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Optimizing Python Development: Restarting Kernel Upgrading Packages and More
Restarting the Kernel: A Comprehensive Guide
Have you ever faced a situation where your code was running smoothly until you received an error message that halted your progress? You might have tried entering different commands in the terminal, but the issue persists.
In such circumstances, one of the best solutions is to restart the kernel. In this article, we will show you how to restart the kernel, rerun the code, and refresh the browser.
What is a Kernel in Python? Before we proceed with the steps to restart the kernel, let's understand what the kernel is.
In simple terms, a kernel is a program that runs and executes the code in Jupyter Notebooks. The kernel receives the input text from the user and executes it to produce output.
When the kernel is not responding or behaving improperly, we can restart it to resolve any issues.
Steps to Restart the Kernel
There are different ways to restart kernels in Jupyter Notebooks. In this section, we will discuss two commonly used methods.
Using the Jupyter Notebook Toolbar
Step 1: Navigate to the top of the Jupyter Notebook where the toolbar is located. Step 2: Click on the "Kernel" button in the toolbar.
Step 3: Select "Restart" from the dropdown menu. Step 4: Wait for the kernel to restart.
Using a Keyboard Shortcut
Step 1: Press the "0" key twice on the keyboard. Step 2: Wait for the kernel to restart.
When you restart the kernel, all the variables in the memory are cleared, and your code runs from the beginning. It might take some time for the kernel to restart depending on the size of your code and the memory usage.
Rerunning Code and
Refreshing the Browser
If you have been working on a Jupyter Notebook for an extended period, you might have noticed that some of the variables stop working correctly. This could be due to the previous code executions or due to the large dataset used in the code.
To avoid these issues, we can periodically restart the kernel, rerun the code, and even refresh the browser.
Rerunning the Code
Once you have restarted the kernel, you can rerun the code from the beginning by clicking on the "Run" button on the toolbar, selecting "Run All" from the dropdown menu or by pressing the "Shift + Enter" keys. This will execute the code from the start and produce the desired output.
Refreshing the Browser
If the code is not producing the expected result even after rerunning it, you can try refreshing the browser. This clears the cache and reloads the Jupyter Notebook to its initial state.
You can refresh the browser by clicking on the "refresh" button on the browser tab or by pressing the "F5" key. Once you have refreshed the browser, the Jupyter Notebook will restart from the beginning.
Upgrading Packages in Python
Python is an ever-evolving language with new packages and libraries being added continuously. To stay up-to-date with the latest packages, you need to upgrade them regularly.
There are two ways to upgrade packages in Python, and we will discuss both of them in this section.
Using pip Install Command with –Upgrade Option
Pip install is a package manager for Python that allows you to download and install packages from PyPI (Python Package Index). The –upgrade option is used to upgrade the existing package to its latest version.
Here is how you can upgrade a Python package using pip install command:
Step 1: Open the terminal or command prompt. Step 2: Type the following command: pip install package_name –upgrade
Step 3: Wait for the package to upgrade.
For instance, to upgrade the numpy package, you can type the following command: pip install numpy –upgrade
Creating a New Virtual Environment
If you want to create a new virtual environment and install the required packages, you can use the virtual environment in Python. A virtual environment is a self-contained workspace that enables you to install specific packages without affecting the packages installed globally on your system.
You can create a new virtual environment by using the following commands in the terminal:
Step 1: Navigate to the directory where you want to create the virtual environment. Step 2: Type the following command: python -m venv environment_name
Step 3: Activate the virtual environment by typing: source environment_name/bin/activate
Step 4: Install the required packages using pip install command.
Conclusion
In this article, we discussed how to restart the kernel, rerun the code, and refresh the browser in Jupyter Notebooks. We also demonstrated two methods to upgrade Python packages: using pip install command with –upgrade option and creating a new virtual environment.
Regularly upgrading packages ensures you have access to the latest features and bug fixes. With the knowledge and skills gained from this article, you can effectively troubleshoot your code and keep up-to-date with the latest Python packages.
Using the get_pip.py Script for Upgrading pip
Pip is a package management system used to download and install packages from Python Package Index (PyPI) and other approved repositories. In the Python software development process, it's important that pip is up-to-date to keep your environment working flawlessly.
One way to upgrade pip is to reinstall it using the "get_pip.py" script. In this article, we will take a closer look at how to upgrade pip using the "get_pip.py" script.
What is the "get_pip.py" script? The "get_pip.py" script is a Python script used to install and/or update pip.
It is useful for both Linux and Windows enthusiasts because it is reliable and easy to use. This script will download and run the latest version of the pip package installer.
You can get it from the official Python website, and it works with all Python versions. Steps to Upgrade pip using the "get_pip.py" Script
The following are the steps on how to upgrade pip using the "get_pip.py" script:
Step 1: First, you need to download the "get_pip.py" script from the official Python website or other reliable sources.
Step 2: Open your command prompt and navigate to the directory where you have saved the get_pip.py script. Step 3: Enter the command "python get_pip.py" to run the script.
This will install the latest version of pip on your system. Step 4: Verify if the pip is upgraded by typing "pip –version" in the command prompt, and it should display the latest version.
Once the upgrade process using the "get_pip.py" script is complete, you can verify the installed pip version to see if it is what you expected.
Additional Resources
Upgrading pip is an important aspect of Python development and can't be underestimated. You can find more resources online for further learning and practice.
Here are some other tutorials and resources that may help:
1. Effective Python Development Environment
This tutorial provides an introduction to a development environment, particularly for Python development.
It covers tools such as pip, virtualenv, and PyCharm, which are crucial in Python development. 2.
Official Python Documentation
The Python documentation is accessible online and provides different topics on Python development, including pip. The documentation is a reliable source for information on the language.
3. Real Python
Real Python is a website that offers tutorials on different topics, including Flask, Django, machine learning, data analysis, and of course, pip.
The tutorials range from beginner level to advanced levels and are comprehensive and well-researched. 4.
PyPI (Python Package Index)
PyPI is a repository for Python packages, providing tools to upload and download packages. It's an essential resource for developers who work with Python packages.
5. Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow is a developer forum website, and it's a reliable source of solutions to different challenges in Python development, including pip.
It is a great platform to get answers to your questions and to contribute to the community.
Conclusion
In conclusion, upgrading pip allows Python developers to keep up with the latest libraries, bug fixes, and features. The "get_pip.py" script is a convenient and reliable way of upgrading pip on your system.
With the steps outlined above, you can easily upgrade pip and continue developing with the latest Python packages and libraries. There are also many resources available online, including tutorials, documentation, and forums, to help you keep up-to-date with pip and improve your Python skills.
Staying current with the latest development tools is essential for any developer who seeks to be successful in today's digital market. In this article, we discussed different methods to restart the kernel, refresh the browser and upgrade Python packages through pip or creating a new virtual environment.
We also went through the crucial steps of upgrading pip using the get_pip.py script. Upgrading pip is an essential aspect of Python development that allows developers to have access to the newest features and bug fixes, ensuring an efficient workflow.
The use of various resources such as tutorials, forums, and package repositories is critical for maintaining the proficiency of developing with Python packages and libraries. By keeping pip up-to-date, you can optimize your environment to its fullest capabilities.
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Russell Ranch: a place to study the impacts of farming systems and inputs on agricultural sustainability. Watch this video about the research conducted at Russell Ranch!
The Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility is a unique 300-acre facility near the UC Davis campus dedicated to investigating irrigated and dry-land agriculture in a Mediterranean climate. It's also a unit of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI).
Among Russell Ranch's ongoing experiments is a 100-year study referred to as Long Term Research in Agricultural Sustainability (LTRAS), which is comprised of 72 one-acre plots. LTRAS is an exploration of the long-term impacts of crop rotation, farming systems (conventional, organic and mixed) and inputs of water, nitrogen, carbon and other elements on agricultural sustainability. Sustainability is indicated by long-term trends in yield, profitability, resource-use efficiency (such as water or energy) and environmental impacts.
LTRAS has monitored changes in crop and soil properties, greenhouse gas emissions, weed ecology and economic indicators since 1993. The Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems (SAFS) project joined with LTRAS in 2003. Russell Ranch is primarily a research facility and also supports UC Davis' extension and teaching missions by hosting field days, class field trips, undergraduate interns and graduate student research.
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Enhancing Coin Image Retrieval with CLIP
Project description
Coin-CLIP 🪙 : Enhancing Coin Image Retrieval with CLIP
[中文] | [English]
Coin-CLIP breezedeus/coin-clip-vit-base-patch32 is built upon OpenAI's CLIP (ViT-B/32) model and fine-tuned on a dataset of more than 340,000 coin images using contrastive learning techniques. This specialized model is designed to significantly improve feature extraction for coin images, leading to more accurate image-based search capabilities. Coin-CLIP combines the power of Visual Transformer (ViT) with CLIP's multimodal learning capabilities, specifically tailored for the numismatic domain.
Key Features:
 - State-of-the-art coin image retrieval;
 - Enhanced feature extraction for numismatic images;
 - Seamless integration with CLIP's multimodal learning.
To further simplify the use of the Coin-CLIP model, this project provides tools for quickly building a coin image retrieval engine.
Comparison: Coin-CLIP vs. CLIP
Example 1 (Left: Coin-CLIP; Right: CLIP)
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Example 2 (Left: Coin-CLIP; Right: CLIP)
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Example 6 (Left: Coin-CLIP; Right: CLIP) 6. Coin-CLIP vs. CLIP
Install
pip install coin_clip
Usage
Code Examples
Extract Feature Vectors from Coin Images
from coin_clip import CoinClip
# Automatically download the model from Huggingface
model = CoinClip(model_name='breezedeus/coin-clip-vit-base-patch32')
images = ['examples/10_back.jpg', 'examples/16_back.jpg']
img_feats, success_ids = model.get_image_features(images)
print(img_feats.shape) # --> (2, 512)
⚠ Note:
The above code automatically downloads the breezedeus/coin-clip-vit-base-patch32 model from Huggingface. If you cannot download automatically, please manually download the model locally, and then initialize CoinClip by specifying the local directory of the model through the model_name parameter, like model_name='path/to/coin-clip-vit-base-patch32'.
Command line tools
Building a Vector Retrieval Engine
coin-clip build-db can be used to build a vector search engine. It extracts features from all coin images 🪙 in a specified directory and builds a ChromaDB vector search engine.
$ coin-clip build-db -h
Usage: coin-clip build-db [OPTIONS]
 Extract vectors from a candidate image set and build a search engine based
 on it.
Options:
 -m, --model-name TEXT Model Name; either local path or huggingface
 model name [default: breezedeus/coin-clip-vit-
 base-patch32]
 -d, --device TEXT ['cpu', 'cuda']; Either 'cpu' or 'gpu', or
 specify a specific GPU like 'cuda:0'. Default is
 'cpu'. [default: cpu]
 -i, --input-image-dir TEXT Folder with Coin Images to be indexed. [required]
 -o, --output-db-dir TEXT Folder where the built search engine is stored.
 [default: ./coin_clip_chroma.db]
 -h, --help Show this message and exit.
For instance,
$ coin-clip build-db -i examples -o coin_clip_chroma.db
Querying
After building the vector search engine with the above command, you can use the coin-clip retrieve command to retrieve the coin images 🪙 most similar to a specified coin image.
$ coin-clip retrieve -h
Usage: coin-clip retrieve [OPTIONS]
 Retrieve images from the search engine, based on the query image.
Options:
 -m, --model-name TEXT Model Name; either local path or huggingface model
 name [default: breezedeus/coin-clip-vit-base-
 patch32]
 -d, --device TEXT ['cpu', 'cuda']; Either 'cpu' or 'gpu', or specify a
 specific GPU like 'cuda:0'. Default is 'cpu'.
 [default: cpu]
 --db-dir TEXT Folder where the built search engine is stored.
 [default: ./coin_clip_chroma.db]
 -i, --image-fp TEXT Image Path to retrieve [required]
 -h, --help Show this message and exit.
For instance,
$ coin-clip retrieve --db-dir coin_clip_chroma.db -i examples/10_back.jpg
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The Department of Water Resources stated that a 189 million Nakfa project has been launched with a view of ensuring potable water supply in 53 villages this year.
Asmara, 1 June 2012 – The Department of Water Resources stated that a 189 million Nakfa project has been launched with a view of ensuring potable water supply in 53 villages this year.
Indicating that a total of 1,200 villages have already become beneficiaries of potable water supply in line with endeavors made so far, Mr. Misgina Gebresilasie, head of water supply branch at Water Resources Department, pointed out that an approach of proportionate selection was applied in prioritizing the current beneficiary-to-be villages from all Administrative regions. Accordingly, the project is being implemented in 5 villages in Anseba region, 12 villages in the Southern region, 10 villages in Gash-Barka region, 12 villages in the Central region, 8 villages in the Northern Red Sea region, and 6 villages in the Southern Red Sea region respectively.
The project is being implemented in three phases, the first of which would focus on implementation of the task in 12 villages. The process to import necessary equipments for the first phase of the undertaking has been completed, Mr. Misgina added.
Reports indicated that effective implementation of the project would lead to the availability of potable water supply to a total of 182,000 citizens.
Furthermore, the Department of Water Resources called on citizens who have already become beneficiaries of potable water supply to practice prudent utilization of the facilities.

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Adhesions of the Iris of the Eye in Cats
Synechiae are adhesions between the iris and other structures in the eye. They are the result of inflammation in the iris and are particularly common with anterior uveitis (inflammation of the dark tissues of the eye) and trauma to the eye.
Synechiae can occur in both dogs and cats. If you would like to learn how this type of eye problem affects dogs, please visit this page in the petMD health library.
Symptoms and Types
Synechiae may be anterior or posterior.
- Anterior synechiae is defined as an adhesion between the iris and the cornea. The cornea is the transparent cover of the front of the eye.
- Posterior synechiae is the adherence of the iris to the capsule surrounding the lens of the eye.
Symptoms seen with synechiae include:
- Corneal lesions, such as ulcers
- Excessive tearing
- Variation in the color of the iris
- Opacity of the lens
- Decreased papillary reaction to light
- Cat fight injury
- Chronic infection
- Corneal ulcer
- Foreign body injury to the eye
- Hyphema (bleeding in the front part of the eye)
- Penetrating wounds to the eye
Diagnosis is based on an ophthalmic examination, which involves examining the structures of the eye. In addition, dyes may be used on the cornea to detect corneal injuries. Tonometry may be performed to measure the intraocular pressure (the pressure within the eyeball.)
In many cases, no treatment is necessary. If an underlying cause is diagnosed, it should be treated appropriately. In cases where glaucoma is present, laser surgery to repair the synechiae may be attempted.
A type of light device that transfers a bright beam; this is used for many medical purposes
Anything having to do with the eye or care of the eye
A medical condition in which the uvea becomes inflamed.
The colored layer around the pupil
A disorder that has resulted from intraocular pressure
Fibers that bond items together that would not normally be combined.
In veterinary terms, used to refer to the front of the body.
A property in which one item has the ability to stick or adhere to another.
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In 1999 the average disposable income of Dutch households was nearly 23,500 euro. In terms of purchasing power this was 1.3% more than in the previous year, equalling the growth rate of purchasing power in the period _PHONE_. In 1998 it rose more strongly (2.8%), mainly because of a new form of tax relief for the over-65's.
Disposable household income by source of income
The improvement in purchasing power was largest for employee households. On average households who received their main income from wages had 2.5% more to spend in 1999 than in 1998. Some of these households received a social benefit or pension instead of wages in 1999. For households with income from wages in both 1998 and 1999, purchasing power rose more strongly, namely by 2.7%.
Annual change in purchasing power by source of income
In households which had to depend on a benefit in 1998, purchasing power rose by 1.6%. Naturally, it mainly increased for households who were no longer dependent on a social benefit in 1999. Purchasing power rose by less for households receiving a benefit in both years.
The increase in purchasing power for pensioners was on average 0.6%, about the same as in the preceding years, except 1998, when pensioners benefited from a tax deduction.
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Ancient Mysteries & Unexplained Phenomena
Psychics and Superstition
Estruscan Mirror
Estruscan Mirror
The belief of a broken mirror resulting in seven years of bad luck is most likely one of the most well known superstitions in the world. Just hearing the phrase makes anyone take a little extra care while moving and hanging mirrors. For many thousands of years people relied on highly polished metals as a reflective surface which held multiple purposes in daily life such as applying makeup, redirecting light, or even starting fires by focusing light into a fine point.
When the Romans created glass mirrors with a thin metal backing which are easier to shatter, mirror superstitions really went into overdrive. Cultures during the period considered any images seen in mirrors otherworldly and believed those images represented souls captured in another realm or dimension like the Estruscan mirror for example. If the mirror broke while someone was looking into it, the soul became trapped in many pieces, requiring either every single piece of the mirror to be ground into a fine dust or face seven years of bad luck while allowing the soul to mend.
A soul is a direct reflection of who a person is; It's the light within and an energy binding life to their existence. What's very interesting about mirrors and bad luck stories is how believers refer to the soul becoming trapped inside another realm or dimension, almost alluding to a specific method for interacting or communicating with an alternate dimension. If it's true, that a broken mirror with a captured soul really does affect its reflective world physically, then it makes sense to have some sort of existing dimensional connection in order this to happen.
Broken mirrors are one well known superstition and there are many others. In fact, a good percentage of people around the world subject themselves to superstitions on a regular basis. This is the result of a conditioned response though subtle and probably without a second thought at the time. For example, if a sequence of desired events or outcomes unfold consistently and coincidental to a behavioral habit, the brain response may wire itself for the association. In a real world scenario, suppose a person tells themselves a traffic light will turn green if they tap lightly on the right side of the steering wheel three times while slowing down for the red and the light turns green, this may invoke a conditioned belief should it repeat many times. In a way this is much similar to Pavlov's law of temporal contiguity.
Another well-known superstition, Friday the 13th, is actually the result of a traumatic event in the 14th century. Under the reign of King Philip IV, the Knights Templar organization faced ostracization for refusing to contribute more wealth to the king's debts. Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jaques Molay, was arrested and put to death on Friday the 13th of October, referred to as Sion 1307 today. Philip's actions and persecution of the Templar proceeded to take place when the calendar lined up with a 13 on Friday. For many years the association transformed the date occurrence with bad luck to be a Knights Templar on that day.
Similar to behavioral responses, superstitions could manifest in similar ways, and suggest a great force beyond the known realm is at work. Consider a larger situation where many thousands or millions of people share in a common behavioral response condition then the context of that condition may easily become part of folklore and legend. Like a black cat crossing someone's path or walking under a ladder resulting in a string of unfortunate bad luck, the association is made, and a conditioned response results if it happens one too many times.
Consider those types of conditioned responses in relation to psychic ability. Some clairvoyants adapt seamlessly to idiosyncrasies and are able to use high probability outcomes to facilitate their trade. Looking at it this way demonstrates how psychics could leverage predictive human behavior in fortune telling and foreseeing future events. When the medium is able to establish an association between a person's behavioral habits and a series of events, they may be able to convince the person of their future as the pattern continues. The further thought here is that maybe it's possible the orchestration of fortune telling actually creates coincidental context well enough a person subconsciously fulfills the prophecy as a matter of conditioned response.
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Baseflow, groundwater pumping, and river regulation in the Wisconsin Central Sands
By Sam Zipper, postdoctoral fellow at Madison and author of tacosmog.com We often think of groundwater as a nonrenewable reservoir, deep underground, and with good reason – less than ~6% of groundwater globally entered the ground within the past 50 years. However, where a river or stream intersects the water table, water is able to move from the aquifer to the stream (or vice versa). This supply of shallow groundwater …


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Alphabet > Letter
P is for Police Officer
*Police Officer Headband Hat & Badge
*Suggestions for making a police officer vest.
Other craft links
Holidays and Events
May - third week >
June > National
October > Crime Prevention Week
> Crime Prevention
Activity #1: Resources for
Learning about the role of the Police Officer and Crime Prevention
Activity #2: Crafts: Police Officer Hat
Let's Make a Police Officer Hat
and Badge to Honor the Police Officer an Important Community
Helper - Discuss the Letter P is for Police Officer
To pay tribute to the police officer and their dedication to serve
and protect the community, the children will assemble a simple
police officer hat and wear a badge. Children love to
dress up and do dramatic play, and this will be a welcomed and fun
Instructions for the Police Officer Head band hat and badge:
1. Select your choice of color or black and white template for
the hat and badge. I would recommend the black and white
templates because these can be colored to match the uniform
colors of the police officers in your community. Older
children may be able to help cut the large hat template.
2. Ahead of time, cut a band
about 1 to 1 1/2 inches wide and 22 inches long approx. from construction paper
or card stock. Once you print the template there is enough
paper left over on the right side to cut three strips/bands and then
tape together to form the long band as illustrated in the template.
3. The hat and badge will be assembled during the alphabet P
presentation below. Optional: Add a police
vest made with a large paper grocery bag and glue the
finished badge to it.
Other great Police Officer related crafts at DLTK's:
Officer TP Roll Craft: Young children love
puppets and this craft can be used as teacher aid to present the
activities. Make one ahead of time. Tell the children
they will make their own police officer.
A paper tube is not needed to make it, simply fold the body piece in
half, glue and have the children glue the other body parts,
attach a craft stick to hold as a puppet.
Paper Craft with Police Officer Hat: If the children
love Blue from the Blue's Clues preschool TV program, then this is
the winner and is easy for children 2+ and older.
3. Make a simple police vest using a large paper grocery
bag. With the bag opened, make a large round opening on the
bottom for the head and cut the bag open along the front. Make
round holes on the sides for arm holes. Close and lay the bag
flat and children can paint the front using tempera paint and using
a sponge. Cut a long strip of black construction paper
to form a belt - just for the front where is painted, and glue on
bag when the paint is dry. Attach the badge and the vest is
ready to wear.
Activity #3: Letter P is for Police
Officer Lesson Plan Activities and Printable Materials
Indicate the letter P is in the hat as
well as in the badge.
Crafts at DLTK's:
Officer TP Roll Craft
Paper Craft with Police Officer Hat


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South African National Space Agency wins bid to host SpaceOps 2020
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) in partnership with the Cape Town & Western Cape Convention Bureau has won the bid to host the SpaceOps 2020 conference.
The conference will bring together over 600 global Space specialists at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, with an estimated economic impact of R11 520 000.
This could not come at a better time, with the new Meerkat radio telescope launched in the Northern Cape last Friday.
Thanks to significant investments made by the Department of Science and Technology in satellite and telescope projects, the local space tech ecosystem is growing. Not only is this forecast to boost infrastructure development and the economy, but will also enhance the ranks of science and engineering graduates in the country.
Congratulating the bidding team, Wesgro CEO Tim Harris said the Western Cape has been at the forefront of South African Space tech for many years.
"The tracking station established by NASA at Hartebeeshoek received the first images of Mars in 1965; the first miniaturized satellite designed and manufactured in South Africa was completed at Stellenbosch University in 1999; and more recently SANSA has allocated funds to Denel Spaceteq to develop the EO-Sat1 – a high resolution multispectral imaging satellite which will be used for a variety of urban management processes. We applaud the efforts of the team in convincing delegates that the Mother City should play host to a conference of this calibre."
The team accompanied the local organising committee to SpaceOps 2018 held in France during June to promote the destination and entice delegates to register for the 2020 conference.
Launched in December 2010, SANSA became a Space Agency after combining other Space facilities in South Africa. Making significant advancements towards addressing its mandate of deriving greater value from space science and technology for the benefit of South African society, the Agency has five strategic programmes, namely:
Corporate Support Programme: ensuring SANSA functions optimally with good corporate governance and operational efficiency;
Earth Observation Programme: focussing on utilisation of space to address day-to-day societal needs including resource and environmental management, disaster management, food security, global change monitoring, health, safety and security, planning, development and service delivery monitoring;
Space Science Programme: driving scientific enquiry, knowledge creation, technology development and innovation (located in Hermanus and the only Space Weather Centre in Africa. They also run regular holiday programmes for children aged 6 – 12 years, to entice them to a career in the sector);
Space Operations Programme: vehicle through which SANSA interfaces with space assets world-wide and supports the international space industry;
Space Engineering Programme: driving satellite manufacturing capability to ensure a level of self-reliance and develop the local space engineering industry.
Tiaan Strydom, the Chairperson of the local organising committee, added that: "SANSA is proud to bring the illustrious Space Operations 2020 conference to South Africa for the first time on the African continent and to host it in the beautiful Mother city, Cape Town."
The Executive Mayor of the City of Cape Town, Patricia De Lille said: "Cape Town is he ideas capital of Africa. We are enormously proud to see an increasing number of innovative gatherings choosing Cape Town as a destination of choice. This is once again testament to the fact that Cape Town is the city where leaders from across the world will meet and discuss the future of our continent and the globe."
Western Cape Minister of Economic Opportunities, Alan Winde added: "The Western Cape prides itself on its innovation and technology, so we are pleased that we will be welcoming over 600 of the world's top space specialists to Cape Town. Securing this conference will also boost our tourism sector, helping to grow our economy and create more jobs in line with our Project Khulisa goals."
Head of the Cape Town and Western Cape Convention Bureau, Corne Koch, concluded: "We are delighted to have assisted in winning the bid for this important conference. South Africa is set to lead in Africa in space technology and we're proud for Cape Town to contribute in this way." Koch adds that the bid was further made possible with the support from the South African National Convention Bureau who forms a key partner in bidding for conferences to South Africa.
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Spectroscopic Classifications of Optical Transients with Shane
ATel #10294; M. R. Siebert, D. A. Coulter, Y.-C. Pan, R. J. Foley (UCSC)
on 20 Apr 2017; 17:15 UT
Credential Certification: Yen-Chen Pan (_EMAIL_)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
We report the following classifications of optical transients from spectroscopic observations with the Kast spectrograph on the Shane telescope. Targets were supplied by ATLAS. All observations were made on 2017 April 20 UT. Classifications were performed with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024).
Name | IAU Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | z | Type | Phase | Notes
ATLAS17dzg | AT2017dae | 09:08:34.75 | +48:36:26.06 | 0.052 | Ia | -2 d | (1)
When the redshift is given to 2 decimal places, it is derived from the SN spectrum. Otherwise, the redshift is determined from the host galaxy.
(1) We measure an Si II 6355 velocity of -10,200 km/s.


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step 1. Firstly you must create virtualhost directory at other that you want.
such as /home/redcrow/workspace/atstand
step 2. Go to /etc/ then edit file name's hosts
(add ip address and hostname that you want) such as
i'am add ip address 127.0.0.1(reference own computer) and host name's atstand.dear.dev(URL website)
step 3. Go to /etc/apache2/site-available/
and copy file name's default and paste
then rename file that you want(but extension must as.conf)
such as atstand.dear.dev.conf
edit it following
ServerAdmin is contact email of administrator
ServerName is hostname or URL that you want.
ServerAlias is second name of URL
DocumentRoot is virtualhost directory that you create in step 1.
step 4. at /etc/apache2/site-available/
type the following command for enable virtualhost
you will see atstand.dear.dev.conf into /etc/apache2/site-enable
step 5. restart web server(apache2) by use following command
$sudo service apache2 restart
step 6. testing
open firefox then put URL(atstand.dear.dev)
you will see result(i use php frameworks name's yii framework)


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Megapomponia merula (Distant, 1905) is a cicada found in Indonesia. Its name was once Pomponia merula, but recently, that changed.
There's a dozen species in the Megapomponia Boulard, 2005 genus. "Mega" refers to their large size.
Species: Megapomponia merula (Distant, 1905)
The image says Pomponia merula but the cicada is now known as Megapomponia merula.
- The illustration and genus description comes from the journal Genera Insectorum, and a specific article from 1913 by W. L. Distant titled Homoptera. Fam. Cicadidae, Subfam, Cicadinae. Read it on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website.
- Species name information/verification comes from Allen Sanborn's Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha).


Introduction to CouchDB with .NET part 10: view design documents cont'd
Introduction
In theprevious post we started looking into a large and relatively complex topic within CouchDB namely design documents. Design documents are JSON documents like the data documents we've looked at so far but they have a special purpose. They use JavaScript for their logic. The JS functions are embedded in the JSON document which has sections for each type of role a design document can play: view, update, show/list, validation. We started discussing the view design documents that play an important role in querying a CouchDB database. We also introduced the idea of MapReduce that is heavily used in view-based queries.
In this post we'll continue where we left off in the previous part and continue looking at how view design documents work. We'll keep using the children database we created previously.
As a reminder, we ended up with the following map function for our first view index:
function (doc) {
 emit(doc.last_name, doc.first_name + ' ' + doc.last_name);
}
Checking for presence of JSON properties
We know that CouchDB documents can have any valid JSON structure. They don't need to adhere to any strict schema. So what happens if a document in the children database doesn't have a first_name and last_name property? Like this new document I entered for this first demo:
{
 "_id": "39ba3b2cbe146f86835663f68000086e",
 "age": 6
}
Running the same request as in the previous post, i.e.
GET http://localhost:5984/children/_design/query-demo/_view/full-name
…will include the following not-so-pretty array element:
{
 "id": "39ba3b2cbe146f86835663f68000086e",
 "key": null,
 "value": "undefined undefined"
}
We use the normal JS null-checking technique to filter out documents that shouldn't be taken into account. Update the map function definition in Fauxton to the following:
function (doc) {
 if (doc.last_name && doc.first_name) {
 emit(doc.last_name, doc.first_name + ' ' + doc.last_name);
 }
}
The document with no first and last name will be filtered out.
Filtering on gender
Let's add a new view index which allows us to filter on the gender property. Follow the steps we took in the previous post and create a new view design document:
 - Design document ID: _design/gender
 - Index name: gender-query
 - Map function: see below
 - Reduce: NONE
Here's the map function:
function (doc) {
 if (doc.gender) {
 emit(doc.gender, "gender");
 }
}
We return the gender as the key and a string "gender" for the value. Note that the value can be anything in this case, even NULL, but we'll see soon how we can filter on the key.
We'll execute the query with an extended URL. We've already seen the role of the "include_docs" flag and it can be used even here as follows:
GET http://localhost:5984/children/_design/gender/_view/gender-query?include_docs=true
We get the following result set:
{
 "total_rows": 6,
 "offset": 0,
 "rows": [
 {
 "id": "8a6469af31cb8032e49c2e6648000e92",
 "key": "f",
 "value": "gender",
 "doc": {
 "_id": "8a6469af31cb8032e49c2e6648000e92",
 "_rev": "1-e6d0d4d825cd6c4072316443065c67d7",
 "first_name": "Sophia",
 "last_name": "Jones",
 "gender": "f",
 "age": 7
 }
 },
 {
 "id": "8a6469af31cb8032e49c2e6648002bc3",
 "key": "f",
 "value": "gender",
 "doc": {
 "_id": "8a6469af31cb8032e49c2e6648002bc3",
 "_rev": "1-74c3846252052b1057f0d38f25f301e8",
 "first_name": "Emily",
 "last_name": "Davies",
 "gender": "f",
 "age": 6
 }
 },
 {
 "id": "8a6469af31cb8032e49c2e6648003a3e",
 "key": "f",
 "value": "gender",
 "doc": {
 "_id": "8a6469af31cb8032e49c2e6648003a3e",
 "_rev": "1-cfefdad2f8734ea1847d76a890a2d95b",
 "first_name": "Olivia",
 "last_name": "Walker",
 "gender": "f",
 "age": 8
 }
 },
 {
 "id": "8a6469af31cb8032e49c2e66480004fd",
 "key": "m",
 "value": "gender",
 "doc": {
 "_id": "8a6469af31cb8032e49c2e66480004fd",
 "_rev": "1-e1c9362343980d876a7b59cac61dd35c",
 "first_name": "John",
 "last_name": "Williams",
 "gender": "m",
 "age": 6
 }
 },
 {
 "id": "8a6469af31cb8032e49c2e6648001c23",
 "key": "m",
 "value": "gender",
 "doc": {
 "_id": "8a6469af31cb8032e49c2e6648001c23",
 "_rev": "1-367a393907c14c45c2a4d7ab05c89e04",
 "first_name": "Richard",
 "last_name": "Brown",
 "gender": "m",
 "age": 5
 }
 },
 {
 "id": "8a6469af31cb8032e49c2e6648002c80",
 "key": "m",
 "value": "gender",
 "doc": {
 "_id": "8a6469af31cb8032e49c2e6648002c80",
 "_rev": "1-a5710200c72e9d4f72ab71c12a053cce",
 "first_name": "Daniel",
 "last_name": "Roberts",
 "gender": "m",
 "age": 7
 }
 }
 ]
}
We can extend the URL to search on the key field. The following will return all boys in the children database:
GET http://localhost:5984/children/_design/gender/_view/gender-query?include_docs=true&key="m”
I won't copy the result set here but there will be three documents returned. Similarly the query…
GET http://localhost:5984/children/_design/gender/_view/gender-query?include_docs=true&key="f”
…returns the three girls in the database.
We can limit the result set using the "limit" query parameter:
GET http://localhost:5984/children/_design/gender/_view/gender-query?include_docs=true&limit=2
As noted before the documents are returned in an ascending order by the key. In our case "f" comes before "m" so the full query…
GET http://localhost:5984/children/_design/gender/_view/gender-query?include_docs=true
…returns girls first. We can easily change the sort order using the "descending" query parameter:
GET http://localhost:5984/children/_design/gender/_view/gender-query?include_docs=true&descending=true
Now the boys will be shown first.
Counting with a reduce


node package manager
unique-id-mixin
Generate a unique identifier for React components, useful when assinging htmlFor and id for label + input combinations
Unique Id Mixin by @andrewray
This ReactJS mixin adds component methods letting you generate unique IDs for your current component. This is useful when you need to assign for="" attributes for labels and their respective inputs.
Install
npm install unique-id-mixin --save-dev
Example Usage
var UniqeIdMixin = require('unique-id-mixin');
var Component = React.createClass({
 mixins: [ UniqeIdMixin ],
 render: function() {
 Label
 <input id={ this.getNextUid( 'unique-string' ) } type="text" />
 }
});
The above can be a bit verbose to type, and has the problem that you need to duplicate the string between each HTML element. There is also a convenience method that will generate UIDs every other call. The first two calls will return the same UID, then the next two calls will return a new UID, etc.

Label
<input id={ this.getNextHtmlFor() } type="text" />

Label
<input id={ this.getNextHtmlFor() } type="text" />
API
this.getNextUid( identifier:String )
Returns a UID generated using the identifier. If identifier has already been passed, the cached UID will be returned.
this.getNextHtmlFor()
Returns a UID which changes every other call.


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OK State Dept of Ed sent this bulletin at 09/21/2012 05:11 PM CDT
Think Through Math is FREE to all Schools!!!
We are excited to announce that the Oklahoma State Department of Education is making Think Through Math available to all schools in Oklahoma for free.All Oklahoma schools can now take advantage of this award-winning math program for their students in grades 4 – 8 at absolutely no cost whatsoever.
Think Through Math is a research-based math intervention system designed to support students who are struggling with mathematics. The program transitions students to the rigor of the Common Core State Standards and prepares them for Algebra and beyond. Think Through Math uses a powerful blend of Web-based, adaptive instruction and LIVE, state-credentialed teachers, Think Through Math transforms the way students think about–and think through–mathematics.
For more information on Think Through Math, click HERE
All professional development for using Think Through Math is also available at no cost.You can get started by using the embedded support, including videos, webinars and a support forum, available on the teacher and administrator portals.If you are interested in getting an account, please contact Emily Robertson, Lead Program Manager-Oklahoma.
Coming Soon: The Social Studies Implementation Guide
With the initial implementation of the recently adopted Oklahoma C3 Standards for the Social Studies, the Oklahoma State Department of Education's Office of Instruction anticipates the release of the Oklahoma C3 Standards for the Social Studies Implementation Guide within the next two weeks. The new standards can be accessed on the Department's Website at _URL_
The Implementation Guide will contain the following:
Civic mission of social studies education in Oklahoma
Overview of social studies
Coherency Storyline used to develop the new standards
Changes to the standards from the old Social Studies Priority Academic Student Skills
Role of the Common Core State Literacy Standards for History/Social Studies in elementary and secondary levels
Building Academic Vocabulary (BAV) strategies and word lists for social studies based upon the new standards
A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section covering questions about the new standards, student assessment for 2012-2013, and resources along with suggestions for noting the new standards in lesson plans and curriculum maps will be included. The guide will be posted on the Oklahoma State Department of Education's Social Studies Webpage _URL_ Once the Implementation Guide is accessible, teachers will be informed through the Social Studies ListServ and the REAC3H Network's newsletter.
For information regarding the new Oklahoma C3 Standards for the Social Studies contact Mr. Kelly Curtright, Director for Social Studies Education at _EMAIL_ or _PHONE_.
Social Studies: It Counts!
The Oklahoma Council for the Social Studies is hosting the Fall 2012 Conference, Social Studies: It Counts! The conference is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, September 28-29, 2012 at the Moore Norman Technology Center – S. Penn Campus, 13301 South Penn, OKC, OK 73170. On Friday the conference will focus on helping secondary teachers, Grades 6-12, implement the new literacy standards for reading and writing in social studies classrooms. Saturday the breakout sessions will be wider in scope and topics for elementary through high school. Since this school year is the social studies textbook adoption, textbook publishers and other exhibitors will be onsite both days.


19 February 2020
Billions of liters pouring from waterworks pipes: New invention uses AI to solve the problem
Water wastage
Every year, billions of liters of clean water are lost by Danish waterworks due to broken pipes. An innovative water meter from the University of Copenhagen uses big data and artificial intelligence to make it easier for water suppliers to monitor consumption, detect leaks and reduce water wastage.
 Person points to computer screen showing overview of where there is water spillage
Water loss from leaky pipes can be difficult to detect. Especially for the more than half of Danish water supplies who don't perform daily monitoring of how much water is pumped versus the amount that is consumed. According to the Danish Water and Wastewater Association, eight percent of all water pumped from Danish waterworks is lost annually. This corresponds to about 18 billion liters of drinking water, that, for one reason or another, are lost somewhere between the waterworks and households.
Now, an ambitious group of young University of Copenhagen entrepreneurs has devised a monitoring system for water suppliers. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, the system can warn a water utility of a suspected leak in the event of a sudden spike in water being pumped.
"Having analyzed large amounts of water data from previous years, our water meter knows exactly how much water is typically used on, for example, a Tuesday in January. If there is a deviation from the amount of typically pumped, the water works will be notified so that they can address the issue," explains Mathias Stephensen, co-founder of Sense Analytics, a start-up with roots in the SCIENCE Innovation Hub at the University of Copenhagen.
A year to detect broken pipes
82 million liters of clean water recently gushed into the ground through a broken pipe operated by a Danish water supplier. It took more than a year before the waterworks discovered that their accounting was off. This example is far from an anomaly.
170 major municipal water utilities and 1500 smaller private waterworks lack an intelligent system to continuously monitor the amount of water being pumped from their plants and the amount being consumed. Continuously comparing these two figures allows water suppliers to get an indication of whether or not water is reaching consumers as it should.
"But many water utilities lack the tools needed to detect leaks. They must make do with reviewing their annual water accounts, thereby risking that it is only then when large leaks will be revealed," explains Mathias Stephensen, an economics student at the University of Copenhagen.
Cheaper solution for smaller waterworks
Roughly half of Danish municipal water supplies have a smart solution that makes use of remotely read meters which constantly send data to the waterworks about how much water is being consumed. However, the solution is expensive and can cost as much as 10-15 million kroner. This is a large sum for a small waterworks, and it is a cost that may eventually need to be passed along to consumers.
"Our solution is a subscription scheme costing way less than the current options. The solution runs through a web platform that allows waterworks to see their data. The amount of water pumped out by the water utility is monitored. If we suspect a leak, we'll notify them," explains Mathias Stephensen.
Sense Analytics has developed intelligent water monitoring in collaboration with five water utilities and is fully operational with one.
Alongside the water suppliers, the small company is currently working to review and further develop the solution so as to make it an attractive one for customers abroad, where there is much greater potential than here in Denmark.


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Summary: Purpose: To measure the neural antioxidant function in the hippocampus of rats with epileptogenesis induced by microinjection of FeCl3 into the amygdala using the decay rate of the nitroxide radical as estimated by L-band electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy.
Materials and Methods: Region-selected intensity determination (RSID) was used for the estimation of the nitroxide decay ratio. It is possible to estimate the in vivo hippocampal antioxidant ability using the half-life of the EPR signal of the blood–brain barrier-permeable nitroxide radical. Rats were microinjected with aqueous FeCl3 into the right amygdaloid body. Recording from chronically implanted depth electrodes showed the development of spike discharges with recurrent seizures arising from amygdalar regions with propagation into both hippocampi. Rats with unilateral aqueous FeCl3 lesions were injected systemically with the nitroxide radical and then had EPR for RSID estimation at 5, 15, and 30 days after the iron salt injection.
Results: The in vivo antioxidant ability of the dorsal hippocampus was significantly decreased bilaterally in animals with FeCl3-induced seizures when compared to the control.
Conclusion: Neural antioxidant function in the hippocampi of rats with chronic seizures induced by amygdalar FeCl3was decreased early and both ipsilaterally and bilaterally.


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OF THE NAVY
BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
REPLY REFER TO
15 AUG 1957
From: Director, Aircraft Division To: Chief, Bureau of Aeronautics
Subj: F8U-3 Airplane; Improved Radar for
1. On 14 August CVA presented a technical report on a program to provide an improved radar for the F8U-3 (available 35th airplane and subsequent) which will increase detection range by 40% and provide the airplane with a head-on attack capability against a 1.6 M bomber.
2. The major changes to the APQ-74 radar and the airplane required for the improved radar are as follows:
a. Replace present 24" antennae with 34" antennae.
b. Relocate radar set package aft of pilot's cockpit in order to accommodate larger antennae within existing nose lines.
c. Remove 82 gallon capacity fuel tank. The specification fuel is 2036 gallons. Current estimated fuel capacity is 2138 gallons with 3½% allowance for design changes and manufacturing tolerances and 3% for temperature expansion.
3. Since the proposed radar improvement significantly enhances the capability of the F8U-3 for an apparent modest change in the radar and the airplane, the proposal is received with considerable interest and will be studied in detail for an early decision.
4. CVA proposals for potential development of the F8U-3 to provide an attack capability and performance increase to the 2.5-2.7 M range are impractical and have not been received with interest in the Aircraft Division.


a_1 | a_2 | \cdots | a_p$ (you can pretend at first that $\overline{A}$ is just $A$ - really, $\overline{A}$ agrees with $A$ in degrees two and greater, is 0 in degree zero, and in degree one we replace $A^1$ by $A^1/ im(d)$). The vertical differential is the standard one on $A^{\otimes p}$ (using the Leibniz rule to extend to the tensor product), and the horizontal differential is defined as a sum obtained by "removing bars and multiplying." Let ${\bf k}$ be $F_2$ if you don't want to worry about signs.
Exercise: Show this is a bicomplex. If you're brave, do so with signs.
Exercise: The spectral sequence for this bicomplex obtained by taking homology vertically first has $E^1$ given by $Bar(H_*(A))$, where the homology of $A$ is a differential graded algebra with zero differential. (This is an immediate application of one of the main theorems from a first algebraic topology course.)
Theorem (Eilenberg-Moore, after Adams-Hilton): If $X$ is simply connected and $A$ is (quasi-isomorphic to) the cochains of $X$, then the homology of $Bar(A)$ is isomorphic to the cohomology of the loopspace of $X$.
Exercises: first compute for $A$ with all products zero. Then compute when $A$ is a free associative algebra, and then free commutative algebra. Finally, try to make examples with higher differentials.
(I might elaborate more later... and we can talk at the Cascade seminar this week-end).
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In Jim Stasheff's original papers on $A_\infty$-algebras he generalises the bar construction and its spectral sequence to $A_\infty$-algebras, and then he identifies all of the differentials explicitly in terms of things that look like (duals of) Massey products - he calls them Yessam products.
I realise that this isn't exactly an explicit compution, but it is at least a general explicit description of the higher differentials that is not formal, and to get it requires a bit of the guts of the spectral sequence.
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is that in his H-spaces from a htopy point of view? – Sean Tilson Nov 7 '10 at 2:24
There's a paper of Fadell and Hurewicz (in the Annals, mid 1950's) identifying certain differentials with cap products. I can't recall the precise result.
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You mean probably the paper jstor.org/stable/_PHONE_ It identifies the first non-trivial differential in the Serre spectral sequence if the base space is highly connected. For a specific computation of a differential in the Serre spectral sequence in a similar vein see also the following paper by McCleary: springerlink.com/content/443j202m17562714/fulltext.pdf – Lennart Meier Nov 6 '10 at 13:34
Verdier and Deligne introduced more terms in a spectral sequence of a filtered complex (indexed by 4+1 indices instead of 2+1), thus in particular factoring the differentials into epis and monos. This enables one to splice certain short exact sequences to obtain Massey triangles or to obtain H(E_r) = E_{r+1}. Not sure whether this helps for calculations, but it does help with understanding what's going on with differentials. Cf. Deligne, Décompositions dans la catégorie dérivée, appendix, MR1265526; cf. also Verdier, Des catégories dérivées des catégories abéliennes, MR1453167.
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Counting Numbers: 5-10
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Is your child up for counting numbers 5-10? The grocer needs help. There's so much fruit, but is there enough to go around? Kids count what's in each bin, then write the numbers beside each box of fruit.


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Edmund Spenser (c. _PHONE_) is known for his moral allegory The Faerie Queene to Elizabeth I, of which six books survive (three published in 1590 and three in 1596).
Other books include The Shepheard's Calendar 1579, Astrophel 1586, the love sonnets Amoretti and the Epithalamion 1595.
Born in London and educated at Cambridge, in 1580 he became secretary to the Lord Deputy in Ireland, and at Kilcolman Castle completed the first three books of The Faerie Queene (Elizabeth I being the "Faerie Queene").
In 1598 Kilcolman Castle was burned down by rebels, and Spenser with his family narrowly escaped. He died in London, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Why is Edmund Spenser famous?
Edmund Spenser was a English poet, who has been called the "poet's poet" because of his rich imagery and command of versification.


podselect
Perl 5 version 10.1 documentation
podselect
NAME
podselect - print selected sections of pod documentation on standard output
SYNOPSIS
podselect [-help] [-man] [-section section-spec] [file ...]
OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS
 - -help
 Print a brief help message and exit.
 - -man
 Print the manual page and exit.
 - -section section-spec
 Specify a section to include in the output. See "SECTION SPECIFICATIONS" in Pod::Parser for the format to use for section-spec. This option may be given multiple times on the command line.
 - file
 The pathname of a file from which to select sections of pod documentation (defaults to standard input).
DESCRIPTION
podselect will read the given input files looking for pod documentation and will print out (in raw pod format) all sections that match one ore more of the given section specifications. If no section specifications are given than all pod sections encountered are output.
podselect invokes the podselect() function exported by Pod::Select Please see "podselect()" in Pod::Select for more details.
SEE ALSO
Pod::Parser and Pod::Select
AUTHOR
Please report bugs using _URL_.
Brad Appleton <_EMAIL_>
Based on code for Pod::Text::pod2text(1) written by Tom Christiansen <_EMAIL_>

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[Meteorological District Center]
There were 2 to 4 of these in each Luftgau and Feldluftgau area, but it is not known how many of them had aircraft assigned for taking airborne weather readings. Only a few of them seem to be mentioned in the surviving Luftwaffe documents and only one of them mentions having an aircraft.
The history of the Luftwaffe Weather Service, all of the Staffeln, the Wetterflugstellen, the Wetterketten and all other components engaged in meteorological reconnaissance activities are covered in extensive detail in: Kington, John A. & Franz Selinger, WEKUSTA – Luftwaffe Meteorological Reconnaissance Units & Operations _PHONE_, Ottringham/East Yorkshire (U.K.), 2006. Accordingly, rather than repeat what has already been treated in considerable detail, the researcher/reader is encouraged to see this extraordinary study.
Wetterbezirkszentrale 752 München-Riem
No other information found.
28.4.41: Fw 58 damaged in accident at Munich-Riem airfield.
Wetterbezirkszentrale 851 Verona
No other information found. Not known to have any assigned aircraft.
Ground Components of the Luftwaffe Weather Organization
These are beyond the scope of what is to be covered here, i.e., weather units equipped with aircraft, but should nevertheless be mentioned:
Wetterberatungszentrale (Meteorological Advisory Center)
Wetterberatungsstelle (Meteorological Advisory Station) – 3 kinds: Stationary, Transferable, Motorized.
Wetternebenstelle ( Meteorological Sub-Station)
Wetterhilfsnebenstelle (Meteorological Auxiliary Station)
Wetterforschungsstelle (Meteorological Research Station)
Wetterbeobachtungsstelle (Meteorological Observation Station)
Wetterdienststelle der Luftwaffe (Air Force Meteorological Service Station)
Wetter-Funkleitstelle der Luftwaffe (Air Force Meteorological Radio Control Station)
Radiosondenstation (Radiosonde Station)
Radiosondenzug (Radiosonde Platoon)
Wetterpeilzug (Meteorological Direction-Finding Platoon)


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Distributed SECONDO: A Highly Available and Scalable System for Spatial Data Processing
Cassandra is a highly available and scalable data store but it provides only limited capabilities for data analyses. However, database management systems (DBMS) provide a lot of functions to analyze data but most of them scale poorly. In this paper, a novel method is proposed to couple Cassandra with a DBMS. The result is a highly available and scalable system that provides all the functions from the DBMS in a distributed manner. Cassandra is used as a data store and the DBMS Secondo is used as a query processing engine. Secondo is an extensible DBMS, it provides various data models, e.g. models for spatial data and moving objects data. With Distributed Secondo functions like spatial joins can be performed distributed and parallelized on many computers.
- 1.Güting, R.H., Behr, T., Düntgen, C.: SECONDO: a platform for moving objects database research and for publishing and integrating research implementations. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 33(2), 56–63 (2010)Google Scholar
- 2.Lu, J., Güting, R.H.: Parallel SECONDO: a practical system for large-scale processing of moving objects. In: IEEE 30th International Conference on Data Engineering, Chicago, ICDE, pp. 1190–1193 (2014)Google Scholar
- 3.Dean, J., Ghemawat, S.: MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters. In: Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 2004, vol. 6, San Francisco, pp, 137–150 (2004)Google Scholar
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Hop, skip and jumping robots
February 11, 2013 |
Jumping robots powered by a combustion engine? Sounds like something from 1930s sci-fi.
New leaps and bounds in heat-resistant materials mean soft-bodied silicon robots can now use controlled explosions, like those in car engines, to make them jump really high.
An electrode sparks a reaction in the simple robot's leg. This releases lots of energy downwards, making the robot hop up to 30 cm off the ground.
This jump in innovation could lead to new search-and-rescue robots designed to leap and do cartwheels over obstacles.
This research appears in the 8 February 2013 issue of the journal Nature.
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The mammals on this illustrated poster are divided into three sections: the egg-laying monotremes, the pouched marsupials, and the familiar placental mammals (the latter is divided into 19 sub-sections, one for each order). Each is identified by its common name followed by its order name. A perfect complement to zoology lessons.
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The standard Charpy V-notch specimen has received a great deal of attention as small, inexpensive and convenient material test specimen which provides deep insights of inherent fracture toughness problems. In this study, Charpy impact tests are performed utilizing the Computer-Aided Instrumented Charpy impact test (CAI) method which has been developed by one of the present authors (TK) for nearly 40 years. The well-known Server's equation is used to estimate tensile properties directly from the Charpy tests. Agreement between the prediction and experiments are checked for major practical aluminum alloys heat-treated to respective standard heat treatment states. Discrepancy between them is almost negligible in the case of age-hardening alloys, while it amounts sometimes several ten % in the solution hardening alloys. Especially in the case of age-hardening alloys, which is considered important as primary structural materials, feasibility of utilizing the Charpy tests to obtain tensile properties over a wide strain range is clarified by being based on the thermally activate deformation process of the aluminum alloys.
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Let $G$ be a compact Lie group (or reductive algebraic group over $\mathbb{C}$), and let $BG$ be its classifying space. Fix a prime $p$. Let $\mathcal{A}$ denote the dg algebra of singular cochains on $BG$ with coefficients in a field or characteristic $p$ (or if you prefer the dg algebra of endomorphisms of the constant sheaf). My question is:
Is it known for which primes $p$ the dg algebra $\mathcal{A}$ is formal, that is, quasi-isomorphic to a dg algebra with trivial differential?
I assume / hope that the answer is that this is true if $p$ is not a torsion prime for $G$ (i.e. $p$ arbitrary in types $A$ and $C$, $p \ne 2$ in types $B$, $D$ and $G_2$, $p \ne 2, 3$ in types $F_4$, $E_6$ and $E_7$, and $p \ne 2,3,5$ in type $E_8$.)
Note that we know* that $\mathcal{A}$ is formal in characteristic 0.
Can one then conclude that it is formal in any characteristic in which the cohomology of $\mathcal{A}$ is torsion free?
If so I think this would give the above list of primes.
*) for example because $H(BG, \mathbb{Q})$ is a poynomial algebra, and $\mathcal{A}$ admits a graded commutative model using the de Rham complex -- see Bernstein-Lunts "Equivariant sheaves and functors".
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I think that you outlined the proof. In more detail, let $W$ be the Weyl group of $G$, and $T$ its maximal torus. Pick $p$ coprime to $|W|$; this allows to ignore higher $W$ group cohomology in the computation
$$H^*(BG, \mathbb{F}_p) \cong H^*(BT, \mathbb{F}_p)^W$$
Since $W$ is a reflection group, $H^*(BT, \mathbb{F}_p)^W$ is a polynomial algebra, say on $d$ generators. Pick cocycle representatives $x_1, \dots, x_d \in C^*(BG, \mathbb{F}_p)$. Now let $R = \mathbb{F}_p[y_1, \dots, y_d]$ be the free graded commutative algebra on generators $y_i$ in the same degree as $x_i$, and equip $R$ with the $0$ differential. By freeness (and the fact that $d(x_i) = 0$), you get a map $R \to C^*(BG, \mathbb{F}_p)$ of DGA's which sends $y_i$ to $x_i$. You know (because you constructed it that way) that it induces an isomorphism in cohomology, and so $BG$ is formal at the prime $p$.
If you have some other mechanism for ensuring that $H^*(BG, \mathbb{F}_p)$ is a polynomial algebra (e.g., the statement is known integrally, as for $G = U(n)$, $Sp(n)$), the same argument works.
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What worries me here is that cochains with coefficients in $\mathbb{F}_p$ is only an $E_\infty$-algebra, and so I'm not sure that you can make the generators honestly commute. I think you'd need to try something like mapping the generators in separately by maps of associative algebras (where a polynomial algebra on one generator is free) and then use the fact that the range is $E_\infty$ to construct a map from the tensor product. – Tyler Lawson Apr 5 '11 at 14:54
That's a good point. Can you say more about how to get the map from the tensor product into the range? – Craig Westerland Apr 7 '11 at 2:30
Yes, this was also my concern. For tori I think one can make this work, but I don't see a priori how it works in this case. (The reason that Bernstein and Lunts develop the whole machinery of the de Rham complex on the classifying space is in order to make a choice of representatives so that they commute.) – Geordie Williamson Apr 7 '11 at 6:27
_USER_: If we were talking honest commutativity, then I'd construct maps of associative algebras $F_p[y_i] \to R$ and then use a composite $\otimes F_p[y_i] \to \otimes R \to R$; this uses that associative algebras are closed under tensor, and for commutative objects the product map is a map of commutative algebras. The same is true in this case, you just have to $E_\infty$-up everything or work with some kind of honest commutative or associative replacements and deal with the model category issues. – Tyler Lawson Apr 8 '11 at 5:54
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Bridges in Kiev
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Bridges in Kiev (top to bottom): Moskovskyi Bridge, Metro Bridge, Paton Bridge.
This article deals with the bridges in Kiev over the Dnieper River and its tributaries. For the bridge-like structures elsewhere in the city, see articles on Kiev's architecture and transport.
Kiev, that historically was situated on the right bank of the Dnieper River, covers both banks of the river whose width, as it flows through the city, reaches some several hundred metres. Additionally, several tributaries fall into the Dnieper inside or just north or south of the historic city. Currently there are eight bridges spanning across the river and a few dozen bridges across the canals and Dnieper tributaries.
Due to the location and the width of the river, the bridges have always been a very attractive and hard to realize option throughout the long history of Kiev.
The temporary floater bridges were known to have existed since the 12th century. The stationary bridges existed in Kiev from mid-19th century, but none of them survived through the turbulent events that followed the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Early history[edit]
According to the chronicles, the earliest floating bridge across the Dnieper River in the area was built in the 1115. It was located near Vyshhorod or, according to different accounts, near the Vydubychi Monastery. Records exist about another floater in the 17th century with stationary approaches from the shores.
Such bridges could only be temporary as Dnieper ices in most winters at the Kiev's latitude and the pillar's icing and the roaring ice drift each spring remain a concern even for modern bridges. Additionally, the river stream was especially strong before the Dnieper was dammed in the 20th century. Therefore, the cross-river traffic was carried by boats and ferries throughout centuries.
First stationary bridges: late 19th to early-20th century[edit]
Nicholas Chain Bridge.
From the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, Kiev was served by two stationary bridges. Both bridges had similar fates. Built at the times of the industrial revolution in the Russian Empire these engineering masterpieces of their time survived World War I and the Russian Civil War. Both were blown up in 1920 by the Polish troops retreating from Kiev following their unsuccessful armed intervention into Ukraine.
Nicholas Chain Bridge[edit]
Amand Struve Railroad Bridge.
The first stationary bridge in Kiev was built between 1848 and 1853.[1] This 770 m (2,526 ft)-long Nicholas Bridge was a chain suspension bridge rested on five pillars. Being one of the largest and most beautiful bridges in Europe, it was the pride for the city until it was blown up in 1920 by the Polish troops. The heavily damaged bridge was not subject to the restoration and in 1925 a new bridge was constructed in its place under the name Yevheniya Bosh Bridge (see below).[2]
Struve (Darnytskyi) Railroad Bridge[edit]
The second stationary bridge was built in _PHONE_ with the construction supervision conducted personally by Amand Struve.[3] This over 1 kilometre long railroad truss bridge was initially named to its constructor, engineer Struve. Standing on 13 piers, over 1 km (0.62 mi) long, the bridge was the longest in Europe at that time. During the construction Struve first in the Russian Empire used caisson method to lay the foundation. On February 17, 1870 the first train by the Kiev-Kursk railroad company arrived through the bridge to the Kiev railroad station. Similarly to the Nicholas Bridge, the Struve Bridge survived World War I and the Civil war, but was blown up in 1920 by the retreating Polish troops (see: Kiev Offensive).
Rusanivsky bridge[edit]
The bridge was built in 1906 and was blown up in 1943 by the retreating forces of Nazi Germany. Rusanivsky bridge connected the Darnytsia region with the city of Kiev by the Brovary chaussée (highway). The bridge was designed by architect V.Apishkov. In 1965 in its place was erected the Metro Bridge and the Rusanivsky Metropolitan Bridge (extension of the first) which both are part of the Svyatoshyno-Brovary Subway Line (SBL).
Between WWI and WWII[edit]
New bridges were built in the early Soviet years but were destroyed in the first months of the 1941 Nazi German invasion. Restored by forced labor of war prisoners and civilians during German occupation they were blown up again by Germans when they retreated from Kiev in November 1943.[4]
Bosh bridges[edit]
Yevheniya Bosh Bridge. Photo of 1930s.
Within months after the Polish troops blew up the original chain bridge, that very summer 1920 the Ukrainian engineer Evgeny Paton proposed the reconstruction project that would have reused the old chains to be lifted from under water. However, rusting made the metallic parts of the old bridge unusable and for the following two years Paton worked on several projects of the Nicholas bridge's restoration. He ended up proposing to construct a totally new bridge but this proposal was declined by the supporters of the reusing of the old elements from underwater. The year of 1923 passed in arguing between the two proposals. The construction overseen by Paton was finished by 1925 and the completed bridge was named after the former Soviet People's Secretary of Internal Affairs and a fierce Bolshevik Yevgeniya Bosch.[5]
Following the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union, the bridge was destroyed on September 18, 1941 by retreating Soviet forces. A pontoon bridge was built on its place by forced labour under German occupation, which was destroyed again by German troops retreating from Kiev.
Darnytskyi Railroad Bridge[edit]
The replacement Darnytskyi railroad bridge was built in early 1920s but shared the fate of the Bosh Bridge. Destroyed in the first months of the Great Patriotic War, it was restored during German occupation by forced labor, and was destroyed again by retreating German troops.
During the Battle of Kiev, Red Army's attempt to catch the bridge by landing forces was unsuccessful. The Germans blew up the bridge on the eyes of the Soviet landing force unit. The landing unit was disbanded for the operation failure.
Immediately after the liberation a temporary wooden bridge was built at the location of the blown up Darnytskyi bridge by the Red Army engineers in the record thirteen-day time (some sources cite thirty days) in the urgency to facilitate the pursuit of the German army on its retreat from Ukraine. The record short construction time plan was met despite the frequent German bombing raids. 50,000 Kievans took part in the bridge construction.
Underwater tunnels[edit]
A few years before World War II the Soviet government planned two underground railroad lines to be laid underneath the bedrock of Dnieper river. One tunnel line (Northern) would have stretched from the Obolon neighborhood (Obolon Raion) and to what is known as Vygurivshchyna (Desna Raion) near Voskresenska Slobidka on the left-bank of Dnieper in the close proximity of Troieschyna. Another line (Southern) was planned to cross Dnieper from the Zhukiv Island to Osokorky (Darnytsia Raion). The project came up in a fear that in case of a war the bridges over the Dnieper were a vulnerable part of the regional transport infrastructure, and tunnels might be a long-term strategic solution.
The construction started in 1936 was planned to be finished sometime in 1944. The NKVD oversaw the project, drafting hundreds of military, civilian and prison workers to work on it. The underdeveloped technology of the time required special makeshift caissons (vertical mines for ventilation and soil extraction) to be built in the middle of the river. Due to technical failures and the start of the war, the construction was never finished or even disclosed to the public. The builders were able only to connect the Right Bank with the close Zhukiv Island (where the present-day southern port is situated). The flooded entrance to the tunnel and abandoned caissons can now be seen in the forests and bays of Holosiivskyi Raion. Contemporary amateur researchers believe that a large secret base component of the project, including a train station, barracks and mass graves of workers, are also located in the depths of the tunnels.[6]
After the start of the World War II all tunnel construction (known as the Construction No.1) was suspended and afterward recognized as unreasonable. Nonetheless the entrances to the unfinished tunnels still exist around the mentioned neighborhoods, which are mostly unguarded.
Modern bridges[edit]
Note: Bridges are listed southwards along the river flow.
Moskovskyi Bridge[edit]
The Moskovskyi Bridge.
The automobile-only Moskovskyi ("Moscow") Bridge (50°29′26″N 30°32′09″E / 50.49056°N 30.53583°E / 50.49056; 30.53583), designed by the architect A.V.Dobrovolsky and engineered by G.B.Fux, was built in 1976. It is a cable-stayed bridge, with the beam of the main span being held by a cluster of steel ropes which are fixed


When necessary, you can shut down the entire vSAN cluster.
If you plan to shut down the vSAN cluster, you do not need to manually disable vSAN on the cluster.
Procedure
 1. Power off all virtual machines (VMs) running in the vSAN cluster.
 2. Verify that all resynchronization tasks are complete.
 Click the Monitor tab, and select vSAN > Resyncing Components.
 3. Place the ESXi hosts in maintenance mode.
 1. Right-click the host and select Enter Maintenance Mode.
 2. Select the No data migration evacuation mode and click OK.
 4. In the Confirm Maintenance Mode wizard, deselect the Move powered-off and suspended virtual machines to other hosts in the cluster check box.
 When you deselect this check box, vSAN does not migrate the VMs to other hosts. If you plan to shut down the entire cluster and put all hosts in maintenance mode, you do not need to move or migrate the VM storage objects to other hosts or devices in the cluster.
 5. Power off the hosts after they have successfully entered maintenance mode.
 6. Power on the ESXi hosts.
 1. On the physical box where ESXi is installed, press the power button until the power-on sequence begins.
 The ESXi host starts, locates its VMs, and functions normally.
 After you power on the hosts, the vSAN cluster is automatically recreated.
 If you navigate to the ESXi host and click Summary, you might see that the Network Status of the cluster appears as Misconfiguration detected.
 You can ignore the status message if you did not make network configuration changes and the vSAN cluster was working as expected before you shut down the cluster. The message disappears after at least three hosts join the cluster.
 7. Take the hosts out of maintenance mode.
 8. Restart the VMs.


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Usage of "Schema" names
Hi,
I am somewhat a newbie to SQL Server administration as I am now doing everything for a very small company.
I have a database the has the need for 2 "Organization" tables. One is a "Customer Organization" table (What organization the customer belongs to). The other is a "Global Organization" table. Let's accept that they have to be different tables.
Within a database, what are the ramifications between the 2 sets of names:
Database: myCompany
table: dbo.Cust_organization
table: dbo_Global_Organization
OR
Database: myCompany
table: Cust.Organization
table: Global.Organization
And what is the ramification of making a separate database (when would I do that)?
Database : myCompany
table: dbo.Organization
Database : Global
table: dbo.Organization
Any advise would be appreciated,
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JestersGrindCommented:
The difference is largely personal choice. It depends on how your security is setup. To give you another option, you could even have one table with a column that differentiates between customer and global, if the columns are the same.
Using different schemas allows a logical grouping of objects and you can assign permission to the schema to only allow users to use that schema.
With separate tables, you can still assign permissions to only the appropriate table, but you would have to assign permissions individually to each object instead of one like the schema method.
With separate databases, you can complete separate the data. This might mean that you have duplicate tables in each to accommodate the design. Also, need separate backups, etc...
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hefterrAuthor Commented:
Hi JestersGrind,
Thanks for the quick response.
On the topic of security, as a web application all public users have the same security. So you are talking about developers, DBA I assume?
...Using different schemas allows a logical grouping of objects and you can assign permission to the schema to only allow users to use that schema.
Q: Is this a common procedure for just "grouping" as this is what I would be using it for.
Q: If a table was shared by different sites/applications, would it be more of a candidate for a separate DB? Or is that not significant?
Thanks again,
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JestersGrindCommented:
I was referring to user security. In most environments that I have worked in, DBAs have full access to production and developers have none, but every environment is different.
Q: Is this a common procedure for just "grouping" as this is what I would be using it for.
The behavior changed in SQL 2005. Before that schemas were tied to a specific user. Now they are independent and are really used more for organization than anything else. Although, they can also simplify security too. This is a pretty good article about it.
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Q: If a table was shared by different sites/applications, would it be more of a candidate for a separate DB? Or is that not significant?
It really depends. Typically, I like to use one database per application, but I have seen implementations where customers were separated out to separate databases. I've never thought that was a good practice. As long as your customers can only see their data and not any other customer's data, it doesn't really matter how you store it.
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How to Mix HCG
Human Choriogonadotropin, also known as hCG, is actually a hormone produced in the beginning stages of pregnancy and has now been found to aid in weight loss. Injecting hCG over the course of 40 days is said to bring drastic weight loss to men and women, especially for those who are obese.
The most important aspect to this type of diet is knowing how to mix the hCG for the correct dosage in order to achieve optimum results.
Before you begin it is important that you know what your dosage is. The standard is generally between 175 IU and 200 IU however, it is important you talk this over with your doctor so you are sure to know the exact dosage for yourself.
Prepare to mix the hCG. This process needs to be done in a sterile environment. Lay all the supplies on a sterilized counter or table. (You can use alcohol to clean this area and then let the area air dry). Wash your hands and dry with paper towels.
Before opening the glass vial of the hCG powder concentrate, clean the top of the vial with a sterile alcohol pad and clean the top of the sterilized water bottle as well.
Take a sterile needle and a large syringe to draw out 25 cc of the bacteriostatic or sterile water. Throw that needle away and put a new sterile needle on the syringe.
Inject 1cc of the sterile water into the vial of hCG concentrate. Make sure you do this slowly and do not let the needle touch the inside of the vial – if that happens you will need to throw that needle away and replace it with a new sterile needle immediately.
The powder will begin to dissolve. Gently swirl it; never shake.
The remaining 24 cc of sterile water is to be injected into the sterile glass vial. Using a new syringe, draw out 1 cc of hCG and then replace the needle.
Sterilize the glass vial with a new alcohol pad and inject the hCG into the sterile glass vial which contains 24 cc of sterile water.
You will now have 25 vials of 1 ml doses that can then be used for injections.
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What is A Flood Vent?
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Engineered flood vents protect residential houses and commercial buildings in floodplains by preventing hydrostatic pressure buildup that can destroy walls and foundations.
An Engineered Flood Vent:
- Relieves (rather than resists) hydrostatic pressure on foundation walls during a flood event. The flood vent must allow for the automatic entry and exit of flood waters without human intervention.
- Passively equalizes hydrostatic loads on enclosure walls below the BFE.
- Must allow bi-directional relief of the flood waters regardless of the direction of flow.
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Tuorila, Finland: Climate and Weather Year Round
Tuorila is a small village located in Finland, known for its beautiful landscapes and serene atmosphere. As with any location, understanding the climate and weather patterns is essential for both residents and visitors. In this article, we will explore the climate of Tuorila throughout the year, including temperature ranges, precipitation levels, and seasonal variations.
Tuorila experiences a temperate climate, characterized by distinct seasons. The average annual temperature in Tuorila is around 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit). However, the temperature varies significantly throughout the year.
In the winter months, from December to February, Tuorila experiences chilly temperatures. The average temperature during this period ranges from -10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit) to -5 degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit). It is not uncommon for temperatures to drop even further during cold spells, reaching below -20 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit).
Spring in Tuorila, from March to May, brings milder temperatures. The average temperature during this season ranges from 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) to 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit). As spring progresses, the temperature gradually rises, and the landscape comes alive with blossoming flowers and greenery.
Summers in Tuorila, from June to August, are pleasantly warm. The average temperature during this period ranges from 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit) to 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit). However, occasional heatwaves can push temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), providing the perfect weather for outdoor activities and exploration.
Autumn, from September to November, marks the transition to colder weather. The average temperature during this season ranges from 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit) to 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit). As the leaves change color and fall, Tuorila showcases its picturesque autumn landscapes.
Tuorila experiences moderate levels of precipitation throughout the year. The village receives an average of 600-700 millimeters (23-27 inches) of rainfall annually. However, the distribution of precipitation varies across the seasons.
In the summer months, Tuorila receives the highest amount of rainfall. July is the wettest month, with an average of 80-90 millimeters (3-4 inches) of rainfall. August and June also experience relatively high precipitation levels, with averages of 70-80 millimeters (2-3 inches) and 60-70 millimeters (2-3 inches) respectively.
Winter in Tuorila brings lighter precipitation in the form of snow. The average snowfall during the winter months ranges from 30-40 centimeters (12-16 inches). January is typically the snowiest month, with an average snowfall of 10-15 centimeters (4-6 inches).
Spring and autumn in Tuorila experience moderate levels of rainfall. April and October are the rainiest months during these seasons, with averages of 40-50 millimeters (1-2 inches) of rainfall.
Tuorila experiences distinct seasonal variations, each with its own unique charm and activities to offer. Let's take a closer look at the highlights of each season:
Winter: In winter, Tuorila transforms into a winter wonderland. The snowy landscapes provide opportunities for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports. The village also hosts traditional winter festivals and events that celebrate the beauty of the season.
Spring: As spring arrives, Tuorila comes alive with vibrant colors and blooming flowers. It is the perfect time to explore the village's nature trails, observe migratory birds, and witness the rejuvenation of the surrounding forests.
Summer: Tuorila's summer offers long daylight hours and pleasant temperatures, making it an ideal time for outdoor activities such as hiking, fishing, and boating. The lakes and rivers in the area provide excellent opportunities for water sports and relaxation.
Autumn: The autumn months in Tuorila are known for their stunning foliage. The changing colors of the leaves create a picturesque setting, perfect for nature walks and photography. It is also a great time to enjoy local harvest festivals and indulge in seasonal delicacies.
Tuorila, Finland, experiences a temperate climate with distinct seasons and varying temperatures throughout the year. From the chilly winters to the vibrant springs, pleasant summers, and picturesque autumns, Tuorila offers a unique experience in each season. Whether you visit for winter sports or to witness the beauty of nature, Tuorila has something to offer year-round.
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A - Humidity in Tuorila is 93% today.
A - Wind speed in Tuorila is 11.7 km/h, flowing at 230° wind direction. today.


ListTagsForResource - AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager
ListTagsForResource
Lists the tags of a contact, escalation plan, rotation, or on-call schedule.
Request Syntax
{ "ResourceARN": "string" }
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
ResourceARN
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the contact, escalation plan, rotation, or on-call schedule.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1011.
Required: Yes
Response Syntax
{ "Tags": [ { "Key": "string", "Value": "string" } ] }
Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.
The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.
Tags
The tags related to the contact or escalation plan.
Type: Array of Tag objects
Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 50 items.
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
AccessDeniedException
You don't have sufficient access to perform this operation.
HTTP Status Code: 400
InternalServerException
Unexpected error occurred while processing the request.
HTTP Status Code: 500
ResourceNotFoundException
Request references a resource that doesn't exist.
HTTP Status Code: 400
ThrottlingException
The request was denied due to request throttling.
HTTP Status Code: 400
ValidationException
The input fails to satisfy the constraints specified by an AWS service.
HTTP Status Code: 400
Examples
Example
This example illustrates one usage of ListTagsForResource.
Sample Request
POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: ssm-contacts.us-east-2.amazonaws.com Accept-Encoding: identity X-Amz-Target: SSMContacts.ListTagsForResource Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 User-Agent: aws-cli/2.2.4 Python/3.8.8 Linux/5.4.129-72.229.amzn2int.x86_64 exe/x86_64.amzn.2 prompt/off command/ssm-contacts.list-tags-for-resource X-Amz-Date: 20220817T183318Z Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20220817/us-east-2/ssm-contacts/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=39c3b3042cd2aEXAMPLE Content-Length: 76 { "ResourceARN": "arn:aws:ssm-contacts:us-east-2:111122223333:contact/akuam" }
Sample Response
{ "Tags": [ { "Key": "group1", "Value": "1" } ] }
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:


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Yesterday in the MAKESHOP™, makers of all ages had a brilliant time "light painting", a photographic technique that uses a camera with slow shutter speed to capture images of fast moving lights. With materials you probably have nearby right now, you can have hours of fun experimenting with goofy, dramatic and surprising visual effects!
Below is a slideshow of just a few of the hundreds of light paintings we made yesterday. Send us YOUR favorite at _EMAIL_.
Read on for materials, instructions and inspirations for making your own light paintings!
How does it work? The aperture of a camera works like the iris of your eye. Both expand or contract to allow more or less light into the lens. Grab a flashlight and look at your eyes in a mirror. As you shine the flashlight near them, do you see how your iris expands or contracts? This is how your eye protects itself from too much light or assists you in seeing when it's dark outside. A camera has this, too. Unlike your eyes, you can control this on your camera with a setting. The F-stop setting controls the fraction of light stopped by the aperture. Get it?
In light painting, you let only a little bit of light in through the aperture but for a long time. And by "a long time" … we mean five seconds! Five seconds is a very long time for a camera, since regular photos are taken in only a fraction of a single second. During those few seconds, the lens captures the light as a bright smear, tracking it as it moves.
- Camera (digital or film)
- Lights (flashlights, holiday lights, bike headlamps, cell phones – anything that lights up!)
- Tripod or tabletop to keep the camera still
Settings (based on what we did):
- Shutter Speed: 5 Seconds (this is how long the shutter stayed open and captured the image)
- F-stop: F-29 (the fraction of light stopped by the aperture – remember, like an iris!)
- ISO: 100 (how sensitive the camera should be to light. We set ours as low as we could so that our little tiny moving light didn't blow out the picture and make everything bright white.)
Once your camera is set and you have your lights, begin to experiment. Snap the shutter button and quickly move your light in front of the camera. Can you make a swirl, square or heart? Can you spell your name? Outline your sister? Draw a hat on your dog? (Note: Keep the light moving, so it doesn't burn your lens like an iron left on a shirt!)
Get more ideas about light painting and long exposure photography at these helpful links:
- 10 Great Examples of Light Painting Photography
- Painting with Light
- How to Paint with Light in a Photograph
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Conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC) is an extension of traditional behavioral consultation in that parents and teachers, with the assistance of a consultant, are joined to identify and address child-related difficulties collaboratively. This article presents a background review of the conceptual and empirical grounds for CBC. A case study of the use of CBC with a young student manifesting an irrational fear of sleeping in his bedroom at home is presented. Specifically, procedures and outcomes of each stage of CBC are described. Considerations for interpreting and using case study results are also presented.


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Analytical HPLC for imaging probe purification
The NanoTek microfluidic synthesis system can automatically conduct post synthesis trapping of an imaging probe whilst removing excess reaction reagents (polar and ionic compounds) and perform subsequent purification using an analytical HPLC.
- Order of magnitude increase of RAC
- Reduced starting activity.
- Faster production process.
- Substantial reduction in solvent consumption and disposal costs.


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At this point of time 90-95% of Maize is grown under film in Ireland.
The use of film allows maize to be sown 2 – 3 weeks earlier than conventional open crops. Sowing under film creates a micro climate when the plant can be challenged during the first few weeks. This helps to develop a much larger root system which will increase yield and bring harvest date forward. Trial results and experience have shown that certain maize hybrids are more suited to sowing under film than others. Planting dates and growing location should determine the maturity of hybrid to be sown. Other features such as high relative yield and standing ability can identify the appropriate hybrid to be grown.