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A Roadmap for Revising an Equity Compensation Plan
Publisher: Day Pitney Alert
June 6, 2011
Day Pitney Author(s) Warren J. Casey
Now that proxy season is over, it is advisable to consider whether your current equity compensation plan will need to be amended or replaced and submitted for shareholder approval at next year's annual meeting. If the equity compensation plan will expire or will require additional shares, award types or changes to the eligible participants, now is the appropriate time to develop a strategy for successful implementation of a new or revised plan.
A Good Beginning Makes a Good Ending: Create a Timeline and a Team
Work backward from the date of the next annual shareholders' meeting, and create a timeline to track key deliverables. Beginning the process as early as 11 months before the next shareholders' meeting is advisable.
A detailed timeline, however, is only as effective as the team that will be working on the deliverables. It is important to assemble a team with representatives from Human Resources, Investor Relations and Legal. Also consider whether a compensation consultant, a proxy solicitor or outside counsel should participate in the process. Note that modeling assumptions can change significantly as plan details develop, and therefore be mindful of the point in the process where it is appropriate to include the Compensation Committee in the discussion.
Ensure that the team understands all exchange listing and shareholder approval requirements from the outset. For example, if the equity compensation plan is intended to qualify for a performance-based exception to Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m), only performance goals included in the shareholder-approved compensation plan can be used. Understanding this requirement may lead to drafting a more exhaustive list of possible performance goals.
Starting the process early with the right team in place will increase the likelihood of success. Understanding the requirements leads to informed drafting, which results in an equity compensation plan that is easier to sell to shareholders.
The Lay of the Land: Determine Who Your Investors Are and What They Want
The equity compensation plan needs to balance the company's equity granting practices with the current trends and governance standards. Given that standards vary among shareholders, it is important to understand the company's shareholder base from the outset of the process. For example, what influence do ISS or other advisory firms have on your own institutional shareholder vote?
Many institutional investors consider ISS recommendations, which means the company should be prepared for ISS's burn rate and dilution calculations. The "burn rate" is based on the company's use of equity compensation. ISS compares a company's three-year average burn rate to an industry-specific cap. "Dilution" considers the overall cost of the plan based on the amount of shareholder equity transferred from the company to its employees and directors. The company may want to consider conducting its own modeling before incurring the cost of an ISS-generated analysis.
Regardless of who your investors are, certain practices and provisions should be avoided or amended to correspond with current governance trends. For example, the company should not be able to reprice options without shareholder approval. You should also consider the alignment between CEO compensation and company performance based on the analysis ISS conducts of companies with low "total shareholder returns." Also, companies should understand that ISS is likely to vote against an equity compensation plan with a "liberal change in control definition," which in effect provides for accelerated vesting of awards even though an actual change in control may not occur.
Again, the drafting team should consider what is important to the company's investors. Many of the company's large institutional shareholders may have their own requirements for equity plans (e.g., burn rate, dilution, plan terms), so it is important to understand and consider those policies. Where appropriate, the Investor Relations team may seek feedback from shareholders regarding any concerns about compensation practices, run rate, dilution or past stock plans. Understanding how the company has been viewed can help the team draft the type of plan shareholders are willing to accept.
The Devil Is in the Details: Decide on Structure and Terms
Determine how many shares the company needs and how long the share reserve should last. Unlike in the past, shares available under equity compensation plans generally are no longer expected to last five or more years. The trend is to submit equity plans to shareholders every two or three years for the approval of more shares. The ultimate decision about the number of shares requested in the plan will need to satisfy the company's needs while ensuring that dilution levels and run rates do not alienate shareholders, resulting in a negative vote.
The company also will need to determine what type of share reserve structure best suits its needs. Under an omnibus or traditional share reserve structure, a grant of one award unit would reduce the number of shares available under the plan by one share, regardless of whether the award that was granted was a "full-value" award (e.g., restricted stock) or an option or stock appreciation right (SAR). While this approach is flexible and easier to administer, ISS will value every share available under the plan as a full-value award which is likely to make the plan too costly to gain ISS support.
Under a bifurcated or share limit share reserve structure, a company would limit the maximum number of shares that could be issued as full-value awards. Depending on the number of full-value shares reserved, this approach may help a plan pass muster with ISS. However, a company that fails to accurately estimate the needed number of full-value awards could deplete its reserve too quickly and be forced to seek shareholder approval for additional full-value awards or readjust its internal approach to equity compensation.
Under a flexible or fungible share reserve, full-value awards are counted against the total number of shares reserved under the plan at a higher multiple than options or SARs (e.g., each share of restricted stock under the plan may reduce the number of shares available under the plan by 2 shares or, alternatively, each option may reduce that number of shares available under the plan by 0.5 shares). Though more challenging to initially develop and to administer over time, this structure provides the flexibility of having unlimited access to the full range of equity awards within the overall share limitation.
If a company uses a flexible/fungible share reserve structure, it should consider prohibiting certain types of share recycling in the plan to avoid ISS valuing every share in the plan as a full-value award for purposes of its cost analysis. Many practitioners believe a prohibition against share recycling, or liberal share counting, means that any shares used to satisfy tax withholding requirements or tendered in payment of an option's or an SAR's exercise price cannot be returned to the share reserve. However, this interpretation may be too strong of a prohibition against the return of shares to an equity plan, as shares tendered to satisfy tax withholdings for full-value awards like restricted stock should be returnable to a flexible/fungible share reserve because reissuance of the shares as a new full-value award will not increase the overall cost of the plan. Meanwhile, options or SARs withheld for taxes or tendered in payment of the exercise price should not be returnable to a flexible/fungible share reserve (as reissuance of those shares as a new full-value award would increase the cost of the plan).
The ultimate goal is to make the equity compensation plan as permissive and flexible as possible. Though the company will need to present the plan to shareholders as additional shares are needed, if the plan is thoughtfully crafted, the substantive terms should not need to be revised.
It's Only the Seventh-Inning Stretch: Finish the Plan and Move On to the Proxy
Shareholders need a reason to vote in favor of the company's equity compensation plan. The team may have carefully drafted the plan, but now shareholders need to understand its merits. Use the proxy to convey the company's message. High dilution or a high burn rate cannot always be corrected in the short term - regardless of how thoughtfully an equity compensation plan was designed. A clear (and plain English) message explaining the issues and what the company is doing to rectify them may help the company overcome these types of obstacles.
Even after the proxy is filed, there is still more work to be done. Just as the team was involved in the details of drafting the actual equity compensation plan, the group should participate in creating the talking points used by Investor Relations and senior management when discussing the plan. Consider whether supplemental solicitation materials are necessary.


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Get the entire HTML + CSS + JS of the page, and send it to a web service
I am writing a web service in C# using
NReco.PdfConverter
and
wkhtml
that would convert web pages into PDF files.
The web pages (on SharePoint) require authorization and also contain a form that the user needs to fill in, therefore the web service cannot simply access the URL of that page and download it.
The JavaScript and CSS files are also important for the correct rendering of the form, including dozens of JS files and stylesheets from SharePoint.
So far my best idea is this:
 - When user clicks "Generate PDF", JavaScript will convert the entire current page into a single string (appending the CSS files and JS files inline);
 - POST
 that string to the webservice using
 $.ajax()
 .
 - Using
 NReco.PdfConverter
 , it is trivial to convert that string to PDF and save it into the file:
 var converter = new HtmlToPdfConverter
 {
 Margins = new PageMargins
 {
 Top = 0,
 Bottom = 0,
 Left = 0,
 Right = 0
 },
 CustomWkHtmlArgs = "--print-media-type"
 };
 converter.GeneratePdf(htmlContent);
How would one even approach the idea of generating a single-page HTML (including the state of the checkboxes, text inside the forms etc.) in the browser?
Is it something tremendously complicated? Is anyone aware of another solution?
Answer Source
You can pass authorization cookie (or header) using appropriate wkhtmltopdf option, for example (if WebForms authentication is used):
var pdfGen = new HtmlToPdfConverter();
pdfGen.CustomWkHtmlArgs = String.Format(" --cookie {0} {1} ",
 FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName,
 Request.Cookies[FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName] );
pdfGen.GeneratePdfFromFile("your_sharepoint_web_page_url", null, "output.pdf");


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- NASA Watch
- January 31, 2023
Space Florida Selected to Manage Shuttle Landing Facility
NASA and Space Florida Begin Partnership Discussions, NASA
"NASA has selected Space Florida, the aerospace economic development agency for the state of Florida, for negotiations toward a partnership agreement to maintain and operate the historic Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF).
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and the director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Robert Cabana, announced the selection during a news conference Friday at Kennedy's Visitor Complex in Florida.
"This agreement will continue to expand Kennedy's viability as a multi-user spaceport and strengthen the economic opportunities for Florida and the nation," Bolden said. "It also continues to demonstrate NASA's commitment and progress in building a strong commercial space industry so that American companies are providing safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the International Space Station and other low Earth orbit destinations."
Marc's note: There's been a real push to commercialize parts of KSC since the retirement of the Shuttle which is as it should be. Are we seeing a genuine long-term change? Is KSC to be a dual government and private space facility that can co-exist?

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 1949. Department of Agronomy.
The purpose of this study is to initiate an investigation of the distribution of heavy minerals in Nebraska soils using the techniques of Marshall and Jefferies. Only one soil, Scott silt loam, was selected since it was expected that the Scott profile would show the maximum development of the soils previously studied in Nebraska. The investigation was made into the distribution of heavy minerals in very fine sand (0.1 to 0.05 mm.) and coarse silt (0.05 to 0.02 mm.) separates of Scott silt loam. In the entire profile there was a 12.8 per cent increase in depth, an 11.4 per cent increase in total weight of soil, a 14.6 per cent increase in 2-micron clay, and a 30.5 per cent loss in green hornblende content.


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The Lak-EN310 portable lactate analyser allows data transmission to a mobile device via an App in the Android and iOS environments.
Please find below the most important features of this new product:
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The Lak-En310 lactate analyser test strips incorporate gold electrodes, improving the accuracy and precision of lactate test results by improving and regulating the electrical transmission from the Reaction Zone of the test strip to the Analyser.
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Relative storage humidity: min. 10% – max. 93% (without condensation)
Calibration with the code chip.
Memory for 800 results
Integrated test strip removal button
Shelf life: 5 years
Power Supply: 3V
Includes carrying bag, analyser, instruction manual in English and Spanish and two AAA batteries.


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This Vegetable broth contains different types of nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals and high in calcium. The subtle taste with a hint of sweetness makes this a comfort food and it provides an alternative nutritional source for kids that dislike vegetables
Ingredients: Vegetables, Red Dates and Filtered Water.
- Keep Frozen at or below -18°C.
- Do not refreeze after defrosting.
- Consume within 48 hours after defrosting.
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Invisible Indexes
Invisible indexes are a new feature in MySQL 8.0 that provide the ability to mark an index as unavailable for use by the Optimizer. This means that the index will still be maintained and kept up-to-date as data is modified, but no queries will be permitted to make use of the index (even if the query uses FORCE INDEX index_name).
Invisible indexes should not to be confused with disabled indexes, which the MyISAM storage engine implements (disabled indexes halt maintenance of an index). There are two notable use cases for invisible indexes:
 1. Soft delete. Whenever performing a destructive operation in production, it is desirable to be able to observe before making the change permanent. Think of this as like an index "Recycle bin." In the event that you were mistaken and the index was being used, it is only a metadata change to make it visible again - much faster than recreating or restoring from backup. For example:
 ALTER TABLE Country ALTER INDEX c INVISIBLE;

 2. Staged rollout. Whenever adding indexes, it is important to consider that they may change your existing query plans - sometimes in undesirable ways. Invisible indexes present an opportunity to stage the rollout of an index to a desirable time, potentially away from peak load and when you are actively in a position to observe the system. For example:
 ALTER TABLE Country DROP INDEX c;
 ALTER TABLE Country ADD INDEX c (Continent) INVISIBLE;
 # after some time
 ALTER TABLE Country ALTER INDEX c VISIBLE;

All indexes default to being visible unless specified otherwise. You can search for invisible indexes across all schemas with:
SELECT * FROM information_schema.statistics WHERE is_visible='NO';
*************************** 1. row ***************************
TABLE_CATALOG: def
 TABLE_SCHEMA: world
 TABLE_NAME: Country
 NON_UNIQUE: 1
 INDEX_SCHEMA: world
 INDEX_NAME: c
 SEQ_IN_INDEX: 1
 COLUMN_NAME: Continent
 COLLATION: A
 CARDINALITY: 7
 SUB_PART: NULL
 PACKED: NULL
 NULLABLE:
 INDEX_TYPE: BTREE
 COMMENT: disabled
INDEX_COMMENT:
 IS_VISIBLE: NO
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It's a good idea to remove un-needed indexes. While most practitioners are aware that indexes hurt the performance of modifications (insert, update) this itself is a simplification. They can also hurt the performance of reads as the optimizer needs to evaluate them for plan selection.


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 - All water temperatures are the same during water birth – Water temperatures higher than 98 degrees must be avoided. However, you can opt to have a temperature cooler than 98 degrees.
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The points mentioned above answer common questions like is a water birth better or is water birth less painful. But do remember that every pregnancy is different. Consult your doctor to decide what is appropriate for you and your baby.
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Who is Competent to Contract? State the Position of Contracts with a Minor.
According to Section 11 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, Every person is competent to contract who is of the age of majority according to the law to which he is subject, and who is of sound mind, and is not disqualified from contracting by any law to which he is subject. The three tests namely, age, soundness and disqualification need to be applied to determine whether a person is competent to contract or not. This is further summarized as follows:
According to Section 3 of the Indian Majority Act, a person is deemed to have attained majority (a) when he completes 18 years or (b) where a guardian of person or property or both has been appointed by a Court of Law,(or where his property has passed under the superintendence of the Court of Wards), lie attains majority on completion of 21 years, According to Section 12 of the Indian Contract Act, A person is said to be of sound mind for the purpose of making a contract, if at the time when he makes it, is capable
- To understand the terms of the contract,
- To form a rational judgement as to its effect upon his interests.
A person may be disqualified from contracting if a person is not capable of both of the above is said to have suffered from unsoundness of mind. Some of the examples of persons having an unsound mind include the following:
- Idiots: A person who is permanently of unsound mind.
- Lunatic: A person who is mentally deranged due to some mental strain or other personal experience but who has some lucid intervals of sound mind.
- Drunken Persons: A sane person who is delirious from fever or who is so drunk that he cannot understand the terms of contract or form a rational judgement as to its effects on his interest.
Position of Agreements with a Minor:
As mentioned above, a minor is not competent to contract therefore, the law acts as the guardian of minors and protects their rights because they are not mature and may not posses the capacity to judge what is good and what is bad for them. Therefore, a minor is not liable for any promises made by him under an agreement.
A contract with or by a minor is absolutely void and the minor therefore cannot bind himself by a contract. It was held by The Privy Council that a minor's agreement is altogether void in the case of Mohan v. Rajkumar. Where Rajkumara minor borrowed from by executing a mortgage of his property in favor of Mohan.
Later on, Rajkumar sued for settling aside the mortgage. According to Section 10 and 11 of the Indian Contract Act it was held that the minor's agreement void and therefore the mortgage were not valid. It was held that the money advanced to minor cannot be recovered because minor's agreement was void.
Fraudulent representation by a minor:
According to Section 30 and 33 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963, in case of a fraudulent misrepresentation of his age by the minor inducing the other party to he enter into a contract, the court may provide for the compensation to the other party. As in the case of Khan v. Singh, it was held by the Lahore High Court that, where the contract is set aside, the status quo ante should be restored and the court may direct the minor on equitable grounds restore the money or the property to the other party if the money or property could be traced.
Ratification of a contract by a minor on attaining the age of majority:
A minor's agreement is void-ab-initio therefore, an agreement with a minor cannot be ratified even after he attains majority. In the case of Ramgopal v. Sudhire, it was held that a person gave a promissory note in satisfaction of one executed by him for money borrowed when he was a minor. It was held by the court that the claim under the promissory note could note be enforced because there was no consideration.
Minor's contract jointly with a major person:
The agreement made by a minor jointly with a major person is treated as a void contract vis-a-vis a minor however, which can be enforced against the major person who has jointly promised to perform.
Minor as a partner:
A minor cannot become a partner in a partnership firm. According to Section 30 of the Indian Partnership Act 1932, a minor may with the consent of all the partners for the time being, admitted to the benefits of the partnership. It can also be added that, he can share the profits without incurring any personal liability for losses.
Minor as an agent:
A minor can act as an agent and bind his principal by his acts without incurring any personal liability.
Minor as a shareholder:
As per the provisions of the Indian Contract Act and the Privy Council's decision, a minor cannot become a member of the company. However, a minor can become a shareholder or member of a Company if (a) the shares are fully paid up and (b) the articles of association do not prohibit so.
Minor as an insolvent:
A minor cannot be declared insolvent because he is incapable of contracting debts, that is, he is not competent to contract.


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Find a picture in a magazine or online.Really look at that picture the colors, movement if any, the description of the characters if there are any. Really look at that picture. How does it make you feel, happy, sad or nothing? Now take out your journal and write 200 or less words describing that scene or picture.Describe everything using poetic words to describe the scene or object. Famous authors are known for their poetic description of scenes or objects. One that comes to mind is Maeve Binchy. Her description in her books, made you feel you actually see the image through her writings.
Author,Artist and Illustrator. Self Published author of eBooks and videos. Plus I do artwork on assignments and teach classes.


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Chemistry in Context: A Citizen-First Approach to Foster Student Engagement and Motivation
WEBINAR (69 minutes) recorded April 9, 2020
Students are the next generation of citizens who will need to deal with the consequences of today's global challenges (i.e., climate change, air and water quality, nutrition). As such, all students need to understand basic chemistry principles to gauge the accuracy of media reports. In this webinar, we will present a strategy to introduce fundamental chemistry concepts through a context-first approach using the ACS textbook Chemistry in Context. With chemistry principles woven into discussions on a need-to-know basis, students can easily grasp how chemistry influences their everyday lives. We will describe how a variety of media (e.g., videos, simulations, labs, demos) can be used to initiate in-class discussions and assist students with retaining knowledge outside of the classroom.


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Your network contains servers that run Windows Server 2012 R2.
The network contains a large number of iSCSI storage locations and iSCSI clients.
You need to deploy a central repository that can discover and list iSCSI resources on the network automatically.
Which feature should you deploy?
A. the Windows Standards-Based Storage Management feature
B. the iSCSI Target Server role service
C. the iSCSI Target Storage Provider feature
D. the iSNS Server service feature
Explanation:
D. The Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) protocol is used for interaction between iSNS servers and iSNS clients. iSNS clients are computers, also known as
initiators, that are attempting to discover storage devices, also known as targets, on an Ethernet network.
Exam 70-412 - Which feature should you deploy?
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A: Windows Server 2012 R2 enables storage management that is comprehensive and fully scriptable, and administrators can manage it remotely. A WMI-based
interface provides a single mechanism through which to manage all storage, including non-Microsoft intelligent storage subsystems and virtualized local storage
(known as Storage Spaces). Additionally, management applications can use a single Windows API to manage different storage types by using standards-based
protocols such as Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).
B: Targets are created in order to manage the connections between an iSCSI device and the servers that need to access it. A target defines the portals (IP
addresses) that can be used to connect to the iSCSI device, as well as the security settings (if any) that the iSCSI device requires in order to authenticate the
servers that are requesting access to its resources.
C: iSCSI Target Storage Provider enables applications on a server that is connected to an iSCSI target to perform volume shadow copies of data on iSCSI virtual
disks. It also enables you to manage iSCSI virtual disks by using older applications that require a Virtual Disk Service (VDS) hardware provider, such as the
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Inability to Complete Tasks: What to Do
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Ladies
Difficulty concentrating is one of the most common menopause symptoms that can plague middle-aged women's lives, causing an inability to complete tasks and keep on track with one's daily routine. Continue reading to find out what to do when having trouble focusing on tasks so that you can get back into the swing of things.
Inability to Complete Tasks: What to Do
Understand When Your Focus is Best
Everyone has a daily focus pattern that fluctuates throughout the day. Some may be more concentrated in the mornings and evenings, while others find they have the highest levels of concentration throughout the early afternoon.
If having difficulty completing tasks, find your daily focus pattern so you can plan your most important activities when you have the best attention span. When your focus is weaker, plan tasks that require more practical work.
Find Out What Influences Your Attention
Women having difficulty finishing tasks should take into consideration the fact that their focus is dependent upon physical and psychological factors, including:
Sleep
Receiving too little or too much sleep can negatively impact cognitive performance. Research has actually found those receiving seven to eight hours of sleep per night mentally younger by two years.1
Consistent sleep deprivation also heightens one's risk of having diabetes, high blood pressure, and even narrowed blood vessels. All of these can provoke decreased oxygen flow to the brain, causing difficulty focusing on tasks.
Triggers
While coffee is often praised for its ability to boost concentration and mental awareness, studies have found that when consumed in excess, it may decrease performance, possibly because of overstimulation.2 Reducing its consumption later in the day also improves sleep patterns.
Moreover, alcohol can also provoke difficulty completing tasks as it is a central nervous system (CNS) depressant. Chronic alcohol abuse can lead to persistent memory problems and learning capabilities. Fortunately, abstinence often improves cognition.
Mental states
Negative emotions tend to take over one's focus, making it difficult to complete tasks and pay attention to the job at hand. On the other hand, positive emotions affect one's mentality on the contrary, expanding one's focus to be able to see the bigger picture.
Treat the Underlying Cause
Many middle-aged women suffering with difficulty concentrating are victims of hormonal imbalance, which is common as women start to transition out of their fertile years. As such, their concentration woes will only disappear once the root cause is properly addressed.
Difficulty concentrating treatments revolve around optimizing endocrine system health through lifestyle changes - balanced diet, wholesome habits, regular exercise, etc. - alongside the use of alternative medicine proven to bring relief.
By balancing hormone levels, women will not only be able to focus once again, but they will also be free of other pesky symptoms, like hot flashes, mood swings, vaginal dryness, and more.
Key Takeaways
Having an inability to complete tasks as one nears the finale of her reproductive years is not the end of the world. By acknowledging what time of the day you're most productive, being conscious of any physical or psychological factors that influence your attention, and treating the underlying cause of hormonal imbalance, you can be on your way to optimal cognitive ability far into your twilight years!
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OSIRIS LAYOUT MIGRATION
Migrating analog and mixed signal layout between foundries and processes is a complex process that must account for changes in component construction as well as new design rules. IN2FAB's OSIRIS Layout Migration tools have been used to migrate hundreds of circuits to new technology while preserving the critical topology and hierarchy of the original. IN2FAB's tools take advantage of the design kits to place foundry generated circuit elements then make small adjustments to the components and interconnect as required.
OSIRIS layout migration tools are designed to simplify the complexities of translating circuit elements between processes and foundries. Interactive tools identify the elements in each circuit and guide the user through the process of translating them between the original and new design kits.
Shape based data is adjusted and translated to new layers while advanced circuit elements such as parameterized cells and other complex circuit elements are translated and placed in to the new circuit. This places components straight from the new design kits ensures compatilbility with the new design environment and verification tools.
Design migration takes place interactively within the layout editor, giving engineers the freedom to adjust or modify their design at any time. Control and processing options also allows sections of the design hierarchy to be translated, giving users complete control over the migration process.
OSIRIS migrates all circuit elements and places equivalent objects in the new database. Parameterized cells are mapped to an equivalent device type from the new design kit and properties are translated and adjusted while component placements adjusted to the optimal positions. All other circuit elements such as shapes, vias and guard rings are translated to new layers and adjusted to match the requirements of the new process rules.
Interactive and intuitive user interfaces search the original circuit to identify core components and help guide the user to translate them to the new design requirements. Physical properties can be mapped directly or given further processing to resolve core differences between component construction and generate compatible layout from the source.
Capabilities and Features
OSIRIS layout migration features a host of features and capabilities to resolve the most complex mapping problems and generate layout tha tmatches the original circuit while meeting the new design rules.
OSIRIS generates a fully editable database that contains the same circuit elements as the original. Users can control the data translation and adjust layout using editing tools to further enhance the circuit. The topology, hierarchy and component make up of the migrated circuit match the source data to ensure that it can be further edited without restriction.
Alignment and Connection
Differences between the source and target design rules often mean that component placement and interconnect must be adjusted to maintain alignment and connectivity. Changes in rules such as contact size and gate spacing can mean components become separated from overlapping cells and from routing shapes.
OSIRIS recognizes component alignment in the circuits and makes small adjustments to the placement and routing in the migrated circuit to align and reconnect devices. Connections through contact overlap or wire and polygon interconnect are automatically resolved to retain the alignment and matching of critical devices.
OSIRIS features a host of interactive layout adjustment tools that allow users to update the circuit layout and resolve critical rules or layout requirements.
Shapes and layers can be adjusted to meet new DRC rules on single circuits or through the design hierarchy. Interactive circuit changes can also be made using a layout editor to resolve final design rule issues and complete the migration process.
IN2FAB's design kit based OSIRIS software allow users to address the complex problem of moving layout data between foundries and processes. Interactive migration takes over the complex problems and allows engineers to concentrate on adjusting and optimizing analog and mixed signal layout for customer delivery.


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Locale::MakePhrase::LanguageRule - rule instance for a given translation.
This is a container for the currently translated phrase. Its main purpose is to validate the translation rule so that Locale::MakePhrase doesn't need to do it.
When implementing custom backing stores, you will need to construct these per translation that can be returned.
The following methods are available:
Construct an instance of the language rule. Takes a hash or hashref with the following options:
The input phrase used to generate this translation. (The backing store uses it as a search criteria, hence the name 'key'.)
The language tag that is associated with this specific translation.
Since Locale::MakePhrase will ask the backing store for all possible translations of a phrase based on the language tags that it resolved during construction, the translation specific language tag is stored with the actual translation.
The rule expression that will be evaluated when program arguments are supplied when trying to translate a phrase.
When figuring out which rule to apply, Locale::MakePhrase::RuleManager will sort the rules so that the highest priority rules get evaluated first.
This the text that will be output; it can contain placeholders for program argument substitution.
$string key()
Returns the phrase used as the key for translation lookup.
$string language()
Returns the language tag for this translated text.
$string expression()
Returns the expression that will be evaluated for this phrase.
$integer priority()
Return the priority of this phrase.
$string translation()
Returns the output phrase that matches the input key, for the given language.
You shouldn't need to sub-class this module, as it is simply used as a container.


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an instrument for determining the salt content in water by measuring electrical conductivity through the methods of conductometric analysis. In energetics, salinometers are used to determine salt content in feedwater and boiler water, as well as in the steam condensate. On ships, salinometers are used to measure the salinity of seawater.


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The first-ever 3D analysis of a material known as "Zwischgold" has unveiled its composition, along with how medieval metalworkers used it as a gilding material thousands of years ago.
The study was conducted by physicist Dr. Benjamin Watts and his team at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland.
What is Zwischgold?
Zwischgold is a blend of both silver and gold, formed into a foil that was commonly used as a coating, or gilding material for medieval objects and paintings. It's not uncommon to find Zwischgold adorning artifacts from the medieval period. The surface layer of gold used on top of the silver base is ultra-thin – more than 2,300 times thinner than a human hair – meaning it would have been cheaper to use than pure gold.
Artisans from this period would have had to be master craftsmen, and more technologically advanced than we previously had thought.
"It is incredible how someone with only hand tools was able to craft such nanoscale material," says Watts. "Although Zwischgold was frequently used in the Middle Ages, very little was known about this material up to now."
A Unique Study
This new study has its origins in finding ways to preserve Zwischgold-gilded objects, given how easily the material corrodes after prolonged exposure to oxygen. Researchers used samples from a 15th-century altar that was likely constructed around 1420, which had been used within a mountain chapel in the Swiss Alps for centuries. The altar features the Virgin Mary, holding baby Jesus in her arms. Samples, supplied by the Basel Historical Museum, were taken from Mary's robe.
The team then leveraged a new 3D diffractive imaging technique called ptychographic X-ray computed tomography (PXCT). The scan helped to further reveal the chemical composition of Zwischgold without compromising its structure in the process.
The imaging allowed the research team to observe the degree of adhesion, the thickness of both the gold and silver layers, and how evenly distributed the thin gold layer was applied to its silver base.
"Many people had assumed that technology in the Middle Ages was not particularly advanced," notes Qing Wu, a member of Watts' team and lead author of the research paper. "On the contrary: this was not the Dark Ages, but a period when metallurgy and gilding techniques were incredibly well developed."
While no documentation has yet been discovered as to how Zwischgold was produced and applied to objects, these new 3D scans give scientists and art historians insight into how it was likely done.
Silver and gold were hammered into foils separately and meticulously, with the gold foil being hammered to a much thinner degree. Once the two metals were hammered out, they would have been combined and worked on in tandem.
"This required special beating tools and pouches with various inserts made of different materials into which the foils were inserted. This was a fairly complicated procedure that required highly skilled specialists," says Wu.
The results of the PXCT scans will be used to further future studies, and to help conservators understand, preserve, and restore these uniquely gilded objects.


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I find it interesting that in the size range of about
3-10 cm, hovering flight seems to have been far easier
to achieve than in larger or smaller animals.
Dragonflies, hawkmoths, hummingbirds, small passerines
Those are actually the larger animals capable of continuous hovering (much larger species can sustain hovering for short bursts. Pandion is probably the largest hovering-adapted living species). Tiny insects can also hover. However, at very small sizes, staying still in the air column will be very difficult if it has any shear gradient at all (i.e. any gusts whatsoever). In addition, the very smallest insects can stay aloft in the air column without the need for energetic hovering as required in the above listed species.
I'm not sure, but small bats don't seem to do it; may have
something to do with the fact that their wings are
attached to the body over a long distance and don't
have sufficient freedom to move.
A fair number of bats hover; mostly nectar feeders.
But from my totally unscientific observations of
living animals, I get the impression that wing
movement during hovering in dragonflies *looks*
different than in hawkmoths, let alone hummers.
Dragonfly hovering is indeed a bit different, partly due to the use of four active wings versus two (hawkmoths mostly hover with the forewings). Still, the basic similarities are there in terms of momentum changes. Dragonflies do have a tendency to rotate sharply in an almost exactly horizontal plane while hovering, though, which seems to be rare in hummers and hawkmoths.
--Mike H.


Conditional Sentence Flow Chart
Conditional Sentences Flow Chart
Conditional sentences are hard to create when you are learning English. I created this conditional sentence flow chart to help you decide what conditional to use.
How To Use The Flow Chart
The instructions are as follows:
 - Take an activity like visiting Canada.
 - You ask yourself, "am I talking about a real possible thing?"
 - If the answer is yes, move to the real conditional side.
 - Then ask yourself, "Are you trying to express a past habit?"
 - If yes, then use the past real conditionals. If no, then move down the flow chart to the next question.
 - You continue this process until you have determined which conditional you use.
Here is a video to further explain how to use the flow chart.
Conditional Sentence Flow Chart
Conditional Sentence Flow Chart
The chart displays the following Conditionals:
 - Present Real Conditional
 - Past Real Conditional
 - Future Real Conditional
 - Present Unreal Conditional
 - Past Unreal Conditional
 - Future unreal Conditional
The chart also displays what is the form for each conditional as well as an example, so you know how to use it.
Final Thoughts
The flow chart is a great tool to help you to understand what conditional you want to use. Additional practice is always helpful so if you looking for some good practice for conditionals, you should check out this practice.
Let me know your thoughts.
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In order to quickly explain the difference between these two types of extracts of medicinal fresh plants , we will first see the SIPF method, to then highlight the 2 final and original steps of the EPS process: leaching where the alcohol is added to the mixture of cryomilled plant, gradually increasing the alcoholic degree and the addition of glycerin , after evaporation of the alcohol and dosage of the tracer, the last operation consists in adding glycerin of vegetable origin to guarantee product standardization. The SIPF process The SIPF process is a manufacturing process which has the particularity of conserving all of the constituents as they were in the native state in the fresh...See article
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text: On occasion, a hydraulically fractured tight gas well does not perform up to its potential because of slow or incomplete fracture fluid cleanup. A number of papers have been written to address individual factors related to fracture fluid cleanup, but there are still many unanswered questions as to which factors mostly affect gas production from such wells. Numerical reservoir simulation is one of the best methods to study the fracture fluid cleanup problem. Continuing from our previous publication (SPE 117444) on the impact of gel damage on fracture cleanup, we used reservoir simulation to analyze systematically the factors that affect fracture fluid cleanup and gas recovery from tight gas wells. We first developed a comprehensive data set for typical tight gas reservoirs, and then ran single-phase flow cases for each reservoir and fracture scenario to establish the idealized base-case gas recovery. We then systematically evaluated the following factors: multiphase gas and water flow, proppant crushing, polymer filter cake, and finally yield stress of concentrated gel in the fracture. The gel in the fracture is concentrated due to fluid leakoff during the fracture treatment. We evaluated these factors additively in the order listed. We found that the most important factor that reduces fracture fluid cleanup and gas recovery is the gel strength of the fluid that remains in the fracture at the end of the treatment. This paper illustrates the complexity of the fracture fluid cleanup problem and points out the need to use reservoir simulation and to include all the pertinent factors in order to rigorously model fracture fluid cleanup. The procedures presented can provide a useful, systematic guide to engineers in conducting a numerical simulation study of fracture fluid cleanup.


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Akada enables you to send emails to parents, students, or staff. Additionally, you can email a class, a specific group of classes, or group codes. Emails can be sent using the main studio email address or from your user email address. You can email receipts, statements, confirmations, as well as several other reports. We'll talk more about emailing those things in other articles. Here we will discuss sending a typical mass email.
- From the home page "email" from the middle of the screen.
- Choose which address to send your email from by click "school" or "user" at the top of the page.
- To select recipients, click the Bcc* button or the "select recipients" link at the top.
- On the Select Recipients screen, select who the email is going to (accounts, students, classes, etc.)
- Select the status of the recipients (active, inactive, both, prospects, etc.)
- Choose a Last Name filter if you desire.
- Click Search, and the Search Results Screen will load.
- From this choose who will be receiving the email (you can select all using the blue link on the left of the screen).**
- When emailing accounts, you can click the pink buttons to include parent 1, 2, or both.
- Click Add Recipients.
- This will prompt a pop-up confirming the number of recipients and total emails.
- Close the pop-up and click the Return to Message button to prepare your email.
- Once you're back on the send email screen, if you wish to add more recipients (students or staff, for example), repeat the steps above.
*We strongly encourage sending group emails as Blind Courtesy Copies to protect the security of your customers' email addresses.
**To choose only specific recipients from the list click to highlight the first recipient. Then press and hold your Control key (command key for Mac users). While holding the control key, click on the other recipients you wish to include.
Attaching a File:
- From the send email screen, click the attach file button at the bottom of the screen.
- From the following pop-up, click the choose file button.
- Find the attachment from your computer and click open.
- Click the Attach File button.
Save for Later – When typing an email that you regularly send (an answer to common questions, for example), you can save that email in your Akada database to use in the future. Enter the subject line and your email message and then click the "Save email" button at the bottom of the screen. The email title will match the subject line.
Load Saved Email – To retrieve a previously saved email, click the "Load Saved Email" button. It will load the title of the email as the subject line and the text into the body field.
Add Signature – On your email setup page, you may create an email signature for each user. To add that signature to an email, click the Add Signature button at the top of the screen.


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2. In your scripts
Limit the number of records displayed (eg 10 per page) with the LIMIT part of your SQL query.
Group your requests at the beginning of the script in this way:
Loop through data...
If there are elements in your database which do not change, you should cache them.Following this tip will drastically diminish the need to access your database and speed up your site's load time.You can also perform session cache.Put query results into a session variable. This means that you do not need to run an identical query next time, you can just retrieve the session variables instead.Only recover the data which is usedIn your SQL requests, make sure you select only what you need, and that you have not forgotten the links between the tables.Example:
- Optimise your database by using cache
(where table1.champs = table2.champs2)
Avoid using the "HAVING" clause which can slow down queries. You should also avoid using "GROUP BY", unless strictly necessary.
- Avoid resource intensive options:


Pedestrian protection systems are designed to minimize the number of accidents or injuries that occur between a vehicle and a pedestrian. This system uses cameras and sensors to determine when the front of a vehicle strikes a pedestrian. When the collision occurs, the vehicle's bonnet lifts to provide a cushion between the vehicle's hard engine components and the pedestrian. This helps minimize the possibility of a severe head injury when the pedestrian's head comes into contact with the vehicle.


Consider the following line from the Aeneid, Book VI:
nec credere quivi hunc tantum tibi me discessu ferre dolorem.
Context: Aeneas has traveled into the underworld, and bumps into Dido, who he infers has committed suicide because of his departure.
My best literal translation is: "I couldn't believe this, my leaving, to bring unto you such pain," because I think that me discessu (for me to leave) stands in apposition with hunc. But I'm not sure whether supine verbs can have a subject argument.
So, generally, can an ablative clause formed from a supine verb have nouns corresponding to the base verb's subject or object?
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 I would discessu interpret here as a participle, and part of an ablativus absolutus with me -> because I left. Your question is still valid though. – piscator Nov 19 '16 at 19:30
Looking at it, I don't think me is ablative; it's more likely an accusative as the subject of an indirect statement with credere. Discessu here is not a supine, but a fourth-declension noun, discessus.
The translated line should actually be:
Nor did I believe that I in my departure would ever have caused you so much pain.
(Apologies for the tenses.)
All the grammars are clear that the ablative supine does not take an object of any kind. The hunc then probably goes with tantum dolorem in a way that can't be literally translated into English without extra words.
I checked two nineteenth-century interlinears to see if they could shed light on it. Hart/Osborn's is very nearly the same as mine, while Dewey's differs only in the translation of hunc.
 - Great to share interpretations here, thanks! me as an accusative in an indirect statement is possible from a grammatical perspective, but the positioning of the words (me discessu) as a group are in favor of an ablativus absolutus. You translate me discessu as my departure. How is this possessive aspect shown in the Latin? If me is an accusative, I would translate discessu as "by going away". But it would seem farfetched to me. – piscator Nov 19 '16 at 20:15
 - _USER_ No, I translate discessu as "in my departure" with me being "I". That part has to be the case, otherwise there is no subject of ferre. me as an ablative also cannot be apposite to hunc, as they're different cases. – cmw Nov 19 '16 at 20:20
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 _USER_ Ah, sorry, I misunderstood your post then. The problem becomes another, then, as discessu (with a -u) cannot be a regular perfect participle. This is going off your comment that "me discessu is an ablative clause." Were that the case, you would have seen me discesso along with a very different (sc. passive) meaning! – cmw Nov 19 '16 at 20:49
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 You are right, it can not be an ablative absoute, "by going away" is correct. Thanks! – piscator Nov 19 '16 at 20:59
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 _USER_: It may help to keep in mind that the supine is (from) a kind of substantive noun: it's not an adjective and it cannot agree with a noun. It is its case that conexes it with other nouns or adjectives, not agreement. (I agree with Weimer.) – Cerberus Nov 20 '16 at 17:48
The second supine (ending with -u) can only be combined with adjectives, or with fas and nefas. Examples:
 - iucundum cognitu atque auditu
 - nefas est dictu
A second supine verb never has an object, but it can have a subject, for example pleraque faciliora sunt dictu quam factu.
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Spatial functional data analysis
Spatial functional data analysis (FDA) concerns the statistical analysis of spatial and spatiotemporal data.
Spatial FDA is used to better analyse, model and predict the complex dependence structure inherent in spatiotemporal processes and thus is able to provide
more accurate predictions at high temporal and spatial resolutions.
Spatial FDA also accounts for attributes of the geometry of the physical problem such as irregular shaped domains, external and internal boundary features and strong concavities.
Spatial FDA can also include a priori information about the spatial structure of the phenomenon described by a partial differential equation (PDE). This facilitates a causal explanation for the drivers and impediments of the underlying spatiotemporal process.
What is Data2PDE?
Data to PDE estimates the parameters and the solutions of linear PDEs de noted by data that are partially observed noisy measurements distributed over complex geometries.
Modelling Temperature in Croatia with Data2PDE
Figure (1) shows the temperature measurements on February 2, 2008, at 127 meteorological stations across Croatia.
Figure 1
We model the dynamics of the temperature in Croatia with the diffusion advection reaction equation
$ \frac{\partial^2z}{\partial x^2} + \beta_{yy} \frac{\partial^2z}{\partial y^2}+\beta_x\frac{\partial z}{\partial x}+\beta_y\frac{\partial z}{\partial y}+\beta z = 0$
where $\beta_{yy},\beta_{x},\beta_{y},\beta$ are unknown parameters that require estimation from data.
The DAR PDE is used to describe the flow of heat, particles, or other physical quantities in situations where there is both diffusion and advection. Diffusion is the movement of a substance from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration, resulting after a passage of time in the uniform distribution of the substance. Advection or flow refers to the transport due to linear or gently curvilinear movement of the substance. Reaction occurs when the substance has a baseline to which it is either accumulating or decaying over either space or time.
The parameter $\beta_{yy}$ represent the rate of the spread of temperature from high concentration to low concentration in space; $\beta_x$ and $\beta_y$ denote the movement of the temperature across space; and the reaction multiplier $\beta$ defines the exponential increase or decrease of the temperature.
Let $z$ be the solution of the diffusion advection reaction equation and let the observations of the process $z$ at the locations $\textsf{x}_{i},\textsf{y}_{i}$ be $\textsf{z}_{i}$ for $i=1,\ldots,N.$ We assume that
$\textsf{z}_{i}=z(\textsf{x}_{i},\textsf{y}_{i})+\alpha w_{i} +\epsilon_{i}$
where $w$ is a co-variate representing scaled elevation (elevation/100) at each station; $\alpha$ measures the relationship between scaled elevation and $\textsf{z},$; and $\epsilon_{i}$ is an independent and identically distributed measurement error following a distribution with zero mean and finite variance $\sigma_{\epsilon}^{2}.$ As weather systems originating or crossing over Croatia are strongly influenced by its diverse topography we include the scaled elevation at each station as a covariate in this model.
The estimated relationship between the elevation and the temperature across Croatia with its 95% con dence interval is $\alpha=-0.67 \pm 0.06.$ Indicating that with a 100-meter rise in altitude, temperature decreases by about $0.67$ degrees Celsius.
The estimated $\beta = 0.55\pm 0.43$ indicates an accumulation of temperature.
The estimated rates of advection are $\beta_{y}=2.89 \pm 1.7$ and $\beta_{x}=-0.71\pm2.$ Indicating that the temperature is moving in a north-easterly direction.
The estimated rate of di ffusion in the y-direction is $\beta_{yy}=1.72 \pm 0.96.$ Indicating anisotropic behaviour in the temperature as it is di ffusing at a faster rate from south to north than from west to east.
The estimated temperature is shown in Figure (2), the warmer air is coming in from the Adriatic sea. The Bura, which is a north to north-eastern wind, blows this warm air from the coastline at Rijeka across Croatia to northeast border near Bilogora.
Figure 2
What is Data 2 Linear Dynamics (Data2LD)?
Data 2 Linear Dynamics (Data2LD) estimates the solution and the parameters of linear dynamical systems from incomplete and noisy observations of the underlying processes.
It uses a linear combination of spline basis functions to approximate the implicitly defined solution of the dynamical system. While also estimating the systems' parameters by requiring that this approximating solution adheres to the data.
Papers:
Carey, M., Gath, E., Hayes, K. (2016) 'A generalized smoother for linear ordinary differential equations'. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
Carey, M., Gath, E., Hayes, K. (2014) 'Frontiers in financial dynamics'. Research in International Business and Finance
Databeers Dublin
Databeers Dublin aims to bring together data experts from industry and academia, at a level accessible to a wide audience, by holding events which comprise of short talks from professionals with diverse expertise.
Thanks to Davide Cellai for the invite to talk at Databeers #6. For more information and upcoming events please see: _URL_
Functional Data Analysis and Beyond
at Matrix international research institute, Creswick, Australia
3rd December - 14th December 2018
Had a wonderful time at the workshop on Functional Data Analysis and Beyond. Many thanks to Aurore Delaigle, Frederic Ferraty and Debashis Paul for the invite.
In recent years, the field of functional data analysis has been widely used to answer science and policy questions, where the data are typically observed over time, space and other continuous variables. Current methodologies provide sophisticated computational techniques in solving complex problems in a wide range of application areas ranging from biomedical imaging, climate-environment interaction and unravelling networks evolving in time and space.
This workshop is intended to bring together the leaders in this field, representatives of application areas, and promising young researchers to charter the path for future development in the field.
Statistics of geometric features and new data types
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
19th March - 23rd March 2018
Had a great time at the workshop on statistics of geometric features and new data types. Many thanks to John Aston, Richard Davis and Axel Munk for the invite.
Geo spatial data are observations of a process that are collected in conjunction with reference to their geographical location. This type of data is abundant in many scientific fields, some examples include: population census, social and demographic (health, justice, education), economic (business surveys, trade, transport, tourism, agriculture, etc.) and environmental (atmospheric and oceanographic) data. They are often distributed over irregularly shaped spatial domains with complex boundaries and interior holes. Modelling approaches must account for the spatial dependence over these irregular domains as well as describing there temporal evolution.
Dynamic systems modeling has a huge potential in statistics, as evidenced by the amount of activity in functional data analysis. Many seemingly complex forms of functional variation can be more simply represented as a set of differential equations, either ordinary or partial.
In this talk, I present a class of semiparametric regression models with differential regularization in the form of PDEs. This methodology will be called Data2PDE "Data to Partial Differential Equations". Data2PDE characterizes spatial processes that evolve over complex geometries in the presence of uncertain, incomplete and often noisy observations and prior knowledge regarding the physical principles of the process characterized by a PDE.
Distributed Data for Dynamics and Manifolds
BIRS-affiliated mathematics research centre, Casa Matemática Oaxaca (CMO),
3rd September - 8th September 2017
Very interesting and insightful workshop many thanks to Jiguo Cao, Giles Hooker, James Ramsay, Laura Sangalli, and Fang Yao for the invite.
The ever-increasing rise of automated measurement has allowed us an unprecedented view of the world around us; from chemical processes on cell surfaces to global climate models, new sensors are capable of recording complex processes over a huge variety of spatial scales. The challenge is now not to collect data, but to analyze it.
This workshop focused on pairing complex models of physical processes with large data sets recorded on complex objects to refine our models and develop a new understanding of these processes. This workshop brought together statisticians, mathematical biologists, geometers, and applied mathematicians to develop new methods to understand how this new wealth of data can inform and improve mathematical models in these fields and how these models, in turn, can affect how the data is collected and measured.
European Study Group with Industry ESGI141
25th-29th June 2018, UCD Dublin.
ESGI's are week-long workshops that provide a forum for industrial scientists to work alongside academics on problems of direct industrial relevance.
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scratch on white car paint
How To Buff Out Scratches On Your Car
A deep gash in the side of your car might feel like the end of the world, but it does not have to be. Scratches can come from any number of places, like a neighboring car pulling away or a falling tree branch scraping up your paint.
Scratches are more than an aesthetic annoyance. They also take away layers of paint which protect your car, without which your car could begin rusting. Fortunately, most scratches can be easily buffed out, flawlessly fixing them without needing a visit to the body shop. Here is our guide on how to buff out even the most stubborn scratches.
The Protective Properties Of Car Paint, And How Scratches Affect That
You might be temped to suck up a scratch, save your money, and just leave it alone. However, your car's paint job is crucial to protecting the metal body, and a scratch compromises that protection. Even if you can accept a scratched-up car, you could be exposing your car to the elements and rusting the metal if you leave a scratch unattended.
With a good paint job, you car can withstand harsh weather, different temperatures, a range of moisture and humidity levels, and other elements like dust or mud. Almost all modern cars have three distinct layers in their paint job:
 - Primer: this is applied to the metal of the car body, and is usually white or off-white.
 - Paint: this is the main color of your car, and shows scratches the easiest. Contact your dealer if you need to repaint, as they can provide the exact shade to match your existing paint.
 - Clear coat: this is a thick transparent layer that seals the paint and protects it from fading under UV rays from the sun.
Scratches can be shallow or deep, sometimes cutting all the way to the metal base. When assessing how to repair a scratch, you can check how many layers of the paint job it has cut through. A minor scratch might only take off the clear coat, but severe scratches can expose metal. No matter how deep, a scratch damages some or all of your paint job's protective properties and needs repairs to maintain your car's integrity.
Types Of Car Paint Scratches
Different types of scratches can be determined with just the naked eye:
 - If the paint color is visible and uniformly colored, the scratch is only as deep as the clear coat and has exposed the paint.
 - If the paint color is tinged with white, then the cut has exposed the primer.
 - If the metal base is visible, then the cut has damaged every layer of the paint job and exposed the metal.
Clear Coat Scratch
clear coat scratch on ford kuga
These are the most common and easiest-to-repair scratches. Clear coat scratches are also called "spider webbing" because they form in circular patterns that look like webs. They are sometimes known as "swirl marks."
Clear coat scratches are often caused by low-quality car washes. It does not take much to cause one of these scratches. It is important to buy a proper drying cloth for just this reason, to avoid causing clear coat scratches.
Paint Embedded Scratch
paint emabedded scratch on ford kuga 2
Scratches that go this deep are more difficult to repair, as they have damaged both the clear coat and the paint. These usually occur from scraping against another car or a metal pole. A simple buff is not enough to fix these scratches.
You can tell if the scratch is this deep by looking for a couple traits. They are wider than the hair-line clear coat scratches, but not deep enough to show the white primer or bare metal. If the paint color is uniform and untinted with white, you have a paint embedded scratch.
Primer Deep Scratch
Primer Deep Scratch on ford kuga
A scratch this deep is going to show a gouge and will be a pain to repair. Running your hand along your car, you can feel where the scratch dips inward. For this reason, DIY solutions are out of the question. Not only will you need to touch up the paint with the same shade, but you will also need a clear coat top-up to even out the scratch.
Bare Metal Scratch
bare metal scratch on alfa romeo stelvio
If you can see the metal at a glance, then that part of your car is fully exposed to the elements and may be beginning to rust. Air and moisture can reach the metal, leading to oxidation, rusting, or just plain old corrosion. For a scratch this deep, you should go to the body shop as soon as possible.
Watch the video for an in-depth explanation of various car paint defects.
How To Repair Swirl Marks and Minor Scratches
You can buy scratch and swirl removers for filling in minor scratches and touching up surface imperfections. These include small scuffs on high-traffic car parts like door handles, or just a section of your paint job that has lost its sheen.
Related: How To Easily Remove Scratches From A Windshield
How To Remove Swirl Marks
 1. Wash your car and allow it to dry completely.
 2. Apply the swirl remover polish to a soft microfiber towel. Begin spreading the polish onto the area of your car with swirl marks.
 3. Firmly rub the polish in with a back-and-forth motion for a minute.
 4. Let the polish dry (it will look translucent when dry) and wipe away any excess with a clean towel.
 5. Repeat with any other damaged areas.
Related: How To Polish Your Car by Hand or With a Buffer
How To Remove Minor Scratches
 1. Wash your car and allow it to dry completely.
 2. Use two strips of masking tape to mark out the scratch, placing them an inch above and below the scratch. They should be parallel to the scratch and to one another.
 3. Apply the scratch remover polish to a soft microfiber towel. Begin rubbing in onto the scratch with a back-and-forth motion and firm pressure, following the direction of the scratch.
 4. Rub the polish onto the scratch for 30 seconds.
 5. Use a clean towel to dry off the scratch. Check if the scratch is repaired or if it needs more work. If the latter, repeat the process up to five more times.
 6. Finish by applying the polish to a wider area around the scratch to help the repair blend in.
How To Remove Stubborn Scratches
Once you have tried to remove a scratch with basic polish and have seen no change, you can move up a step to heavier grit polish. Also try being more aggressive with your application, using more pressure and rubbing the polish in with faster motions.
Paste scratch removers are tougher than liquid removers. If the scratch will not budge when you use a liquid remover, or if you have an older car, it might be time to try a paste remover.
This video will show you how to repair stubborn clear coat scratches.
How To Repair Deep Scratches
Deep scratches present a new challenge, because you cannot simply fill in the clear coat. These scratches need paint to touch up imperfections, and usually need sanding and polishing to regain the paint job's luster. For scratches this bad, you should take your car to a body shop and let the professionals repair the scratch.
How To Repair Scratches On A Black Car
black paint door with scratches
Scratches show up more easily on black cars than most. There are specialized products that include black pigment, so when you repair a scratch, the black paint job stays black. Such products can be used to remove swirl marks and scratches.
 1. Wash your car and allow it to dry completely.
 2. Test the black polish on a small section of your car to make sure the color matches.
 3. Apply the black swirl mark and scratch remover polish to a soft microfiber cloth and follow the previously listed instruction to repair the damage.
 4. After the polish has dried, wipe away any excess with a clean cloth and lightly buff the area until glossy.


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Configure a step to review Dynamic Analysis results with pipeline builds
You can add a step to your Jenkins pipeline project to get scan results from a Dynamic Analysis of your application.
Before you begin:
 - You meet the prerequisites.
 - You have installed the Jenkins Plugin.
 - For added security, Veracode highly recommends using the Credentials Binding plugin to manage your credentials. You use the plugin to bind your credentials to environment variables, which prevents your credentials from appearing in the Jenkins interface. See Protect Veracode credentials in Jenkins pipeline builds.
 - You must have already linked an existing Dynamic Analysis to an application profile with a Veracode policy. See Manually link Dynamic Analysis results to an application profile. If the Dynamic Analysis is linked to multiple URLs, you cannot view the analysis results in Jenkins. Therefore, you can either unlink URLs until there is only one linked to the Dynamic Analysis, or you can view the results in the Veracode Platform.
Veracode recommends using a snippet generator to create code snippets for routinely repeated steps in your build/test/deploy pipeline.
To complete this task:
 1. In your Jenkins pipeline project, select Configure > Pipeline.
 2. Select Pipeline Syntax to display the Snippet Generator page.
 3. From the Sample Step dropdown menu, select veracodeDynamicAnalysisReview: Review Veracode Dynamic Analysis Results.
 4. Enter the number of hours to wait for analysis results to be available.
 5. Select whether to fail the Jenkins build if the analysis violates a linked Veracode policy.
 6. Enter your API credentials.
 note
 If your Veracode API credentials are bound to environment variables, you can enter the environment variables for the API ID and API key.
 7. Select Run in debug mode to collect detailed information about the analysis. The plugin stores the information in the console log of each Jenkins project.
 8. If you are using a proxy host to connect to the Veracode Platform, select Connect using proxy and enter the proxy host information.
 9. Select Generate Pipeline Script to generate a script using the selected settings.
 This example shows a script using bound credentials. The values for the Veracode API user ID (vid) and API key (vkey) are the environment variables which map to the actual credentials in the Jenkins credential store.
 veracodeDynamicAnalysisReview debug: true, failBuildForPolicyViolation: true, vid: 'VERACODE_API_ID', vkey: 'VERACODE_API_KEY' waitForResultsDuration: 1
 10. Copy the pipeline script, which you add to your pipeline project.
 11. Go back to the main page for your pipeline project.
 12. Select Configure > Pipeline.
 13. In the Pipeline section, paste the script into the Script field.
 14. Delete the quotes from around the values for vid and vkey.
 15. Select Apply to save your changes.
 16. Go back to the main page for your pipeline project.
 17. Select Build Now and wait for the build and analysis to complete successfully.
 18. Under Build History, select a build number.
 19. Select Veracode Dynamic Analysis to review the results of the analysis.
 In the results, you can select the View Executive Summary link to view additional information in the Veracode Platform.


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Nur Khan rendered colossal services for the uplift of national sports of hockey, cricket and squash and enabled Pakistan to reach the pinnacle. Under his tenure as hockey chief, Pakistan won two Olympics, World Cup and Champions Trophy titles with later two tournaments being his own brainchild apart from many new innovations to uplift these sports from decline and decadence. When he became chairman PCB (then BCCP) in February 1980, he made the Asia Cup an enduring reality and introduced neutral umpiring in cricket matches.
He also played a pivotal role in bringing the Cricket World Cup to the subcontinent for the first time. When Nur Khan took over the responsibility of reviving squash in the country, the game saw its zenith. His revolutionary steps for the uplift of the game included introduction of talent hunt scheme which paid dividends and produced a surfeit of world class Pakistan players in the 70s: Qamar Zaman, Gogi Allauddin, Hidayat Jahan, Mohibullah Khan Junior and others. ln 1975, his efforts bore fruit as Qamar Zaman brought back the British Open title to Pakistan after 12 years. He during his short stints as Minister of Education and Governor of West Pakistan made all endeavours to promote education and improve the social fibre of the nation.
Pakistan's squash greats Jahangir Khan and Jansher Khan were discovered by the PIA when air marshal had the administrative reins of the national career. An ace fighter pilot, a visionary commander and an epitome a leader, Air Marshal Nur Khan emerged on the global landscape a true icon, a legend and a national hero.

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In a democracy, everybody has the freedom to disagree with the government
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very similar words in spell but huge differnce in meaning.
Decent : means "socially acceptable". It's also an old fashioned way to say "polite."
Descent: means the act of moving downward, either physically or socially.
Dissent:means to publicly disagree with an official opinion or decision.
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Gravitational Wave Polarization and Test Particles
This Demonstration shows how test particles move when a gravitational wave passes them. The wave is perpendicular to the plane of the particles. The two polarizations are "plus" polarization and "cross" polarization, 45° apart since gravitons are spin-2 particles.
This Demonstration closely follows S. Carroll, Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity, San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2003. The details remain coded with the solution given for geodesic deviation. The solution is in transverse traceless (TT) gauge and represents a wave in the direction, with the particles in the - plane. The test particles are close enough to approximate a locally-flat (Minkowski) metric and are assumed to be non-relativistic () at all times.


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Click one or more attributes for your selection criteria.
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If you select the clone of any path, you can select the original path (the master path) by using the Select Master command.
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The 'tell' style (coach-centred)
We use the 'tell' style when:
- We have little time to get our message across - perhaps at half time during a game the coach will not have the time to discuss and ask questions of players
- There are safety concerns - for example, if coaching tackling we need to instruct primarily rather than ask players to find out how to do it by themselves!
The coach-centred coach typically shows the following behaviours:
- Coaching through drills - practices tend to be very structured with use of progressive drills. These can be unopposed, semi-opposed or opposed. Sometimes the drills are practised without relation to the game.
- Authoritarian/instructional/didactic - the coach provides lots of instruction and feedback. There is little opportunity for player input and often the coach has a specific technique or method in mind. This coach often rules with an 'iron-rod' and is a real disciplinarian.
- Technique-driven - the coach sets up lots of practices to improve technique. These are typically repetitive and unopposed. The coach often references key factors very well.
- Focus on performance and emphasis on winning - the coach is concerned more with the result than the development of individuals. This coach tends to have very short term goals and has little consideration for long term player development.
- Coach makes all decisions and uses a structured approach - the coach has very specific session plans with direct interventions. The coach progresses the session at his/her pace rather than referencing the players' readiness. This coach is not comfortable when there is chaos within practices.
- Tell and show - the coach has a very formal structure for introducing practices or skills: 'tell - show (demonstrate) - do'.
- Explicit and formal approach - the coach designs and delivers sessions for a specific purpose. Sessions develop in a very structured and formalised way.
In summary, the coach-centred coach:
- Decides on what is to be done
- Defines what to do and how to do it


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3.See spirit level.
4. Of an acoustical quantity, 10 times the logarithm (base 10) of the ratio of the quantity to a reference quantity of the same physical kind.
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ii. To bring an aircraft into a horizontal line of flight, such as in to level off or level out.
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1. Engineering a device, such as a spirit level, for determining whether a surface is horizontal
2. Geography any of the successive layers of material that have been deposited with the passage of time to build up and raise the height of the land surface
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Bypass Tunnel Steel Liners in NY Harbor
DEP recently received its sixth shipment of steel liners that will be used to repair the Delaware Aqueduct, the longest tunnel in the world. The massive liners were shipped by barge from Louisiana, traveling through New York Harbor and up the Hudson River to a port in Newburgh.
The liners are part of a $1 billion project to fix two leaks within the 85-mile-long Delaware Aqueduct, which conveys about half of New York City's drinking water each day from reservoirs in the Catskill Mountains. The project comprises the largest repair in the 175-year history of New York City's water supply system.
DEP is currently building a bypass tunnel alongside the largest leak in the Delaware Aqueduct. The 2.5-mile bypass will be constructed 600 feet below the Hudson River, between Newburgh and Wappinger. The finished bypass tunnel will be connected to structurally sound portions of the existing Delaware Aqueduct to convey water around the leaking section. The leaking stretch will then be plugged and permanently taken out of service. DEP expects to complete the project in 2023.
Most of the Delaware Aqueduct was drilled through dense bedrock that provided support for the concrete tunnel. The portion underneath the Hudson River, however, was built through cracked and faulted limestone — a geology formation that lacked adequate support for the tunnel. When the aqueduct was built in the 1930s and 1940s, engineers provided structural support for this stretch of the tunnel by lining it with roughly 1,900 linear feet of steel. In the early 1990s, DEP discovered a leak coming from cracks that were located just outside the extent of that steel lining.
The new bypass tunnel will eliminate those leaks and increase the extent of steel lining within the tunnel. Once it is finished, the bypass tunnel will be lined with 9,200 linear feet of steel to ensure its structural support extends beyond the limestone formation that contributed to the leak. Shipments of steel-liner segments began to arrive in Newburgh late in 2016. DEP has received six of 11 total shipments thus far. The 16-foot-diameter liner is comprised of 230 sections. Each segment measures 40 feet long and weighs approximately 80,000 pounds.
DEP expects to begin drilling the bypass tunnel later this year. The steel liners will be set into place once the drilling is completed in 2019. The existing Delaware Aqueduct will stay in service while the bypass tunnel is built. In 2022, the aqueduct will be drained for the first time in 64 years, allowing construction workers to connect the bypass to structurally sound portions of the existing tunnel. At the same time, workers will enter a portion of the aqueduct in Ulster County to repair a second, small area of leakage from inside the tunnel.


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DropExternalFileFormatStatement Class
Definition
Represents a DROP EXTERNAL FILE FORMAT statement.
[System.Serializable]
public class DropExternalFileFormatStatement : Microsoft.SqlServer.TransactSql.ScriptDom.DropUnownedObjectStatement
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type DropExternalFileFormatStatement = class
 inherit DropUnownedObjectStatement
Public Class DropExternalFileFormatStatement
Inherits DropUnownedObjectStatement
Inheritance
Attributes
Constructors
DropExternalFileFormatStatement()
Fields
Uninitialized
Constant to indicate and uninitialized token.
(Inherited from TSqlFragment)
Properties
FirstTokenIndex
Gets or sets the first index of the token.
(Inherited from TSqlFragment)
FragmentLength
Defines the number of characters the fragment takes up in the script it was parsed.
(Inherited from TSqlFragment)
IsIfExists
True when IF EXISTS construct is used.
(Inherited from DropUnownedObjectStatement)
LastTokenIndex
Gets or sets the last index of the token.
(Inherited from TSqlFragment)
Name
The name of the object to be dropped.
(Inherited from DropUnownedObjectStatement)
ScriptTokenStream
Gets or sets the script token stream.
(Inherited from TSqlFragment)
StartColumn
Gets the start column.
(Inherited from TSqlFragment)
StartLine
Gets the start line.
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StartOffset
Defines the character offset of fragments starting location in the script it was parsed.
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Accept(TSqlFragmentVisitor)
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Exhumation of Garcia Lorca Engenders Controversy
Roundup: Talking About History
Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 12/08/04
Where is my grave?
In my tail, answered the Sun.
In my throat, answered the Moon.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca
Lorca, Spain's greatest 20th century poet, was dragged from a home here in the dead of an August night in 1936, and shot dead by Fascist forces loyal to Gen. Francisco Franco.
The bodies of Garcia Lorca and three other men killed with him -- two bullfighters and a teacher with a limp -- were heaved into a low ditch, in a valley near an olive grove north of Granada, and left there.
It was barely a month into the Spanish Civil War, and thousands of people would meet a similar fate.
Given his fame and the global admiration that has been accorded Garcia Lorca, he would seem the consummate symbol for a new movement to locate the hidden graves of Franco's victims and provide proper burials.
Proponents, including relatives of the men killed with Garcia Lorca, are seeking exhumation of the long-hidden grave.
But the family of the celebrated poet objects.
In a letter to the public, the family said it agreed that"no stone should go unturned" in finding out the truth about atrocities committed during the war and under the dictatorship that lasted four decades, until Franco's death in 1975.
In the case of Garcia Lorca, however, the family argued that the facts were sufficiently well known, making an exhumation unnecessary.
"We are not going to discover new facts whose importance justifies the violence of disinterring the dead," the poet's niece Laura Garcia-Lorca de los Rios said in an interview.
Part of the lore surrounding Garcia Lorca is that his burial place is a mystery. In fact, the family and most experts agree on the general location, a ravine in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada near the village of Viznar, about five miles from Granada. It was a killing field, historians say, littered with the corpses of hundreds of people.
In a sense, the family argues, the mass grave itself is a fitting monument, a place of natural beauty that bears witness to an awful chapter of repression and political murder.
But others maintain that it takes someone of Garcia Lorca's stature to finally bring attention to Franco's victims, the vast majority of whom were buried anonymously, their families left to decades of uncertainty and shame. By contrast, pro-Franco dead have been honored by memorials and statues paid for by a string of governments.
In addition, say those favoring exhumation, recovering the poet's remains would complete the historical record and answer questions such as whether he was tortured.
Garcia Lorca ran afoul of the franquistas because he was homosexual and an intellectual and he wrote with a social conscience.
Garcia Lorca's work was infused with his love for Andalucia, its landscapes, people and history. He evoked earthy, sensual images of Gypsies and of sexual repression. After his death, his books were publicly burned and his plays banned until the 1970s.
"The past is very violent, and very recent here," Garcia-Lorca de los Rios said.
"It lives and it continues living. We have found an effective way to talk about the past, but it never ceases to be a fresh sorrow."
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WOLFRAM SYSTEM MODELER
TableVoltage
Voltage source by linear interpolation in a table
Diagram
Wolfram Language
In[1]:=
SystemModel["Modelica.Electrical.Analog.Sources.TableVoltage"]
Out[1]:=
Information
This information is part of the Modelica Standard Library maintained by the Modelica Association.
This voltage source uses the corresponding signal source of the Modelica.Blocks.Sources package. Furthermore, an offset parameter is introduced, which is added to the value calculated by the blocks source. The startTime parameter allows to shift the blocks source behavior on the time axis.
This block generates a voltage source by linear interpolation in a table. The time points and voltage values are stored in a matrix table[i,j], where the first column table[:,1] contains the time points and the second column contains the voltage to be interpolated. The table interpolation has the following properties:
 - The time points need to be monotonically increasing.
 - Discontinuities are allowed, by providing the same time point twice in the table.
 - Values outside of the table range, are computed by extrapolation through the last or first two points of the table.
 - If the table has only one row, no interpolation is performed and the voltage value is just returned independently of the actual time instant, i.e., this is a constant voltage source.
 - Via parameters startTime and offset the curve defined by the table can be shifted both in time and in the voltage.
 - The table is implemented in a numerically sound way by generating time events at interval boundaries. This generates continuously differentiable values for the integrator.
Example:
 table = [0 0
 1 0
 1 1
 2 4
 3 9
 4 16]
If, e.g., time = 1.0, the voltage v = 0.0 (before event), 1.0 (after event)
 e.g., time = 1.5, the voltage v = 2.5,
 e.g., time = 2.0, the voltage v = 4.0,
 e.g., time = 5.0, the voltage v = 23.0 (i.e., extrapolation).
Furthermore, an offset parameter is introduced, which is added to the value calculated by the blocks source. The startTime parameter allows to shift the blocks source behavior on the time axis.
TableVoltage.png
Parameters (3)
offset
Value: 0
Type: Voltage (V)
Description: Voltage offset
startTime
Value: 0
Type: Time (s)
Description: Time offset
table
Value: [0, 0; 1, 1; 2, 4]
Type: Real[:,:]
Description: Table matrix (time = first column, voltage = second column)
Connectors (2)
p
Type: PositivePin
Description: Positive electrical pin
n
Type: NegativePin
Description: Negative electrical pin
Components (1)
signalSource
Type: TimeTable
Description: Generate a (possibly discontinuous) signal by linear interpolation in a table
Revisions
 - 1998 by Christoph Clauss
 initially implemented