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A vegetarian is a vampire or a hybrid who subsists on animal blood rather than human. The term was adopted by the Cullen family, so that they could refer to their unnatural diet in a civilized fashion. Being a vegetarian is very uncommon among vampires because animal blood is less appetizing than human, and the majority consider it somewhat unusual; the only two covens consistently showing this diet are the Olympic and Denali covens. Nevertheless, being a vegetarian allows vampires to live among humans with little or no detection, even though it can only be accomplished in regions with ample animal populations. In some cases, such vampires can live not only as a coven but as a family as their needs do not always drive them to kill and compete for their prey, which usually drives a coven apart. By feeding on animals, they retain the ability to resist the urge to consume humans, and allows them to form bonds as close as a real family.
Vegetarians have golden instead of red eyes. The vegetarian diet is much less appealing than human blood and, at times, it is too strong for a vampire to resist the latter. In the Twilight movie, Edward states that "It's like a human only living on tofu, it keeps you strong, but you're never fully satisfied".
Known vegetarians
The Olympic Coven
Main article: Olympic coven
The Denali Coven
Main article: Denali coven
In the movie adaptation of Twilight, Carlisle uses the term "vegetarian" to describe Jasper, and why he acts distant towards Bella when she comes to the house.
Edward also says that he doesn't feed on humans because "he doesn't want to be a monster", and he mentions that they do call themselves vegetarians at times.
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Electrical Schematic Editing
The eclectical mode of Xic allows a schematic representation of the cell to be entered. This electrical representation is used to generate a SPICE file for simulation purposes, by WRspice or another simulator. The electrical representation can be generated or updated from the physical layout, if extraction has been properly set up, and can be compared with the physical representation to identify wiring errors.
The electrical representation of a hierarchy of cells follows the same hierarchy as the physical cells, for the most part. Physical cells that contain wire only, i.e., no devices or subcircuits, generally do not have an electrical-mode counterpart. Such cells are effectively flattened into their parents in the electrical representation. The physical implementation of devices can include structure from subcells. In this case, the electrical implementation of the device is in the electrical cell corresponding to the top-level physical cell containing the device geometry.
One does not need a physical representation in order to use electrical mode. In this case, Xic is used exclusively as a schematic capture front-end for WRspice or another SPICE-compatible simulator.
This section will focus on the mechanics of schematic entry and simulation using WRspice. The chapter on extraction (16) will provide detail on how the electrical and physical data can be made to interact.
To produce a schematic cell, one follows this basic outline:
 1. Devices from the device menu or some other source are placed at various locations in the drawing. Also, subcircuits from the user's library are similarly added to the drawing.
 2. The devices and subcircuits are wired together.
 3. Properties are given to the devices, which designate component values, models referenced, or other information.
 4. If the cell is to be used as a subcircuit in another schematic, connection points are added, and possibly a symbolic representation defined.
 5. A SPICE file representing the present hierarchy can be generated at this point, or, if the circuit is top-level (not used as a subcircuit) interactive simulation using WRspice is possible.
The following sections will describe these steps in more detail.
A prerequisite for using electrical mode is basic knowledge of the SPICE syntax and SPICE file format. One does not need to be an expert, but a certain proficiency is assumed for such steps as property setting. It is recommended that users unfamiliar with SPICE skim the WRspice manual or other reference.
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Change Line Color
To change line color of view elements:
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Change Fill Color
To change fill color of view elements:
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 - Decoration (Ctrl+Shift+2) : Show stereotype as a decorated icon on the top left.
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 - Icon (Ctrl+Shift+4) : Show element as a icon.
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Show Multiplicity
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Show Operation Signature
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Suppress Operations
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Suppress Columns
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Aligning View Elements
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Layout Diagram
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How to Eat French Food Like a French Person
In France, gourmet food is called gastronomique. And there's a lot of it. (How French people stay skinny with all this rich food and sans exercise is another question for another story.) But this is the question Yahoo Travel set out to answer: How do you eat French food like a French person? Hint: You've been doing it all wrong. Here's the scoop from French insiders.
There's an art to eating croissants.
Not so petit dejeuner plus detox shot at Peninsula Paris. (Photo: Ko Im)
The first meal of the day is sweet, generally including an espresso, some juice, and (score!) a chocolate croissant or pain au chocolat. Kerry Saretsky of French Revolution says though in America croissants are used for sandwiches, she's never seen it done in France. Here's how to eat them the French way;
1. Enjoy them sitting down — croissants are not meant to be eaten in motion.
2. Use your hands to pull apart the croissant instead of biting off chunks. Begin at one end, then move to the other so you're eating from the outside until you reach center. Once at the center, fold the larger pieces in half so you create even more flaky layers. Or, if you prefer, tear the pastry in half first and eat from the inside out. Either way: tear, eat and repeat.
3. You can keep your croissant au naturel or paint on jam, honey, or butter, using a knife to smear each bite as you go. Tear, smear, eat — repeat.
4. Share your crumbs with the sparrows.
Related: Cheap and Chic Paris
Dip your baguette and butter.
How crispy is your baguette? Benjamin Setiawan of Hungry Editor says beware of the bread rules:
1. Dip your baguette into your coffee, especially in the morning.
2. Use your day-old baguettes to make… French toast.
3. Rip it; don't slice your bread unless it's lengthwise for a sandwich.
4. For a treat, slather your bread with Nutella for for a late afternoon snack with le gouter (afternoon tea).
Pro tip: Follow the crowd to a good, legitimate boulangeries. The best ones have long lines out the door.
Pair your crepes.
A crepe Suzette, a traditional triangular shaped crepe flambeed with Grand Marnier alcohol and filled with sugar with orange juice. (Photo: Delice & Sarrasin/Facebook)
French-born Christophe Caron of Delice & Sarrasin, a family-owned creperie, says crepes have been conceptualized as a fast-food import in America. But the French way is to have a savory crepe (a.k.a., a gaullet) followed by a sweet crepe. And they're not supposed to be unhealthy — the batter shouldn't be made with sugar and the crepe should be filled with ingredients that have fiber and protein. Here's what else to know:
1. You can find crepes to go in Paris, but it's just for the tourists. The French enjoy their crepes sitting down, using a fork and knife.
2. Pair both your sweet and savory crepes with a fresh, dry, mildly alcoholic cider.
3. Don't fold your crepes like a slice of pizza or roll them like a burrito.
Know your dairy.
Cheese is everywhere in France. Frenchman Dylan Glynn says it's a daily staple for locals. Melted cheese counts as a meal, while a plate of cheese can also be dessert. Here's a primer on French dairy:
1. Eat your fromage in small, bite-size pieces.
2. Cook with creme fraiche, which is similar to sour cream.
3. Spread fromage frais and fromage blanc on bread or crackers; they are creamy, soft cheeses.
4. Yaourt (yogurt) is also a fave. Eat it with a spoon.
Hit the market for a picnic.
Pack a picnic of mini rolls and ham juice for the train. (Photo: Ko Im)
Picnicking in Paris can be amazing. Try sitting along Canal St. Martin with the hipsters or in the green grass below the Eiffel Tower with the fashion bloggers. According to Marjorie R. Williams, author of Markets of Paris:
1. Rotisserie chicken, olives, and wine are French picnic staples you can get at the markets.
2. Don't touch the produce on the stands — unless a basket is provided, let the vendor pick it for you.
3. Don't forget a corkscrew if you want to drink wine at your picnic. (You can also buy them at the markets.)
4. Buy your cheese last and pack it with some ice for freshness.
5. Some public parks don't allow grass seating. Look out for signs.
Dinner has rules.
Truffle fries on truffle fries on truffle fries during a late dinner at Bagatelle in Cannes, France. (Photo: Ko Im)
Tom Meyers of Eurocheapo explains "eating is a cherished, revered part of the day and if someone has prepared dinner for you, eat it… all." Here's how to tackle dinner:
1. As we mentioned, finish everything on your plate.
2. Under no circumstances should you complain about foods you don't like. Expressing a distaste for a particular food or even an allergy is seen as a weakness.
3. Diner will be eaten late (around 8 p.m.) and will have multiple courses. So don't snack and save your appetite. Luckily, the portion sizes will be smaller than we get in America.
Savor some cognac.
For 300 years, Martell's cognac has been fermented with fine grains and aged in old barrels. (Photos: Ko Im)
Cognac is a special brandy dating back to the Age of Enlightenment, and it currently serves as the drink of choice for the older, elite French crowd. According to the Martell Cognac's cellar master Benoit Fil, the barrel to bottle concoction can sipped on its own or taken in cocktail form (e.g., an Old Fashioned). Actress Diane Kruger serves it at special dinner parties. Wealthy Chinese are known to throw back shots. Fil provides these tips:
1. Do: Smell it like you would a fine wine. Sip it to smoothly coat and warm the throat.
2. Don't: Hold the glass itself, as that will warm the alcohol unnecessarily; instead take it by the stem.

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Changes in Sugars, Starch, RNA, Protein, and Lipid-soluble Phosphate in Leaves of Cotton Plants at Low Temperatures1
- Gene Guinn2
Cotton plants (Gossypium hirsutum L., cv 'Westburn') were severely injured when chilled at 5 C without prior hardening. Exposure to hardening temperatures of 15 C day and 10 C night prevented subsequent injury at 5 C. Sugars and starch increased during exposure to hardening temperatures, but RNA, protein, and lipid-soluble phosphate decreased. Except for increases hi sugars, these changes in cotton during exposure to hardening temperatures are opposite changes which have been reported in plants that can be hardened to withstand subzero temperatures.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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Stories | April 5, 2017
DNA Extraction Classroom Activity
Grade Level: 3rd- 8th
Purpose/Outcome: To extract DNA from cheek cells.
Relevance: Monsanto scientists use this extraction technique during the early stages of product development to analyze and assess the effectiveness of laboratory techniques and procedures.
Safety: Perform this experiment only under the close supervision of a teacher or parent. Wear safety glasses/goggles to protect eyes from accidental splashes. Wear lab coat covering to protect clothes from staining. Because the solutions contain alcohol, avoid contact with open flames. Always wash your hands when the experiment is complete. Do not ingest any of the solutions used in this procedure.
IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE: Monsanto employees use this experiment to demonstrate various scientific properties. The user assumes responsibility for repeating this experiment in a safe manner. It is critical to follow all safety precautions noted in the procedure below. The substances used and produced in this experiment are NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN OR ANIMAL CONSUMPTION. Also, such consumption may cause severe harm or death. Monsanto is not responsible for any injury, loss or damage that may occur from the users use of this website or the experiments.
- Sodium chloride (table salt)
- Drinking water
- Wood stick
- Two 250 mL glass beakers
- Liquid soap (e.g. Ivory, Dawn)
- Paper cups
- One large (50 ml) test tube with a cap
- One small (1.5 ml) test tube with a cap
- 90% rubbing alcohol
Prep time/Activity Duration: 15 min/ 30 min
A. Procedure: For best results, follow the directions in the order listed.
- buffer A: Place 8 grams of sodium chloride in one of the beakers and dissolve with 92 milliliters of distilled water.
- buffer B: Combine 25 milliliters of liquid soap in a different beaker with 75 milliliters of distilled water.
- buffer C: Add a little (~1 mL) rubbing alcohol to a small test tube. Set aside.
B. Collecting Test Sample:
- Measure 10 milliliters of clean drinking water into a clean paper cup.
- From the clean paper cup, put the clean drinking water in your mouth and swirl and swish for 45-60 seconds.
- It is important that this be done as vigorously as possible to release some cheek cells.
- Spit the water into large test tube.
C. Performing the DNA Extraction:
- Add 1 milliliter of the Extraction Solution/Buffer A (salt solution) to the large test tube.
- Recap the tube and mix gently for 10 seconds.
- Add 1 milliliter of the Extraction Solution/Buffer B (soap solution) to the test tube. Put the cap on and mix gently for 10 seconds.
- Let stand for 1-2 minutes
- Add 5 milliliters of the Extraction Solution/Buffer C (alcohol solution) to the test tube, making sure to pour it at an angle down the side of the test tube.
- It is very important to do this slowly and gently. Do not mix the contents of the tube while you do this or after. If done carefully, you should see two layers: the watery layer on the bottom and the alcohol layer at the top.
- Be very careful to not mix the contents of the tube. After about 30-60 seconds you will see a white stringy substance start to appear at the interface between the layers. You may notice small bubbles clinging to it. This is the DNA starting to 'precipitate' (undissolved).
D. DNA Collection and Storage:
- If there is enough DNA, you may be able to 'spool it' with a wooden stick. If you gently swirl the end of the wooden stick around the DNA, you will notice that the DNA may cling to the stick. If enough of it clings to the stick, you can gently pull it out of the test tube and transfer it to a smaller test tube with rubbing alcohol in it. It is important to try to spool the DNA before too much time passes, i.e. within the first 2-3 minutes after seeing it appear.
- Once the DNA has been transferred to the small test tube, you can keep it there forever.
- DNA that is stored in rubbing alcohol is very stable and can be kept for many years. If you wish to dispose of it, simply pour it down a drain.
- Why is salt needed in the extraction buffer?
- The salt acts as a 'buffer' to stabilize the DNA when it gets released from the cells in the next step. It also helps it precipitate the DNA at the last step.
- What occurs after the soap solution is added to the cheek cell/salt solution mixture?
- During this time the cells are 'lysing' (bursting open), spilling their DNA into the solution.
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The Discovery Stage: Ages 3-4
- "piled" and stacked shapes and clumps
- very little detail
- squishing, pinching and poking
- pounding and hitting of playdough pieces with hands and tools
The language of this play at this stage is push, poke, squish, pinch, pound, and so forth. "Watch this!"
The Shape and Form Stage: Ages 4-5
- simple, recognizable forms
- more detail such as mouth and eyes
- beginning of "rolling" coiled, snake-like forms
- begins to make balls
- rolling out and cutting out of forms from cookie cutters and "pretending"
The language of this play is the narrative of the imagination.
Schematic: Ages 6-7-years-old
- Standing forms and objects
- attention to the details
- making balls and three dimensional shapes
- designs that have patterns and repetitions
- Using basic forms to create people and things in vertical position
The language of this stage is creativity.
Inspired by the work of Elesse Brown and Stokrocki.

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getUserInfo
A Graze API GET request that returns information about a specified user.
Back to Graze API EndPoint Reference.
Request arguments
Endpoint getUserInfo takes the following request arguments:
Name
Type
Required
Description
auth_token
String
Yes
A valid auth_token returned from the authenticate request. See the authenticate endpoint for more information.
user_id
Number
Yes
ID of the the user to return information about.
username
String
Yes
A valid username.
Response
Endpoint getUserInfo returns the following response:
Successful requests return a JSON object containing the following:
Name
Type
Description
user_id
Number
User ID.
full_name
String
Full name of the user.
Examples
The following examples demonstrate typical use of endpoint getUserInfo:
Request example
Example cURL request to return the information associated with user ID 57:
curl -G -u graze:graze -k -v "https://localhost/graze/v1/getUserInfo" --data-urlencode "user_id=57"
Response example
Example response returning the user information related to user ID 57:
{"full_name":"Lonnie Holmes","user_id":57}


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A prototype Cat interpreter, has been released into the public domain, and is available for download with C# source code at
Characteristics of Cat
Cat has no variables, no arguments, no constants, and no side-effects. Every Cat program takes a single stack as input, and returns a single stack as output. A Cat program is made up of a sequence of sub-programs. A sub-program may be user-defined or atomic programs.
A Nip of Cat
In Cat every operation, program, and literal, is a stack transform function. It takes a stack and returns a new stack. The following are examples of Cat programs:
 42; // pushes 42 onto the stack
 1 2; // pushes the value 1 and then the value 2 onto the stack
 1 2 swap; // pushes 2 and then 1 onto the stack.
 1 2 +; // pushes 3 onto the stack
 1 + 2; // increments the top value of the stack, then pushes 2 onto the stack
 pop; // removes the top item of the stack
 dup; // duplicates the top item on the stack
 [1 2 3]; // pushes a list of functions onto the stack
 [1 2 3] $; // pushes a list of values onto the stack
 [] 1 cons; // pushes a list containing the "1" function
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Home Hardware (Special) Is it true that deleting files from an SSD can 'kill' you?
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(Special) Is it true that deleting files from an SSD can 'kill' you?
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(Special) Is it true that deleting files from an SSD can 'kill' you?
This is more or less true, but first we have to understand the root of the problem. If you don't know, erasing information from a disc does not directly erase it. That is, the file is still there, it was just removed from the disk directory (the system that manages all files and their location.)
Very briefly, when you delete a file from your hard drive, you are just marking that space as free, even though there are still files.
(Special) Is it true that deleting files from an SSD can harm you?
SSD
Therefore, what creates damage in an SSD is the writing of information. Basically, whenever you record something on an SSD, it is making a small dent in its durability. This is because the memory cells of these drives have a very low average life expectancy.
Therefore, there is a limit to the number of times that you can write information in each of these cells, before they become unusable.
In short, any act of writing damages your SSD. That said, it is not the deletion of files that causes a dent, it is the addition or modification of these.
How to give new life to an old laptop or computer?
RAM memory
We cannot always afford to change computers frequently, or at least key components. For this reason, it is important for us to know the best ways to maximize the useful life of our faithful work / playmates.
After all, that there are a number of things we can do, which in truth, are not difficult and will not create a hole in your wallet.
Especially now, that many of us have been sent home due to the provisional quarantine normals against Coronavirus (COVID-19). So, we have very good people who have to work at home, but unfortunately they realized that their PC or laptop is 10 years behind current technology.
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Instruction selection is the part in a compiler that transforms IR code into machine code. Instruction selectors build on a library of hundreds if not thousands of rules. Creating and maintaining these rules is a tedious and error-prone manual process.
In this paper, we present a fully automatic approach to create provably correct rule libraries from formal specifications of the instruction set architecture and the compiler IR using template-based counter-example guided synthesis (CEGIS). Thereby, we overcome several shortcomings of an existing SMT-based CEGIS approach, which was not applicable to our setting in the first place.We propose a novel way of handling memory operations and show how the search space can be iteratively explored to synthesize rules that are relevant for instruction selection.
Our approach synthesized a large part of the integer arithmetic rules for the x86 architecture within a few days where existing techniques could not deliver a substantial rule library within weeks. With respect to the runtime of the compiled programs, we show that the synthesized rules are close to a manually-tuned instruction selecto... mehrr.

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Jackal survey in wetlands of Ukraine, 18-24 September 2013 (here).
1) Suitable insight on jackal distribution in wetlands of Northern Black Sea Coast near Dnieper River and in NW Ukraine, West Polesia. Olbia 2013 team proposed two fieldwork together with Ukrainian Environmental Authority and Zoologists with the aim to find possible new territorial reproductive groups in Ukraine using bioacoustic "Giannatos" monitoring technique.
2) Enforcing Wetland Mammal Specialists Network in Ukraine and improve GOJAGE membership with members of Ukrainian and Belarusian zoologists and Environmental Ecologists, specialists and experts of large carnivores and medium sized carnivores typical to wetlands and jackal specific ecological systems.
by O Banea & G Giannatos


Mass (disambiguation)
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The term Mass is used for different concepts, in different fields of study:
Physics[change | change source]
 - Mass, a physical quantity describing the amount of matter in something (everything it is made of)
 - Thermal mass, a mass which absorbs heat
Religion[change | change source]
 - Mass (liturgy), the main worship service of many Christian churches
 - Mass (music), a piece of music for choir, which is sung during the religious service. The text of this is usually from a religious setting
Music and theatre[change | change source]
Placenames and geography[change | change source]
 - Mass., an abbreviation for the U.S. state of Massachusetts
 - Landmass (also land mass)
Medicine and health[change | change source]
People[change | change source]
 - Isaac Mass, a Franklin County, Massachusetts politician
 - Mass, another name for electronic musician Peter Harris, more commonly known as Blu Peter
In the plural form, the masses, can mean:
An adjective describing a large amount of something, as in:


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|Family/Household Reference Person Indicator (RPIP)This variable identifies the household member used in Census coding as the basis for identifying the relationships between usual residents of a household. Familial relationships are defined in terms of the relationship between the family reference person and all other family members.|
In the 2011 Census, data on the relationships people have with others in the same dwelling is mainly derived from question 5 on the Census Household Form, which asks for each person's relationship to Person 1 on the form.
Person 1 is the'reference person' for 94.2% of family reference persons and 99.0% of non-family reference persons. In the remaining cases, a more appropriate person on the form is chosen during clerical coding. For example, an adult is chosen rather than a child, or in the event of multiple family households additional reference persons are chosen.
For more detail on how family and non-family households are coded refer to the following data quality statements for Relationships in Household (RLHP), Household Composition (HHCD) and Family Composition (FMCF).
More information on RPIP is available in the 2011 Census Dictionary (cat. no. 2901.0).
Question 5 as it appeared on the 2011 Census Household FormData for this variable is mainly derived from question 5 on the Census Household Form.
A text only version of this question is also available
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Empty lines can be included for readability. Entries can continue on to multiple lines by adding a backslash ('\') as the last character in the line. The $HOME/.printers file can include comments. Comments have a pound sign ('#') as the first character in the line, and are terminated by a NEWLINE.
Setting Personal Aliases
Specify the alias or aliases in the first field. Separate multiple aliases by a pipe sign ('|'). Specify the destination in the second field. A destination names a printer or class of printers, See lpadmin(1M). Specify the destination using atomic, URI-style (scheme://endpoint), or POSIX-style (server:destination) names. See printers.conf(4) for information regarding the naming conventions for destination names.
Setting the Interest List for lpget, lpstat and cancel
Specify _all in the first field. Specify the list of destinations for the interest list in the second field. Separate each destinations by a comma (','). Specify destinations using atomic, URI-style (scheme://endpoint), or POSIX-style (server:destination) names. See printers.conf(4) for information regarding the naming conventions for destination names. This list of destinations can refer to an alias defined in $HOME/.printers.
Setting the Default Destination
Specify _default in the first field. Specify the default destination in the second field. Specify the default destination using atomic, URI-style (scheme://endpoint), or POSIX-style (server:destination) names. See printers.conf(4) for information regarding the naming conventions for destination names. The default destination can refer to an alias defined in $HOME/.printers.
Locating Destination Information
The print client commands locate destination information based on the "printers" database entry in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. See nsswitch.conf(4).
Locating the Personal Default Destination
The default destination is located differently depending on the command.
The lp command locates the default destination in the following order:
 1. lp command's -d destination option.
 2. LPDEST environment variable.
 3. PRINTER environment variable.
 4. _default destination in $HOME/.printers.
 5. _default destination in /etc/printers.conf.
The lpr, lpq, and lprm commands locate the default destination in the following order:
 1. lpr command's -P destination option.
 2. PRINTER environment variable.
 3. LPDEST environment variable.
 4. _default destination in $HOME/.printers.
 5. _default destination in /etc/printers.conf.
Locating the Interest List for lpget, lpstat, and cancel
The lpget, lpstat, and cancel commands locate the interest list in the following order:
 1. _all list in $HOME/.printers.
 2. _all list in /etc/printers.conf.
Examples
Example 1 Setting the Interest List
The following entry sets the interest list to destinations ps, secure, and dog at server west and finance_ps:
_all ps,secure,west:dog,lpd://server/printers/queue
Example 2 Setting Aliases to a Printer
The following entry sets the aliases ps, lp, and lw to sparc_printer:
ps|lp|lw sparc_printer
Example 3 Setting an Alias as a Default Destination
The following entry sets the alias pcl to hplj and sets it as the default destination:
pcl|_default hplj
Example 4 Setting an Alias to a Server Destination
The following entry sets the alias secure to destination catalpa at server tabloid:
secure tabloid:catalpa
Example 5 Setting an Alias to a Site Destination
The following entry sets the alias insecure to destination legal_ps using IPP:
insecure ipp://server/printers/legal_ps
Files
/etc/printers.conf
System printer configuration database
$HOME/.printers
User-configurable printer database
ou=printers
LDAP version of /etc/printers.conf
printers.conf.byname
NIS version of /etc/printers.conf
printers.org_dir
NIS+ version of /etc/printers.conf
Attributes
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability
SUNWpcu
Interface Stability
Stable
See Also
cancel(1), lp(1), lpq(1B), lpr(1B), lprm(1B), lpstat(1), lpadmin(1M), lpget(1M), nsswitch.conf(4), printers.conf(4), attributes(5), standards(5)
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
Notes
$HOME/.printers is referenced by the printing commands before further name resolution is made in /etc/printers.conf or the name service. If the alias references a destination defined in /etc/printers.conf, it is possible that the destination is defined differently on different systems. This could cause output to be sent to an unintended destination if the user is logged in to a different system.


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In the late 1980s, India's government announced a plan to release specially bred flesh-eating turtles into the Ganges river. According to Hindu faith, there is salvation in being cremated on the banks of the river and then dumped into it. But sometimes the corpses are only partially burned, and according to the BBC, the corpses of those who cannot afford to be cremated are put in the river, too.
"Hundreds of years ago, such turtles flourished in the Ganges until they were killed by hunters for meat," the Los Angeles Times reported. "Now, the government has begun breeding them on a farm near Lucknow." The turtles were raised on dead fish, "so that they wouldn't develop a taste for the living," reports Atlas Obscura.
Some 25,000 flesh-hungry turtles, and $32 million dollars later, the plan was a failure, Atlas Obscura reports:
It was plagued by corruption and mismanagement, and though plenty of forethought was put into raising the turtles, not so much attention was paid to seeing that they survived in the wild after their release, and as a result, they were poached and killed in large numbers.
Today, corpse pollution is still a problem for the Ganges. As is turtle disappearance. To protect the population from being depleted by poachers and smugglers, each year over a thousand ordinary turtles are released in into the river.


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Classicly, for a spin Riemannian manifold $M$, the $\hat{A}(M)$ genus will be $0$, if the scalar curvature is positive.
The proof is to use the Lichnerowicz formula. we have the index of the Dirac operator will be $0$, i.e., $$Ind(D_+)=0.$$ On the other hand, by the index theorem of Atiyah and Singer, we have $$Ind(D_+)=\hat{A}(M).$$ So we get $$\hat{A}(M)=0.$$
My question is "Can we have a different method to proof this result? without using the Lichnerowicz formula or without using the index theorem" Maybe a formal proof or explanation.
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Do you mean without use of the Lichnerowicz formula and without use of the index theorem? Or do you mean without use of the Lichnerowicz formula but with use of the index theorem? – Kelly Davis Sep 28 '11 at 12:05
Schoen and Yau dealt with positive scalar curvature obstructions using variational methods, but I don't think they identified the $\hat{A}$-genus explicitly. The problem is, as far as I know, the $\hat{A}$-genus doesn't have a geometric interpretation other than that it is the index class for the Dirac operator. – Paul Siegel Sep 28 '11 at 13:34
Hi, Kelly Davis. I want to say "without using of the Lichnerowicz formula or without using of the index theorem". – shu Sep 28 '11 at 14:07
I'm agree with Paul Siegel. One of the motivation to pose this question is that I want to understand the $\hat{A}$ genus by some geometric methods – shu Sep 28 '11 at 14:11
I would guess the answer would go something like: write the $\hat{A}$ genus in terms of the curvature two-form, then use a diagonalization of the curvature two-form, positivity of the scalar curvature, and the fact that $\hat{A}$ is an integer, i.e. $M$ is spin, to prove that the only integer $\hat{A}(M)$ can be is $0$. Admittedly, I have not thought about the last steps in detail, but with all the factors of 1/24 and 1/5760 and...in the $\hat{A}$ genus I'd guess it'll work. – Kelly Davis Sep 28 '11 at 15:26
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After thinking about this question for two hours, my belief is strengthened that there cannot be a proof of the vanishing of the A-genus for spin manifolds with positive scalar curvature without using both the index theorem for the Dirac operator and the Lichnerowicz formula (or other analytic techniques). In the comments to the question, a proof using the integrality of the $\hat{A}$-genus and Chern-Weil theory has been suggested. I wish to argue that there is absolute no reason to believe such a proof might work out.
\textbf{Objections to the use of the integrality theorem.} The manifold $CP^2$ has positive scalar curvature and $\hat{A}$-genus $1 /16$. It is of course not spin. Take the connected sum of 16 copies of $CP^2$ and call it $M$. The $\hat{A}$-genus of $M$ is $1$; $M$ is still not spin. The famous surgery lemma by Gromov and Lawson implies that $M$ has a metric of positive scalar curvature, because $M$ is obtained from the manifold $\coprod_{16} CP^2$ by a sequence of surgeries of codimension $4 \geq 3$. So there are connected pscm manifolds with integral but nonzero $\hat{A}$-genus. More generally, it can be shown that any simply connected, high-dimensional, oriented and non-spin manifold admits a metric of positive scalar curvature. This also goes back to Gromov and Lawson, and Sven F\"uhring worked out the details in his thesis:
This result shows that the integrality of the $\hat{A}$-genus has nothing to do with positive scalar curvature and that the spin hypothesis has to be used in a more subtle way.
\textbf{Objections to the use of Chern-Weil theory:} At a first glance, it seems tempting to use Chern-Weil theory for such questions, because it expresses characteristic classes in terms of curvature. Moreover, a conceptual proof of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem can be given with help of this theory. But an examination of the argument quickly shows that this is a lucky accident. The first accident is that the Euler class has a direct geometric-topological meaning, which allows to relate it to another topological invariant (the Euler number), while the complicated rational polynomial in the Pontrjagin classes has no such meaning (Paul Siegel alluded to this point in his comment).
The second accident is that the integrand of the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem only depends on the curvature tensor and not on the metric itself (though to define the integrand, one needs to know that the connection preserves \emph{some} metric).
The problem with scalar curvature is that it depends on both, the connection and the metric, while the Chern-Weil forms only depend on the connection and not on the metric.
Of course there is a universal formula for the $\hat{A}$-form of any Riemann manifold $(M,g)$ of the form $\hat{A} = f(jet^2 g) \cdot vol_g$, where $f$ is an algebraic function of the $2$-jet of the metric. I have not worked out the concrete formula for $f$; for $4$-dimensional manifolds, this should not be too complicated and might be a worthy exercise. I predict that you won't find a formula for $f$ that depends on the scalar curvature in a controllable way. Another remark is that if such a formula gives a result for positive scalar curvature, it should give a result for negative scalar curvature as well. On the other hand, any manifold of large dimension has a metric of negative scalar curvature (Lohkamp).
The conclusion I draw is that Chern-Weil theory is insensitive to the sign of scalar curvature. The next problem is that Chern-Weil theory is insensitive to the spin condition as well: the map $Sym^{\ast} (\mathfrak{so}_n)^{SO(n)}\to Sym^{\ast} (\mathfrak{spin}_n)^{Spin(n)}$ on the space of invariant polynomials is an isomorphism. In other words, the spin condition does not yield any relation between Chern-Weil classes. The integrality of the $\hat{A}$-genus cannot be obtained by a local consideration; this would equate it to another manifestly integral class, which is not the case.
The view that positivity should enter the proof in a more global way is furthermore supported by Gromov's h-principle, a special case of which states that any open manifold (no compact component) has a metric of positive scalar curvature. This implies that any obstruction to positive scalar curvature has to arise in an essential global way.
My conclusion of the above discussion is that the integrality result forgets the relevant information from the spin condition and that Chern-Weil theory is not the correct recipient for the information coming from the positivity of the curvature. Philosophically, integrality is too global to capture the spin condition and Chern-Weil theory is too local to capture the sign of the curvature.
It is a pity that Misha Gromov is not active on this site.....
EDIT: here is an example which shows that any hope to use Chern-Weil theory to obtain information on scalar curvature is in vain.
Fact 1: Let $\nabla_g$ be the Levi-civita connection of the Riemann manifold $(M,g)$, then for all $c>0$, $\nabla_{cg} = \nabla_g$. Fact 2: the scalar curvature of $(M,cg)$ is $c^{-1} scal_g$. Fact 3: the scalar curvature of a product is the sum of the scalar curvature.
Now take $S^2$, $g_0$ the standard metric with $scal_{g_0}=1$; $F$ a genus $\geq 2$ surface with metric $g_1$ and $scal_{g_1}=-1$. Then the product $M=S^2 \times F$ with product metric $(c_0 g_0 )\times (c_1 g_1)$ has scalar curvature $c_{0}^{-1} - c_{1}^{-1}$. Suitable choices of $c_i$ yield any real value for the scalar curvature. But by fact 1, the Levi-Civitta connection and hence the Chern-Weil invariants do not depend on $c_i$.
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There are even more dramatic statements which demonstrate that the vanishing of the $\hat{A}$ genus due to positive scalar curvature could not possibly be explained locally. Suppose that $M$ is a manifold which is quasi-isometric to $\mathbb{R


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TR.09BigSheepFire2.JPGView full sizeThe 2009 Big Sheep fire in northeast Oregon.
Fire season is upon us and land managing agencies will be issuing rules and restrictions for preventing man caused fires.
The restrictions usually begin in lands on the east side of Oregon and Washington, then work their way west as forests and grasslands dry out.
Be sure to check locally what restrictions are in place when you head to public lands for recreation until the heavy rains return in October and November.
As an example, here ore the fire rules in effect on the Bureau of Land Management, Vale District, as of July 24.
1. You must not build, maintain or attend a campfire, or stove fire, including charcoal briquette fire, except within the existing metal fire rings located at designated developed recreation sites. Liquefied and bottled gas stoves and heaters are permitted. When used outside of developed recreation sites, they must be used within an area at least 10 feet in diameter that is barren or clear of all flammable materials.
2. You must not smoke outside of a vehicle, trailer, or building, except within areas barren of all flammable materials for at least a three-foot diameter, or aboard boats on rivers and lakes.
3. You must not possess, discharge, or use any type of fireworks or other pyrotechnic
device, to include sparklers, on public lands at any time. If you are caught, you will
be cited and/or held responsible for the suppression costs should a fire result.
4. You must not operate a chainsaw (this restriction varies in western Oregon forests; check locally).
5. You must not park your vehicle or operate any type of internal combustion engine, generators, weed eaters, etc.) in an area that is not clear of all flammable material.
6. You must not operate a motorized vehicle outside of existing roads and ways. This prohibits cross country travel until this order is rescinded.
 7. You must not operate an automobile, pickup, truck, or any other motorized equipment that is wider than 50 inches or has a dry weight of 800 pounds or more, n public lands without a shovel not less than 26 inches in overall length, with a blade mot less than 8 inches wide, and a container with at least one gallon of water, or fully charged 2.5-pound fire extinguisher.
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Battle of OuriqueOurique, Portugal
The Battle of Ourique was a battle that took place on 25 July 1139, in which the forces of Portuguese count Afonso Henriques (of the House of Burgundy) defeated those led by the Almoravid governor of Córdoba, Muhammad Az-Zubayr Ibn Umar, identified as "King Ismar" in Christian chronicles.
Shortly after the battle, Afonso Henriques is said to have called for the first assembly of the estates-general of Portugal at Lamego, where he was given the crown from the Primate Archbishop of Braga, to confirm the Portuguese independence from the Kingdom of León. This was a patriotic falsification perpetuated by the clergy, nobility, and supporters who promoted the restoration of Portuguese sovereignty and the claims of John IV, after the Iberian Union. The documents that refer to the estates-general were "deciphered" by Cistercian monks from the Monastery of Alcobaça to perpetuate the myth and justify the legitimacy of the Portuguese crown in the 17th century.


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Nicoletta Batini, Mario di Serio, Matteo Fragetta, and Mr. Giovanni Melina
This paper estimates multipliers for spending in clean energy and biodiversity conservation to help inform stimulus measures for a post-COVID-19 sustainable recovery. Using a new international dataset, part of which was especially assembled for this analysis, we find that every dollar spent on key carbon-neutral or carbon-sink activities—from zero-emission power plants to the protection of wildlife and ecosystems—can generate more than a dollar's worth of economic activity. The estimated multipliers associated with green spending are about 2 to 7 times larger than those associated with non-eco-friendly expenditure, depending on sectors, technologies and horizons. These findings survive several robustness checks and suggest that 'building back better' could be a win-win for economies and the planet.
This paper notes that market failure, policy failures, and population pressures are major sources of environmental degradation and that linkages between economic activities and the environment exist at the levels of macroeconomic objectives, macroeconomic policy instruments, implementation of environmental policies, and measurement of economic activity. This paper also points out that fiscal instruments can, and indeed do, play a significant role in resolving environmental problems. In addition, market-based solutions, including pollution permits, also have merit. This paper further points out that implementing environmental policies poses considerable challenges for public policymakers and concludes by suggesting areas for further research.


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SQL Question
Have "select for update" block on nonrexisting rows
we have some persistent data in an application, that is queried from a server and then stored in a database so we can keep track of additional information. Because we do not want to query when an object is used in the memory we do an
select for update
so that other threads that want to get the same data will be blocked.
I am not sure how
select for update
handles non-existing rows. If the row does not exist and another thread tries to do another
select for update
on the same row, will this thread be blocked until the other transaction finishes or will it also get an empty result set? If it does only get an empty result set is there any way to make it block as well, for example by inserting the missing row immediately?
EDIT:
Because there was a remark, that we might lock too much, here some more details on the concrete usage in our case. In reduced pseudocode our programm flow looks like this:
d = queue.fetch();
r = SELECT * FROM table WHERE key = d.key() FOR UPDATE;
if r.empty() then
r = get_data_from_somewhere_else();
new_r = process_stuff( r );
if Data was present then
update row to new_r
else
insert new_r
This code is run in multiple thread and the data that is fetched from the queue might be concerning the same row in the database (hence the lock). However if multiple threads are using data that needs the same row, then these threads need to be sequentialized (order does not matter). However this sequentialization fails, if the row is not present, because we do not get a lock.
EDIT:
For now I have the following solution, which seems like an ugly hack to me.
select the data for update
if zero rows match then
insert some dummy data // this will block if multiple transactions try to insert
if insertion failed then
// somebody beat us at the race
select the data for update
do processing
if data was changed then
update the old or dummy data
else
rollback the whole transaction
I am neither 100% sure however that this actually solves the problem, nor does this solution seem good style. So if anybody has to offer something more usable this would be great.
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I am not sure how select for update handles non-existing rows.
It doesn't.
The best you can do is to use an advisory lock if you know something unique about the new row. (Use hashtext() if needed, and the table's oid to lock it.)
The next best thing is a table lock.
That being said, your question makes it sound like you're locking way more than you should. Only lock rows when you actually need to, i.e. write operations.


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- noun Any of the
birdsin the Malimbus genus, found across Africa.
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The ecoregion lies within the eastern portion of the Cameroon and Gabon Lowlands endemic bird area (EBA), and includes forest batis (Batis minima), Rachel's malimbe (Malimbus racheliae), and forest swallow (Hirundo fuliginosa).
In addition to the Ibadan malimbe and the white-throated guenon, other threatened animals include the African elephant (Loxodonta africana, EN) and the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes, EN).
Ibadan malimbe (Malimbus ibadanensis, EN) occurs in the northermost forest fringes of this ecoregion (in the parkland zone), and has only been observed in the Ibadan area.
These are the Congo peacock (Afropavo congensis, VU) and the yellow-legged malimbe (Malimbus flavipes).
Three bird species are strictly endemic to this ecoregion: the Liberian greenbul (Phyllastrephus leucolepis, CR), Liberian black-flycatcher (Melaenornis annamarulae, VU) and Ballman's malimbe (Malimbus ballmanni, EN).


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Morris Island lighthouse stands all alone about 300 yards off shore from the island of Folly Beach. It can be viewed from the northeast end of Folly Island and from the bridge coming on to Folly Beach.
The Morris Island lighthouse is now completely surrounded by water but was once sitting on a good sized island with numerous buildings around it. The lighthouse was completed in 1876 and was the second lighthouse to be built on the island.
In the 1700s there were three islands that stretched for four miles between Folly Island and Sullivan's Island. They were named Middle Bay Island, Morrison Island, and Cummings Point. The first Charleston lighthouse was built on Middle Bay Island in 1767. The lighthouse was designed by Samuel Cardy and built by Adam Miller and Thomas Young. The tower was cylindrical and stood 102 feet tall. The lantern room had a revolving lamp that had a range of about 12 miles. In 1858 a Fresnel lens was installed.
In the early 1800s the channel leading to Charleston began to shift causing a change in the tidal currents. Sand began to build up between the islands and this resulted in the three islands merging into a single island. Since Morrison Island was the central of the three earlier islands, the now single island was called Morrison Island. Later the name was shortened to Morris Island.
The first Charleston lighthouse continued to provide service up to the Civil War. In 1861 the fleeing Confederate soldiers blew up the lighthouse so northern troops could not use it.
Following the civil war, in 1873, Congress appropriated money for the rebuilding of the Morris Island Lighthouse (then referred to as the Charleston Main Light). The lighthouse was completed in 1876 approximately 400 yards from the earlier tower. It stood 161 feet tall and was patterned after the Bodie Light of the Outer Banks in North Carolina. It even used the same paint scheme as a day mark – black and white horizontal stripes. There were a total of 15 buildings on the island besides the lighthouse tower. Included in these were the keeper's quarters, various outbuildings, and a one-room schoolhouse (the school teacher came over from the mainland on Monday, taught the children during the week and returned to the mainland on Friday).
Toward the end of the 1800s the channel had again shifted, but this time the change threatened the Charleston Harbor. In order to keep the channel open several jetties had to be built. These were completed in 1889. Although the channel into Charleston was saved, the changing tidal currents resulting from the jetties caused severe erosion on Morris Island. The island began to shrink. By 1938 many of the buildings were destroyed and others moved. The light was automated in 1938 and the Fresnel lens was removed.
Since 1938 over 1600 feet of land surrounding the tower has been lost. Today it stands alone, completely surrounded by water. In 1962 the Sullivan's Island lighthouse was built to replace the Morris Island Light, which was decommissioned. The U.S. Coast Guard had plans to demolish the tower but petitions from local residents saved the structure. The Coast Guard built an underground steel wall around the tower to protect it from further erosion damage. The lighthouse is now privately owned and efforts are underway to preserve the Morris Island Light.
The Morris Island Lighthouse Project – _URL_ – is working to preserve and restore the lighthouse. Please visit their sites and learn much more about the rich history of Morris Island. Directions: The Morris Island Lighthouse can best be seen from the northeast end of Folly Beach. Take East Ashley Street until it ends. There is a parking lot there and then it is about a 1/4 mile walk to the beach.


In this paper, the design of a circular wave pool that produces continuously breaking waves is discussed, whereby a pressure source is rotated within an annular wave pool. The concept was that the pressure source generates non-breaking waves that propagate inward to the inner ring of the annulus, where a sloping bathymetry (beach) triggers wave breaking. In order to refine the technique, research was conducted to better understand the mechanics of waves generated by moving pressure sources in a constrained waterway, the transformation of these waves as they travel across the channel and the effect of the sloping beach on the wave quality for surfing.
The quality of the waves was defined in terms of wave height, speed and shape, with the aim to create plunging waves, known as "barrels", that are highly desired by surfers.
A predominantly experimental approach was undertaken to determine the required design parameter values and their limitations. Scale model experimental results were previously presented at OMAE 2011 and OMAE2013.
This paper presents the steps to design the pool using the empirical analysis and experimental results are presented. The effect of the pressure source and pool bathymetry on the currents formed in the pool, are also presented. Through this design process, high quality continuous breaking waves with the desired plunging shape were able to be generated.
Finally, the authors are planning to use the facilities and techniques developed to investigate the complexities of predefined wave fields, including the three dimensional (3D) details of the velocity, pressure and turbulence fields beneath. Understanding these complexities within multidimensional wave patterns is the key to analysing a number of different fields, including wave resistance of ships; wave disturbances to other maritime users; bank erosion; wave signal tracking; and wave structure interaction.
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Harry and Sam started Shrub in 2020, during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Prior to Shrub, they had worked in high pressure professional kitchens, organic permaculture farms and food-chain logistics. In their time working within these industries, they identified the desire from fellow chefs to get as close to their food as possible. Equally, small, new and emerging organic farms were in need of a larger, more economically viable market to sell from. While the restaurant and wholesale industries were dormant, Shrub was born. There is a growing demand for complete transparency and integrity in our supply chains, not just for our health, our natural world and wild places, but also our local economies, cultures and a secure food future. Shrub facilitates the relationships between producers and chefs in a modern way, with a nod to the priptionast.
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Manifesto for a Better Children's Internet
Join us as we introduce the concept of the 'Children's Internet' and outline evidence-based principles for improving how children experience digital products and services. A better Children's Internet is possible and essential and we are calling on industry, governments, parents and carers, and researchers to take action.
Michael Dezuanni and Aleesha Rodriguez will represent a team of researchers from across the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child to outline the six areas that 'make up' the Children's Internet: Access, Imaginaries, Entertainment, Education, Regulation and Participation. They will provide aspirational solutions for creating a better Children's Internet and will outline practical ways you can start to take make a difference.


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Alces Gridware Software Applications¶
This page documents the software which is currently available via the Alces Gridware project. Software applications are listed in the Alces Gridware repository with the structure
repository/type/name/version, which corresponds to:
- repository - packages are listed in the main repository if available for auto-scaling clusters, and the volatile repository otherwise.
- type - packages are listed as apps (applications), libs (shared libraries), compilers or mpi (message-passing interface API software for parallel applications)
- name - the name of the software package
- version - the published version of the software package
For example, a package listed as
main/apps/bowtie2/2.2.6 is version 2.2.6 of the Bowtie2 application, from the stable repository.
The following list is updated periodically as new software is added to the repositories. For clarity, multiple versions of the same application are not shown, unless there are significant functional differences between versions. Software categories are provided as a guide only - many packages are multi-discipline and have a range of appropriate uses.
Tools and Utilities¶
gnuplot A portable command-line driven graphing utility grace Grace is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System and M*tif idr Framework to measure the reproducibility of findings mawk mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. parallel A shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers
HPL A Portable Implementation of the High-Performance Linpack Benchmark for Distributed-Memory Computers memtester A userspace utility for testing the memory subsystem for faults. hpcc The HPC Challenge benchmark imb IMB is a networking benchmark tool. iozone IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. gpuburn GPU-Burn is a stress test for multi-GPGPU-setups. Folding@home A distributed computing project studying protein folding and misfolding
amber Set of programs for biomolecular simulation and analysis beast Cross-platform program for Bayesian MCMC analysis of molecular sequences placement An algorithm for prediction of explicit solvent atom distribution
MS Prot Tools Some hopefully useful tools for mass spectrometry applied to proteomics 454 Sequencing 454 Sequencing System Off-Instrument Software Applications suite ABRA Assembly Based ReAligner 'AbySS A de novo, parallel, paired-end sequence assembler that is designed for short reads ANGES Reconstucts ancestral genome maps from homologous markers in extant related genomes ANNOVAR Functional annotation of genetic variants from high-throughput sequencing data ARAGORN Detect tRNA genes and tmRNA genes in nucleotide sequences ArtificialFqG Ouputs artificial FASTQ files derived from a reference genome Atlas-SNP2 Next-generation sequencing suite of variant analysis tools AUGUSTUS Predicts genes in eukaryotic genomic sequences autoadapt Automatically detect and remove adaptors and primers present in a FASTQ file bam-readcount Generate metrics at single nucleotide positions BAMStats Tool to calculate and display various metrics derived from SAM/BAM files BamTools Provides a programmer's API and an end-user's toolkit for handling BAM files bamUtil Several programs that perform operations on SAM/BAM files BamView Interactive display of read alignments in BAM data files BLAST Compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches Batalign An incremental method for accurate gapped alignment BCFtools Utilities for variant calling and manipulating VCF and BCF files Bcl2FastQ A tool to handle bcl conversion and demultiplexing Bcl2FastQ A tool to handle bcl conversion and demultiplexing BCL Converter Convert *.bcl files into *_qseq.txt files BEAGLE A general purpose library for evaluating the likelihood of sequence evolution on trees BEAGLE Analysis of large-scale genetic data sets with hundreds of thousands of markers genotyped on thousands of samples BEAGLE A general purpose library for evaluating the likelihood of sequence evolution on trees BEDTools A flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features biom-format The Biological Observation Matrix (BIOM) format BIONJ An improved version of the NJ algorithm based on a simple model of sequence data BioPerl A community effort to produce Perl code which is useful in biology Biopython Set of freely available tools for biological computation written in Python bio-rainbow Package for RAD-seq related clustering and de novo assembly. Bismark A bisulfite read mapper and methylation caller BLAST (Legacy) Compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches Bowtie 2 Fast and sensitive read alignment Bowtie Ultrafast memory-efficient short read aligner BreakPointer Pinpoint rearrangement breakpoints using paired end reads CAP3 Sequence Assembly Program car Reconstructing contiguous regions of an ancestral genome cdbfasta CDB (Constant DataBase) indexing and retrieval tools for FASTA files CD-HIT A program for clustering DNA/protein sequence database at high identity with tolerance. cdhit A program for clustering and comparing protein or nucleotide sequences. CEGMA Building sets of gene annotations in eukaryotic genomes CGAT The Computational Genomics Analysis Toolkit CHANCE Assess the quality of ChiP-seq experiments CHIAMO Call genotypes from the Affymetrix 500K Mapping chip Chimerascan Detection of chimeric transcripts in high-throughput sequencing data ClonalFrame Inference of bacterial microevolution using multilocus sequence data CLUMPP Deals with label switching and multimodality problems in population-genetic cluster analyses Clustal Omega Multiple alignment of nucleic acid and protein sequences ClustalW Multiple alignment of nucleic acid and protein sequences cnD Copy number variant caller for inbred strains CNVnator CNV discovery and genotyping from depth of read mapping CoNIFER Copy Number Inference From Exome Reads CASAVA Processes sequencing reads provided by RTA or OLB CONTIGuator A bacterial genomes finishing tool for structural insights on draft genomes Control-FREEC Detect copy-number changes and allelic imbalances using deep-sequencing data CNATR Tool for copy number variation (CNV) detection for targeted resequencing data Corset Software for clustering de novo assembled transcripts and counting overlapping reads Cortex "Software for genome assembly and variation analysis CRAMTools Set of Java tools and APIs for efficient compression of sequence read data CREST Algorithm for detecting genomic structural variations at base-pair resolution CRISP Multi-sample variant caller for high-throughput pooled sequence data Curtain Assembler of next generation sequence, developed by Matthias Haimel in the Ensembl Genomes team at the EBI cutadapt A tool that removes adapter sequences from DNA sequencing reads DARWIN Data Analysis and Retrieval With Indexed Nucleotide/peptide sequences DDiMAP Analyses mapped NGS read data to discover rare variants dDocent An interactive bash wrapper to QC, assemble, map, and call SNPs from double digest RAD data Delly Structural variant discovery by integrated paired-end and split-read analysis distruct Graphically display results produced by the genetic clustering program structure DREEP Detecting low-level mutations by utilizing the RE-sequencing Error Profile of the data EAD Error aware demultiplexer is a probabilistic demultiplexer for Illumina BCL files. EIGENSOFT Combines functionality from population genetics methods and EIGENSTRAT stratification method EIGENSOFT Combines functionality from population genetics methods and EIGENSTRAT stratification method Ensembl API Abstraction layer for accessing Ensembl genomic databases Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor Predict the functional consequences of known and unknown variants e-PCR Identifies sequence tagged sites (STSs) within DNA sequences Exonerate Generic tool for pairwise sequence comparison eXpress Streaming tool for quantifying the abundances of a set of target sequences from sampled subsequences FamSeq A computational tool for calculating probability of variants in family-based sequencing data FASTA Search protein or DNA sequence databases comparing a protein sequence to a DNA sequence database FastQC A quality control tool for high throughput sequence data fastq-tools Small utilities for working with fastq sequence files FastTree Inference of approximately-maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees from alignments of nucleotide or protein sequences. FastUniq an ultrafast de novo duplicates removal tool for paired short DNA sequences Flexbar Flexible barcode and adapter removal for sequencing platforms FreeBayes Bayesian genetic variant detector designed to find small polymorphisms FREGENE Simulates sequence-like data over large genomic regions in large diploid populations FusionFinder Find fusion transcript candidates in RNA-Seq data FusionMap Align reads spanning fusion junctions directly to the genome Galaxy Open, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research GBrowse The Generic Genome Browser geneid Predicts genes in anonymous genomic sequences designed with a hierarchical structure GeneTorrent Transfer genomic data reliably across a network GATK Software package developed at the Broad Institute to analyse next-generation resequencing data GAT + queue Broad Institute package for analysing next-generation resequencing data; including command-line scripting framework for defining multi-stage genomic analysis pipelines GenomeMapper Short read mapping tool designed for accurate read alignments GENSCAN Analyze genomic DNA sequences from a variety of organisms GERP++ Identifies constrained elements in multiple alignments by quantifying substitution deficits GIMSAN GIbbsMarkov with Significance ANalysis Glimmer System for finding genes in microbial DNA, especially the genomes of bacteria, archaea, and viruses GMAP/GSNAP Genomic mapping and alignment and short-read nucleotide alignment programs GREAT Genomic Regions Enrichment of Annotations Tool Grinder A versatile omics shotgun and amplicon sequencing read simulator GTOOL Transforms sets of genotype data for use with the programs SNPTEST and IMPUTE HAL Hierarchical Alignment Format API and analysis and conversion tools hapflk Haplotype-based test for differentiation in multiple populations HLA*IMP BE Impute HLA type information based on SNP genotypes back-end HLA*


Are burning, grazing bad for prairie chickens in Flint Hills?
04/10/2011 12:00 AM
04/10/2011 1:04 AM
GREENWOOD COUNTY — She flew in from far out on the prairie, instinctually drawn to the low, humming calls that have floated across the spring Flint Hills for centuries.
The hen prairie chicken landed and a dozen male birds danced and pranced and called in crescendo as they vied for her attention.
Minutes later Lance McNew's gentle hands removed the female from a wire trap she had walked into.
She soon flew from sight, carrying a petite tracking collar biologists hope will help keep the iconic birds from possibly vanishing from the Flint Hills.
Prairie chickens are currently struggling. Lacking major changes, the species could vanish from the Flint Hills within 50 years at the current rate of decline, said McNew, a Kansas State University wildlife research biologist.
"In the past four years I have observed near complete reproductive failure," he said. "A prairie chicken has about a 5 percent chance of making it from being in an egg to an adult the next spring."
His research since 2006 shows too many nests and eggs are destroyed before prairie chicks hatch. The few that hatch seldom live long enough to fledge.
Many biologists think intensive burning and grazing practices used in the Flint Hills could be to blame for destroying needed spring habitat. By comparison the birds are thriving in the Smoky Hills, where burning is rare.
The bird's only salvation in the Flint Hills, some believe, is another grassland plan that uses less fire and less beef.
In a few years McNew hopes to have solid answers. Prairie chickens in the Flint Hills produce about one chick per every 10 adult females annually. That equates to an annual decline of about 30 percent in some areas.
"That's no way to sustain a population," McNew said.
Prairie icons
Prairie chickens are as identified with the Flint Hills as chin-high bluestem, vivid wildflowers and striking sunsets.
"Prairie chickens are an important part of our wildlife heritage in Kansas," said Ron Klataske, Audubon of Kansas director. "Historical records show them in the millions in places like Iowa and Illinois and they're basically gone now. "
They're important enough that wildlife officials are investing about $860,000 in the four-year study.
K-State and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism combined fund about one-fourth the total. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pays the rest from special excise taxes on shooting and hunting equipment.
Ranchers and land managers care enough to open nearly 70,000 acres of Flint Hills land to McNew and four other researchers.
Ranchers are asked to conduct business as usual while researchers place tracking collars on 50 hen prairie chickens per year.
Half the study area gets burned every year. The other pastures are burned on average every third year.
Too much of a good thing
Burning and grazing have been part of a healthy Flint Hills for thousands of years.
Lightning strikes and native people wanting to improve grazing areas have historically burned the Flint Hills. Huge herds of buffalo once grazed the tallgrass. Ranchers and cattle have continued the practice for the past 150 years.
"If it wasn't for ranchers we wouldn't have prairie or prairie chickens," McNew said as he drove through Chase County. "They've taken care of the prairie. We wouldn't be in the middle of the world's largest contiguous tallgrass prairie if they weren't burning and grazing. It would probably all be grown up in brush or cedar trees."
But prairie chickens need cover that's about a foot or more high for successful nesting so the hens and eggs are well-hidden.
In decades past they were able to find enough cover for good nesting.
Now every blade of grass is often burned for miles. Many ranchers also heavily stock cattle in recently burned pastures so cattle can take advantage of the growing grass. McNew and other biologists think intensive burning combined with large numbers of cattle eating the grass down is the one-two punch keeping the bird population down.
Past research shows about 85 percent of the hens nest every spring and lay sizable clutches. But nests in thinner covers are easily found by predators that range from bull snakes to bobcats. Chicks that hatch have no place to hide and usually end up eaten.
Patching the problem
Some ranchers who practice patch burning think it's the way to go.
Brian Obermeyer, of the Nature Conservancy, said they have been using the patch-burning method on the 11,000-acre Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Strong City for several years.
They have also stocked fewer cattle on their pastures.
"We've had about a three-fold increase in the number of prairie chickens counted on the (spring breeding grounds)," Obermeyer said. "In 2008 we had somewhere in the low-30s. Last year we had 93 birds."
He said others species of ground-nesting birds and some species of butterflies have improved in numbers.
"Things respond pretty quickly when you give them the right habitat," said Obermeyer.
Flint Hills rancher Bill Browning has been patch-burning on his ranch for about five years and also reports increased numbers.
Jim Pitman, Wildlife and Parks biologist, said population surveys on nearby lands show the birds in decline.
"I don't think it's a coincidence that the increases on the preserve started the same time as the patch-burning," he said.
McNew still isn't sold.
"Those cases are circumstantial evidence," he said. "We need a study like this one to prove things one way or the other."
If the study proves the benefits of patch burning for prairie chicken reproduction he hopes more ranchers will consider that option.
But trying to contain fires is more work than setting them. Browning estimates it takes him more than 20 hours to mow firebreaks around his ranch.
McNew hopes positive findings might encourage state or federal agencies to offer financial incentives to ranchers to encourage patch burning.
Hope for the future
Wednesday morning McNew and Browning sat in a blind on the rancher's land and watched the dozen males dance until the hen walked into a wire cage.
She was quickly fitted with a transmitter that easily tucked within her feathers.
Browning released the bird and watched it sail over the prairie his family has ranched for more than 100 years.
"Thirty-five years ago when we moved into our house you could step out and hear so many prairie chickens in so many directions. They were everywhere but not nearly any more," he said. "I'd sure like to hear it like that again someday."
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3 Sides of the Autonomous Routing Triangle
colin howes | april 13, 2021
Traditional IT Service Desk is outdated. The advent of technology solutions has enabled organizations to engage in multiple transformation initiatives simultaneously in order to solve a variety of Service Desk challenges. However, technology-driven transformation often fails to translate into a systematic, process-driven and scalable mechanism for Service Management organizations. IT Leaders buy into the marketing hype and promises in solving specific challenges associated with scalable and agile IT Service Desk operations. The solution therefore lies in addressing a variety of constraints as they optimize ITSM operations for business goals.
In this post, we will focus on ticket routing operations within the IT Service Desk domain. Organizations typically model business decisions against three key constraints: Problem Identification, Ticket Distribution and Workforce Assignment. The goal of an autonomous ticket routing technology is to optimize for all three of these key pillars.
The Iron Triangle of IT Service Desk
Service Desk organizations are constantly evolving and adapting to manage support and services for an ever-growing user base. They operate in narrowly defined constrained environments, where teams are required to meet specific KPI objectives. Once the KPIs are defined, pre-defined frameworks and operational models are adopted to reach optimal performance against the said constraints: the ability to identify IT issues; routing tickets to the right resolution teams and distributing HR assignments based on skill set availability, types of IT incidents and other business goals.
In practice, the scale of business operations make it impossible to address all three constraints, so the decision makers are compelled to adopt intuitive ideas and technology solutions as the path of least resistance. These methods work well under specific circumstances and eventually, must integrate with existing workflows as well as technology solutions. The end result is that the Service Desk staff is forced to perform a growing list of tasks manually, ensuring all solutions work well to meet the predefined KPIs, which in fact may not be optimized for the global objective. This practice denies the often overlooked opportunity for employees to adapt their workforce capabilities necessary to address new challenges facing the dynamic IT Service Desk landscape.
A global view of Service Desk operations is key to optimally address these multiple challenges simultaneously. This is where the role of disruptive AI solutions comes into play: the ability to investigate the trends in data, discovering patterns in support requests and modeling operational workflows to meet all constraints.
This capability is key to solving a myriad of Service Desk issues across the three constraints:
1. Problem Identification:
The traditional process requires users to classify IT issues under known problem categories. Users are often unaware of the correct categories corresponding to their support requests, which may in fact fall under multiple overlapping support categories. The lack of accurate and precise problem classification makes it further difficult to categorize the support request, compelling users to submit tickets under the Other category, which does little to help reach the right resolution teams promptly.
Solution: AI Clusters
NLP technologies analyze historical ticket archives and correlate unstructured and vague tickets to find the most accurate identifiers and features describing a problem classification. The AI technology then generates clusters of similar issue categories, allowing the right resolution teams to find solutions for newly discovered issues faster by addressing the underlying problem root cause.
2. Ticket Distribution:
The scale and variety of support requests and IT issues often makes it challenging to automate the ticket distribution and routing process optimally. Organizations require Service Desk teams to resolve tickets based on business objectives and KPIs such as MTTR and MTTD on issues most impactful toward these goals. As a result, ticket distribution becomes a manual exercise that is detrimental to the overall performance of the Service Desk, despite the availability of traditional automated routing tools.
Solution: Adaptive Load Balancing
Load balancing capabilities based on AI technologies can incorporate a variety of KPIs and constraints to ensure optimal ticket distribution. This results in reduced MTTD and MTTR on mission-critical issues and maintaining highly dependable IT services.
3. Workforce Assignment:
Service Desk organizations are not only overwhelmed by the sheer volume of support requests, but also struggle to make optimal use of the skills and knowledge already available to them. Suboptimal ticket routing, lack of skill set mapping between resolution teams and the ability to accumulate and share the acquired knowledge greatly reduces the ability of Service Desk organizations to scale their operational capacity.
Solution: AI Skill Set Mapping
AI based skill set mapping technologies bridge the skills gap by routing tickets based on the most relevant and available team members as well as making it easier to identify, extract and share applicable knowledge across the ticket lifecycle.
Modern IT Service Desk must constantly evolve and enhance their ability to meet organizational goals based on the constraints associated with ticket routing, skills availability and their ability to shift left resolution through fast problem resolution. In order to address these limitations, the IT Service Desk needs intelligence embedded into decision making as well as the execution process. Optimizing for all three sides of the autonomous routing triangle therefore becomes an ongoing process based on AI models that continuously learn, adapt and implement decisions based on the new ticketing information.
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Lego could be considered as the best friend for most children and an amazing hobby for many adults. Lego Company also understood this point and would release Lego sets for both groups of Lego fans. For kids, Lego set would be relatively simple and for adult Lego enthusiasts, it would release complicated Lego sets.
Although most of these Lego sets would appear marvelous during the day time, during the night time, they would appear similar to a lifeless plastic model. For this reason, Lego enthusiasts would install LED light kit in their Lego set. Addition of light kit in the Lego set would blow a new life into the model. It would allow the user to enjoy the night view of their Lego set.
What do you mean by Lego lights?
For decorating the Lego set, several Lego enthusiasts would install the light in their Lego set. These lighting set are custom built and would differ from one Lego model to another. These lighting kits are specially designed to be compatible with the specific Lego model. For example, lightings from the star-wars set light kit would never match with the Lego set of Architecture Series model.
These lighting kits would mainly contain LED lights, which would be small in size, but powerful enough to illuminate the whole Lego structure. Its small size allows the user to place them underneath the Lego bricks. Wires included in the set are thin enough so that they could be placed between the Lego bricks. This means that the wires and lights would remain hidden behind the Lego bricks and would not impact the outer appearance of the set.
What are the features of Lego lighting kits?
Installing a light kit for Lego set would not only make the set appear beautiful but it would bring out the realistic features of the set. These lights could effectively add dynamics and realism into the Lego set. Here are some of the features that every lighting kit would have in them.
The installation process of the lighting kit is extremely easy and user-friendly. The user would just have to follow the instruction manual completing the installation of the lighting kit. The provided instruction manual would also have step by step guide for customizing lighting kits for the models.
Most of the LED light kit allows the user to link up several kinds of lighting kits through a single power supply. This feature would be useful for those people who like to display several Lego at the same time. The lighting kit would make the collection of the several look marvelous.
For activating the kit the user would not require any kind of extra knowledge. The user would just have to plug into the power source to activate the lighting kit. The kit would also include battery packs, expansion boards, connecting cables, and USB power cables.
Therefore, we could conclude that adding lighting kit would increase the beauty of your Lego kit. Therefore, next time if you are buying any Lego set make sure to buy its lighting kit to enjoy its night view.


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Molecular dynamics simulation studies of the mercury-water interface
In: Surface Science, Jg. 335 (1995) ; 20. Juli, S. 372–377
Zeitschriftenaufsatz / Fach: Chemie
Fakultät für Chemie
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation studies of the mercury-water interface are presented. A slab of water molecules, about 25Åwide, confined by mercury phases, is investigated. A rigid water model and a flexible water model are used to describe the water-water interactions. Recently, we parameterized ab initio calculations on mercury-water clusters to describe the mercury-water potential. The liquid mercury phase is approximated as a rhombohedral lattice. The mercury-mercury interaction is modelled by a harmonic potential. Our results show a significant influence of the mercury phase on the structural and dynamic properties of the water phase. The structure of the interface is analysed in terms of density functions, radial distribution functions, orientation of the water molecules, potential drop, and hydrogen bonding characteristics.


Fire Cider: the ultimate herbal cold & flu remedy!
What's Fire Cider?
Fire Cider is an apple cider vinegar-based herbal tonic revered for its ability to help prevent cold/flu symptoms, and/or shorten their duration if they occur. It's an immune-boosting remedy with antibacterial, antiviral, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, decongestant, and antifungal properties.
Fire Cider ingredients can change from year to year depending on when you make it and what's growing around you. The standard base ingredients are apple cider vinegar, garlic, onion, ginger, and horseradish. However, many other herbs that can be thrown in for added benefit.
Make your own "flu shot in a jar" with us!
We'll break down what each Fire Cider ingredient brings to the table and teach you:
 - how/when to take it
 - suggested dosages
 - the benefits of herbal additions
 - herbal folklore
Colonial Medicine
New England colonists believed there were 4 bodily fluids called the "humors"—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. They believed all illness resulted from an imbalance of the body's humors.
The colonists believed that blood, the most important humor, was formed in the liver and channeled to the heart. After reaching the other parts of the body, the blood was used up, and spirits in the liver made a fresh supply. That's why bleeding was so popular and came to the New World with Europeans and lasted into the early 1800s.
Bad blood was blamed for just about every ill. Consequently, bleeding became a universal treatment.
Colonists began to fear and scorn doctors. Their "cures" killed more people than the diseases. Consequently, there was a huge distrust of regular physicians
In the meantime, many people in the 1700 and 1800s turned to traditional healers—like herbalists and wise women.
Subsequently, herbal medicine became popular in Colonial America. Families tended to treat themselves first with medicinal herbs grown in their gardens. One of the most popular herbal folk remedies was the vinegar tonic known as Fire Cider.
Did you know?
 - During the Middle Ages, ginger was held in such high esteem that it was said to have come from the Garden of Eden.
 - If you mix horseradish in milk, this will stimulate blood flow in the face and rejuvenate your complexion.
 - When Rome was attacked in 410 AD by the Visogoths, the Romans paid "three thousand pounds of pepper" to prevent the city from being sacked!
 - To dream of an onion meant you would experience much domestic strife.
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