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Building a Vacuum Form Table
This page will show you how to construct your own vacuum forming table. A Vacuum Forming Table is used to form sheets of polystyrene into desired shapes determined by the molds used with the table. This table will be comprised of two main parts, The Holding Frame, and the Forming Surface. Some designs for Vacuum Forming Tables also include an oven. For this forming table we will use an ordinary kitchen oven to heat our plastic.
|Material Required to build a Vacuform Table and holding frame.|
|Vacuum Form Holding Frame|
|Vacuum Forming Surface|


How to add/subtract Hour, Minute, Second, Millisecond, Microsecond and Nanosecond to a date in Go Language
Hello everyone, In this tutorial, we will learn how to add/subtract Hour, Minute, Second, Millisecond, Microsecond and Nanosecond to date in Go Language.
The time package in Go language provides Add() function which is used to add/subtract a duration to time t. Since duration can be represented in hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds, microseconds and nanoseconds,
The signature of the Add method is:
func (t Time) Add(d Duration) Time
Example 1: Go Program to add/subtract minutes.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
func main() {
//Current date and time
dt1 := time.Now()
fmt.Println("Current date and time : ", dt1)
//Adding 30 minutes
dt2 := dt1.Add(30 * time.Minute)
fmt.Println("After 30 minutes:", dt2)
//Subtract 3 minutes
dt3 := dt1.Add(-3 * time.Minute)
fmt.Println("Before 3 minutes:", dt3)
}
Output:
Example 2: Go Program to add/subtract seconds.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
func main() {
//Current date and time
dt1 := time.Now()
fmt.Println("Current date and time : ", dt1)
//Adding 120 seconds
dt2 := dt1.Add(120 * time.Second)
fmt.Println("After 120 seconds:", dt2)
//Subtract 170 seconds
dt3 := dt1.Add(-170 * time.Second)
fmt.Println("Before 170 seconds:", dt3)
}
Output:
Example 3: Go Program to add/subtract milliseconds.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
func main() {
//Current date and time
dt1 := time.Now()
fmt.Println("Current date and time : ", dt1)
//Adding 1200 Milliseconds
dt2 := dt1.Add(1200 * time.Millisecond)
fmt.Println("After 1200 Milliseconds:", dt2)
//Subtract 1700 Milliseconds
dt3 := dt1.Add(-1700 * time.Millisecond)
fmt.Println("Before 1700 Milliseconds:", dt3)
}
Output:
Example 4: Go Program to add/subtract microseconds.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
func main() {
//Current date and time
dt1 := time.Now()
fmt.Println("Current date and time : ", dt1)
//Adding 12000 Microseconds
dt2 := dt1.Add(12000 * time.Microsecond)
fmt.Println("After 12000 Microseconds:", dt2)
//Subtract 12000 Microseconds
dt3 := dt1.Add(-12000 * time.Microsecond)
fmt.Println("Before 12000 Microseconds:", dt3)
}
Output:
Example 5: Go Program to add/subtract nanoseconds.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"time"
)
func main() {
//Current date and time
dt1 := time.Now()
fmt.Println("Current date and time : ", dt1)
//Adding 120000 Nanoseconds
dt2 := dt1.Add(120000 * time.Nanosecond)
fmt.Println("After 120000 Nanoseconds:", dt2)
//Subtract 120000 Nanoseconds
dt3 := dt1.Add(-120000 * time.Nanosecond)
fmt.Println("Before 120000 Nanoseconds:", dt3)
}
Output:
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Grade Range: 5-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Reference Materials
Date Posted: 7/10/2012
In this post, students will learn about the oldest sound recordings preserved toda, found at the Museum. These experimental phonograms were made starting in 1881 by the Volta Laboratory Association, which consisted of telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell, scientific instrument maker Charles Sumner Tainter, and chemist Chichester A. Bell. Written by Dr. Patrick Feaster, an instructor in Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University and a Lemelson Center Fellow, this post is published on the Museum's "O Say Can You See?" blog.
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source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


YALCOM – Yet Another LCOM Metric
This article is a spin-off piece from the paper "Do We Need Improved Code Quality Metrics?" by myself and Prof. Diomidis Spinellis.
Earlier, I wrote an article about issues with code quality metrics; in another article I presented how all the variants of LCOM metric misrepresent simple cases of class cohesion. In this article, I first summarize the deficiencies in the present set of LCOM variants (LCOM1, LCOM2, LCOM3, LCOM4, LCOM5) and then I present YALCOM that addresses the issues of existing LCOM variants.
Deficiencies in existing LCOM variants
 - LCOM1-4 take into account only the instance attributes of a class, ignoring any static attributes. Although the dynamic properties of a static attribute differ from the instance attributes (for instance, static attributes can be accessed without creating an object), these attributes are part of the class they reside in. In the context of a metric that measures the similarity among class members, their dynamic property is irrelevant. Therefore, ignoring static attributes while assessing cohesion is inappropriate.
 - The existing LCOM algorithms fail to distinguish the cases where the metric cannot be measured, from the perfectly cohesive cases, by always emitting the lowest metric value in the former cases. For instance, LCOM2 reports 0 not only when the type under measurement is completely cohesive, but also when the type is an interface and a utility class, i.e., a class with no attributes. Such an approach produces the illusion to the user that all cases with a metric value of zero are cohesive, while in reality, the algorithm was not provided with enough information to measure the metric and the algorithm fails to communicate this to the user.
 - Method invocations within a class show that methods are working together to achieve a goal and thus must be considered while computing LCOM. However, LCOM1-3 and LCOM5 do not consider method invocations to compute the metric.
 - Furthermore, the existing LCOM implementations focus on the common attribute access among methods within a class; however, they ignore common attribute access where the attribute is defined in a superclass. Classes are extensions of their superclasses, and it is very common to elevate data and method members to superclasses to avoid duplication among siblings. Hence, two methods that share attribute access or method invocation that is defined in a superclass contribute to cohesion and thus must be considered while computing the metric.
 - Lastly, Fenton and Pfleeger stated that a metric may follow a suitable measurement scale (such as nominal, ratio, and absolute) depending on the aspect being measured. LCOM1–4 measure cohesion on an absolute scale that may emit an arbitrary large number as the metric value making it almost impossible for the user to gain any insight from it. For instance, given that m is the number of methods of a class, the maximum value that LCOM2 may produce is (m * (m-1))/2, which could be a considerable number for large classes. To facilitate metric interpretation and comparison, bounded concept such as cohesion must be better represented by a normalized value.
The algorithm takes a type i.e., a class or an interface as an input. The algorithm returns -1 when the algorithm finds that the metric is not computable otherwise it returns a LCOM metric value [0, 1]. The metric is not computable when the number of methods is zero, or when the analyzed type is an interface. The algorithm creates a graph where the methods and attributes of the class are treated as vertices. Here, attributes from superclasses that are accessible from the class are also included. Relationships, i.e., field accesses and method invocations, among the methods and attributes, make the edges. For example, if a method m1 accesses attributes a1 and a2 as well as calls method m2, then the node corresponding to method m1 will have edges to nodes representing attributes a1 and a2 as well as to method m2. Once the graph is constructed for the input class, the algorithm finds the disconnected subgraphs of methods. If the number of disconnected subgraphs is one, then all the attributes and methods are connected to each other and hence the class is perfectly cohesive (and thus assigned as 0 as the metric value). If the number of disconnected subgraphs is more than one, it implies that there are many islands of functionality within the class and hence the class is not cohesive. Here, the higher number of such subgraphs implies poorer cohesion. We compute the metric by dividing the number of disconnected subgraphs by the number of methods in the class. Since the number of disconnected subgraphs cannot be more than the number of methods (when none of the methods is associated with rest of the methods in the class), the maximum value that the algorithm can produce is 1.
Validation and comparison
In order to establish whether the commonly used set of LCOM metrics sufficiently capture the cohesion aspect of abstractions, we handcrafted eight classes/interfaces representing different cases. They are designed to cover various common cases involving interplay of method calls, fields-their type (a class or an interface) and their accesses, and inheritance that impact class cohesion and may potentially reveal the deficiencies of the existing algorithms to compute LCOM.
The details of each of these cases as well as the performance of all the existing LCOM metrics and the proposed metric is presented in our paper. The source code that implement the considered variants of LCOM and YALCOM can be found on GitHub.
Author: Tushar
Tushar Sharma is a software engineering researcher, developer, and author. He is currently a Research Scientist at Siemens Corporate Technology, Charlotte, USA. The topics related to software design and architecture, refactoring, software quality (specifically code and design quality), and technical debt define his career interests. He earned PhD from Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece with specialization in software engineering in May 2019. Earlier, he obtained an MS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai, India. His professional experience includes working with Siemens Research and Technology Center, Bangalore, India for more than seven years (2008-2015). He co-authored the book Refactoring for Software Design Smells: Managing Technical Debt and two Oracle Java certification books. He has founded and developed Designite which is a software design quality assessment tool used by many practitioners and researchers worldwide. He is an IEEE Senior Member.


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Use this bilingual resource to find maps of Canada, information about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a glossary of Indigenous terms, contemporary and historical photography, and more.
Created by The Royal Canadian Geographical Society in conjunction with the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Métis Nation, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, and Indspire. This resource was created for Grades 5 and up.

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


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Why Mini Holland is good for our schools
The school run accounts for at least one in every five cars on London's roads, and is a major cause of congestion, pollution & frustration for road users. And its a major contributor to road danger – many parents say they drive their kids to school because its too dangerous to walk! Fear of road traffic injury is the key reason people give for not cycling and that parents give for limiting their children's independence.
In Waltham Forest 14% of children age 11 are overweight and over 23% are obese or overweight. Every hour you spend in a car makes you 6 percent more likely to be obese. Every kilometer you walk (about.6 of a mile) reduces it by almost 5 percent. So making active travel safer and easier means better physical health, fewer car journeys and less congestion, pollution & road danger.
Within living memory, children & young people have lost the independence previous generations have enjoyed. Now we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to change this. Communities need streets free from non-essential motor traffic in order to thrive. We need safe streets where children can make friends, invent new games and learn to compromise with each other. By creating convivial streets we can help young people can develop independence, confidence and social awareness. 'Mini Holland' principles can contribute to creating a borough where young people can feel they have a stake in their own communities.
Through the Mini Holland programme our local authority is moving to create an environment where parents once again feel able to allow children their freedom. Empowering parents & young people to take ownership of their neighbourhoods can help to halt the decline in physical activity and informal social interaction. The current situation is severe, for example in Walthamstow's High Street Ward, one quarter of 10 & 11 year olds are clinically obese (with 40% considered overweight by Public Health England )and more broadly there is evidence that mental health problems have doubled in young people over the past 30 years.
As children grow many yearn to walk to school with friends instead of with fussing parents or carers, however far fewer are allowed that freedom today than just twenty years ago. Many parents & carers fear the consequences of allowing a child to cross even side roads alone and in some cases this leads to not being allowed out of the house at all. Such is the decline in informal street play on the pavements of the borough, that any child lucky enough to be allowed out in front of their home may well find their street deserted, there's no one to play with any more.
In particular the Mini Holland 'Village' schemes are taking significant steps towards reversing the decline in childhood freedom. With bold measures like those seen in Walthamstow Village, our streets can once again be places where children, young people and the vulnerable come first.


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"Read this book and discover sex again, but from a scientific perspective, and see why it evolved. It's almost as much fun, and needs less energy."
— Peter Macinnis, author of 100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs in History
"How Sex Works manages to inject science writing with the prurient thrill of a gossip rag."
Medical maverick and New York Times bestselling author of Survival of the Sickest Dr. Sharon Moalem presents an insightful and engaging voyage through the surprising history and evolution of sexual reproduction. Fans of Freakonomics, Blink, You: The Owner's Manual, and Why Do Men Have Nipples will find many engaging insights in How Sex Works.


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We propose a method based on the maximum-likelihood technique for removing speckle patterns that plague coherent images. The proposed method is designed for images whose gray levels vary continuously in space. The image model is based on a lattice of nodes corresponding to vertices of triangles in which the gray level of each pixel is produced by linear interpolation. A constraint on isoline gray levels is introduced to regularize the solution.
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Digital Heritage Mapping of Medieval Routes : Retracing Pilgrimage to Conques through the Liber Miraculorum Sanctae Fidis
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|This study explores the Liber Miraculorum sanctae Fidis, a collection of stories recording the miraculous deeds of St Foy, the patron saint of Conques. It examines the significance of the precise geographical references in the text and analyzes the motivations and perspectives of the multiple authors who compiled the Liber Miraculorum in the eleventh century. By developing a topographical map of the mentioned locations, the study investigates the relationship between the monastic community, their patron saint, and the surrounding lands. It specifically focuses on the northeastern region of Conques and proposes that the emphasis on miracles and the construction of chapels in this area was related to the pilgrimage boom in the mid-eleventh century and served as a strategy to control the arrival route of pilgrims. The study concludes that the Liber Miraculorum and similar sources are valuable for reconstructing medieval pilgrimage routes and discussing their tangible and intangible heritage.

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Following information obtained from Tomi Engdahl (_EMAIL_), _URL_ Microsoft serial mouse Serial data parameters: 1200bps, 7 databits, 1 stop-bit Data packet format: Data packet is 3 byte packet. It is send to the computer every time mouse state changes (mouse moves or keys are pressed/released). D7 D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 D0 1. X 1 LB RB Y7 Y6 X7 X6 2. X 0 X5 X4 X3 X2 X1 X0 3. X 0 Y5 Y4 Y3 Y2 Y1 Y0 Note: The bit marked with X is 0 if the mouse received with 7 databits and 2 stop bits format. It is also possible to use 8 databits and 1 stop bit format for receiving. In this case X gets value 1. The safest thing to get everything working is to use 7 databits and 1 stopbit when receiving mouse information (and if you are making mouse then send out 7 databits and 2 stop bits). The byte marked with 1. is send first, then the others. The bit D6 in the first byte is used for syncronizing the software to mouse packets if it goes out of sync. LB is the state of the left button (1 means pressed down) RB is the state of the right button (1 means pressed down) X7-X0 movement in X direction since last packet (signed byte) Y7-Y0 movement in Y direction since last packet (signed byte) Mouse identification When DTR line is toggled, mouse should send one data byte containing letter 'M' (ascii 77). Logitech serial mouse Logitech uses the Microsoft serial mouse protocol in their mouses (for example Logitech Pilot mouse and others). The origianal protocol supports only two buttons, but logitech as added third button to some of their mouse models. To make this possible logitech has made one extension to the protocol. I have not seen any documentation about the exact documents, but here is what I have found out: The information of the third button state is sent using one extra byte which is send after the normal packet when needed. Value 32 (dec) is sent every time when the center button is pressed down. It is also sent every time with the data packet when center button is kept down and the mouse data packet is sent for other reasons. When center button is released, the mouse sends the normal data packet followed by data bythe which has value 0 (dec). As you can see the extra data byte is sent only when you mess with the center button. Mouse systems mouse Serial data parameters: 1200bps, 8 databits, 1 stop-bit Data packet format: D7 D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 D0 1. 1 0 0 0 0 LB CB RB 2. X7 X6 X5 X4 X3 X2 X1 X0 3. Y7 Y6 Y5 Y4 Y3 Y4 Y1 Y0 4. X7' X6' X5' X4' X3' X2' X1' X0' 5. Y7' Y6' Y5' Y4' Y3' Y4' Y1' Y0' LB is left button state (0 = pressed, 1 = released) CB is center button state (0 = pressed, 1 = released) RB is right button state (0 = pressed, 1 = released) X7-X0 movement in X direction since last packet in signed byte format (-128..+127), positive direction right Y7-Y0 movement in Y direction since last packet in signed byte format (-128..+127), positive direction up X7'-X0' movement in X direction since sending of X7-X0 packet in signed byte format (-128..+127), positive direction right Y7'-Y0' movement in Y direction since sending of Y7-Y0 packet in signed byte format (-128..+127), positive direction up The last two bytes in the packet (bytes 4 and 5) contains information about movement data changes which have occured after data bytes 2 and 3 have been sent.


DOWNLOAD the labour Proclamation No. _PHONE_
Proclamation No. 1156/2019
25th Year No. 89 ADDIS ABABA 5th September, 2019
WHERE AS, it is essential to ensure worker-employer relations are governed by basic principles of rights and obligations with a view to enabling workers and employers to secure durable industrial peace; sustainable productivity and competitiveness through cooperative engagement towards the all-round development of our country;
WHEREAS, it has been found necessary to lay down a working system that guarantees the rights of workers and employers to freely establish their respective associations and to engage, through their duly authorized representatives, in social dialogue and collective bargaining, as well as to draw up procedures for the expeditious settlement of labour disputes, which arise between them;
WHEREAS, there is a need to create favorable environment for investment and achievement of national economic goals without scarifying fundamental workplace rights by laying down well considered labour administration; and determine the duties and responsibilities of governmental organs entrusted with the power to monitor labour conditions; occupational health and safety; and environmental protection together with bilateral and tripartite social dialogue mechanisms; political, economic and social policies of the Country;
WHEREAS, it has been found necessary to reformulate the existing labour law with a view to attaining the aforementioned objectives and in accordance with the and in conformity with the international conventions and other legal commitments to which Ethiopia is a party;
NOW,THEREFORE, in accordance with Article 55 (1) and (3) of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, it is hereby proclaimed as follows:
1. Short Title
This Proclamation may be cited as the "Labour Proclamation No.1156/2019".
2. Definitions
In this Proclamation unless the context provides otherwise:
1/ "Employer" means a person or an undertaking who employs one or more natural persons in accordance with Article 4 of this Proclamation.
2/ "Undertaking" means any entity established under a united management for the purpose of carrying on any commercial, industrial, agricultural, construction or any other lawful activity.
Any branch carrying on the activities of an undertaking which is designated separately and which enjoys operational or organizational autonomy shall be deemed to be a separate undertaking.
3/ "Worker" means a person who has an employment relationship with an employer in accordance with Article 4 this Proclamation.
4/ "Ministry" or "Minister" means the Ministry or Minister of Labour and Social Affairs respectively.
5/ "Appropriate authority" means, a Regional state organ vested with the power of implementing labour laws.
6/ "Work rules" means internal rules which govern, subject to the provisions of this Proclamation and other relevant laws, working hours, rest period, payment of wages and methods of measuring work done, maintenance of safety and prevention of accidents, disciplinary measures and their enforcement as well as other conditions of work.
7/ "Condition of work" means the entire field of labour relations between workers and employers including hours of work, wage, leave, payments due to dismissal, workers health and safety, compensation to victims of employment injury, dismissal because of redundancy, grievance procedure and any other similar matters.
8/ "Regional state" means any State referred to in Article 47(1) of the Constitution of Federal
Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and includes the Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa city administrations.
9/ "Social dialogue" means a process of information exchange, dialogue or negotiation of bilateral or tripartite nature between employer and employees or involving the Government on economic and social issues of mutual interests towards arriving at common understanding.
10/ "Managerial employee" means an employee who, by law or delegation of the employer, is vested with powers to lay down and execute management policies, and depending on the type of activities of the undertaking, with or without the aforementioned powers an employee who is vested with the power to
hire, transfer, suspend, layoff, dismiss or assign employees, and includes a legal service head who recommend measures to be taken by the employer regarding such managerial issues, using his independent judgment, in the interest of the employer.
11/"Sexual harassment" means to persuade or convince another through utterances, signs or any other manner, to submit for sexual favor without his/her consent.
12/ "Sexual violence" means sexual harassment accompanied by force or an attempt thereof.
13/ "private employment agency" (herein after "Agency ") means any legally licensed person, to provide one or two of the following local Employment services without charging directly or indirectly any fee from the worker:
a)Local employment exchange service without being a party to an employment relation; or
b) Deploying of employees under its authority to the service of a service user enterprise, by entering into contract of employments with such employees; or combines both services.
14/ "License" means a certificate to be issued by a competent organ certifying that the entity is qualified to engage in private employment exchange service.
15/ "Discrimination" any distinction, exclusion or preference made on the basis of nation, race, color, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction, social origin, HIV/AIDS status, disablement and others which has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality of opportunity or treatment in employment or occupation.
16/ "employment of private service" means an employment of a nonprofit careening, cleaning guardianship, gardening, driving and other related services for the employer and his family consumption.
17/ "commercial traveler and Representatives" shall have the meaning prescribed under commercial code.
18/ "Person" means any natural or juridical person.
19/ Provisions of this Proclamation set out in the masculine gender shall also apply to the feminine gender.
3. Scope of Application
1/ Without prejudice to Sub-Article (2) of this
Article, this Proclamation shall be applicable to employment relations based on a contract of employment that exist between a worker and an employer including recruitment process.
2/ This Proclamation shall not, however, be applicable to the following employment relations:
a) contracts for the purpose of upbringing, treatment, care or rehabilitation;
b) contracts for the purpose of educating or training other than apprentice;
c) where the employee is a managerial employee ;
d) contracts of personal service ;
e) contracts relating to persons such as members of the Armed Force, members of the Police Force, employees of state administration, judges of courts of law, prosecutors and others whose employment relationship is governed by special laws;
f) Contracts relating to a person who performs an act, for consideration, at his own business or professional responsibility.
3/ Notwithstanding the provision of Sub-Article(1) of this Article:
a)unless the Council of Ministers by regulation decides, or an international agreement to which Ethiopia is a signatory provides otherwise, employment relations between Ethiopian n a t i o n a l s and foreign diplomatic missions or international organizations operating with in the territory of Ethiopia shall be governed by this Proclamation;
b)the Council of Ministers may, by Regulation, determine the inapplicability of this Proclamation to employment relations established by religious or charitable organizations; c)the Council of Ministers shall issue Regulation governing conditions of work applicable to personal services
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What story do your mobile metrics tell?
As people become more reliant on their smartphones, mobile applications become an important focus for many organizations. There are many articles about adapting your software security group (SSG) to handle the new risks posed by new technology. But, are you confident that you are tracking your organization's progress and performance effectively? What story do your mobile metrics tell? Are you confident that you are able to show the impact your SSG has when addressing mobile security?
Metrics optimization
A useful security metric tells a story around the impact and value the SSG adds to the organization at large. Rather than reporting how many mobile applications your organization has enrolled in dynamic scanning, there is more value in reporting how many high severity findings your dynamic scanning discovered and/or how many findings were remediated due to the scanning efforts. This shows the impact of dynamic scanning on the quality of the code.
A good metric has the following attributes:
 - It asks a question. For example, are revenue-generating development teams employing penetration testing to discover risks?
 - There is a defined goal associated with it. For example, understand how much unknown risk exists in the organization's application portfolio by discovering which applications have and have not been penetration tested.
 - Reliable and consistent data points are used to calculate the metric. For example, the number of applications penetration tested over a certain timeframe, and the number of applicable applications in the same timeframe.
 - The metric calculation consists of more than a single number. Ratios can convey more meaningful information. For example, the number of application penetration tests / number of applicable applications.
Even though I say that there's more to security metrics than those simply describing adoptive efforts (such as how many mobile apps are enrolled in binary analysis), sometimes it's okay, and even appropriate, to have adoptive metrics. This works best for SSGs that are new and working to build more maturity into their mobile software development life cycle. However, SSGs should avoid getting stuck in this mindset. It is important to re-evaluate the metrics SSGs are reporting, to introduce metrics showing the effectiveness of the activity, and the impact of the security organization as soon as possible.
Here are three examples of impactful metrics that your organization can leverage:
1. Prevention of defects with a 'top N' security bug list
Tracking defect density is a great way to get an overview of the persistent risk within your organization. However, it fails to give you the specific information needed to determine how to address the problem. If you track defect information and categorize defects by type, you can understand what the top N security bug types are within your organization. With this information, you are now able to understand how to focus your efforts to best reduce risk within your organization. For instance, if cross-site scripting (XSS) is the number one defect in your organization, now you know that creating a campaign to squash all XSS findings by providing specialized training to identify and remediate XSS vulnerabilities is worthwhile. This training can then be provided to the application teams (typically the worst offenders) or the global organization as a part of developer training.
2. Mean time to remediate defects
Let's say that your organization has mature bug tracking solutions that are integrated with both the application development teams and security testing teams. In this case, it is possible for your organization to track the mean time it takes to remediate defects. By tracking a timestamp noting when the security team reports a vulnerability, and another timestamp noting when the application development team resolves the vulnerability, it's possible to understand how long it takes for security issues to be remediated by your organization. However, without mature bug tracking solutions, this is a very difficult metric to track.
3. Impact of security controls
It's possible to show the impact of the security controls that your organization leverages. It might take some time and creativity to define the metric to accomplish this goal; but by doing so, it will enable your organization to make smarter, more informed decisions which will only increase the effectiveness of your team.
The sooner you can create impactful metrics, the better you can equip your organization to create smart goals.
From Zero to Metrics in Six Easy Steps.


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Do you know why ragi Nutrition should be a part of your diet? Know 5 healthy benefits of ragi nutrition food and how to add ragi to your diet.
Ragi, scientifically known as Eleusine Coracana, is a cereal crop vastly found in tropical regions such as Africa and Asia. Being densely rich in nutrients, ragi provide valuable health benefits. Here are five major health benefits of consuming Ragi Nutrition Food and how you can add this wonderful cereal to add to your diet.
Ragi or Finger Millet or Foxtail Millet is a valuable grain that is packed with multiple nutrients such as calcium, fiber, potassium, iron, and many other essential components that help to aid diabetes, indigestion, obesity, etc. It is a traditional food of South India and widely consumed by many South African countries.


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4 channel paperless recorders
What are 4 channel paperless recorders?
The paperless records collect data/calculated data in the internal storage system of the instrument on the basis of time, without consuming any commonly used recording facilities, such as paper, pen and ink. The stored data recorded in the instrument is displayed on the LCD screen after calculation and simulation. Paperless graphic recorder has many formats to display the data, such as, value display, bar graph display, curve display, history, alarm list, etc. The digital paperless recorder can accept universal signal inputs, such as the flow signal of the flow meter (4-20mA or frequency), the pressure signal of the pressure transmitter, the temperature signal of the thermal resistance (RTD) and the thermocouple, etc.
Signal types can be accepted by the 4 channels paperless graphic recorder
The data collected by paperless recorders can be: temperature, pressure, flow, liquid level, voltage, current, humidity, frequency, vibration, speed, etc.
It can accept current 4-20mA or 10 mA, 1-5V voltage, 0-5V voltage, 0-10V voltage, 20mV voltage, 100mV voltage, 100Ω resistance, PT100, Cu50, Cu53, thermocouple S, thermocouple R, thermocouple B, thermocouple K, thermocouple J, thermocouple E, thermocouple N, frequency,etc.
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Art History Professor's Book Honored by Armenian Studies Group
Art history professor Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh recently received the Der Mugrdechian Book Award from the Society for Armenian Studies for The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice.
In her book, Watenpaugh reconstructs the journey of illustrated pages of the Zeytun Gospel from their creation in 1256 in present-day Turkey to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 1994. Through an analysis of the biography of the manuscript, she tells the larger story of the Armenians and the suffering they endured during the Armenian Genocide and its aftermath. During her research, she traveled to many of the places the manuscript had been.
"That this award comes from the Society for Armenian Studies is deeply meaningful, as the members of the society know firsthand the challenges and obstacles of researching Armenian topics," Watenpaugh said. "To me, this award celebrates Armenian art history in general, and the wonderful exhibitions and books on Armenian art that have appeared in the last couple of years. I hope this award inspires people to discover and rediscover medieval Armenian art, its astonishing beauty and continued contemporary relevance."
Established in 2015, the Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Award accepts nominations for works that advance knowledge and scholarship on Armenian society, culture and history from ancient times to the present. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, director of the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno, and a past president of SAS, sponsored the award.
The Missing Pages was published by Stanford University Press in early 2019.


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Since most break-baking professionals tend to emulate French bakers, I thought it might be instructive to post this picture and present some questions I am unable to answer at this time.
We recently spend three weeks in France (in Northern Brittany and Paris), which really raised the bar of my bread baking aspirations. Take the following sour-dough rye loaf I purchased in the "inter-marche" (normal grocery store) in Brittany, France. Notice the shape of the loaf. It is triangular. In France, each bakery has characteristic shapes, sizes, and slashing patterns. This was the only time I ever saw a shape like this. The crumb was light and hole-y, but still had the "cake-like" texture characteristic of good rye loaves. There are a few things I would like to know:
1. How did the baker retain the shape of this loaf while still maintaining hydration?
2. There were no slashes, but the crust was also not broken. How? Is that a feature of hydration and extensibility?
3. In France, to be considered rye, they have to have a certain percentage of rye flour to white. This bread had a crumb that I cannot replicate with the 50:50 rye:white mix I use in my siegle au levain. How did they make a nice dark rye loaf and keep an airy crumb?


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Financial investors need to understand the impact of both cloud and on-premises infrastructure on financial performance.
Whether evaluating a target or overseeing improvement at an existing portfolio company, financial investors often must consider the requirements for upgrading or establishing new infrastructure and core business applications. In today's IT environment, that means deciding whether to build or maintain the necessary services on premises or buy services in the cloud.
While these decisions can be highly complex, financial investors need to understand the impact of both scenarios on financial performance. This white paper details the shortand long-term investment considerations of on-premises and cloud strategies. It also poses questions to help forecast costs accurately over the investment horizon.
Read the paper to learn:
- The benefits and challenges of the cloud specific to an investment thesis (beyond the basic pros and cons)
- How a cloud-based approach vs. on-premises infrastructure affects EBITDA
- Factors to consider when cost-modeling cloud vs. on premises investment
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Best Machine Learning Papers of 2020
January 02, 2021 | 16 min read | 813 views
Happy New Year!🎉🎉
In 2020, the Machine Learning community has seen a lot of new achievements. I believe winter vacation is a good time to look back on the year, so this post will cover 10 representative papers that I found interesting and worth reading.
Here are the 10 best ML papers of 2020 that I chose (in chronological order).
- Rigging the Lottery: Making All Tickets Winners
- PIFuHD: Multi-Level Pixel-Aligned Implicit Function for High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization
- Jukebox: A Generative Model for Music
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
- Bootstrap Your Own Latent: A New Approach to Self-Supervised Learning
- Implicit Neural Representations with Periodic Activation Functions
- Graph Structure of Neural Networks
- Towards Faster and Stabilized GAN Training for High-fidelity Few-shot Image Synthesis
- An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
- Pre-training without Natural Images
- Authors: Utku Evci, Trevor Gale, Jacob Menick, Pablo Samuel Castro, Erich Elsen
- Link: _URL_
- Released in: November 2019
- Accepted to: ICML 2020
The lottery ticket hypothesis [1,2] argues that training neural networks is like a lottery. According to, network pruning is feasible because:
Dense, randomly-initialized, feed-forward networks contain subnetworks ("winning tickets") that - when trained in isolation - reach test accuracy comparable to the original network in a similar number of iterations.
So, should we always start with a large network, aiming to draw a winning ticket and drop losing tickets (unnecessary subnetworks) after the winner announcement (training & validation)? This paper answers no. The authors introduce a method to train sparse neural networks by iteratively dropping and growing connections with the model size fixed throughout the training. The proposed training strategy is named RigL, as it "rigs the lottery ticket hypothesis." The algorithm of RigL is summarized as below:
RigL achieves higher test accuracy with fewer training FLOPs and parameter counts than pruning on various networks and datasets (e.g., ResNet-50/MobileNet on ImageNet and GRU on WikiText-103).
- Authors: Shunsuke Saito, Tomas Simon, Jason Saragih, Hanbyul Joo
- Link: _URL_
- Released in: April 2020
- Accepted to: CVPR 2020
PIFuHD is an updated version of PIFu (Pixel-aligned Implicit Function), a deep learning method for reconstructing a 3D human shape from a single image. I chose this paper because it's fun! Not only are the result remarkable (see the image below), but the authors provide a Colab demo that you can try out with your own images instantly.
Many people have tried this demo and uploaded their results to _TAG_. One of my favorites is the video of G7 leaders dancing to a song by Sakanaction.
For technical details, I'd like to recommend the excellent presentation video by the authors.
- Authors: Prafulla Dhariwal, Heewoo Jun, Christine Payne, Jong Wook Kim, Alec Radford, Ilya Sutskever
- Link: _URL_
- Released in: May 2020
Generating realistic images is no longer surprising, but generating realistic music remains a hard challenge due to its extremely long-range dependency. Specifically, a 4-minute song at CD quality (44 kHz) has more than 10 million timestamps with high-level semantics (c.f., intro, verse, chorus). OpenAI boldly tackled the generation of raw audio in a variety of genres, and their Jukebox succeeded in producing pretty impressive music!
Here are the non cherry-picked 7,131 samples. They are conditioned on specific genres and artists, some of which are also conditioned on lyrics. For example, this sample is a continuation of I Just Call To Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder. It sounds like a new song after 10 seconds, while reasonably maintaining the style of the singer and the song.
What is inside this magic? Inspired by VQ-VAE-2, the authors use hierarchical VQ-VAE to handle long-range dependency. As for the prior (or, the generator), they use Sparse Transformer, an efficient Transformer that succeeded in generating 64x64 sized images and raw audio waveforms, as already mentioned in my earlier post.
The appendix of the paper is also worth reading. The figure below is a t-SNE plot of (artist, genre) embeddings learned by Jukebox. I agree that ELO is similar to The Beatles😉
- Authors: Tom B. Brown, Benjamin Mann, Nick Ryder, Melanie Subbiah, Jared Kaplan, Prafulla Dhariwal, Arvind Neelakantan, Pranav Shyam, Girish Sastry, Amanda Askell, Sandhini Agarwal, Ariel Herbert-Voss, Gretchen Krueger, Tom Henighan, Rewon Child, Aditya Ramesh, Daniel M. Ziegler, Jeffrey Wu, Clemens Winter, Christopher Hesse, Mark Chen, Eric Sigler, Mateusz Litwin, Scott Gray, Benjamin Chess, Jack Clark, Christopher Berner, Sam McCandlish, Alec Radford, Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei
- Link: _URL_
- Released in: May 2020
- Accepted to: NeurIPS 2020
GPT-3, the latest version of GPT [6,7], is a pre-trained language model that has as many as 175B parameters (10 times larger than Turing-NLG!) and is trained with 300B tokens. The authors found that scaling up the model significantly improves the performance of few-shot learning without fine-tuning, which they call in-context learning. The following figure compares in-context learning with traditional fine-tuning.
In short, in their in-context few-shot learning, the model sees the input containing task description, a few examples, and prompt only at inference time and predicts the answer. There is no training or fine-tuning. GPT-3 can deal with a variety of tasks such as translation, text generation, summarization, question answering, and even arithmetic. Sometimes it outperforms fine-tuned models.
More surprisingly, it is reported that GPT-3 can translate English into JSX code. Indeed, quantitative changes transform to qualitative changes.
This is mind blowing.— Sharif Shameem (_USER_) July 13, 2020
With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you.
W H A T _URL_
OpenAI releases the GPT-3 model as an API instead of pre-trained weights. If you wish to use it, join the waitlist for the beta version.
- Authors: Jean-Bastien Grill, Florian Strub, Florent Altché, Corentin Tallec, Pierre H. Richemond, Elena Buchatskaya, Carl Doersch, Bernardo Avila Pires, Zhaohan Daniel Guo, Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar, Bilal Piot, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Rémi Munos, Michal Valko
- Link: _URL_
- Released in: June 2020
- Accepted to: NeurIPS 2020
Contrastive learning, a variant of self-supervised learning algorithm that leverages information from negative samples, was probably one of the hottest research topics in 2020. Many methods such as MoCo, SimCLR, and InfoMin, competed for the higher accuracy on ImageNet classification [8-10]. They are based on the assumption that the distance between representations of different augmented views of the same image should be small while the distance between different images should be large.
As opposed to them, the proposed Bootstrap Your Own Latent (BYOL) does not use negative pairs at all and outperformed all the contrastive learning methods, closing the gap between self-supervised and supervised learning.
As shown in the figure below, BYOL uses two networks: online () and target (), where the target network is simply the exponential (slow-)moving average of the online network.
An input image is transformed into two views and with different augmentations ( and ), which are then fed into the online and the target network respectively. BYOL is trained to minimize the L2 distance between the prediction by the online network () and the projected representation by the target network (), where means the stop-gradient operator. This is how BYOL bootstraps its latent.
An additional benefit of BYOL is the robustness to the choice of batch size and the set of image augmentations compared to the contrastive baselines. Also, there is a discussion on how to avoid collapsed solutions in the paper. Please check it out if you are interested.
- Authors: Vincent Sitzmann, Julien N. P. Martel, Alexander W. Bergman, David B. Lindell, Gordon Wetzstein


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Monday, January 24, 2011
Read It, Stamp It, Write It
Read It, Write It, Stamp It is an activity that provides students with an opportunity to practice words that
follow basic phonic codes.
Here is the routine to use with the activity sheet you can find by following the link below.
1. Write simple CVC, CVCC, or CCVC words (depending on the ability of your students) in the left hand column of the activity sheet.
2. Provide students with letter stamps. Children can stamp the word and then write it in the remaining columns.
3. Extend this activity by asking students to use the words they have worked on in sentences, alphabetize the words they have stamped or have students write the words on index cards and sort by similar attributes.
This is a great activity for classroom centers.


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Small function to read a list of parameters for a model and return it in a structure, so
it's easy to handle as a unit. I use it quite a bit in my own work. Thought it could be useful for
others.
S= readparam(filename) reads a list of parameter names and values
from a file, either a comma-separated file (csv) or an Excel file (xls).
'filename' is a string with the name of the file. The values are
returned in structure S, with the names of the parameters as field
names. The value of parameter 'par' can be accessed as 'S.par'.
Parameter values can be: scalars, vectors, character strings or function
handlers. Specify vectors with square brackets and separate
the values with spaces (NOT commas). To indicate a character
string put a '#' before the string, just after the comma.
To identify a function handle put a '@' before the function's name.
Parameter names have to be in the first column and the values in the
second column. The first row of the file is not returned, but it cannot
be empty. If the data are in Excel the data has to be in the
first sheet of the file.
P= readparam('readparam.csv')
In the example included, "time", "tstep", "area", "verbose" and
"savesim" are scalars. "temp" is a vector of three values
(do NOT separate the values with commas). "P.odesol" is a function
handle for one of Matlab's ODE solvers. "P.repmod" is a
character string to define some choice within your model.
"P.spcfile" is the name of a file where additional info is stored.
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Anales del Sistema Sanitario de Navarra
versión impresa ISSN _PHONE_
CAMINERO, J. A.. The old battle between the human species and Kochs bacillae: Can one dream of eradicating tuberculosis?. Anales Sis San Navarra [online]. 2007, vol.30, suppl.2, pp.163-180. ISSN _PHONE_.
This article analyses the complexity of the age-old battle that the human species has been waging for millions of years against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We review all of the knowledge available about this disease, and the most important future developments, in order to reach the conclusion that it is indeed possible to dream of eradicating this disease that has caused such harm to humanity. In spite of the human species possessing sufficient knowledge to win the battle against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, important conditioning factors, above all social in character (poverty, immigration, HIV, MDR), are favouring the bacteria in this war. And, in spite of suitably applying all of the positive knowledge acquired for the control of TB (detection and cure of cases, chemoprofilaxis, BCG vaccination, etc.), it will still take several centuries to achieve its eradication. Only by discovering a vaccine that is 100% efficient, or the discovery of new anti-microbial associations that could cure the disease in no longer than 15 days, could accelerate this advance towards its eradication. But, unfortunately, there are no reasons allowing us to dream that either of these two possibilities can be fulfilled in the next 10 to 20 years. Therefore, the dream of eradicating TB is a very old dream, but one that unfortunately remains very distant.
Palabras clave : Tuberculosis; Eradication; Immune system; Vaccine; MDR-TB.


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How to search the contents of the current page for text or links
When you are viewing a website in Firefox, you can search for words and phrases on the page. Firefox will show you where the search phrase you've typed appears next on the page, and lets you highlight all the places where it appears.
Table of Contents
Using the Find bar
To start searching for text on a page:
- Open the Find bar:
- Use the Ctrlcommand+F keyboard shortcut.
- Click on the button ( menu on Windows XP), then select.
- Type a search phrase into the Find Bar's Find: field. Firefox will start highlighting instances of your search phrase as you type.
- If no instances of your search phrase occur on the page you're viewing, the Find bar will show Phrase not found.
When the Find bar is open, the following actions are available:
- X: Close the find bar.
- Next: Highlight the next instance of the search phrase you've entered.
- Previous: Highlight the previous instance of the search phrase you've entered.
- Highlight All: Highlight every instance of the search phrase you've entered. Click Highlight All again to turn off highlighting.
- Match case: Make searches case sensitive. Normally if you search for search phrase, instances of Search Phrase on the page will also be found when you use the Find bar. If you Match case is selected, only instances of the phrase as you've typed it will be found.
Search links only
If you want to find phrases that occur in links on the page you're viewing:
- Type'(single quote character) to bring up the Quick Find (links only) bar.
- Type a search phrase into the Quick Find (links only) field. The first link that contains the phrase you've typed will be selected.
- Press Ctrlcommand+G to highlight the next link that contains your search phrase.
To close the Quick Find bar, wait a moment then press the Esc key on the keyboard, or click somewhere in Firefox that is not part of the Quick Find bar.
Find while typing on a page
Firefox can start searching for phrases you enter without having to open the Find bar. To enable this feature:
- At the top of the Firefox window, click on the button and then select At the top of the Firefox window, click on the menu and then select On the menu bar, click on the menu and select At the top of the Firefox window, click on the menu and select
- Select on the panel.
- Click on the tab.
- Check mark Search for text when I start typing.
- Click to close the Options windowClick to close the Preferences windowClose the Preferences window.
After you enable the feature:
- Type a search phrase while you are viewing a website. As you type, the first instance of your phrase will be highlighted.
- Press Ctrlcommand+G or F3 to highlight the next instance of your search phrase.
To close the Quick Find bar, wait a few moments for it to disappear then press the Esc key on the keyboard, or click somewhere in Firefox that is not part of the Quick Find bar. Since the the Quick Find bar is meant to disappear after a few moments, it does not have the Next, Previous, or Highlight All commands the full Find bar does.
If you find that the Quick Find bar interferes with typing in text fields, see Quick find bar opens when typing in text fields.


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Cleuson-Dixence Construction SA
- Scheme design: 2004 – 2006
- Construction: 2006 – 2009
In association with Electricité de France (EdF; CIH) and Stucky Ingénieurs-Conseils SA.
The Cleuson-Dixence hydroelectric dam was commissioned in 1998. That project enabled the extraction of the potential energy from all the water of the Grand Dixence dam at one location (hydraulic head 1,880 m, flow rate 75 m3/s). On the 12th December 2000, the penstock suddenly ruptured, and the water escaped to the surface.
This rehabilitation project involved lining the entire length of the penstocks (approximately 4 km) and bypassing the section damaged in the accident, which required the construction of two new access galleries and underground caverns at the elbows.
In order to reinforce the shafts, the original access shafts which had been infilled with concrete were required to be reopened.
Before the lining of the shafts was undertaken, the ground around the shafts was stabilised from inside the shafts using grout injection which enabled the interstitial voids present at the top of the existing lining to be filled.
Scheme design outline and detail; management of the tender process; construction design; and direction of the rehabilitation works of the penstock of the Cleuson-Dixence hydroelectric dam, which was taken out of service in December 2000.


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Digital agriculture conquers training workshopsHow trainers can simply and quickly integrate the fundamental electrical and IT elements of digital agriculture into their training courses.
Information and communication technology is shaping the megatrends in agriculture. "Smart Farming", or "Digital Farming", relates to digitalized processes that can extend to the use of driverless vehicles, robots and drones. This development is also changing the everyday working life of agricultural and construction machinery mechatronics technicians. The technologies that facilitate Precision Farming or job preparation via the farm PC provide an in-depth picture of the technical components of the vehicles and implements used.
This should also be reflected in the training and development provided to the mechatronics technicians. Modern training schemes for agricultural machinery mechatronics technicians need to place a greater emphasis on the electronic components.
But familiarization with the new technologies directly on a tractor presents some difficulties. The measuring points for the communication and networking systems of the smart agricultural vehicles are often not readily accessible and any damage caused by incorrect operation can quickly prove costly. Lucas-Nülle has therefore created a training system that you can use with a direct spatial and digital connection to the tractors and implements. The compact system from our Commercial Vehicles 'TruckTrain' series facilitates simple, quick and comprehensive integration of Smart Farming into your training workshop.
Simple access to data communication systems brings networked agriculture into the training workshop.
The training system simulates a fully functional agricultural machine based on communication. It enables you to familiarize trainees with the main data transmission systems such as ISOBUS, J1939, CAN-Bus and Implement-Bus in a practically relevant way. The trainees themselves can read and write Bus messages or carry out diagnostics of the ISOBUS using b-ISOBUS Spy. The circuit diagrams provided and the setpoint directory allow the trainees to make authentic assessments of the readings obtained on the system.
Thanks to TruckTrain, teachers can clearly demonstrate some hot topics in the training workshop, including resource-optimized Precision Farming via GPS with Section Control. It not only allows trainees to carry out full job preparation via the farm PC but also enables them to start a driving simulation using "Trupath GPS Sim". The training unit itself features its own sower, with which the trainees can also learn how to communicate with an original implement ECU.
Maximum practical relevance designed to create direct action competence.
Thanks to the use of other original Commercial Vehicle components, the trainees can also connect this training system with the existing tractors and implements. The "Universal Terminal" as well as the Incab, the active ISOBUS socket and all diagnostic sockets are original components. In this way, didactic learning content and practical components are directly linked.
The trainees can choose from 32 different fault scenarios. These include basic electronic components such as the different fuse types and relay controls as well as the tractor's working lights, while also covering the subject areas of data communication and digital agriculture. TruckTrain thus supports the trainees through all the electrical and IT-related learning content that is relevant for agricultural and construction machinery mechatronics technicians and at the same time endows them with action competence in the diagnosis, repair and maintenance of new generations of digitalized machines.
Siegfried Schulz, Product Manager for Commercial Vehicles


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Scott, S.K. (1998) The point of P-centres. Psychological Research, 61 (1 ) pp.4 - 11. 10.1007/PL00008162.
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P-centres are the subjective moments of occurrence of acoustic stimuli and capture properties of regularity and synchrony in production and perception. Two experiments are described which compare the effects of onset and offset amplitude variation and stimulus duration on P-centre location. The discussion is extended to consider the role of P-centres in cross modal temporal phenomena.
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The paper mulberry tree can nourish itself and the surrounding soil. A genome study of the paper mulberry has revealed the tree evolved its fibrous inner bark around 31 million years ago, which was long before it was first used for bookmaking during China's Tang dynasty. This adaptation makes the plant easy to pass through foraging animals and may have been its way of feeding nearby soil microbes, according to a team of botanists in China.
The research team used a technique known as comparative genetics and discovered that the paper mulberry tree also develops a complex set of flavonoids. The compounds help a plant's roots attract nitrogen-fixing bacteria such as Pseudomonas and Rhizobia, which boost growth in the leaves and stems. This enables the paper mulberry to adapt to a wide range of environments.The paper mulberry tree can nourish itself and the surrounding soil
"The unique traits of paper mulberry are consistent with the ancient Chinese philosophy of mutual promotion and restraint, suggesting that paper mulberry is a very complex and remarkable tree species," wrote the researchers, who were led by Shihua Shen from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. "Both humans and livestock can benefit from the symbiosis of paper mulberry and microbes."
The paper mulberry tree was found to have over 30,000 genes. Native to Asia, the unique tree has a long history of applications. For example, the bark of paper mulberry is the main raw material of Cai Lun papermaking, one of the four great inventions in ancient China. In addition, the tree's leaves are the raw materials for high-quality protein feed.
"The paper mulberry is a very important multi-purpose resource plant," said Shen. "However, the lack of systematic research and artificial domestication hinder the development and utilization of plant, which is far behind other economic crops. We hope that this study will promote the breeding of new paper mulberry strains with higher yield and high quality."
The study is published in the journal Molecular Plant.


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FoodFun Lifeskills Instructional Software
FoodFun LIS' flagship product is a software package designed for non-readers, generally individuals with autism and developmental disabilities, and other people with developmental disabilities. Most transition/lifeskills training programs focus on four key areas of life: food/cooking/nutrition, money management, health/safety, and social interaction/leisure. FoodFun's product focuses on food/cooking as well as social interaction, two of the primary lifeskills needed for independent living.
Non-readers rely on visual images as a form of communication, a replacement for the more typical text that readers are able to understand. The first component of the software is a digital cookbook of recipes. The software displays pictures of the different ingredients needed for the recipe. The pictures are then printed allowing the individual to take the picture to the grocery store facilitating the purchasing of the groceries. On each picture is also text explaining what the item is. Within each recipe is the ability to print the different utensils and pots needed to complete the item. While the recipes are meant to be cooked with support, the main goal is to allow the individual to have independent shopping.
The user first sees a bunch of different pictures of food dishes with names below the pictures. The user then chooses a dish and is brought to a screen where the ingredients are listed by picture and also the different utensils/pots/pans needed are listed. Once the user chooses what they want to prepare they can then print up a list of the different ingredients. The list is picture based (with text) and they are able to take the picture list to the grocery to assist them in purchasing the ingredients independently.
The second component of the software is the social occasion/party planning module. This is the fun part (in addition to the fun food pictures). Everyone likes to plan for party. The screen opens with pictures showing different occassions such as a picnic in the park, friends and movie night, birthday party, holiday event, pool party, etc. When the user clicks on the chosen image they hear 30 seconds of background music in a theme matched to the event that they have chosen. Once they have chosen the event the software takes them through the different steps of food preparation for the event. These food preparation steps are the previously explained food component that is now organized not by dish but by event. If a picnic in a park is chosen there will be several dishes to be made, all of them cold as there is no way of heating the dishes while you are in the park. All users of this module will be entertained by the background sounds as well as the excitement of planning for a party.
This component is especially important in the individual's development. Planning activities are especially important for a population that is so isolated. Without socialization skills such as parties, the clients end up learning the skills and then sit in their apartment alone.
Ultimately, FoodFun's software product combines two of the most important lifeskills/transition training areas, food preparation and social leisure. The food component allows the non-reading individuals with developmental disabilities to become more independent in their daily activities. The social planning module leverages the existing food module and assists the users in panning for social occassions centered around food. This module is designed to be entertaining to capture the interest and imagination of the user, drawing them into the software, creating the desire to use the product.
The software product will be developed by three contract programmers. The software will be upgraded yearly.


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Pamela Wright started at the National Archives in 2001 and has spent the past seven years promoting digital access and strategy. Prior to this appointment, she served as the agency's first Chief Digital Access Strategist and launched many of the National Archives' now robust social media platforms.
She created a "Citizen Archivist Dashboard" to make National Archives records more accessible online by using crowdsourcing to tag, transcribe, and edit articles, as well as to upload and share scans or images of records. She also advanced the first agency tool for online internal communication – the Internal Collaboration Network (ICN).
Since 2012, Pamela Wright is leading the agency in developing innovative ways to share the National Archives' extensive holdings with the public. She represents the National Archives on the White House Open Government Working Group. She has spearheaded several internal working groups and teams dedicated to advancing the "Open Government" goals of transparency, participation, and collaboration.
She began her career at the National Archives as a processing archivist. She holds Bachelor's degrees in History and English from the University of Montana, and earned a Master's Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.


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Some operations are difficult or even impossible to obtain with an expression, or the operation could become too complex to achieve. The alternative is to create a function that would take care of performing the operation and supplying the result to the table. Of course, as you may know already, a function is its own object. This means that, after creating it, to use its result in a table, you must call it. For example, you can create a function that returns a value, then call that function and assign its returned value to a column. You can create your own function and use it, or you can use one of the built-in functions of Transact-SQL.
In order to involve a function with your data entry, you must have one. You can create your own function using the techniques we learned already. To make the function easily accessible, you should create it as part of the database that would use it. Here is an example:
-- ============================================= -- Author: FunctionX -- Create date: Saturday 22 December 2007 -- Description: Used to calculate the greatest common divisor -- ============================================= CREATE FUNCTION GCD ( _USER_ int, _USER_ int ) RETURNS int AS BEGIN DECLARE _USER_ int; WHILE _USER_ <> 0 BEGIN SET _USER_ = _USER_ % _USER_; SET _USER_ = _USER_; SET _USER_ = _USER_; } RETURN _USER_ }
When calling the function, follow the normal rules. Here are examples:
INSERT INTO Calculations VALUES(345, 135, dbo.GCD(345, 135)); GO INSERT INTO Calculations VALUES(40, 6, dbo.GCD(40, 6)); GO INSERT INTO Calculations VALUES(16, 28, dbo.GCD(16, 28)); GO
You can use one of the built-in functions of Transact-SQL. Probably the best way to be familiar with the built-in functions is to check the online documentation to find out if the assignment you want to perform is already created. Using a built-in functions would spare you the trouble of creating your own function. For example, imagine you have a database named AutoRepairShop and imagine it has a table used to create repair orders for customers:
CREATE TABLE RepairOrders ( RepairID int Identity(1,1) NOT NULL, CustomerName varchar(50), CustomerPhone varchar(20), RepairDate DateTime ); GO
When performing data entry for this table, you can let the user enter the customer name and phone number. On the other hand, you can assist the user by programmatically entering the current date. To do this, you would call the GETDATE() function. Here are examples:
INSERT INTO RepairOrders(CustomerName, CustomerPhone, RepairDate) VALUES('Annette Berceau', '_PHONE_', GETDATE()); GO INSERT INTO RepairOrders(CustomerPhone, CustomerName, RepairDate) VALUES('_PHONE_', 'Paulino Santiago', GETDATE()); GO INSERT INTO RepairOrders(CustomerName, RepairDate, CustomerPhone) VALUES('Alicia Katts', GETDATE(), '_PHONE_'); GO INSERT INTO RepairOrders(RepairDate, CustomerPhone, CustomerName) VALUES(GETDATE(), '_PHONE_', 'Bertrand Nguyen'); GO
You can also involve the function in an operation, then use the result as the value to assign to a field. You can also call a function that takes one or more arguments; make sure you respect the rules of passing an argument to a function when calling it.
If none of the Transact-SQL built-in functions satisfies your requirements, you can create your own.


Siebel Communications Server Administration Guide > Configuring Events and Commands > Special Commands for Device Commands >
Special Command Examples
This section describes examples of special commands.
@Associate Special Command Example
Table 11 and Table 12 provide an example command using the @Associate special command.
This example defines a command and associated command data that creates an association between the current activity object and the current account object. The example command is enabled only when the agent is working with accounts and when a work-item tracking object exists. For more information, see the description for @Associate in Table 9.
Table 11. Command: AssociateAccount
Parameter Name
Parameter Value
DeviceCommand
@Associate
Hidden
TRUE
Table 12. Command Data: AssociateAccount
Parameter Name
Parameter Value
BusComp
Account
Param."Account Id"
{Id}
@ViewWorkObject Special Command Example
Table 13 and Table 14 provide an example command using the @ViewWorkObject special command.
This example defines a command and associated command data that allows a user to view the work-item tracking record. The command specifies the menu item to be used for viewing the record, and assigns the command to the hot key SHIFT+F8. The command is enabled only when a work-item tracking object exists. For more information, see the description for @ViewWorkObject in Table 9.
Table 13. Command: ViewWorkObject
Parameter Name
Parameter Value
DeviceCommand
@ViewWorkObject
HotKey
SHIFT+F8
MenuPosition
8
Title
View Work Item Object
Table 14. Command Data: ViewWorkObject
Parameter Name
Parameter Value
Param.View
Activity Attachment View
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The BusXpert SpecView specification interface provides an intelligent, unique and powerful interface from the BusXpert analyzer trace data to a number of supported Protocol specifications.
Using SpecView, users can quickly access the most relevant portion of the specification without searching through hundreds of pages. Because of tight integration with the SerialTek analysis tools, SpecView is a tool that enables designers and other users to save time during trace analysis when protocol specification issues arises.
- Intelligent and unique interface from the BusXpert analyzer trace to protocol specifications to help confirm conformance to standards
- Context specific specification access; displays both most relevant entry and full indexed entries
- Enhanced capability is built into the BusXpert software and provided at no additional cost
- Before using SpecView, users must ensure that the following specifications reside in the appropriate directory. As some specifications are copyrighted and are limited to members of standards organizations, it is the responsibility of the user to obtain the appropriate specification.
- SAS Protocol Layer – 3 (SPL-3): spl3r06f
- SCSI Primary Commands – 4 (SPC-4): spc4r36q
- SCSI Block Commands – 3 (SBC-3): sbc3r36
- SATA: SerialATA_Revision_3_2_Gold
- ATA/ATAPI Command Set – 3: d2161r4a-ATAATAPI_Command_Set_-_3
- Specification Location
- Windows (32-bit): Program Files\SerialTek\BusXpert 4.0.xxx\Specs
- Windows (64-bit): Program Files (x86)\SerialTek\BusXpert 4.0.xxx\Specs
- Linux: /usr/share/ BusXpert 4.0.xxx/Specs


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the bird, the pink feathers and the claws
Here are the explanations necessary to embroider the pink feathers and the legs of the bird.
The colors used are
DMC 931, 932, 3031, 3371, écru, 3716, 3832, 3830 and 355.
After turning the work by 180 °, embroider the ecru borders as usual with 2 rows of stem stitch and 1 thread. Wait to embroider the contours in brown.
Then fill the "eye" of the feathers with satin stitch and 1 thread.
Here is the direction of the straight stitches used to achieve the pink part of the feathers. Do not embroider split backstitches around the pattern because to give the feathers their full effect, it is necessary that the straight stitches are slightly irregular.
Embroider in satin stitch with 1 thread.
Continue with the dark pink part.
Then embroider the brown border with split backstitch 1 thread around the ecru stem stitches. To finish, add a few very tiny brown and ecru straight stitches 1 thread in the "blue eye" of each feather.
The middle part between the blue feathers and the pink feathers is made with a dark blue satin stitch 1 thread slantwise and decorated with brown spaced straight stitches 1 thread.
The blue feathers at the bottom of the pattern are simply embroidered with long and short stitch 1 thread and underlined with large irregular straight stitches on the edges.
Here is a picture of all the finished feathers. I varied the placement of the colors based on the picture of the printed fabric and I used the colors 3830 and 355 to darken the base of the feathers around the center.
Add little brown stitches 1 thread to give depth to the edge of the feathers.
To embroider the legs, start by placing transverse straight stitches 1 thread along the entire length of the legs. Then embroider the contours with 1 or 2 rows of split backstitches also with 1 thread.


text: We present a theoretical study on the linear and nonlinear optical properties in AlrGa1-rAs/GaAs asymmetric multiple step quantum wells (AMSQW) under the effects of a non-resonant intense laser field (ILF), electric, and magnetic field. Calculations are for the linear optical absorption and refractive index relative changes combined with the second and third harmonic generation. The potential profile is constructed as a function of the Aluminum concentration, so that the heterostructure has four steps of different concentration, width and height. The energy levels and corresponding wavefunctions are obtained by solving the Schordinger equation, for an electron, in the envelope function approach, with parabolic bands, and the effective mass approximations. The results show that variations in ILF, electric field and magnetic field have significant influences on the magnitude and peak energy positions of the SHG and THG coefficients. Therefore, we can conclude that the effects of ILF, electric and magnetic fields can be used to tune and control the SHG and THG in the range of the terahertz electromagnetic spectrurn.


error: attribute 'a' at (string):1:12 already defined at (string):1:5
nix-repl> let a = 3; in let a = 8; in a
8

You cannot refer to variables in a let expression outside of it:

nix-repl> let a = (let b = 3; in b); in b
error: undefined variable 'b' at (string):1:31

You can refer to variables in the let expression when assigning variables like with recursive sets:

nix-repl> let a = 4; b = a + 5; in b
9

So beware when you want to refer to a variable from the outer scope, but it's being defined in the current let expression. Same applies to recursive sets.

With expression

This kind of expression is something you hardly see in other languages. Think of it like a more granular "using" of C++, or "from module import *" from Python. You decide per-expression when to include symbols into the scope.

nix-repl> longName = { a = 3; b = 4; }
nix-repl> longName.a + longName.b
7
nix-repl> with longName; a + b
7

That's it, it takes a set and includes symbols in the scope of the inner expression. Of course, only valid identifiers from the set keys will be included.

If a symbol exists in the outer scope and also in the "with" scope, it will not be shadowed. You can however still refer to the set:

nix-repl> let a = 10; in with longName; a + b
14
nix-repl> let a = 10; in with longName; longName.a + b
7

Laziness

Nix evaluates expression only <a href="_URL_ needed. This is a great feature when working with packages.

nix-repl> let a = builtins.div 4 0; b = 6; in b
6

Since "a" is not needed, there's no error about division by zero, because the expression is not in need to be evaluated.

That's why we can have all the packages <a href="_URL_ here, yet access to specific packages very fast.

Next pill

...we will talk about functions and imports. In this pill I've tried to avoid function calls as much as possible, otherwise the post would have been too long.

Nix pill 5 is available for <a href="_URL_ here.

To be notified about the new pill, stay tuned on <a href="_URL_ href="_URL_ subscribe to the <a href="_URL_ rss.

Luca Brunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06329046616630750783noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32054652.post-46872653290982328912014-07-25T07:37:00.000-07:002014-07-26T10:54:15.115-07:00Nix pill 3: enter the environmentWelcome to the third Nix pill. In the previous <a href="_URL_ pill we have installed Nix on our running system. Now we can finally play with it a little, things also apply to NixOS users.

Enter the environment

In the previous pill we created a nix user, so let's start by switching user with su - nix. If your ~/.profile got evaluated, then you should now be able to run commands like nix-env and nix-store.
If that's not the case:

$ source ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh

I remind you, ~/.nix-profile/etc points to the nix-1.7 derivation. At this point, we are in our nix user profile.

Install something

Finally something practical! Installation in the nix environment is an interesting process. Let's install <a href="_URL_ a simple command line tool for playing with the Nix language. Yes, Nix is a <a href="_URL_ lazy, functional language, not only a set of tools to manage derivations.

Back to the installation:

$ nix-env -i nix-repl

installing 'nix-repl-1.7-1734e8a'
these paths will be fetched (18.61 MiB download, 69.53 MiB unpacked):
[...]
building path(s) '/nix/store/f01lfzbw7n0yzhsjd33xfj77li9raljv-user-environment'
created 24 symlinks in user environment

Now you can run nix-repl. Things to notice:

We did install software as user, only for the nix user.

It created a new user environment. That's a new generation of our nix user profile.

The <a href="_URL_ manages environments, profiles and their generations.

We


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The trail section, known as the Eastern Regional Greenway, will include about five miles of trails along the Apalachee River. Two trailheads will be built at Harbins Road and Winder Highway. The county plans to connect the new trails to the Piedmont Pathway, stretching from Dacula to Norcross.
The project includes new water mains and increasing the size of existing ones. Expansion of sewer services include a gravity sewer — an underground pipe used to move wastewater by sloping pipes between manholes, using the difference in elevation to keep the fluid moving.
A pump station to move sewage through higher elevations and a force main to transport fluids are also included in the project.


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Awesome Open Source
Build Build status
NuGet NuGet Status
 - 2020 june 7: published a couple of new releases. They are based on just four PRs but because of semver they came out as three separate releases.
 - 2.1.3 with a small fix to allow case insensitive style in wmts.
 - 2.2.0 in which HttpTileSource.PersistentCache now has a setter.
 - 3.0.0 which has two breaking changes.
 - In MbTiles there is a change in the default behavior that some users might notice. Zoom levels are not calculated from the 'tiles' table by default.
 - The TileIndex.Level is now int instead of string. Most users will not notice this unless you write logic around tiling itself.
BruTile is a.NET Standard 1.1 library to access tile services like OpenStreetMap and Bing. Such tile services store pre-rendered tiles for a certain area and for various levels of detail. BruTile helps to determine which tiles to fetch for a certain viewport of a map. BruTile returns tiles as raw image streams and has no dependency on a specific client platform. BruTile does not display those tiles. You need to use a mapping library like SharpMap, ArcBruTile or Mapsui or write your own code to display tiles.
What BruTile does is:
 1. Helps to construct a tile source, an object that has all information about a tile service.
 2. Helps to calculate which tiles you need, given a certain map extent and a map resolution (units per pixel).
 3. Helps you fetch those tiles.
BruTile is a.NET Standard library
BruTile V4 consists of 2 nugets that support.NET Standard 2.0.
Library Targeted Framework
BruTile.NET Standard 2.0
BruTile.MbTiles.NET Standard 2.0
 - Support for.NET Framework 4.5 has been removed (also the samples and tests have moved to.NET Core).
 - BruTile.Desktop and BruTile.Desktop.DbCache have been deleted and their content has moved to the BruTile nuget.
BruTile V3 supports.NET Standard. The Profiles by NuGet package:
Library Targeted Framework
BruTile.NET Standard 1.1
BruTile.MbTiles.NET Standard 1.1
BruTile.Desktop.NET Standard 1.6
BruTile.Desktop.DbCache.NET Standard 2.0
All the above libraries additionally target.Net Framework 4.5
For a demo showing various data sources download the source code and run BruTile.Demo in the Samples folder
Getting Started
1) Create an app and add the BruTile NuGet package
Create a.NET Console app in Visual Studio. The the BruTile NuGet package. Use the package manager tools in Visual Studio or add it from the package manager console:
PM> install-package BruTile
2) Create a tile source
// This is an example that creates the OpenStreetMap tile source:
var tileSource = new HttpTileSource(new GlobalSphericalMercator(0, 18),
 new[] {"a", "b", "c"}, "OSM");
3) Calculate which tiles you need
// the extent of the visible map changes but lets start with the whole world
var extent = new Extent(-20037508, -20037508, 20037508, 20037508);
var screenWidthInPixels = 400; // The width of the map on screen in pixels
var resolution = extent.Width / screenWidthInPixels;
var tileInfos = tileSource.Schema.GetTileInfos(extent, resolution);
4) Fetch the tiles from the service
Console.WriteLine("Show tile info");
foreach (var tileInfo in tileInfos)
 var tile = tileSource.GetTile(tileInfo);
 $"tile col: {tileInfo.Index.Col}, " +
 $"tile row: {tileInfo.Index.Row}, " +
 $"tile level: {tileInfo.Index.Level}, " +
 $"tile size {tile.Length}");
 tile col: 0, tile row: 0, tile level: 1, tile size 11276
 tile col: 0, tile row: 1, tile level: 1, tile size 3260
 tile col: 1, tile row: 0, tile level: 1, tile size 10679
 tile col: 1, tile row: 1, tile level: 1, tile size 4009
5) Try some of the known tile sources
// You can easily create an ITileSource for a number of predefined tile servers
// with single line statements like:
var tileSource1 = KnownTileSources.Create(); // The default is OpenStreetMap
var tileSource2 = KnownTileSources.Create(KnownTileSource.BingAerial);
var tileSource3 = KnownTileSources.Create(KnownTileSource.BingHybrid);
var tileSource4 = KnownTileSources.Create(KnownTileSource.StamenTonerLite);
var tileSource5 = KnownTileSources.Create(KnownTileSource.EsriWorldShadedRelief);
The predefined tile sources are defined in a single file. Take a look at that file here to learn how you could create any tile source.
6) Use MBTiles, the sqlite format for tile data, to work with tiles stored on your device.
var mbtilesTilesource = new MbTilesTileSource(new SQLiteConnectionString("Resources/world.mbtiles", false));
var mbTilesTile = mbtilesTilesource.GetTile(new TileInfo { Index = new TileIndex(0, 0, 0) });
Console.WriteLine($"This is a byte array of an image file loaded from MBTiles with size: {mbTilesTile.Length}");
This is a byte array of an image file loaded from MBTiles with size: 27412
The above code can also be found in the BruTile sample called BruTile.GettingStarted in the Samples folder of this repository.
Supported tile service protocols:
 - Stability is currently our primary focus.
Projects that use BruTile
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 3. Before using a new technology, process, or chemical, or starting a new activity, people have an obligation to examine "a full range of alternatives" including the alternative of doing nothing.
 4. Decisions applying the precautionary principle must be "open, informed, and democratic" and "must include affected parties."
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I read somewhere that if we increase the temperature of the material in a laser diode the threshold current for lasing also increases. Can someone explain to me why is this happening? What is the mechanism inside the diode behind this increase?
"The increase in operating temperature increases the threshold current of the device — more drive current is needed to turn on the LASER diode. This phenomenon is attributed to the fact that as temperature increases, the nonradiative processes in the device would increase and compete with the system for photons. Thus, the threshold current increases with temperature." (_URL_ )


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Instincts||Trick 5: Set Clear Boundaries|
|Tip 6: Report Suspicious Behavior||Trick 6: Engage in Group Chats|
Tip 5: Trust Your Instincts. If something feels off during a conversation on Omegle, trust your instincts and end the chat. Your safety and well-being should always be a priority.
Trick 5: Set Clear Boundaries. Before engaging in a conversation, establish clear boundaries and make it known what you are comfortable discussing. This will help filter out potential harmful interactions.
Tip 6: Report Suspicious Behavior. If you come across any suspicious or inappropriate behavior on Omegle, report it immediately. By doing so, you contribute to making the platform safer for everyone.
Trick 6: Engage in Group Chats. Consider joining group chats instead of one-on-one conversations. Group chats provide a safer environment as there are more people involved, reducing the chances of encountering harmful content.
In conclusion, staying safe while using Omegle is crucial. By following these tips and tricks, you can enjoy your experience on the platform while protecting yourself from potential dangers. Remember, anonymity doesn't guarantee safety, so always prioritize your well-being and make smart choices while interacting with strangers online.
Omegle Success Stories: Real-Life Experiences and Connections Made through the Platform
Omegle, an anonymous online chat platform, has become a popular way for people to connect with strangers around the globe. While it may seem inorganic and disconnected, many individuals have experienced incredible journeys and made lasting connections through this platform.
One of the main attractions of Omegle is its anonymity. This feature allows users to freely express themselves without the fear of judgment or consequences. Whether you're searching for romantic connections, new friendships, or simply engaging conversations, Omegle provides a platform where you can be yourself and explore your interests.
One of the most significant advantages of Omegle is the diverse range of individuals you can encounter. World travelers, artists, entrepreneurs, and people from all walks of life are using this platform to connect with others who share their passions and interests. You never know who you might encounter or what fascinating stories they may have to tell.
- Real-Life Experiences: Omegle has proven to be a portal to fascinating real-life experiences for many users. People have shared stories of meeting their soulmates, finding life-changing opportunities, and discovering hidden talents through conversations on this platform.
- Unlikely Connections: Omegle has a knack for bringing together individuals who never would have crossed paths otherwise. From people of different cultures and backgrounds to individuals with unique perspectives and thought processes, Omegle presents an opportunity to broaden your horizons and engage in eye-opening conversations.
- Building Social Skills: For those who struggle with social interactions or suffer from anxiety, Omegle serves as a stepping stone towards improving social skills. Engaging in anonymous conversations with strangers can help boost confidence and enhance communication abilities.
- Breaking Stereotypes: Omegle breaks stereotypes by encouraging users to embrace diversity and engage in conversations with people from all walks of life. This platform has the power to build bridges and facilitate understanding between different cultures and communities.
In conclusion, Omegle is not just another random chat platform. It offers a unique and intriguing opportunity to connect with people worldwide, opening doors to incredible real-life experiences and relationships. So, the next time you log into Omegle, remember that beneath its anonymous facade lies the potential for extraordinary connections and life-altering conversations.
The Future of Omegle: How the Platform Continues to Evolve and Adapt in the Digital Age
In today's digital age, platforms that connect people from all around the world have become increasingly popular. One such platform that has gained immense recognition is Omegle. Originally launched in 2009, Omegle started as a simple text chat platform that randomly paired users for anonymous conversations. Over time, Omegle has evolved and adapted to the changing needs of its users, resulting in its continued growth and relevance in the digital landscape.
One of the key factors behind Omegle's success is its ability to keep up with the ever-changing digital technologies. As the internet landscape has shifted towards more visual and interactive experiences, Omegle introduced video chat capabilities in 2010. This allowed users to have face-to-face conversations, creating a more immersive and personal connection. The addition of video chat opened new opportunities for users to engage with each other and paved the way for Omegle's continuous growth.
Furthermore, Omegle recognized the importance of user safety and implemented various measures to ensure a secure environment for its users. In an increasingly online world, privacy and security concerns have become paramount. Omegle addressed these concerns by introducing a "Spy Mode" in 2011, where users could anonymously observe conversations without participating. This feature provided an extra layer of protection for users who preferred to maintain their anonymity while using the platform.
Another crucial aspect that sets Omegle apart from its competitors is its commitment to user feedback and constant improvement. The platform actively encourages users to provide feedback, suggestions, and reports on suspicious or inappropriate behavior. This feedback loop allows Omegle to address issues promptly and make necessary modifications. By actively listening to its users, Omegle ensures that it remains a thriving and user-friendly platform.
In addition to its core features, Omegle has also expanded its offerings to cater to changing user demands. For instance, in response to the growing popularity of online gaming, Omegle introduced a gaming section where users can connect with fellow gamers and discuss their favorite games. This expansion not only showcases Omegle's adaptability but also demonstrates its commitment to providing diverse experiences for its users.
- Enhanced video chat capabilities
- Secure and anonymous browsing experience with "Spy Mode"
- User feedback-driven improvements
- Expansion into gaming to cater to different interests
In conclusion, the future of Omegle looks bright as it continues to evolve and adapt to the ever-changing digital age. By embracing new technologies and prioritizing user safety and feedback, Omegle has successfully managed to stay relevant in a highly competitive landscape. As more people seek ways to connect with others, Omegle stands as a reliable platform that offers a safe and enjoyable experience. Whether it's through video chats, anonymous browsing, or gaming discussions, Omegle remains a go-to platform for those looking to connect, engage, and forge new relationships in the digital world.