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Oct. 30, 1998 Off the coast of Maui, an underwater ridge acts like a "giant magnifying lens," bending and enlarging Pacific Ocean storm swells to soup up monster surfing waves as high as 70 feet, according to University of Delaware research linked this month to a National Geographic web site.
The waves result from the unique shape of the underwater ridge--not the effects of submerged cliffs, as some observers had previously assumed, says Robert A. Dalrymple, director of the Center for Applied Coastal Research at UD, where faculty and students investigate waves, rip currents and the "swash" of waves sliding up and down the beach face.
Dalrymple, the University's Edward C. Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a professor of marine studies, solved a mystery that had puzzled National Geographic researchers working on the magazine's November 1998 cover story. The profile of "Jaws," a surfing mecca on Maui's northern shore, near the town of Haiku, was prepared by writer Joel Achenbach, a Washington Post reporter and author of Why Things Are.
Stormy weather in the northern Pacific periodically produces swells big enough to be affected by the presence of the ridge, located about 30 feet beneath the ocean's surface, says Dalrymple. "As soon as a big wave runs into that ridge," he says, "it wraps right around it."
As part of a storm swell passes over the ridge crest, it slows down because water travels slower in shallow water, Dalrymple explains. Other parts of the swell travel faster in deeper water, causing the wave to focus on the ridge-a process called refraction. Achenbach's article puts it this way: "The swells on either side of the reef, moving in deeper water, bend inward, focusing much of their energy on the center of the wave crest." In this way, he writes, "the reef squeezes the wave inward and upward" to form a "peaking wave."
Wave Surfin' With UD Technology When Achenbach set out to solve the mystery of Maui's monster waves, Dalrymple says, initial reports suggested that the unusually large curls resulted from the reflection of the waves from underwater cliffs. Then the magazine commissioned a survey of the water depth over the ridge. This "bathymetric" survey was completed by Sea Engineering.
With Dalrymple's guidance, undergraduate researcher Katie M. Fearing, a civil engineering major set to graduate in the year 2000, fed the depth data into a wave model developed by UD faculty member James T. Kirby and Dalrymple. Called REF/DIF, the program predicts wave patterns when the movement of water is affected by refraction or other processes such as the diffraction and shoaling of waves. (Meanwhile, Achenbach also sought input from other respected experts such as Rick Grigg, a former champion surfer and professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii, who is quoted in the National Geographic article.)
At Maui's Jaws site, Achenbach's article explains, the ocean depth changes abruptly from 120 feet to just 30 feet, as waves move from deep sea to the beach. Normal waves "don't feel the ridge," Dalrymple says, "because they don't penetrate the entire water column." But, he adds, storm swells longer than about 1,000 feet in length "really trip over the ridge," produced by an ancient lava flow.
When Jaws roars, hard-core surfers flock to Maui, the second largest island in the Hawaiian chain. Wave runners tow the surfers into the path of the big waves, where they ride for up to 22 seconds. In the book, Jaws Maui (written by Charlie and Leslie Lyon, with photography by Blue Max), the first Japanese waterman to ride Jaws describes the experience as exhilarating. "It's just simply one nice, perfect peak, just very tall," says Hidemi Furuya. "It's a perfect wave, actually. Just real stoke, pure adrenaline."
World-Class Research Facilities When he isn't investigating Hawaiian storm events, Dalrymple studies wave behavior in one of the nation's largest coastal process facilities, the Ocean Engineering Laboratory, home of UD's Center for Applied Coastal Research (CACR).
Researchers at the Center strive to understand the formation of dangerous rip currents that can occur when incoming waves force water through gaps in sandbars. Currently, researchers also are working on wave propagation models for the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy. These models should prove useful for coastal planning and for safely moving marines from sea to shore, Dalrymple says.
The Laboratory features a large directional wave basin for studying such real-world events as rip currents; a precision wave tank equipped with a computer-controlled hydraulic wave-maker for investigating wave breaking and the interaction of waves with tidal currents; and a spiral wave basin for simulating sandy beach conditions. The facility also makes use of powerful computing technologies including networked stations, a parallel computer and direct access to the University's award-winning network.
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Over the last decade, there has been increased engagement, investment and interventions designed to grow, support and embed interdisciplinary research (IDR) in higher education institutions (HEIs) in England. In this study, we considered the cases of 10 HEIs in England that take a variety of approaches to grow, sustain and embed IDR. The sample included a range of institutions and considers different approaches, institution types, geographical locations and disciplinary spread.We found that a need to address complex societal and practical challenges, and a desire to access more diverse or larger funding streams are major drivers for IDR in HEIs. We identified different models for organising and conducting IDR within English HEIs as well as the mechanisms used by these institutions to grow, sustain and embed IDR. Finally, we reflected on 'what works' in different contexts and policy considerations for stakeholders who want to support and grow IDR.
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The Alliance for the Great Lakes is happy to present H.O.M.E.School, a series of online lessons about the Great Lakes for kids in grades K-8.
Each lesson explores a different topic with a quick video from our education manager Katie Larson. After the "classroom" portion, students can apply their knowledge with a fun, hands-on activity they can do at home or at school. For educators and those who want to learn more, we offer resources to dig in deeper on the topic with links to other lessons and activities.
Want to get started right away? Your kids can watch the video below to meet Katie and learn a fun trick for remembering the names of the Great Lakes. Then they can test their knowledge with a fun online activity!
My colleagues and I have been thrilled to use H.O.M.E.School as our online science unit for firstand second-grade students throughout the coronavirus quarantine. The lesson plans are flexible, well-paced, and cohesively connected from week to week. A good variety of optional follow-up activities are always included so that parents can extend the learning as their schedules allow. Best of all, the lessons are fun and launch student exploration of concrete, real-world issues. –Chris Weber, teacher

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The Basics of Utah Conservation Districts - District Supervisors
Conservation District Supervisors
When the residents of a conservation district elect a supervisor, they delegate the responsibility of directing the conservation needs of the district's natural resources to them. Supervisors are leaders, using their own operations and activities to set a good conservation example to others, demonstrating conservation benefits.
Conservation district supervisors have the opportunity to take an active role as stewards - safeguarding limited natural resources. To effectively nurture conservation in their communities, they should understand their role and responsibilities as a supervisor. Their success depends on their vision of the conservation district movement, their knowledge of natural resource conservation and the available means to accomplish conservation district objectives.
Roles of District Supervisors:
- Be aware of the different natural resource needs within the district and actively seek input for solutions.
- Be an example of conservation management by practicing applicable conservation methods.
- Promote the ethic of good resource stewardship among all residents.
- Be familiar with laws, policies and program concepts of importance to the district.
- Manage staff, finances and property of the district (through zone coordinator).
- Regularly attend district meetings and functions, take an active role in overseeing your employees' activities, and generally make conservation district business a priority.


diverse than some of the more exotic Race Packages that cost 30+ points.
GM's can alter Race Package Deals as they like, but as noted previously the intention is for players to not be able to alter Race Packages outside of any Option Lists or Pick Lists presented within the Packages themselves. Pick Lists within a Package are always selectable by players, but abilities from Option Lists might require GM approval. This section discusses the idea of Race Options Lists in more depth.
Option Lists are included for some Races in the material provided herein. Their primary purpose is to illustrate additional abilities that some, but not all, members of a particular Race might have. However, depending on your GM's vision of how a particular Race should be depicted they may or may not allow all abilities on Race Option lists. Seek your GM's input when selecting abilities from Race Option Lists.
Players that wish to expand their Character's Race Package by taking one or more abilities from these lists must decide to do so during initial Character Design.
Nature vs. Nurture
Because the depiction of the various "demi-human" groups varies somewhat from setting to setting and in fictional sources, some of the ancillary abilities sometimes attributed to the various common Fantasy Races were placed in Option Lists rather than in the Race Packages directly.
Additionally abilities that seemed more like "trained" or "learned" skills rather than innate attributes of a Race were also placed into the Option Lists.
Essentially, many of the Options provided allow the Race Package Deals for some Races to be expanded to also serve as de facto Cultural or Background Package Deals.
For instance, in some settings perhaps all members of a Race have these abilities innately, but in other settings or GM's games they must be learned as part of a Character's background, leading to variation among members of the same Race depending upon their training, or perhaps distinct bloodlines within the Race.
Portrait Of A Hill Dwarf
Take the Hill Dwarf Race Package as an example. The default version is priced at 10 Real Cost, with a number of the Dwarven Underground abilities shifted into the Dwarven Option List rather than taken as part of the Hill Dwarf Package, as these abilities may be learned rather than innate depending upon perspective.
In some campaigns the GM might agree with this assessment and allow individual Hill Dwarf Characters to purchase abilities from the Option List where appropriate for their backgrounds.
Other GM's may prefer that these abilities be considered innate and therefore included in the Hill Dwarf Race Package and modify the Race Package accordingly. This wont necessarily have a major impact on cost scaling either if the "Total Cost" method of Race Package use is in effect as other Disadvantages or penalties could be applied to keep the Package's cost manageable. An example of this is shown below.
Hill Dwarves
Hill Dwarves typically live either above ground in highland villages, or in Dwarven holdfasts near the surface, typically farming and/or maintaining livestock for sustenance. This kind of Dwarf is less common than Mountain Dwarves in most settings, but more often encountered because their steadings are not as remote or difficult to find. Hill Dwarves are typically taller and lither than their Mountain kin, and less dour in outlook.
NOTE: This variant of Hill Dwarves have innate Underground senses and abilities.
Cost Ability
5 Strong: +5 STR
6 Durable: +3 CON
6 Durable: +3 BODY
4 Stubborn +2 EGO
5 Doughty: Power Defense: 5
15 Magic Resistance: Damage Reduction 25% Resistant; Only vs Magic (-1)
7 Poison Resistance: Immunity to Poisons, Activation 14- (-1/2)
5 Infravision: Infrared Perception
6 Stalwart: +5 Mental Defense, +5 Power Defense, +5 PRE; Only to Resist Fear (-2)
2 Keen Senses: +1 PER with Normal Hearing and Normal Touch
1 Longevity: LS: 200 Years
1 Longevity: Double to LS: 400 Years
3 Racial Enmity: +1 All Combat, vs. Orc-kin Only (-2)
3 Racial Enmity: +1 All Combat, vs. Giant-kin Only (-2)
6 Stoneworker: KS: Stonework; PS: Mason
Value Disadvantages
-20 Normal Characteristic Maxima
-5 Distinctive Feature: Dwarf (Concealable w/ Magic, Noticed, Not Distinctive in Some Cultures)
-5 Physical Limitation: Short but Heavy (4 ft - 5 ft; 250 to 400 lbs)
-5 Psychological Limitation: Insular and Gruff (Uncommon, Moderate)
-2 Slow: -1" Running
-1 Dense Flesh: -1" Swimming
-1 Cumbersome: -1" Leaping
-9 Thick-limbed: -3 DEX
-2 Ruminating: -2 INT
-2 Rough-hewn: -4 COM
-10 Psychological Limitation: Racial Enmity: Orc-kin (Uncommon, Strong)
-10 Psychological Limitation: Racial Enmity: Giant-kin (Uncommon, Strong)
-10 Psychological Limitation: Gold lust & Greed (Common, Moderate)
Total Cost of Package
In the Race Packages provided herein it is intended that Characteristic adjustments in the Race Package Deals be applied after Normal Characteristic Maxima is determined. This is true of both bonuses and penalties. In this fashion an effective Altered Characteristic Maxima is achieved.
EXAMPLE: The stock package given for Hairfoot Halflings grants a +1 Speed, +2 DEX, -5 STR, -2 BODY, -2 INT, -5 PRE as part of the Race Package Deal. If a Hairfoot Halfling Character purchases +10 DEX and +10 STR outside of their Package they do not encounter Characteristic Maxima having neither DEX or STR above 20.
After NCM is determined the Race Characteristic modifiers are applied, resulting in an adjusted DEX of 22 and an adjusted STR of 15.
NOTE: This is a variation from the recommended method of handling Characteristic Bonuses in 5th Edition Fantasy HERO.
The Alternate NCM Template File Maker for HERO Designer v3 is provided to assist users of the software to create a file with the necessary content to instruct HERO Designer that a Character has base and max Characteristics different than the assumed norms.
Instructions are provided on the tools use. It's really quite easy to do, and only takes a few minutes. However, if you experience difficulties using it email Killer Shrike with any questions and you will be given reasonably timely assistance (within a day or two typically).
Characteristic bonuses from all other (non-Race) Package Deals do count against Characteristic Maxima. This may require such a Package to be refactored if a Character is already at or near their Characteristic Maxima when they take the non-Race Package. In all cases where possible take the number of Character points spent on the Characteristic in the Package Deal, and buy that many points worth of Characteristic at the increased price.
It is perfectly acceptable to not use the method of handling Race Packages offered by this site. A GM could opt for a standard Fantasy HERO implementation of Race Packages, use the Race Packages from Fantasy HERO for 5th Edition, The Turakian Age, or some other source.
The remaining material contained by this site is still generally usable even in this scenario, though some assumptions regarding starting point totals and the pricing of other Packages might need to be examined on a case by case basis.
More unusually a GM might decide to not use Race Packages at all. My personal recommendation is to reconsider this position, but theoretically this is doable. In my experience without some kind of consistent definition of what constitutes a particular Race, odd inconsistencies arise during play.
Also, for some players, Characters can seem to lose a good deal of the flavor of being members of various Races in such an environment. Since there is no real definition of what it means to be a member of a particular Race there also tends to be a very large skew between individual player's interpretations of what a Race is composed of mechanically.
As far as eschewing Race Package Deals altogether and using the material on this web site is concerned, there is a strong assumption that Race Packages will be used and in many ways the Race Package concept forms the foundation of the stackable Package material. Most tellingly, a good deal of material references or implies or proceeds on the assumption that every Character must have one and only one Race Package Deal when they are created.
Thus some of the material might need to be reevaluated on a case by case basis from the perspective of a campaign with no Race Packages whatsoever.
HERO System 5th Edition Changes To Package Deals
The following is just an open discourse on the subject of the Race Packages presented on this site and can be ignored by most readers.
Many of the Race Packages provided on this site were migrated from HERO System 4th Edition Packages. Several changes were made in then HERO System 5th Edition which impacted the methodology used in their original design under 4th Edition rules.
All of the older Race Package Deals from earlier iterations of this web site have been updated to be HERO System 5th Edition compliant (except as regards Distinctive Features, see below). The primary changes were the removal of the 4th Edition altered Characteristic Maxima and Package Bonuses, and the removal of Shrinking Always On, Density Increase Always On, and Growth Always On in exchange for Physical Limitations for Races of unusual size.
 1. Package Deals no longer give Package Bonuses.
 2. Normal Characteristic Max


text: The Jaguar redefined wild in the borderlands when they were rediscovered. They had nearly been forgotten and were thought to be gone from the lands of the United States. On two separate occasions, mountain lion hunters put down their guns and picked up their cameras. Those photos by Warner Glenn, and later Jack Childs, are remarkable because this animal was a predator like the one they sought to kill. But they did not kill the jaguars, because they revered and respected them. Instead, they took pictures and shared their stories. Their actions rekindled our love for the jaguar and the wild.


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Vada Volaterrana was an important harbour between Portus Pisanus and Populonium near the modern Vada in Italy. Already in the 8th and 7th century BC there was an efficient harbour system.
The coastal region, characterized by lagoons fed by numerous small streams and bays protected from the sea currents and the dangerous shallow waters off the coasts, was a safe place for ports trade activities.
Since the 80s a commercial quarter from Roman times has been excaveted by the University of Pisa. During excavations several buildings has been found among others two bathhouses, a warehouse (horreum), an aula, a large fountain a schola and two other buildings from which one was probably a schola too and the other a roofed marketplace (macellum). Both were dating from the first century AC.
One of the main products shipped out was the local wine. This wine was very popular by Roman legionaires stationed in the camps guarding the borders of the Empire in France and more to the North.
- [24-04-2020] "The harbour of Volterra", also available in Dutch

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Clay Brick construction project
The aim of the clay brick construction project is to build a training centre as a model project in the region in order to revive the traditional clay construction method with modern technology by:
- Training a construction team on the Hydraform machine.
- Employing the construction team in the region for renovation and new construction projects.
- Creating jobs for the many young people looking for work.
- Improving living conditions in the town and surroundings.
For this purpose, a Hydraform m7mi machine for the production of clay bricks was purchased and a workshop was built. The Hydraform technique originates from South Africa and makes it possible to build faster and more cost-effectively with clay and little mortar. Currently 15 people are undergoing training.


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The equal footing doctrine, also known as equality of the states, is the principle in United States constitutional law that all states admitted to the Union under the Constitution since 1789 enter on equal footing with the 13 states already in the Union at that time. The Constitution grants to Congress the power to admit new states in Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1, which states:
Beginning with the admission of Tennessee in 1796, Congress has included in each state's act of admission a clause providing that it enters the Union "on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever".[1] Before that, when Vermont was admitted in 1791, the act said Vermont was to be "a new and entire member" of the United States.
At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, a proposal to include the phrase, "new States shall be admitted on the same terms with the original States", was defeated. It was feared that the political power of future new western states would eventually overwhelm that of the established eastern states. Once the new Constitution went into effect, however, Congress admitted Vermont and Kentucky on equal terms and thereafter formalized the condition in its acts of admission for subsequent states, declaring that the new state enters "on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever." Thus the Congress, utilizing the discretion allowed by the framers, adopted a policy of equal status for all newly admitted states.[2] With the growth of states' rights advocacy during the antebellum period, the Supreme Court asserted, in Lessee of Pollard v. Hagan (1845), that the Constitution mandated admission of new states on the basis of equality.[1]
Coyle v. Smith[edit]
In Coyle v. Smith, 221 U.S. 559 (1911), the Supreme Court ruled that if Congress mandates a unique limitation be put in a prospective state's constitution, even if the state's residents agree, the unique mandate is not enforceable.
On December 29, 1910, the state of Oklahoma enacted a statute which removed the state capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City. W.H. Coyle, owner of large property interests in Guthrie, sued the state of Oklahoma, arguing that the move was performed in violation of the state constitution's acceptance of the terms of the 1906 Oklahoma Enabling Act, which mandated the capital to be in Guthrie until 1913.
Supreme Court findings[edit]
The Court noted that the power given to Congress by Article. IV, Section 3, of the US Constitution is to admit new states to the Union, and relates only to such states as are equal to each other in power and dignity and competency to exert the residuum of sovereignty not delegated to the Federal Government.
The Supreme Court held that preventing the state of Oklahoma the right to locate its own seat of government deprived it of powers which all other states of the Union enjoyed and so it violated the traditional constitutional principle that all new states be admitted "on an equal footing with the original states". As a result, the provision of the enabling act that temporarily restricted Oklahoma's right to determine where its seat of government would be was unconstitutional.
United States v. Holt State Bank[edit]
In United States v. Holt State Bank, 270 U.S. 49 (1926), the Supreme Court ruled that the equal footing doctrine applied to water rights. The Supreme Court rejected a claim by the Red Lake Indian Reservation of Minnesota that it had rights to Mud Lake and other navigable waters within the reservation by virtue of the tribe's aboriginal status.
In general, lands underlying navigable waters within a state belong to the state in its sovereign capacity; the state may use and dispose them subject to the paramount power of Congress to control such waters for the purposes of navigation in interstate and foreign commerce.
If the United States, after acquiring the territory and before the creation of the state, has granted rights to land to a third party, rights that otherwise would have passed to the state, by virtue of its admission to the Union, remain with the third party.[3]
However, disposals by the United States during the territorial period of lands under navigable water should not be regarded as intended unless there was a definite declaration by contract, statute, or other similar action.[4]
At the time of Minnesota's admission as a state, Mud Lake and other much-larger navigable waters within its limits were included in the Red Lake Indian Reservation. The Chippewas Tribe ceded to the United States their right of occupancy of the surrounding lands, leaving the Red Lake Reservation as a remainder of their original aboriginal territory. While the area was recognized as a reservation, it was never formally set apart as such.[5]
Supreme Court findings[edit]
The State of Minnesota was admitted into the Union in 1858, 11 Stat. 285, c. 31, and under the constitutional principle of equality among the several states, the title to the bed of Mud Lake then passed to the state if the lake was navigable and if the bed had not already been disposed of by the United States. Navigability does not depend on the particular mode used or on an absence of occasional difficulties in navigation. It depends on the stream being, in its natural and ordinary condition, one that affords a channel for useful commerce.
See also[edit]
 1. ^ a b c "Doctrine of the Equality of States". Justia.com. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
 2. ^ Forte, David F. "Essays on Article IV: New States Clause". The Heritage Guide to the Constitution. The Heritage Foundation.
 3. ^ Holt, at p. 54
 4. ^ Holt, at p. 55
 5. ^ Holt, at p. 57


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Jupiter is the biggest benefic planet in astrology and its transit can take one out of difficult situation and put an end to the misery.
Jupiter Transit 2021 In Capricorn Sign: Ascendantwise Effects
Jupiter Transit In Capricorn
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Jupiter is the most divine and benefic planet in vedic astrology and its importance is so strong that without its kind rays one cannot expect prosperity in life.
Same planet Jupiter is going to enter sign of Capricorn on 21st of November 2020 and will be staying there until December 2021.
While its stay in Capricorn Jupiter will be in debilitation and will be joining planet Saturn who is already there since January 2020. So here in this Transit a need to account union of Saturn and Jupiter is also there because throughout 2021 Jupiter will be with Saturn.
In this transition during 2021 Jupiter will be entering sign of Aquarius on 06th of April 2021 and will turn retrograde on 20th June 2021. In its retrograde motion Jupiter will enter sign of Capricorn on 14th September 2021 and will turn direct on 18th of October 2021.
Total days of retrogression will be 120 days.
In this article I will cover following aspect of Jupiter transit 2021 along with predictions in the end of it:
1. About Planet Jupiter.
2. Significance of sign Capricorn.
3. Meaning of Saturn union with Jupiter in year 2021.
4. How to analyse Jupiter transit in Capricorn.
5. Jupiter Transit Impact on all signs.
About Planet Jupiter & Capricorn Sign
Jupiter is a divine beneficial planet that rules over Sagittarius and Pisces sign. In Vedic astrology, no planet is more beneficial than Jupiter, in fact in any horoscope importance of planet Jupiter is supreme.
If Jupiter is afflicted or weak in your Horoscope then the overall strength of the Jupiter gets affected, those who have benefic Jupiter tend to have an advantage because the aspect of Jupiter turns positive and the house where it falls tends to blossom.
Jupiter rules over two signs viz Sagittarius and Pisces. Jupiter represents knowledge, famer, wealth, success and kids. Jupiter rules over constellation of Punarvasu, Vishaka and Poorva Bhadrapad. Jupiter have 5th, 7th and 9th aspect from its position.
Capricorn is the 10th sign of zodiac scheme and is ruled by planet Saturn. It is a very Earthy sign which is fixed by nature and planet Mars achieve exaltation there whereas planet Jupiter reaches its debilition point making it powerless.
Capricorn is the sign of discipline and authority. Native having Jupiter in Capricorn sign tends to be very serious and organised by nature. Their work style is almost military style where they require things in certain order.
How to judge effects of Jupiter transit 2021?
I have written a separate article on this but for the purpose of this article you can check the following points:
1. Judge the role of Jupiter in your Horoscope: This is by far the most important one because Jupiter like any other planet will change its role, which will depend on the lordship of planet Jupiter.
For example, Jupiter is benefic planet for Aries ascendant whereas a malefic for Taurus ascendant.
You can check this guide which will explain you lordship of Jupiter and other planets that too ascendant wise.
2.The condition of Jupiter in Natal Chart: As mentioned in my guide on how to read a transit, the condition of a certain planet in the natal chart matter a lot while judging its transit effects.
The best way to explain this is as follows:
Suppose Jupiter have very close degrees to your ascendant, for example Ascendant is at 18 degrees and Jupiter is around 17 degrees then in most of the division chart Jupiter will fall in same house like natal chart.
And, this will make Jupiter the most important planet for you and will play an important role in your destiny hence its Transit can be very vital.
3.Ashtakvargabindus of Jupiter in Capricorn sign: As mentioned in most of my articles that while judging the effects of a planetary transit, we need to see how many bindus that planet is getting in the sign of its transit.
So here you need to see how much bindus Jupiter is having in the sign of Capricorn if more then 4 then you can expect good results even if Jupiter is a functional malefic.
4.The number of total bindus in the sign of Capricorn sign: This is again a Ashtakvarga rule, and here you need to see that how many bindus Jupiter is getting in the sign of Capricorn.
If more then 28 then you can expect good results from Jupiter transit in Capricorn
Though there is always a contradiction, like Jupiter may have less than 4 bindus in Capricorn sign but the total score in Ashtakvarga may be more than 28.
So here one needs to take decisions wisely and make the right conclusion based on other factors.
It comes with practice 🙂
5. Running Dasha: Naturally, Dasha is most important in any kind of predictions and here if you are running into Dasha of Jupiter itself then Jupiter transit in Capricorn will become most important for you.
So you have seen how many factors are there, and actually, there are more than what I have explained above.
Making prediction is an art and one needs to use more than one Dasha system.
6. Transit Of Other Planets: All transits work with each other like double transit theory, the same way you need to consider the followings transits also because they will be affecting the final outcome of Jupiter transit in Capricorn.
Jupiter is a important planet and tends to create negative results if afflicted.
On another hand, Jupiter can produce Rajyoga when in a planetary relationship with the benefic or yoga karaka planet.
Not to forget that Jupiter is a slow planet and making a prediction on Jupiter transit in Capricorn can be tricky therefore the predictions of these predictions are general in nature and for accurate predictions, other factors in Horoscope will matter.
Jupiter & Saturn Union In 2021
Saturn is already present in sign of Capricorn and Jupiter will join it on 21st November.
These two major planets are making union which is a rare occurrence and this does hold a special place in vedic astrology.
Here double transit theory will need special consideration and without that you can not make any analysis of Jupiter transit in Capricorn sign.
Generally their union is considered as auspicious and is seen in many major successful people like M.S Dhoni etc.
It gives one knowledge of a Sage, temperament of a Monk and Wealth like Lord Kuber.
In year 2021 there will be some signs which will experience good results from this auspicious union and later part of the article I will be giving weightage to their union while giving predictions on each ascendant.
On world level this union seems to be very important and a very system will come in finances like a new system of doing financithings, how you carry out meetings and how you do Business.
Change is evident which is need of the hour due to Corona and their union is conforming the same.
Jupiter Transit 2021: For Aries Ascendant
For Aries ascendant planet Jupiter is lord of 9th and 12th house and is a benefic planet for them. A well placed Jupiter in their natal Horoscope can give very benefic results.
During this transit Jupiter will be going through 10th house of career and will be making a union with Saturn.
Lets see how their life will be affected by it.
1. CareerJupiter transit is happening over their 10th house which will lead to direct impact on career and their position in society. The first indication is negative in this regard and some event can happen at work place which will lead to stress and rivalry with people around you.
Pormotion is delayed and will come around August 2021 and that will lead to sunken feeling in them.
Relationship with boss won't be smooth either and
2. Wealth -Jupiter is natural karaka of wealth and its aspect on the 4th house shows a desire to buy a car, house or change in residence.
If dasha is allowing then purchase of one expensive item can be there.
Chances of change in residence is very high and their abroad prospects are looking good which will lead to better financial prospects in future.
3.Marriage & RelationshipFor Females Jupiter is Karaka of Husband and its debilitation is not good for relationship with Husband. There can be issues with husband and to husband also. Possibility of Husband facing issues in his work life is there though here individual Horoscope of spouse will matter.
This entry of Jupiter in 10th house can lead to marriage and also movement to far place after it.
Mother can see issues in her health and relationship with her can go sour, whereas Father definitely need to watch his finances.
With childrens things will be fine and major issues are not see.
4.HealthJupiter here is lord of the 12th house which is Karaka of hospitals and in 10th house which is the strongest Kendra can lead to issues in Knees.
If in natal Horoscope malefic like Rahu or Ketu is placed then issues can be there.
5.ConclusionOverall this Jupiter transit 2021 is going to test Aries asc


Check Up on Your Personal Server With Ease
Introduction: Check Up on Your Personal Server With Ease
Your on your computer, flirting with some "girl" on MSN, when you realize that your server might blow up any second. Luckily you can press a simple button on your monitor and save the world. (Worse case, not getting laid scenario)
All that aside, lets get started.
If you have a personal FTP server, or any other kind of server, and you wish to check it without VNC, there is a simple fix. Your monitor.
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Step 1: You Will Need:
You will need:
Two video cables, DVI or VGA, doesn't matter
A monitor that can support two inputs
A finger
A brain
Step 2: Hook Up the Cables
Now, connect the two cables. This is pretty simple, if you need any more explanation, call your doctor, you have a medical problem.
(pardon the blurry image, I sneezed when I took this picture)
Step 3: Look for and Press the "inputs" Button
On your monitor, you should see a button that mentions "inputs"
Press it until you are seeing your server screen
(I Suggest arranging your server programs, (If they're all daemons, try to find a GUI for it) So that when you flip to your server screen you can see all the critical programs running, and any debugging tools.
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 DrCoolSanta
 DrCoolSanta
 10 years ago on Introduction
 Sounds pretty lame, what could be a use for this? Please be specific as to what you mean by "blow up any second"
 Switching the video doesn't really serve the purpose, since there is no method to direct input to the computer. In that case a KVM might be a better option.
 Most people who would require a personal server would be running BSD or linux in text mode... Even I do, and just using SSH to do the job seems like a much better option in that case. Apart from that, I had programmed a web interface for the usual tasks earlier, and if you can do that, it only takes 5 minutes and imo thats a better way than just switching video?
 Also people like me, who keep the server in an isolated room and the house is on wifi, this is just not feasible.
 Its a decent instructable, not exactly useful since I can't really think of a suitable audience... IMO this is only a showcase of a specific feature.
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 keastes
 keastes
 Reply 10 years ago on Introduction
 i would have to agree either KVM or SSH, o9r if you really need a GUI: RDP
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 DrCoolSanta
 DrCoolSanta
 Reply 10 years ago on Introduction
 Yeah, we've been using xrdp on a linux cluster so that the windows users can connect to it without requiring VNC.
 Unlike VNC, xrdp even works if the runlevel isn't the graphic one.
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 Ha4xor4life
 Ha4xor4life
 Reply 10 years ago on Introduction
 I think i should change the name, i really mean "Just check up on it" meaning to see if everything is running smoothly. If you see something wrong, like a database table error, then you could take further action.
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 DrCoolSanta
 DrCoolSanta
 Reply 10 years ago on Introduction
 I'd help you if I could come up with something better myself :D


_n)operandn+1=Fn(keyn,operandn)\text{Furthermore:}Furthermore:T_{m, F_n} \text{ maps to a given vm::transformation::type such that } T_{0, F_n} = \text {vm::transform::type::generic\textunderscore0},Tm,Fn maps to a given vm::transformation::type such that T0,Fn=vm::transform::type::generic_0,T_{1, F_n} = \text{ vm::transform::type::rolling\textunderscore key }, …, T_{6, F_n} = \text{ vm::transform::type::update\textunderscore key }T1,Fn= vm::transform::type::rolling_key ,…,T6,Fn= vm::transform::type::update_key
Considering the above figure, decryption of operands is merely the inverse of function FF. This inverse is generated into native x86_64 instructions and embedded into each virtual machine handler as well as calc_jmp. One could simply emulate these instructions via reimplementation of them in C/C++, however my implementation of such instructions is merely for the purpose of encryption, not decryption. Instead, the usage of unicorn-engine is preferred in this situation as by simply emulating these virtual machine handlers, decrypted operands will be produced.
Understand that no runtime value can possibly affect the decryption of operands, thus invalid memory accesses can be ignored. However, runtime values can alter which virtual instruction blocks are decrypted, thus the need for saving the context of the emulated CPU prior to execution of a branching virtual instruction. This will allow for restoring the state of the emulated CPU prior to the branching instruction, but additionally altering which branch the emulated CPU will take, allowing for complete decryption of all virtual instruction blocks statically.
To reiterate, the usage of unicorn-engine is for computing F(e, o)F(e,o) and G(e, o)G(e,o) where ee takes the form of the native register RBXRBX, oo takes the form of the native register RAXRAX, and T_{m, F_n}Tm,Fn takes the form of transformation mmth.
In addition, not only can decrypted operands be obtained using unicorn-engine, but views of the virtual stack can be snapshotted for every single virtual instruction. This allows for algorithms to take advantage of values that are on the stack. Calls to native WinAPI's are done outside of the virtual machine, except for rare cases such as the VMProtect 2 packer virtual machine handler which calls LoadLibrary with a pointer to the string "NTDLL.DLL" in RCX.
VMEmu — Virtual Branching
Seeing all code paths is extremely important. Consider the most basic situation where a parameter is checked to see if it's a nullptr.
auto demo(int* a)
{
 if (!a)
 return {};
 // more code down here
}
Analysis of the above code without being able to see all code paths would result in something useless. Thus seeing all branches inside of the virtual machine was the top priority. In this section I will detail how virtual branching works inside of the VMProtect 2 virtual machine, as well as the algorithms I've designed to recognize and analyze all paths.
To begin, not all code blocks end with a branching virtual instruction. Some end with virtual machine exit's, or absolute jumps. Thus the need for an algorithm which can determine if a given virtual instruction block will branch or not. In order to produce such an algorithm, intimate knowledge of the virtual machine branching mechanism is required, specifically how native JCC's are translated to virtual instructions.
Consider the possible affected flag bits of the native ADD instruction. Flags OFSFZFAFCF, and PF can all be affected depending on the computation. Native branching is done via JCC instructions which depend upon the state of a specific flag or flags.
test rax, rax
jz branch_1
Figure 2.
Consider figure 2, understand that the JZ native instruction will jump to "branch_1" if the ZF flag is set. One could reimplement figure 2 in such a way that only the native JMP instruction and a few other math and stack operations could be used. Reducing the number of branching instructions to a single native JMP instruction.
Consider that the native TEST instruction performs a bitwise AND on both operands, sets flags accordingly, and disregards the AND result. One could simply replace the native TEST instruction with a few stack operations and the native AND instruction.
0: 50 push rax
1: 48 21 c0 and rax,rax
4: 9c pushf
5: 48 83 24 24 40 and QWORD PTR [rsp],0x40
a: 48 c1 2c 24 03 shr QWORD PTR [rsp],0x3
f: 58 pop rax
10: ff 34 25 00 00 00 00 push branch_1
17: ff 34 25 00 00 00 00 push branch_2
1e: 48 8b 04 04 mov rax,QWORD PTR [rsp+rax*1]
22: 48 83 c4 10 add rsp,0x10
26: 48 89 44 24 f8 mov QWORD PTR [rsp-0x8],rax
2b: 58 pop rax
2c: ff 64 24 f0 jmp QWORD PTR [rsp-0x10]
Figure 3. Note: bittest/test is not used here as it is implemented via AND, and SHR.
Although it may seem that converting a single instruction into multiple may be counterproductive and requiring more work in the end, this is not the case as these instructions will be reused in other orientations. Reimplementation of all JCC instructions could be done quite simply using the above assembly code template. Even such branching instructions as the JRCXZJECXZ, and JCXZ instructions could be implemented by simply swapping RAX with RCX/EAX/CX in the above example.
Figure 3, although in native x86_64, provides a solid example of how VMProtect 2 does branching inside of the virtual machine. However, VMProtect 2 adds additional obfuscation via math obfuscation. Firstly, both addresses pushed onto the stack are encrypted relative virtual addresses. These addresses are decrypted via XOR. Although XOR, SUB, and other math operations themselves are obfuscated into NAND operations.
; push encrypted relative virtual addresses onto the stack...
LCONSTQ 0x19edc194
LCONSTQ 0x19ed8382
PUSHVSP
; calculate which branch will be executed, then read its encrypted address on the stack...
LCONSTBZXW 0x3
LCONSTBSXQ 0xbf
LREGQ 0x80
NANDQ
SREGQ 0x68
SHRQ
SREGQ 0x70
ADDQ
SREGQ 0x48
READQ
; clear the stack of encrypted addresses...
SREGQ 0x68
SREGQ 0x70
SREGQ 0x90
; put the selected branch encrypted address back onto the stack...
LREGQ 0x68
LREGQ 0x68
; xor value on top of the stack with 59f6cb36
LCONSTDW 0xa60934c9
NANDDW
SREGQ 0x48
LCONSTDW 0x59f6cb36
LREGDW 0x68
NANDDW
SREGQ 0x48
NANDDW
SREGQ 0x90
SREGQ 0x70
; removed virtual instructions...
; …
; load the decrypted relative virtual address and jmp...
LREGQ 0x70
JMP
Figure 4.
As discussed prior, VMProtect 2 uses the XOR operation to decrypt and subsequently encrypt the relative virtual addresses pushed onto the stack. Selection of a specific encrypted relative virtual address is done by shifting a given flag to result in its value being either zero or eight. Then, adding VSP to the resulting shift computes the address in which the encrypted relative virtual address is located.
#define FIRST_CONSTANT a60934c9
#define SECOND_CONSTANT 59f6cb36
unsigned int jcc_decrypt(unsigned int encrypted_rva)
{
 unsigned int result = ~encrypted_rva & ~encrypted_rva;
 result = ~result & ~FIRST_CONSTANT;
 result = ~(~encrypted_rva & ~SECOND_CONSTANT) & ~result;
 return result;
}
Figure 5. Note: Notice that FIRST_CONSTANT and SECOND_CONSTANT are inverses of each other.
VMAssembler — Overview
VMAssembler is a virtual instruction assembler project originally contemplated as a joke. Regardless of its


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Abolitionist And Physician
As a black child in the early 19th century, Sarah Parker Remond suffered prejudice in the public schools in Salem, Massachusetts, so much of her education came at home. The Remond home was a haven for abolitionists, and as a young girl, Sarah attended abolitionist meetings. Later, she would turn to medicine after meeting Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who was active in the rights of women in the field of medicine. With Blackwell's encouragement, Remond entered the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Florence, Italy. Born on June 6, 1826, she was then 40 years old. Although there are no official records, it is believed she pursued a regular course of study and received a diploma certifying her for medical practice. She died around 1887.
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Water sampling devices range from a bucket dropped over the side of a small boat to large water bottles sent toward the deep ocean seafloor on a wire. Probably the most commonly used water sampler is known as a rosette. It is a framework with 12 to 36 sampling bottles (typically ranging from 1.2- to 30-liter capacity) clustered around a central cylinder, where a CTD or other sensor package can be attached.
Relatively simple to use (rosette only)
Heavy to transport/deploy
May be very fragile
Heavy gauge winch wire
High capacity boat
Introductory text modified from: University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS), The Research Fleet, edited by Vicky Cullen; Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA; 2000.


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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To follow in an effort to overtake or capture; chase: a fox that was pursued by hounds.
- v. To strive to gain or accomplish: pursue lofty political goals.
- v. To proceed along the course of; follow: a ship that pursued the southern course.
- v. To carry further; advance: Let's not pursue this argument.
- v. To be engaged in (a vocation or hobby, for example).
- v. To court: a lady who was pursued by many suitors.
- v. To continue to torment or afflict; haunt: was pursued by the demons of lust and greed.
- v. To follow in an effort to overtake or capture; chase.
- v. To carry on; continue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To follow; proceed along; follow in action.
- To follow with the view of overtaking; follow with haste; chase; hunt: as, to pursue a hare; to pursue a fleeing enemy.
- To seek; seek to obtain: as, to pursue a remedy at law; to pursue pleasure.
- To follow close upon; attend; be present with; accompany.
- To follow vindictively or with enmity; persecute; treat with hostility; seek to injure.
- To follow as a principle of action, profession, trade, or occupation; prosecute; practise systematically; carry on.
- To follow up; continue; proceed with.
- To endeavor; try.
- Synonyms To track, hound.
- To strive for.
- To conduct, keep up, persist in.
- To give chase; charge.
- To seek; endeavor; try.
- To go on; continue; proceed.
- To sue; act as prosecutor; take legal steps as plaintiff or prosecutor.
- n. Pursuit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase.
- v. To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain.
- v. To proceed along, with a view to some and or object; to follow; to go in
- v. To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue.
- v. To follow as an example; to imitate.
- v. To follow with enmity; to persecute; to call to account.
- v. To go in pursuit; to follow.
- v. To go on; to proceed, especially in argument or discourse; to continue.
- v. (Law) To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor.
- v. follow in or as if in pursuit
- v. carry further or advance
- v. carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
- v. go in search of or hunt for
- From Anglo-Norman pursuer, poursuire et al., Old French porsuir, from Latin prōsequī (though influenced by persequī). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English pursuen, from Anglo-Norman pursuer, from Vulgar Latin *prōsequere, from Latin prōsequī; see prosecute. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
"What the critic and writer subsequently go on to pursue is divergent from this initial experience, but ideally both can be traced back to the common source."
"The edge we pursue is an intersection of man and nature on nature's terms."
"What professions should Alec Baldwin pursue once he quits acting?"
"I sincerely appreciate the opportunity this nomination presents for me to return to public service... so I can again pursue justice on behalf of the citizens of Nevada and the American people."
"What we pursue is to satisfy not only the domestic demand but also the global demand of rare earths."
"The rest of the population is left at the mercy or Big Immoral Insurance Corporations in pursue of profit at all cost."
"To pursue is to possess, and to possess is to be sated."
"The addition of Creed, Donald and Friedman will sharpen the weapons available to the team as they again pursue a number of racing blocks in Europe and Asia."
"This sort of political masturbation that the Congress wants to pursue is exactly the sort of thing that will be used by the hardliners in Iran to leverage their position."
"The ONLY way that the President can ensure he's moving out on the agenda he was elected to pursue is if he can appoint people who respond to, and reflect, his priorities."
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Date
2017
Department or Program
Computer Science
Primary Wellesley Thesis Advisor
Benjamin P. Wood
Abstract
Multithreading is a powerful model of parallel and concurrent programming. However, the presence of shared data leaves multithreaded programs vulnerable to concurrency errors such as data races, where two threads access and modify the same data concurrently and without synchronization. Data races lead to unpredictable program behavior and can be a source of data corruption. This work improves the precision of lockset-based dynamic data race detection without compromising soundness. Typically, lockset-based algorithms are sound but extremely imprecise. The algorithms presented in this work improve the precision of such algorithms by including thread-tracking information. Thread tracking helps detect patterns of intermittent thread-locality of shared data and eliminate false errors while still reporting all true errors. Experimental results show that thread-local analysis preserves soundness and improves precision of lockset-based data race detection by an average of 82%, with run-time slowdowns of less than 17%.
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Cynanchum rossicum (Kleopov) Barbarich
Milkweed family (Asclepiadaceae)
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Pale or European swallow-wort (previously Vincetoxicum rossicum) is a long-lived perennial, twining herbaceous vine. The leaves are oval shaped with pointed tips, 3-4 in. long by 2-3 in. wide, and occur in pairs along the stem. The small five-petaled, star shaped flowers are creamy pink to reddish brown, about ¼ in. across, and are borne in clusters. The fruits are slender tapered pods, 2-3 in. long by about ¼ in. wide, that turn from green to light brown as they mature. When ripe, the fruits open along a seam and release flattened seeds equipped with a downy parachute that aids in wind dispersal. In contrast to its invasive relative the black swallow-wort (C. louiseae), pale swallow-wort does not have rhizomes. Plants tend to grow in clumps of several to many stems, forming extensive patches.
NOTE: There are many native species of Cynanchum, including honeyvine (Cynanchum laeve) which occurs throughout the eastern U.S. and could be confused with pale swallow-wort. Honeyvine has white flowers, and its leaves have a distinct heart-shaped base.
Pale swallow-wort can form extensive patches that crowd out native plant species and have various impacts on native wildlife. In some instances old-field habitats occupied by goldenrods and grasses are replaced almost exclusively by swallow-wort, disrupting natural succession and completely altering the physical structure of those habitats. A New York study on grassland birds indicated that as swallow-wort cover increases, grassland bird presence declines. In a study of ground and stem-dwelling insects in Ottawa, Ontario, diversity of these insects was found to be lower in pale swallow-wort infestated areas than in non-invaded old-field sites and gall-makers and miners were completely absent. In New York, pale swallow-wort is displacing the federally listed Hart's tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium) at one site and poses a threat to additional populations in the state. Globally rare alvar habitats (limestone pavement barrens supporting unique plant communities) in New York are also threatened by expanding swallow-wort populations. Research indicates that pale swallow-wort modifies the soil microbial community, displacing native plant species that are adapted to the unique microbial associations of alvar.
IN THE UNITED STATES
Pale swallow-wort has been reported to be invasive in natural areas in New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. Small occurrences or infestations have been also been reported for urban areas in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Indiana, presumably due to escapes from backyards and landscaped areas.
HABITAT IN THE UNITED STATES
Pale swallow-wort is associated exclusively with upland areas and is tolerant of a range of light and moisture conditions. Typical habitats include old fields, hedgerows, brushy areas and woodlands. Both natural and human-caused disturbance including ice-scoured river banks, talus slopes, transportation corridors, quarries and abandoned agricultural fields provide acceptable habitats. Pale swallow-wort is particularly competitive in areas with shallow soils over limestone bedrock that can be prone to summer droughts. There appears to be a distinct association with limestone soils. Pale swallow-wort can be a serious problem in perennial cropping systems such as pastures and Christmas tree plantations and has been noted in no-till corn fields in central New York State. It is not a weed of turf or annual crops.
Pale swallow-wort was likely introduced for ornamental purposes and was first collected in Monroe and Nassau counties in New York State in 1897. Subsequent records of occurrences include: Massachusetts (1919), Pennsylvania (1927), New Jersey (1938), Connecticut (1942), Indiana (1961), New Hampshire (1979) and Michigan (1985). Indications of naturalized populations include records of collections from roadsides (1897, 1917) and natural areas (1918, 1919 and 1921) in New York State.
BIOLOGY & SPREAD
Pale swallow-wort emerges in spring and flower from June to July followed by production of fruits (pods) which is directly related to the level of light available. The flowers are self-pollinating and it spreads primarily by seed. Thick infestations in full sun can produce up to 2,000 seeds per square meter. The seeds are polyembryonic (i.e., having one to four embryos per seed) which greatly increases the potential for establishment. Wind dispersal of seed occurs from late July and continues into the fall. Populations growing under dense wooded canopy may have inadequate resources to produce flowers or seeds. Pale swallow-wort dies back to the ground every winter. Pale swallow-wort root crown fragments support dormant buds that readily sprout if not destroyed.
As with all invasive species, early detection and removal is the best approach for preventing the establishment and spread of this plant. If you find some black swallow-wort, look for more, and aim to remove all plants at a site. Stay out of patches that are actively dispersing seeds, unless you plan to collect and dispose of the seeds carefully. Clean all machinery that has traveled through swallow-wort patches that have maturing or dispersing pods. For large established infestations, chemical control is the most effective means.
There are no biological controls available for this plant.
Two systemic herbicides - Garlon® 4 (triclopyr ester) and Roundup Pro® (glyphosate) – have been found to be effective in controlling pale swallow-wort. These herbicides should be applied when plants are actively growing, after flowering has begun. DO NOT SPRAY TOO SOON. Avoid the temptation to spray the plants as soon as they emerge in May. Only when the plants flower will they be large enough to receive enough spray on the exposed leaf surface to deliver a killing dose to the roots. Plants that are sprayed before pods form will probably not produce a viable seed crop that season. Be patient. Systemic herbicides do not cause a "burn down" of plants like contact herbicides do. Within 1-2 weeks the plants will look sick. There may be dead tissue spots on most leaves many yellowing leaves. Do not waste herbicide, money or effort by spraying plants twice. Sick plants cannot effectively absorb the herbicide through the leaf surface or move the herbicide to the roots. Swallow-wort control may take a few years and it is important not to use more herbicide than is necessary.
Cut stem application
For cut stem applications use a 50 to 100% solution of herbicide concentrate. Roundup Pro® is much more effective than Garlon® 4 for cut stem application. Apply the herbicide solution immediately to cut stem surfaces. As mentioned above with foliar applications, if treated plants have mature pods the seeds may ripen after treatment and disperse, leading to new infestations. If possible, cut plants low and bag and dispose of the portions with pods.
Experience shows that foliar sprays of systemic herbicides (i.e., herbicides absorbed into the plant and carried internally) only kill plants in the upper layers of the infestation, requiring repeated applications to effectively control the entire mass. It is important to treat plants before pods begin to form to ensure that viable seeds are not produced. If that is not possible, plants with pods should be cut or mowed first and then sprayed once they regrow. Regrowth will be rapid in summer. Herbicide application to the new growth should be conducted from August through early September. If mowing is not possible, for example in wooded areas, cut plants by hand just below the lowest pods, and spray the new growth. In situations where foliar sprays are undesirable, for example when desirable native plants or other non-targets would be harmed, sponging the herbicide on individual plants, using the same concentration as foliar sprays is an option.
Remove pod-bearing plants from the site and destroy them. Eradication on a small scale must be very thorough and requires dedication. The complete root crown must be dug out before the seeds ripen. Plants bearing seeds should be burned or bagged and disposed of in a landfill. Infested land might be brought under control by plowing and planting an annual crop until the seed soil bank is depleted, possibly as long as five years.
Mowing, even several times a year, will not eradicate swallow-wort however, it can be employed to prevent a seed crop. Cutting is most effective at preventing a mature seed crop if done in early to mid-July, when there are small, immature pods on the plants. Cutting during the flowering period but before pod formation will allow plants to recover and still produce a viable seed crop. Monitor mowed areas and mow a second time if pods reach mature size in late summer or early fall. Hay cutters can contribute to the spread of swallow-wort if cutting is not timed correctly. Hay crops infested with swallow-wort and then sold elsewhere can be a means of introducing swallow-wort to new areas.
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- (latitude, longitude) points $P_1, P_2,\ldots, P_n$.
- Presumably, all the points should form a dense cloud. However, noise is possible.
- The virtual center of the points.
For instance, 99% of the points may lie within a circle with 1km radius, except for 1% scattered outside that circle at a distance larger than 1km from any point inside the circle. Then this 1% is noise.
Unfortunately, I do not know how to define the noise properly. But the virtual center I am looking for should be close enough to most of the points. If most of the points are close to it, then I do not mind that some be far away.
If it is not too hard, I would like to be able to recognize more than one dense cloud amongst the points. In which case, each cloud could be reduced to its virtual center and thus I will have to find the new virtual super center of the virtual center cloud. That super center is the final result.
I am not a mathematician, so my descriptions are vague. But I am pretty sure that this is a well known problem and it probably has a trivial solution.
This question is similar to Detect Abnormal Points in Point Cloud, however, my space is two dimensional, which probably does not matter. Still.
The points are indeed on the surface of a sphere, a spheroid actually, Earth more precisely. However, the distance between them is not large enough to take the Earth curveture into account, so it may be safely assume that the surface is flat and longitude is X and latitude is Y.


Aliens at Prayer: Representing Jewish Life in the East End of London, c.1905
Shaw, Samuel (2018). Aliens at Prayer: Representing Jewish Life in the East End of London, c.1905. In: Shaw, Samuel; Shaw, Sarah and Carle, Naomi eds. Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party. Among the Victorians and Modernists. London: Routledge, pp. 133–153.
The Edwardian Era has recently been described as a 'turbulent period' in the representation of Anglo-Jewish experience. Anxiety over the influence of Jewish businessmen, and the ever-expanding tides of Jewish immigration into the East End of London, ensured that the status of the British Jew was regularly under the spotlight. There were two major outcomes of this public debate: the growth of the British Zionist movement, supported by Joseph Chamberlain, and the 1905 Aliens Act, the first antiimmigration law to go through British parliament.
In the midst of these developments, two Anglo-Jewish artists, Alfred Wolmark and William Rothenstein, embarked upon a series of paintings in the Jewish East End. The artists came from very different backgrounds: Rothenstein was born into a wealthy, liberal German-Jewish family in Bradford, whilst Wolmark was Polish by birth, moving to London in the late 1880s. Whilst Jewish subjects were a common feature of Wolmark's early career, they only entered Rothenstein's oeuvre for a brief period in the 1900s. Both artists, however, painted more Jewish subjects around 1905 than at any other point in their lives. This chapter questions why this was, and what part their paintings played in the wider debate surrounding Jewish immigration, assimilation and Zionism. It explores the complex Jewish identities of the two artists, and the ways that this played out in their art works.
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I imported my image with three bands (RGB) with 100*100 tiles using raster2pgsql into the DB. Now, I need to export those tiles separately. I used the following code but it produces a table
 select st_aspng(st_reclass(rast,1,'0-100:0-100','8BUI',0)) from myraster.test where rid=1;
So I need some help to improve this code or even revise it to a suitable form.
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Using gdalwarp and PG was worked:
gdalwarp -t_srs EPSG:4326 -tr 100 100 -of PNG -r bilinear PG:"host=localhost port=5432 dbname='postgis' user='***' password='***' schema='chp01' table='raster_table' mode='1'" rast_name.png
mode - option is used to know the expected arrangement of the raster table. There are 2 possible values
mode=1 - ONE_RASTER_PER_ROW mode. In this case, a raster table is considered as a bunch of different raster files. This mode is intended for raster tables storing different raster files. It's the default mode if you don't provide this field in connection string.
mode=2 - ONE_RASTER_PER_TABLE mode. In this case, a raster table is considered as a unique raster file, even if the table has more than one row. This mode is intended for reading tiled rasters from database.
In my case since I imported the image in different tiles, number 1 can provide suitable result
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We often say, "What happens at home is even more important than what happens at church." This means that our faith really isn't a living faith until it is lived out in our daily lives. Parents and kids look for practical ways to take what happens at church home with them so that it is relevant on a Tuesday afternoon, or a Friday morning, or late at night.


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Spring has sprung! This is the season of rebirth and reinvention. While some organizations are beginning their new fiscal year, others may be reviewing their Q1 performance or gearing up to start their budget process. Regardless of what category your hospital or health system falls into, it is essential to remember the impact productivity has on sustained improvement and continued fiscal strength. Like so many things, productivity should follow a traditional "life cycle" and be a routine focus of operational and management strategies year-over-year. Here are some ways to kick-start the productivity life cycle in your organization:
- Refresh Targets and Benchmarks – Healthcare is a highly dynamic industry. Pandemic aside, care delivery models, billing/reimbursement practices, and compliance requirements are perpetually changing. To keep your workforce optimization and performance improvement strategies effective, it is essential that productivity goals and comparisons be updated annually. This will ensure that any and all changes to operations have been properly accounted for and new industry or service-line standards are being used to shape staffing practices based on patient demand.
- Reinvigorate Staff – Communication and accountability are the key to positive results from any improvement initiative. No one knows an organization and its operations better than the employees. Engage them! Include department leaders in regular strategy sessions surrounding productivity efforts and related goals. Reiterate that productivity is not a one-time solution, but an ongoing tool for effective management. By continuously educating staff on how to be better stewards of their resources, reaffirming their buy-in on the process, and frequently recognizing their contributions, lasting efficiencies are gained.
- Revitalize Your Bottom Line – With personnel expense comprising more than half of most hospital's operating costs, maintaining proper staff/volume alignment is often the easiest way to see black. Carrying out this strategy does, however, come with its own set of challenges. The best approach is to start small. Set realistic and achievable goals, sending your organization on a journey to improved performance over a 12 to 18-month period. Provide leaders with the tools necessary to track performance and realize success. Once initial goals have been achieved, reevaluate workflow and performance, eliminate waste, and identify means for continued improvement. The cost-savings generated can then be reinvested back into the staff and the organization before beginning the process again.
Productivity should be viewed as a "living" solution to sustained performance improvement. It needs to be nurtured and given proper attention to produce the desired results. By instilling a productivity "life cycle" in your organization, you establish a means for these principles to take root and bear "fruit" year after year.
Let the ALTIUS team guide your hospital or health system in the development of an effective productivity process that can be repeated annually! Reach out to us directly here to learn more.


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Committed to protecting life and property and abiding by the principles of democracy and rule of law.
Headed by an Inspector General of Police (IGP), the Nepal Police is part of the Ministry of Home Affairs and has a strength of 60,000 officers. Nepal is divided into five geographical policing regions in addition to the Kathmandu Metropolis. Each region is responsible for maintaining law and order on its territory.
Below are some of the specialized departments which make up the Nepal Police:
- Crime Investigation;
- Human Resources;
- Office of the Inspector General of Police;
- National Police Academy;
- Nepal Police Hospital;
- Narcotic Drugs Control and Law Enforcement;
- Traffic Control.
Also headed by the IGP, the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) for Nepal is staffed by 17 police officers who regularly take part in INTERPOL seminars and training programmes.
- Intelligence exchange with INTERPOL member countries and the General Secretariat;
- Preparation and publication of INTERPOL Notices;
- Co-ordination with law enforcement agencies, ministries, diplomatic agencies and relevant non-governmental organizations;
- Intelligence analysis;
- Criminal record maintenance;
- Research and consultation to Nepalese ministries and governmental bodies about legal affairs such as extradition, deportation and legal instruments such as bi-lateral extradition treaties, multi-lateral extradition conventions, mutual legal assistance treaties etc.
NCB Kathmandu priority crime areas include:
- Drugs and organized crime;
- Trafficking in human beings and people smuggling;
- Financial and high tech crime;
- Public safety and terrorism;
- Arms smuggling;
- Vehicle crime;
- Money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
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Configurable, Coordinated, Model-based Control in Electrical Distribution Systems
Hambrick, Joshua Clayton
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Utilities have been planning, building, and operating electrical distribution systems in much the same way for decades with great success. The electrical distribution system in the United States has been consistently reliable; an impressive feat considering its amazing complexity. However, in recent years, the electrical distribution system landscape has started to undergo drastic changes. Emerging applications of technologies such as distributed generation, communications, and power electronics offer both opportunities and challenges to power system operators as well as customers and developers. In this work, Graph Trace Analysis along with an integrated system model are used to develop algorithms and analysis methods necessary to facilitate the implementation of these new technologies on the electrical distribution system. A penetration limit analysis is developed to analyze the impact of distributed generation on radial distribution feeders. The analysis considers generation location, equipment rating, voltage violations, and flicker to determine the amount of generation that can be safely attached to a circuit. A real-time, hierarchical, model-based control method is developed that coordinates the operation of all control devices on electrical distribution circuits. The controller automatically compensates for changes in circuit topology as well as the addition or removal of control devices from the active circuit. Additionally, the controller allows the integration of modern, "smart" equipment with legacy control devices to facilitate incremental modernization strategies. Finally, a framework is developed to allow the testing of new analysis and control methodologies for electrical distribution systems. The framework can be used to test scenarios over multiple consecutive hourly or sub-hourly time points. The framework is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the model-based controller versus existing operating methods for a distribution circuit test case.
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Most modern college students like living sedentary lifestyles. They would rather stay at home and play video games instead of participating in physical sporting activities. That, coupled with the foods they take, make them add weight. Consequently, they become susceptible to different ailments, including heart complications.
Colleges are finding it hard to motivate students to like sports. For example, most students do not like football. What strategies can college administrations use to motivate their students to like football and other sports? Here are the most practical tips that can help:
Allow Students to Choose the Positions They Want to Play
Football has different playing positions. For example, a quarterback is there to throw the ball and act as the team leader. The wide receiver has to catch the ball and elude defenders. The contribution of every player ensures a team secures the results it wants.
Some colleges force students to play certain positions. As a result, students feel like they are not in control of what they are doing. Therefore, they prefer not to play the game. Those in charge should thus avoid doing that to motivate students and attract more participants to the sport.
How should colleges help students in this respect? Allow students to play any position they are comfortable with. If students do not know what they are good at, they should be encouraged to experiment with any position. It will help them discover positions they can play well. Additionally, football coaches should guide these learners to realize their potential.
Recruit the Right Football Coaches for Colleges
Coaches play a big role in sporting outcomes. They are the ones who manage and steer them in the right direction. Their motivation can help students to reach their real footballing potential. Colleges should be careful about the coaching staff they recruit.
When a college has the right football coach, students feel comfortable playing sports. Harsh or incompetent coaches drive students away from the sport. Recruit coaches depending on the the college intends to achieve in football.
What are the best hiring practices that colleges should adopt to achieve the best results? Students should suggest who they want to be their football coach. Incorporate their suggestions during the recruitment process. That way, you can find someone who can take the needs of the students who love football into consideration.
Create a Favorable College Schedule for Students
Most college students always have questions like, "who will write my essay?" It is because they have many assignments to complete. The tasks have strict submission deadlines, and students feel they cannot complete them on time. It is these tasks that, at times, prevent students from participating in sporting activities, including football.
Colleges should create a more wholesome schedule. Although academics is an essential part of college work, it should not take up all the time available for students. What are the methods college administrators can use to make football popular on this front?
 - Give assignments with long deadlines so that students can comfortably complete them and still play football
 - Make football a compulsory part of college work
 - Create a schedule that includes football
Enlighten Students About the Importance of Playing Football
Students do not want to engage in games that do not offer any value to them. They want the surety that they gain something from a given activity. As soon as they start playing the game and notice that it is not helping them, they may. It is the responsibility of the college to inform students about the importance of football.
What are some benefits of playing football? It is a physical sport, which means participants can become fit, strong, and flexible. Playing football also helps students to relieve stress and become wholesome. Therefore, it is a sport that students should not overlook.
Organize Football Tournaments and Competitions
Students love an intriguing sport. They leave any boring sport. Therefore, colleges should ensure they make football as interesting as possible for students.
Begin by organizing football competitions. The teams that win these tournaments should receive awards. It could be a trophy or money. It goes a long way in encouraging students to participate in football activities.
Football is a good game for students. Colleges should find ways to encourage students to love it. Give students the freedom to choose what they like, recruit good coaches, participate in college football schedule, and enlighten students about football. Also, competitive tournaments should be organized.


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Near-infrared broadband cavity-enhanced sensor system for methane detection using a wavelet-denoising assisted Fourier-transform spectrometer
The majority of broadband cavity-enhanced systems are used to detect trace gas species in the visible spectral range. We demonstrated a broadband cavity-enhanced sensor system in combination with a Fourier-transform spectrometer (FTS) in the near-infrared (near-IR) region for methane (CH4) detection. Light from a tungsten–halogen lamp was coupled into a high-finesse cavity and the light leaking from the cavity was imaged onto the FTS. An optimal incident beam diameter of 2.25 cm was required in the condition of a 40 cm-long cavity of a 2.5 cm diameter and a 100 cm radius of curvature (RoC) mirror. The CH4 sensor system was capable of operating at a temperature of 300 K and 1 atm gas pressure. Based on an Allan variance analysis, a minimum detectable absorption coefficient of 4.6 × 10−7 cm−1 was achieved. A wavelet denoising (WD) method was introduced in the retrieval of the gas concentration, which improved the measurement precision from 10.2 parts-per-million in volume (ppmv) to 5.3 ppmv with an enhancement factor of 2 for a 20 min averaging time. The near-IR broadband cavity-enhanced sensor system can also be used to measure high-resolution absorption spectra of other atmospheric trace gas species.


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 - Fifty years of shipwreck excavation opens new windows on history
 By Fabio Esteban Amador - Natgeo Newswatch
 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of George Bass's first-ever submarine mapping and excavation of a complete shipwreck and the dawn of modern underwater archaeology.
 This potential archaeology was inaccessible for a long time and beyond anyone's imagination. However, it was just a matter of time before a unique and inspiring individual came along and began the age of underwater archaeology.
 George Bass, a University of Pennsylvania archaeology graduate student, was asked in 1960 if he would be interested in studying a Late Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Turkey. "I had never dived except once in a YMCA swimming pool before leaving for Turkey in 1960," George explains. His desire to explore and document the ocean's floor became the foundation for what now is the field of underwater and maritime archaeology.
 Dating to over 3,000 years old, the first shipwreck studied by George Bass was at the time the oldest ship ever found. His research at Cape Gelidonya would be like none that came before - it would literally change our notions of archaeology and the ocean forever.


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Mitosis detection plays important role in many bio-medical applications such as medical diagnosis and drug development, by providing important information about cell division behaviors. Phase contrast microscopy imaging provides an advantageous tool for real time observation of cells without cell damage caused by staining. Spatial visual information, together with temporal dynamic information captured by continuous microscope imaging, could be used for automatic detection of mitotic events among whole-slide images with computer vision and machine learning techniques.
The aim of this challenge is to provide a common benchmark for the evaluation of the mitosis detection algorithms in a new dataset of whole-slide phase contrast time-lapse microscopy images.
Mitosis detection aims to determine the presence of mitosis in the microscopy image, and then locate the spatial and temporal location of mitotic cells across the whole-slide temporal image sequence. Unlike mitotic detection in static images, mitosis detection in phase contrast image dataset need to take both spatial and temporal information into consideration for more precise detection results.
Mitosis detection in phase contrast time-lapse microscopy image has made great progress in recent years of research. Compared with traditional hand-crafted feature based methods, deep learning based method received extensive attention. Several deep learning based methods have been proposed for mitosis detection task in recent years, and they are commonly evaluated on some popular datasets such as the C3H10 and C2C12 dataset. These datasets contain relatively few annotated mitotic events, which could not adequately address the need for big data in deep learning methods. However, since the acquirement of mitosis annotation takes much expertise, it is expensive to get large scale of annotated dataset. In order to promote the development of mitosis detection algorithms, we propose a competition with a dataset that contains more annotated mitotic events than previous datasets.


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1. Reduce your construction time
In addition to safety, time and cost are often the driving challenges in construction. In fact, when you consider that large projects are often 80 percent over budget, which puts a corresponding strain on the project budget, they are among the most pressing. Concrete monitoring helps you not only avoid these risks, but even reduce construction time by up to 30 percent.
How is this possible?
The curing of concrete to the desired compressive strength can be controlled to a certain extent, but ultimately it is a chemical process that takes time. You may not be able to speed up the process with concrete monitoring, but you can tighten up the procedures. This is because the sensors provide you with the relevant information on the maturing process directly from the concrete. As a result, the strength calculations are continuously updated and you are informed of any progress in real time.
So while other contractors wait until the magic 28 days are up and the information from the lab arrives, you get all the compressive strength data in real time. Instead of waiting for test results, you know when the time is right and can remove the formwork on your own. It is not uncommon for this to happen seven days earlier than planned. Such time savings per concrete pour have a significant impact on construction time.
2. Reduce the cost of construction
The logical consequence is that a reduced construction time is also easier on the budget. It also increases productivity because if your team finishes earlier on the construction site, you can tackle the next project faster.
But there are even more aspects under which concrete monitoring saves you money. Here come the top five:
- You reduce your labor costs
- You shorten the rental period of equipment
- You need fewer test samples
- You save material
- You have lower laboratory costs
All in all, you can save up to 20 percent on construction costs. Many others try to do this by dumping prices in purchasing or personnel. Using concrete monitoring makes it much easier and fairer: you simply increase efficiency without charging your men or service providers more.
3. Improve your project management
Relying on data from the past may work in many industries – not so in construction and especially not when working with concrete. If the actual compressive strength does not match the estimate because the maturing process is delayed due to temperatures, for example, the entire construction project is literally thrown into turmoil. The same applies if you rely exclusively on others, as in the example of concrete strength in the laboratory.
Concrete monitoring gives you the ability to use a tool properly. Using data measured directly in the concrete and combined with supplementary information in the dashboard, you have everything at your fingertips to make precise forecasts on strength development. Instead of comparing empirical values and making assumptions, you have the results in black and white.
This gives you better decision-making, regardless of time and place. You don't even need to be on site to do this, as you can access the data from any internet-enabled device. This way, you can significantly simplify and improve your project management.
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4.Make the documentation simple
Annoying, but unavoidable: Every process during construction or production must be documented. Complete documentation is essential in order to comply with regulations and quality control requirements. In addition, you also have an obligation to the building owners or clients to prepare your processes transparently. Last but not least, the correct logging even protects you, because when it comes to warranty, you have the burden of proof.
We can't take everything off your hands, but when it comes to documenting the maturing process of your concrete and its quality, you can rely on us. That's because ConcR's IoT sensors measure all relevant data directly in the box, automatically send it to the cloud, and reliably store it there. Your workers no longer need to keep lists, and quite apart from the labor savings, you also minimize the risk of incorrect records.
This data can be found in the ConcR portal:
- Documentation of temperature and strength monitoring
- Display of the complete temperature history
- Automatic execution of the maturity calculation
- Display of the correlation between time and strength development
Using ConcR's proprietary software, you can export all data in the format you need and make it available to your team, builders or clients.
5.Use facts instead of assumptions
Concrete simulations have an enormous disadvantage: the general conditions are rarely as in the manual. In reality, conditions are rarely predictable. The most important, and at the same time most difficult, to predict influence is changing weather conditions. Particularly in extreme conditions, such as very high or very low outside temperatures, there is a risk of delays as well as defects such as cracks.
Concrete monitoring sensors give you access to real data at all times. With an accuracy of +/- 0.5 degrees Celsius, ConcR's sensors provide you with both the hydration temperature in the concrete and the ambient temperature. So as soon as you notice any discrepancies, you can take action yourself to protect your concrete and prevent serious defects.
6. Simplify your quality assurance with concrete monitoring
On every job site, there are critical areas in the concrete, depending on the strength, location and stress. Fracture tests are only an inadequate way of solving problems here because their results do not represent the entire construction site and are often inconsistent.
Sensors can be used specifically at problem areas so that you have a full overview of the development of compressive strength even at critical points. This allows you to detect weak points before they become a problem.
You also benefit from the use of concrete monitoring in long-term quality management: thanks to their long battery life, the sensors continue to send data to the cloud even after completion of the construction project, which is an invaluable advantage for their operators as well, especially in very complex projects such as road or bridge construction.


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names that can be changed as required. The replication resource group must have a name with the format devicegroupname-stor-rg.
This example configuration uses SVM software. For more information about Solaris Volume Manager software, see the Chapter 4, Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software, in Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Installation Guide.
The following figure illustrates the volumes that are created in the device group.
Figure A-8 Volumes for the Device Group
Note - The volumes that are defined in this procedure must not include disk-label private areas, for example, cylinder 0. The SVM software manages this constraint automatically.


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Cap-Saint-Ignace, Quebec experiences a variety of weather year-round, with temperatures ranging from -6°C (21.2°F) to 25.6°C (78.08°F). In the winter months, temperatures can reach as low as -20°C (-4°F) and snowfall averages 118 cm (46.5 in). The warmer months of the year see temperatures reaching 25°C (77°F) and humidity levels often reaching 83%.
Spring in Cap-Saint-Ignace is mild and wet, with temperatures ranging from 4°C (39.2°F) to 18°C (64.4°F) and average rainfall of 100 mm (3.94 in). Summer is warm and humid, with temperatures often reaching 25.6°C (78.08°F) and humidity levels averaging 85%.
Autumn brings cooler temperatures, ranging from 4°C (39.2°F) to 18°C (64.4°F) and average rainfall of 86 mm (3.39 in). This is followed by winter, which is cold and snowy, with temperatures often dropping to -20°C (-4°F) and snowfall averaging 118 cm (46.5 in).
As of 2020, the city population is 3045.
This map shows the current & 7-day weather forecast, weather alerts, and weather radar for Cap-Saint-Ignace, Quebec.