Using a remote with BuildIT
July 21, 2015 MaximeIsabelle
Laser trackers are often used to measure very large parts, and so users are usually inconveniently far from the measurement buttons while manipulating the probe. This leaves you with three options to measure a large part:
 1. Have someone at the computer while you manipulate the probe: The inspection of a large part can often be a team effort, and when you have the luxury of being two, your colleague can manage triggering the correct buttons.

 2. Use the "Auto-start when stable" feature, combined with the "Auto-accept" feature: The measure button can be automatically triggered when BuildIT detects that the probe is resting against a stable object. This option can be accessed by clicking the Setting button in the upper left corner of the Inspect Control Window:samplePointsDistance
 Click the checkboxes to turn on the feature. In the example below, it will start measuring when the probe hasn't moved more than 0.25 mm for 3 seconds. After taking its measurement, it will wait until you have moved at least 127 mm from your last measurement before auto-starting when stable.
 AutoMeasure
 Similarly, you can also have the Accept button automatically trigger a certain length of time after taking a measurement.

 3. Use a remote: This is my preferred way of measuring, as it gives you full control of the buttons with no ambiguity. You simply need to assign the buttons on the remote to the desired hotkeys: F9 to measure, F10 to accept, F11 to discard last, F12 to send your beam to the bird nest.
It's important to choose a remote that will work over long distances, especially when inspecting large parts. One that is usually used in the industry is the SMK-Link's RemotePoint Jade, which works at a range of up to 150 feet:
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Characteristics of Effluent Wastewater in Hospitals of Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
AUTHORS
Abdoliman Amouei 1 , Hosseinali Asgharnia 1 , Hourieh Fallah 1 , Hossein Faraji 1 , Reyhaneh Barari 1 , Dariush Naghipour 2 , *
AUTHORS INFORMATION
1 Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, IR Iran
2 Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, IR Iran
ARTICLE INFORMATION
Health Scope: 4 (2); e23222
Published Online: May 2, 2015
Article Type: Research Article
Received: September 1, 2014
Revised: December 28, 2014
Accepted: January 16, 2015
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Abstract
Background: Wastewater effluent in hospitals has been increasing during the recent decades due to developments in medical services and products.
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the qualitative parameters of effluent wastewater in hospitals affiliated to Babol University of Medical Sciences (BUMS).
Materials and Methods: Four hospitals were included and their wastewater effluent was studied. Ninety-six composited samples were collected and sent to the laboratory for determining pH, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), total kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), total phosphorous (TP), heavy metals, total coliforms (TC) and total heterotrophic bacteria counts (THBC) based on standard methods.
Results: Mean ± SD pH of the wastewater was 7.6 ± 0.4. Mean ± SD BOD5, COD, TSS, TKN and TP were 372 ± 173 mg/L, 687 ± 231 mg/L, 289 ± 132 mg/L and 15 ± 5.5 mg/L, respectively. Mean concentration of Pb, Cd, Zn, Cr, Ni, Co, Hg, Fe and Cu were 26.5 (g/L), 2 (g/L), 429 (g/L), 34 (g/L), 30 (g/L), 3.7 (g/L), 7.5 (g/L), 2.1 mg/L and 49 (g/L), respectively. The total coliforms and heterotrophic bacteria were 5.4 × 108 MPN/100 mL and 2.6 × 1010 CFU/mL, respectively. Total wastewater quantity and its organic loading rate were 169 263 m3 and 62 966 kg in a year, respectively.
Conclusions: Most of the qualitative indices evaluated in wastewater effluent of hospitals of BUMS were higher than effluent discharge standards of Iran Environment Protection Agency (IEPA). These wastewaters are usually purified improperly by wastewater treatment plants of these hospitals and polluted effluents which empty to the Babol Rood River and Caspian Sea can potentially endanger public health, natural resources and wildlife.
Keywords
Hospital Waste Water Effluent Heavy Metals
Copyright © 2015, Health Promotion Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (_URL_ which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
1. Background
Hospital wastewater generation has been increasing during the recent decades as a result of development in medical services and products (1-3). Multiple practices that happen in hospitals (surgery, drug treatments, radiology, laundry, operation room, chemical and biological laboratories, etc.) are a principal source of pollutant discharge into the environment (4-6). Most of these pollutants such as detergents, disinfectants and drug residues can be found in hospital effluents, municipal wastewater collection systems and finally aquatic environments (7-9). Polluted wastewater discharged from hospitals causes many environmental hazards. These problems are different in terms of the activity and nature of hospitals (1, 10, 11). The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that about 85% of hospital wastes are non-hazardous, 10% infective and 5% non-infective but hazardous, in the United States of America (10). Hospital wastewater effluents contain pathogenic microorganisms, pharmaceutical partially metabolized, radioactive elements and other heavy metals and toxic chemical compounds such as Cu, Fe, Cd, Pb, Hg, Ni, Pt, Cyanide, Phenol and others (2, 4, 12, 13). Hospitals discharge plenty of undesired potential pathogens like antibiotic-resistant bacteria and viruses (14-18). These hazardous agents which remain in wastewater treatment plants can provoke the pollution of the natural environment by causing biological imbalances (5).
In many cases, hospital wastewater is considered as an effluent with a similar quality to municipal wastewater, but due to activities that take place within the hospital it may also contain various potentially hazardous components including microbiological pathogens, hazardous chemical compounds, disinfectants, pharmaceuticals and radioactive isotopes (1, 4, 7).
Babol city is located in the center of Mazandaran province at a longitude of 33 degrees, 52 minutes and 43 degrees, 51 minutes and at latitude 40 degrees, 36 minutes and 36 degrees, 35 minutes. The city's population is 256 433 people with an area of about 10 431 square kilometers. Much of the municipal and household wastewaters of the city without treatment are discharged to cesspool and Babol Rood River. According to laws and regulations, treated hospital wastewater can be discharged into wastewater collection systems (1, 2). In general, there are six hospitals in the city of Babol of which four hospitals are affiliated to BUMS and two other hospitals are owned by the private sector. The catchment of Babol Rood river is located south of Babol city and its area is 1746.47 km2 with a length of 110.7 km, a maximum altitude of 3180 m and a minimum height minus 10 m (-10 m) and an average slope of 0.74 m.
Referral of a large number of patients from different cities of Mazandaran province and neighboring provinces in hospitals of BUMS and various technical services in health-care centers has caused increasing changes in quantity and quality of wastewater. For the sake of the ecosystem and valuable and susceptible natural resources of this province such as river, sea, jungle, agricultural areas and pasturelands, it is necessary to continuously assess and monitor the quality of wastewater and its disposal by health-care centers.
2. Objectives
The aim of this study was to determine the chemical indices, including pH, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), total kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN) and total phosphorous (TP), as well as chemical indices, including total coliforms (TC) and total heterotrophic bacteria counts (THBC), and heavy metals concentration of wastewater effluents from the hospitals of BUMS.
3. Materials and Methods
Babol is one of the most important cities of the Mazandaran province regarding population, economy and agriculture. This city is located in the central section of Mazandaran province and is twenty kilometers far from Caspian Sea. This city has six hospitals and in order to determine the quality of wastewater effluents, four educational hospitals were selected. Ninety-six composited wastewater samples were collected from the studied hospitals (24 samples for each hospital), during the summer of 2013 (20th of June 20 to 20th of August), to avoid dilution effect owing to rain events. They were collected in 1 L plastic bottles then immediately sent to the water and wastewater chemistry laboratory of BUMS for analysis. Chemical and physical parameters including pH, TSS, BOD5, COD, TKN, TP and total heavy metals (Hg, Cd, Pb, Cr, Co, Ni and Zn) were determined according to "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" (19). The total coliforms (TC) and total heterotrophic bacteria counts (THBC) of microbial samples were measured using the multiple tubes fermentation and Gerhardt methods, respectively (19, 20). Moreover, heavy metals analysis was performed according to the Atomic Absorption Spectrometry method (19).
4. Results
The pH, TSS, BOD5, COD, TKN, TP, TC and THBC values are illustrated in Table 1. According to these results, the minimum, maximum and mean pH values of wastewater were 6.9, 8.3 and 7.6, respectively. The minimum, maximum and mean concentrations of BOD5 (161, 648, and 372 mg/L) and COD (379, 1187, and 687 mg/L) were determined for the investigated hospitals. The minimum, maximum and mean concentrations of TTS were 108, 538, and 289 mg/L, respectively, for the studied hospitals. Maximum, minimum and mean contents of TKN were 26.5, 8.1 and 15 mg/L, respectively. Maximum, minimum and mean total phosphorous in the studied hospitals effluents were 5, 0.8, and 2.2 mg/L, respectively.
In the current study, TC and


reminded about ForwardXPathNavigator which helps to create a streaming xslt transformation. Now we want to show how to stream content produced with xslt out of WCF service.
To achieve streaming in WCF one needs:
1. To configure service to use streaming. Description on how to do this can be found in the internet. See web.config of the sample Streaming.zip for the details.
2. Create a service with a method returning Stream:
[ServiceContract(Namespace = "_URL_")]
[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]
public class Service
{
 [OperationContract]
 [WebGet(RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)]
 public Stream GetPeopleHtml(int count, int seed)
 {
 ...
 }
}
2. Return a Stream from xsl transformation.
Unfortunately (we mentioned it already), XslCompiledTransform generates its output into XmlWriter (or into output Stream) rather than exposes result as XmlReader, while WCF gets input stream and passes it to a client.
We could generate xslt output into a file or a memory Stream and then return that content as input Stream, but this will defeat a goal of streaming, as client would have started to get data no earlier that the xslt completed its work. What we need instead is a pipe that form xslt output Stream to an input Stream returned from WCF.
.NET implements pipe streams, so our task is trivial. We have defined a utility method that creates an input Stream from a generator populating an output Stream:
public static Stream GetPipedStream(Action<Stream> generator)
{
 var output = new AnonymousPipeServerStream();
 var input = new AnonymousPipeClientStream(
 output.GetClientHandleAsString());
 Task.Factory.StartNew(
 () =>
 {
 using(output)
 {
 generator(output);
 output.WaitForPipeDrain();
 }
 },
 TaskCreationOptions.LongRunning);
 return input;
}
We wrapped xsl transformation as such a generator:
[OperationContract]
[WebGet(RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)]
public Stream GetPeopleHtml(int count, int seed)
{
 var context = WebOperationContext.Current;
 context.OutgoingResponse.ContentType = "text/html";
 context.OutgoingResponse.Headers["Content-Disposition"] =
 "attachment;filename=reports.html";
 var cache = HttpRuntime.Cache;
 var path = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/People.xslt");
 var transform = cache[path] as XslCompiledTransform;
 if (transform == null)
 {
 transform = new XslCompiledTransform();
 transform.Load(path);
 cache.Insert(path, transform, new CacheDependency(path));
 }
 return Extensions.GetPipedStream(
 output =>
 {
 // We have a streamed business data.
 var people = Data.CreateRandomData(count, seed, 0, count);
 // We want to see it as streamed xml data.
 using(var stream =
 people.ToXmlStream("people", "_URL_"))
 using(var reader = XmlReader.Create(stream))
 {
 // XPath forward navigator is used as an input source.
 transform.Transform(
 new ForwardXPathNavigator(reader),
 new XsltArgumentList(),
 output);
 }
 });
}
This way we have build a code that streams data directly from business data to a client in a form of report. A set of utility functions and classes helped us to overcome .NET's limitations and to build simple code that one can easily support.
The sources can be found at Streaming.zip.
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# Thursday, July 26, 2012
In the previous post about streaming we have dropped at the point where we have XmlReader in hands, which continously gets data from IEnumerable<Person> source. Now we shall remind about ForwardXPathNavigator - a class we have built back in 2002, which adds streaming transformations to .NET's xslt processor.
While XslCompiledTransform is desperately obsolete, and no upgrade will possibly follow; still it's among the fastest xslt 1.0 processors. With ForwardXPathNavigator we add ability to transform input data of arbitrary size to this processor.
We find it interesting that xslt 3.0 Working Draft defines streaming processing in a way that closely matches rules for ForwardXPathNavigator:
Streaming achieves two important objectives: it allows large documents to be transformed without requiring correspondingly large amounts of memory; and it allows the processor to start producing output before it has finished receiving its input, thus reducing latency.
The rules for streamability, which are defined in detail in 19.3 Streamability Analysis, impose two main constraints:
 - The only nodes reachable from the node that is currently being processed are its attributes and namespaces, its ancestors and their attributes and namespaces, and its descendants and their attributes and namespaces. The siblings of the node, and the siblings of its ancestors, are not reachable in the tree, and any attempt to use their values is a static error. However, constructs (for example, simple forms of xsl:number, and simple positional patterns) that require knowledge of the number of preceding elements by name are permitted.
 - When processing a given node in the tree, each descendant node can only be visited once. Essentially this allows two styles of processing: either visit each of the children once, and then process that child with the same restrictions applied; or process all the descendants in a single pass, in which case it is not possible while processing a descendant to make any further downward selection.
The only significant difference between ForwardXPathNavigator and xlst 3.0 streaming is in that we reported violations of rules for streamability at runtime, while xslt 3.0 attempts to perform this analysis at compile time.
Here the C# code for the xslt streamed transformation:
var transform = new XslCompiledTransform();
transform.Load("People.xslt");
// We have a streamed business data.
var people = Data.CreateRandomData(10000, 0, 0, 10000);
// We want to see it as streamed xml data.
using(var stream =
 people.ToXmlStream("people", "_URL_"))
using(var reader = XmlReader.Create(stream))
using(var output = File.Create("people.html"))
{
 // XPath forward navigator is used as an input source.
 transform.Transform(
 new ForwardXPathNavigator(reader),
 new XsltArgumentList(),
 output);
}
Notice how XmlReader is wrapped into ForwardXPathNavigator.
To complete the picture we need xslt that follows the streaming rules:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="_URL_
 xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
 xmlns:d="_URL_"
 exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl d">
 <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>

 <xsl:template match="/d:people">

 <title>List of persons</title>

 ID
 First name
 Last name
 City
 Title
 Age

 <xsl:for-each select="d:person">

 <xsl:variable name="person">
 <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
 </xsl:variable>
 <xsl:variable name="position" select="position()"/>
 <xsl:apply-templates mode="snapshot" select="msxsl:node-set($person)/d:person">
 <xsl:with-param name="position" select="$position"/>
 </xsl:apply-templates>
 <


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Adding Letters from A to Z inside an array.
You should test it out.
<!DOCTYPE html>

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I've tried to search for a results on internet for a basic array which contain letters A to Z inside
<!DOCTYPE html>

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How can stainless steel be cleaned most efficiently?
Remove any protective coating as soon as possible after installation. Stainless steel can age with exposure to light and heat. Avoid the use of liquids containing chloride, hydrochloric acids and abrasives. Brushes with bristles made of steel should also be avoided. Franke recommends the use of a wet microfibre cloth and the Franke stainless steel cleaners Twister, Inox-cream and Multiclean. Additionally vinegar diluted with water (20 % vinegar, 80 % water) can be used. Rinse off with clean, cold water after cleaning to remove the residue of cleaning materials.
Why does a stainless product rust?
Stainless steel can rust if the protecting passive layer on the surface gets damaged by the effects of external factors on the material. This can occur when the surface is in contact with chemicals like bromide, chloride or iodine. Please always use the mounting fixings delivered with the product such as the stainless steel screws and washers. Untreated welding marks can change the colour, this is not rust and does not affect the lifespan of the product.
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Basically our products are operated and tested according to EN816 with drinking water. Provided that the water is filtered, non potable water can be used as well.
Why are hydraulic or electronic fittings used instead of conventional products?
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Electronic fittings - for particularly effective conservation Opto-electronic fittings only dispense water when the user is in the sensor range. Shower electronics with Piezo-buttons also effectively reduce operating costs with split-second adjustment of the maximum flow duration and an integrated start/stop function. In addition, the use of electronic fittings enables a large number of special functions such as hygiene flushing, thermal disinfection, pre-flushing, the reduction of flow time independent of the frequency of use and more.
What must also be observed for fitting maintenance?
As the formulas of commercial cleaners are frequently changed, we can not guarantee that they treat the fittings gently. In general, observe the following for fitting maintenance:
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Cleaning method for chrome fitting surfaces
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Rinse with clear water after cleaning and completely remove any remaining residues (as otherwise small black colourations become visible - long-term damage)
Never mechanically remove incrustations
Prevent the build up of lime scale by cleaning regularly
Never apply cleaning products directly to the fitting (if necessary, existing lime deposits can by removed by directly applying the cleaner on a cloth)
Never spray cleaning solution on the fittings but on the cleaning cloth as the spray can penetrate the openings and columns of the fittings and cause damage
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A cute and amazing video. A parrot masters «to talk» like a cat in order to live in a house with many cats
It is well known that parrots have the ability to imitate the sounds of different animals. Parrots master not only imitating human language but also in order to survive they learn to make the sounds of different animals.
Here is funny story about a parrot that learnt the language of cats. The parrot leart to meow and feel like cats.
The cockatoo has been living and spending much time with cats since the time he was born. He had no other choice to learn the «foreign language». The scene was captured by the owner of the parrot.
The cat even showed his skills of talking like a cat. The cats were looking at the cockatoo with astonishment. The cats could not believe their eyes.
The parrot demostrated the language of cats perfectly. The cockatoo is a polyglot. The parrot is so smart that he knows not only the language of cats but also their behaviour.
Here is the cute video:
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The EFE valve, or heat riser, is part of the Early Fuel Evaporation system, described in . It is only used on the 1980 V6 engine. The EFE valve is a thermostatically-controlled, vacuum-operated valve in the right exhaust pipe (near the firewall). It closes when the engine is cold, to direct hot exhaust gases to the intake manifold, in order to preheat the incoming air/fuel mixture. If it sticks open, the result will be frequent stalling during warm-up, especially in cold and damp weather. If it sticks shut, the result will be a rough idle after the engine is warm.
The EFE valve should move freely. It can easily be checked when the engine is cold by pulling the actuating arm next to the vacuum motor to open and shut the valve. If the valve is sticking or binding, a quick shot of solvent especially made for the purpose should free it up. The EFE valve shaft is more easily reached from under the car. The solvent should be applied after the first 6 months or 7,500 miles, and then every 24 months or 30,000 miles thereafter-more often if sticking or binding problems occur.
If the valve is still stuck after application of the solvent, sometimes rapping the end of the shaft lightly with a hammer will break it loose. Otherwise, the components will have to be removed for further repairs.
The 1981 V6 engines continue to utilize the EFE system, but have replaced the valve with an electric heater insulator on the carburetor. There is no periodic maintenance other than replacement.


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A clear vision for the future can help communities create long term social value from mining activities. A community vision clearly outlines the community's environmental, social, economic, and political aspirations for the long term. In communities where mining is a part of the local economy, a vision helps to define how the benefits of mining can support community priorities. It can also ensure that mining activity does not adversely impact community priorities.
From a common vision, communities can create clear action plans. This common starting point also acts as a road map for different stakeholders like Indigenous and local governments, mining companies, community groups, provincial and federal governments to work together in partnership.
The process of building a common vision is not easy. It takes time, commitment from a wide range of stakeholders, patience, and resources. In this article we've included practical examples from across Canada that highlight common challenges, lessons learned, and tips for success. Despite the effort and inevitable challenges, these case studies show that the long-term payoff is worth it. As societal expectations of mining continue to grow, this work becomes even more important.
- It's never too late to start, but don't wait until closure
Many communities begin a visioning and planning processes because they are facing looming changes to their economies. For example, Sudbury, Ont., was an early pioneer of the community planning approach when the price of nickel led to an industry decline in the 1970s. Facing a dwindling revenue base and a high dependency on one industry, the municipality embarked on a process of economic diversification. As part of this, in 1978, different stakeholders from government, business, academia, mining, and labour unions came together to define a vision for "Sudbury 2001."
More recently, the closure of a smelter and refinery in Thompson, Man., another historic mining town, led to 500 lost jobs and sparked a participatory community planning process. The Thompson Economic Diversification Working Group was formed in 2010 to develop an economic diversification plan. The working group consisted of representatives from 10 stakeholder groups including the municipality, industry, provincial agencies, and Indigenous governments and associations.
In Sudbury and Thompson, the visioning and planning processes allowed stakeholder groups to manage the impact of changes in the local mining industry. However, some communities proactively launch a visioning and planning process before mining even starts. The Cree Nation of Nemaska (CNN) in Quebec has long been affected by hydro development and forestry activities. However, the development of the Whabouchi mine by Nemaska Lithium and growing mineral exploration nearby catalyzed the community to come together and plan for how mining would affect its future. By starting early, CNN is hoping to maximize the benefits from the mine and manage development in a way that is acceptable to the community.
Similarly, when the natural gas industry was in the exploration and planning phase near the city of Fort St. John, B.C., the municipality worked to understand the industry's potential benefits and impacts and consult with the community. From there, a community plan was developed to set out a roadmap for the future and define needed programs. This provided a basis for discussions with companies to ensure that resource development activities and operations were in line with the community's vision.
- Aim high
By definition, a visioning process should look at the community's ideal future. From there, everyone involved works to make it a reality. In addition to being aspirational, a broader scope is usually better. Often a visioning process within a mining-dependent municipality is focused on economic development and diversification (such as with Sudbury and Thompson). But community visions often also include:
- Environmental priorities, such as for land use and management, restoration, climate change management;
- Social priorities for education, health, culture, spiritual and religious, and community wellness;
- Economic priorities; and
- Political and governance priorities, regarding things like community representation and transparency for example.
In the Cree Nation of Nemaska, the community is taking a holistic approach, considering a wide range of topics and issues in its community planning process (from housing to education to land use and the environment). Taking a regional approach has also proven to be successful. When both Sudbury and Thompson widened their lens and looked at regional connection and economic development, they were able to build greater support across industries and higher levels of governments and connect with other municipalities and Indigenous groups.
- Leverage support
Mining companies are typically well placed to support visioning and planning processes because they can leverage other resources and relationships. Nemaska Lithium has supported CNN's planning process by making connections between CNN, the neutral facilitator (NetPositive, run by the authors), and provincial agencies, and participating whenever required. A clear vision and strategy can also set the foundation to connect with other regional priorities and funding opportunities.
- It will take time – so use that time to build relationships and trust
Stakeholders should never let the time requirement put them off from participating because relationship building and creating a more inclusive process pays off in the long-term. The working group in Thompson spent almost six months just to develop its terms of reference. While this was time consuming, it meant that the stakeholders involved were able to build relationships, share their concerns and interests, and develop trust. In the Cree Nation of Nemaska where mining is new, the community has put time into building the knowledge of the entire community, especially youth.
- Engagement and communication are critical
Throughout the process it is vitally important to let the community and other stakeholders know what's happening. Not everyone can be involved in the detailed process – but consistent, ongoing and transparent communications (via social media, local news, notices, etc.) ensure that a broad set of people feel connected and informed.
To make sure final documents don't gather dust on a shelf, they should be publicly available and used as a source document for annual plans. In the Thompson and Fort St. John examples, the community plan is positioned at the centre of the municipality's work. Mining companies should champion the community vision whenever possible and ensure that mining activity (including all community investment programs) are aligned with the vision. The final documents should be referenced regularly by all stakeholders and reviewed on a regular basis.
- Learn from others
While every community is different, there are many examples to learn from and organizations that can help. For example, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has long supported community planning in Canadian communities and has also started sharing knowledge from mining communities in Canada, like Sudbury, Fort St. John, and Thompson, overseas through its CISAL project (_URL_
CAROLYN BURNS is director of operations at NetPositive, a non-profit that works with diverse stakeholders to help local communities see sustained positive outcomes from mining.
JANE CHURCH is a co-founder and director of collaboration with NetPositive.

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What is the difference between an "involuted" and an "idempotent" matrix?
I believe that they both have to do with inverse, perhaps "self inverse" matrices.
Or do they happen to refer to the same thing?
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A matrix $A$ is an involution if it is its own inverse, ie if
$$A^2 = I$$
A matrix $B$ is idempotent if it squares to itself, ie if
$$B^2 = B$$
The only invertible idempotent matrix is the identity matrix, which can be seen by multiplying both sides of the above equation by $B^{-1}$. An idempotent matrix is also known as a projection.
Involutions and idempotents are related to one another. If $A$ is idempotent then $I - 2A$ is an involution, and if $B$ is an involution, then $\tfrac{1}{2}(I\pm B)$ is idempotent.
Finally, if $B$ is idempotent then $I-B$ is also idempotent and if $A$ is an involution then $-A$ is also an involution.
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A The Matrix Tool Operations
 A.1 The Tool Operations without a Fallback Method
 A.2 The Tool Operations with a Fallback Method
A The Matrix Tool Operations
The functions listed below are components of the homalgTable object stored in the ring. They are only indirectly accessible through standard methods that invoke them.
A.1 The Tool Operations without a Fallback Method
There are matrix methods for which homalg needs a homalgTable entry for non-internal rings, as it cannot provide a suitable fallback. Below is the list of these homalgTable entries.
A.2 The Tool Operations with a Fallback Method
These are the methods for which it is recommended for performance reasons to have a homalgTable entry for non-internal rings. homalg only provides a generic fallback method.
A.2-1 MonomialMatrix
- MonomialMatrix( d, R )( operation )
Returns: a homalg matrix
The column matrix of d-th monomials of the homalg graded ring R.
gap> R := HomalgFieldOfRationalsInDefaultCAS( ) * "x,y,z";;
gap> S := GradedRing( R );;
gap> m := MonomialMatrix( 2, S );
<A ? x 1 matrix over a graded ring>
gap> NrRows( m );
6
gap> m;
<A 6 x 1 matrix over a graded ring>
gap> Display( m );
x^2,
x*y,
x*z,
y^2,
y*z,
z^2
(over a graded ring)
A.2-2 RandomMatrixBetweenGradedFreeLeftModules
- RandomMatrixBetweenGradedFreeLeftModules( degreesS, degreesT, R )( operation )
Returns: a homalg matrix
A random r × c-matrix between the graded free left modules R^(-degreesS) -> R^(-degreesT), where r =Length(degreesS) and c =Length(degreesT).
gap> R := HomalgFieldOfRationalsInDefaultCAS( ) * "a,b,c";;
gap> S := GradedRing( R );;
gap> rand := RandomMatrixBetweenGradedFreeLeftModules( [ 2, 3, 4 ], [ 1, 2 ], S );
<A 3 x 2 matrix over a graded ring>
gap> #Display( rand );
gap> #a-2*b+2*c, 2,
gap> #a^2-a*b+b^2-2*b*c+5*c^2, 3*c,
gap> #2*a^3-3*a^2*b+2*a*b^2+3*a^2*c+a*b*c-2*b^2*c-3*b*c^2-2*c^3,a^2-4*a*b-3*a*c-c^2
A.2-3 RandomMatrixBetweenGradedFreeRightModules
- RandomMatrixBetweenGradedFreeRightModules( degreesT, degreesS, R )( operation )
Returns: a homalg matrix
A random r × c-matrix between the graded free right modules R^(-degreesS) -> R^(-degreesT), where r =Length(degreesT) and c =Length(degreesS).
gap> R := HomalgFieldOfRationalsInDefaultCAS( ) * "a,b,c";;
gap> S := GradedRing( R );;
gap> rand := RandomMatrixBetweenGradedFreeRightModules( [ 1, 2 ], [ 2, 3, 4 ], S );
<A 2 x 3 matrix over a graded ring>
gap> #Display( rand );
gap> #a-2*b-c,a*b+b^2-b*c,2*a^3-a*b^2-4*b^3+4*a^2*c-3*a*b*c-b^2*c+a*c^2+5*b*c^2-2*c^3,
gap> #-5, -2*a+c, -2*a^2-a*b-2*b^2-3*a*c
A.2-4 Diff
- Diff( D, N )( operation )
Returns: a homalg matrix
If D is a f × p-matrix and N is a g × q-matrix then H=Diff(D,N) is an fg × pq-matrix whose entry H[g*(i-1)+j,q*(k-1)+l] is the result of differentiating N[j,l] by the differential operator corresponding to D[i,k]. (Here we follow the Macaulay2 convention.)
gap> S := HomalgFieldOfRationalsInDefaultCAS( ) * "a,b,c" * "x,y,z";;
gap> D := HomalgMatrix( "[ \
> x,2*y, \
> y,a-b^2, \
> z,y-b \
> ]", 3, 2, S );
<A 3 x 2 matrix over an external ring>
gap> N := HomalgMatrix( "[ \
> x^2-a*y^3,x^3-z^2*y,x*y-b,x*z-c, \
> x, x*y, a-b, x*a*b \
> ]", 2, 4, S );
<A 2 x 4 matrix over an external ring>
gap> H := Diff( D, N );
<A 6 x 8 matrix over an external ring>
gap> Display( H );
2*x, 3*x^2, y,z, -6*a*y^2,-2*z^2,2*x,0,
1, y, 0,a*b,0, 2*x, 0, 0,
-3*a*y^2,-z^2, x,0, -y^3, 0, 0, 0,
0, x, 0,0, 0, 0, 1, b*x,
0, -2*y*z,0,x, -3*a*y^2,-z^2, x+1,0,
0, 0, 0,0, 0, x, 1, -a*x
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text: We have installed a 'Water Sensor' in the suction pipe of the pump system, in order to protect the pump from running dry. You might ask how does it work? 'Water Sensor' can be used to detect the water level in the suction side of the pipeline. When the two electrodes in water sensor run dry, the LORENTZ controller will automatically stop the pump and indicates Water Source Low LED. So, it will prevent your pump from getting damaged when there is not enough water in your water source to get pumped!


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Class Humanoid
Habitat Inns and traveling waystations.
Description Craggy humanoid responsible for the "settling building" noises in inns.
The Inncreeper (Hospitalis cryptonemis) is a monster found in Godville. It most often haunts public accommodations when the lights are out.
How to Recognize this Monster
Inncreepers are not so much recognized visually, as auditorially. The heroine who lays down to sleep at an inn or a traveler's waystation, only to be kept awake by the sound of the building "settling," may find herself the prey of this monster.
Hunters of the Inncreeper should be advised that it never carries a lantern. One that is seen to carry a candle or lamp is likely to be a legitimate innkeeper, and ought not to be attacked. But if a heroine finds a humanoid shape in the darkened hallway, bearing no lantern, and stepping on nothing but the creakiest boards, the heroine should draw her weapon. Or run back to her room and hide under the covers. Whichever is more expedient.
Even the vaunted De La Fossey family of naturalists and cryptozoologists seems to be at a loss for explaining what causes an Inncreeper.[1] However, the Dark Elves of the Wastelands of Insomnia share a myth of wandering servants of the Spirit of Insomnia held captive in their lands, and hold that the servants work sleeplessly to strengthen their object of reverence by keeping the greatest number of people awake.[2] This myth may have grown from the very existence of Inncreepers, or it may explain how the first of them came to be.
The historians and physicists of Unspecifiedistan University have united to advance a different theory for the origin of Inncreepers, wherein heroes and heroines who have snuck out under the cover of dark for a drink at the local tavern in the hopes of avoiding the wrath of their deities make the return journey in a state both inebriated and under intense self-control. This altered state causes the hero or heroine to alter the vibrational frequencies of their molecules, allowing for refractions of the same actions to occur across time in places of similar makeup but no occupant. Records of appearances of heroine Joan d'Adventure in taverns long predate her actual birth by this mechanism, and present historians are gathering descriptions of current Inncreepers with intent to compare them to future heroines.
 - Unerring sensitivity to what will cause the greatest chills.
 - Friends with Norman Bates.
 - Prone to stubbing its own toes in the dark.
References and Footnotes
 1. "Wha-- what?! Who are you, and how did you get into my room?" -- Lady Dianne de la Fossey during a layover between expeditions, when queried on the nature of Inncreepers.
 2. The Gnomes of Sleepless Hollow of course consider this story to be complete balderdash


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graph embedding, privacy preservation, adversarial learning
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The inefficient utilization of ubiquitous graph data with combinatorial structures necessitates graph embedding methods, aiming at learning a continuous vector space for the graph, which is amenable to be adopted in traditional machine learning algorithms in favor of vector representations. Graph embedding methods build an important bridge between social network analysis and data analytics, as social networks naturally generate an unprecedented volume of graph data continuously. Publishing social network data not only brings benefit for public health, disaster response, commercial promotion, and many other applications, but also gives birth to threats that jeopardize each individual's privacy and security. Unfortunately, most existing works in publishing social graph embedding data only focus on preserving social graph structure with less attention paid to the privacy issues inherited from social networks. To be specific, attackers can infer the presence of a sensitive relationship between two individuals by training a predictive model with the exposed social network embedding. In this paper, we propose a novel link-privacy preserved graph embedding framework using adversarial learning, which can reduce adversary's prediction accuracy on sensitive links, while persevering sufficient non-sensitive information, such as graph topology and node attributes in graph embedding. Extensive experiments are conducted to evaluate the proposed framework using ground truth social network datasets.
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 if "repeat" in context.provide or "single" in context.provide or "random" in context.provide or "consume" in context.provide:
 status = self.__ensureStatus(mpc, status)
 modes = mpc.getModes(status)
 if "repeat" in context.provide:
 context.provided["repeat"] = ProvidedValue().withValue(AnnotatedValue(modes.get("repeat", False)))
 if "single" in context.provide:
 context.provided["single"] = ProvidedValue().withValue(AnnotatedValue(modes.get("single", False)))
 if "random" in context.provide:
 context.provided["random"] = ProvidedValue().withValue(AnnotatedValue(modes.get("random", False)))
 if "consume" in context.provide:
 context.provided["consume"] = ProvidedValue().withValue(AnnotatedValue(modes.get("consume", False)))
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Figure 39. The MPD player action
action mpd player context actions
Figure 40. The context actions
4.5. Geographical map
ListType elements can be shown on a geographical map if its list type has the geoMap feature configured.
Each list element that has the geoPosition feature will be displayed on the map. You can tap on an icon that represents an element to see the element label and its context actions.
If an action has only one argument which is a list with a geo map and the action has no buttons, the map will be displayed in a full action call screen. If a list with a geo map is an argument in an action that doesn't meet that criteria, the action call screen will display only a button for this argument. If the button is tapped a map screen will be shown.
If a list element has the geoLayerName feature that corresponds to a configured marker layer name, it will be assigned to that layer. If there is no marker layer configured, a default one with the null name will be created.
The map functionality is experimental.
Geographical map example
class ActionWithGeoMap(Action):
 def onConfigure(self):
 self.withLabel("Geo map")
 self.withArgs([
 ListType("locations").withLabel("Locations").withAnnotated().withFeatures({
 "geoMap":GeoMap().withCenter(GeoPosition(50.06143, 19.93658)).withZoom(15).withLayers([
 # Use the same "group" feature to allow only one basemap to be visible at the same time.
 # See the OpenStreetMap Tile Usage Policy at _URL_
 GeoTileLayer().withUrlTemplate("https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png").withSubdomains(["a", "b", "c"])
 .withLabel("OpenStreetMap")
 .withFeatures({"visible":True, "attribution":u"© OpenStreetMap contributors", "group":"basemap"}),
 # See the Google Maps Terms of Service at _URL_
 GeoTileLayer().withUrlTemplate("_URL_
 .withLabel("Google Hybrid")
 .withFeatures({"visible":False, "attribution":u"Imagery ©2020 CNES/Airbus, MGGP Aero, Maxar Technologies, Map data ©2020 Google",
 "group":"basemap", "opacity":0.9}),
 GeoMarkerLayer("buildings").withLabel("Buildings").withFeature("icon", IconInfo().withName("home").withSize(50)),
 GeoMarkerLayer("persons").withLabel("Persons")
 ]).withFeatures({"color":"FFFFFF"})
 }).withProvided(
 ProvidedMeta().withValue().withOverwrite()
 ).withElement(
 StringType("location").withAnnotated()
 )
 ]).withNonCallable().withFeatures({"icon":"map"})
 def onProvideArgs(self, context):
 if "locations" in context.provide:
 locations = [
 AnnotatedValue("building1").withValueLabel("Building (with actions)").withValueDescription("Description of building 1").withFeatures({
 "geoPosition":GeoPosition(50.06043, 19.93558), "icon":IconInfo().withName("home").withColor("FF0000").withSize(50),
 "geoLayerName":"buildings"}).withFeature(
 "contextActions", [SubAction("ActionWithGeoMapViewLocation").withArg("location", "@this")]),
 AnnotatedValue("building2").withValueLabel("Building (without actions)").withValueDescription("Description of building 2").withFeatures({
 "geoPosition":GeoPosition(50.06253, 19.93768),
 "geoLayerName":"buildings"}),
 AnnotatedValue("person1").withValueLabel("Person 1 (without actions)").withValueDescription("Description of person 1").withFeatures({
 "geoPosition":GeoPosition(50.06143, 19.93658), "icon":IconInfo().withName("face").withColor("000000").withSize(30),
 "geoLayerName":"persons"}),
 AnnotatedValue("person2").withValueLabel("Person 2 (without actions)").withValueDescription("Description of person 2").withFeatures({
 "geoPosition":GeoPosition(50.06353, 19.93868), "icon":IconInfo().withName("face").withColor("0000FF").withSize(30),
 "geoLayerName":"persons"})
 ]
 context.provided["locations"] = ProvidedValue().withValue(AnnotatedValue(locations))
class ActionWithGeoMapViewLocation(Action):
 def onConfigure(self):
 self.withLabel("View the location")
 # Must set withOverwrite to replace with the current value.
 self.withArgs([
 StringType("location").withAnnotated().withLabel("Location").withFeature("visible", False),
 NumberType("label").withLabel("Label").withReadOnly().withProvided(
 ProvidedMeta().withValue().withOverwrite().withDependency("location")),
 NumberType("description").withLabel("Description").withReadOnly().withProvided(
 ProvidedMeta().withValue().withOverwrite().withDependency("location")),
 NumberType("latitude").withLabel("Latitude").withReadOnly().withProvided(
 ProvidedMeta().withValue().withOverwrite().withDependency("location")),
 NumberType("longitude").withLabel("Longitude").withReadOnly().withProvided(
 ProvidedMeta().withValue().withOverwrite().withDependency("location")),
 ])
 self.withNonCallable().withFeatures({"visible":False, "cancelLabel":"Close", "icon":"map-marker"})
 def onProvideArgs(self, context):
 if "label" in context.provide:
 context.provided["label"] = ProvidedValue().withValue(context.current["location"].valueLabel)
 if "description" in context.provide:
 context.provided["description"] = ProvidedValue(


Liquid Nitrogen Is Beautiful When It's Dancing Across Gasoline
Instead of mixing, it just spins a beautiful trail of gas.
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Pouring liquid nitrogen on another liquid won't result in an instant block of ice, nor even a slushie. Ultimately, it'll have very little effect on the liquid below but, as YouTuber carsandwater illustrates, it will look very cool while it is busy having no effect.
In this random but mesmerizing video, you'll see a few spoonfuls of liquid nitrogen dance around on the surface of gasoline, rubbing alcohol, and water.
Because the liquid nitrogen is less dense than the water, it just floats on top instead of mixing in. And while it does, it sometimes forms a tiny bit of ice beneath it, which acts as an insulator and keeps the warm liquid somewhat separate from the cold nitrogen. In the meantime, the liquid nitrogen just floats around, spinning and emitting some really cool vapor shapes as it evaporates.
It's not quite as flashy as using liquid nitrogen to fight against a flamethrower, but it's probably a little safer.
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Recently, an entertainment robot is emerging as a new type of a robot. The purpose of an entertainment robot is to provide intimacy and enjoyment for people rather than to give any function. Therefore, not only emotion design but also personality design is needed for an entertainment robot. When we endow an entertainment robot personality, it gives an entertainment robot the consistency and the distinction of behavior.
The purpose of this study is to suggest a design process for constructing personality of an entertainment robot based on psychological types, and prove the possibility of the process with a case study and an experiment.
In this study, four temperaments which are derived from 16 personality types in psychological type Indicator, MBTI(Myers Briggs Type Indicator), were applied to design personality of an entertainment robot. These temperaments are divided into four types, such as Sensing-Perceiving type, Sensing-Judging type, Intuitive-Thinking type, and IntuitiveFeeling type. Based on the concept that a robot has its own temperament factor, we propose an entertainment robot personality design process, which is composed of four steps. The steps are selecting the concept of an entertainment robot, situation scene design and perception device design, reaction design based on temperaments, and demonstration of robot temperaments about the reaction with an experiment. To see the effectiveness of the suggested process, we also conducted a case study, which followed the design process with an entertainment robot.
Through a case study and an experiment, we could find several results. First, the major experimenters match the reaction with the robot temperament. From this result, we could see that robot temperaments are useful guidelines to design an entertainment robot's personality. Second, there are situations, which make the reaction express robot temperament better. This means that situation scene design is an important factor to make reaction express robot temperament more distinctly. Third, there are some reactions, which display the robot temperaments better. This helps robot developers notice the reaction, which should be redesigned.
The process suggested in this study will provide a useful guideline for constructing personality of an entertainment robot. This will make it possible for robot developers to construct robot's personality more easily. As a result, the design of the personality of an entertainment robot will make entertainment robot more intimate and enjoyable.


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How Adults and Youth Learn
J. Dennis Miller, president of Church Youth Development states that a problem with educating young people in the church stems from a failure to understand how young people learn. He claims that adults learn in the following pattern:
1. acceptance of absolutes;
2. subordination of attitudes and actions to absolutes;
3. application of truth received to life experience.
Knowing something as an adult is based primarily upon remembering information and intellectual learning. Youth, Miller contends, learn in a different way:
1. evaluation of life experience;
2. discovery of attitudes and actions which validate their life experiences;
3. identifying truth based on their relevance to life experience;
4. acceptance of truths that prove reliable from life experience. Life experience is the main influence on the learning young mind.
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The IATI rulesets provide additional instructions for IATI publishers.
Data published to meet the IATI Standard is created as XML. IATI maintain a number of XML schema that describe the structure of an IATI XML document. However, the design of IATI means that these XML schema cannot enforce all of the rules inherent in the IATI Standard on their own.
For example, the schema, as it stands, cannot check to see if an activity has a start date that occurs before its end date.
The IATI Standard has many rules such as the above, that machines are able to test for, given the correct instructions.
IATI has created 'Rulesets' as a way of agreeing what those instructions should be, and grouping them into meaningful collections.
Rulesets are constructed as follows:
This section details the current Standard Ruleset, and provides information around how to utilise and develop rules.


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Is it possible to create periodic potentials that instead of creating a well for an atom to be trapped in, repulsed by that specific location?
If yes, can we use this as a means to make artificial objects that we can feel, with let's say our hands, by putting lots of these repulsive points together?
This is an idea that I have in order to make holograms that we can feel like the holodeck in Star Trek.
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...It's a periodic potential. The atoms are repelled from the peaks and fall into the valleys.. what is it that you to be different? Also if you want of holodecks I think you will find the forces involved in this sort of physics to be rather underwhelming. – BebopButUnsteady Aug 5 '11 at 0:18
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Atoms in an optical lattice are attracted to high/low field states depending on the quantum state the atom is in. Atoms in states that would be shifted down in energy by the application of an electric field are drawn to low-field regions and repulsed from high-field regions, and vice versa for atoms in states that would be shifted up in energy by the application of an electric field.
The answer to part 1 is that this is possible, and in fact atoms are already "repulsed" by parts of the lattice anyway. Which part of the lattice is attractive/repulsive depends on the state the atom is in.
Because optical lattices are by definition periodic, these "repulsive" regions are surrounded by attractive regions, and the atoms in you hand tend to migrate from the repulsive to the attractive regions. I don't think you'd be able to make a macroscopic force you could feel with your hand.
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what is the physical meaning of "trap"? Does only potential well trap particles? – Jeremy Sep 6 '13 at 16:02
_USER_: You usually have to cool (slow) the atoms down to be able to trap them. For an explanation of how this is done, see here – Dan Sep 6 '13 at 17:48
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Dr. Chandra Shekhar Sharma, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Creative & Advanced Research Based On Nanomaterials (CARBON) Laboratory, IITH, has been awarded the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2019-2020 for his proposed work on Metals CO2 battery. Dr. Sharma will receive due support from DST and SERB to further develop this concept which can play a pivotal role in India's 2024 Mars Mission and fixing the CO2 emissions that cause global warming.
His work has two major aspects. First, an appropriate energy storage system especially suitable for the extreme environment which has always been a challenge for all space agencies. Since Mars atmosphere primarily consists of CO2, the broad objective of this concept is to scientifically explore and develop a working prototype of Metal (M)-CO2 battery technology to explore the feasibility of this technology in the Mars mission particularly for the surface landers and rovers by using the CO2 gas (95.32%) abundantly available in its atmosphere. Development of Metal-CO2 batteries will provide high specific energy density with the reduction in mass and volume which will help the reduction of payload mass and launch cost in planetary missions.
A real battery prototype will be developed as an outcome of this fellowship and ISRO and DRDO will be brought on board in the early phase of the project for timely inputs.
The second important aspect of this proposal is to develop Metal-CO2 battery technology also as a clean strategy for restraining the climate effects of CO2 emissions on earth.


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Legislation passed recently in the Victorian Parliament allows driverless vehicles to be trialled across the state as part of a two-year trial program.
Last August, as phase one of the program, the government partnered with VicRoads, RACV and Transurban to run an automated vehicle trial on the Monash-CityLink-Tullamarine corridor, using vehicles from BMW, Mercedes, Tesla and Volvo.
Now, with changes to the Road Safety Act, VicRoads will be able to grant permits to individuals or organisations wanting to conduct on-road trials of automated vehicles.
Under the new laws, all driverless vehicle trials will require a human supervisor to monitor the vehicle from either inside or outside the vehicle. Once it has been established a vehicle can drive safely, this condition may be removed to allow the vehicle to drive in automated mode in limited circumstances without a supervisor.
A similar law was established in South Australia in June 2016. According to Motoring, Victoria's move follows a report in January by global consulting group KPMG, saying Australia has dropped to 14th place out of 20 countries for autonomous vehicle readiness.
This is mainly because Australian law still requires autonomous vehicles to have a human driver. The Netherlands, which allows autonomous vehicle trials without a driver, and has more than 1000 traffic lights capable of communicating with autonomous cars, topped the rankings.
Automated vehicles are an important step to reducing road trauma, with human error contributing to more than 90% of crashes. They have enormous potential to make journeys safer and more efficient, and to help the community travel with more ease, including people with limited mobility through disability.
Minister for Roads and Road Safety Luke Donnellan has also announced a $9 million grant program to support the development of vehicles with connected and automated technology and safety features.


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Nota di Lavoro, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei 75.2015
The article proposes a social network analysis of the main European capitalisms and its correspondence with an index of economic freedom. The analysis relates to two kinds of economic liberties taken from the concept of freedom formulated by Isaiah Berlin. While the first kind of freedom (negative freedom) depends on the external system (e.g. the constraints on the firm defined by the regulations), the second refers to the internal obligations within the business system itself that prevent the free exercise of business (positive freedom): specifically, the social network, in which the company is embedded. After an operationalization of the two concepts of freedom, the analysis of a comprehensive database allows us to explore the relationship between the two kinds of freedom.
Social Network Analysis Antitrust Policies Interlocking Directorates Europe Positive Freedom Negative Freedom


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PipeMinder-T is the next generation of automated critical trunk main monitoring solution for leak detection and risk mitigation.
Large diameter pipelines are noisy, turbulent environments. It is only through the use of a fusion of sensors, a hydrophone, in direct contact with the water, a geophone in contact with the pipeline and a digital pressure sensor, coupled with a large sample size that small leaks can be precisely identified in advance of their becoming catastrophic failures.
PipeMinder-T using high-resolution pressure and flow data provides additional network insights for monitoring anomalous behaviour, network stresses, bursts* and pressure transients.
*Flow meter required
Working in paired units, PipeMinder-T automatically assesses the pipeline at high-resolution daily to quickly and accurately understand the status of the monitored trunk main.
Continually collecting acoustic data at over 1,000 samples per second, PipeMinder-T is able to identify and precisely locate small emerging leaks to allow repair in advance of a more significant failure.
PipeMinder-T uploads basic daily data for the maximum, minimum, average pressure and flow* for each 15-minute period in the proceeding 24 hours.
High-resolution pressure and flow* data is immediately uploaded to RADAR following the occurrence of an event to provide clear network insight. All collected high-resolution data is available for 30 days, allowing retrospective analysis of network events.
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Each unit contains an integrate GPS receiver, which records a fixed position and set the device time upon deployments. This precision time stamping of high-resolution data across paired devices allows leaks to be precisely located on the monitored trunk main and for other network events to be sequenced and traced.
Event Alarms & Leak Reporting
In response to a network event, predominantly a burst* or transient, utilities will receive immediate notification from the deployed devices.
PipeMinder-T captures and analyses significant volumes of acoustic data to build an increasingly detailed insight of the monitored critical trunk main. By presenting many days of analysis in one visualisation (the B-Scan on RADAR) utilities can see existing and emerging leaks on the pipelines.
Once a leak has been observed over a specific number of days RADAR will alert the user to the leak, and provide a report for review, thus providing a built-in false positive mitigation and notification only when needed.
RADAR, a proven and powerful, secure cloud-based platform, providing fully interactive management of all deployed devices.
High-resolution data is processed to provide utilities with a user-friendly dashboard which displays aggregated statistical and graphical information from across the monitored network.
Paired with PipeMinder-T, RADAR gives the clearest, most accurate visualisation of network activity and leak detection, making it the obvious choice to support critical asset management and risk mitigation.


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Complete genome sequence of Staphylothermus marinus Stetter and Fiala 1986 type strain F1
Abstract
Staphylothermus marinus Fiala and Stetter 1986 belongs to the order Desulfurococcales within the archaeal phylum Crenarchaeota. S. marinus is a hyperthermophilic, sulfur-dependent, anaerobic heterotroph. Strain F1 was isolated from geothermally heated sediments at Vulcano, Italy, but S. marinus has also been isolated from a hydrothermal vent on the East Pacific Rise. We report the complete genome of S. marinusstrain F1, the type strain of the species. This is the fifth reported complete genome sequence from the order Desulfurococcales.
Introduction
Strain F1 is the type strain of the species Staphylothermus marinus. It was isolated from geothermally heated sediments at Vulcano, Italy [1], and was the strain sequenced. S. marinus was also isolated from a hydrothermal vent on the East Pacific Rise. There is one other species within the genus, Staphylothermus hellenicus, which was isolated from a hydrothermal vent at Milos, Greece [2]. Four other complete genomes from the order Desulfurococcales have been published, but S. marinus is not closely related to any of these organisms (Figure 1). We describe here the properties of the complete genome sequence of S. marinus strain F1 (DSM 3639, ATCC 43588).
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Phylogenetic tree of 16S ribosomal RNA of members of the order Desulfurococcales with completely sequenced genomes. Sulfolobus metallicus is the outgroup. The tree was generated with weighbor through the Ribosomal Database Project [3] and viewed with njplot [4].
Classification and features
S. marinus is a nonmotile coccus with a diameter of 0.5–1.0 µm. At low nutrient concentrations it forms clumps of up to 100 cells, while at higher nutrient concentrations single cells or pairs of cells are observed. At high concentrations of yeast extract, giant cells with a diameter of up to 15µm are formed [1]. The optimum and maximum growth temperatures also depend on the nutrient concentration. At low nutrient concentration the optimum growth temperature is 85°C and the maximum is 92°C, while at higher nutrient concentration the optimum growth temperature is 92°C and the maximum is 98°C [1]. The optimum pH for growth is 6.5, but growth is observed within a range of 4.5 to 8.5.
S. marinus is a heterotroph, growing on complex media but not on simple carbohydrates or amino acids. Elemental sulfur is required for growth, and it can not be substituted by other sulfur compounds [1]. In the absence of sulfur, cells can survive while producing hydrogen [5]. Metabolic products are CO2, H2S, acetate, and isovalerate, suggesting a metabolism similar to that of Pyrococcus species [1].
Several features suggest that S. marinus is a typical member of the Archaea. Its growth was not inhibited by vancomycin, kanamycin, streptomycin, or chloramphenicol, but it is sensitive to diphtheria toxin [1]. Its cell wall lacks murein, and it contains typical archaeal membrane lipids [1]. Other features of the organism are presented in Table 1.
Table 1. Classification and general features of S. marinus F1 according to the MIGS recommendations [6].
Genome sequencing and annotation
Genome project history
S. marinus was selected for sequencing based upon its phylogenetic position relative to other sequenced archaeal genomes. It is part of a 2006 Joint Genome Institute Community Sequencing Program (CSP) project that included six diverse archaeal genomes. The complete genome sequence was finished in February, 2007. The GenBank accession number for the chromosome is CP000575. The genome project is listed in the Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) [17] as project Gc00511. Sequencing, finishing and annotation were performed by the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). A summary of the project information is shown in Table 2.
Table 2. Genome sequencing project information.
Growth conditions and DNA isolation
The methods for DNA isolation, genome sequencing and assembly for this genome have previously been published [18].
Genome annotation
Protein-coding genes were identified using a combination of Critica [19] and Glimmer [20] followed by a round of manual curation using the JGI GenePRIMP pipeline [21]. The predicted CDSs were translated and used to search the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) nonredundant database, UniProt, TIGRFam, Pfam, PRIAM, KEGG, COG, and InterPro databases. The tRNAScan-SE tool [22] was used to find tRNA genes. Additional gene prediction analysis and manual functional annotation was performed within the Integrated Microbial Genomes Expert Review (IMG-ER) platform [23].
Genome properties
The genome of S. marinus F1 consists of a single circular chromosome (Table 3 and Figure 2). The genome size of 1.57 Mbp is smaller than most Crenarchaeota, although Desulfurococcus kamchatkensis and Ignicoccus hospitalis have smaller genomes. The G+C percentage is 35.7%, lower than that of most Crenarchaeota. Among Crenarchaeota with sequenced genomes, only Sulfolobus tokodaii has a lower G+C percentage (32.8%). The total number of genes is 1,659, with 1,610 protein-coding genes and 49 RNA genes. There are 40 pseudogenes, constituting 2.4% of the total genes. The percentage of the genome encoding genes (89.1%) is close to the average for Crenarchaeota. About 59% of predicted genes begin with an AUG codon, 33% begin with UUG, and only 8% begin with GUG. There is one copy of each ribosomal RNA. The properties and statistics of the genome are shown in Table 3, and the distribution of proteins in COG categories is shown in Table 4.
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Graphical circular map of the chromosome. From outside to the center: Genes on forward strand (colored by COG categories), Genes on reverse strand (colored by COG categories), RNA genes (tRNAs green, rRNAs red, other RNAs black), GC content, GC skew.
Table 3. Genome statistics
Table 4. Numbers of genes associated with the general COG functional categories.
Insights from genome sequence
The genome of S. marinus has several novel features compared to other Crenarchaeota. It is the first crenarchaeote found to have a sodium ion-translocating decarboxylase, which is probably involved in energy generation from amino acid degradation [18]. In addition it is the first crenarchaeote found to have proteins related to multisubunit cation/proton antiporters, although the S. marinus proteins probably do not function as antiporters. These antiporter-related proteins belong to larger operons similar to the mbh and mbx operons of Pyrococcus furiosus [24,25], therefore, they may play a role in sulfur reduction or hydrogen production. S. marinus appears to use different proteins for sulfur reduction than the other anaerobic, sulfur-reducing Crenarchaeota. Both Thermofilum pendens and Hyperthermus butylicus appear to have molybdenum-containing sulfur/polysulfide reductases and NADPH:sulfur oxidoreductases, but these are not present in S. marinus [18]
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While many workers around the world are worried about downsizing, lay-offs and how to protect their jobs, workers in Argentina have come up with their own solution to business closures – Occupy, Resist and Produce. Many factories, like the Zanon Ceramics plant, have been running without bosses for almost a decade. In response to a financial crisis in 2001 that wrecked Argentina's economy, workers decided to occupy their workplaces and start up production without bosses in order to safe-guard their jobs.
Zanon Ceramics, now known as FASINPAT (Factory without a boss), has re-defined the basis of production: without workers, bosses are unable to run businesses; without bosses, workers can do it better. As the largest recuperated factory in Argentina, and occupied since 2001, the Zanon ceramics plant in the Patagonian province of Neuquén now employs 470 workers.
This month, the FASINPAT collective is a step closer in winning permanent control of the factory. The provincial government presented a bill in the provincial legislature for the expropriation of the factory. If this bill is passed, and it looks favorable, it would mean a solution to the workers' long standing legal woes.
Since the plant began production under worker control in 2002, they have faced numerous eviction threats and other violent attacks. The government has tried to evict them five times using police operatives. On April 8, 2003, during the most recent eviction attempt, over 5,000 community members from Neuquén came out to defend the factory.
In a press release, the worker collective said that the legislature received the bill was a positive step. "The historic progress we made today was the result of a hard fight. The collective struggle and mobilization of Worker Self-management, along with the workers in this country, community support and international recognition has made this possible."
In 2001, Zanon's owners decided to close their doors and fire the workers without paying months of back pay or indemnity. Leading up to the massive layoffs and the plant's closure, workers went on strike in 2000. The owner, Luis Zanon with over 75 million dollars in debt to public and private creditors, fired en masse most of the workers and closed the factory in 2001—a bosses' lockout. In October 2001, workers declared the plant under worker control. The workers camped outside the factory for four months, pamphleting and partially blocking a highway leading to the capital city Neuquén. While the workers were camping outside the factory, a court ruled that the employees could sell off remaining stock. After the stock ran out, on March 2, 2002, the workers' assembly voted to start up production without a boss. For more than eight years, FASINPAT has created jobs, supported community projects and shown the world that we don't need bosses.
Luis Zanon's debts of over $70 million are still outstanding, while many of the creditors want their money back, pushing for the eviction and foreclosure of the ceramics plant. The current bill presented in the legislature would mean that the state would pay off 22 million pesos (around $7 million) to the creditors. One of the main creditors is the World Bank – which gave a loan of 20 million dollars to Luis Zanon for the construction of the plant, which he never paid back. The other major creditor is the Italian company SACMY that produces state of the art ceramics manufacturing machinery and is owed over $5 million.
Omar Villablanca, a worker at Zanon said that the workers are most concerned about providing job continuity – safeguarding the 470 jobs that the factory without a boss have created and maintained since 2001. He stressed that FASINPAT needs a formal long-term legal solution in order to survive as a competitive business in a faltering economy.
"The state needs to make laws so that workers can work. In eight years we haven't asked the state for anything other than an expropriation law," said Jose Luis Paris, another worker from FASINPAT.
Economic Crisis Grips Argentina
Argentina is in a better position than other Latin American nations in the face of the deepening global crisis. From 2003 to 2007, Argentina enjoyed a high economic growth rate, between 8 and 9 percent. However, with the global economy in recession the nation's growth has come to a halt, and it is expected that Argentina will see a drastic drop Gross Domestic Product in 2010.
Many independent analysts expect that the global recession will affect Argentina's real economy, that's to say industry and employment rates will suffer from the crisis, rather than the financial sector which already took a major blow in 2001. Those who benefited from Argentina's economic recovery of course are now those who are using this crisis as an excuse to downsize and lay-off workers.
The current government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has bolstered that unemployment has gone done from the staggering numbers post-2001 crisis. Many of those jobs are subcontracted and underpaid. Official unemployment statistics, which have been under fire for being conveniently inaccurate, report unemployment at 8 percent. However, many independent analysts say that the actual rate is much higher. Eduardo Lucita, economist from Economists of the Left said that analysts don't have exact numbers because many of the firings are of workers without formal contracts and can't be tracked. "Argentina has already had a crisis in the financial sector in 2001. The current crisis is directly affecting Argentina's real economy. Since October, there are more than 50,000 people who are now unemployed. There have been mass firings, lay-offs and pay cuts."
Workers Paying for the Crisis
In the failing economy, the jobs at FASINPAT are more important than ever. But the government seems to have all but forgotten that the recuperated enterprises and worker cooperatives provide nearly 20,000 jobs for Argentina, while the government has failed to provide a long-term legal solution to the workers without bosses or subsidies that standard businesses regularly have access to.
Another factor in the struggle at FASINPAT is the lack of subsidies for the cooperative. Sales have dropped by 40-50 percent since 2008 due to a radical slow-down in the construction industry nationally.
"Because of the drop in construction, we aren't producing as much," says Paris. In 2006, the plant produced 400,000 square meters of ceramics per month, today that number has gone down to 150,000 square meters per month. The cooperative has had to shut off some of the ovens and shorten production shifts. On top of this drop; the workers controlling the factory have had to face sky-rocketing energy prices. The workers pay over 300,000 dollars a month for electricity and gas. And for Paris, the workers should not have to pay more than other businesses do: "Many industry leaders get government energy subsidies up to 70 percent. We want to buy directly from the gas companies to lower our costs or receive subsidies that we are entitled to."
Many of the 200 worker controlled businesses and factories in Argentina are being affected by the crisis. But unlike their capitalist counterparts, the worker cooperatives are taking any measure possible to avoid laying off workers, something which they are opposed to doing.
"We aren't like the capitalists. You can't throw workers out like they are lice," said Candido Gonzalez, a veteran worker from Chilavert worker occupied print factory in Buenos Aires, one of the first occupied plants after the 2001 crisis.
During the Argentina's financial crisis in 2001, he occupied his workplace and fought until he and his fellow workers won legal recognition. Now that business is slowing down, many assemblies at the worker occupied factories would rather accept collective pay cuts, than their fellow workers lose their jobs.
When Capitalism Fails – Occupy, Resist and Produce
Capitalism has taken a turn for the worse, spinning itself out of control into a downward spiral which many are characterizing as the second depression of the century. And during this crisis, there are going to be winners and losers. The winners? Most likely big business and banks receiving bailout plans. The losers? The millions who are facing unemployment, dropping wages and inflation.
"During a capitalist crisis, when the businessmen and governments are trying to unload all their responsibilities onto the workers of the world, Zanon under worker self-management, is a clear example of how workers can come out of this crisis," say the workers at FASINPAT.
Since late 2008 there have been several new factory takeovers in Argentina. Many workers from the newly occupied factories say that their bosses saw the crisis as the perfect opportunity to clear their debts by closing up shop, fraudulently liquidating assets, firing workers and later re-start production under a new firm.
"[However] Many companies are still open because they are afraid of the recovered factory phenomenon; we have to keep them scared," said Paris from Zanon. In almost all of the newly recuperated factories, the workers suggest that the owners had no real reason to close up shop – meaning that the businesses had production demand. I have heard workers on numerous occasions say that during the crisis, the bosses are taking advantage of the situation of a recession.
The worker controlled factories and businesses occupied after 2001 may not be by themselves a social revolution, but the example of worker self-management has helped many workers today facing the possibility of losing their jobs with the idea that they can occupy their workplace in order to defend their rights as laborers. Nearly 10 factories have been occupied since 2008. This may be a sign that workers are confronting the global financial crisis with lessons and tools

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how are different emotions experienced?
with different causal attributions and outcomes
after a success, how does an athlete attribute the success internally? externally?
internally, they typically respond with pride, confidence and satisfaction
externally, they will likely feel gratitude and thankfulness
causal attributions --> future expectation --> ______
what tends to happen whenever an outcome is different than what was expected based on past experience?
what happens when an outcome is as expected, based on past performances?
why is it beneficial to ascribe failures to unstable causes?
it does not imply repeated failure
what are the 3 implications to predicting future expectations from present attributions?
1) athletes should attribute a failure to unstable and internal cause; i.e., lack of effort
2) this suggests that more effort can change the next outcome from failure to success
3) it teaches the athlete to accept responsibility for the results
what does future expectancy depend on?
depends on stability of the attributions
what 2 things to promotion self efficacy and motivation for future performance depend on?
depends on both expectancy and locus of control
athletes who succeed should be encouraged to attribute the success to both stable and internal factors. why?
a stable attribution will improve the athlete's expectancy for future success and an internal attribution will enhance the athlete's self-confidence
what are 4 attributional training strategies learning to improved self-efficacy in future events?
1) record and classify attributions after performances
2) after each outcome make attributions that will lead to promotion of self-efficacy
3) provide an attributional training program for athletes who consistently utilize undesirable attributions
4) for best results, combine planned goal-setting with attributional training
spectator effect
an important social-psychological effect on athletic performance
spectator effect influences athlete's performance through? (2 answers)
1) social facilitation - enhancement of performance due to presence of others
2) Rivalry - a desire to beat the other opponent
Social facilitation can be further broken down into what 2 effects?
1) Audience effects - a situation involving the mere presence of other individuals in the same room or area
2) Coaction effects - other people are present, but are performing the same task
true or false: spectator effect divides into rivalry and social facilitation. social facilitation then divides into audience effects and coaction effects
what happens if the athlete perceives the audience to be important and/or knowledgeable?
then drive level is increased
what happens if the athlete perceives the audience t be unimportant and/or not knowledgeable?
then drive level is decreased
what is the mot popular explanation for home advantage?
the presence of supportive audience
what research has been established following audience characteristics leading to a greater home advantage?
- large
- supportive
- close to the playing arena (i.e., high intimacy and density)


Site: Ystradfellte
Name:Ystradfellte [Also: Maen Madoc] CISP No:YFLL1
Place:Sarn Helen Grid Ref:SN 9180 1570 (GB) Map
Parish:Ystradfellte Stones:1
County:Brecknock (Brycheiniog), Wales Saint(s):none
Site Type:landscape setting
Site Notes
Westwood/1876, 64: 'one of the bleakest and most unfrequented parts of South Wales in September 1846. The Roman road called Sarn Helen or Lleon joins the ordinary road from Devynock to Ystradfellte, about 1 3/4 miles to the south of the Maen Llia, a great block of stone marked on the Ordnance Map near the spring of the little river Llia'.
Anon/1901, 68: 'An inscribed stone, locally known as 'Maen Madoc', stands beside the Roman road called 'Sarn Helen', about 1 1/2 mile north-west of Ystradfellte village.
Sarn Helen. -- Here was seen what is considered to be a good specimen of an undoubted Roman road. It is still used as a road where it passes the Maen Madoc, and can be traced as a ridge across several fields in the Nedd Valley at about 2/3 of a mile south-south-west of Maen Madoc, and close to the highest farm in the valley, named Coed-y-garreg.
Several cairns have lately been explored in this valley by Mr. Cantrill and others. There are also, it is believed, hut-circles on the hill-sides -- as near Maen Llia'.
Nash-Williams/1950, 82: 'The position of the stone suggests a roadside burial in the Roman manner (cf. No. 258)'.


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We conserve areas in New Brunswick that are ecologically significant,
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NAME ^
Soar::WM::Element - Work with Soar working memory elements
VERSION ^
version 0.04
SYNOPSIS ^
 use Soar::WM qw(wm_root);
 my $root = wm_root(<<ENDWM);
 (S1 ^foo bar ^foo buzz ^baz boo ^link S2 ^link S3)
 (S2 ^faz far
 ^boo baz
 ^fuzz buzz)
 (S3 ^junk foo)
 ENDWM
 print $root->id; # 'S1'
 my $val = $root->first_val('link');
 print $val->id; # 'S2'
 print $val->first_val('faz'); # 'far'
DESCRIPTION ^
This module allows one to traverse working memory by accessing attributes and values of a single element at a time.
NAME ^
Soar::WM::Element - Perl extension for representing Soar working memory elements.
METHODS ^
new
Creates a new instance of Soar::WM::Element. There are two required arguments: 1. An instance of Soar::WM which is to contain this element 2. The WME ID of this element. If the given ID does not exist in the given working memory, this method will croak.
id
Returns the WME ID of the this element ('S1', 'W3', etc.)
atts
Returns an array pointer containing the attributes present in this element.
vals
Takes one required argument, an attribute name, and returns an array pointer containing all of the values of the given attribute for this element. Any values that are names of other working memory elements will be blessed as new Soar::WM::Elements.
children
The same as vals, but returns the value of every attribute as an array pointer. The optional parameter 'links_only => 1' will cause the method to only return children which are links to other Soar::WM::Elements.
first_val
Takes one required argument, an attribute name, and returns the first value of the given attribute for this element. If the values is the names of another working memory element, it will be blessed as a new Soar::WM::Element.
num_links
Returns the number of values in all of this element's attributes which are names of other existing working memory elements.
SEE ALSO ^
The homepage for the Soar cognitive architecture is here: _URL_
AUTHOR ^
Nathan Glenn <_EMAIL_>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE ^
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Nathan Glenn.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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