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Where to find your e‑mail account information
Your e‑mail service provider should provide you with the information you need to sign in to your e‑mail account. If you don't have this information available, contact your e‑mail provider. Your e‑mail provider is typically your Internet service provider (ISP), but might also be your employer, school, or an independent provider that offers POP3 or IMAP e‑mail accounts.
To set up your e‑mail account, you will need to provide the following information:
Display name. This is the name you want to appear at the top of your e‑mail messages. This is not provided by your e‑mail provider, and can be any name you choose, such as John Smith. You can choose to leave this entry blank.
E‑mail address. This is the e‑mail address you chose or were given when you signed up for your e‑mail account, such as _EMAIL_.
E‑mail server names. Mail is stored on your e‑mail provider's server until you download it. You'll need to know whether your e‑mail provider stores mail on a POP3 or IMAP server. For more information on e‑mail server types, see POP3, SMTP, and other e‑mail server types.
You'll need the names of both your incoming e‑mail server (such as pop.example.com) and outgoing e‑mail server (such as smtp.example.com). It's also helpful to know if your server requires a user name and password when sending mail in addition to when receiving it. If so, select the Outgoing server requires authentication check box when setting up your account.
E‑mail username. This is the name you use to sign in to the e‑mail server. For many e‑mail services, this will be your entire e‑mail address (such as _EMAIL_), but some e‑mail services might use only the portion before the at sign (@), while others might assign a different ID for sign-in purposes.
Password. This is the password you chose or were given when you created your e‑mail account.


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Fariñas Transit, a sole family proprietorship was founded by the late Marcelo Vallejos Fariñas of Vigan, Ilocos Sur together with his wife, the late Rosa Peralta Luna of Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte.
Four years before the outbreak of the second World War in December 1941, Marcello V. Fariñas died and the management of the business fell in the shoulders of his wife and his two grown up sons Constate and Federico.
When the Japanese invaded Ilocos Norte, they began commandeering government and private vehicles including the buses of the Fariñas Transportation. The younger son, Federico was able to hide during the evasion, 2 buses in Piddig, Ilocos Norte, a remote town at the eastern part of the province. In March 1945, during the liberation, Federico brought out the 2 buses he had kept clandestinely in Piddig and the master mechanic, Federico who never had any formal education in automotive repairing or the like, was able to assemble one bus out of the 2 dilapidated buses into good running condition which he himself drove along its franchises routes from Laoag to Manila and back. These two buses became the nucleus of the biggest transportation business plying between Laoag and Manila today.
Meanwhile, Constante, the older brother, chose to pursue his studies in Manila. Thus, it was Federico who continued the transportation business. The meteoric rise of the business was due to Federico's uncanny business acumen and management. Despite the risk encountered in the early days of the business, when insurances were not available then to pay costs of damages incurred during vehicular accidents, through basic work, personal discipline and determination, Federico together with his wife, Remedios Dreyer Castro, forged on to improve the business. Being the master mechanic that he was, he augmented his income by putting up the Fariñas Motor Shop. He bought condemned government equipment like bulldozers, pay loaders, and dump trucks, repaired them, and sold them at handsome prices. From here, the number of buses grew by leaps and bounds. At present, the company is maintaining 60 good working conditioned buses. Federico was the first to introduce air-conditioned buses in the province, the first to introduce comfort room in the air-conditioned buses and now the Fariñas Transportation business is the biggest transportation business in Ilocos Norte.
The bus company, which is owned by the late Federico Luna Fariñas Sr, is operated by his sons and daughters which are the Fariñas family of Ilocos Norte, a political family that has served as governors, mayors and councilmen over the course of several generations: most notably from recent news, Ilocos Norte Governor Rodolfo Fariñas and Laoag City mayors Roger and Michael V. Fariñas.
Fariñas Transit continues to increase their reach as they reopen trips from Laoag to Baguio City along with the introduction of 16 new first-class buses.
The 150 man staff continues to grow to provide better service to tourists and locals.

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Juhana Aunesluoma considers the ways in which Scandinavia's, in particular neutral Sweden's, relationship was forged with the Western powers after the Second World War. He argues that during the early cold war Britain had a special role in Scandinavia and in the ways in which Western oriented neutrality became a part of the international system. New evidence is presented on British, American and Swedish foreign and defence policies regarding neutrality in the cold war.
- Publication Date:
- 13 / 05 / 2003


d to sqleventlog_sp could be a value in this table, more about this later.
lcid is the language id. LCID ("Locale ID") is a Windows concept, and the LCID I use here are the same as in Windows. Yes, above I said that I use the language setting in SQL Server, but I still use Windows LCIDs, and this part you should keep. The only question is whether you should use the full LCID, or only the lower part. To wit, an LCID in Windows consists of two bytes. The lower byte identifies the language, for instance 9 is English and 29 is Swedish. The upper byte identifies the variety. E.g., 1033 (0x0409) is English (United States) and 2057 (0x0809) is English (United Kingdom). In our system, we use only the lower byte, but if you think that it is important that right-ponders see colour and left-ponders see color, you will need to use the full LCID. In this article I have opted to use the latter, but that is mainly because it made my code simpler.
msgtext is the message to present to the user for the language in question. The message can have parameter markers %1 to %6 just like the @msgtext parameter to sqleventlog_sp.
When you pass a value for the @msgid parameter to sqleventlog_sp, the procedure retrieves the current language for the session (which is returned by the system function @@langid) and translates it to an LCID is sys.syslanguages. (And again, in real life, the LCID would be read from a users table.) Since there may not be translations for all languages for a message id, the procedure also looks up the default language for the server from sys.configurations to use this as a fallback. Ah, yes, the fallback, this is worth dwelling on for a few moments. In our system, the fallback language is installation-dependent and defined in our system-parameter table. You may want to do something like that. Or simply hardcode to always use English, Russian or whatever depending on your market. You can also have multiple fallbacks. Say that you install a system in Barcelona, and you don't (yet) have all Catalan translations in place, so for Catalan users, you first fall back to Spanish and then to English which is your own base language.
sqleventlog_sp looks up the message text in usermessages, and this message, with parameters expanded, is presented to the user. Note that sqleventlog_sp always stores what is in @msgtext in the sqleventlog table; @msgid only matters for the message raised by sqleventlog_sp. If @msgid yields no hit in usermessages for neither language, sqleventlog_sp uses @msgtext as the error message. That is, sqleventlog_sp never returns a navel-gazing error message saying that the message id was not found, but @msgtext is the ultimate fallback. sqleventlog_sp always stores what you pass in @msgid in the msgid column in the sqleventlog table, even if @msgid is absent from usermessages. (That is, there is no foreign-key constraint to usermessages.) This permits you to use msgid for aggregation or other analysis of the log, even if you don't use the usermessages table.
Here are a couple of examples, using the two sample messages included in usermessages_tbl.sql. Of these the first message has five translations, including English, Italian and French, whereas the second message exists in English and Italian only. The last message uses a message id which is not among the sample messages:
SET LANGUAGE us_english
EXEC slog.sqleventlog_sp @@procid,
 'This is my right hand in English', @msgid = 'RightHand'
SET LANGUAGE Italian
EXEC slog.sqleventlog_sp @@procid,
 'This is my right hand in Italian', @msgid = 'RightHand'
SET LANGUAGE Français
EXEC slog.sqleventlog_sp @@procid,
 'This is my right hand in French', @msgid = 'RightHand'
SET LANGUAGE us_english
EXEC slog.sqleventlog_sp @@procid,
 'Customer "%1" not found (English)', @msgid = 'NoCust',
 @p1 = 'Ricky Lancelotti'
SET LANGUAGE Italiano
EXEC slog.sqleventlog_sp @@procid,
 'Customer "%1" not found (Italian)', @msgid = 'NoCust',
 @p1 = 'Ricky Lancelotti'
SET LANGUAGE French
EXEC slog.sqleventlog_sp @@procid,
 'Customer "%1" not found (French)', @msgid = 'NoCust',
 @p1 = 'Ricky Lancelotti'
EXEC slog.sqleventlog_sp @@procid,
 'This is our extra undefined message', @msgid = 'Extra'
SELECT TOP (7) logid, msgid, msgtext
FROM slog.sqleventlog
ORDER BY logid DESC
The output is:
Changed language setting to us_english.
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sqleventlog_sp, Line 183
This is my right hand
L'impostazione della lingua è stata sostituita con Italiano.
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sqleventlog_sp, Line 183
Questo è la mia mano destra
Le paramètre de langue est passé à Français.
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sqleventlog_sp, Line 183
Ceci est ma main droite
Changed language setting to us_english.
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sqleventlog_sp, Line 183
Customer "Ricky Lancelotti" not found.
L'impostazione della lingua è stata sostituita con Italiano.
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sqleventlog_sp, Line 183
Cliente "Ricky Lancelotti" non c'è.
Le paramètre de langue est passé à Français.
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sqleventlog_sp, Line 183
Customer "Ricky Lancelotti" not found.
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sqleventlog_sp, Line 183
This is our extra undefined message
logid msgid msgtext
-------- ----------- ----------------------------------------
7 Extra This is our extra undefined message
6 NoCust Customer "Ricky Lancelotti" not found (French)
5 NoCust Customer "Ricky Lancelotti" not found (Italian)
4 NoCust Customer "Ricky Lancelotti" not found (English)
3 RightHand This is my right hand in French
2 RightHand This is my right hand in Italian
1 RightHand This is my right hand in English
In these examples, @msgtext was close to the English text for the message id. But this does not always have to be the case. You may have a generic message id for which the text in usermessages reads Internal error. Call the support desk in various languages, while the real error message is passed in @msgtext so that developers and support staff can see what happened, while the user is saved from what may be incomprehensible mumbo-jumbo to them.
Note also the last two messages in the example. The message NoCust is not available in French, which is why the English version is displayed. There is no message Extra at all in usermessages, but the id is stored in the msgid column nevertheless.
The localisation part of SqlEventLog includes one more table. Say that you have a function where users can monitor the table sqleventlog to see errors in the system. The same thing may apply here: users want to see a message in their own language, not whatever the developer used in the call to sqleventlog_sp. But obviously, they want to see the message with %1 etc replaced by the actual parameter values. To this end, SqlEventLog stores the parameter values in this table:
CREATE TABLE slog.sqleventlogparameters(
 logid bigint NOT NULL,
 paramno tinyint NOT NULL,
 value nvarchar(400) NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT pk_sqleventlogparameters PRIMARY KEY (logid, paramno),
 CONSTRAINT fk_sqleventlogparameters
 FOREIGN KEY (logid) REFERENCES slog.sqleventlog(logid)
)
logid is of course a reference to the message


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How to Cure an Ageing Barrel
To enjoy your aged spirits, you must first go through the process of barrel curing. If you don't cure the barrel you will not be able to use it. Curing is the process of soaking the wood so that it does not absorb your precious spirits during ageing. Having the wood absorb moisture will make it expand. The curing process helps to get rid of any gaps in the wood, and gives the hoops a tighter grip. When you first receive your barrel, you may notice small gaps in the staves, or loosened hoops. This is normal as changes in temperature and humidity will cause the wood to expand or shrink in transit. As our barrels are hand made in America, they have a long journey before reaching you. Do not nail or screw the hoops into place. This will damage your barrel. Before curing your barrel tightly insert the spigot using a rubber mallet.
What is Barrel Curing?
The curing process helps you identify leaks in your barrel. All barrels are made without any prolonged contact with moisture, so they are as far from ready as they can be. When you fill your barrel for the first time there will almost certainly be leaks.
How Long Does it Take to Cure a Barrel?
The curing process can take up to a week, but this is an essential part of barrel ageing. Each barrel is unique, as the wood from each tree is unique. There is no set time for the barrel curing process.
How to Cure an Oak Barrel
 1. Rinse your barrel 3 times with water to remove any loose charred debris. Fill the barrel from the top, and flush it through the spigot
 2. Fill the barrel with warm water and insert the bung. Make sure to fill the barrel to the top until you can't fit any more in. Every part of the inside of the barrel needs to be in contact with the water
 3. If you identify leaks in your barrel, apply a small amount of barrel wax to the leaking area. Push the wax in to the hole until the leaking stops
 4. Top up the water after fixing any leaks
 5. Leave the barrel in a cool place, out of direct sunlight. We recommend placing on a drip tray to prevent damage to any surfaces
 6. Check for leaks periodically and apply barrel wax where needed
 7. Regularly top up the water to ensure all parts of the barrel absorb water
 8. The barrel is ready when it can hold water for at least 3 hours
 9. Once your barrel has stopped leaking, rinse it through 3 times
 10. Allow the barrel to dry for 3 hours before filling with your spirits
Your barrel is now ready to age spirits. Read our guide on How To Barrel Age Spirits for more information.
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Terms of reference
- Act in good faith at all times, and without conflict of interest, to fairly and impartially represent the best interests of the industry concerned and the contributors to the Scheme.
- Provide effective governance over the Scheme.
- Discharge the functions conferred on the Management Committee by the Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007 (BAM Act) and the enabling Regulations, including but not necessarily limited to:
- Advising the Director General of the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development on the administration of the prescribed account.
- Recommending annually to the Minister for Agriculture and Food the area(s) of the State in which the Scheme should operate.
- Recommending annually to the Minister for Agriculture and Food the rate or rates at which contributions are to be paid.
- Approving programs and other measures to be implemented under the Scheme.
- Approving payments from the prescribed account for compensation in respect of losses (as described in the regulations).
- Consulting annually with the industry for the purpose of ascertaining industry views on the operation of the Scheme and the performance by the committee of its functions.
- Reporting at least annually to the Minister for Agriculture and Food on the operation and effectiveness of the Scheme, and any matters relating to the operation of the relevant regulations as the Minister specifies.
- Undertake such other functions related to the operation of the Scheme as required.
The Industry Management Committees meet, in person, quarterly (February, May, August, November). Committee decisions are also made out-of-session, as required, by email or teleconference.
Members are remunerated, including sitting fees and travel expenses. Sitting fees are currently paid at the following rates:
- Chair - $490 per day (meetings of more than four hours duration) or $320 per part day
- Members - $320 per day or $220 per part day


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Many important systems, such as wind turbines, helicopters and turbomachinery, must be modeled with linear time-periodic equations of motion to correctly predict resonance phenomena. Time periodic effects in wind turbines might arise due to blade-to-blade manufacturing variations, stratification in the velocity of the wind with height and changes in the aerodynamics of the blades as they pass the tower. These effects may cause parametric resonance or other unexpected phenomena, so it is important to properly characterize them so that these machines can be designed to achieve high reliability, safety, and to produce economical power. This work presents a system identification methodology that can be used to identify models for linear, periodically time-varying systems when the input forces are unmeasured, broadband and random. The methodology is demonstrated for the well-known Mathieu oscillator and then used to interrogate simulated measurements from a rotating wind turbine. The measurements were simulated for a 5 MW turbine modeled in the HAWC2 simulation code, which includes both structural dynamic and aerodynamic effects. This simulated system identification provides insights into the test and measurement requirements and the potential pitfalls, and simulated experiments such as this may be useful to obtain a set of time-periodic equations of motion from a numerical model, since a closed form model is not readily available by other means due to the way in which the aeroelastic effects are treated in the simulation code.
- Aeroelastic design methods


Guiding Steps to Remove Chrome from Metal During CNC Machining(plasma cutting Lynn)
CNC machining is a manufacturing process that involves pre-programmed computer software dictating the movement of factory tools and machinery. The process can be utilized to regulate intricate machinery, ranging from grinders and lathes to mills and routers. With its precise drilling capabilities, CNC machining provides numerous advantages, especially while dealing with materials such as lightweight metals or when tasks like removing chrome from metal are necessary.
The first keyword presented, 'how to remove chrome from metal,' relates directly to one of the classics' operations in CNC machining; stripping off the chrome plating from different parts made of various types of metal. This might be done for refurbishing, repair purposes, or before applying another finish on these components' surfaces.
Removing the Chrome Plating:
Typically, chrome-plated finishes offer both aesthetic and corrosion-resistant properties to numerous metallic objects exposed to wear. However, over time, even the hard-wearing chrome may degrade, no longer providing the desired look nor protection.
To maintain the functionality and appealing aspect of your items, you need to understand how to remove chrome from metal adequately. Here is an easily achievable method using basic supplies, namely hydrochloric (or muriatic) acid:
1. First, prepare your workstation ensuring it's well-ventilated. Put on the appropriate protective equipment, giving notice to eye safety glasses, long rubber gloves, and an apron.
2. Fill a plastic container with equal parts water and hydrochloric acid, then delicately dip the chromed object into the solution until completely submerged. Avoid contact between the mixture and skin or clothing.
3. Allow it to soak for approximately 15 minutes, after which you should start seeing the chrome peel away slowly, revealing the underlying metal.
4. Carefully extract the element from the acid bath employing non-metallic tongs, rinse it thoroughly, and staple it dry.
5. After this process, your metal part is ready for another round of CNC machining or re-plating, if necessary.
Working with Lightweight Metal:
On the other hand, 'lightweight metal' in CNC machining refers to metals like aluminum, which due to their light weight are favored in industries such as aerospace, automotive and electronics.
Lightweighting is a vital trend within manufacturing sectors because it contributes considerably toward energy savings, enhanced performance, and improved overall product efficiency. With advanced technologies like CNC machining, one can effectively work with lightweight metals without compromising durability and quality.
plasma cutting, compressive strength
Thanks to its high-speed operation, precision cuts, repeatability, and adaptability for complex 3D cutting tasks, CNC machines prove beneficial when dealing with lightweight metals. Whether creating intricate airplane parts or small electronic components, these processes deliver efficient results that comfortably meet industrial standards.
In conclusion, knowing how to remove chrome from metal proves fundamental during refurbishing works of any scale. Combined with handling lightweight metals efficiently, knowledge about both aspects tremendously optimizes procedure times, costs, and final products within the wide array of applications covered by CNC machining.
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PublicaHier finden Sie wissenschaftliche Publikationen aus den Fraunhofer-Instituten.
Synchrotron radiography and tomography of water transport in perforated gas diffusion media
Water transport in gas diffusion media (GDM) is investigated by synchrotron radiography and tomography. It is demonstrated that micro porous layer (MPL) cracks improve the water management in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells. A further treatment by means of laser perforation is expected to enhance this effect. The radiography analysis reveals that water transport is practically not influenced by perforations applied only to the MPL. In contrast, perforations through the whole GDM (including the MPL) have a strong influence on the overall water transport behavior and are therefore considered for a deeper analysis. Performance measurements show a correlation between the perforation size and the fuel cell power density. An optimum is found for a perforation diameter of 60 m. Synchrotron tomography analysis reveals that this optimum is due to an improved draining effect on the area around the perforation. Moreover, SEM and EDX analysis show a loss of PTFE on th e GDM surface in the vicinity of the perforation due to the laser processing. The tomography images reveal water accumulations in this area that can be explained by the hydrophilic surface.

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An autopsy, also known as a post-mortem examination, is a specialized surgical procedure used to determine the cause and manner of death. The cause of death is the medical reason explaining why a patient passed. The manner of death is the circumstances surrounding the death. Connecticut recognizes the following manners of death: natural, accident, homicide, suicide, and unknown. Only deaths due to natural causes are examined at Yale New Haven Hospital. All other manners of death are referred to the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) for further investigation.
Autopsies continually advance our understanding of disease. What we learn from autopsies allows clinicians to better understand disease processes, accurately diagnose diseases, improve therapy, and potentially aid other patients who are currently suffering from a similar disease. There are many reasons why families choose to pursue having an autopsy done. Consent for an autopsy at Yale includes diagnostic, education, quality improvement, and research.


text: Queen Astrid of Belgium, grandmother of King Philippe of Belgium and Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, was born on this day in 1905. The third of four children of Prince Carl of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland, and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, her uncles were the Kings of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Her siblings were Princess Margretha of Denmark, Crown Princess Martha of Norway, and Prince Carl Bernadotte. In 1926, she married the then Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians. The couple had three children, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, King Baudoin, and King Albert, and succeeded to the Belgian Throne in 1934. However, the following year, while driving on holiday in Switzerland, the couple got into a car crash, and the pregnant Queen Astrid passed away from her injuries on site. One of the most popular members of the Royal Family, her death led her husband into a long period of mourning, until his second marriage in 1941.


Use your Raspberry Pi on Multiple WiFi Networks
Getting WiFi working on Raspberry Pi must be one of the most searched topics since the popular board was released. Thankfully, this is now a pretty simple process even for beginners! However, as the Raspberry Pi is portable, many people like to take it with them wherever they go. This presents a new challenge, which is providing Internet access without access to a monitor or an Ethernet cable. Like other Internet connected devices, people want to set up Raspberry Pi multiple WiFi networks.
Firstly, did you know that there is a quick way to set up WiFi on your Raspberry Pi before the first boot?
Setup Raspberry Pi WiFi Before Boot
Until recently, you had to boot your Pi with an Ethernet cable connected and then make all the necessary edits to system files to setup WiFi. However, there is now a way to setup WiFi before you power on your Pi for the very first time. In order to do this, you need to create a file called "wpa_supplicant.conf" and then transfer it to the boot folder on your SD card. You can do this in any basic text editing software, but Notepad++ is recommended.
Notepad++ is a free text editor and is a suped-up version of the standard Windows Notepad. However, it is great for creating or editing code because it helps with formatting – such as indentation, brackets and so on. You can download Notepad++ from their website.
WPA Supplicant
First, open Notepad++ and add the following code to it:
You need to add your own details to this document, and they are pretty self-explanatory:
 1. SSID = Your WiFi network name
 2. PSK = Your WiFi password
The last section, "key_mgmt", is set depending on the encryption method your WiFi network uses. If you are using a relatively modern WiFi router, then the chances are it will be WPA-PSK. For the curious, this stands for WiFi Protected Access Pre-Shared Key. Older routers (as in 10+ years) may use WEP, or Wired Equivalent Privacy, but this is no longer recommended as a relatively inexperienced hacker could crack this in a few minutes if they wanted to!
Once you have added your WiFI network name and password, save your file as "wpa_supplicant.conf" (without the quotation " " marks and ensuring it is lower-case). This is what you can now transfer to the boot folder on your SD card. Now when you boot your Pi, it should automatically connect to your WiFi network!
What actually happens is that your Pi copies the "wpa_supplicant.conf" file to the proper location on the Pi itself. This is typically "/etc/wpa_supplicant", and if you want to make any additional changes, you can find the "wpa_supplicant.conf" file here.
Make sure you set "key_mgmt" depending on the encryption method used by your WiFi router!
Make sure you set "key_mgmt" depending on the encryption method used by your WiFi router!
Hang on though!
You have come here because you want to establish Raspberry Pi multiple WiFi networks! To do this, you follow the same steps as above, except you need to add a few more networks to your "wpa_supplicant.conf" file. There is also an additional step required, especially if you want to prioritise the networks so that your Pi prefers to connect to a specific network over another.
Raspberry Pi Multiple WiFi Networks
To do this, you will obviously need to know the details of all the WiFi networks you want your Raspberry Pi to connect to. This may well be your home network, your school or work network and maybe a phone-tethered network (i.e. for when you want to get your Pi online outside the reach of other WiFi networks). Once you have the SSID and passwords for your WiFi networks, you need to add them to your "wpa_supplicant.conf" file:
If you look carefully at the new details above, you may notice a few things. Firstly, we have created three networks – one for home, one for work and one for tethering to your phone's WiFi hotspot. In order to help your Raspberry Pi understand which network is which, we have also added the "id_str" string, which you will notice has been assigned a name – either "home", "work" or "phone". This is a crucial step for Raspberry Pi multiple WiFi networks, as you will need them for the next part, so remember them.
Setting priorities
You may also notice a "priority" string, along with a number. This is pretty self-explanatory – this tells your Raspberry Pi to try and connect to your networks in a specific order. First of all, the numbers associated are not as logical as you would expect! This is because the higher the number, the higher the preference. In the example above, our Raspberry Pi will try to connect to the networks in the following order:
 1. Phone (priority of 3)
 2. Work (priority of 2)
 3. Home (priority of 1)
As a result, our example places the "phone" network at the top because we may want to connect to our Raspberry Pi in the office, but want to avoid connecting to the "work" network if the "phone" network is present. You might want to experiment with the priorities yourself, and you can do this by simply changing the numbers associated with the "priority" string.
Almost there…
There is one more adjustment required to get Raspberry Pi Multiple WiFi Networks, and that is to add a couple of lines to the "/etc/network/interfaces" file, because this tells your Raspberry Pi how to connect to any networks present:
# Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet manual
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
 wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
allow-hotplug wlan1
iface wlan1 inet manual
 wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface home inet dhcp
iface work inet dhcp
iface phone inet dhcp
The key lines here are the bottom three:
 1. iface home inet dhcp
 2. iface work inet dhcp
 3. iface phone inet dhcp
Remember the "id_str" names we added earlier? If not, then it might be worth going back and getting them as this is where we add them to our interfaces file. You now just need to add your "id_str" here, along with the prefix "iface" and the suffix "inet dhcp", especially if your IP addresses are set by DHCP.
Last step!
Once you have added your network strings to the interfaces file, simply save it (do this by pressing Ctrl+X if using Nano) and then reboot your Raspberry Pi! If all goes well, you should have setup Raspberry Pi Multiple WiFi Networks, along with prioritised connections!


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CASE STUDY 2 | Baltimore Port Alliance: Proactive Community Engagement
The Baltimore Port Alliance represents a coalition of maritime businesses. Its mission is to "improve the Port of Baltimore by creating a forum where information that impacts the Port Community (nearby residents) can be presented in a constructive environment and acted upon in support of the members and the Port as a whole." At the 2013 and 2014 National Dialogue on Seaports, EPA recognized the Alliance as a model for engaging community stakeholders.
The Alliance has two subcommittees. The Education and Outreach Committee focuses on supporting educational partnerships with entities across the Chesapeake Bay region. The Environmental Committee is responsible for: (1) informing Alliance members about key environmental issues; and (2) sharing the port's role in environmental stewardship with community stakeholders. Activities have included hosting compliance assistance workshops for the maritime community and participating in cleanup efforts across the Chesapeake Bay region.
CASE STUDY 3 | The Harbor Community Benefit Foundation (Los Angeles)
The Harbor Community Benefit Foundation (HCBF) was founded in 2008 based on an agreement the Port of LA entered into with 17 environmental and community groups. As the port grows, so does the fund. The money is invested and grants are made from the interest.
HBCF's mission is to "assess, protect, and improve the health, quality of life, aesthetics, and physical environment of the harbor communities of San Pedro and Wilmington, California, which have been impacted by the Port of Los Angeles." Grant focus areas include an air quality mitigation program and a community benefit program. As of 2019, HCBF has invested $6.3 million back into the Los Angeles community through 124 grants to 71 recipients.
The table below shares examples of the collaborative decision-making opportunities that can emerge when ports and community partners come together.
|Port Industry Challenges||Potential Opportunities||Ports Benefits||Community Benefits|
||Land use planning and smart growth through port-community collaboration.||
Reduced congestion and infrastructure upgrades.
|Improved quality of life through minimized exposure to pollutants, enhanced public safety and environmental quality.|
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Measurement of Quality of Life of Survivors of Neonatal Intensive Care: Critique and Implications
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In recent years, an increasing number of studies on the quality of life (QoL) of adults and children have been published, mostly describing outcomes of various medical conditions. Yet, despite the wide interest, there is no universal consensus even on the very definition of what constitutes QoL, particularly for children. Herein, we discuss the conceptual framework and operational definitions of QoL and health-related quality of life (HRQL), address some methodological issues, and review the literature on QoL studies among premature infants. We also describe areas of research that are likely to be fruitful in advancing the consideration of QoL in future studies and in clinical practice.
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ABU DHABI - The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) announced the delivery of recycled water to more than 1,600 farms in Al Khatam, Al Khaznah and Al Nahda areas, as part of an ambitious plan to expand the use of recycled water for irrigating farms in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
ADAFSA collaborated with its strategic partners, the Department of Energy - Abu Dhabi (DoE), the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD), and TAQA, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain Distribution Company, and Abu Dhabi Sustainable Water Solutions Company.
Abu Dhabi's plan to expand the use of recycled water in agriculture is in line with its overall sustainability goals, as recycled water is one of the necessary options to reduce pressure on groundwater resources and can be used in various development sectors, including agriculture, to ensure the sustainability of agricultural production and reduce the depletion of natural water resources.
TAQA and its subsidiaries have constructed the pipelines, which will transport and distribute approximately 150,000 cubic metres per day to farms in Al Khatam, Al Khaznah and Al Nahda areas to meet their recycled water needs at a rate of 73 cubic metres per day for each farm, equivalent to 16,500 gallons of water.
The plan to use recycled water in agriculture will save large amounts of groundwater by eliminating the pumping of groundwater from approximately 4,850 wells in Al Khatam and Al Khaznah areas, helping to conserve non-renewable water resources and achieve optimal use of water resources and sustainability of the agricultural sector in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
The project aligns with the UAE Water Security Strategy 2036 objectives to ensure the sustainability and continuity of securing water supplies for all residential, commercial, government, industrial and agricultural uses. It is also consistent with Abu Dhabi's recycled water policy, which aims to maximise the use of recycled water and contribute to the rationalisation of groundwater use in agriculture and achieving integrated management and sustainable development of available water resources.
According to Mubarak Ali Alqusaili Al Mansoori, Executive Director of the Agricultural Affairs Sector in ADAFSA, recycled water is a renewable and non-traditional water source, and ADAFSA seeks to expand its use on farms to achieve the strategic goal of enabling and promoting the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and systems.
He further pointed out that the agricultural sector still relies on groundwater for 81.4%, desalinated seawater for 18% and recycled water for 0.6%, so the use of recycled water must be expanded to reduce groundwater depletion and desalinated seawater consumption.
He also indicated that since 2012, ADAFSA, in cooperation with its stakeholders, has succeeded in implementing a project to irrigate 143 farms in Al Nahda area with recycled water instead of groundwater, where these farms are supplied with their needs of recycled water from Al Mafraq station, and then treated to the advanced stage in the additional treatment plant in Al Nahda, through which about 12,000 cubic metres are distributed to these farms daily.
Al Mansouri affirmed that ADAFSA uses a system to monitor the quality and safety of recycled water before distributing it to farms, emphasising that the use of recycled water technology in irrigating farms was carried out after conducting studies and evaluations to ensure its quality and safety, including a study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to assess the quality of water used in Al Nahda farms, which proved that recycled water that is triple-treated is suitable for growing many agricultural crops.
For his part, Dr. Saif Al Qubaisi, Acting Director General of Regulatory Affairs at DoE, emphasised that water is one of the strategic priorities of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, given the great interest in providing reliable water services and enhancing the security of supply in the future.
Al Qubaisi further pointed out that the Department of Energy in Abu Dhabi has made countless efforts to ensure the sustainability and efficiency of water use and has issued numerous regulations and policies aimed at maximising the benefits of recycled water to support national efforts to conserve water resources, in line with the objectives of the UAE Water Security Strategy 2036, which aims to reduce the overall demand for water resources by 21% and optimise the use of recycled water.
Al Qubaisi indicated that DoE aims to optimise this type of water by expanding its use, carrying out many initiatives and following up on infrastructure projects to utilise the surplus of recycled water.
According to Engineer Faisal Al Hammadi, Acting Executive Director of the Environmental Quality Sector at EAD, the project to transport, distribute and reuse recycled water will have many environmental and economic benefits, the most significant of which will be the cessation of the discharge of recycled water into the Musaffah Canal, allowing it to be cleaned and disinfected and removing approximately 3 million cubic metres of sediment.
The project will also ensure the cessation of groundwater use and stop wells in 1,600 farms and forests in the Al Khatam and Al Khaznah areas at a rate of up to 250,000 cubic metres per day, contributing to the rational use of groundwater in agriculture and achieving integrated management and sustainable development of available water resources.
Al Hammadi added that in 2019, EAD issued an Executive Regulation regarding groundwater regulation in the Emirate. The regulation states that when reviewing applications for groundwater extraction and use, EAD must consider the availability of alternative and appropriate water sources such as desalinated water and recycled water to preserve and use groundwater resources sustainably.
EAD also issued a decision to determine the areas where it is prohibited to drill new water wells to prevent the depletion or deterioration of groundwater quality and rationalise its use.
He also highlighted the EAD's role in coordinating with the relevant authorities in the sectors concerned, where the EAD team is providing technical advice in developing standards for reusing recycled water for irrigation and agriculture to reduce pressure on groundwater sources.
Similarly, EAD, in collaboration with strategic stakeholders, has developed an integrated plan for the integrated management of water resources in the Emirate, which takes into account the preservation of groundwater in terms of quantity and quality, as well as the need to replace it with alternative resources, such as recycled water, to preserve groundwater as a strategic reserve for future generations.


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Out-of-Hospital Do Not Resuscitate Information and Form
Authored By: Texas Department of State Health Services
"The Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate program allows people to decide that they do not want to be resuscitated. The program allows people to declare that certain resuscitative measures will not be used on them. Those resuscitative measures specifically listed in the OOH DNR legislation are cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), advanced airway management, defibrillation, artificial ventilations and transcutaneous cardiac pacing."

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Meaning of Donelle
Donelle is an English name for boys and girls.
The meaning is 'lady'
The name is very rarely given inthe United States.
The name Donelle is -as far as we knowonly given to American boys.
Use for the other sex:
Donella, Donald
What do they use in other countries?
Donnie (English)
Donny (English)
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Dorelle, Jonelle, Ronelle
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Rocket-powered nets and radio transmitters are among the tools University of Georgia researchers are using to determine what's behind the decline in the wild turkeys population of the southeast.
Wildlife agencies have seen a regional decline in wild turkeys, and that there are about 7 million of the birds left. Encroaching development, chemical herbicide and natural predators could be factors in the population shift. Researchers told the newspaper that wildfires do not appear to be a leading cause in the decline.
The wild turkey population dropped in the late 1800s and early 1900s, then rebounded in the second half of the 20th century as forests that were cut down in the 1900s grew back.
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Wheat grass are not the type of plants that are attractive to kids. They might even hate it if you force kids to drink fresh wheat grass juice in the morning. If you want kids to have fun with wheat grass, why don't you try some fun crafts for kids with wheat grass?
These wheat grass head men are just an example. Kids will love to have these cute figures on their study table or on the windowsill in their room. Thanks Delia for this nice idea and tutorial.


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Hi, I have some questions I was hoping someone could answer. I am trying to model a sandwhich structure with carbon fibre skins and aluminium honeycomb core and then perform a 3 point bending test in the software if possible. 1. Could someone please explain what the reason is for selecting PCOMPP, PSOLID etc, what are the reasons for choosing one of them over another? 2. Which compersite property: PCOMPP, PSOLID, PSHELL, etc, do I need to select for the task I want to achieve (3-point bending simulation)? 3. Another question relates to my understanding of the MAT 8 card....would I be correct in saying that as MAT8 only asks for the in-plane properties, it would not be possible to get proper results for a 3-point bending test in the software? (Or does the software still work this out?) 4. Would I need to use the MAT9 card for what I am trying to do and in that case what composite property do I select, PCOMPP, PSOLID, PSHELL, etc? 4. If I select for example PCOMPP for the honeycomb properties, do I have to select PCOMPP for the carbon fibre skin properties? Regards
Good morning, I'm trying to change the material orientation in a component. I tried in different way to do the 3D mesh and I tried to use different properties. The geometry is a simple hollow cylinder. I'm using Hypermesh 2017.3. The material is defined as MAT9ORT. To check the material orientation I used Analysis->Systems->Material Orientation. Mesh methods: Method 1: 3D mesh done by using Drag elements along the cylinder axis. The material orientation is along the plane perpendicular to the cylinder axis; Method 2: 3D mesh by using 3D->Element Offset->Solid Layers. The material orientation is along the cylinder axis; Method 3: 3d mesh by converting a ply laminates using the Aerospace tool "Shell to Solid". The material orientation respected the orientation angle given during the plies creation. These material orientations remain valid only without any property assigned. When I assign a property, the orientation changes without an apparent logic. Properties: Prop. 1: PCOMPLS: modifying the THETA angle in the property card didn't cause any modification in the material orientation; Prop. 2: PSOLID: when assigned to the component, the material orientation change the direction randomly and doesn't respond to any modifications with material orientation tool.


text: Fig 19-17. Section through a young leaf of F. chiloensis. A) stomata, B) air space, C) thick cuticle of upper leaf surface, D) upper epidermal cell, E) palisade cell, F) mesophyll cell. The interior cell surface exposed to air space is from 2.2 to 4.4 times greater than the exposed outer surface; in F. chiloensis it is about four times greater. Oxygen in the air enters through the stomata, comes in contact with the cell walls and enters the cells. Carbon dioxide and water are given off and go out through the stomata.


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Research on shipboard aircraft model and simulation of ship landing environment Abstract
Aircraft carrier / carrier aircraft system is an important force of modern military, a necessary weapon of modern navy, and also a symbol of national comprehensive national strength. Therefore, the pace of research on aircraft carrier / carrier aircraft system in various countries has never stopped. Aircraft carriers and shipborne aircraft complement each other, and only when they are combined can they exert their strongest strength. Aircraft carriers are a platform for naval aircraft to take off and land at sea, and a large surface warship with shipborne aircraft as its main combat weapon. The ship body of an aircraft carrier has an oversized deck for the take-off and landing of a shipborne aircraft, and its movement is also a key factor affecting the safety and accurate landing of a shipborne aircraft.
Shipboard aircraft and land-based aircraft, its use environment is relatively bad. Safety and accurate landing has become an important issue in the use of shipboard aircraft. The movement of aircraft carrier at sea, the environment of sea and turbulence disturbance all affect the safety of landing ship. The limited length and width of the deck of aircraft carrier also make the landing difficulty of carrier aircraft much more difficult than that of land-based aircraft. In this paper, first of all, by using the basic knowledge of dynamics and other disciplines, the constraint relations among the variables of shipborne aircraft in the coordinate system are obtained, the longitudinal motion equation model of shipborne aircraft is established, and the small disturbance equation of shipborne aircraft landing is given. The natural state of the shipborne aircraft is also discussed. In the Matlab / Simulink environment, the transfer function of the throttle and elevator input corresponding to each output of the aircraft and its simulation are obtained under the environment of Matlab / Simulink.
This paper also studies the influence of carrier movement on the landing of carrier aircraft, defines the degree of freedom of aircraft carrier and analyzes the influence of each degree of freedom according to the characteristics of aircraft carrier motion at sea. The influence of pitching and swinging motion on the landing of shipborne aircraft was studied. The stationary stochastic process was modeled by using the power spectrum model of the aircraft carrier, and the simulation of the aircraft carrier movement was carried out, and the characteristics and causes of the ship tail current were analyzed. The engineering method is used to simulate and analyze the wake of aircraft carrier. The simulation results show that the magnitude of the periodic component of the ship tail current induced by the aircraft carrier motion is larger, especially the closer to the final phase of the ship landing, the periodic component of the ship tail current to the shipborne flight. The greater the impact of aircraft landing.
Keywords Shipborne aircraft; Carrier Motion; Longitudinal Control Law; Tailstream; Simulation


the new wizard pretending to be a new user, and I ran into trouble trying to paste code.
This is the help for adding code: enter image description here
The help gives the impression that the user has to hit the space bar four times for every line of code.
There should be a code button like the usual template, or the wizard should at least mention the Ctrlk shortcut for formatting code.
Since formatting is something that new users often mess up on, the wizard should put in every effort to turn out well-formatted posts. This has to begin with a comprehensive guide on how to format properly. This is one way that the wizard could really help. In fact, it is the obvious way to teach new users how to handle code in posts, but the wizard is misleading instead of helpful.
: Please add the necessary material to help new users format their code.
I think the matched title search needs to work better.
Normally we put in the title first, then the question then the tags, so it's as good as it gets. Now we are putting in tags then title. The title search should reflect the tags. For instance I asked about Unity, and I had the Unity3d tag, but the first 5 titles had nothing to do with unity. Similar problems, but in other platforms making them completely unrelated. I got bored of looking at titles before I reached anything unity related.
Now that we have the tags, we should show questions with the same tags first as suggestions for previously asked
I know that technically, this is "ok". The tag is not a tag but included as a part of the sentence. Meh. But please do not encourage newbies to repeat information. Their title should state what the problem is. I see too many titles that are basically just the tags with some auxiliary verbs sprinkled in. If it's tagged already, I don't need that repeated in the title.
And while we are at it: I think questions should ask a question, so even if you don't want to implement that in the wizard, it would be nice if we could at least lead by example and have our example headlines ask a question. Including the proper punctuation.
How about using placeholders in the form?
Question guide screen alternative
This would allow the person to read all the examples immediately before writing (since some might not read/notice the changing examples in the sidebar).
I just used simple unicode characters for the icons in the placeholders:
Examples:
✔ "Include lines 12-23 of /file.php"
❌ "Don't paste entire /file.php"
✔ "Indent four spaces to format your code"
❌ "Don't paste line 23 only"
I don't think the following wording is clear enough, especially to someone new to asking technical questions:
Describe expected and actual results.
It would be better to be more explicit, along these lines:
What result were you expecting to see? What actually happened instead?
Or more in line with the existing wording:
Describe the result you were expecting, and then describe the result that actually happened.
It is great to get the opinion of veteran users on this much needed new tool...
But is there a "next stage" of testing:
Getting new users (aka: zero rep) users to try it, without instruction
... and see how they do?
Unless there's major opposition to this idea, when I'm back on in a few hours, going through new VBA/Excel questions as regularly do, when I come across poorly written questions from newbies (Rep 0-5) I will ask if the user is willing to resubmit their question with this tool, with no input from me, then the user and I will look at the two questions, together decide which is better, and promptly delete the other one, and I will make notes on the process and report back here.
I'll only do this on 2 or 3 questions to start, but that's the true test of this wizard, right? VBA is a slow enough category on a Friday night that any confusion over the duplicates will be minimal.
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 We're actually doing both. We've been doing user testing with users outside of the meta community (even before we posted here) and we're planning to continue doing so as we get closer to the experiment stage. Stay tuned! – Jon Chan Jun 22 '18 at 21:51
 - _USER_ good to hear! Will this testing include "brand new" (zero rep) users? Seems to me that's where the real issues will come to light since they are the most likely to "break" the wizard, or to misunderstand the process. The wizard is a great idea and I look forward to the full launch! – ashleedawg Jun 23 '18 at 1:34
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 _USER_ I am curious if it will be obvious which questions were created by the wizard, and whether the user will be able to re-enter the wizard after the question is posted. – ashleedawg Jun 23 '18 at 1:36
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 - _USER_ actually on that thought, combined with my previous comment -- it would be nice if we could identify from SEDE which questions were produced by the wizard, because we could easily compare questions scores and results for questions with/without the wizard – ashleedawg Jun 23 '18 at 22:34
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Senior Compliance Officer Tax
- Responsible for analysis, assessment, follow up and monitoring on tax compliance aspects, including analyse and review structures of clients from tax compliance perspective, check and assess plausibility of tax opinions, update and maintain current tax compliance procedures and assist in the implementation of new control mechanisms such as the automatic exchange of information;
- Lead or participate in Regulatory main projects at Luxembourg and European level and make sure Compliance risk coverage is harmonized across Credit Suisse (Luxembourg) S.A. and its branches;
- Ensure at all time compliance with Credit Suisse group and international/European/local standards;
- Provide adequate support in any regulatory review or request from internal/external audit, Credit Suisse Group or Regulators;
- Propose enhancement of Regulatory tools, systems, policies and processes to achieve better efficiency and maximum risk coverage;
- Make sure that his/her management as well as Credit Suisse (Luxembourg) S.A. Authorised Management have a holistic understanding of the existing Regulatory risks and mitigation measures taken. Maintain and update adequate Compliance indicators;
- Ensure that findings and issues are promptly reported and escalated to the his/her management and ensure tracking and follow up of corrective measures (notably through the MICOS tool);
- Be responsible for the coordination and implementation at Luxembourg and branches level of the FATCA, AEI and tax relative matters requirements;
- Be the central point of contact for advice and training on FATCA, AEI and tax relative matters;
- Regularly interface with the relevant staff member and Heads of departments and articulate Compliance views in such meeting;
- Maintain and update Compliance Monitoring Program his/her area and perform adequate monitoring/testing as per program.
- Master degree in law, economics or finance, ideally with specialization in tax;
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant working experience within a Compliance function in Private Banking and/or Fund environment, and/or in Tax Services (experience such as FATCA, AEI, etc.);
- Good understanding and knowledge of the Luxembourg financial industry legal and regulatory environment;
- Good understanding of Private Banking products and business;
- Proactive, flexible, team-oriented personality with excellent communication skills and the ability to deliver pragmatic and commercial advice and able to justify opinions;
- Fluent in written and spoken English and French any additional language is a plus;
- Good knowledge of MS Office Software.
As a Senior Compliance Officer, the employee is expected to:
- Compliance supervision of Credit Suisse (Luxembourg) S.A. and its branches;
- Ensure the identification and assessment of Compliance Regulatory risk and propose adequate mitigation measures;
- Be an expert in Regulatory tools and systems and ensure adequate upgrade/fine-tuning needs are duly escalated and implemented;
- Assist and advise staff members on Compliance issues and standards;
- Raise awareness of the staff through dedicated Regulatory training.
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Gender-based Analysis Plus 2020-21
Gender-based Analysis Plus 2020-21
Governance structure
When developing projects, creating or updating services and activities, the NBC systematically ensures that the various identity factors are taken into account, including gender, age, Aboriginal origin or identity, living with a disability, etc.
The NBC does not have the resources to conduct data analysis.
Human resources
Not applicable.
The NBC does not have sufficient human and financial resources to assign one FTE to the GBA+.
Planned initiatives
The NBC has carried out the following initiatives with regard to the GBA+ :
 - Highlight the place of women and Aboriginal peoples in Canada in the NBC's range of historical activities, based on available documents and sources, in order to promote gender and peoples' equality;
 - Develop and maintain a range of adapted activities for newcomers, students and adults learning either official language, people living with a physical or mental disability, and groups with learning disabilities;
 - Maintain free access to the Plains of Abraham Museum for French-language groups, holders of the cultural pass for new immigrants and attendants of persons with disabilities. Offer certain activities free of charge in order to improve access for economically disadvantaged groups;
 - Offer a musical program at the Edwin-Bélanger Bandstand featuring a variety of artists representing various cultural communities. Promote the inclusion of artists of diverse gender, cultural, ethnic, linguistic and racial communities;
 - Continue to recommend and make available the online course on GBA+ to managers and employees in key sectors. Disseminate and make the training available on the Intranet for all employees.
The NBC will continue to ensure that GBA+ is taken into account in new policy and project proposals.
Reporting capacity and data
Not applicable.
The NBC does not collect specific data on the beneficiaries of its programs to conduct a GBA+ or to publish reports. The NBC does not have the resources required to have the capacity to produce reports and data.


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Get the latest BSA lawsuit news and stay informed about the legal landscape surrounding it. Stay updated with the most recent developments and insights.
The latest BSA lawsuit news has been making headlines due to the complex and sensitive nature of the cases. As the legal landscape shifts, individuals, families, and legal experts are closely following the developments to better understand the implications. This article aims to shed light on the key aspects of these lawsuits, ensuring that you're well-informed and prepared to navigate the legal journey.
Latest BSA Lawsuit News: Exploring Recent Developments
Recent developments in the BSA lawsuit landscape have raised significant concerns and discussions. Here are some of the latest updates:
- High-Profile Cases Garner Attention: Several high-profile cases have come to the forefront, highlighting allegations of misconduct within the BSA. These cases have led to intense scrutiny and public debate, underscoring the need for transparency and accountability.
- Statute of Limitations Controversy: One of the central issues in the BSA lawsuits revolves around the statute of limitations. Many individuals who were allegedly affected by misconduct during their time in the organization are seeking legal recourse. The evolving statute of limitations laws across different states add complexity to the legal proceedings.
- Organizational Bankruptcy: In an effort to address the mounting legal claims, the BSA filed for bankruptcy. This move has raised questions about the future of the organization, its assets, and how victims will be compensated. The bankruptcy proceedings are closely monitored by legal experts and those affected by the alleged misconduct.
Understanding the Legal Landscape: Key Factors to Consider
When delving into the latest BSA lawsuit news, there are several crucial factors to consider:
- Scope of Allegations: The allegations against the BSA range from accusations of sexual abuse to claims of inadequate response to reported misconduct. Understanding the scope of these allegations is essential to grasp the magnitude of the legal challenges.
- Impact on Survivors: The lawsuits have a profound impact on survivors of alleged abuse within the BSA. Many are seeking justice, closure, and acknowledgment for the trauma they endured. The legal outcomes could play a significant role in their healing process.
- Legal Precedents: The BSA lawsuits are paving the way for legal precedents that could influence future cases involving organizations facing similar allegations. Legal experts are closely observing how these cases are handled to gauge potential shifts in legal approaches.
FAQ's about the Latest BSA Lawsuit News
Q: What are the primary allegations against the BSA in these lawsuits?
A: The primary allegations include cases of sexual abuse, inadequate response to reported misconduct, and alleged negligence in preventing abuse within the organization.
Q: How is the BSA addressing these lawsuits?
A: The BSA has filed for bankruptcy to address the mounting legal claims. This move allows the organization to establish a compensation fund for survivors and handle legal proceedings efficiently.
Q: What is the significance of the statute of limitations in these cases?
A: The statute of limitations determines the time frame within which legal action can be taken. Many survivors are seeking changes to these limitations to provide them with an opportunity to seek justice.
Q: How are these lawsuits impacting the BSA as an organization?
A: The lawsuits and bankruptcy filing have raised questions about the organization's financial stability, future operations, and the reputation of the BSA as a whole.
Q: Are there any potential outcomes that could emerge from these lawsuits?
A: The outcomes could vary, including financial compensation for survivors, changes in the organization's leadership, and potential legal precedents that influence similar cases.
Q: How can individuals stay informed about the latest developments in BSA lawsuits?
A: Staying informed involves following reputable news sources, legal updates, and official statements from the BSA and legal representatives.
Conclusion: Navigating the Legal Journey with Insight
The latest BSA lawsuit news highlights the complexities of legal battles involving a prominent organization. By staying informed about the developments, survivors, families, and concerned individuals can better understand the implications and potential outcomes. As the legal landscape continues to evolve, the pursuit of justice and accountability remains at the forefront. Stay engaged, stay informed, and contribute to the ongoing conversations that shape the future of these cases.


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Students Practice Stream Restoration
Members of the Natural Resources Management Club and Wildlife Society at NDSU spent an evening placing rocks in the water near the confluence of the two inlets under the advice of Natural Resources Management Professor, Jack Norland, PhD. The World Garden Commons at Rabanus Park is the stormwater pond restoration pilot for The Fargo Project.
Grad student Aaron Green described the effects of the rock and willow riffles he and the MN DNR stream ecology section developed last year. Today, you can see that the energy created by the rock and willow riffles has induced enough erosion to begin meanders in the stream.
By strategically placing rocks essentially narrowing the stream, the students increased the low-flow drop and created a split flow. Now, during future high flows after a rain event, the split flow should create enough energy in the stream for a sediment-free pool beyond. An added benefit is a beautiful feature of rocks and running water mimicking natural prairie streams and rivers of our region.
The Natural Resources Management Club and Wildlife Society at NDSU spend club time dedicated to outdoor education and resource management, learning about our environment and becoming more involved with wildlife or wildlife related organizations in the area.


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Intro: Styrofoam Plate Speaker
This instructable will teach you how to make a speaker out of a styrofoam plate!!! This speaker can play an audible sound.
Step 1: Gather Materials
Materials you will need for this project:
Piece of paper
Tape (any type)
30-32 gauge wire
Neodymium magnets (at least 6)
Hot Glue Gun
2 Alligator clips
Piece of cardboard that is bigger than the styrofoam plate
Headphone wire with plug to connect to playing device
Step 2: Cut Paper
Use scissors to cut piece of paper to a height that is higher than the magnets.
Step 3: Wrap Magnet With Paper
After cutting paper, roll it around magnet and secure it with piece of tape.
Step 4: Glue Paper to Center of Plate
On the back of the plate, glue the piece of paper to the center using hot glue gun.
Step 5: Begin Wrapping Wire Around Paper
Using 30-32 gauge wire, wrap it around the piece of paper glued to the plate. Continue wrapping it until the majority of the piece of rolled paper is covered in wire. Once wrapped, cut the wire and secure it with piece of tape.
It helps to start wrapping the wire from the bottom and go up.
Step 6: Sand Ends of Wire
Considering the wire is painted, you need to sand the end of the wire down until the ends are copper. With the paint on the charge will not connect.
(You might have to repeat this step for the headphone wire)
Step 7: Connect Alligator Clips to Wire
Connect an alligator clip to both ends of wire and attach the other end of the alligator clips to the plug-in wire ends.
Step 8: Place Magnet on Cardboard
Place the magnet in the middle of the piece of cardboard. Feel free to glue it down to the cardboard.
Step 9: Connect Plate to Magnet
Put the magnet inside of the wired piece of paper so everything is attached.
Step 10: Secure Plate to Cardboard
Tape the paper plate to the cardboard so it is more balanced.


National Dive League (NDL) - an organization that has developed a large number of unique programs for the training of scuba divers (divers) and freedivers
National Dive League has an extensive system of diving clubs and diving schools, and conducting training scuba diving and freediving in Russia, Egypt, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and other resorts in the world with subsequent certification.
Diving today is common type of active tourism, which anyone can do.
Safety of modern diving and freediving is now at such high level, because training in clubs and schools NDL conducted according to international standards ISO and EN.
By specialists of the National Dive League wdeveloped many courses of diving and freediving, both for amateurs and for professionals, which together constitute a system of training NDL.
The systematic approach in teaching diving is:
1. Textbooks, in which detail is written all the stages of organizing of dives and set out the necessary framework for physics, physiology, diving, snorkelling equipment, general oceanography, practical skills, strict methodical sequence of learning material, etc.
2. The system of certification of divers different levels of training. Certification of scuba diver says about the level of training, experience and maximum depth for the diver. For example, scuba diver, who trained in Moscow or in London arrived in Sharm El Sheikh, Phuket or Koh Tao and as a confirmation of the level of his training shows his international diving certificate - license.
3. Methodological manual for professional instructors. This instructor manual - book in which the summary of lectures and meticulously prescript study plan.
4. The uniform database of certified divers and free divers both for amateurs and professionals.


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The Finnish Geotechnical Society sponsored the International Symposium on Frost in Geotechnical Engineering on March 13-15,1989, in Saariselka, Finland. Approximately 150 researchers from around the world attended. Three sessions were
held, including special lectures on the mechanics of freezing and thawing by B. Ladanyi, the frost heave properties of soils by D.M. Anderson, and frost protection in design and construction by R. Nordal. Other lectures were:
- Simulation of freezing and thawing of soil materials by E.A. Bondarev
- Frost problems in road construction by H. Brand1
- Modeling of thermal soil behavior by M. Fremond
- Frost susceptibility of soils by H. Jessberger
- Frost protection of design and construction in Japan by F. Kohno
- Preventative measures against frost action in soils by S. Kinosita
- Freezing and thawing in cylindrical coordinates by V.J. Lunardini
- Preventative measures against frost action in soils by A. Phukan
- Evaluation of frost heave properties of soils by S. Saarelainen
- Adfreeze strength of soils by A.V. Sadovsky
- Physical changes in clay due to frost action and their effects on engineering structures by E. Chamberlain.
52 related papers were presented and discussed and were published in two volumes, available from Technical Research Center of Finland. Following the symposium there was a two-day field trip to observe roads and road construction techniques
in Lapland. Methods of dealing with road icings, cracking and snow drifting were examined. The next symposium is scheduled for Anchorage, Alaska in 1993.
Based on a report by V. Lunardini, CRREL, USA


SmtpSendingMessageEventArgsMergeDataReader Property
Gets the reference to the data reader used for mail merge of this message.
Namespace: MailBee.SmtpMail
Assembly: MailBee.NET (in MailBee.NET.dll) Version: 12.4 build 677 for .NET 4.5
Syntax
public IDataReader MergeDataReader { get; }
Property Value
Type: IDataReader
A reference to the data reader if it was passed as an input, or a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) if the input wasn't a data reader.
Remarks
Note that you must not advance the position of data reader (such as with Read method). MailBee will do this itself. Also, if the mail merge process is multi-threaded, you cannot use this property to access the current row. Another thread may already use the reader to read the next data row. Use MergeDataReaderRowValues and MergeDataReaderColumnNames propeties to read the field values corresponding to the current row.
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Henry B. Throop (born 1972), is a scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, who served as a Science Team Collaborator and worked on the New Horizons mission. He currently resides in Mumbai, India. The asteroid 193736 Henrythroop is named after him.
Throop had his BA from Grinnell College, 1994 and he received a PhD in Planetary Science from the University of Colorado, USA, in 2000. Then he left the University of Colorado and moved to Southwest Research Institute (SWRI), Boulder as a Senior Research Scientist during 2000–2008. There he worked on Cassini rings observations at Jupiter (December 2000) and Saturn (July 2004). From October 2003 he has been working as a member of the Spacecraft Hazard Team on the New Horizons mission to Pluto.
In August 2007 the History Channel had put a documentary in which Throop and others discuss Pluto and New Horizons. The show was called "Outer Planets" and is part of their series "The Universe." Show first aired in August 2007, and had been seen in re-runs during 2008.
He moved to the Astronomy department of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City as a Senior Research Scientist during 2008–2009. During February 2013 he moved to Pretoria, South Africa. He was a faculty at the University of Pretoria, where he was working to start up their astronomy program. While living in Africa, he worked extensively with rural schools, helping to develop their science programs and inspire the next generation of leaders. At the same time, he was affiliated with the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, USA and also continued to work on New Horizons and other projects at SWRI. He is now a Senior Scientist with the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
During August 2015 he moved to Mumbai, India. He is continuing his work with PSI and SWRI, and teaching some astronomy locally at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai .
He has presented more than 100 lectures for science festivals, planetariums, school groups, and public events across the US, Mexico, and Africa. Dr. Throop's work has been featured in Science, Nature, Time, The Washington Post, on the National Geographic TV.
- Planetary Rings
- Protoplanetary Disks
- Dust in the Solar System
- Formation of Organic Molecules
- Early History of the Solar System
- Formation of Extrasolar Planets
- New Horizons mission to Pluto
He worked at NASA HQ as the program officer for two programs: Cassini Data Analysis and Participating Scientists (CDAPS), and Origins of Solar Systems (OSS). He was involved in its historic flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, working with the visible-IR spectrometer (Ralph) team.
He has also been involved with the Cassini mission's imaging team in the data acquisition and analysis of ring studies in particular.
He is responsible for writing award-winning software for operations planning – a solar system simulator used for planning observations. It was issued by New Horizons, Cassini, Rosetta, Lunar Recon Orbiter, MESSENGER, and many other missions. It's a robust and easy to use web-based observing planning tool for seeing what the sky looks like from a spacecraft or the Earth. The software has won the 'IDL Applications of the Year' award, from RSI.
Awards and honors
Asteroid 193736 Henrythroop, discovered by Marc Buie at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in 2001, was named after him. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 July 2018 (M.P.C. 110637).
- "(193736) Henrythroop". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
- "Henry Throop - Kaleidoscope". _URL_.
- "Henry Throop / Research Page". _URL_.
- "Henry Throop Personal/Professional Page". 4 November 2015.
- "Henry Throop". _URL_.
- "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 17 July 2018.


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Question: Samantha is 1 50 m tall on her eleventh birthday and
Samantha is 1.50 m tall on her eleventh birthday and 1.65 m tall on her twelfth birthday. By what factor has her height increased? By what percentage?
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API Reference
Persistent Types
class persistent.Persistent
Base class for persistent objects.
Implements:IPersistent
class persistent.list.PersistentList(initlist=None)
Bases: UserList.UserList, persistent.Persistent
Python implementation of persistent list.
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class persistent.mapping.PersistentMapping(dict=None, **kwargs)
Bases: UserDict.IterableUserDict, persistent.Persistent
A persistent wrapper for mapping objects.
This class allows wrapping of mapping objects so that object changes are registered. As a side effect, mapping objects may be subclassed.
A subclass of PersistentMapping or any code that adds new attributes should not create an attribute named _container. This is reserved for backwards compatibility reasons.
Storages
Single File
class ZODB.FileStorage.FileStorage(file_name, create=False, read_only=False, stop=None, quota=None, pack_gc=True, pack_keep_old=True, packer=None, blob_dir=None)
cleanup()
Remove all files created by this storage.
lastTid(oid)
Return last serialno committed for object oid.
If there is no serialno for this oid – which can only occur if it is a new object – return None.
load(oid, version='')
Return pickle data and serial number.
pack(t, referencesf, gc=None)
Copy data from the current database file to a packed file
Non-current records from transactions with time-stamp strings less than packtss are ommitted. As are all undone records.
Also, data back pointers that point before packtss are resolved and the associated data are copied, since the old records are not copied.
undo(transaction_id, transaction)
Undo a transaction, given by transaction_id.
Do so by writing new data that reverses the action taken by the transaction.
Usually, we can get by with just copying a data pointer, by writing a file position rather than a pickle. Sometimes, we may do conflict resolution, in which case we actually copy new data that results from resolution.
Client/Server Model
class ZEO.ClientStorage.ClientStorage(addr, storage='1', cache_size=20971520, name='', client=None, var=None, min_disconnect_poll=1, max_disconnect_poll=30, wait_for_server_on_startup=None, wait=None, wait_timeout=None, read_only=0, read_only_fallback=0, drop_cache_rather_verify=False, username='', password='', realm=None, blob_dir=None, shared_blob_dir=False, blob_cache_size=None, blob_cache_size_check=10, client_label=None)
A storage class that is a network client to a remote storage.
This is a faithful implementation of the Storage API.
This class is thread-safe; transactions are serialized in tpc_begin().
ClientCacheClass
alias of ClientCache
ConnectionManagerClass
alias of ConnectionManager
close()
Storage API: finalize the storage, releasing external resources.
copyTransactionsFrom(other, verbose=0)
Copy transactions from another storage.
This is typically used for converting data from one storage to another. other must have an .iterator() method.
end()
Server callback to signal end of cache validation.
endVerify()
Server callback to signal end of cache validation.
end_transaction()
Internal helper to end a transaction.
getExtensionMethods()
This returns a dictionary whose keys are names of extra methods provided by this storage. Storage proxies (such as ZEO) should call this method to determine the extra methods that they need to proxy in addition to the standard storage methods. Dictionary values should be None; this will be a handy place for extra marshalling information, should we need it
getName()
Storage API: return the storage name as a string.
The return value consists of two parts: the name as determined by the name and addr argments to the ClientStorage constructor, and the string 'connected' or 'disconnected' in parentheses indicating whether the storage is (currently) connected.
getSize()
Storage API: an approximate size of the database, in bytes.
getTid(oid)
Storage API: return current serial number for oid.
history(oid, size=1)
Storage API: return a sequence of HistoryEntry objects.
info(dict)
Server callback to update the info dictionary.
invalidate(oid)
Server callback to invalidate an oid pair.
This is called as part of cache validation.
invalidateTransaction(tid, oids)
Server callback: Invalidate objects modified by tid.
invalidateVerify(oid)
Server callback to invalidate an oid pair.
This is called as part of cache validation.
isReadOnly()
Storage API: return whether we are in read-only mode.
is_connected()
Return whether the storage is currently connected to a server.
iterator(start=None, stop=None)
Return an IStorageTransactionInformation iterator.
load(oid, version='')
Storage API: return the data for a given object.
This returns the pickle data and serial number for the object specified by the given object id, if they exist; otherwise a KeyError is raised.
loadSerial(oid, serial)
Storage API: load a historical revision of an object.
new_oid()
Storage API: return a new object identifier.
notifyConnected(conn)
Internal: start using the given connection.
This is called by ConnectionManager after it has decided which connection should be used.
notifyDisconnected()
Internal: notify that the server connection was terminated.
This is called by ConnectionManager when the connection is closed or when certain problems with the connection occur.
pack(t=None, referencesf=None, wait=1, days=0)
Storage API: pack the storage.
Deviations from the Storage API: the referencesf argument is ignored; two additional optional arguments wait and days are provided:
wait – a flag indicating whether to wait for the pack to
complete; defaults to true.
days – a number of days to subtract from the pack time;
defaults to zero.
record_iternext(next=None)
Storage API: get the next database record.
This is part of the conversion-support API.
registerDB(db)
Storage API: register a database for invalidation messages.
This is called by ZODB.DB (and by some tests).
The storage isn't really ready to use until after this call.
restore(oid, serial, data, version, prev_txn, transaction)
Write data already committed in a separate database.
serialnos(args)
Server callback to pass a list of changed (oid, serial) pairs.
store(oid, serial, data, version, txn)
Storage API: store data for an object.
storeBlob(oid, serial, data, blobfilename, version, txn)
Storage API: store a blob object.
supportsUndo()
Storage API: return whether we support undo.
testConnection(conn)
Internal: test the given connection.
This returns: 1 if the connection is an optimal match,
0 if it is a suboptimal but acceptable match.
It can also raise DisconnectedError or ReadOnlyError.
This is called by ZEO.zrpc.ConnectionManager to decide which connection to use in case there are multiple, and some are read-only and others are read-write.
This works by calling register() on the server. In read-only mode, register() is called with the read_only flag set. In writable mode and in read-only fallback mode, register() is called with the read_only flag cleared. In read-only fallback mode only, if the register() call raises ReadOnlyError, it is retried with the read-only flag set, and if this succeeds, this is deemed a suboptimal match. In all other cases, a succeeding register() call is deemed an optimal match, and any exception raised by register() is passed through.
tpc_abort(txn)
Storage API: abort a transaction.
tpc_begin(txn, tid=None, status=' ')
Storage API: begin a transaction.
tpc_finish(txn, f=None)
Storage API: finish a transaction.
tpc_vote(txn)
Storage API: vote on a transaction.
undo(trans_id, txn)
Storage API: undo a transaction.
This is executed in a transactional context. It has no effect until the transaction is committed. It can be undone itself.
Zope uses this to implement undo unless it is not supported by a storage.
undoInfo(first=0, last=-20, specification=None)
Storage API: return undo information.
undoLog(first=0, last=


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SUMMARY: NASA's remotely piloted Helios aircraft was destroyed on Thursday when it broke up over the Pacific Ocean near the Hawaiian Islands. The Helios is a large flying covered with solar cells which is designed to fly at very high altitudes for very long durations - it broke the world altitude record when it reached 29,500 metres in August, 2001. In the future, fleets of these aircraft could replace the services of satellites for a fraction of the cost. The cause of the accident isn't known.
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uploaded imageGive an implementation-level next state table corresponding to the state diagram given above. "Implementation-level" means writing the table in binary instead of using state names (S0, S1, etc.). Note that you have one input variable, W. A transition labeling of "0,1" means input can be 0 or 1. Write the state assignment clearly. Label your table appropriately.
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A visual representation of a decision problem. An effective way to clarify objectives and display them with the uncertainties, dependencies, and other factors that influence the likelihood of reaching those objectives.
a graphical structure for modelling uncertain variables and decisions
a list of factors in a problem, together with arrows and signs showing the relationship between them
a simple visual representation of a decision problem
In decision analysis, an influence diagram (ID) (also called a relevance diagram) is a graphical and mathematical representation of probabilistic inference and decision problems. IDs are a generalization of decision trees.


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Design and Application of Near Infrared Tunable Filter for ATST and NST Doctoral Thesis Proposal by Jun Ma February, 2005. Contents. Introduction Related Work Achromatic Waveplate Layered medium Infrared Imaging Magnetograph system (IRIM)
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FTS Observation of umbral Stokes profiles: I & V.
Field Strength is roughly around 300 Gauss.
Rueedi, et al., 1994
Big Bear Solar Observatory
A substitution of current 65cm telescope. It will be the largest ground based solar telescope before the construction of ATST (2006).
Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST)
National Solar Observatory
Based on the theoretical models, the magnetic features on the Sun have spatial scales about 30km. This corresponds to a 4-meter aperture at 630.2 nm, an important line for most polarimetry studies.
Lift time spans 3~4 decades.
My thesis project is supported by ATST "near infrared tunable filter system" project.
Polarization Modulation (one example):
Baur & Elmore, "Stokes II – A new polarimeter for solar observation", 1980
1.56 m Birefringent filter, designed by Dr. J. Wang.
Bandpass = 2.2 Å ; LC tuning; normal-wavelates.
Used in the observation at SacPeark, in Dec. 2004
Tunable Laser testing of 1.56m birefringent filter.
Proceeded at Cambridge Research Incorporated (CRi),
Tunable Birefringent Filter design in J. Wang's paper. without achromatism consideration, i.e., working at single wavelength.
Wavelength tuning v.s. rotation angle of waveplate
A linear relation.
Simulated with Jones matrix method in MATLAB.
Voltage count on LC's v.s. retardation
[Courtesy CRi, Inc.]
Non-linear; oracle function
How about different layers of different birefringent materials?
How many do we need?
[ Left Panel ] Retardance error plotted from Title's paper.
1975 – A.M. Title, "Improvement of Birefringent Filters 2: Achromatic Waveplates", J.O.S.A., 1975
[ Right Panel ] Retardance error plotted from new design.
2004 – J. Ma, J. Wang, W. Cao, C. Denker, H. Wang. "Near Infrared (NIR) Achromatic Phase Retarder", SPIE, Oct 2004
Transmission profile (not retardance profile). Courtesy Nanjing Institution of Astronomical Instrumentation.
1) Half awp sandwiched by parallel aligned linear polarizers
2) Two quarter awp sandwiched by parallel aligned linear polarizers
Blue curve: achromatic waveplate
Red curve: normal waveplate
Yellow curve: stray light of the two linear polarizers
Calibration of 1.56 micron Lyot filter from data of December, 2004.
FWHM ~ 2.1 angstrom
(6) Light Bridges and Umbral Dots
[ Dec. 2, 2004, NSO-SacPeak ]
FOV: 120" 120"
Filtergram observed @ 1.56 m
FWHM = 2.2 Å
Processed with flat-field correction. The dynamic process of these two interests me more. How do they evolve?
Lyot + FPI
Centred at 1.56 micron
Bandwidth ~0.15 angstrom
Seeing condition got worse during this period compared with the observation with Lyot filter one day before.
The fringe pattern comes probably from FPI, since it didn't appear in Lyot observation. However, it could come from other optics as well, since the optical setup were quite different.
Again, a movie might be more interesting. Also, since the filter system was used to scan the neighbouring spectral range, the Zeeman splitting of the FeI line might be derived from this time sequence of images. Data process hasn't been done yet.


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Does a Nonprofit Need a CRM?
Does a Nonprofit Need a CRM? A Customer Relation Management (CRM) System is typically associated with for-profit enterprises. In this sense, a CRM is defined as, "technology systems companies use to manage their external interactions with customers at all points during the customer lifecycle, from discovery to education, purchase, and post-purchase."
With some word substitutions, a CRM can be adapted for use by a Nonprofit.
Customer becomes Stakeholder
Nonprofits have multiple Stakeholders:
All these Stakeholders can be captured in the CRM. (Since the term "CRM" is in common usage, it is still CRM even for Nonprofits.) The original definition specifies external customers but a Nonprofit CRM can also include internal people like Employees, Board of Directors and Volunteers.
The different Stakeholders can be tagged differently to differentiate them from one another. However, sometimes an individual Stakeholder can have more than one role. For example, a Donor can also be a Volunteer. Knowing that this dual role exists for some Stakeholders allows the Nonprofit to tailor its interactions to the maximum effect.
Customer Lifecycle becomes Stakeholder Lifecycle
The Customer Lifecycle concept can easily be adapted to Nonprofit Stakeholders, especially Donors. The original definition notes the lifecycle phases of discovery, education, purchase, and post-purchase. For a Donor, substitute "donation" for "purchase."
Discovery – The Nonprofit identifies potential Donors. All these names are logged in the CRM and each "touch" or interaction is tracked as well. This way, retrospective analysis can help determine which interactions were most effective.
Education – Efforts are made to educate the potential Donors about the Nonprofit's mission and why donations are worthwhile. Again, each "education" interaction is logged.
Donation – Once a donation is made, the CRM becomes the data source for thank you communications. The donation itself is tracked in the system so at any time the Nonprofit's decision-makers can know who donated how much over time.
Post-Donation – Tracking interactions with Donors can help the Nonprofit communicate effectively so Donors feel more satisfied and are motivated to give on an ongoing basis.
Does a Nonprofit Need a CRM? By having a system to keep tabs on all types of Stakeholders, a Nonprofit can better manage its relationships with these constituents and better meet its organizational goals.


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Examples of a food that starts with the letter "L" include lasagna, lamington, lamb, lettuce, lemon meringue pie, lentils, lollipop and lobster. Two well-known beverages that begin with the letter "L" are lemonade and limeade.Continue Reading
A lamington is a type of cake that is commonly found in Australia. It is made by cutting a cake into cubes. The cubes are dipped into chocolate and then dipped into shredded coconut.
Lasagna is an Italian dish made with sheets of pasta layered with ingredients such as meat and cheese. Different regions of Italy have their own style of lasagna. For example, in Liguria, it is commonly made with pesto sauce. Salted ricotta is a common ingredient in the region of Calabria. In Tuscany, lasagna is made with sugo alla bolognese and bechamel sauce, while Neapolitans make a Carnival-style lasagna with ingredients such as ricotta.Learn more about Food Facts


Parents: before you pull the Trigger…
…know where you're pointing the gun!
Larry Ferlazzo's piece on the Parent Trigger yesterday is a great read on the subject, and my friend Mark Friedman wrote about it last year, as well (be sure to read the comments, too).
My own takeaways are in 140-character bites at right. As presently conceived, these laws are a means of co-opting the language of empowerment to use parents to inflict the same failed policies that virtually everyone agrees have been the undoing of No Child Left Behind.
I have to say, what was already an destructive use of public policy becomes especially distasteful when parents are set up to inflict it upon their own children. (It also makes the "trigger" metaphor that much more unfortunate…)
If the people who currently spend money on these trigger campaigns truly want to empower parents, why not invest in creating conditions that support true empowerment: educational programs and training that help parents to be involved in their schools and in their children's academics (the Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition offers some good examples), or supporting schools to offer food and childcare for infants so parents can get involved in other efforts around their neighborhood school?
And if public officials really value the voices of parents in 'failing' schools, why do they typically ignore parents and community members who ask (and have been asking for years on end) for greater and smarter investments in their neighborhood schools?
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Nils DalénArticle Free Pass
Nils Dalén, in full Nils Gustaf Dalén (born Nov. 30, 1869, Stenstorp, Swed.—died Dec. 9, 1937, Stockholm), Swedish engineer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1912 for his invention of the automatic sun valve, or Solventil, which regulates a gaslight source by the action of sunlight, turning it off at dawn and on at dusk or at other periods of darkness. It rapidly came into worldwide use for buoys and unmanned lighthouses.
In 1906 Dalén became chief engineer of the Gas Accumulator Company, which marketed acetylene gas. He became managing director of the company in 1909 and then invented Agamassan, a substance that absorbs acetylene, making it possible to concentrate the gas with no danger of explosion. He was blinded by an explosion during an experiment in 1913, but he continued experimental work until his death.
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