What you need to know about the wheel visualizer
In this video, we'll explain the wheel visualization engine that powers Visual Basic for Applications and Wheel Visualizer, an Excel application for visualizing data using a wheel.
The visualizer takes a list of wheel data points, places them on a screen, and shows the visualization on a graph.
We'll cover the wheel data analysis, data visualization basics, and how to create custom wheel visualizations in this video.
This is a video series about Visual Basic visualizations, and we're offering it at no charge to our customers.
If you want to try Visual Basic, but don't have access to a computer or a network connection, then this video is the one for you.
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What is the wheel Visualizer?
The wheel Visualization engine is a powerful tool that enables visualizing wheel data in a variety of formats, including visual graphs, pie charts, and charts.
In this tutorial, we show you how to use the wheel to visualize data using data in Visual Basic.
We explain how to format data in the Visual Basic data files, as well as how to insert data into the data using the Insert menu.
To learn more about wheel visualization, we also show you what data visualization can look like using the VBA and Visual Basic Editor in Visual Studio.
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Why use a wheel visualization?
There are several reasons why you might want to use a visualizer in your wheel visualization.
The first is for performance reasons.
A visualizer is faster to load and run than an Excel spreadsheet or other spreadsheet that uses the same data format.
You don't need to worry about formatting or tabbing data into a column, and the visualization can run on your machine without any network connectivity.
In addition, a visualizers visualizations are generally much faster to produce, as they only require a single wheel data point to run.
The next reason is for aesthetics.
If your data visualization is simple, like a bar chart or bar graph, then a visualizing engine is usually more appropriate than an actual data visualizer.
You're usually not interested in having a visually stunning visual that looks like a graphic, but a visually pleasing visualization that looks pretty and is easier to understand.
For example, a bar graph or bar chart visualizer can be very complicated, and it can take a lot of time to get it to run on a computer.
In contrast, a wheel visualization lets you quickly build a visual that can be quickly visualized.
The third reason is to avoid having to deal with data in different formats.
If a visualized data source has a variety and variety of data types, a graphical visualization of that data can make it hard to visualise all of the data in each of the different data types.
Visualizing data in visual formats helps make data visual easier to visualize in different ways.
For more information, see the Visualization Engine Overview.
How do I create my own wheel visualizers?
To create your own visualizations using Visual Basic and the wheel, you can use the VB.exe file editor or the Visual Studio Tools menu item to create a new Visual Basic application.
If Visual Basic isn't already installed on your computer, you'll need to install it first.
To create a Visual Basic Visualizer from the Visual Solution Explorer, go back to the VisualSolution Explorer window and select the Visual Application.
In the Visual application window, click File and click New.
This will create a New Visual Application, and when it finishes, it will open a window named New Visual Solution.
On the New Visual Project, select the data source data type that you want the visualizer to visualizes, and click OK.
If all went well, you should see a list called "Data" on the right-hand side of the Visual solution window.
This list contains data types for which you can visualize the visualization, and for which the Visualizer can create the visualizations.
How to create your custom visualizations article The Visual Basic language and data visualization language are two different versions of the same programming language.
The language used to create the code
Video game visualizers: A step-by-step guide to visualizing games
This article is about visualizers, a set of tools to create games.
It's a subject that's come up in several video game communities recently.
I'm going to talk about some of the tools and what you need to do to make your own, and how to use them.
I can't recommend visualizers enough.
They have a large community and a wide range of tools available to them.
They're extremely versatile and they can be used to create anything from simple video game scenes to complex animations.
In fact, visualizers can even be used for some of today's biggest gaming titles.
I think it's really important to start with the basics and then move onto the more advanced features and tricks.
So what are visualizers?
Visualizers are basically tools for creating games.
They work like this: you create an image of a game, then you use a tool like the Wireshark software to record the frames of the game.
It takes a few seconds to record a frame of a video game and then you save the captured image to a file.
You can then use a program like Final Cut Pro to make the game look as good as it can.
There are a few visualizers out there and they're all designed to work with one or more video game engines, like FinalCut Pro X, Adobe Premiere, or Final Cut Studio.
The most popular visualizers are Unity and Photoshop, which are both great.
Unity is the popular tool, and it's easy to learn and very versatile.
For example, I've found Unity to work great with games like Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance.
There's also the Free Edition of Unity that includes a few advanced features like the ability to create 3D graphics, animations, and even live tiles.
There are also the Visual Studio and Unity plugins that allow you to make games with more advanced tools, like animation effects and music.
But the thing is that all of these tools are free, and that means they're free to use, so there's nothing to worry about.
Visualizers are just tools for making games.
The only requirement is that you have a computer with a powerful enough graphics card and enough memory to do all of the processing that goes into making your game.
You'll need to use an internet connection to access these tools, and I strongly suggest that you use one that supports at least 4G.
That's because some of these visualizers won't work with a connection that doesn't support 4G, and 4G-only connections will result in slow frame rates and low quality.
You also have to understand that if you're creating a game using these visualizer tools, you're making it on the web, so if you want to make sure that you're not breaking the law or breaking the site you're hosting, you'll need a web browser with JavaScript enabled.
For this reason, the Visualizer tools are a little tricky to use on the iPhone.
If you're using an older browser like Chrome, you won't be able to use the web visualizer on the iPad, but it'll work on the new iPad with a JavaScript enabled browser.
If that doesn
Why the GOP will not go into the winter with a $1 trillion debt limit increase
The House passed a $19 trillion spending bill Friday night that will give the House the power to raise the nation's debt limit through the end of the month.
The measure was backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
The House is expected to vote on the measure Wednesday.
Democrats were disappointed, but Democrats did not want to risk the possibility of a government shutdown in the middle of the year.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that the GOP is playing politics with the American people and that it is "unprecedented and irresponsible" to put the nation into a default.
"Republicans are playing politics," Pelosi said on CNN.
"They're putting the blame for a shutdown on the American public."
Republicans have been urging President Donald Trump to use the threat of a shutdown to negotiate a new debt ceiling deal with Democrats.
Republicans argue that their strategy will not only keep the government funded but also allow them to pass tax cuts, increase the size of the debt limit and negotiate an extension of the federal government's borrowing authority.
"We don't need a shutdown, we need a deal," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R of Wisconsin, told Fox News Friday.
"And we're working with the Senate, we're doing the best we can to get a deal done, and that's what we're trying to do."
Ryan said the president will likely make a decision on whether to use his power to negotiate new debt limit increases by March 10, but he added that the decision is a "long shot."
"There's no chance of him actually raising the debt ceiling," Ryan said.
"But there is a chance he could negotiate a deal.


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Habitat's Quality of Life Framework
The importance of healthy neighborhoods
Stable, affordable housing is a key determinant of health. The house and neighborhood where one grows up impacts the health and longevity of one's life.
Having a safe, decent, stable, affordable home also impacts a child's success in school. However, many Americans live outside of safe, stable neighborhoods.
How are we revitalizing neighborhoods?
Neighborhood revitalization recognizes the holistic nature of neighborhood priorities to create change across multiple sectors. In order to create change that leads to the an improved quality of life, Habitat created the Quality of Life Framework. Based on learnings from Habitat affiliates and other community development experts, the Quality of Life Framework was developed to serve as a customizable and comprehensive approach to understand how the ultimate goal, an improved quality of life, can be achieved in a neighborhood. The Quality of Life Framework is Habitat's hypothesis on how systemic and sustainable change happens in a neighborhood.
In order to create change that leads to an improved quality of life, community efforts focus on three foundational outcomes:
- Sense of community: Identifying with the neighborhood, feeling connected and supporting one another.
- Social cohesion: Being willing and able to work together.
- Collective action: Sustaining ongoing projects and advocacy efforts.
Focusing on the three foundational outcomes increases motivation and capacity to overcome barriers to sustainable change.
Donate to revitalize neighborhoods
Why are we revitalizing neighborhoods?
Habitat for Humanity seeks to further embrace our mission by collaborating with local residents and partners to maximize resources and improve quality of life in the entire neighborhood.
How can you give back to the community?
Interested in learning more about the Quality of Life Framework? Email _EMAIL_.
You also can contact your local Habitat office to see how they are involved in neighborhood revitalization efforts and what you can do to help.

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Temperature profiles measured in permafrost in northernmost Alaska usually have anomalous curvature in the upper 100 meters or so. When analyzed by heat-conduction theory, the profiles indicate a variable but widespread secular warming of the permafrost surface, generally in the range of 2 to 4 Celsius degrees during the last few decades to a century. Although details of the climatic change cannot be resolved with existing data, there is little doubt of its general magnitude and timing; alternative explanations are limited by the fact that heat transfer in cold permafrost is exclusively by conduction. Since models of greenhouse warming predict climatic change will be greatest in the Arctic and might already be in progress, it is prudent to attempt to understand the rapidly changing thermal regime in this region.
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Reverse engineering of a centrifugal turbine housing
Rossouw, Marius Christiaan
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The Garrett GT 42 turbine housing is a spheroidal ductile cast iron casting, which according to the ASME B31.3 (1996) Code for Pressure Piping, does not satisfy the Pebble Bed Micro Model (PBMM) design requirements. By using Geometrical Reverse Engineering (GRE) methods, a 3-D virtual model, and if required, a mould of the existing design can be created to recast a turbine housing in a suitable material. The aim of this research was to study, evaluate, identify and implement the most promising method(s) to reverse engineer the Garrett GT 42 turbine housing without destroying it in the process. GRE advantages and limitations influenced by practical contact (tactile) and non-contact data acquisition problem areas provided evaluation guidelines that assisted in the allocation of Computed Tomography (CT) as the most promising method to reverse engineer the turbine housing. X-ray and neutron CT were implemented. Neutron Computed Tomography (NCT) using CADKEY® V21 CAD modelling software at the SAFARI-1 nuclear reactor, NECSA, produced the most favourable 3-D NURBs model, which had a geometrical external accuracy of 95% and a volumetric internal accuracy of 94%. It was verified by comparing the results with an 87% geometrical externaland 85% volumetric internal accurate 3-D NURBs model created by the implementation of an alternative contact GRE method, i.e. geometrical inspection and measurements.
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Australian schools get poor grades from international studies
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 12/12/2012
Reporter: Heather Ewart
Australian ranks 27 of 48 countries in reading and our maths and science performance hasn't lifted since 1995, according to two international studies, providing a 'wake-up call' according to Education Minister Peter Garrett.
CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: Australia's been told that it must do better in class. An international test has found our schools lag well behind the world leaders in reading, maths and science. We're ranked 27th, on par with Eastern European nations.
The Federal Government's using the bad report card to push its education reform plan, but some experts say the results are open to interpretation.
National affairs correspondent Heather Ewart reports.
PETER GARRETT, MINISTER FOR SCHOOL EDUCATION: Australian students are either flatlining, they're going backwards in some instances or not going forwards as quickly as we need them to do.
GEOFF MASTERS, AUST. COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH: I'm surprised particularly with the Year Four reading results. I think it's quite worrying that we rank 27th and that 21 countries in the world significantly outperformed Australia.
PAUL SHEAHAN, FORMER PRINCIPAL, MELBOURNE GRAMMER SCHOOL: I don't think we should give a knee-jerk reaction to the results. They require a fair bit of interpretation.
HEATHER EWART, REPORTER: The Australian education sector was in overdrive today, trying to make some sense of an international reading test showing our primary school students scored the lowest of any English-speaking nation. About 25 per cent of Australia's Year Four students failed to meet the minimum standard in reading for their age. And with the 48 countries tested, we ranked 27th, well behind the leaders, Hong Kong, Russia and Finland, as well as the US and England. It's the first time Australia participated.
PETER GARRETT: Today's results tell us that business as usual is simply not acceptable when it comes to education reform.
HEATHER EWART: What's gone wrong?
GEOFF MASTERS: It's hard to know. This is the first time we've had evidence that allows us to compare reading levels in primary schools with levels in other countries. So we're not able to say whether this is a new development, whether this has always been the way, whether our standards have improved or declined. So it's a little hard to know.
HEATHER EWART: But are the results quite as straightforward as they seem. Leading educators point to stark differences in cultures and teaching methods in the countries that took past.
DEBORAH CORRIGAN, EDUCATION, MONASH UNI.: Japan and Finland, Singapore - very monocultural societies and so they don't have multiple ethnic groups sitting in their classrooms. They have some, but not the diversity that Australia has. So, the context of the education in Australia is very different from those other countries. So, it's a bit like trying to compare apples and oranges rather than apples and apples.
PAUL SHEAHAN: And South-East Asian societies have no difficulty at all in training their children, particularly training them to be successful in testing. Whether that is good for their overall education and creates a - you know, a creative mind in the young people is open to debate. But there's no doubt that they see these results as being very important for their national pride and they have no compunction in spending a lot of time teaching to them. We don't.
HEATHER EWART: In other words, our students are not familiar with international testing or learning by rote, as is the case in some other systems.
The former head of the prestigious Melbourne Grammar and now chairman of the Melbourne Cricket Club, Paul Sheehan, argues that's not necessarily a bad thing.
PAUL SHEAHAN: My real concern is that - there's a bit of an analogy here, I think it's appropriate, between Test match cricket and Big Bash League. You know, I think we've got to make young people think more. Not be, you know, immediately grabbed by the superficial, but actually make them look behind the surface and get their brains working and I'm sure that's what will encourage growth in their mental capacities and that sort of thing will be reflected in the results in the long term.
HEATHER EWART: The international tests in reading, as well as maths and science where Australia was blitzed by Asian countries were conducted in 2010.
While educators all have a different take on the results and whether they can be fairly applied to the classrooms of today, they don't dispute there are lessons in it for Australia and this appears to centre on re-examining the education and practical training of teachers at all levels.
GEOFF MASTERS: I think we need to look carefully at how well we're preparing teachers, the kinds of people who are going into teaching, what we can do to lift the status of teaching as a profession. But we know, even from the results that are released today, that we have quite a number of teachers in our schools who are saying they themselves don't feel confident and well prepared to teach some of the things that we're asking them to teach, particularly in areas like science and mathematics.
CHERYL MCBRIDE, PRINCIPALS FORUM, NSW PUBLIC SCHOOLS: I think often teaching is a second or a third choice. I think particularly from our most intellectual graduates, often they will look at, I guess, the more socially acceptable or respected professions like law or medicine or engineering or whatever and just say to themselves, "Well, look, if I don't get into that then I will go into teaching."
HEATHER EWART: Better pay for teachers is an argument that comes up again and again in a bid to attract the best quality to the profession.
GEOFF MASTERS: It may be the case that we need to be paying more. What international experience suggests is that what's important is that teachers are paid at about the same level as other professionals, other graduates.
CHERYL MCBRIDE: It is about returning the status. We do need to pay them more. We do need to make it a bit tougher to get into university. At the moment in NSW we have way too many primary teachers, way too many. We cannot possibly give them the jobs that they would like to see in a permanent capacity. And so let's make it a bit harder. Let's make that entry level quite intellectually high so that we do get graduates that are quite clever.
HEATHER EWART: But the deputy dean of the Faculty of Education at Monash University, a big educator of teachers, disagrees, saying she thinks the bar is already high enough.
DEBORAH CORRIGAN: Our teacher education students are in the top 30 per cent in the country. Their ATARs are 70 and above. I think we have high quality teachers. What I do think we need to do is to start valuing our teachers. It's very easy to point the stick at teachers. There are many people who actually cannot teach because it is a highly demanding, highly stressful, highly emotive profession to engage in.
HEATHER EWART: And a parting word of advice from them all: parents need to take responsibility as well.
GEOFF MASTERS: Parents can do a lot to support their children's learning. They can read to them from a young age, they can get involved, talk with teachers, ask teachers how they can support what's happening in schools, monitor what's happening. So, yes, there's an important role that parents can play in supporting this improvement agenda.
HEATHER EWART: And no amount of international testing can beat that.
CHRIS UHLMANN: Heather Ewart reporting.


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Wiliam P. Gottlieb, Portrait of Harry Gibson, New York, ca. July 1948 (LOC gottlieb.11851).jpg
Gibson performing in New York, ca. 1948; photograph by William P. Gottlieb.
Background information
Birth name Harry Raab
Born (1915-06-27)June 27, 1915
Died May 3, 1991(1991-05-03) (aged 75)
Genres Jazz
Instruments Piano
Harry "The Hipster" Gibson (June 27, 1915 – May 3, 1991) was a jazz pianist, singer and songwriter.[1]
Gibson played New York style Stride piano and boogie woogie while singing in a wild, unrestrained style. His music career began in the late 1920s, when as the young Harry Raab, his birth name, he played stride piano in Dixieland jazz bands in Harlem. He continued to perform there throughout the 1930s, adding the barrelhouse boogie of the time to his repertoire, and was discovered by Fats Waller in 1939 and brought down to mid-town Manhattan, where he made a splash and changed his surname to Gibson.[2] Between 1939 and 1945, he played at various Manhattan jazz clubs on 52nd Street ("Swing Street"), most notably the Three Deuces, run by Irving Alexander,[3] and Leon and Eddies, run by Leon Enkin and Eddie Davis.
In the 1940s, Gibson was known for writing unusual songs, which are considered ahead of their time (citation needed). He was also known for his unique, wild singing style (citation needed), his energetic and unorthodox piano styles(citation needed), and for his intricate mixture of hardcore, gutbucket boogie rhythms with ragtime, stride and jazz piano styles (citation needed). Gibson took the boogie woogie beat of his predecessors, but he made it frantic (citation needed), similar to the rock and roll music of the 1950s[4] Examples of his wild style are found in the songs "Riot in Boogie" and "Barrelhouse Boogie". An example of his strange singing style is in the song "The Baby and the Pup." Other songs that Gibson recorded were "Handsome Harry, the Hipster", "I Stay Brown All Year 'Round", "Get Your Juices at the Deuces", and "Stop That Dancin' Up There." Gibson recorded a great deal, but there are very few visual examples of his act. However, in New York in 1944, he filmed three songs for the Soundies film jukeboxes, and he went to Hollywood in 1946 to guest star in the feature-length film musical Junior Prom.[5] Gibson preceded the first white rock and rollers by a decade, but the Soundies he recorded show significant similarities to rock and roll.[6]
"Harry the Hipster" headlining at the Onyx on 52nd Street, May 1948. Note in the photo the Deuces as well as Leon and Eddie's.
While working on "Swing Street" at night, Gibson was a fellow at the Juilliard Graduate School during the day.[7] At the time, Juilliard was strictly a classical music academy, and Gibson excelled there, which partly explains the richness of the music he brought to the jazz world (citation needed). ( if anything he brought a richness to classical music, with his boogie WOOGIE training). The other part of the explanation is, his own inventiveness, and Gibson was almost always billed and promoted as a musical genius.
Unlike Mezz Mezzrow, who was white but consciously abandoned his ethnicity to adopt the black music and culture as a "white negro," Gibson grew up near Harlem, New York City. Gibson's constant use of black jive talk was not an affectation; it was simply his uptown New York dialect. His song, "I Stay Brown All Year Round" is based on this issue.[8] In his autobiography,[9] Gibson claims he coined the term hipster some time between 1939 and 1945, when he was performing on Swing Street and he started using "Harry the Hipster" as his stage name.[10]
His career went into a tailspin in 1947, when his song "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine" put him on the music industry blacklist.[11] His own drug use led to his decline, and with the rising popularity of young rock-and-roll musicians among teenagers in the 1950s, older musicians were not in demand. He spent time in and around Miami during the 1950s, and just before Christmas 1956 he appeared at the Ball & Chain on the same bill with Billie Holiday. In the 1960s, when Gibson saw the huge success of The Beatles, he decided to switch over to rock-and-roll. By the 1970s, he was playing hard rock, blues, bop, novelty songs and a few songs that mixed ragtime with rock-and-roll, and his hipster act became a hippie act. His old records were revived by Dr. Demento, particularly "Benzedrine" which was included in his 1975 compilation album Dr. Demento's Delights.
His comeback resulted in three more albums. Harry the Hipster Digs Christmas, made of new recordings in 1974, is a home recording and is not noteworthy. Two professionally produced albums were released after this, which were Everybody's Crazy but Me, (its title taken from the lyrics of "Stop That Dancin' Up There"), by Progressive Records in 1986, and Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine released in 1989 by Delmark Records. Those two albums include some jazz, blues, ragtime, and rock and roll songs about reefer, nude bathing, hippie communes, strip clubs, male chauvinists, "rocking the 88s", and even about how hip Shirley MacLaine is.[12]
Harry's family did a biographical movie short on Harry's life and music in 1991, shortly before his death. The movie is called "Boogie In Blue" and was published as a VHS video that year.
Suffering from congestive heart failure, Harry had long ago decided that he would end life on his own terms if he ever became chronically ill. Harry Gibson took his own life by putting a handgun to his head on May 3, 1991.[13]
 1. ^ Harry Gibson, Flavin Feller (December 1995). Boogie In Blue (VHS). Rhapsody Films.
 2. ^ His autobiography, published as liner notes to album, Everybody's Crazy But Me, 1986, Progressive Records, United States
 3. ^ Harry's autobiography included in the liner notes to album Everybody's Crazy But Me
 4. ^ Jazz On Record: The First Sixty Years; by Scott Yanow, 2003, p. 277 and foll.
 5. ^ The Internet Movie Database _URL_
 6. ^ Jazz On Film, the Complete Story; by Scott Yanow, 2004, p. 28
 7. ^ Liner notes, Boogie Woogie in Blue album, 1944, Musicraft. See also: Cooper, Kim; David Smay (2005). Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed. Routledge. pp. 98–99. ISBN 0-415-96998-0.
 8. ^ The Rise of a Jazz Art World; by Paul Douglas Lopes, 2002, p. 210
 9. ^ His autobiography, published as liner notes to album, Everybody's Crazy But Me, 1986, Progressive Records, United States can be found at _URL_
 10. ^ His autobiography appears in liner notes of Everybody's Crazy but Me album, 1986, Progressive Records, United States.
 11. ^ Statement by drummer Tom Magee in movie Boogie In Blue
 12. ^ Harry Hipster Gibson Lyrics
 13. ^ _URL_
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RTC Build Traceability with UrbanCode Deploy
There have been great developments in the past 12 months or so to improve the traceability between builds managed by RTC and UrbanCode Deploy.
 1. RTC build definitions now have built-in support for post-build deployment steps. If you use the Jazz Build Engine as your build engine, you can specify connection information and component information in the build definition itself to allow the build process to push a new version of the build result into a new component version. This is great and makes it simple and easy to accomplish getting your builds to the deployment engine. See Freddy's blog entry from about a year ago on this very topic for more details. There are of course some limitations to this feature. It assumes you want to push your build result into a single UrbanCode Deploy component. This is fairly unrealistic in that most applications of even modest complexity will most likely have more than one component in their application. If you build each component individually, then you are all set. However, if you have a single build file for the entire application (or for more than one component), this feature won't cut it. To solve this, you can always use the old tried and true method of adding ANT tasks to your build.xml to create a new component version and push the contents into that version.
 From a forward traceability perspective, RTC build results records also have links that you can add. A common practice is to create a link to the UrbanCode Deploy component that gets created.
 2. UrbanCode Deploy also has a feature that allows you to create links associated with component versions. These links can be URLs to anything you want, but the best use of this feature is to provide a link back to the build entries that produced the component version. In the case of RTC, a simple link to the build result record gives you that backward traceability. If you use another build engine like Jenkins, for example, you can also create another link that points back to the Jenkins job that produced the build.11-20-2014 12-03-08 PM
 And there are REST and command line API calls that allow you go GET and PUT links. This makes the creation of the link something you can do as part of the build step of pushing a new component version to UrbanCode Deploy.
So both RTC and UrbanCode Deploy have the ability to create and maintain links to and from build result records and component versions. But let's examine a bit closer how these links can be used to enhance the visibility of code as it walks down the release pipeline.
But first a quick aside. RTC has the concept of baselines and UrbanCode Deploy has the concept of snapshots. At some point in time someone needs to lay out some strategies on how these two concepts can be used together. The concept of a baseline in RTC collects together all of the code versions of all the files in all the selected components (RTC component here) into a single entity. This make sense to do at build time. At the same time, UrbanCode Deploy has the concept of a snapshot that essentially does the same thing but at a build output level. There may be additional components in a snapshot that don't have a corresponding build equivalent, but marrying the two concepts is something I hope the Rational development teams consider. Being able to build all components of an app, take an RTC snapshot of the code that corresponds to that build, push all the components into UrbanCode deploy as new component versions, and create a snapshot of the application with the new component versions seems like a logical thing to do. I am sure there are many scenarios where this simple case breaks down, but the concept is solid. Adding links to more element types in UrbanCode deploy will help make this a reality.
OK, now back to our story. We have the bi-directional traceability between RTC build results and component versions via links on either side. But as the components get deployed to new environments as they move down the release pipeline, there is no indication of that movement in the RTC build record. How can we make this happen? Let's build a plug-in.
The concept of the plugin is that each time a component version gets deployed to a new environment, let's put some type of indication in the build result record to indicate that it has been deployed to environment X. This way anyone observing the build result record will know how far into the release pipeline, if at all, the build output has made it. The easiest way to do this is to use the tag field of the build result record. Tags can be anything so let's add some tags to indicate deployment to environments.
In order to do this programmatically, we need to take advantage of the RTC Java API. For any release of RTC, you can get a zip file of the Java API jars that can be used to write java programs that manipulate RTC elements. There were a few jazz.net articles here and here that I used to help come up with the code I wrote. I also made the plug-in step that adds the tag a two step java plug-in (the plug-in calls a java program that then collects properties and then spawns another java process to do the work). This was for a specific reason. The code that does the work needs the RTC Java API jar files in its classpath. For the latest release of RTC, there are about 100 jar files that make up the classpath list. I didn't want to include that entire set in the plug-in. Therefore, I ask the user to provide a path to the directory that holds these jar files. I then spawn a second java process that includes this directory in its classpath. This also keeps the plug-in RTC version-independent as long as the Java API for builds doesn't change that much and it puts the onus on the user to get those jars.
So I created a plug-in step that adds a tag to the list of tags of an RTC build result record. The information needed for this step is relatively small: the RTC URL, a username and password, and the UUID of the build result record, and the tag to add. The java for this took a bit of time but again using existing examples made things much easier.
The other step in the plug-in that I created was getting the RTC build result ID from the component version link. The URL to an RTC build result looks something like this:
The id fragment at the end is the UUID of the build result record. So the plugin step needs to get the link from the component version, then parse that link to get the build record UUID, and then create an output property to hold that value so that the previously mentioned java step can use it. There is a REST API call that can be used to get the link from a component version. Groovy can then be used easily to parse the full URL and retrieve the id.
So here is a working example. I envision that at the end of a component deployment process you would add these two steps to update the build result record.
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Here is the details for the first step, GetBuildId. It takes the parameters mentioned above. Using component name and version name properties makes this step dynamic. The link name comes from the process of creating the link through an ANT task when building the component. And the output property is simply whatever you want to call it.
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Here are the properties for the second step. The RTC parameters are self explanatory. The build result record UUID is the property that is set by the previous step. And the Java API location is where the user has unzipped the RTC Java API files on the agent server. The tag value also uses the current environment name property so that this step works for any environment.
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Both of these steps work in my environment without a hitch. If you are interested in trying it out, you can get the plug-in source code here in this IBM DevOps Services project. Let me know how it goes.
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 1. HI Darrell,
 I found this blog very interesting. I have a related question. Have you ever used the RTC Work Items plugins that ships with UCD? I am wondering how you get the work item ID into the steps included in this plugin. Is it a manual thing? Or is there a way to pass the work item id as part of the post-build deploy? I thought I could use build properties to set a component version property, but the former are immutable.
 Thanks for you thoughs.
 - Vincent,
 Yes, the RTC plug-in expects a work item ID in the property. How you get it there is up to you. You can manually enter it but that isn't practical. Or you could use the very same process that I am using here with a component version link. As part of the build process, you can add a link to your RTC work item via the command line method. Then use the exact same process I am using to retrieve the ID from the link create a step property out of the ID and then pass it to the RTC work item plug-in step the same way I am passing it to my custom step.
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Where are Manchester's neighborhoods?
The darker blue areas represent the core parts of neighborhoods as defined by average people; the lighter areas are less defined. Image from the Boston Globe.
Recently, the Boston Globe ran a piece about the perception of city neighborhoods by average people. Using an online mapping software, they asked people to draw the boundaries of the city's famous (and not-so-famous) neighborhoods. What they found was that popular perception of what made up, say, the South End differed somewhat from what the City officially defined the neighborhood boundaries as, not to mention how real estate agents stretched the boundaries into lesser-known nearby areas.
That last bit is something that Fortress Manchester looked at with the desirable North End in Manchester. According to the planning department's map of city neighborhoods, the North End starts at Salmon Street, but depending on whom you ask, the North End can extend as far south as Bridge Street or be cut off at Webster Street. Unlike the set lines of cities or even the river between the West Side and Downtown, most neighborhood boundaries are fuzzy. Some areas seem like they're not even part of a neighborhood at all.
So we were wondering how people perceived of neighborhoods in Manchester. The neighborhoods in the Queen City aren't as well-known–outside the city, for sure, but even locally–as those in Boston, but there are some that have strong identities: Downtown, the North End, the Hollow, the West Side (which is really too big and diverse to be just one neighborhood), and increasingly Rimmon Heights. There are other historic neighborhoods that exist mostly only on city maps and a few businesses: Janesville, Hallsville, Youngsville, Bakersville, Piscataquog, Notre Dame and Amoskeag. Then, there are other areas that are more defined by a major street or intersection than the neighborhood around them: the Hollow (again), Granite Square, Second Street, Webster Street, Kelley Street, and sometimes even Elm Street. The city planning department is trying to revive some of these neighborhood identities, albeit with new names in some cases. And then there are neighborhoods that the planning department seemed to create (not that that's necessarily a bad thing): Straw/Smyth, Wolfe Park, Northwest and Wellington, among others.
In a city of Manchester's size, having a series of neighborhoods with strong identities is crucial to the vibrancy of the city as a whole, and to the individual neighborhoods throughout it. Otherwise, what makes a particular area special or different? Right now, though, there aren't many neighborhoods that are easy to identify. Fewer still have their own neighborhood center, a place with locally geared shops, restaurants, cafes and other places to naturally congregate and run errands without going downtown or to the strip malls on the edge of town.
This map from the City's master plan shows neighborhoods and neighborhood centers, as identified by the City. Like the map of Boston from the Globe, it blurs the boundaries between most neighborhoods.
The City's master plan does identify at least eleven neighborhood business centers (also called neighborhood village centers), areas that "provide services, jobs and a sense of community for the neighborhood," and suggests that they "should be strengthened through redevelopment, development of more mixed uses and a design framework that encourages a walkable area," but the zoning and promotion of most of those centers is lagging far behind. We've put together a map of the neighborhood centers identified by the City, along with those areas zoned to be walkable, mixed-use districts (and other areas that we think should be rezoned as such). The master plan rightfully emphasizes the importance of strong neighborhood centers to serve as the core of the city's neighborhoods, but the zoning, planning and promotion of those areas really needs to be stepped up.
Future Rimmon Heights & Notre Dame
Places like Lafayette Park in Rimmon Heights/Notre Dame can be focal points of a neighborhood, but it takes the people there to give it a unique identity.
Downtown Manchester is continuing to thrive and grow, and it's the natural focal point for the city and the region, but Manchester is much more than its downtown–after all, the vast majority of people in Manchester live in the neighborhoods outside of downtown. Just as Manchester needs to implement and follow its master plan as a whole, comprehensive plans need to be developed for individual neighborhoods. One such plan was developed for Rimmon Heights several years ago, and it has been partially implemented, but there's much work left to be done. Just across the city line, a similar plan is being developed for Pinardville in Goffstown. Of course, it's not enough for there to be a plan or even to expect the City to implement it. There need to be strong grassroots groups, like the one in Rimmon Heights, to promote individual neighborhoods and give them a unique identity.
So what do you think of the neighborhoods as defined by the city? Do they follow the rough boundaries that you'd expect? How about the names? Some of them are easy to rally around (Rimmon Heights and the North End, for example), but others, like Straw/Smyth, are pretty clumsy. What would you suggest as a different name for any of the neighborhoods? And how about the neighborhood centers–do they make sense? Is anything missing? Most important, though, what can be done to strengthen the neighborhood centers? To make them more walkable focal points within the city? And what can be done to give various neighborhoods a greater sense of identity and uniqueness?
6 thoughts on "Where are Manchester's neighborhoods?
 1. As a resident of the so-called "Smyth/Straw" neighborhood, I agree that it is rather clumsily named. Several years ago my Neighborhood Watch group had a tough time coming up with a place-based name for our group. We ended up selecting Oak Park as our focal point as the vast majority of us live with four or five blocks of the park.Thus we refer to ourselves as the Oak Park Neighborhood Watch and to our neighborhood as the Oak Park neighborhood. It's certainly smaller that the City-designated "Smyth-Straw" neighborhood, but it works for us.
 1. That's a good point–even within the larger official neighborhoods, there are smaller distinctive areas: Oak Park (which is a much nicer name) in Straw/Smyth, Granite Square in Piscataquog, the area around Stark Park and River Road in the North End, the Hollow in Hallsville, and of course the Millyard in Downtown. But whether it's the official neighborhood or a smaller informal neighborhood, a good name is essential if people are going to identify with it. Oak Park works well for the immediate area, but there's got to be better name for the whole area. I wonder if you or any other residents have any ideas?
 2. I would like to see something happen with the Somerville neighborhood. That is where I grew up and I can still see a lot of potential. With a little investment and community outreach, Wilson St. from Valley to Somerville (and really, parts of Somerville from Wilson to Taylor) could really be a nice little neighborhood center.
 1. That area has a lot of potential. It's an area I know well from growing up myself (though I never lived there), and a neighborhood I visited frequently when Jewell & the Beanstalk was open. It's an unusual area since it's not on any major thoroughfares, but along what was once a streetcar line that went down Wilson Street and turned onto Somerville Street. Still, there are a decent number and a good mix of locally geared businesses there.
 It's too bad that the Beanstalk isn't around anymore, because a cafe like that can serve as a strong heart for a neighborhood, and it's something that Manchester has far too few of. Neighborhood cafes and bars, perhaps even more than traditional restaurants, are excellent gathering spots because of the interaction between people, as long as they are welcoming places for all members of the community.
 Even without the Beanstalk or another similar place, though, there's a lot of potential there. Somerville could use a neighborhood association or group along the lines of what exists in Rimmon Heights to organize events and promote the neighborhood and its businesses, both to residents of Somerville and city-wide.
 3. I highly recommend everyone sign up for Nextdoor, which is online site that focuses on creating private communities for neighborhoods within towns and cities. The team there reached out to me about breaking up one gigantic Manchester neighborhood into neighborhoods. With LivableMHT's post here about Manchester's neighborhoods as guidance, we were able to break up Manchester into similar neighborhoods on Nextdoor.
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Protest Investigations
Protest InvestigationsWith the nation's current state of affairs echoing worldwide, many have taken up the flag of protest in the fight for civil rights, equality, and police brutality. Many civil rights groups and even private citizens are effectively coming together to take advantage of their constitutional right to protest. While many support this activity, others do not and have sought to undermine and even suppress this right.
Unfortunately for those exercising their right to protest, others like far-left and far-right groups are working to incite violence to make the protest appear illegitimate. Some of these may also be foreign agents at work. Because of this, many civil rights groups are looking to private investigators to find out who these groups are and are looking for ways to educate others on their existence.
Reasons to Hire a Private investigator for a Protest Investigation:
Disinformation is a popular tool for many extremist groups when it comes to countering legitimate protests. They use social media as a significant outlet to prevent protests or even create counter-protests. Because of this, civil rights groups must get this information out and find a way to halt these groups from spreading their disinformation.
Private investigators are at their core, information gatherers. They have several skills at their disposal. These can include surveillance (both online and offline), background checks, computer forensics, social media investigations, and ties to law enforcement and work within the law. These skills make a private investigator a valuable person in helping protect a protest's legitimacy.
Private Investigators can use their skills to track interference and take this information to their clients so they can pursue civil or legal action if needed. Private investigators are legally licensed to gather data in multiple forms and remain discreet with the utmost confidentiality.
It doesn't stop with disinformation. Some extremist groups are more tech-savvy than others and have resorted to technology to counter these protests to keep information from getting out or preventing law enforcement from doing their jobs. These cyber-attacks are usually in the form of a denial of service attack, which can significantly hinder communications amongst protestors, civil rights groups, and even law enforcement.
Private investigators can use their computer forensic training to track and possibly identify these people. Many private investigators are former law enforcement or even military. Many have armed themselves with knowledge like degrees in computer science, cybersecurity, and even computer forensics to complete their skillset.
As many civil rights groups are volunteering and law enforcement spread thin, private investigators have more time and resources to help those in need and with faster results. Their training allows them to analyze social media accounts and profiles to test their legitimacy and help local rights groups get the information they need to help close them down.


How long does chlorine gas stay in the air? It does not gas-off as easily and it is more long-lasting. Might take a … At 1–3 ppm, there is mild mucus membrane irritation that can usually be tolerated for about an hour. Chlorine gas can enter your body through your nose or your mouth.
bags absorb moisture from humid air, and bags can dissolve in 12-24 months (! "; Chloramine does not dissipate easily compared to chlorine.
So I was wondering how long the Chlorine gas might stay in a basement??? Chlorine gas injury is seen after industrial and occupational exposure, accidental spills and deliberate poisoning. Does boiling the water efficiently withdraw the Chlorine?
It takes about 4-8 weeks from the time chlorine bleach is made to when it gets to a store so that you can buy it to take home. Pool shock in 1 lb. Rick P. 1 decade ago.
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Chlorine is a yellow-green gas at room temperature. Once the CO2 gets into the atmosphere, carbon dioxide may keep on affecting climate for thousands of years afterwards.
Calcium Hypochlorite, aka pool shock or granular chlorine also has a long shelf life, if kept in an air tight container, in a cool and dry (indoor) location. 1 Answer. Chlorine is added to pools in a powder or liquid form — not as a gas — and by itself, it typically can't form gas clouds unless there's an incredible amount of it, Calello said.
At low concentrations (less than 10 ppm), almost all of the chlorine is removed from the air in the upper part of the respiratory airways and only a very small amount may reach your lungs. Chloramine is a less effective disinfectant than chlorine.
More recently, chlorine gas has again been used as a weapon of war.
5.3.3 Chlorine dioxide gas. Acute chlorine toxicity causes damage to the respiratory tract and usually occurs with short-term, high-level exposures such as spills. Somewhere between 65% and 80% of carbon dioxide that remains into the air is prone to dissolve into the ocean. Breathing elevated chlorine levels causes build-up of fluid in the lungs, a condition known as the pulmonary edema. How does chlorine gas affect the body? Depends on the air flow down there.
The free residual chlorine dissipates rapidly as treated effluent is released through receiving waters.
Humans can detect low levels of chlorine gas. Another alternative for chemical sterilization is chlorine dioxide gas (ClO 2), an oxidative gas, which is most efficient at temperatures ranging from 25°C to 30°C (Kowalski and Morrissey, 2004).
Chlorine gas enters your body only when you breathe it in. The World Health Organization (WHO, PDF 145 KB) says that "monochloramine is about 2,000 and 100,000 times less effective than free chlorine for the inactivation of E. Coli and rotaviruses, respectively. ).
At 5–15 ppm, there is moderate mucus membrane irritation. That small an amount will diffuse quickly down to safe levels though. In humans, the threshold concentration for detection of the odor of chlorine gas ranges from 0.1–0.3 ppm. Chloramine stays in the water distribution system longer than chlorine. This leaves you 3-5 months where the bleach is at the effectiveness level stated on its label. The rest of it vanishes through slower processes that can last for several hundreds of years.
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|DAPPLE - Spots where some of the color is lighter, can occur in all colors. The color is usually lighter than the base color.
If the dappling occurs in the eyes, the eyes are blue (may not be solid blue.) Dapple is not a carried gene,
one parent must be dapple for any of the puppies to be dapple.
|DOUBLE DAPPLE - Only occurs when both parents are dapples but does not mean the entire litter is dapple or double dapple;
there can be solid colors produced. Must have areas of white on the body for it to be a double dapple. Both parents must
be dapple to produce a double dapple.
|DAPPLE PIEBALD - AKC does NOT recognize this pattern. This comes from breeding a dapple carrying for piebald to
a piebald and/or from breeding a solid carrying piebald to a dapple carrying piebald. The dog will appear to look like
a double dapple even though it is not. Dapple Piebald's should be registered as a Dapple. Dapple Piebald's should
only be bred back to a solid that dose not carry for piebald.
|PIEBALD - Piebald only occur when both parents are piebald or carry it. Areas of full color on a white background,
example; fox terrier. They may also have ticking (small spots of color in the white field, example; English Setter.)
which may just be a few little spots on the toes and muzzle, or the ticking may be heavy. You can have different
patterns on a piebald in the spots. Piebalds do not have any blue in their eyes. Both parents must be piebald or
carry the piebald gene.
|BRINDLE PIEBALD - Brindle and Piebald are both a separate pattern however AKC does accept both patterns on
one dog; they are registered as a brindle piebald. This pattern is commonly seen on red piebald. The base color
(red) will have stripes of black in the color with the piebald pattern also showing.
|BRINDLE - Stripes all over, looks a lot like a tiger, commonly seen with red.
|SABLE - (can only appear in long hair) These terms (especially sable) are often mistakenly used to refer to an interspersion
of black hairs on back and neck over red color. A true sable/wildboar will appear to be black/tan from a distance. The
undercoat beneath being red, Sable/Wildboar is a very heavy layer of black over the base coat color. This is an
uncommon pattern. This is a pattern that can not be truly labeled until pup reaches 6 months of age.
Many pups labeled sable/wildboar lose the black overlay and become simply red with no pattern.
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The state of Bahia has been highlighting in sustainable energy for four years, totaling R $13.06 billion in investments. The expectation that in this first semester of 2019 is that the region occupies the leadership of wind source generation in Brazil.
According to the National Electricity Agency (ANEEL), the state has approximately 138 wind farms in operation and generates a capacity of 3,547 megawatts. In addition, it has more 56 territories under construction, and until July 30 are already ready.
The forecast up to 2023 is that investments in wind energy reach R $7.49 billion and the generation of jobs revolve around 26700. Consequently, it will help the environment and reduce the unemployment share in the country.
Follow the Panorama offshore portal and stay tuned for the oil, gas, energy, biofuels, onshore and offshore markets. Remember, your business comes through here! Access: _URL_ and the social network _URL_ AS REDES DA PANORAMA OFFSHORE:

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The Birthmark
The Birthmark
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Man and the Natural World Theme
"The Birthmark" is interested in Nature as the personified creator of all things. It tells the story of a man who challenges Nature in trying to become a creator of sorts himself, in trying to "repair" a "flaw" that Nature has left on another human being. One of the many morals of the story is that Nature, like a "jealous patentee," carefully guards her secrets and can't be beaten or even matched by man. Part of the problem with the unbounded scientific urge, Hawthorne argues, is that it ignores the natural boundaries Nature sets for man's accomplishments.
Questions About Man and the Natural World
 1. Why is the word "Nature" capitalized throughout "The Birthmark"?
 2. When she's waiting for her husband to prepare the elixir for her to drink, Georgiana feels "a sensation in the fatal birthmark, not painful, but which induce[s] a restlessness throughout her system" (57). What do you think is going on here? What would possible make Georgiana feel this way, and what does it mean in the context of Hawthorne's heavy symbolism?
 3. Why is the birthmark red?
 4. Sure, she dies right afterwards, but the fact remains that Aylmer does indeed succeed in removing the birthmark from Georgiana's cheek. What does this say about man's ability to conquer nature?
Chew on This
Aylmer only wants to remove the birthmark from Georgiana's cheek for the scientific thrill. It's about his own ego, not about her.
Through his physical descriptions of setting, Hawthorne suggests that much of science is deceptive to its spectators.
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Hypothesis A:
Society and politics are meaningless.
Hypothesis B:
History has meaning.
I'm not at all sure
B is more likely to be true than A.
More likely the reverse.
Let's even suppose B has
a 10 percent chance of being true,
and A has 80 percent.
I have no choice
but to opt for B,
because only the hypothesis
that history has meaning...
allows me to go on living.
Suppose I bet on A, and B was true,
despite the lesser odds.
I'd have thrown away my life.
So I must choose B
to justify my life and actions.
There's an 80 percent chance I'm wrong,
but that doesn't matter.
Mathematical hope.
Potential gain divided by probability.
With your hypothesis B,
though the probability is slight,
the possible gain is infinite.
In your case, a meaning to life.
In Pascal's, eternal salvation.
It was Gorky, Lenin
or maybe Mayakovsky
who said
about the Russian revolution
that the situation forced them
to choose the one chance in a thousand.
Because hope became infinitely
greater if you took that chance
than if you didn't take it.
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It's no secret U.S. students lag far behind in math compared to dozens of other countries in the developed world, but mathematicians behind a new museum are working to get students back in the race. NY1's Shazia Khan filed the following report.
It may not amount to much for some folks, but for former math professor Glen Whitney mathematics equals an infinite number of thrills.
"There are constant surprises, there's constant moments of discovery and that thrill of a-ha! when you see the way something comes together," Whitney said.
Up until recently, Whitney worked as a hedge fund executive but is now busy calculating his next move to open the Museum of Mathematics or MOMATH next year in a 19,000 square foot space in the Flatiron District. It would be the only one of its kind in the country.
"It's not going to be numbers scribbled up on a wall," said Whitney. "It's going to be shapes and how do they fit together and it's going to to be curves that they can either touch or maybe they can drive the model car on."
The idea to build a museum grew out of the"Math Midway," a traveling exhibition featuring more than a dozen interactive exhibits Whitney founded in 2009.
"What I saw was a real cultural problem that we have in this country that math almost has this place within what we do. It's kind of picked on. It's kind of off in the corner," Whitney said.
So far, the museum has raised $22 million with big help from Google, Consolidated Edison and other companies encouraging learning through science, technology, engineering and math.
"We have corporations that are supporting us primarily because they see it as a benefit to them in the long term, that if we can get kids to come in and get excited about math that those children will become the employees of tomorrow that will help their institutions be productive," said Museum of Mathematics COO Cindy Lawrence.
For more information on the museum and its current programs, visit momath.org.
The "Connect A Million Minds" initiative encourages school programs designed to inspire students to pursue science, technology, engineering and math. For more information, visit connectamillionminds.com.

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Ecoproduct Company was founded in summer 1995. It was established on the basis of the enterprise dealing with gathering and collecting wild mushrooms and berries. That is why initially activity of Ecoproduct was aimed to preprocessing of forestry products. Mushroom and berry raw materials were exported to Germany and Italy. Some of the products were distributed within Russia.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the state system mushrooms and berries stocking was ruined, so the company had to create their own supplying network.
With the help of experienced employees, experts in mycology and foodstuff specialist we created equipment - our know-how in processing raw materials, opened new tooled stations in the regions where we had to teach people to work professionally. Wide network of harvesting stations in 15 regions of Russia was created in some years. It allowed stocking up enough quantity of mushroom and berry raw material even during the years with very bad crop.
So, the situation at that time was so absurd that mushroom raw materials exported by Ecoproduct were returned into Russia as final products from Germany and Poland and other countries. Domestic canned mushrooms were produced in small obsoleted shops and packed in old unfashionable jars, which couldn't be competitive with beautiful import jars with twist off lid.
And that was as much paradoxically as much Russia had ancient traditions of using mushrooms in Russian cuisine. Taking into account all facts mentioned above heads of the company decided to establish their own manufacture of the canned mushrooms and berries. The cannery was built in small town Ivanteevka in Moscow region. Then production began to move: we bought foreign equipment and created our own, launched production line of the berry's preserves at first and then canned mushrooms. And in three years Ecoproduct pressed all foreign competitors became an absolutely leader in such characteristics like quantity, quality and range of products.
To increase production volumes and to achieve specialization in 2000 Ecoproduct bought Vologda forest food plant which had been already bankrupted at that moment. The plant functioned since the 1930's and in the Soviet period produced quite a large volume of canned berries and mushrooms, especially cranberries in sugar powdered. The plant was fully upgrade, the production of berry preserves - varenie, jam and berries with sugar was launched. Demand for products of the plant has steadily increased, and therefore, in 2004 it was decided to invest in a third plant. It became Melenkovsky canning factory in the Vladimir region. This plant mostly specialized in the production of vegetables and some canned mushroom under the trademark "Melen".
Today Ecoproduct Company consist 3 canary factories producing canned mushrooms, barriers, vegetables and dried mushrooms, and some harvesting companies situated in European part of Russia and Siberia. The range of products includes over 160 titles, many of which are unique, manufactured only by us. Canned food is in great demand not only in Russia but also Germany, the United States, Israel, France, Australia, Canada, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other countries.
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 - We explore "top N" sector rotation strategies based upon momentum signals.
 - We find that too much concentration (i.e. N is too small) leads to poor performance, whereas performance does not appear to materially degrade for larger N.
 - We find that shortto long-term signals all appear to generate higher total returns than the S&P 500 and there may be room to benefit from diversification by using multiple signals.
 - However, in attempting to use momentum information in an optimization, we struggle to generate any value.
 - We find that the majority of "top N" returns actually come from the tilt towards an equal-weight sector approach, with momentum adding little-to-no beneficial information.
 - Of 1,000 randomly generated "top 4" sector strategies, 97% out-performed the S&P 500 from 2000-2012, highlighting the importance of decomposing strategy returns into the contribution of each step of the portfolio's construction. In this case, by more appropriately measuring the impact of momentum information after accounting for the return generated by equal-weight tilts, we find no benefit since the turn of the century.
In last week's commentary ("Es-CAPE Velocity: Value-Driven Sector Rotation," August 26th, 2019) we explored value-based sector rotation in the 20thcentury. Specifically, we deconstructed the Shiller CAPE US Sector Rotation strategy and ultimately found that the largest driver of performance was not value, but a momentum-based filter.
Given the success of the momentum-based filter and the fact that momentum often exhibits negative correlation to value, in this week's research note we wanted to explore the application of momentum-based signals in US sector rotation.
To perform this analysis, we will apply momentum-based signals to portfolios build from the SSgA Sector Select ETFs. After REITs were spun out of the Financial sector in 2016, a Vanguard REIT ETF was included in the investible universe. With the introduction of the Communication Services sector and a significant re-classification of Consumer Discretionary and Technology companies in September 2018, we utilized hypothetical indices that more accurately reflect the re-categorization (when historically applied) to generate momentum signals.
How Many Sectors?
To begin our analysis, we will start with a very traditional sector rotation model: a "top N" system. In this system, sectors are ranked on a quantitative signal and then the top N sectors with the strongest signals are equally weighted.
For example, in a top 4 12-month momentum system, sectors would be ranked based upon their prior 12-month total return and the strategy would allocate 25% of the portfolio to the top 4 ranking sectors for the next month.
The choice of N largely depends upon our expectations of signal strength, accuracy, and relative performance between ranks. For example, if the signal demonstrates a monotonic improvement in return (i.e. higher ranks imply higher returns) with a strong degree of accuracy, we might choose a small N to maximize our returns. The stronger the improvement, the more concentration risk we may be willing to bear.
On the other hand, if the signal is largely flat, with a drop-off in performance for lower ranking sectors, than we might treat it more as a screen, equally weighting a large number of sectors and avoiding just a few.
Below we plot the equity curves for different 12-month top N momentum strategies, where N is varied from 1 to 9. We have shaded the graph from darker-to-lighter blues in an effort to determine if there are any parameterization-based patterns that emerge visually.
We can quickly see that the more concentrated strategies – for example, Top 1 and Top 3 – have the lowest total returns. However, among more diversified strategies, there appears to be a large degree of consistency in their terminal wealth. This might suggest that momentum, when applied in the last century, served better in avoiding the worst sectors rather than picking the best.
Source: CSI Data; S&P Dow Jones; Calculations by Newfound Research. Results assume the reinvestment of all distributions. Results are gross of all fees, including, but not limited to, manager fees, transaction costs, and taxes. Past performance is not an indicator of future results.
Longversus Short-Term Momentum
Below we plot all the top 4 systems with momentum lookbacks ranging from 1 to 18 months. Again, we vary the shades from darker-to-lighter blues in an effort to determine if any visual patterns emerge.
Interestingly, we can see that both short- (1-to-3 months) and long-term (16-to-18 months) momentum appear to perform the worst on a total return basis, while more intermediate-term measures (10- and 11-month momentum) appear to perform the best.
Of course, in the short-term, results can vary dramatically and even a 20-year period is not sufficient to determine if a cluster of parameterizations is superior. If we plot rolling 1-year returns, we can see dramatic dispersion in results versus the average return of the different parameterizations. For example, fromJune 2007 to June 2008, the 1M variation under-performed the average result by over 1100 basis points, but from February 2009 to February 2010, it out-performed by over 2000 basis points.
With no statistical difference in Sharpe ratios over the period, we would suggest that – once again – different parameterizations represent an opportunity for diversification.
Tracking-Error Based
The above analysis suggests that sector-based momentum may be most effective if we simply try to avoid the worst sectors and apply an ensemble of parameterizations. One potential way of improving our model, then, is via optimization. Specifically, we can seek to maximize our momentum exposure subject to tracking-error constraints with respect to the S&P 500.
To implement this idea, we:
 1. Generate N-month returns for each sector
 2. Calculate a covariance matrix from sector returns (exponentially weighted over the prior 252 days).
 3. Given current S&P 500 sector weights, select portfolio that maximizes weighted N-month returns subject to a given tracking error constraint.
The goal of this process is for the optimization process – despite the added computational complexity and embedded estimation risk – to more intelligently apply our active risk budget.
We also construct a variation where instead of maximizing the weighted N-month returns, we will transform the N-month returns to ranks and maximize the weighted rank. This can be thought of as a regularization step, sacrificing potential non-linear information but reducing the impact of outlier returns.
The results here are a bit of a head scratcher, as we have almost completely lost any out-performance generated in the top N models.
Which suggests that, perhaps, the out-performance had nothing to do with momentum-based information, but rather something else entirely.
It Was Always You, Equal Weight
If we return to our foundational framework that any active strategy is really just the market-capitalization-weighted portfolio plus a dollar-neutral long/short portfolio overlaid on top, then we can really think of our top N portfolios in a two-step active process:
 1. Start with the S&P 500 and tilt to equal-weight sector implementation;
 2. Remove low-momentum sectors and re-allocate capital among the rest.
To more accurately demonstrate the impact of our momentum decisions, then, we really should be isolating the impact of each of these steps.
For example, plotting the weight differences over time, we can see that equal-weight sectors are typically overweight Utilities and Materials and underweight Technology. We would expect this to dramatically help in the dot-com fallout, but hurt us after 2008.
If we actually generate the performance of this long/short strategy, we can see the results almost perfectly line up with our expectations: it was a generally profitable trade in the new century through early 2012, at which point it began to reverse.
If we plot the S&P 500, an equal-sector portfolio, and a top 4 momentum strategy, we can see that there is actually very little performance differential between the equal-sector approach and the momentum strategy. In fact, the momentum strategy does not appear to add much value at all other than active noise.
Which very much confirms the results we saw in our tracking-error-based solution: in the last century, the edge has not been in momentum.
Rather, it would appear that a top N momentum strategy was merely able to back its way into harvesting the return benefits of the equal-weight portfolio. The question we must now ask is whether that represents skill in the signal or merely luck.
Given the abject failure of momentum to dislodge itself from the equal weight portfolio after 2012, our initial guess is "luck."
But to explore this idea further, we generate 1,000 randomly generated "top 4" strategies. At the end of each month, each strategy randomly selects four sectors and holds them in equal weight over the next month. Note that as the number of strategies increases, the average allocation across all strategies should approach an equally weighted sector portfolio.
We then plot the distribution of annualized excess returns (versus the S&P 500) of each randomly generated strategy from 7/2000 to 3/2012.
The grey bar highlights the zero excess return line and the orange bar highlights the annualized return of the top 4 momentum strategy.
Two things are immediately apparent:
 - Simply throwing a dart to select sectors from 7/2000 to 3/2012 proved to be a very effective strategy. In


In my answer to Should we require minimum reputation to continue asking questions? I came up with a possible solution.
The essential problem is that some people come to SO, ask lots of lame questions, and never give anything back. The proposals have included only allowing a certain fraction of one's rep to come from questions and only allowing users to ask questions if they have a certain amount of rep, but neither of those seemed particularly popular.
This suggestion is:
Require that unqualified users have their questions reviewed like edits before being posted.
What is the qualification? It could be rep that's a certain multiple of their questions (say 10 rep per question) or a certain ratio of questions to answers, or some other criteria. We could also allow a certain number of questions to not require review (say, 5-10) so that a user would have to lose their ability to ask unreviewed questions rather than have to earn it.
Who reviews these questions? It could be 5k, 10k, 20k users, or maybe anybody above 2k who also has the ability to post questions without review. It could even be people with sufficient points in the applicable tags.
How would this mitigate the flood of bad questions? First of all, users would be rate-limited by only being able to have a certain number (1?) of questions in review at once. If a user keeps getting their questions rejected, they could lose the ability to submit for a period of time ("We are no longer accepting questions from this IP"). When two reviewers reject a question, nobody else will ever see it (maybe not even as a deleted question). Of course, there would be an "Improve" button so that reviewers could fix minor problems before anybody else ever had to read the problematic post.
Furthermore, upon clicking the "Reject" button, there could be a dialog box with a list of checkboxes to select reasons for rejection ("Off topic", "Spammy links", "Lack of formatting", "Not a question", "Missing sample code", "Too much sample code", "Poor English", etc.) and maybe even a box for remarks. This would allow the person asking the question to see why their question was rejected, fix it and resubmit (if applicable). This should train users how to write acceptable questions. The review page could have the question's preview remarks and deltas from the last submission, a link to the user's most recent rejections, or something in between.
What are the downsides? Unfortunately, this would increase the burden on reviewers. Hopefully the "training" aspect should reduce the ongoing burden of any particular user and not having the bad questions posted in the first place should eliminate edit reviews (i.e. review the question before it's posted so you don't have to review several edits to the question after it's posted). In other words, this is like unit testing -- it seems like it would add too much of a burden initially, but it actually ends up saving time and helps deliver a higher-quality product in the end.
Some users could be insulted by having their question criticized. This should be minimized by having standard rejection reasons that aren't personal, while the remarks would hopefully be a polite nudge in the right direction (e.g. "Just specify the OS you're using"). Of course some users would go away entirely after being confronted by this, but it's not clear that those are users we want.
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I seriously doubt if the gains weight up to the burden of this formal approach. And with burden I refer to the downsides you mention yourself. – Rogier Apr 7 '11 at 19:37
_USER_ I don't see any other solution than investing even more personal effort to educate users. I don't know of any automated system that can teach someone how to behave or how to communicate. – Octavian Damiean Apr 7 '11 at 19:40
_USER_ Damiean I'm not saying that investing more personal effort is not a good idea per se. But does it have to be this formal? Furthermore, the fact that a rejection by (only) two reviewers could prevent a question from being visible at all feels a bit like 'government censorship'. – Rogier Apr 7 '11 at 19:58
_USER_ I agree that this idea could be refined a bit but it doesn't sound bad to me as a start. – Octavian Damiean Apr 7 '11 at 20:01
_USER_ Damiean All effort to increase SE/SO quality, like the above question, is to be respected. – Rogier Apr 7 '11 at 20:07
This is an awful, awful job. Wouldn't wish it on anybody. – Uphill Luge Apr 7 '11 at 20:28
_USER_: I agree. However, the downsides would be somewhat mitigated by the rule being that you can lose the ability to answer questions, rather than having to earn it. I can't see doing it any other way, in fact. As proposed, a user gets a number of questions "free" (though I'd say more like 25), and as long as those questions are mostly not closed and downvoted, and as long as the user has some modest rep gain, e never need be subject to the review process. The tricky bit, as always, is where to set the threshold. – Josh Caswell Apr 7 '11 at 20:50
_USER_: To me this seems a bit like unit testing. This proposal would stop bad questions before they can become a problem, which in theory should reduce the overall amount of work and end up with a better final product. – Gabe Apr 8 '11 at 21:05
Sounds like it just makes more work for the people who are already burdened with answering (or editing, or closing) these poor quality questions. Not sure who this is really helping... – Cody Gray Apr 14 '11 at 7:59
_USER_: Let's say somebody posts a question with unformatted code. The idea is that rather than having to spend time editing a post, I could just click "Reject" (or "Fix your formatting" and "Reject") and let the OP fix it themselves. The OP learns how to format code (or never posts again), relieving the burden of everybody having to fix their crap, and everybody reading the site isn't burdened with their illegible post. – Gabe Apr 14 '11 at 8:09
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I don't really see the point of this.
Why not "review" questions as they are asked?
The existing flagging and downvoting mechanisms should suffice without adding Yet Another Queue of Work for more of our users to have to deal with and think about.
Also, questions which fail to get any significant activity are already auto-culled over time, and downvoted questions with no significant activity auto-culled even more aggressively still.
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I can't tell if your "why not" question is rhetorical or if you're actually asking it. – Gabe Apr 14 '11 at 7:57
I would want to believe he is actually asking because the review section works. Maybe it is hard to see it on SO due to the sheer volume, but I am sure if you ask mods on the rest of SE network... it works. – phwd Apr 14 '11 at 8:16
_USER_: Ah, I see. After the link was added it makes sense. The difference is that the "review" page doesn't have a "reject" button, so the person posting the crappy question doesn't have any impetus to learn. – Gabe Apr 14 '11 at 8:43
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Few people enjoy going to the hospital, but a recent series of lawsuits have taken that to a new level. Two separate lawsuits, each filed against London's York and LivaNova Hospitals, have alleged that the hospitals and creators of a medical device caused undue suffering due to negligence. What exactly happened to spark these lawsuits?
The two lawsuits have come about nearly eight months after York Hospital released a statement warning 1300 patients that had received open heart surgery at the hospital between October 1, 2011 and July 24, 2015 of a possible complication. The warning was rather severe: all 1300 patients may have been exposed to nontuberculous mycobacteria, or NTM.
Of these 1300 patients, five have died and three more have been found to be infected with NTM. York Hospital subsequently sent out a warning to other local hospitals that a heater-cooler device could hold NTM if it was not properly cleaned and disinfected. Who made the heater-cooler device? You guessed it: LivaNova.
York Hospital found that NTM could develop inside of the device until it was converted into a fine spray. From there, it was easy for NTM to be transmitted into a patient's body. This came as terrible news to the 1300 at-risk patients, partially because NTM is a slow-spreading bacteria that can take years to develop any symptoms.
The First Lawsuit Against Medical Device Manufacturer
One lawsuit on behalf of a 62-year-old man alleged that LivaNova had been negligent by creating a product that could so easily spread NTM to patients. The lawsuit against medical device manufacturer also claimed that LivaNova should have been aware of these possible complications and ensured that they were fixed before releasing the product.
The 62-year-old man had undergone heart surgery in December of 2014, then experienced fever and fatigue for several months after. A bone marrow biopsy and blood test in June 2015 each confirmed that he had contracted NTM. Despite immediately starting anti-NTM therapy, his symptoms worsened until he went to York Hospital for congestive heart failure. He passed away on November 7, 2015, only two weeks after the hospital informed him of his bacterial infection.
The lawsuit claimed that York Hospital had a responsibility to thoroughly clean their machinery to prevent such infections, and had thus been negligent by allowing the man to be infected with NTM. It also insisted that York Hospital had failed to inform patients of the risk of infection prior to their surgeries.
The Second Lawsuit
The second plaintiff had gone to York Hospital for open heart surgery in March of 2015. The man seemed to be doing well initially, but by August 2015 he was experiencing severe fatigue. By September, his condition had worsened and he experienced chills, nausea and fever.
He went in and out of the hospital several times in October, but his cultures came back negative and he was diagnosed with dehydration. Despite the earlier warning of possible NTM infection, he was admitted on November 20, 2015 for "persistent leukopenia" due to a reduction of white blood cells.
The man was diagnosed with NTM one week later and began a round of antibiotics. By that point, however, he had experienced loss of vision and hearing, as well as other severe side effects. His lawsuit claimed that due to the negligence of the defendants, he underwent months of suffering and chronic illness.
Each plaintiff is seeking upwards of $50,000 in reparations, but it is unclear how the case will go. Only time will tell if York Hospital and LivaNova were criminally negligent, or had made simple mistakes.
Learn more about Medical Device Lawsuits.


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A total of 327 people in Estonia are hospitalized with severe COVID-19 symptoms as of Monday morning, the Health Board (Terviseamet) said. Over the past 24 hours, 2,281 new COVID cases were diagnosed and 11 people who had contracted the virus died.
As of Monday morning, a total of 679 patients infected with the COVID-19 virus are hospitalized across Estonia, 327 of whom are hospitalized due to severe COVID infections.
Of these 327, 199, or 60.9 percent, are unvaccinated and 128, or 39.1 percent, are fully vaccinated.
Over the past seven days, an average of 1.9 vaccinated people per 100,000 fully vaccinated residents and an average of 6.2 unvaccinated people per 100,000 unvaccinated residents per day have been hospitalized.
Over the past 24 hours, 57 new cases were opened in hospitals, 27 of which were related to hospitalization due to symptomatic COVID-19. Over the past ten days, an average of 39 additional symptomatic COVID-19 patients per day have been hospitalized.
Eleven people who had contracted the virus died over the past 24 hours, the vaccination statuses of whom the Health Board is still in the process of verifying: five men, aged 62, 68, 77, 91, and 92, and six women aged 73, 79, 79, 82, 85, 95
A total of 2,236 people who had been infected with the COVID-19 virus have died in Estonia since the pandemic began.
As of Monday morning, the 14-day notification rate of newly reported COVID-19 cases per 100,000 in Estonia stood at 5,338.
A total of 4,277 test results were analyzed in the past 24 hours, 2,281 of which were confirmed positive. Over the past seven days, an average of 280.6 vaccinated people per 100,000 vaccinated residents and 405.7 unvaccinated people per 100,000 unvaccinated residents have been infected with the COVID virus.
In the past 24 hours, 326 doses of COVID vaccine were administered, 33 of which were initial doses. As of Monday morning, 429,876 people have received a third or booster dose against COVID.
Estonia's total vaccination rate currently stands at 63 percent.
How can the spread of coronavirus be stopped?
- Keep your distance in public places.
- Wear a mask in crowded places.
- Wash your hands frequently with soap and warm water.
- Cover your mouth and nose when you sneeze or cough.
- If you develop symptoms stay at home and contact a family doctor.
- You can also get vaccinated against coronavirus.
Editor: Aili Vahtla


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Learn about the new technical guidance documents that the NEMA Low Voltage Surge Protective Devices Section that provide information and easy-to-use checklists for evaluating the devices as well as present test results of devices in a real-world surge environment that shows all electrical products, sensors, and systems containing electronic components are at risk of suffering damage from electrical surges.
This podcast provides a brief overview of the NEMA publication Cable Tray Installation Guidelines VE-2. The main sections of this guide are highlighted and include storage, installation, maintenance, and type descriptions for cable trays. Additional information can be viewed at _URL_.
NEMA Industry Director Steve Griffith discusses the IoT Handbook which provides Members with actionable information related to the use of specific IoT protocols, communication technologies, and Standards within the commercial, industrial, and residential markets.
NEMA Industry Director Steve Griffith discusses the new technical Standard, NEMA TS 8-2018 Cyber and Physical Security for Intelligent Transportation Systems, which encourages implementation of cyber and physical security in transportation systems—legacy, new, and those with revisions planned for the future.


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So, first of all you might be asking what is ADB?
It's basically a tool through which you can issue shell commands via your computer to your phone. ADB stands for Android Debug Bridge. It comes as a part of the standard Android SDK, which you can grab here. Basically, it provides a terminal-based interface for interacting with your phone's operating system. Since Android platform is based on Linux, command-line is the only way to obtain and manipulate root access often required to perform certain advanced operations on your device using root access.
You can also directly issue commands by installing a terminal applications like terminal emulator, but it's not handy to execute complex commands on such a small screen.
So, want to get into the android era?
- So, first step is to get the android SDK on your computer from here. Just download the installer and install it to any drive, in this guide I am installing to a folder called android in C drive i.e (C:\android).
- after installation has completed just click finish and it will automatically launch the SDK Manager. Now select both the option i.e platform tools and SDK tools and accept it and click Install. Once the process is done, you will have a 'platform-tools' folder inside your (C:\android) folder. That folder will have your ADB and all its dependencies.
- Now, set the path variable. So, that you can easily issue commands via any location in cmd.To make ADB along with other Android SDK tools and platform tools easily accessible from anywhere at the command line, we shall add their paths to the PATH environment variable.
- Right-click on the 'Computer' icon and click 'Properties'. Now click 'Advanced System Settings' from the options in the left pane to bring up the 'System Properties' window. In the 'System Properties' window, click the 'Environment Variables' button on the 'Advanced' tab.
- Go-to the 'Path' in the 'System variables' section and double-click it to edit it and click on the text box and bring the cursor to the last.
- Just add the below lines at the end of it, including both the semi-colons:
Note:If you have installed the SDK's contents to another directory, make sure to use that one for your PATH variable.
Notice that the semi-colons are necessary to separate each path variable entry from the next and previous ones.
- Reboot your machine.
USB Driver installation (Optional if you already have your driver software pre-installed).
- The first step will be to download the USB drivers. To do this, launch SDK Manager from the SDK(android) folder and click on 'Available packages' in the left pane.
- Expand 'Third party Add-ons' followed by 'Google Inc. add-ons' and check 'Google Usb Driver package',
- Click 'Install Selected' and in the window that pops up, click the 'Accept all' radio button followed by the 'Install' button. After the installations completed. The drivers for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems will now be present in the SDK(C:\android) folder under 'usb_driver\x86′ and 'usb_driver\x64′ sub-folders respectively.
- Now, on the device(your mobile) go to Menu, select Settings > Applications > Development and enable USB Debugging.
- Manually browse to the location of the driver and select whether it's x64 or x86 depending on your OS version and click OK then Next. Now open Device manager and manually install the driver.
- Once drivers have installed, you can verify successful installation by going to Device Manager. Your phone should be showing under 'ADB Interface', like the below screenshot.
Now, all the settings has been done. So, now it's time to verify your ADB is working properly.
Open Command prompt by pressing WinKey+R > type "cmd" > type " adb devices ".
Now, for a list of commands of adb go here.


Resource: Audible App, Deleting books on iPhone 6 Running iOS 11-4-1
Deleting books in the Audible App on iPhone 6 in iOS 11-4-1
 1. With the My Library Tab at the bottom left corner of the main Audible Player screen selected, and Device selected near the top of the screen the iPhone will list the books on the device.
 2. Flick right several times from the top of the page to find the Delete Button icon and one-finger double tap it. Now, each book in the list will have something appear just before the title labelled, Delete from Device.
 3. Flick with one finger through the list to find the book title to be deleted and flick once to the left to access the Delete From Device Button pertaining to that book. One-finger double tap that button to start the deletion process.
 4. Focus will remain on the Delete From Device icon just activated, and above it will be found another button with the same label. Flick once to the left to locate that one and one-finger double tap it to finalize the deletion of the book.
 5. If there are multiple books to delete repeat steps 3 and 4.
 6. To turn off the Deletion process go back to the top of the page then flick right to locate the Delete Button and one-finger double tap it. The list of books wil return to its original state.


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What kind of fish can you keep with an axolotl ?
You may have one or more axolotls and you want a little more animation in the Tank by adding a few fish but you wonder is it really possible to make axolotls cohabit with other freshwater fish ?
Yes, you can introduce other species of freshwater fish in the tank of your axolotls if it is large enough of course but you have to respect these conditions to start:
- They must not be numerous (less than 10).
- They should never be bigger, or even the same size with your Axies.
- You must have an excellent filter and change the tank water more frequently.
- And finally, you must permanently supply your tank with these small fish, because they will surely be used as food for your axolotls.
Keep reading, there are other precautions to take before introducing these fish into the Tank of your axolotls.
Which fish can you coexist with an axolotl?
Try to introduce fish of less than 4 cm if your axolotl is an adult of course and measures a little more than 15 cm, the principle to be respected here is that the fish must be able to pass easily in its mouth.
They must also be nutritious, so I recommend White cloud minnows, Killifish, Guppies, Mosquitofish, endlers or charales (very typical in Mexico) and if you don't find these species in your pet store, you can use Goldfish .
What are the precautions to take before introducing these small fish into an Axie's Tank?
In addition to the precautions I mentioned above, you must first of all choose small fish, which are neither sick nor carrying parasites.
You will buy about ten of them and put them in a small aquarium or tank and quarantine them for at least a week to make sure they are safe for your axolotls.
You will introduce them into the aquarium in broad daylight and you must especially monitor more closely what happens in the Tank during the first week.
If you see that the small fish to attack the gills of your axolotls, and they do not react by chasing them away, you must remove these fish immediately.
The axolotls will eat their guests
Yes, you will soon notice that one or two small fishes are missing in the tank, the axolotls have probably chased them and eaten them.
What you are going to do now is to wait for the axolotl to drop a turd, you are going to pick it up with a Turkey Baster for example and crush it. If all goes well, you will find traces of fish bones in it, a sign that your axolotl has digested the little fish well.
What other species can you co-exist with an axolotl?
If you want neighbors that your axolotls won't hunt, in any case they will try but they won't always succeed, I recommend fresh water ghost shrimps or fresh water snails that can stand the cold if you can find some…
A freshwater shrimp like Ghost shrimp : they tolerate cooler temperatures, they will also clean the bottom of the aquarium from food remains and maybe serve as food for your axolotls even if they are not easy to catch.
Fancy shrimp and Cherry shrimp are very nice but they need a bit higher temperatures, you can try them too.
Is there a risk if you introduce too many fish to live with an Ambystoma Mexicanum ?
Yes, in the long run, because these fish may probably end up stressing your axolotls, that's why you should never put more than 10 at a time.
There is also their urine and waste and the remains of their food which could increase the PH of the water and make your axolotl sick, not to mention the risk of aggression, a small fish could still manage to thwart the vigilance of your axolotl and tear off a piece of its gills.
Finally, let me tell you the two species of freshwater fish that you should never introduce in the tank of your axolotls, they are the tilapia and the carp.
These two fish are natural predators of axolotls, so avoid making this mistake !
You should know too that younger axolotls may nip each other's feet and gills if they have no enough space or shelters . Even axolotls up to (5 or 6 inches) may nip their tank mates, occasionally inflicting serious damage , that's why we recommend a large tanks .