were recorded at selected energies through the F 1s region (680–720 eV) or Ne 1s region (860–910 eV). The photon energy was calibrated by measuring pure SF6 or Ne in the experimental chamber at a pressure of ∼3–10 torr.
Schematic of the configuration of zone-plate-based STXM.
The preparation of nanobubbles in the STXM experiments was quite different from that in the AFM experiments where large amounts of nanobubbles could be produced by solution-exchanging or electrochemical methods (Lou et al., 2000 ; Zhang et al., 2006 ; Hui et al., 2009 ). Those methods are difficult to perform in a very small space in which the volume of the water solution needed in STXM is only about 2–3 µl. The space between two silicon nitride membranes was controlled by the thickness of the water layer between them. It was shown that a water solution thickness of less than 500 nm is the best thickness for obtaining good contrast from samples. Thus it was difficult to perform solution-exchanging in the STXM sample cell. On the other hand, directly immersing the solid surface in gas-saturated water usually led to fewer nanobubbles. Therefore, in order to bring more gas into the water, we added small amphiphilic water-soluble organic molecules, such as α-CD and urea as used by Jin et al. (2007 ), to stabilize the nanobubbles and prevent coalescence. Moreover, carbon microporous particles were also used in this experiment for comparison. Meanwhile, the pressure was kept to 300–500 torr to prevent the evaporation of water in the chamber when performing the STXM experiments.
The types of gases used were very crucial to the STXM experiments. We chose SF6 and Ne as the main gases for studying the nanobubbles. SF6 has a large absorption coefficient at the F K-edge. The F and Ne K-edges are both in the energy range of soft X-rays (250–2000 eV, SSRF). Importantly, these two energies of Ne and F absorption are easy to recognize and distinguish from the absorptions of other elements, such as oxygen, nitrogen and carbon which generally exist on the solid surfaces or in water solution.
Figs. 3(a) and 3(b) show Ne and SF6 bubbles of nanometer and micrometer sizes in α-CD and urea solutions observed by STXM, as shown by the white domains, confined between the two silicon nitride windows. Considering the very strong absorption of water and solid particles, the contrast of the gas bubbles was white at these energies (Bearden & Burr, 1967 ). In addition, we used carbon mesoporous particles as gas carriers to bring more SF6 gas into the water solution and found a lot of submicroscopic white domains as shown in Fig. 3(c) . This means that without organic molecules gas bubbles could also exist stably in a carbon/water system.
STXM transmission images of (a) Ne nanobubbles at 890 eV in α-CD (concentration 5 mg ml−1), (b) SF6 nanobubbles at 697 eV in urea solution (4.5 mg ml−1) and (c) SF6 nanobubbles in the carbon mesoporous particles solution.
In order to confirm that these bubbles did indeed contain gas, we performed a degassing experiment; such a technique has proven to be an important method for distinguishing between gas nanobubbles and possible contaminations in AFM experiments (Zhang et al., 2004 ). Two degassed experiments were performed. In the first, water was degassed first and then α-CD, urea or microparticles were added separately. These solutions were measured by STXM to prove that the white domains formed above were not composed of organic molecules, as shown in Fig. 4 . In the second degassing experiment, the solutions injected with Ne gas in the urea solutions were degassed for ∼2 h and then measured by STXM. These degassing experiments both showed that very few bubble-like shapes were observed in those systems containing α-CD, urea or microparticles. The statistical results clearly proved that bubble-like domains in STXM images were formed by SF6 or Ne gas and not from contaminations.
(a) STXM transmission images of degassed α-CD solution (5 mg ml−1) at 695 eV. (b) The effect of degassing on the formation of nanobubbles. The average number of nanobubbles per 10 µm2 clearly decreased when the solutions were degassed.
Stability is an important issue in nanobubbles research. The stability of bubbles of different sizes from 100 nm to 20 µm was investigated by taking advantage of the STXM technique which can image small and large bubbles at the same time. It was shown that smaller bubbles were much more stable than larger bubbles. The morphologies of the smaller bubbles did not change much even after scanning 130 times continuously, as shown in Fig. 5 . However, larger bubbles were relatively unstable under the soft X-ray irradiation. Fig. 6 shows a typical phenomenon of the growth of large SF6 bubbles after scanning one, three, five and six times. It can be seen that the large bubble marked in the figures grew larger and larger with increasing scanning times. In addition, further bubbles were produced near this marked bubble.
(a) STXM transmission images of SF6 nanobubbles and (b) after scanning 130 times.
STXM transmission images of microscopic SF6 bubbles after scanning one (a), three (b), five (c) and six (d) times.
We analyzed the size distribution of the stable bubbles observed in different solutions and the results are given in Fig. 7 . It was found that the lateral (based) diameters of most stable bubbles were usually smaller than 2.5 µm, as shown in Fig. 7(c) . There was a slight variation between the different gases: for example, in the SF6 system the bubble sizes were smaller than those in the Ne system. The phenomenon that the smaller bubbles were more stable than the large bubbles is consistent with the results from the AFM experiments reported in our previous publication that showed that nanobubbles were very stable if their curvature diameters were below 2.0 µm (Zhang et al., 2010 ). STXM can only provide two-dimensional images of nanobubbles and has no information on the height of the bubbles. However, according to AFM experiments (Zhang et al., 2006 , 2010 ) the lateral sizes of nanobubbles on the solid/water interface could reach the micrometer scale but their heights are less than 100 nm because their contact angles are very low, in the range 10–40°, on the solid/water interfaces (Craig, 2011 ). Most of the bubbles in this experiment have lateral sizes below 1.0 µm as shown in Fig. 7 . We believe that their heights are also less than 100 nm.
(a) The number of stable bubbles observed by the STXM experiments in α-CD, urea or carbon solution as a function of their diameter. (b) Diameter distribution of the stable bubbles. (c) Typical STXM images of nanobubbles.
Although there was no probe perturbation here, the soft X-rays may have some heating effect on the stability of the gas bubbles. A temperature increase may have a larger effect on the large bubbles than on the smaller bubbles. This phenomenon also proved that the content of these bubble-like domains was gas. Another possible mechanism for the instability of large bubbles is photoionization-induced surface-tension reduction (Weon et al., 2008 , 2011 ); however, these mechanisms need to be proved by systematic experiments in the future.
Since STXM has the ability to provide chemical information about the samples, we attempted to perform absorption spectroscopy near the F K-edge energy of SF6 inside the nanobubbles. Unfortunately, we failed to obtain confident results in terms of the signal-to-noise level in our instrument. The main reason for this may be due to weak absorption of the gas and the current detector not detecting sufficient signals inside the nanobubbles. Further improvements to the STXM technique should be made in the future.
We have reported a new STXM technique which could be used to investigate the formation and stability of gas nanobubbles including SF6 and Ne on Si3N4 surfaces. The experimental results showed that these gas bubbles were stable if their lateral sizes were smaller than 2.5 µm under soft X-ray irradiation. We showed that STXM was a useful tool for investigating individual nanobubbles but more improvements are needed in the future to obtain chemical information inside nanobubbles.
LZ thanks Tolek Tyliszczak (Advanced Light Source, USA) and Jian Wang (Canadian Light Source, Canada) for their kindly discussions on this experiment. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China under grant No. 11079050, and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. KJCX2-EW-W09.
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Millwall 'looking at alternative sites' after inquiry clears council of landgrab allegations
by Ella Milburn/ December 14, 2017/ Lewisham, Politics, Sports/ 1 Comment/
Pic: Steve Hardwicke
Millwall Football Club are giving "full consideration" to the possibility of moving away from Lewisham and have already looked into alternative sites, the club's chairman John Berylson has confirmed.
In a statement published on Tuesday Berylson disputes the findings of an inquiry led by former Master of the Rolls Lord Dyson, which last month cleared Lewisham Council of wrongdoing over its plans, later abandoned, to use a Compulsory Purchase Order to "seize" land around Millwall's stadium, the Den.
The council had planned to sell the land onto offshore-registered developer Renewal who gained planning permission in 2012 to build houses and a sporting village on the land.
Millwall have been based in Lewisham since 1910 and are leased the land surrounding the Den by Lewisham Council.
Berylson's statement, published alongside a letter to Lord Dyson, reads: "It will be extremely difficult to see a long term future in a borough where our local authority is unhelpful and hostile to us and where a property developer has preferential treatment."
He said: "If it is true that Lewisham Council remains intent on the use of CPOs – in spite of Lewisham Labour's elected mayoral candidate, Damien Egan, publicly stating that he opposed such a move – to seize the leases on the land around The Den in order to sell the freeholds of that land to Renewal, then we will continue to defend our position robustly."
Berylson confirmed, however, that Millwall would participate in redevelopment of the area if allowed to play a key part in a community-oriented scheme.
The statement reads: "We remain firmly in favour of the development of the site adjoining our stadium and we re-confirm our wish to be a participant in that project for the overall benefit of this community. The Council claimed more than five years ago that only Renewal could deliver the development project; so far Renewal has delivered nothing. Surely it is time for the Council to consider a better way to get things done rather than further delay the process with the use of CPOs?"
Lewisham Council have contested the rumours that it plans on reintroducing the CPOs over the Millwall land.
Councillor Joe Dromey said: "The council has been clear the CPO has been abandoned. Talk of Millwall FC leaving Lewisham is unhelpful and unnecessary." He added: "They belong in Lewisham."
Lewisham council tweeted: "We are proud that Millwall FC has called Lewisham home since 1910 and want them to stay here for generations to come."
Berylson's 13-page-long letter to Lord Dyson outlines a list of grievances with the handling and outcome of the inquiry.
The documents furthermore reveal that Millwall has launched an appeal against some of the decisions made at a Freedom of Information Tribunal in June 2017, which found that the land sale price to Renewal should remain confidential.
Berylson said: "We learnt that Lord Dyson based some of his findings on the conclusions of the Freedom of Information Tribunal, hence I have pointed out to him that that judgement contained errors of fact.
"It was not appropriate for Lord Dyson to draw conclusions from an incomplete legal process."
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Whatever the truth is/was behind the attempts to redevelop the area – it highlights echoes of the North Korean style with respect to Lewisham's mayoral control – where one single man has been able to make his own decisions (only taking advisement from his personally-chosen cabinet).
If any reader has any doubts about this, perhaps check out: http://www.bringbackdemocracy.org.uk/ (or just accept what daddy tells us).


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Review: BECOMING DR. RUTH
by Lynn on May 6, 2019
At the Greenwin Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Ont.
Written by Mark St. Germain
Directed by David Eisner
Set by Yannik Larivée
Costume by Alex Amini
Lighting by Siobhán Sleath
Sound by Christopher Stanton
Cast: Linda Kash
A detailed look into the life of the dynamo known as Dr. Ruth (Westheimer) performed by the equally dynamic Linda Kash.
The Story. This is a story of resilience and tenacity. In 1997 Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Linda Kash) is newly widowed from her third husband Fred and is packing up to move. She reminisces about her life from being born in Germany to loving parents; the coming of the Nazis and being sent to Switzerland when she was 10 for her protection; surviving the loneliness and desperation to know how her parents were; to becoming a freedom fighter and sniper in Israel; to studying psychology in France; emigrating to the US and finishing her education focusing on sex education; notoriety on the radio, the talk circuit; marrying three times, having two children and continuing at full speed it seems.
The Performance. It's moving day for Dr. Ruth (as she was known to one and all because Westheimer was too hard to pronounce for some). Yannik Larivée has designed a set full of packing boxes on top of each other for the move and mementos here and there to which Dr. Ruth will refer.
Linda Kash as Dr. Ruth scurries on smartly dressed (kudos to Alex Amini for the design) in comfortable shoes, stylish slacks and a vibrant blouse. She's on the phone tending to details about the move. Linda Kash speaks in a clipped, clear voice with the familiar Dr. Ruth German accent. She speaks quickly but is not abrupt. And she's smiling with every call, except the one in which she tells one of her children she won't change her mind about moving. When Dr. Ruth 'sees' the audience, she blossoms. She has a whole group of us eager to hear her stories.
Much of Dr. Ruth's life was full of sorrow, danger, uncertainty and endless adversity. She met all of it with that smile. Her grandmother told her always be cheerful, optimistic and trust in God. I can appreciate it; but constant cheerfulness is suspect it seems to me.
Director David Eisner has staged Becoming Dr. Ruth to within an inch of its life. He has
Linda Kash climbing up those levels of boxes to get something way up there to show us, then quickly climbs down only to flit to another part of the stage and climb up something there. At the time, Dr. Ruth would have been about 67 year old. Oy, what a workout that Eisner man is giving her and Kash does it all with grace, aplomb and that smile. The humour is delivered with a razor sharpness in timing, nuance and finesse. Both David Eisner as director and Linda Kash as star know the ins and outs of a funny moment. They also realize the poignancy in this long life filled with challenges that would defeat a lot of other people. But Dr. Ruth isn't a lot of other people. As played by Linda Kash she's a tenacious dynamo who not afraid of anything or anyone and when she talks about sex she's glowing and it's definitely not hot flashes.
Comment. Mark St. Germain does in Becoming Dr. Ruth what he did with his previous play, Freud's Last Session, he has taken a real person, fashioned a situation and told their stories in a way that gives us the nuts and bolts details that sum up a life. With Becoming Dr. Ruth he has revealed the life of this seemingly unlikely expert on sex. This dandy production illuminates Dr. Ruth's life further.
The Harold Green Jewish Theatre Presents:
Began: April 30, 2019.
Closes: May 16, 2019.
Running Time: 90 minutes, no interruptus.
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AI tutorial in Taglish – New logo – Rebranded!
Ok! I have rebranded my blog, and created a new logo. I have put up my YouTube channel and Facebook Fan Page. And decided to create a tutorial on how I created my logo for Freelancer Philippines. This is just the first of my video for my channel. I am aiming to make at least 1 tutorial a week. It is inspired actually by all the illustrator tutorial I have watched in YouTube. This is just a simple logo, but I would hope you will learn something from it and be useful for your own creation! Here's my AI tutorial in Taglish.
The process starts of with sketching the idea on paper first. Then I choose among the studies, what is the best design idea to work on. I just pick a simple design that would work perfectly in different mediums.
After having the ideal logo design from scratch. It is then imported to AI to be traced. Since the logo is simple, just a little bit of pen tool and shape tool can do the job. Then a little bit of typography mix and match.
This is quite a short process, it took me a little of a couple of hours, but I think the logo will work. It is simple, easily identifiable, and definitely it would work in print, textile and any medium it may be used in.
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I don't even have a logo yet. Still thinking about it. I love this tutorial. To see how you can create your idea. That's really helpful. It's great work. Love how it looks.


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In a season dominated by the cloying reek of pumpkin spice everything, Jonathan Warren & The Billygoats' latest album, Cletus (Billy Goat Productions, 2018), hits all the right notes of autumn.
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Teddy is for sale. Well not really Teddy but 2 Teddy quilts.
I made these quilts for the Animals We love contest and they are now being auctioned . The auction funds the Quilt Alliance which does some great work for the quilt community.
The Alliance for American Quilts, a national nonprofit organization founded in 1993, supports and develops projects to document, preserve, and share the history of quilts and quiltmakers. The AAQ brings together groups and individuals from the creative, scholarly and business worlds of quiltmaking to advance the recognition of quilts and their makers in American culture.
All of the "Animals We Love" contest quilts were donated by their makers and before being auctioned, the quilts went on a national exhibition tour that began at the Utah headquarters of Handi Quilter, Inc, and included stops at the American Quilter's Society Quilt Show, Original Sewing & Quilt Expo and the International Quilt Festival. This eBay auction is one of the Alliance's most important annual fundraisers and provides crucial funds that support the operation of projects like Quilters' S.O.S. – Save Our Stories and Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! Thank you to all of the creative and generous artists who donated their work to support the Alliance! And thank you for bidding!!
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Oh what a ham he is, that adorable, real life earnest Teddy!
The quilts there for sale are all creative,enjoyed seeing them!!


[FIXED] Graphics 2.0, Filters, and Alpha Channels: Supported?
Can you provide some code?
Any display object using a newImageRect / imageSheet with any .png that has an alpha channel to create a transparent object does this with filter.colorMatrix.
The parts that should be transparent ( black in alpha) are not. They become visible.
Have you considered using something like "filter.monotone" instead of colorMatrix? Monotone respects alpha channels, and gives you a fair amount of color control (RGBA) on an image.
monsterObject.fill.effect = "filter.scatter" does the same thing... the otherwise transparent parts become black... IE a black box around my object becomes visible.
Any word on this issue be solved?
With respect to a filter like scatter, is this as designed, to be implemented, a bug, or something I need to fix on my end?
There is one of two possible conditions. 1. Filters/Shaders are supposed to support Alpha channels and if it's not, its a bug. 2. They don't support alpha channels, in which chase this needs to be a feature request. Now this is a pair of conditions that could happen on any given filter. I've asked engineering to clarify their intent.
If its #1, then I'll need you to file a bug report. If it's #2, then there will need to be a feature request added to the feedback site. Once I hear back from Engineering, I'll update this thread on how to proceed. Now if it's a case that some are and dont, and some are not supposed to, I'll work with the team to get the docs updated to clearly state which ones support alpha channels and which ones don't.
And while we try to monitor the forums on the weekends, the engineer's are on a more of a Monday-Friday work scheduled.
Also and while I'm at it, is .alpha or transitionTo supposed to be supported? transitionTo and .aphla don't seem to be working with some of the filters.
Just to be clear, in this specific case, I am trying to fade out (remove a monster that has been killed) a display object. A display object created with newImageRect, using an imageSheet, and being made from a .png with an embedded transparency.
A)fade out the monster by using a transitionTo and adjusting the alpha = 1 to 0 over 1 sec.
B)apply a filter.scatter and gradually increase the "intensity" parameter from 0 to .5 over 1 sec.
The "transitionTo / alpha" works fine alone.
When the filter.scatter effect is applied alone the object's embedded transparency goes to a visible black. When the filter.scatter effect is applied in conjunction with the "transitionTo / alpha" the display object's embedded transparency goes to a visible black and the "transitionTo / alpha" no longer functions.
The filter.scatter documentation mentions nothing of an alpha parameter.
So, the question: If the filter.scatter effect where to maintain the embedded .png's transparaency the "transitonTo / alpha" effect would still be unsupported? That's what you are saying right?
I asked the engineers if core alpha could be supported in the "scatter" filter or not.
In the meantime, would you be able to achieve a similar effect using the "dissolve" filter? This one respects core alpha in my testing.
I fixed the "scatter" filter transparency problem in the next daily build. Thanks for reporting this issue!
@Albert90 - is that build .2123 that it's fixed in or the build coming after that?
It's build 2125 of later for that feature.


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Q: JQuery unable to change 2 data attribute in a row I'm creating a JQuery dynamic selector (img for reference)

To change my letters shown, I'm using data-attributes to select which letter is active on each columns. I'm able to change my attributes correctly if I'm changing only one of my inputs, but when I try to change 2 of them (to activate one and deactivate the other), only one of them is actually modified. Here's the code I'm using:
 function nextOrangeInput(inputNumber, direction) {
    var activeInput = $('.input-orange[data-orange-input="' + inputNumber + '"][data-orange-active="true"]');

    var position = activeInput.data("orange-position");
    if (direction === "up") {
        if (activeInput.data("orange-first") === "true") {
            $('.input-orange[data-orange-input="' + inputNumber + '"][data-orange-last="true"]').attr('data-orange-active', "true");
        } else {
            position = position - 1;
            $('.input-orange[data-orange-input="' + inputNumber + '"][data-orange-position="' + position + '"]').attr('data-orange-active', "true");
        }
    } else if (direction === "down") {
        if (activeInput.data("orange-last") === "true") {
            $('.input-orange[data-orange-input="' + inputNumber + '"][data-orange-first="true"]').attr('data-orange-active', "true");
        } else {
            position = position + 1;
            $('.input-orange[data-orange-input="' + inputNumber + '"][data-orange-position="' + position + '"]').attr('data-orange-active', "true");
        }
    }
    $('.input-orange[data-orange-input="' + inputNumber + '"][data-orange-active="true"]').attr('data-orange-active', "false");
}

A: Like Barmar said in the comment, Since Ichanged the attribute of the first element to true, the second selector is matching that element and changing it back to false

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NTGent is an open house, accessible to everyone.
In order to be able to offer you the best service, we ask you to always provide all relevant information when booking your tickets. Before the show begins, during the break and when leaving the auditorium and the building, you can approach the staff with your questions and for any help.
People who want to make use of our accessibility services are requested to order their tickets by telephone, email or at the desk. Please state clearly which service you would like to use, so that we can provide you with customised service.
Would you like to know more about the accessibility of our performances or our buildings?
The NTGent theatre is accessible to wheelchair users via ramps and mobile seats in the hall. The auditorium is accessible by elevator and the available places are on the parterre. There is an accessible toilet available.
Minnemeers (with the exception of the lobby), Arca and the Minardschouwburg are also wheelchair accessible. In Minnemeers and Arca the available places are in front of the seats. In the Minardschouwburg it depends on the hall in which the performance takes place.
When booking your tickets, we ask that you inform us whether you are using an ordinary or an electric wheelchair, whether or not you wish to be in your wheelchair during the performance and whether or not you wish to attend the free introduction 45' before the start of the performance. Please be present about 45' before the start of the performance on the evening itself. The staff can then help you to get to your seat in time.


Do the Nerds have a chance?
Thread: Do the Nerds have a chance?
The last time CSUP played some nerds they lost. I was wondering does anyone think SD Tech has a chance???
Re: Do the Nerds have a chance?
They're not nerds. They're hard rockers. You know, rock and roll, and stuff ... Rock on dude!
No. Their offense is fun to watch though, creative. QB is very solid.
A chance? Sure. Not a big one but the ball is shaped that way for a reason!
Looks like they do not have a chance.
Pueblo up 41-14, emptied the bench and cut the playbook to about 5 plays for what seems like much of the second half. No Marche or Bernard today, they have another week they can likely rest.
SD Mines does some solid things on offense, Sullivan will be greatly missed by them when he graduates.