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Our driving school is dedicated to helping new drivers become confident and safe drivers on the road. We understand that learning to drive can be an intimidating experience, but we believe that with the right guidance and training, anyone can become a confident and skilled driver. Here are some ways our driving school can help you become a confident driver:
1. Professional instruction:
Our driving school employs licensed and experienced instructors who have undergone extensive training to teach driving skills to new drivers. They provide a structured and comprehensive curriculum that covers all aspects of driving, including classroom instruction and practical training.
2. Individualized training:
Our driving school offers individualized training tailored to the needs and learning style of each student. This allows our instructors to provide personalized instruction and feedback to help you improve your driving skills and gain confidence on the road.
3. Road test preparation:
Our driving school provides comprehensive road test preparation that includes mock tests and feedback from our instructors. This helps you prepare for the road test and gain confidence in your ability to pass.
4. New and well-maintained vehicles:
Our driving school provides new and well-maintained vehicles for training, which allows you to gain experience driving in a safe and reliable vehicle.
5. Flexible scheduling:
We offer flexible scheduling that accommodates your availability, allowing you to take lessons at a time that works for you. This helps to reduce stress and increase confidence in your ability to learn to drive.
6. Safe and supportive environment:
Our driving school provides a safe and supportive learning environment that promotes confidence and learning. Our instructors are patient and understanding, which helps to create a positive and supportive atmosphere that fosters learning and skill development.
Our driving school is committed to helping new drivers become confident and skilled drivers on the road. With our comprehensive instruction, individualized training, and road test preparation, we can help you gain the confidence and skills you need to become a safe and responsible driver.
Preparing for a road test in Edmonton can be a nerve-wracking experience, but by following a few simple steps, you can increase your chances of passing the test and getting your driver's license. Step 1: Study the Rules of the Road Before taking your road test, you should study the rules of the road. The …
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Distracted driving law enforced in September 2011. Alberta's distracted driving law applies to all vehicles. This law restricts drivers from doing any of the following, even while stopped at red lights: You can be charged with distracted driving, even if your driving performance does not appear to be affected. If you commit a moving violation …
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Accurate control is provided by automatic progressive sequencing in the use of energy and minimizing wear and tear on electrical components. The sequencers are designed to apply power progressively to larger KW boilers. A factory-installed pressure sensitive sequential control reacting to steam boiler pressure progressively energizes and de-energizes heating elements through power contactors. A delay between sequencer steps before start-up and between each subsequent step eliminates power surges. Each sequencer is matched and factory pre-set to boiler system requirements.
Electronic progressive sequencers give accurate electronic control of multi-stage loads of the type used in steam boilers. Integral solid state light emitting diodes show active stages. Should a power interruption occur, all heating elements are instantly de-energized for safety. Upon resumption of power, the control will re-stage the loads one at a time.
The solid state sequencer operates on a 120v AC/60Hz, with each output relay rated 125VA at 120 AC.

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Fore River Restoration
Monatiquot River Restoration Project
- Braintree's water flows into the Farm and Chocato Rivers into Monatiquot River, the main tributary to the Fore River.
- River Herring, Sea Lamprey, American Eel and Rainbow Smelt migrate through the river to spawn.
- Armstrong Dam blocks fish passage of migrating river herring, american eel and sea lamprey.
For more information on the watershed and upcoming river clean-out projects please contact Robert Kearns.
1 JFK Memorial Drive
Braintree, MA 02184


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By Mallory Hopkins | _EMAIL_
The Lincolnville Community Garden has been up and running for five years now and allows members, who donate $25 every 6 months, to have their own beds of plants. An initiative that the garden has taken on from the beginning is allowing members to compost their own food scraps to create nutrient rich compost product for their own beds.
The Compost Social is a weekly occurrence at the Lincolnville Community Garden. The social is every Sunday from 8:45-9:45 a.m. and an average of 10 members show up each week to tend to their portion of the garden and drop off their personal compost into the compost bin. Cash McVay has been watching the composting operation grow along with the garden. McVay was the "rock-pusher" for this project back in 2010 and continues to attend the weekly events. He has loved seeing the compost aspect evolve because "the compost is the glue of the garden," he said.
The garden's go-to Compost guy, Bill Lyons, aided the current and innovative three-phase composting system using bins that are now being utilized to break down the mixture. The first bin is where members of the garden can come on Sundays and dump their food scraps. The scraps in the food bin are mixed with manure donated by the carriage horses of St. Augustine, dried leaves and foliage. At this point the compost gets very hot. When the members turn the pile, steam can be seen emitting from the pile, caused by the breaking down of the food scraps. The second bin is where they move the mixture after it has broken down. The mixture remains pretty hot at this point and is moved to phase two so it can begin to cool down and allow the fresher food scraps to break down. After the mixture has cooled down and also completed the breaking down process, it is moved to the third bin. This finished composting product is what members use to add to their beds.
The garden was created by and for the community in hopes of bringing it together, and organizers like McVay say it has done just that.
This will not be the last of McVay's community projects: he is helping the community push for a park at the end of Riberia Street, as well as a kayak outlet in the Maria Sanchez Creek that is fed from the Matanzas River.


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What is 3M ATP testing?
ATP Testing Overview 3M Clean-Trace Surface ATP tests are used to determine whether a surface has been cleaned effectively. Any food residue or microbial cells that remain on the surface will contain ATP and will react with the reagents contained in the test (luciferin and luciferase enzyme) to produce light.
How do you conduct an ATP test?
ATP testing is conducted using a Luminometer, a device that measures ATP, and a testing swab. Once an area is cleaned, a swab of a surface is taken. Then, the swab is placed in the Luminometer to measure the ATP level. The reading on the device is measured in Relative Light Units (RLU).
Do ATP swabs need to be refrigerated?
ATP test devices have a 15 month shelf life at refrigerated temperatures (2-8° C) and 4 week shelf life at room temperature (21-25° C). All swab labels are printed with expiration month and year for your convenience.
What is ATP hygiene?
ATP monitoring is a rapid testing method used by food and beverage processors to quickly assess the cleanliness of surfaces or liquid samples from such places as CIP systems. Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) is present in all organic material and is the universal unit of energy used in all living cells.
How is ATP used to monitor surface cleanliness?
ATP on the surface can be collected using the 3M™ Clean-Trace™ Surface ATP Test Swab. Once the swab is activated, the ATP will then react with an enzyme and produce light. The 3M™ Clean Trace™ Luminometer will measure the light generated and report it as relative light units or RLUs.
Is ATP testing accurate?
However ATP testing is a fast, reliable way to confirm the presence or absence of biological matter in a sample area, which is a good indicator of general cleanliness and hygiene levels.
What is an ATP device?
December 7, 2010. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is an enzyme that is present in all living cells, and an ATP monitoring system can detect the amount of organic matter that remains after cleaning an environmental surface, a medical device or a surgical instrument.


GoogleApi.SecurityCenter.V1.Model.Finding (google_api_security_center v0.20.0) View Source
Security Command Center finding. A finding is a record of assessment data like security, risk, health, or privacy, that is ingested into Security Command Center for presentation, notification, analysis, policy testing, and enforcement. For example, a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in an App Engine application is a finding.
Attributes
 - canonicalName (type: String.t, default: nil) - The canonical name of the finding. It's either "organizations/{organization_id}/sources/{source_id}/findings/{finding_id}", "folders/{folder_id}/sources/{source_id}/findings/{finding_id}" or "projects/{project_number}/sources/{source_id}/findings/{finding_id}", depending on the closest CRM ancestor of the resource associated with the finding.
 - category (type: String.t, default: nil) - The additional taxonomy group within findings from a given source. This field is immutable after creation time. Example: "XSS_FLASH_INJECTION"
 - createTime (type: DateTime.t, default: nil) - The time at which the finding was created in Security Command Center.
 - eventTime (type: DateTime.t, default: nil) - The time at which the event took place, or when an update to the finding occurred. For example, if the finding represents an open firewall it would capture the time the detector believes the firewall became open. The accuracy is determined by the detector. If the finding were to be resolved afterward, this time would reflect when the finding was resolved. Must not be set to a value greater than the current timestamp.
 - externalUri (type: String.t, default: nil) - The URI that, if available, points to a web page outside of Security Command Center where additional information about the finding can be found. This field is guaranteed to be either empty or a well formed URL.
 - findingClass (type: String.t, default: nil) - The class of the finding.
 - indicator (type: GoogleApi.SecurityCenter.V1.Model.Indicator.t, default: nil) - Represents what's commonly known as an Indicator of compromise (IoC) in computer forensics. This is an artifact observed on a network or in an operating system that, with high confidence, indicates a computer intrusion. Reference: _URL_
 - name (type: String.t, default: nil) - The relative resource name of this finding. See: _URL_ Example: "organizations/{organization_id}/sources/{source_id}/findings/{finding_id}"
 - parent (type: String.t, default: nil) - The relative resource name of the source the finding belongs to. See: _URL_ This field is immutable after creation time. For example: "organizations/{organization_id}/sources/{source_id}"
 - resourceName (type: String.t, default: nil) - For findings on Google Cloud resources, the full resource name of the Google Cloud resource this finding is for. See: _URL_ When the finding is for a non-Google Cloud resource, the resourceName can be a customer or partner defined string. This field is immutable after creation time.
 - securityMarks (type: GoogleApi.SecurityCenter.V1.Model.SecurityMarks.t, default: nil) - Output only. User specified security marks. These marks are entirely managed by the user and come from the SecurityMarks resource that belongs to the finding.
 - severity (type: String.t, default: nil) - The severity of the finding. This field is managed by the source that writes the finding.
 - sourceProperties (type: map(), default: nil) - Source specific properties. These properties are managed by the source that writes the finding. The key names in the source_properties map must be between 1 and 255 characters, and must start with a letter and contain alphanumeric characters or underscores only.
 - state (type: String.t, default: nil) - The state of the finding.
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Unwrap a decoded JSON object into its complex fields.
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t() :: %GoogleApi.SecurityCenter.V1.Model.Finding{
 canonicalName: String.t() | nil,
 category: String.t() | nil,
 createTime: DateTime.t() | nil,
 eventTime: DateTime.t() | nil,
 externalUri: String.t() | nil,
 findingClass: String.t() | nil,
 indicator: GoogleApi.SecurityCenter.V1.Model.Indicator.t() | nil,
 name: String.t() | nil,
 parent: String.t() | nil,
 resourceName: String.t() | nil,
 securityMarks: GoogleApi.SecurityCenter.V1.Model.SecurityMarks.t() | nil,
 severity: String.t() | nil,
 sourceProperties: map() | nil,
 state: String.t() | nil
}
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decode(struct(), keyword()) :: struct()
Unwrap a decoded JSON object into its complex fields.


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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (June 3, 1723 - May 8, 1788) was an Italian-Austrian physician and naturalist.
Scopoli was born at Cavalese in the Val di Fiemme, the son of a lawyer. He obtained a degree in medicine at University of Innsbruck, and practiced as a doctor in Cavalese and Venice. Much of his time was spent collecting plants and insects in the Alps. He spent two years as private secretary to the Count of Seckan, and then was appointed as physician of the mines in Idrija, a small village in Slovenia, remaining there for sixteen years. In 1761 he published De Hydroargyro Idriensi Tentamina on the symptoms of mercury poisoning among miners.
Scopoli spent time studying the local natural history, publishing Flora Carniolica (1760) as well as a major work on entomology. He also published Anni Historico-Naturales (1769-72), which included descriptions of new birds from various collections.
In 1769 Scopoli was appointed a senior lecturer at Mining Academy at Chemnitz, and in 1777 transferred to the University of Pavia. His last work was Deliciae Flora et Fauna Insubricae (1786-88), which included scientific names for birds and mammals described by Pierre Sonnerat in the accounts of his voyages.
The drug Scopolamine is named after him. The standard botanical author abbreviation Scop. is applied to species he described.

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Its frequently said that PowerShell is so big that no one can know everything about it. I proved that today when I "discovered" a change in PowerShell of which I wasn't aware.
If you create an array:
£> $a = 1,2,3
You can then get the number of members of that array i.e. its length
In PowerShell 1.0 and 2.0 if you tried that on a variable that only held a single value you would get an error when you tried to access the first value:
£> $b = 1
The count property returns nothing
Unable to index into an object of type System.Int32.
At line:1 char:4
+ $b[ <<<< 0]
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (0:Int32), RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotIndex
This changed in PowerShell 3.0 and later
£> $b = 1
You can even try other indices
And just get nothing back rather than an error.
This is really useful as you can now safely test on the Count property and if the value is greater than 1 to determine if its a collection. Alternatively always treat it as a collection and iterate over the number of elements. I can see this simplifying things for me in quite a few situations

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=pod =head1 NAME SQL::Amazon::UserGuide - User Guide for DBD/SQL::Amazon =head1 SQL::Amazon SYNOPSIS # # create the parser, passing in the current Amazon metadata # my $parser = SQL::Amazon::Parser->new(\%attrs); # # parse a SQL statement, returning a SQL::Amazon::Statement # my $stmt = $parser->parse($sql_stmt) or die "Parse failed: " . $parser->errstr; # # evaluate the parse tree, using an evaluation object # for driver specific evaluation # returns either a scalar rowcount for write operations, # or a SQL::Amazon::Table object for SELECT # or undef on error # my $results = $stmt->execute($params) or die "Evaluation failed: " . $stmt->errstr; =head1 DESCRIPTION SQL::Amazon provides the various components required by B L to query the Amazon E-Commerce Service 4.0 I using SQL. B. The suite includes the following components: =over 4 =item B provides SQL parsing and query plan generation. Implemented as a subclass of L, part of the L bundle. =item B provides SQL query plan execution. Implemented as a subclass of L. =item B provides SQL::Amazon-specific predicate functions, including B. =item B provides a factory class for generating SQL::Amazon::Request::Request objects based on the predicates in a query's WHERE clause. =item B provides a temporary storage object for intermediate results extracted from the base table cache objects. Acts as a L object for L processing. =item B provides a global storage engine for managing data caching and retrieval. =item B provides a base class for all ECS request objects, including numerous default method implementations for building and sending requests, and processing the responses into the base table cache objects. =item B a subclass of SQL::Amazon::Request::Request for the ItemLookup request; also acts as a base class for the ItemSearch request. =item B a subclass of SQL::Amazon::Request::ItemLookup for the ItemSearch request =item B provides a base class for table cache objects, including methods for data type conversion, keyed lookup, and cache management. =item B> provides table-specific implementations of the Table base class. =back =head2 Prerequisites Perl 5.8.0 L 1.10 L 0.15 L 1.47 L 2.09 L I> =head2 SQL Dialect SQL::Amazon::Parser currently supports the same subset of standard SQL as supported by L, using the L dialect, with the following additional predicate functions for keyword searches: =over 4 =item BEIEB<)> Results in generation of an ECS ItemSearch request, with either the Keywords parameter (for MATCHES ALL), Power parameter (for MATCHES ANY), or TextStream parameter (for MATCHES TEXT). =item BEIEB<)> Results in generation of an ECS ItemSearch request, with either Power parameters. Individual items in the I are wrapped in parentheses, and joined with 'and' operators. =back =head2 Special SQL Considerations =head4 Mapping ECS Hierarchical Response Data to Relational Structures The hierarchical structure of the data returned by the Amazon ECS requires some manipulation by SQL::Amazon to conform to a flattened relational model. As a result, queries against the B table may cause multiple tables to be populated, e.g., B, etc. This behavior is especially true when the B parameter is set to B I<(the default)>, in which case all detail information about matching books is returned. As a result, some queries require the use of JOINs to properly reflect the data model abstraction. E.g., When searching for only New books, the B ECS request parameter must be applied; however, B is a column in the B table, B the B table. Hence, a JOIN between the B table and B table on the B column is required, along with a predicate test for B. The JOIN is required, even though the returned B


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Principal or Vice Principal High School Principal
Position: Principal (Grades 9-12)
Reports to: Managing Director of Schools
Location: STRIVE PrepExcel – NW Denver
Do you want to inspire a shared vision that rallies STRIVE Prep – Excel's school community to co-create a high performance, inclusive culture that leads to breakthrough results for each student, and improves the school's School Performance Framework rating within 3 years?
OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE
STRIVE Prep is a Denver-based community of K-12 public charter schools, that challenges every student to discover and develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary to succeed in college and beyond.
STRIVE Prep – Excel serves brilliant 9th- 12th grade students in the Northwest Denver community, including emerging bilinguals and students with varying special needs. The Principal of STRIVE Prep – Excel will be the cultural and instructional leader of the school and will lead the team effectively to create exceptional outcomes for each student by inspiring a clear vision and accountability for success. The Principal will build deep relationships with and leverage the strengths of students, families, staff, and community to co-create and implement: 1) A school climate that fosters safety and learning, respects and supports the cultural identity of students and families, and accelerates existing restorative practices school-wide for both student and adult culture that reflects the pride of an Excel Lion; and 2.) An aligned academic plan that makes it possible to lead the school from a yellow to a blue rating in three years, and enables the lifelong success of each of our students and 40 team members who are committed to achievement, justice, and perseverance.
THE MUST HAVES
Do the following must haves resonate with how you are wired and demonstrable in your unique talents and experiences? If so, we invite you to apply and can't wait to learn more about you!
- You find fun in doing the impossible: You have an unyielding belief and trust in the brilliance of each student and team member which enables you to collaboratively set high standards of excellence with clear expectations for achieving them. You make these standards a reality daily through a disciplined approach to execution that focuses and holds students and staff accountable to a narrow set of the most important goals and initiatives. You generate high and contagious energy throughout the school because everyone knows routinely whether or not we're winning and collaborates to course correct when we're not.
- You prioritize social justice AND academic excellence: Your experience in education shows a history of moving students and/or staff to transformational academic gains. You are also a champion of social justice and restorative practices, knowing that they are integral in ensuring strong academic results, student agency, and for preparing students to be agents of change. You treat each student as if they are your own and expect your teammates to do the same. You know this is key to building and fostering an inclusive, high-performance environment where students and staff are known, empowered, and trusted to be active collaborators to ensure each student's success.
- You are a people whisperer with a strong lens on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI): Your experience has shown you that investing in people and culture leads to transformative change in a school. You value diverse perspectives, seek feedback to inform the work, and innately keep those on the margins top of mind, which enables you to truly maintain an inclusive school environment. You proactively build meaningful and authentic relationships with your Managing Director, teachers, support staff, parents, students, & community members. You bring a deep belief in equity and action-oriented commitment to advancing DEI work, and you galvanize others to do the same.
With the must haves driving your daily approach to the work, the successful Principal will manage a school leadership team of six that supports a staff of 34 overseeing instruction, operations, culture, and student services. The Principal will collaborate with their supervisor, the Managing Director of Schools, to identify strategic priorities for year one and beyond :
- Lead an effective, student achievementfocused administration team of six people.
- Implement a rigorous, comprehensive, standards-based curriculum, ensuring teachers have internalized and are prepared each day to deliver the rigorous, comprehensive, standards-based curriculum in alignment with Common Core State Standards.
- Lead and oversee a rigorous system for student assessment, data tracking, and appropriate student interventions.
- Model and ensure high-quality observation/ feedback cycles, student work analysis protocols, and real-time coaching.
- Oversee all supporting logistics for the academic program, including staffing structure and schedule.
- Design and deliver comprehensive professional development throughout the school year and during summer training.
- Partner with the network team to recruit and select high-quality teachers and staff.
- Set, model, maintain, and monitor a vision for strong student culture.
- Build and sustain rituals, systems, and structures that prioritize and promote college access and preparation.
- Implement network-wide systems to support student conduct and discipline.
- Lead community gatherings that set the tone for the academic program.
- Oversee extracurricular activities, including sports, arts, partnerships with outside providers, and other areas of interest.
- Model and hold adults accountable for excellence.
- Care for and empower staff members.
- Model professionalism at all times.
- Own and prioritize staff retention.
- Oversee evaluation of all staff members twice annually
- Regularly collaborate with the Talent Team on hiring strategies and cultivation of quality candidates.
- Collaborate with Talent Team to determine hiring competencies for each role upon posting.
- Prioritize recruitment within your school and leveraging the staff for referrals.
- Designate time within weekly schedule for in-person interviews, candidate follow up, and recruitment.
- Ensure excellent parent engagement and satisfaction based on intentionally building meaningful relationships with families and students that respects and values their social and cultural identities..
- Ensure high levels of student attendance.
- Engage external partners to add value to the students' experience of the school, especially in the areas of extracurricular activities.
- Regularly collaborate with other principals and Central staff.
- Be a network leader, always considering the needs of the network and the needs of the campus.
- Effectively implement network programming.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS (OR PREFERENCES WHERE NOTED)
- Proudly hold at least a bachelor's degree (required), and preferably an advanced degree.
- Understand, appreciate and can pull from at least 3 years of teaching experience and a minimum of 1 year of instructional coaching, with an emphasis on data-driven instruction and demonstrable gains in student achievement (required).
- Understand, appreciate and can pull from experience teaching in an urban setting (strongly preferred).
- Speak Spanish and/or have experience working with bilingual students (strongly preferred).
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
- Competitive compensation package with annual performance-based raises.
- A robust, year-long professional development program.
- A cohort experience with principal fellows and coaches at varying levels on their path to school leadership.
- Participation in Colorado's PERA retirement program, including a 401k contribution option.
- Funding of 100 percent of individual medical benefits and a wide range of insurance plans.
- Approximately three weeks of summer vacation, approximately four weeks of school holidays and vacations, and eight days of paid time off annually.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION
STRIVE Prep works to make a college prep education for all students in our community the norm, rather than the exception. We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse team by maintaining hiring and recruiting processes that are free from bias and seek to provide each candidate with a unique and equitable opportunity for employment. STRIVE Prep is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds.
How to ApplyPlease apply here. We also always appreciate (and reward!) candidate referrals!
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Nanochemistry and Nanoengineering group
Nanofabrication at Leidenfrost conditions
In this area of research, we focus on production of nanoparticles of different materials (metals, metal-oxides and bio-minerals) with different sizes and morphology. We established a novel green nano-synthesis approach which is fast, cost effective and simple to produce a large quantities of controlled quasi-monodisperse particles. Our aim is to produce the nanoparticles with a minimum hazardous impact on environment, especially regarding their potential applications as catalysis, photonics, sensors and biomedical. Our wet-chemical approach which inspired from the Leidenfrost effect divided in two ways of nanofabrication;
- Lab. in beaker (Synthesize of nanoparticles in microgram scale in beaker)
SEM images of different morphology for different samples synthesis in beaker (Lab in beaker) at Leidenfrost conditions
- Lab. in drop (Synthesize, coating and patterning of nanoparticles by drop)
SEM images of 2D & 3D coating of a grid substrate with CuO (top left) and ZnO (bottom left) and nano-patterning on silicon substrate with ZnO (top right) and Ag (down right) by drop at Leidenfrost conditions.
Last Update: June 11, 2011


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Definition of a Crime Victim
The Attorney General's Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance define a victim as a person that has suffered direct physical, emotional, or pecuniary harm as a result of the commission of a federal crime. If the victim is a non governmental institution, such as a bank or corporation, this definition includes a representative of that institution. Government agencies are not considered victims for the purpose of victim services but federal government employees who are harmed in the performance of their duties are considered victims. If the victim is deceased, under 18 years of age, incompetent or incapacitated, this definition includes one of the following persons (in order of preference): a spouse, a legal guardian, a parent, a child, a sibling, another family member; or another person designated by the court.
Definition of a Witness
The Attorney General's Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance define a witness as a person who has information or evidence concerning a crime, and provides information regarding his or her knowledge to a law enforcement agency. Where the witness is a minor, the term witness includes an appropriate family member or legal guardian. The term witness does not include a person who is solely a defense witness.
The U.S. Attorney's Office will make its best efforts to ensure your rights are protected. You may seek the advice of an attorney with respect to these rights. If you believe that an employee of the United States Attorney's Office failed to provide you with one or more of these rights, you may file an administrative complaint, as provided under 28 CFR §45.10. Please contact the United States Attorney's Office to obtain information about these procedures.


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Ukrainian-American company EOS Data Analytics proposes to Ukrainian farmers to overcome the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Free access to the EOS Satellite Monitoring Platform for Crops gives farmers an opportunity to spend more time at home.
Satellite Field Monitoring Platform is a cloud service that uses satellite imagery to monitor crops and provide farmers with important, up-to-date information on their condition.
According to information provided on the company's website, farmers are offered commercial images with a resolution of ~ 0,5–1,5 megapixels as an autonomous data source for analytics. A high level of detail allows farmers to receive accurate and authentic information.
EOS Crop Monitoring enables farmers to make rational decisions based on the data they receive. The technological platform informs users about the features of vegetation, warns about sudden changes of weather, and automatically determines priority tasks. Thanks to satellite data, the condition of the fields may be monitored without leaving the home. Minimizing people's contacts is very important during the quarantine.
The company representatives said they made free access to the platform to support farmers during a pandemic. The offer is valid until April 30, 2020. To start using, you need to register on the platform site and receive a letter with instructions for access.
"Doctors are fighting for our today, while farmers are working for our tomorrow. We cannot imagine a world where agriculture has simply stopped working. So we want to help those who work even in the current situation," said Alexander Sakal, a business Development Director, EOS Crop Monitoring.
He added that many farmers from different countries were interested in this proposal after the launch.
EOS Data Analytics is an international company that provides analytics cloud solutions and services based on satellite and geospatial data. The company's partners include leading satellite data providers who receive information from the Landsat, MODIS and Sentinel projects.
EOS Crop Monitoring uses machine algorithms and satellite image processing to offer online agricultural monitoring, and analytics solution. In Ukraine, the company also became a participant of the project "Supporting transparent land governance in Ukraine" supported by the World Bank and the EU. Under this project, Ukraine Crop Map was created. A lot of unregistered but cultivated plots were uncovered.
MIZEZ editorial team on EOS Data Analytics.
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Sorghum makes excellent fodder for livestock and can cope with dry conditions better than most other grain crops. Trials in Australia have shown that young lambs tend to do well on high-sorghum diets. Sorghum can also be used as a feed crop for pigs, chickens, goats and cattle.
Sorghum advantage: it is drought-hardy
When the sorghum plant matures and dries, the stalk can be used as hay for the roughage portion of the fodder, while the seed-laden portion will provide valuable grain.
The hay should be fed for about two weeks before the grain is gradually introduced. (Pigs should be fed only the sorghum seed, as coarse stalks can injure their intestines.) Pooling funds is a good way for the community to raise money to restore unused croplands.
For more tips and tricks on how to plant and utilise sorghum as fodder, visit Farmer's Weekly


text: Abstract : Diabetic macular edema (DME) is characterized by hard exudates. In this article, we propose a novel statistical atlas based method for segmentation of such exudates. Any test fundus image is first warped on the atlas co-ordinate and then a distance map is obtained with the mean atlas image. This leaves behind the candidate lesions. Post-processing schemes are introduced for final segmentation of the exudate. Experiments with the publicly available HEI-MED data-set shows good performance of the method. A lesion localization fraction of 82.5% at 35% of non-lesion localization fraction on the FROC curve is obtained. The method is also compared to few most recent reference methods.


Iowa Is Awesome by _USER_ on Reddit More Pasta
I am so proud to be an Iowan. Iowa is fucking awesome, and here is why:
 1. In 1838, before we were even a state, our Supreme Court upheld the law that in Iowa escaped slaves couldn't be forced to return to a slave state. The same year it became law an unmarried women could own property. In most of the rest of the US either category having any rights was laughable and were considered property themselves.
 2. We were involved in a war with Missouri. The Honey War! was a border dispute that we Iowans may not have started but we sure as hell won.
 3. We were the second state in the union to allow interracial marriage (1851) almost a century before it became legal in the rest of the US.
 4. In 1851 Iowa legislated that, "the property of married women did not vest in her husband, nor did the husband control his wife's property".
 5. In 1857 University of Iowa, my alma mater (Go Hawkeyes!!), was the first state university to have a degree program open for women.
 6. For the American Civil War, Iowa contributed more men than any other state per capita. This despite the fact not a single major battle occurred on Iowan soil.
 7. Iowa outlawed segregated schools in 1868. We were the second state in the union to do it and we did it close to a century before the rest of America.
 8. Iowa elected the first women to public office in the united states, in 1869. That same year we were the first state to allow women to join the bar and we had the first female US attorney. This paved the way for Iowa to have the first female practice law before a federal court.
 9. Iowa was passing civil rights act, prohibiting discrimination in public, all the way back in 1884.
 10. Iowa was the third state (tip of the hat to Wyoming and Colorado for beating us to the punch)to give women the right to vote in 1894.
 11. Iowa has the first mosque in the US and the only exclusively Muslim cemetery.
 12. In 1953, amongst all the states of the union, only Iowa defeated a McCarthyistic legislative measure to impose a teacher's loyalty oath.
 13. Iowa was the first to have an openly gay man run for a seat in Congress. And the guy was a Republican!
 14. In 2007, Iowa was the second state to allow full marriage to gays and lesbians.
 15. In Iowa we protect our children from from bullying due to sexual orientation AND gender identity.
tl;dr: And for the two part cherry on the cake…
16) 2008 Democrat Caucuses, Iowa became the first in the nation to select Barack Obama as their choice for president. This when almost all political pundits thought he wasn't a viable candidate. For some perspective on the Iowa is 95% white. You have to go to the North Pole to find a whiter place.
17) Norman Borlaug is an Iowa native son, born and bred. Who is Norman Borlaug you ask yourself? Look him up! He was the greatest man who ever lived, a man who saved a billion lives (No hyperbole).
QED Bitches.


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This chapter explains how to visualize tracks, how to retrieve reference data and finally how to perform generic comparisons between tracks.
The genome browser is the graphical interface where tracks can be presented alone or together with other tracks. Tracks are the fundamental building blocks for data analysis in the Biomedical Genomics Workbench and provide a unified framework for the visualization, comparison and analysis of genome-scale studies.
In tracks, all information is tied to genomic positions. A central coordinate-system is provided by a reference genome, which allows different types of data or results for different samples to be seen and analyzed together.
Different types of data are represented in different types of tracks, and each type of track has its own particular editors. An example of a paired-end mapping read-track displaying reads and coverage is shown in figure 19.1.


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Shaw was educated at Harvard, studied law privately, was admitted to the bar in 1804 in New Hampshire, and entered private practice. Extremely successful, he became prominent in the public life of the state. He drafted the first municipal charter for Boston in 1822 virtually without precedents to guide him and in 1830 accepted appointment as chief justice of Massachusetts. His decisions on that bench were formative in the development of both Massachusetts and national jurisprudence. He is particularly remembered for two opinions. In Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842), his ruling in favour of a striking labour union provided the first major precedent for removing labour unions from the province of the law of conspiracy. In Roberts v. City of Boston (1849), his ruling upholding the city's segregated schools was later reflected in the U.S. Supreme Court's "separate but equal" doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), but its more immediate effect was to stimulate the passage in Massachusetts of the only 19th-century American desegregation law.
Judge Shaw was a fellow and an overseer of Harvard, and he was the father-in-law and major financial supporter of novelist Herman Melville.


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The integration of Discovery Education's digital resources into Clever provides educators even easier access to award-winning services such as Discovery Education Experience, STEM Connect, and the Science, Social Studies, and Math Techbooks, and saves teachers valuable prep time they can now spend with students. This collaboration also enhances the student experience with Discovery Education's services by quickly connecting them to the digital resources they need to take learning beyond the classroom and into the real world.
"Discovery Education's expanded partnership with Clever ultimately benefits our partner school systems, educators, and the students they serve," said Discovery Education Chief Product Officer Pete Weir. "The integration of our services into Clever portals positions school systems to maximize the return on their content investment and simplifies teachers' and students' access to rich digital resources that support academic achievement."
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The unit of electromagnetic current in the centimeter-gram-second system, equal to ten amperes.


Chapter 11. Securing builds by strategy
Builds in OpenShift Container Platform are run in privileged containers. Depending on the build strategy used, this allows a user who can run builds to escalate their permissions on the cluster and host nodes. As a security measure, limit who can run builds and the strategy that is used for those builds. Custom builds are inherently less safe than Source builds, because they can execute any code within a privileged container, and are disabled by default. Grant Docker build permissions with caution, because a vulnerability in the Dockerfile processing logic could result in a privileges being granted on the host node.
By default, all users that can create builds are granted permission to use the Docker and Source-to-Image (S2I) build strategies. Users with cluster-admin privileges can enable the Custom build strategy, as referenced in the restricting build strategies to a user globally section.
You can control who can build and which build strategies they can use by using an authorization policy. Each build strategy has a corresponding build subresource. A user must have permission to create a build and permission to create on the build strategy subresource in order to create builds using that strategy. Default roles are provided which grant the create permission on the build strategy subresource.
Table 11.1. Build Strategy Subresources and Roles
StrategySubresourceRole
Docker
builds/docker
system:build-strategy-docker
Source-to-Image
builds/source
system:build-strategy-source
Custom
builds/custom
system:build-strategy-custom
JenkinsPipeline
builds/jenkinspipeline
system:build-strategy-jenkinspipeline
11.1. Disabling access to a build strategy globally
To prevent access to a particular build strategy globally, log in as a user with cluster-admin privileges, remove the corresponding role from the system:authenticated group, and apply the annotation rbac.authorization.kubernetes.io/autoupdate: "false" to protect them from changes between the API restarts. The following example shows disabling the docker build strategy.
Procedure
 1. Apply the rbac.authorization.kubernetes.io/autoupdate annotation:
 $ oc edit clusterrolebinding system:build-strategy-docker-binding

 apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
 kind: ClusterRoleBinding
 metadata:
 annotations:
 rbac.authorization.kubernetes.io/autoupdate: "false" 1
 creationTimestamp: 2018-08-10T01:24:14Z
 name: system:build-strategy-docker-binding
 resourceVersion: "225"
 selfLink: /apis/rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1/clusterrolebindings/system%3Abuild-strategy-docker-binding
 uid: 17b1f3d4-9c3c-11e8-be62-0800277d20bf
 roleRef:
 apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
 kind: ClusterRole
 name: system:build-strategy-docker
 subjects:
 - apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
 kind: Group
 name: system:authenticated
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 Change the rbac.authorization.kubernetes.io/autoupdate annotation's value to "false".
 2. Remove the role:
 $ oc adm policy remove-cluster-role-from-group system:build-strategy-docker system:authenticated
 3. Ensure the build strategy subresources are also removed from these roles:
 $ oc edit clusterrole admin
 $ oc edit clusterrole edit
 4. For each role, remove the line that corresponds to the resource of the strategy to disable.
 1. Disable the Docker Build Strategy for admin:
 kind: ClusterRole
 metadata:
 name: admin
 ...
 rules:
 - resources:
 - builds/custom
 - builds/docker 1
 - builds/source
 ...
 ...
 1
 Delete this line to disable Docker builds globally for users with the admin role.
11.2. Restricting build strategies to users globally
You can allow a set of specific users to create builds with a particular strategy.
Prerequisites
 - Disable global access to the build strategy.
Procedure
 - Assign the role that corresponds to the build strategy to a specific user. For example, to add the system:build-strategy-docker cluster role to the user devuser:
 $ oc adm policy add-cluster-role-to-user system:build-strategy-docker devuser
 Warning
 Granting a user access at the cluster level to the builds/docker subresource means that the user can create builds with the Docker strategy in any project in which they can create builds.
11.3. Restricting build strategies to a user within a project
Similar to granting the build strategy role to a user globally, you can allow only a set of specific users within a project to create builds with a particular strategy.
Prerequisites
 - Disable global access to the build strategy.
Procedure
 - Assign the role that corresponds to the build strategy to a specific user within a project. For example, to add the system:build-strategy-docker role within the project devproject to the user devuser:
 $ oc adm policy add-role-to-user system:build-strategy-docker devuser -n devproject


This node makes particles move in a rotational manner. This is typically used to create rotational vortex effects, e.g. tornados.
The effect is weighted by a falloff calculated using the distance from the node to the particle, ramping from 100% at distance zero down to 0% at the distance specified by the Radius attribute.
This image is taken from the "tornado.dfx" sample project.
Example Nodegraph
Name Description
Rotation Heading Rotate the object about the y-axis.
Rotation Pitch Rotate the object about the x-axis.
Rotation Bank Rotate the object about the z-axis.
Scale X Scale along the x-axis.
Scale Y Scale along the y-axis.
Scale Z Scale along the z-axis.
Inherit Transform Channels
Name Description
Velocity Amount Scale the strength of the affectors velocity on the particles.
Spread Angle Change the angle of spread for the particles.
Vortex Angle Scale Controls the effect of the angular velocity by radius, making particles further away from the centre of the vortex move faster.
Outward Velocity Amount / Blend Controls the amount particles are pushed outwards.
Randomness How much randomness is added in the particles movement.
Name Description Typical Node Input
Vortex Position Node Overrides the vortex transform. Null
Mask Node Mask out areas that particles cannot spawn. Image Plane
Transform Modifier Links all transform properties to the input node. Null


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Common carp, degraded habitat and water quality to be addressed
Area wildlife managers with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources have begun the drawdown process on Cottonwood County's Long Lake, located south of Westbrook. The temporary lowering of water levels on this 211-acre lake is taking place to improve fish and wildlife habitat as well as water quality.
Habitat in Long Lake has been impacted by large populations of common carp that degrade water quality and impede healthy growth of aquatic plants. Historically, Long Lake was an important resting spot for migratory waterfowl.
"Long Lake once attracted migrating waterfowl each spring and fall," said Maggie Gross, shallow lakes specialist. "However, the turbid water doesn't support the habitat and food needs of migratory waterfowl, so the birds are going elsewhere."
Plans call for lowering water levels this fall to help induce a winterkill of undesirable fish such as common carp that uproot native plants and disturb bottom sediments through their feeding habits. The drawdown also aims to promote a greater density and diversity of aquatic vegetation. Lowered water levels mimic a drought, which can act as a natural "reset" to an ecosystem.
Minnesota DNR wildlife managers, in coordination with technicians from Ducks Unlimited, also hope to use low water levels to remove excessive sediment near the lake outlet. Sediment removal will help the current water control structure function more effectively.
Long Lake is a designated wildlife lake. This designation allows Minnesota DNR managers to help mitigate factors that affect water and habitat quality and quantity with tools that include temporary drawdowns. Information on designating wildlife lakes is available on the Minnesota DNR website.


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Let $X$ be a closed irreducible subvariety of projective $n$ space. Let $k$ be the dimension of a maximal linear subspace not intersecting $X$. Then one can define $dim(X)=n-k-1$ (see Harris page 134). Why is $dim(Y) < dim(X)$ for two properly contained such varieties?
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This is also mentioned in Shafarevich (p.71), but the development may be different. The dimension of an irreducible quasi-projective variety $X$ is defined as the transcendence degree of the function field of $X$. Then the fact that one can equivalently define dimension as you mention is proved as a corollary of the following theorem: If a form $F$ is not $0$ on an irreducible projective variety $X,$ then $\operatorname{dim}(X_F)=\operatorname{dim}(X)-1.$ This is a bit of a work-around though, maybe you prefer a direct geometric proof!
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The way in which Harris phrased this conclusion made me think that there should be a very easy direct proof from the definition I gave. – Wuggletruggle Jul 19 '12 at 19:01
I agree, I just happened to be holding Shafarevich when I saw the question. – Andrew Jul 19 '12 at 19:17
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Lunatic States
Last Updated: 2012.01.30
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This script provides the base setup for state lunatic effects. These effects will occur under certain conditions, which can include when a state is applied, erased, leaves naturally, before taking damage, after taking damage, at the start of a turn, while an action finishes, and at the end of a turn.
Lunatic States allow allow states to trigger various scripted functions throughout certain set periods of times or when certain conditions trigger. These effects can occur when a state is applied, when a state is erased, when a state leaves naturally, before damage is taken, after damage is taken, at the beginning of a turn, while the turn is occuring, and at the closing of a turn. These effects are separated by these eight different notetags.
 - Occurs when state is applied.
 - Occurs when state is removed.
 - Occurs when state timer hits 0.
 - Occurs before taking damage.
 - Occurs after taking damage.
 - Occurs at the start of each turn.
 - Occurs after performing an action.
 - Occurs at the end of a turn.
If multiple tags of the same type are used in the same skill/item's notebox, then the effects will occur in that order. Replace "string" in the tags with the appropriate flag for the method below to search for. Note that unlike the previous versions, these are all upcase.
Should you choose to use multiple lunatic effects for a single state, you may use these notetags in place of the ones shown above.
 - Punishment Package
 - Undead HP, Undead MP, Backfire Physical, Backfire Magical, Stat Slip Damage, Stat Slip Healing, Drain HP, Drain MP
 - Protection Package
 - Damage Cut, Damage Barrier, Damage Shelter, Damage Block, Heal Boost, Heal Bonus, Persist
Use your Lunatic Effects wisely!
And that's all, folks!
64 comments on "Lunatic States
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 2. Is it possible to deal unhealable damage? For example, by decreasing HP as well as maximum HP at the same time by the amount of damage dealt? I mean, you can have MORE damage, you can have FAST damage and you can have CERTAIN damage with your skill, but what about UNHEALABLE damage? :)
 3. I have a question. There are states that are removed when the battle ends. Does the "erase" effect covers that too?
 From my experiments the answer should be "No" as the effect I want doesn't gappen after the battle ends (though it works fine if the state is removed during battle), but maybe I'm just doing something wrong…?
 - Well, no idea.
 The "erase effect" still doesn't work upon battle end for some reason, even though I fail to detect anything wrong with the script…
 - That's because when they're removed at the end of battle, it's no longer considered in-battle. Lunatic State effects only occur in-battle.
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 6. I'm sorry that I need to ask this and it might be a stupid question, but for some reason I don't really understand what I need to replace "string" with. If I want to make a "death sentence"-state for example, the owner of the state should die after a set number of turns, which could be achieved by using the ""-command. The problem that I have is that even after hours of trial and error, I still don't know what I need to write instead of "string" in that case. Is there a list of commands that I didn't see for some reason or does the sentence "but the users must be able to add them in themselves" mean that I need to edit the script with my own commands? Maybe I'm just thinking too complicated…
 I would really appreciate any kind of help, since I'm kind of desperate trying to find out what to do.
 7. Well i want to increase a variable x while being attacked if stat is on.
 thougth it would work like this :
 But basicly nothing happens. what is wrong about the string? When i do "$game_variables[x] += 1" to an events comment it counts the variable correctly.
 8. Does anyone know how to make a state deal a precise amount of elemental damage? I hate working with the health slip % and want to make it a static number.
 9. I think I'm pretty much at the level where I can use the Lunatic stuff now. =O Looking at what you can do with this, I'm just so happy to see this now.
 Oh Yanfly, how I love your specific preferences for setting up scripts to make battles more unique and interesting instead of just visually appealing~ <3
 10. Is it possible to use this script to create doom and auto-life states using a script call in the notetag? I'm no scripter by any means, but here is an example of what I was thinking.
 add_new_state(state ID)
 Something like this would be placed in the note box of the doom state so that after the set number of turns were up and the doom state is removed, it will then add the state associated to state ID.
 remove_state(state ID)
 actor_MHP = x%
 Something like this could be used to make an auto-life state. The character has auto-life on, when said character dies the state is erased which triggers the specified state (which would be Death) to be removed, and the player to have x% of max HP restored.
 As I said, I am definitely not a scripter, but if there is a way to do this, or some other method in existence, could you help me get on the right track? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 I have looked into the add-ons developed by pillanious, but they do not work.
 11. Sorry for the double post. My examples were supposed to contain the "" tags like this:
 add_new_state(state ID)
 remove_state(state ID)
 actor_MHP = x%
 12. I'm having the same problem as Skywad for playing an animation for the state, have tried both
 _USER_ = 7
 could you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
 13. Thanks for your marvelous posting! I quite enjoyed reading it,
 your great posts, have a nice weekend!
 14. Could one use this script to create a two-turn skill, like Jump from the Final Fantasy games or Dig and Fly from Pokemon?
 Eg: use the skill Jump, which adds the Airborne state to the user, and when the user leaves the state on the next turn, they automatically attack an enemy.
 Is this doable?
 15. I'm thinking it should be possible to set up an entire party as the state origin (so for example an attacker could inflict an HP drain that heals her entire party instead of just herself) but I'm unsure how to implement it. I'm looking in
 # new method: change_state_origin
 # new method: state_origin?
 and pretty certain that is where it would need to be added (plus I made up a new Party Drain effect in the Punishment Package, "when /PDRAIN HP").
 ATM it works, but still only heals the caster.
 - _USER_: I have been working on something similar, the concept being this:
 An actor has a shield which lets you, when attacked, have a chance at activating an ability, which would restore every party member's HP by a small amount. I have tried with equipment that, when attacked, has a chance to cast a state on the targeted actor themself, but I can't seem to be getting those to work. I'm using the Passive States script in conjunction with Lunatic States for this:
 if c>=10
 I couldn't be assed to write it all in one line, and I don't know how Ruby's Syntax works THAT well. Can anyone with experience tell me what I am doing wrong, with this effect? ( … The state_id there is purely coincidential. I swear. D: )
 16. Yanfly, I don't know if you still monitor this, but there are two major bugs in this script that you might want to be aware of:
 1) On line 505 you have for state in states, then it calls the extension, which then also has a for state in states! What this does is it loops through the states n^2 times, where n is the number of states present! This causes weird effects with your other scripts, which you can


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With the specification of Phases 0 & 1 of Eth2.0 reaching a comfortable level of detail, the research focus is shifting towards Phase 2: State Execution. One of the most important aspect of this phase is the handling of cross-shard communication, which determines the scalability of the sharded blockchain system, capability of execution environments, and the overall user experience. This post aims to provide readers with an overview of the design space for cross-shard communication, and look at the leading proposals among the available choices.
The design of cross-shard communication can be separated into two layers:
- Consensus layer, which handles the delivery of cross-shard messages. Design choices here affect the scalability of the sharded blockchain system.
- Execution layer, which concerns the interface for cross-shard transfers and contract calls. Design choices here affect the capabilities of execution environments.
The consensus layer of cross-shard communication is responsible for delivering cross-shard messages across partitions of our sharded blockchain system. The main challenge is keeping the design scalable while providing strong guarantees about the liveness of cross-shard messages. This layer can be divided into two parts:
- Send/Receive finality
- Data delivery
The source & destination shards have to finalize the send & receive of the cross-shard message respectively. The design choices for this are:
- Asynchronous: The source shard decides on sending the message first, and the destination shard can decide on receiving this message at any time in the future.
- Synchronous: The destination shard finalizes the receive of the message within a bounded period after the source shard finalizes the send. There are various ways to achieve this:
- Shards run some consensus protocol between themselves and decide on sending & receiving at the same time, e.g.: Sharded Byzantine Atomic Commit
- The source shard individually decides on sending first, and the destination shard's fork choice must receive within some period of time, e.g.: CBC Casper cross-shard messaging. This approach requires a shard hierarchy to exist between the source and destination, otherwise deadlocks can arise due to conflicting sends and receives.
- Put cross-shard messages on the beacon chain and force the destination shards to receive them before their next crosslink. (Note: this imposes a scalability limit, see protocol-delivered mechanism in the next section)
The synchronous approach is incompatible with the design of Eth2.0, since it requires the shards to coordinate the finalization of sends and receives in some manner.
The previous mechanism concerns the finality of the send & receive, which is not the same as actually completing the sending or reception of the message. This is the task of the data delivery mechanism. (The difference between these will be highlighted in the "user-delivered" approach in this section)
The design of Eth2.0 enforces that any consensus activity happens only in the beacon chain. This means that all cross-shard messages must "flow" through the beacon chain. This presents us with two choices regarding the delivery of the cross-shard message data:
- Protocol-delivered: The protocol delivers the complete data of the cross-shard message by making it available on the beacon chain. This increases the overhead on the beacon chain and seriously affects the scalability of the system.
- User-delivered: The protocol comes to consensus only on the minimal information about cross-shard messages – merkle roots of cross-shard messages from each shard block. The user is then responsible for delivering the merkle branch associated with the cross-shard message to the destination shard. This approach is more Eth2.0-esque, since it follows the general principle of forming consensus only over merkle roots on the beacon chain.
Proposed Design for the Consensus Layer
In order to prioritize the scalability of the system in the tradeoff spectrum, the solution with asynchronous send/receive finality and user-delivered data is the leading proposal. The workflow for, say, sending ether from
user 1 on
shard A to
user 2 on
shard B is as follows:
user 1creates transaction
shard Athat debits it's balance from
EE1, and states the target to apply the credit as
- When a crosslink from
shard Ais included in the beacon chain, a merkle root that collects all cross-shard transactions since the last crosslink appears on the beacon chain. This is the evidence for the inclusion of
shard Beventually becomes aware of this merkle root on the beacon chain, and
user 2creates transaction
TX2that shows the merkle proof of inclusion of
shard B. This allows a debit of the appropriate amount to
user 2's balance on
The execution layer of cross-shard communication provides an interface for users and contracts to make cross-shard transfers and contract calls. The design space of this layer has not been explored well yet. Recent discussions about this layer include:
- Cross-shard calls in execution environments
- Reliable transfer of value between shards
The basic question that this component answers is: What happens when an EE calls a function of another EE on a different shard? The design space for this is not unique to sharded-blockchain-land. It's the same as any system where the execution of an application is separated across multiple partitions, e.g.:
- single threaded vs. multi-threaded systems
- single computer vs. network application systems
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The objectives of LPF-TAGRALIA are to generate knowledge and professional vocations, and to develop new technologies, in collaboration with social actors: farmers, food producers, specialised industries and the pertinent civil and official entities.
Scientific areas of activity are: Enginering, agriculture, food production technologies, post-harvest, environmental, automation, energy, statistical modelization.
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Our objective is to review our experience with treatment of plunging ranula and examine the efficacy of transoral excision of sublingual gland as the principal treatment. This study comprises a case series with chart review. A secondary otolaryngology service was used as the setting. Retrospective analysis of patient records was performed for a series of 95 consecutive cases of plunging ranula, which presented to our department between January 2001 and February 2010. Clinical presentation, investigations, diagnosis, treatment, complications and outcome were recorded. Literature search was performed using MEDLINE and OLD MEDLINE. 81 cases of plunging ranula were treated surgically by transoral excision of sublingual gland and evacuation of ranula contents. Mean operating time was 75.3 min. Twelve patients had undergone previous surgery elsewhere. One patient in our series had a recurrence, needing excision of sublingual gland remnant. Two patients had trauma to submandibular duct requiring excision of submandibular gland. Other complications were minor and transient. Review of literature revealed many diverse methods of treating ranula, with varying results. Our series makes a substantial contribution to the number of plunging ranulas reported in the world, and supports the use of transoral sublingual gland excision as first-line treatment of plunging ranula.
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How do I insert a record into a MySQL Database only if an existing record doesn't exist?
I have MySQL table like the following :
Domain -=- A domain name
Date -=- The date the domain was added to the database
Rank -=- A metric that we calculate for the domain
None of the values are unique. For example you could have the domain name "example.com" with a different Rank value for the past 7 days so there'd be 7 entries in the database all with different dates.
We are calculating a new "Rank" value in PHP but we only want to add it to the database if it's different to the last value in the database. So we need to look at the date column for the specified domain and only add a record if the Rank is different from the currently calculated Rank.
I'm not sure if I should be doing this with multiple queries or if there's a way to do this with one mySQL query?
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birwinConnect With a Mentor Commented:
As I said, I hadn't tested it. When I did I found you have to slightly hot-wire it, as shown below. In your code you had missed the insert list. I tested this, and it works perfectly, although, of course, I was using my own database.
Note that the LIMIT 1 is outside the last parenthesis.
$query = "INSERT INTO database_name (domain, date, rank) select '$domain', NOW(), '$rank' FROM database_name WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM database_name WHERE domain= '$domain' AND rank='$rank' ORDER BY date desc ) LIMIT 1 "
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birwinCommented:
I couldn't test this, but the basic form of the query should be:
$query = "INSERT INTO database_name (domain, date, rank) values ($domain, NOW(), $rank) WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM database_name WHERE domain= $domain AND rank=$rank);

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birwinCommented:
I re-read your query, and realized I didn't handle the different from the last entry.
Just add to the select query
ORDER BY date desc LIMIT 1

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Beverley PortlockCommented:
Make a composite index on the table so that the domain and rank are UNIQUE and then just use an ordinary INSERT statement. The INSERT will fail if the record is already present but you can either catch the failure or just ignore it.
 ALTER TABLE 'myTableName' ADD UNIQUE (
'domain' ,
'rank'
)
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Beverley PortlockCommented:
If you want to catch the error then
mysql_query("INSERT INTO.....
if ( mysql_errno() == 1062 ) {
 .... attempt to add a duplicate failed
}
The advantage of doing it with a UNIQUE index is that the database ensures the uniqueness
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birwin: Thanks for your help I'm getting closer but still getting an error when I test this query in phpMyAdmin:
INSERT INTO 'my_table' VALUES ('domain.com', now(), '9') WHERE NOT EXIST (SELECT * FROM 'my_table' WHERE 'domain' = 'domain.com' AND 'rank' = 6 ORDER BY 'date' DESC LIMIT 1);
#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE NOT EXIST (SELECT * FROM 'my_table' WHERE 'domain' = 'domain.com' AND 'rank' ' at line 1
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TotallyMeAuthor Commented:
Ok just found one bug, I was using :
"WHERE NOT EXIST"
rather than
"WHERE NOT EXISTS"
Fixed it but I'm still getting same error
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TotallyMeAuthor Commented:
I just had a Google and can't seem to find anyone using INSERT statements with WHERE NOT EXISTS so I'm starting to wonder if it's even possible.
I'm trying to look for another way to achieve this. Unfortunately bportlocks method won't work as it doesn't allow me to compare the Rank I'm creating with the current Rank.
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mabbj747Commented:
Try this
INSERT INTO my_table(domain, date, rank)
SELECT
 vwData.domain
 , vwData.date
 , vwData.rank
FROM
 (
 SELECT
 'domain.com' As domain
 , now() date
 , '9' rank
 )vwData
LEFT OUTER JOIN
 my_table
ON
 vwData.domain = my_table.domain
AND
 vwData.date = my_table.date
AND
 vwData.rank = my_table.rank
WHERE
 my_table.domain IS NULL

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TotallyMeAuthor Commented:
mabbj747: WOW, that blew my mind, didn't realise it could be that confusing. The error it returned was:
#1267 - Illegal mix of collations (utf8_unicode_ci,COERCIBLE) and (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation '='
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TotallyMeAuthor Commented:
Awesome, that works great. The only thing I've noticed is it doesn't insert anything if the table is empty, as soon as I add one row manually it works fine but it won't insert any data into an empty table.
This is my latest SQL, had to include "AND date != now()" :
 $sql = "INSERT INTO 'domains' (domain, date, rank)
 SELECT '$data[1]', NOW(), '$data[0]' FROM 'domains'
 WHERE NOT EXISTS (
 SELECT * FROM 'domains' WHERE domain = '$data[1]'
 AND rank = '$data[0]' AND date != now() ORDER BY date DESC
 ) LIMIT 1"
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birwinCommented:
I don't see how adding the logic of adding AND != date works. Does that allow you to enter into a blank database and it won't without it?
Try adding LIMIT 1 on both sides of the parentheses.
ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 1 ) LIMIT 1"
I tried that on an empty table and it worked.
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TotallyMeAuthor Commented:
The "AND date != now()" is just so it wouldn't add a duplicate entry for the same day.
That extra LIMIT 1 didn't work, I think the problem is because the INSERT is dependent on the SELECT? I've been having a play around with it but can't seem to work it out.
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birwinCommented:
Can you post the actual structure of your database? Are there any fields other than the three you mentioned? Is your date expressed at datetime or just YYYY-MM-DD?
I tested my code on a database with about a dozen fields. I copied the database, emptied it and ran the query. It worked as expected without error.
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TotallyMeAuthor Commented:
This is the table, yes date is as YYYY-MM-DD.
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS 'domains' (
 'domain' varchar(253) NOT NULL,
 'date' date NOT NULL,
 'rank' int(9) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
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mabbj747Commented:
TotallyMe, I don't know why you found the query so confusing. It only inserting the data which is not in the tbale by joining to the same table. If you are getting the collation conflicts then you can specify the collation with the string columns in the join class.
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birwinCommented:
Can you clarify the problem? You earlier mentioned an issue with empty tables. This is a problem that I tested for, but could not duplicate.
I also still don't get why you need the date in the select statement. The point of this code is that if the domain name exists, and it has a ranking equal to the ranking you are planning to insert, then the query should insert nothing.
If it is used on a blank table, it iserts the data, but once it iserts that data, it should be unable to reinsert the same domain / rank information again. if the oldest entry for that domain in the table has the same rank as you are trying to enter. This code does not just test for yesterday's date, it finds the latest entry in the database for that domain, regardless of its date.
I am not sure if your issue is not being able to enter into a blank table, or if the code is throwing off an error. As I mentioned, I have tried several scenarios with a test database, and I cannot duplicate a problem.
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The Brisbane Declaration: a blueprint for the musical world
Earlier this year the number of views of South Korean mega-star Psy's Gangnam Style YouTube video exceeded two billion. That's more than a quarter of the people on the planet who have watched the video. It also adds up to a collective 16,000 years spent watching (assuming everyone sat out the four-and-a-bit minutes, which is a big assumption).
At the same time, many musical practices face enormous challenges in getting any attention at all - particularly those of Indigenous and minority peoples. As I wrote on The Conversation in May, an estimated 98% of Australian Indigenous music and dance traditions have already been lost. Without urgent action, the remainder are also in jeopardy.
It's difficult then to generalise about the state of music in the 21st century. But a new declaration, drafted in Brisbane last year, attempts to do just that. It aims to articulate a "sharpened vision for the musical world" as we approach the year 2020.
What might this mean for the future of music – in Australia and beyond?
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An action agenda
In November last year, Brisbane hosted the 5th World Forum on Music (WFM5) of the International Music Council (IMC). During the event, the IMC solicited the views of the 600-odd delegates on the key priorities and action areas for the musical world towards 2020.
These ideas were then drafted into a formal statement, approved in principal by the 35th IMC General Assembly. This statement has become known as the Brisbane Declaration.
As an "action agenda", the Brisbane Declaration aims to ensure a "sustainable, thriving and diverse musical life on our planet". It makes some acute observations on contemporary musical practices. It also draws attention to some of the challenges and concerns surrounding music and music-making in the 21st century - such as the vulnerability of many local music traditions in an increasingly globalised world.
Five Musical Rights
Underlying the Brisbane Declaration are the Five Musical Rights, proclaimed by the IMC in 2001. These are:
1) the right for all children and adults to express themselves musically in all freedom
2) the right to learn musical languages and skills
3) the right to have access to musical involvement through participation, listening, creation, and information
5) the right to obtain just recognition and remuneration for their work.
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The Brisbane Declaration reflects on the progress made since 2001 regarding these rights. It connects the rights to key issues in contemporary musical life around the globe, including the roles of communities, educational institutions, governments, the music industry, and the mass media.
Will the Brisbane Declaration help?
It's difficult for a statement such as the Brisbane Declaration to accurately reflect the situation for all musics and musicians across the world, from traditional folk artists to concert pianists to global pop stars.
Nevertheless, the Brisbane Declaration captures what music opinion-leaders believe are the most urgent concerns facing musicians today, from the grassroots to international levels. Freedom of expression, approaches to education, the rise of digital technologies, and intellectual property and copyright are all on the table.
In a panel discussion at WFM5, Jeremy Cox, CEO of the Association of European Conservatoires (AEC), and Frans de Ruiter, then-President of the IMC, reflected with delegates on the draft agenda. They shared their hope that the Declaration may inspire and encourage artists, educators, researchers, policy-makers, industry bodies and opinion-leaders to work together to ensure a sustainable and diverse global musical future.
With active dissemination and use, the Brisbane Declaration promises to help shape vibrant and viable music practices across the world. In July, AEC announced its intention to draw on the Declaration in developing a European Agenda for Music.
What does it mean for Australia?
As efforts are made to maintain and revitalise remaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performance traditions, the Declaration reminds us that culture is a pillar of sustainable development.
It prompts us to affirm the right to musical and cultural expression for all Australians, including Indigenous children in our schools. It calls on us to reflect critically on musical and cultural access and equality, which hold a mirror to wider societal issues and values.
If we take notice, the Brisbane Declaration promises to act as a useful compass, directing our vision towards a future in which, in a spirit of respect and equality, Australians and people around the world may build enriching, stimulating, and diverse musical lives.
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