Unusual Competition of Extreme Ironing
Extreme Ironing (also called EI) is an extreme sport and a performance art in which people take an ironing board to a remote location and iron items of clothing. Extreme ironing is "the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt."
This can involve ironing on a mountainside, preferably on a difficult climb, or taking an iron skiing, snowboarding or canoeing. Beginners usually start extreme ironing in the safety of their back gardens, although some daring members have been known to go straight to the mountain. Despite it's superficial danger, extreme ironists always take numerous safety measures, including safety ropes, harnesses, spare irons and the like.
History : Extreme Ironing was first started in 1997 by Leicester man, Philip Shaw, when Philip decided to do his ironing in the back garden. Since then, extreme ironing has developed into a sport that has attracted and give attention around the world. Shaw came home from what he recalls as a hard day in a Leicester knitwear factory. Preferring the idea of an evening out rock climbing, he decided to combine the two activities and convert it into a new extreme sport.
In June 1999, Shaw, who uses the nickname "Steam", embarked on an international tour to promote the activity. The stops included United States, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. An encounter with German tourists in New Zealand led to the formation of a group called "Extreme Ironing International" and the German Extreme Ironing Section (GEIS).
The "sport" gained international attention after a documentary entitled Extreme Ironing : Pressing for Victory, was produced for Britain's Channel 4 by Wag TV and From then it becomes the unusual competition of Extreme Ironing.
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You can test failover in the SAServer agent using VCS.
Your systems must be set up as follows to use the SQL Anywhere Veritas Cluster Server agents:
You must use Veritas Cluster Server 4.1 or later.
SQL Anywhere must be installed identically on each system node within the cluster.
Database files must be stored on a shared storage device that is accessible to all systems within the cluster.
The utility database password must be the same for all systems within the cluster.
The SADatabase agent uses the utility database to start and stop specific database files. All systems participating in the cluster must have the same utility database password. You can set the utility database password by specifying the -su server option when starting the database server.
On Unix, the VCS agent is installed in $SQLANY16/vcsagent/saserver.
You must have SELECT privilege on the table you are selecting from, or the SELECT ANY TABLE system privilege.
Connect to the database from Interactive SQL. For example:
dbisql -c "UID=DBA;PWD=sql;Server=VCS;HOST=HostName"
Execute the following query:
SELECT * FROM Departments;
The query should execute without errors.
Shut down the system running the database server.
Reconnect from Interactive SQL using the same connection string and executing the query again. You should be able to connect and execute the query successfully.
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Ar-Kan Rune-Lag
Ar-Kan Rune-Lag
Thursday, 24 December 2020
Raising the Stang
The Wolf-Hook Rune is the Rune of Resistance and was used in the Peasant's War in Germany. This rune derives from the Eoh-Rune which seems obvious by the shape of the stave -
But there is perhaps a hidden meaning as to why this rune is used for'resistance' or'rebellion', or even'revolution'. The Eoh-Rune is the 13th Rune and this number is actually related to'revolt' and to'revolution'. The rune-stave itself is clearly one of change, and when seen to'revolve' upon itself it remains the same as it was originally. The Number 13 is used in Freemasonry as a symbol of'revolution' because it comes from Genesis 14:4 -
'Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled'.
Modern 'witchcraft' is an invention, probably starting around Gerald Gardner, but some parts of this still hold certain ancient secrets and ancient wisdom. There is a practice called Raising the Stang which, from its description, is the Germanic Art of Nithing, or Raising the Nithing-Pole. This aspect of magic, a Cursing-Magic, can be found in Norse Sagas. The Nithing-Pole was a pole which usually had a Horse's Head placed on the top.
Within some sections of modern 'witchcraft' the Stang is used to raise a storm (by the Storm-God, Woden), and this is an animal's head placed upon a pole. But their version has it that this is a 'Tool of the Devil'. However, when we note that 'The Devil' of the Christians was 'Old Nick' then this is clearly Woden who is Nicor (English) or Nikuda (Norse). In order to keep him for their own use he became 'St. Nicholas'. The Stang seems also to have been used to invoke a revolt against oppression, and part of the ritual was to drive a nail into the base of the pole in order to -
 - To invoke forces from the 'Lower World',
 - To invoke 'Serpentine Forces'.
Clearly, as the term Nithing implies, the force invoked here is the Nyd-Rune, which invokes the Serpentine Force (Nidhogg) from the 'Lower World' (Nid or 'Netherworld'). Interestingly, the Horse's Head is used for this, which seems to be a Sacred Animal which moves between the worlds. The Eoh-Rune is the Yew Tree, and the E(o)h-Rune is the Horse. The Yew-Tree (at one level) can be seen as Iggdrasil - the 'Steed of Igg'. Below is a 'Stang' which has a Ram's Horn on the top of it.
The Stang
The nail driven into the base is also connected to the Need-Rune as the 'Nail of the Norn'. There are some interesting root-words that stem from the meaning of 'nail' -
IE Root *nogh- 'nail' or 'claw'.
IE Root *ongh- 'nail', 'claw', 'hoof'.
It would seem that this Nithing-Magic was linked to Woden as the Storm-God, and also no doubt as the One-Eyed Hunter God who leads the Army of the Dead. Could this magic be associate with raising the Army of the Dead, especially in times of tyranny and oppression? There are hints that the idea of the Raising of the Stang was associated with the 'Wild Army', and in a very vivid dream that I had some years ago the symbols of this (as a kind of 'parade') were of wolves, dogs, and other animals, as well as a 'jester' figure, and also a figure in black who was linked to justice
This Nithing-Magic comes from the ancient Art of Witchcraft in its purer form, even though this is more of a destructive type of magic. As with all things there are at times valid reasons to cause harm to others, just as there are just wars waged to gain freedom from oppression. Modern 'wicca' is based upon false principles, and that is that it is a revival of the 'Old Religion'. Whatever this actually refers to is not the point here, but Teutonic Witchcraft was long ago the subject of degeneration and distortion, a fact that Guido von List pointed out in one of his works. These people do not even know how to pronounce their own name 'wicca' which is not 'wicka' but 'witcha'. And since much of this is driven by modern feminism, the word is masculine, as opposed to the feminine 'wicce'. (Shows the influence of someone like Gardner here.)
Archetypal Myth shows clearly how the Ancient Solar Wisdom was stolen by the Dark Powers, and the Gods and Heroes had to regain this by stealing it back from them. This is why it is necessary to research these modern versions to sift out the true knowledge and reject the rubbish that abounds. This also goes of Freemasonry, another movement that stole the Ancient Mysteries.
There is also a tradition that the Stang is an Ash-Pole upon which are metal 'prongs', like a pitch-fork. And the foot of the pole was shod with iron, or a shod hoof. Now, of course, the 'forked twig' or 'pitch-fork' could be linked to Woden as the Horned One, and certainly modern wiccans would link this to the 'Horned God'. They may well hold a dim remembrance of this, since the Ash-Pole here would be Iggdrasil (again at one level). The link between 'nail' and 'hoof' I have already mentioned, and since a source I looked at had no idea why iron was used (and concocted a silly story to try to show they did) this is the Nail of the Norns. Since it appears that the Stang can be found in drawings in museums and is clearly a pole with an animal's head then the Nithing-Pole seems to be the most likely origins of this symbol, and the 'pitch-fork' was a later version.
The use of the pitch-fork was known as Riding the Stang and this was in fact used within a parade whose purpose was to punish wrong-doers. This seems to have been perhaps a different meaning that developed from the Cursing-Pole because it was a form of justice and punishment meted out by a 'posse'. This, of course, featured in my dream of the 'Wild Army'. This actually suggests that the ideas around the 'Horned God' may be right in that this is Woden. Some suggest that this is placed in the centre of the circle as the 'World Tree', and in a sense they could be right because the pole joins the Upper-World - Earth - Under-World, and invokes the Underworld power of the Serpent.


Steam Weeder – the technology behind the machine.
The technology behind SteamWeeder's chemical free "hydro-thermal" steam weeding uses high-temperature heated water and wet steam to kill weeds on contact. To be effective at killing weeds the temperatures need to be greater than 98° Celsius, (205°F) and must have rapid transfer into the plant cells.
Propane flame and non-saturated steam is less efficient at transferring destructive heat into the vegetation and hot water will do the job but is much slower and uses a lot more energy.
How does Steam Weed technology work?
The steam destroys the weeds on contact within minutes. This occurs via a process known as "plasmolysis" where the steam rapidly raises the temperature of water in plant's cells, which in turn causes them to expand and destroys the structure of the cell wall and soft tissue. The targeted weeds will immediately wilt and within 1-3 days they decompose, enriching the soil.
How plants cells break down after Steam Weeding?
1. The cell of a healthy plant
The cell wall of a healthy plant cell is robust and full of liquid.
2. After high-pressurised steam
SteamWeeding applies high-pressurised steam, thereby increasing the temperature of the water within the cell, causing the plant cell wall to collapse.
3. Plant cell wall breaks down completely
Immediately the plant cell wall has completely broken down and the plant wilts. Within 1-3 days the plant decomposes adding nutrients back in the soil.


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PTT mode - IP Speakers
From Zenitel Wiki
To prevent acoustic echo during two-way communication with an IP speaker with microphone, the speaker must operate in "PTT-mode" (Simplex mode).
PTT-mode means that the operator needs to press the M-key or *-key to talk, and release the M-key (or press the #-key) to listen. This article describes how to configure "PTT-mode" when the IP Speaker is used in an ICX-AlphaCom or AlphaCom XE system.
We assume that the IP Speaker is already configured and registered to the ICX-AlphaCom server.
Start the configuration tool AlphaPro:
- Go to Users & Stations
- Select the IP Speaker from the list box
- Press the button Events
Press the Insert button, and create an event with the following properties:
Action command: $SIMP L%1.dir U0 U1

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[Pixman] [PATCH 0/7] lowlevel-blt-bench test pattern parser
Ben Avison bavison at riscosopen.org
Mon Apr 13 10:42:45 PDT 2015
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:31:35 +0100, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> Apart from restructuring, there is one significant(?) difference to
> Ben's patches: for a solid mask, Ben used a8r8g8b8, but my code uses a8.
I had to remind myself how things hang together to check if this is
significant or not...
When lowlevel-blt-bench tests a solid image (source or mask), it achieves
it not by calling pixman_image_create_solid_fill() but by creating a 1x1
pixel bitmap using pixman_image_create_bits(). However, the effect is
effectively the same because compute_image_info() detects single-pixel
bitmaps and records it in image->common.extended_format_code before we
start doing fast path lookup. However, image->type remains as BITS rather
than SOLID because the non-common parts of the pixman_image union retain
their original meaning - for a native solid fill image, it's just the
colour in three different formats, but for bitmap images it's a pointer
to and sizes of the bitmap and colour LUT (if applicable), various helper
function pointers and so on.
A typical ARM assembly fast path is written to assume that any argument
corresponding to a solid colour is already in an 8888 format where the
red-blue ordering is the same as the destination image. The magic that
ensures this is hidden in the wrapper C function generated by
PIXMAN_ARM_BIND_FAST_PATH_N_DST and similar, where it calls
_pixman_image_get_solid(). You'll see similar calls more explicitly in
pixman-fast-path.c (architecture-neutral fast paths) and the equivalent
sources files for other architectures.
There are a few circumstances where you might not want to use
_pixman_image_get_solid() - perhaps most obviously are the operations
which use a solid image in pixel format a2r10g10b10 because you'd lose 2
bits of precision per colour component. There are a few example of those
amongst those you picked out in special_patterns[].
It's worth noting that _pixman_image_get_solid() has optimised code to
extract the colour from image->type==BITS images if the source/mask image
is of format a8r8g8b8, x8r8g8b8 or a8. Other formats will still work, but
more laboriously.
Not that any of this should matter at all for the purposes of
lowlevel-blt-bench. _pixman_image_get_solid() is only called once per
call of pixman_image_composite(), so it is part of the overhead that
should be being accounted for by the code wrapped in _TAG_ EXCLUDE_OVERHEAD.
> should we also add a condition, that if a test has CA flag and a solid
> mask, then that mask needs to be a8r8g8b8?
That might be desirable, if only because lowlevel-blt-bench initialises
all its images using memset(0xCC) so an a8 solid image would be converted
by _pixman_image_get_solid() to 0xCC000000 whereas an a8r8g8b8 would be
0xCCCCCCCC. When you're not in component alpha mode, only the alpha byte
matters for the mask image, but in the case of component alpha
operations, a fast path might decide that it can save itself a lot of
multiplications if it spots that 3 constant mask components are already 0.
> None of the existing tests has a solid mask for CA tests. I'm not sure
> how much it makes sense.
When you're in component alpha mode, mathematically the source and mask
images are interchangeable. So you could implement over_8888_n_8888_ca by
calling over_n_8888_8888_ca, and we already have a number of fast paths
for operations of the latter form. (I'm not aware that Pixman is - yet -
aware that it can make such substitutions, but I'm sure it could be
> Ben, when we eventually get to the actual optimization patches, I expect
> I will reproduce the benchmarks myself while reviewing. Is that ok?
That's definitely fine by me, thanks for offering. Fingers crossed it
doesn't substantially change the results :-)
> What do you think of this series?
In general, it looks like an improvement to me. I don't think the test
programs have had this much attention in a while! One minor point in
patch 6's log message, you copied my typo:
should be
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Enterprise information systems implemented in the organizations are critical assets to provide competitive advantage in changing sectoral conditions and continuity of business processes and management of enterprise resources. In this regard, information security approaches and assessment techniques are used to examine the maturity level of enterprise and determine the risks and potential solutions for enterprise information systems. This study aims to measure information systems in terms of information security and risks. On the other hand, it is also aimed to describe the potential effects of assessment techniques and tools for state organizations to manage their critical assets. In order to achieve these aims, information systems of one of the large scale health sector organizations in Turkey were assessed via an international assessment tool that is adapted to Turkish conditions in some parts like legal regulations. The results obtained through assessment tool provide the current maturity level of the organization and remark the points that should be improved for the security of information systems and the critical components such as risks, processes, people, IT reliance and technology.
Eroğlu, Ş. ve Çakmak, T. (2016). Enterprise information systems within the context of information security: a risk assessment for a health organization in Turkey. Procedia Computer Science, 100, 979-986. DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2016.09.262


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[Buddha-l] Buddhist stupa to be moved from NM Petroglyph Park
rhayes at unm.edu
Sat Sep 29 23:58:59 MDT 2012
On Sep 29, 2012, at 10:41 PM, "Jo" <ugg-5 at spro.net> wrote:
> The record seems to be that it was a guy named Dutton who applied the exotic
> names, not Powell...but maybe that's an occluded record.
Clarence Dutton was a geologist who accompanied Powell in 1875 on surveys of the Rocky Mountains and plateau country of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. He worked in the Grand Canyon in 1882, some thirteen years after Powell visited it. I was misinformed about Powell having named the features of the Grand Canyon named after Brahma, Vishnu and Buddha. Powell named quite a few features of the Grand Canyon, but apparently not the exotic ones that offend today's Christians so much. The Vishnu schist, for example, was named by Charles Walcott in the 1880s and the Brahma schist was named by Campbell and Maxon, as was probably the Rama schist. But those names came later and were probably named after canyons, spires and buttes named by Dutton. It was Dutton who named Buddha Temple and Vishnu Temple. We should make those early geologists patron saints of buddha-l. And the Zionists in our midst will surely admire Dutton's seminal work in what eventually became Zion and Bryce national parks in Utah, although Zion did not acquire its present name until long after Dutton worked there. He would probably have known it by its original name, Mukuntuweap.
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Detect Grayscale Image In Python Opencv With Code Examples
In this article, we will look at how to get the solution for the problem, Detect Grayscale Image In Python Opencv With Code Examples
Is OpenCV and cv2 same?
cv2 (old interface in old OpenCV versions was named as cv ) is the name that OpenCV developers chose when they created the binding generators. This is kept as the import name to be consistent with different kind of tutorials around the internet.
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image = imread(f_name)
if(len(image.shape)<3):
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elif len(image.shape)==3:
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else:
 print 'others'
import cv2
file = "myFile.jpj"
image = cv2.imread(file)
if image.any() != None:
 if(len(image.shape)<2):
 print ('grayscale')
 elif len(image.shape)==3:
 print ('Colored')
else:
 print("cannot find image")
Is grayscale same as black and white?
A grayscale image is a monochrome that uses the tonal range of gray. This is why a black and white image is grayscale, and that's also why the terms are interchangeable most of the time.
How do I know if an image is RGB or grayscale?
RGB image has 3 channels, grayscale image has 1 channel. @orbit It's in an ideal case. However, there can be a greyscale image with the 3-channel image (RGB) where R == G == B as mentioned in other comments.
How do I read an image in grayscale in Python?
Reading a GrayScale Image in Python using OpenCV
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Does cv2 use RGB or BGR?
OpenCV uses BGR image format. So, when we read an image using cv2. imread() it interprets in BGR format by default. We can use cvtColor() method to convert a BGR image to RGB and vice-versa.
What RGB is grayscale?
The RGB scale is calibrated so that when a color's three red/green/blue numbers are equal, the color is a shade of gray. E.g. red=50 green=50 blue=50 is gray, without any bias towards red, green, or blue hue.
How do I know if my image is RGB or BGR Python?
If you are reading in the image file, or you have access to the code that reads in the file, know it is:
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1 Basic Notations. Gray-level images will be generally noted f, g, h… A gray-level image f is defined on a domain D included in the plan (or in the space for 3D images) and takes its values (gray levels) in the gray scale . For 8-bits images, and the 256 gray levels are in the scale of integers [0, …, 255].
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Method 1: Using the cv2. Import the OpenCV and read the original image using imread() than convert to grayscale using cv2. cvtcolor() function. destroyAllWindows() function allows users to destroy or close all windows at any time after exiting the script.
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Determination of flood damage frequencies constitutes a fundamental component of any comprehensive flood-risk methodology. A time series of flood damage may contain zero values. Therefore, the probability distribution of damage should be derived taking into consideration these zero values. This distribution was derived using the total probability theorem (in conjunction with gamma, log-normal and Weibull distributions), order statistics, kinematic diffusion (KD) model, and the Box-Cox transformation. Flood damage frequencies determined using these methods were compared with those determined empirically for Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas in the United States. For the four southern states studied, it is found that of all three different analysis methods, the method based on the total probability theorem gave the best results for the flood damage analysis containing zero-damage, and the KD model method is not suitable for the flood damage analysis. ASCE.


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Load accordion items dynamically in JavaScript Accordion control
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Accordion items can be added dynamically by passing the item and index value with the addItem method.
In the following demo, new items are added dynamically when you expand an Accordion header using expanded event.
 - Data is fetched from the data source and it is formatted as a JSON object with header and content fields.
 - Here last index is calculated to append the new Accordion item at the end and the number of items are limited to 10, since the data bound have only 10 items.
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import { Accordion, ExpandEventArgs, AccordionClickArgs, AccordionItemModel } from '_USER_/ej2-navigations';
import { accordion } from './datasource.ts';
let dbFlag: number = 0;
let dynamciAcrdnCount: number = 2;
let acrdnObj: Accordion = new Accordion({
 expanded: expanded,
 items : [
 { header: 'ASP.NET Core ', content:'ASP.NET Core is a free and open-source web framework, and the next generation of ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft and the community. It is a modular framework that runs on both the full.NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform.NET Core.' },
 { header: 'ASP.NET MVC', content : 'The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern separates an application into three main components: the model, the view, and the controller.' },
function expanded( e: ExpandEventArgs) {
 //Find the expanded state item in accordion
 let Elementindex = document.getElementsByClassName("e-expand-state e-selected e-active")[0];
 //Check the expand state item and currently selected item index. If it is expanded state add dyanmic items or else does nothing
 if([] == [] {
 let array: AccordionItemModel[] = accordion as AccordionItemModel[];
 for(let i: number = 0 ; i < dynamciAcrdnCount; i++)
 if (dbFlag === array.length) { //checking whether all the items in data source added
 return; }
 // Item object and the index argument passed into the additem method to add a new accordion
 acrdnObj.addItem( array[dbFlag], acrdnObj.items.length );
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export let accordion: Object[] = [
 header: 'ASP.NET Razor ',
 content:'Razor is an ASP.NET programming syntax used to create dynamic web pages with the C# or Visual Basic.NET programming languages. Razor was in development in June 2010 and was released for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 in January 2011. Razor is a simple-syntax view engine and was released as part of MVC 3 and the WebMatrix tool set. '
 header: 'EmberJS ',
 header: 'Hypertext Markup Language ',
 header: 'HTML5 ',
 header: 'JavaScript ',
 content:'JavaScript (JS) is an interpreted computer programming language. '
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> schema.object({ bignumber: schema.string() })
});
// Defining an extra validation step that checks if the BigNumber is NaN or infinite, since we don't want those kinds of numbers.
const validateBigNumber = (value: BigNumber): ValidationResult => {
if (value.isNaN()) {
return { error: 'Found NaN' };
} else if (!value.isFinite()) {
return { error: 'Found non-finite value' };
}
return {};
};
// Defining a custom schema
export const bigNumberSchema = schema.custom({
typeName: 'BigNumber',
serDes: bigNumberSerDes,
customValidation: validateBigNumber
});
When working with custom schemas, it's important to make sure they don't ambiguously overlap with other types that you'll use together. Notice in the above example that we serialize our values by encapsulating them in an object, like { bignumber: "3.14" }. If we had simply serialized the BigNumber as a string, then we'd have to be extra careful about using these schemas in places where also need plain strings. For example, schema.oneOf(bigNumberSchema, schema.string()) isn't very clear with respect to which type will be extracted. When custom serializer-deserializers are used, the first one, in declaration order, to decode a value, wins. While this is deterministic, it's not likely good design practice.
However, other strategies can be used as well. For example, we could have used a string prefix and regular expression pattern matching, with an encoding like "bignumber:3.14". In fact, we encode Date object as ISO 8601 strings and rely on regular expression parsing. Since ISO 8601 is such a precise format, it's easy to distinguish between date/time strings and other more arbitrary strings.
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What is the disadvantages of a formula field compare to text field?
I want to populate a parent field value in a chaild field for displaying in a standard visual force page. So, I thought I will create a formula field for the same, but one of my collegue said don't create formula field, create a text field and assign the text field value while creating the child record in trigger.
So, I just want to know, which approach is better and why?
NOTE: The parent child relationship is lookup relationship.
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Hi Upendra,
Formula field values are NOT stored in the database and are calculated after each time records are being read from database. If you can imagine, this can make things slow down. You see, even if values where not changed, formula calculation has still to be processed.
As your friend suggested, it is better to write/update the value during trigger. Thus saving you a process time.
Hope this can help.
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Hi Upendra,
Formula field values are NOT stored in the database and are calculated after each time records are being read from database. If you can imagine, this can make things slow down. You see, even if values where not changed, formula calculation has still to be processed.
As your friend suggested, it is better to write/update the value during trigger. Thus saving you a process time.
Hope this can help.
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Hi Upendra,
Why would i want to create a trigger just to populate a field value?? Although formual fields take some processing i dont think we would explictly need to write trigger for this scenario. We can as well make it an input field and populate it via process builder and then as the field is read only its ok to use formula field


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Biomod/2011/Caltech/DeoxyriboNucleicAwesome/Random Walk Formula
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Random Walk Formula
General Modeling Idea
The random walk on DNA origami can be modeled as one dimensional random walk with a reflecting and an absorbing barrier (Figure 1). Tracks in the same column are grouped into rectangles, and each step is defined as walking from one rectangle to the adjacent one.
Consider a random walk on a line segment with N+1 sites denoted by integers (0,1,2, …, N) (Figure 2). The walker starts random walk at site i, 0 < i ≤ N. Let p be the probability for the walker to move one segment to the left, q be the probability for the walker to move one segment to the right. The probability for the walker to stay at a particular site for the next unit time is thus r = 1 – p – q. When the walker reaches site N, the partially reflecting barrier, it has a probability of β to be reflected back to site N – 1, and a probability of α = 1 – β to stay at site N in the next unit time. When reaching site 0, the absorbing barrier, it stays there for 100% probability and the random walk ends.


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9. Measures to Help Prevent Accidental Cuts and Punctures
a. Watch for loose knives in drawers when reaching inside. Any sharp items to be disposed of should be carefully wrapped in paper.
b. Do not reach into wastebaskets while emptying.
c. Use scoops or gloves when handling chemicals, detergents, or cleaning agents.
d. Do not try to catch a sharp item that falls. Move out of the way. Sweep up after it is on the ground.
e. Promptly sweep up broken
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Making your own concrete planter allows you to design the size and shape of your planter as you wish. For this project you need two containers to serve as molds for your planter, cooking oil, a paintbrush, concrete, a weight that fits within the smaller container, a stone or file, a drill, and cork or piece of Styrofoam. This project takes 24 to 48 hours.
- Prepare the containers
Use a paintbrush to paint cooking oil on the inside of the larger container and the outside of the smaller container.
- Pour the concrete
If you would like to use foam or cork to drain water from the pot, place these in the bottom of the larger mold. Prepare the concrete as directed and pour it into the large container. Stop when the concrete is an inch from the top. Shake the container to eliminate air bubbles, and level the surface. Push the smaller container partially into the concrete, leaving enough concrete for the bottom of the planter.
- Finish the planter
To finish the planter place a weight in the smaller container and allow the concrete to set for 24 to 48 hours. After the concrete has set, gently remove the molds and smooth any rough edges with a stone or file. If you did not use foam or cork for drainage, use a drill to make drainage holes in the planter.


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The conventional definition of temperature seasonality is the difference between the annual maximum and minimum temperatures (figure to the left).
Plant growth in the North does not depend on these two extreme values - it depends on the seasonal cycle of temperature above some threshold (figure to the right).
Therefore, we define temperature seasonality as the inverse of the cumulative value (shaded region) in the figure to the right.
Both definitions when based on temperature values averaged over a latitudinal belt around the Earth (50N to 65N in the figures above) are a function of Sun-Earth geometry only, i.e. Earth's axial tilt and Orbit around the Sun. Thus, we expect no time trends in seasonality during our study period (100+ years) due to changes in sunlight and day length.


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He uses to work as a gardener for George W. Bush
He's a writer.
He has played with many presidential dogs
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More people tend to kill themselves during allergy season in the spring and early summer
- More people tend to end their lives in the spring and early summer
- Multiple studies note the link between allergies and suicide during this time
- Cytokines, small secreted proteins released by cells that are activated when pollen hits immune cells in the nose, may trigger anxiety
Multiple studies have found that more people take their own lives during allergy season than any other time of the year.
People are more likely to kill themselves in the spring and early summer, according to studies that observed people in a variety of places such as Texas, Denmark and Japan.
Many people wrongfully associate peaks in suicide rates with the holidays and seasonal depression. However, this link is a myth, according to Snopes.
People are more likely to take their own lives in the spring and early summer seasons
The chemical released during pollen season in the spring may trigger anxiety and impulsive behavior.
University of Maryland psychiatry professor Teodor Postolache studied the link between allergies and suicides
Cytokines, small secreted proteins released by cells, may cause immune cells to attack healthy brain cells, according to a report by The Atlantic. The molecules are released when pollen comes into contact with immune cells in the nose.
University of Maryland psychiatry professor Teodor Postolache noticed the link. In 2005, he and his team discovered the suicide rate during pollen season doubles for young women and more than quadruples for older women.
Postolache did in fact find elevated cytokine expression in the orbitofrontal cortex of victims of suicide.
The report says: 'The link between the activation of the immune system with depression and possibly suicide may be directly related to the increased expression of cytokines during immune activation.'
A 2013 study that found suicide rate among men in Denmark during allergy season was not replicated in a later study, according to the Atlantic report.
Farmers also seem to end their lives more during the spring than those with desk, jobs according to a 2002 study.
Farmers tend to end their lives more during the spring than those with desk jobs according to a 2002 study (stock photo)
The report found: 'In the spring, farmers had a significant peak in the rate of suicides. In the winter, forest workers had a significant trough in the rate of suicides. In the summer, indoor workers had a significant peak in the rate of suicides.'
Erick Messias, a psychiatry professor at the University of Arkansas said factors in people's lives such as mental health, family issues or personal tragedy can compose a pie chart of factors that may lead to a suicide attempt.
He said: 'The moment the pie closes, you have a suicide attempt. For some, [pollen allergies] might be a make-or-break deal that closes the gap.'
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Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
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David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment and wonders.
In The Song of the Dodo, we follow Quammen's keen intellect through the ideas, theories, and experiments of prominent naturalists of the last two centuries. We trail after him as he travels the world, tracking the subject of island biogeography, which encompasses nothing less than the study of the origin and extinction of all species. Why is this island idea so important? Because islands are where species most commonly go extinct -- and because, as Quammen points out, we live in an age when all of Earth's landscapes are being chopped into island-like fragments by human activity.
Through his eyes, we glimpse the nature of evolution and extinction, and in so doing come to understand the monumental diversity of our planet, and the importance of preserving its wild landscapes, animals, and plants. We also meet some fascinating human characters. By the book's end we are wiser, and more deeply concerned, but Quammen leaves us with a message of excitement and hope.
Chapter 1
THIRTY-SIX PERSIAN THROW RUGS
Let's start indoors. Let's start by imagining a fine Persian carpet and a hunting knife. The carpet is twelve feet by eighteen, say. That gives us 216 square feet of continuous woven material. Is the knife razor-sharp? If not, we hone it. We set about cutting the carpet into thirty-six equal pieces, each one a rectangle, two feet by three. Never mind the hardwood floor. The severing fibers release small tweaky noises, like the muted yelps of outraged Persian weavers. Never mind the weavers. When we're finished cutting, we measure the individual pieces, total them up -- and find that, lo, there's still nearly 216 square feet of recognizably carpetlike stuff. But what does it amount to? Have we got thirty-six nice Persian throw rugs? No. All we're left with is three dozen ragged fragments, each one worthless and commencing to come apart.
Now take the same logic outdoors and it begins to explain why the tiger, Panthera tigris, has disappeared from the island of Bali. It casts light on the fact that the red fox, Vulpes vulpes, is missing from Bryce Canyon National Park. It suggests why the jaguar, the puma, and forty-five species of birds have been extirpated from a place called Barro Colorado Island -- and why myriad other creatures are mysteriously absent from myriad other sites. An ecosystem is a tapestry of species and relationships. Chop away a section, isolate that section, and there arises the problem of unraveling.
For the past thirty years, professional ecologists have been murmuring about the phenomenon of unraveling ecosystems. Many of these scientists have become mesmerized by the phenomenon and, increasingly with time, worried. They have tried to study it in the field, using mist nets and bird bands, box traps and radio collars, ketamine, methyl bromide, formalin, tweezers. They have tried to predict its course, using elaborate abstractions played out on their computers. A few have blanched at what they saw -- or thought they saw -- coming. They have disagreed with their colleagues about particulars, arguing fiercely in the scientific journals. Some have issued alarms, directed at governments or the general public, but those alarms have been broadly worded to spare nonscientific audiences the intricate, persuasive details. Others have rebutted the alarmism or, in some cases, issued converse alarms. Mainly these scientists have been talking to one another.
They have invented terms for this phenomenon of unraveling ecosystems. Relaxation to equilibrium is one, probably the most euphemistic. In a similar sense your body, with its complicated organization, its apparent defiance of entropy, will relax toward equilibrium in the grave. Faunal collapse is another. But that one fails to encompass the category of floral collapse, which is also at issue. Thomas E. Lovejoy, a tropical ecologist at the Smithsonian Institution, has earned the right to coin his own term. Lovejoy's is ecosystem decay.
His metaphor is more scientific in tone than mine of the sliced-apart Persian carpet. What he means is that an ecosystem -- under certain specifiable conditions -- loses diversity the way a mass of uranium sheds neutrons. Plink, plink, plink, extinctions occur, steadily but without any evident cause. Species disappear. Whole categories of plants and animals vanish. What are the specifiable conditions? I'll describe them in the course of this book. I'll also lay siege to the illusion that ecosystem decay happens without cause.
Lovejoy's term is loaded with historical resonance. Think of radioactive decay back in the innocent early years of this century, before Hiroshima, before Alamogordo, before Hahn and Strassmann discovered nuclear fission. Radioactive decay, in those years, was just an intriguing phenomenon known to a handful of physicists -- the young Robert Oppenheimer, for one. Likewise, until recently, with ecosystem decay. While the scientists have murmured, the general public has heard almost nothing. Faunal collapse? Relaxation to equilibrium? Even well-informed people with some fondness for the natural world have remained unaware that any such dark new idea is forcing itself on the world.
What about you? Maybe you have read something, and maybe cared, about the extinction of species. Passenger pigeon, great auk, Steller's sea cow, Schomburgk's deer, sea mink, Antarctic wolf, Carolina parakeet: all gone. Maybe you know that human proliferation on this planet, and our voracious consumption of resources, and our large-scale transformations of landscape, are causing a cataclysm of extinctions that bodes to be the worst such event since the fall of the dinosaurs. Maybe you are aware, with distant but genuine regret, of the destruction of tropical forests. Maybe you know that the mountain gorilla, the California condor, and the Florida panther are tottering on the threshold of extinction. Maybe you even know that the grizzly bear population of Yellowstone National Park faces a tenuous future. Maybe you stand among those well-informed people for whom the notion of catastrophic worldwide losses of biological diversity is a serious concern. Chances are, still, that you lack a few crucial pieces of the full picture.
Chances are that you haven't caught wind of these scientific murmurs about ecosystem decay. Chances are that you know little or nothing about a seemingly marginal field called island biogeography.
Copyright © 1996 by David Quammen
Reading Group Discussion Points
 1. Discuss the ways in which Quammen's The Song of the Dodo is part adventure story, part scientific study, part travelogue, part murder mystery, part history book, and part biography.
 2. Comment on Quammen's writing style and his ability to impart difficult scientific material in both an interesting and understandable way.
 3. Why do you think Quammen chose to use as his title figure the dodo bird, a large-headed, big-butted, lumbering, flightless bird? What does the dodo bird represent in the book? Why in particular did he choose to mention the song of the dodo? What resonance does this have?
 4. Why do you think Quammen invests so much time dispelling the fictional stories of science, stories based more on convenience and tidiness than on the truth -- such as Darwin being portrayed as the sole mind behind the theory of evolution, when in fact there was another man named Wallace who came upon it on his own?
 5. The Tasmanian Aborigines were driven to the brink of extinction by the colonial settlers in the late 19th century. Compare their fate to the extinction of the dodo bird in the 1600s. Why is it so resonant? How is it haunting? What implications does it have for the human race?
 6. Why is Quammen's book so powerful? In what ways did it change your view of the natural world? Did it in any way alter your perspective on your own life and on life itself? If so, how?
 7. Near the end of The Song of the Dodo Quammen writes, "Yes, Simberloff predicts, the current cataclysm of extinctions is indeed likely to stand among the worst half-dozen such events in the history of life on Earth. This time around, we're the Death Star. But with a difference. Our own devastating impact on the biosphere will probably be a singular event, not part of a recurrent pattern. Why? Because we probably won't survive long enough, as a species, to find out." Do you believe the extinction of our species is, and always was, inevitable, or do you believe we have the ability to turn the tide and should, in fact, intercede on our planet's behalf?
 8. What is conservation biology and how important does Quammen lead us to believe it is in the prevention of animal and plant extinction? Discuss the conservation biology work that is being


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High content imaging (HCI) is a multi-parametric assay using multiple fluorescent dyes that are relevant to specific cell functions. The HCI assays provide an insight into the mechanisms of toxic drug responses, thus enhancing predictability of drug toxicity. However, current HCI assays are performed on 2D cell monolayer cultures which are physiologically irrelevant, creating a new opportunity for better predictable 3D HCI assays. The goal of this research is to develop HCI assays on 3D cellular microarrays that can be implemented for various toxicity screening, leading to classification of drug toxicity via investigating profiles of cell injury. As a model system, Hep3B human liver cells were dispensed onto a micropillar chip with a microarray spotter, which were exposed to various concentrations of model drugs. The chip containing the cells was then stained with multiple fluorescent dyes and scanned with a chip scanner to measure different end points. Conclusively, HCI assays performed on the 3D cellular microarrays showed a capability to identify several mechanisms of toxic drug responses. The mechanisms including DNA and mitochondrial impairment, calcium homeostasis, and glutathione conjugation were successfully demonstrated on the micropillar/microwell chip platform. Computational algorithms along with additional assays will be developed for enhanced predictability.
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According to the CUDA Driver API documentation, cuCtxSetLimit is introduced as follows.
CU_LIMIT_STACK_SIZE controls the stack size in bytes of each GPU thread. Note that the CUDA driver will set the limit to the maximum of value and what the kernel function requires.
It looks to me the CUDA driver will automatically set what the kernel function requires, regardless of the configured limit size of the per-thread stack size.
On the other hands, I got CUDA_ERROR_LAUNCH_FAILED due to lack of stack size, for a GPU kernel which allocates about char buf at least. After cuCtxSetLimit(CU_LIMIT_STACK_SIZE, 6000), it was solved.
I wonder the following two points.
How to understand the description about? It looks to me the configured stack limit is working, even if what the kernel function requires is larger than the limitation.
How to know what the kernel function requires from the driver? I expected cuFuncGetAttribute() with CU_FUNC_ATTRIBUTE_LOCAL_SIZE_BYTES tells what I wanted, however, it returns 0 for the kernel which takes 2048 bytes buffer of the stack.


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Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
Time is represented in three different ways in Common Lisp: Decoded Time, Universal Time, and Internal Time. The first two representations are used primarily to represent calendar time and are precise only to one second. Internal Time is used primarily to represent measurements of computer time (such as run time) and is precise to some implementation-dependent fraction of a second, as specified by internal-time-units-per-second. Decoded Time format is used only for absolute time indications. Universal Time and Internal Time formats are used for both absolute and relative times.
Decoded Time format represents calendar time as a number of components:
X3J13 voted in March 1989 (TIME-ZONE-NON-INTEGER) to specify that the time zone part of Decoded Time need not be an integer, but may be any rational number (either an integer or a ratio) in the range -24 to 24 (inclusive on both ends) that is an integral multiple of 1/3600.
There appears to be no user demand for floating-point time zones. Since such zones would introduce inexact arithmetic, X3J13 did not consider adding them at this time.
This specification does require time zones to be represented as integral multiples of 1 second (rather than 1 hour). This prevents problems that could otherwise occur in converting Decoded Time to Universal Time.
Universal Time represents time as a single non-negative integer. For relative time purposes, this is a number of seconds. For absolute time, this is the number of seconds since midnight, January 1, 1900 GMT. Thus the time 1 is 00:00:01 (that is, 12:00:01 A.M.) on January 1, 1900 GMT. Similarly, the time _PHONE_ corresponds to time 00:00:01 on January 1, 1976 GMT. Recall that the year 1900 was not a leap year; for the purposes of Common Lisp, a year is a leap year if and only if its number is divisible by 4, except that years divisible by 100 are not leap years, except that years divisible by 400 are leap years. Therefore the year 2000 will be a leap year. (Note that the ''leap seconds'' that are sporadically inserted by the world's official timekeepers as an additional correction are ignored; Common Lisp assumes that every day is exactly 86400 seconds long.) Universal Time format is used as a standard time representation within the ARPANET; see reference. Because the Common Lisp Universal Time representation uses only non-negative integers, times before the base time of midnight, January 1, 1900 GMT cannot be processed by Common Lisp.
Internal Time also represents time as a single integer, but in terms of an implementation-dependent unit. Relative time is measured as a number of these units. Absolute time is relative to an arbitrary time base, typically the time at which the system began running.
The current time is returned in Decoded Time format. Nine values are returned: second, minute, hour, date, month, year, day-of-week, daylight-saving-time-p, and time-zone.
The current time of day is returned as a single integer in Universal Time format.
decode-universal-time universal-time &optional time-zone
The time specified by universal-time in Universal Time format is converted to Decoded Time format. Nine values are returned: second, minute, hour, date, month, year, day-of-week, daylight-saving-time-p, and time-zone.
X3J13 voted in January 1989 (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME-DAYLIGHT) to specify that decode-universal-time, like encode-universal-time, ignores daylight saving time information if a time-zone is explicitly specified; in this case the returned daylight-saving-time-p value will necessarily be nil even if daylight saving time happens to be in effect in that time zone at the specified time.
encode-universal-time second minute hour date month year &optional time-zone
The time specified by the given components of Decoded Time format is encoded into Universal Time format and returned. If you do not specify time-zone, it defaults to the current time zone adjusted for daylight saving time. If you provide time-zone explicitly, no adjustment for daylight saving time is performed.
This value is an integer, the implementation-dependent number of internal time units in a second. (The internal time unit must be chosen so that one second is an integral multiple of it.)
The current run time is returned as a single integer in Internal Time format. The precise meaning of this quantity is implementation-dependent; it may measure real time, run time, CPU cycles, or some other quantity. The intent is that the difference between the values of two calls to this function be the amount of time between the two calls during which computational effort was expended on behalf of the executing program.
The current time is returned as a single integer in Internal Time format. This time is relative to an arbitrary time base, but the difference between the values of two calls to this function will be the amount of elapsed real time between the two calls, measured in the units defined by internal-time-units-per-second.
(sleep n) causes execution to cease and become dormant for approximately n seconds of real time, whereupon execution is resumed. The argument may be any non-negative non-complex number. sleep returns nil.


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Three lessons learned about alarm fatigue and better alarm management – (1) to reduce alarms turn to John Hopkins research, (2) patient surveillance monitoring improves patient safety, (3) reducing leads can reduce alarms by 22%.
According to The Joint Commission, alarm fatigue occurs when clinicians become desensitized or immune to the sound of an alarm. Fatigued clinicians may:
- Turn down alarm volume
- Turn off alarm
- Adjust alarm settings.
Any of these actions may jeopardize patient safety.
A tragic example of alarm fatigue is 17-year old Mariah Edwards, who following successful removal of her tonsils, died after nurses muted the sound on the monitors that were in place to alert caregivers of deterioration of her physical condition following opioid administration.
The need to urgently address this issue has been emphasized by The Joint Commission in its Sentinel Event Alert #50, "Medical device alarm safety in hospitals". According to The Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert database, between January 2008 and June 2012, there were 98 alarm related events reported, of which:
- 80 resulted in death (82%)
- 13 resulted in permanent loss of function (13%)
- 5 resulted in unexpected additional care or extended care (5%)
Consequently, it is no surprise that the problem of alarm fatigue and the need for better alarm management was the most discussed topic at the recent the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) annual conference.
Here are three lessons learned about alarm fatigue and better alarm management:
1. To Reduce Alarms Turn to John Hopkins Research
The most referenced research for reducing false alarms and increasing the number of actionable alarms is that of Maria Cvach, RN, MSN, CCRN (assistant director of nursing and clinical standards at The Johns Hopkins Hospital) and her colleague Kelly Creighton Graham, RN, BS. "Monitor Alarm Fatigue: Standardizing Use of Physiological Monitoring and Decreasing Nuisance Alarms".
As Ms. Cvach did not present, reproduced below are three tips for decreasing alarm fatigue from their research:
Tip #1 – Use "Smart Alarm" Technology
Using "smart alarm" technology that brings together a number of physiological parameters may recognize and reduce clinically insignificant alarms while accurately reflecting the patient's condition and preserving clinically significant alarm vigilance.
Tip #2 – Reduce Alarm Duplication
Cvach and Graham describe an example "The alarms for high and low heart rate were the same as the bradycardia and tachycardia alarms. Although how the monitor calculates bradycardia varies somewhat from how it calculates heart rate low, and how the monitor calculates tachycardia differs from how it calculates heart rate high, the task force thought that the monitor alarm did not need to sound twice; therefore, the alarms for heart rate high and low were moved to message level and the alarms for bradycardia and tachycardia were increased to warning level."
Tip #3 – Revise Alarm Default Settings
In their research, Cvach and Creighton Graham were able to decrease critical monitor alarms by 43 percent from baseline. As they explain, one of the changes was to "revise the default settings for the unit's monitor alarms, including parameter limits and levels, so that alarms that occurred were actionable and clinically significant."
2. Patient Surveillance Monitoring Improves Patient Safety
According to a study by the Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Medical School, patient surveillance monitoring results in a reduced need for rescues and intensive care unit transfers. Their study demonstrated a drop of rescue calls from 3.4 to 1.2 per 1,000 patient discharges and a decline in transfers to the ICU from 5.6 to 2.9 per 1,000 patient days.
3. Reducing Leads Can Reduce Alarms by 22%
Making sure that monitors are functioning optimally can reduce the number of alarms that sound. For example, according to the presentation by Melanie Quinton, "Building a Strategy to Support Medical Device Integration and Alarm Management", a pilot study conducted by Kaiser Permanante at one of their medical centers shows that "leads replacement/hygiene has decreased our alerts by 22%".
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This project consisted of renovating the existing 12 story office building located a block off of Broad Street into a modern loft-style apartment building.
The real challenge on this project was the lack of as-built structural information available to identify the existing HVAC and plumbing routing structures. Through extensive field investigation, our team ran into additional challenges such as asbestos, existing utilities, and varying structural steel from floor to floor. Through this investigation, it was also determined that the existing mechanical spaces were too small for the installation of new equipment.
The foreman recognized this and worked with owners and the CM to reconfigure existing equipment and identify systems in adjoining spaces that could be removed.
Through early constructability review, our team was able to identify existing openings for our routings that not only provided a path for us but other trades. In addition, reconfiguring systems and creating space in areas around the mechanical spaces allowed us to maximize the aforementioned routing approach, ensure all equipment was located correctly, and decrease the amount of piping required. These early findings eliminated the need for re-designs & provided coordination synergy.


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The Radiology Secretary:
- Receives and/or schedules patients for Radiology, MRI, Ultrasound, CT Scanning, Echocardiography, Mammography, Dexascan and Nuclear Medicine.
- May be called upon to answer phones, perform order entry, exam scheduling, receive patients, contact physician's offices and assume the technical assistant role.
- Completion of basicmedical terminology program preferred and willingness to expand vocabulary becoming familiar with radiology terminology.
- One year experience in a healthcare organization demonstrating business office functions preferred.
- Demonstrate basic computer and keyboard knowledge and skills; proficiency with word processing;typing proficiency minimum is 45 wpm.
- Demonstrated customer service skills – professional telephone and email skills, ability to interview patients with tact, patience and efficiency.
- Ability to prioritize duties and work as part of a team, work independently with minimal supervision and perform duties in a busy environment, working under pressure with time constraints using tact and diplomacy.
- Good written, oral, organizational and interpersonal skills, accurate spelling, grammar, arithmetic and English usage.
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- Ability to use office equipment such as a fax, copier, scanner and telephone systems proficiently.
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Jareeporn Naksamrit, Ph.D.
Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
Should educational administrators and educators apply theory in their schools? Educational administrators and educators must think about what society could be like, and how civilization could develop. They must consider how their schools can contribute to bringing about a new era, and to creating a balance between quality of life for human beings, other living beings, the environment, resources, and universal flow. Theories bring knowledge but they need to be tested in schools.
School is one of the places for socializing children and preparing them for a peaceful society. Schools need theories that suit their needs and that they can apply practically. Neohumanist Education was created, based on neohumanism, so that neohumanism could be applied practically in schools, and to prove that the theory can profit humanity. Now Neohumanist Education is well known and ready to be applied in schools other than those called "neohumanist schools". In the past 25 years, many neohumanist schools have emerged around the world. Some are run by Didis and Dadas of Ananda Marga, some are run by members of Ananda Marga, and some are private schools run by those interested in Neohumanist Education. There are many reasons why educators choose to apply Neohumanist Education in their schools. Neohumanist school systems have improved processes of teaching and learning, and they train their teachers in the values and ideals of neohumanism, adapted to the context of each culture.
Some schools are already partially neohumanist, using holistic approaches and reconceptualizing what it is to be human. Neohumanism is a process of becoming consciously, self-consciously, human, and neohumanist education follows the idea of neohumanism. Neohumanist schools specifically adopt principles for living based on the ethic of universal love. Neohumanist Education is imbued with spiritual force because it acknowledges and actively promotes spiritual practice which is the foundation for developing universal love. Neohumanist educators explore how to teach holism, how to help old-style teachers reconceptualize what it is to be human. Neohumanist educators work hard at this practice themselves in order to be able to lead students and to relate to people in a neohumanist manner.
Ethics (Yama and Niyama), meditation, yoga, positive thinking etc., are taught in the whole school. The teachers work to create a feeling of universal love in all students from nursery, to primary, secondary and high school, up through higher education, as well as in all people who are part of the school's community including parents and others.
This allows better practical application of neohumanism to education and allows neohumanists to better bring the idea to the general community. Some schools are good in neohumanist management, but some just apply a concept such as morality, ethics, or a feeling of universal love. They need more guidance in practical neohumanist process.
The Princess Mother Community School of Learning (Satit Chum Chon Kan Rean Roo Som Dej Ya) is a demonstration school in Srinakharinwirot University. In it, there is a pilot protocol school project for educational research. We try to develop, provide, and manage quality education for poor and disadvantaged youth from mountain villages that are far from civilization. The Princess Mother Community School of Learning is a boarding school for students in the secondary level (Mathayom 1-3). Current research is on self-reliance and vocational education. The school does not force students to learn mainstream academics that have little meaning for survival. The school environment is like a big family, where teachers, students and staff are all one group. Students learn by brainstorming, and through real practice as the program is student centered. The school emphasizes self-reliance in combining knowledge out of books with the use of local wisdom of various ethnic people in the northern hill tribe area. After graduation, students can live in the world and survive with simplicity and happiness. The king of Thailand (Rama IX), promotes sufficiency economy and as such could be considered a PROUTist. He said that when you learn you have no need to strictly take knowledge from books, you can just learn by doing. The Princess Mother Community School of Learning, like neohumanism, encourages students to live together peacefully in a moral manner, with a feeling of oneness. Normally the school encourages students to be PROUTist in their small school unit.
What is PROUT? What do we want society to look like?
School settings lead to the formation of communities as small societies. As is explained in PROUT, when humans form a society, they want civilization and peace — a world without war, without hunger or poverty, with human rights, democracy, environmental protection, peace, and justice. The main problem in the small communities where our children live is that there is no civilization, and the children and their families are hungry and poor. There is no way for them to get quality education if they do not have support. They may have apparent peace in the community but not real peace. Girls and women do not have equal rights with men. They don't know what democracy is; only that politicians come and give them money to vote, so they call an election democracy. Their environment is destroyed by large-scale monocrop agriculture. Big companies come and give them seeds, with conditions, and the people in the community accept their offers. In this crisis situation, neither child, nor youth, nor adult knows that the business system is greedy. For these problems, education is the answer, and PROUT could be introduced in school.
PROUT is an acronym for Progressive Utilization Theory, a new socio-economic model based on self-reliance of each region, cooperatives, environmental balance and universal spiritual values. It is a holistic approach with dynamic principles that can be appropriately applied by citizens and leaders to help their region or country to prosper and become self-sufficient in an ecologically sustainable way.
Global capitalism is based on profit, selfishness and greed. The tragic result is that half the population lives, suffers and dies in poverty. Poverty is completely unnecessary, because there is enough food and wealth on the planet for everyone. PROUT's solution to economic inequality is based on the obvious truth that the world's physical resources are limited. If individuals accumulate too much, there will not be enough for everyone. Each country must decide maximum salaries, wealth, and land, and promote the maximum utilization and rational distribution of all natural resources. The right to life is fundamental. Society must guarantee the minimum needs of food, clothing, housing, education and medical care. The hierarchy of needs explained by Abraham Maslow says that "people whose physical needs and safety are guaranteed can more easily develop altruism and the highest potential." The right to decent work is also a fundamental human right, and the minimum wage should be sufficient to purchase basic needs.
PROUT proposes to organize the economy into three levels (these principles can be applied to education on a small scale)
First level is small private enterprises.
Second level is cooperatives: industry, agriculture, consumers, banks and services, which are "the businesses of the future." For cooperatives to succeed, they need: honest leaders, a good business plan, strict management, and the wholehearted support of the community. The government should provide: more training and regular inspections.
Third level is large-scale strategic industries that require very high investments and are difficult to decentralize, should operate as public companies, and should never be privatized.
PROUT has an ecological and spiritual perspective that is lacking in many economic philosophies, but is still present in traditional societies. Indigenous spirituality invariably revolves around nature and the connection to all forms of life. Indigenous peoples did not believe that the land belonged to them, but that they belonged to the land. PROUT's spiritual perspective recognizes that all humans have a thirst for peace and happiness. The purpose of life should be self-realization and service to humanity.
The Princess Mother Community School of learning is practicing PROUT naturally. Educators and teachers are not trained in and do not know neohumanism or PROUT ideology from their formal university, but they can learn by spiritual guidance, and from the social media, so that they can experiment with the application of PROUT in school. In the future Neohumanist Education and PROUT Theory must establish ways for people to bring practical ideas to formal schools, in line with PROUT's goal of making each region self-reliant. This includes food sovereignty I hope that education theory and PROUT will be integrated, for the sustainable future for all living beings. Institutes for teachers must integrate them to make educational change, and to produce a model of education-based Neo-PROUT.
Human society is one and indivisible. But today, due to superstition, dogmatism narrow-mindedness, separatism and all kinds of "isms" human society is splitting into numerous parts. Against this background, in order to build the human society it is necessary to adopt the path of synthesis, which originates from the psychology of service and welfare. While attempting to build an ideal society, some people rightly adopt the path of synthesis, and other people wrongly adopt the path of analysis, either unknowingly or out of some selfish motive. But it is necessary to mention that although through the path of analysis one's self-interest may be served, and even the group interest may be temporarily served, but the path of analysis cannot be conducive to human welfare on a permanent and comprehensive basis. It should be clearly understood that the path of synthesis is absolutely necessary for the collective welfare of human society.


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Building bridges doesn't exactly sound like it would make for fun gaming, does it? Developer Dry Cactus would certainly like to change your mind. Along comes Poly Bridge, a cute physics-based puzzle game on PC, via Steam's Early Access system.
Starting the game for the first time, the tutorial leaps into action to teach you the basics of bridge building. You start in the building view, with a basic, 2D representation of the level. Red dots denote the beginning and end of each stage, with further red dots showing other building points that may or may not be integral to the structure of your bridge. Using this view, you are taught about the materials you can use (road, wood and steel are the ones you'll use most often) and, using the simple point and click control scheme, you will draw out your design and attempt to get a set vehicle from one end to the other.
Once you've created your bridge design, a quick click of the 'start simulation' button (or a press of the space bar) will change the view to 3D and set everything in motion. In this view, the gorgeously stylised, cartoony bikes, cars, buses, and many other vehicle types make their way from point A to B – as long as your structure remains intact, of course.
There will be many failures in your bridge-building future, some of them hilarious, but every time the poor driver falls to his/her death in a shower of concrete and wood and steel, it's a lesson as to where your design was weak. Literally. There's a stress feature in simulation mode, with joints changing colour from green to red, signalling where the structure needs reinforcing for the next attempt. There's a real feeling of accomplishment when you get a particularly tough design right, especially as there are some real head-scratchers later on.
Poly Bridge does a good job with its difficulty curve, periodically introducing new challenges as you get further into the game. There are a few that stretch this limit now and again, but most of them can be beaten through patience and a system of trial and error. Many designs do end up as a spiderweb of wood or steel during the earlier stages, some later on won't even work as real bridges, but as long as you get the vehicles to their destinations, the bridge doesn't have to survive the journey. Is this a failing of the game? Maybe it is but, as with Besiege, half of the fun is in finding ridiculous solutions to levels. And when some levels require you to build jumps, why would you ever expect total realism?
The difficulty level isn't tied to the budgets for each stage, either. If you go over budget but still build a successful bridge, the game will allow you to progress to the next stage. You don't even have to complete every stage to move on to the next world, only a certain percentage. There are currently three worlds at the time of writing, with around twelve stages in each one, and more worlds are due to be added over time, which will mean that your £8.99 gets you over thirty levels right now, with over fifty expected by the time Poly Bridge leaves Early Access.
Early Access does mean that bugs are present in the game, as it isn't actually finished yet. Luckily, these are already extremely rare in the main game. The bulk of the bugs come when entering Sandbox mode, unlocked after completing the first world. Sandbox intends on giving players the ability to craft their own puzzles for others to solve. You can build a level, decide on the budget and if there will be restrictions on available resources, and then share your creation via Steam Workshop. When I attempted to use this feature however, it broke multiple times but it was possible to see the potential of this level editor, once the game is completed.
The social aspect doesn't end there, either. At the end of each simulation attempt, whether successful or not, you can share the replay online. A random replay option on the main menu allows players to watch these attempts, sometimes they'll give you ideas for bridge designs and others they'll just entertain.
Poly Bridge is already a fun game, whether you're into puzzle games or not. It never rushes you, its soothing soundtrack keeps things relaxed, it even entertains its players during spectacular failures. It's well worth your £8.99 even before all the content is added, which means that once Dry Cactus adds the final levels and fixes Sandbox mode (unlocking endless potential for player-created levels), Poly Bridge will only get better and better.
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1. Get out there and learn all you can!
- Read up on the internet. Learn all that you can about elephants. Understanding the full realm of what is happening helps us better take action.
- Watch Videos online, view documentaries
- Talk to others who are working to save elephants and learn what you can from them.
2. Hit the offenders where it hurts: Profits
- Boycott films that use elephants
- Boycott the circus, zoos, wildlife parks and any other sources of human "entertainment" that use elephants. Visit sanctuaries where elephants are treated humanely and roam freely in their natural surroundings.
- Encourage your friends and family to do the same. Remember we vote with our dollars and what we spend them on.
3. Become a Private Investigator
- If for some reason you must attend a zoo, circus or other questionable event, use your investigation skills and really pay attention to how the elephants are kept.
- Be an elephant advocate and document the details of your findings. What are the conditions like? How are the elephants treated?
- Take pictures on your camera phone or shoot video of any interesting findings. You can use it to create your own documentary and post online to push for change.
4. Use social media to your advantage
- Friend us or like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
- Twitter trending topics about protecting elephants to raise awareness
- Tweet messages about elephant protection and include links to "How I became and Elephant" on your Twitter or Facebook pages.
- Include links to elephant protection videos (many can be found on YouTube) on your blogs, Twitter and Facebook pages.
- Copy web banners supporting the cause to your websites.
- Blog about the cause on a regular basis including links and videos to support it.
- Provide regular "action alerts" on Facebook or Twitter when the circus is in town to promote a boycott on social media,
If social media can escalate political uprisings all over the world, it certainly has the power to work to protect our "gentle giants".
5. Create or sign a petition
- Create your own petitions and get signatures to enact laws that protect elephants and ban their use for entertainment. You can submit your petitions to Congressmen, Senators and local officials in your area to push for laws to protect elephants.
- Petition local businesses for signatures and support.
6. Become a Volunteer
- Volunteer your time and talents to our organization to raise awareness and money to rescue elephants.
7. Invite Juliette to give a presentation at your school.
- Start a Save the Elephants club at school and recruit others who want to become involved and help save elephants.
8. Reach out to the media
- Write letters to the editors of papers and call into talk radio shows.
9. Organize a fundraiser
- Raise awareness through an athletic charity event such as a "5K Stampede for Elephant Awareness."
- Donate the money to an elephant sanctuary.
10. Set up a table with petitions, flyers and literature outside your public library.
- Pass out literature to passers by and discuss issues with people that seem receptive to what you have to say.


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Bayesian planning is a formally elegant approach to learning optimal behaviour under model uncertainty, trading off exploration and exploitation in an ideal way. Unfortunately, planning optimally in the face of uncertainty is notoriously taxing, since the search space is enormous. In this paper we introduce a tractable, sample-based method for approximate Bayes-optimal planning which exploits Monte-Carlo tree search. Our approach avoids expensive applications of Bayes rule within the search tree by sampling models from current beliefs, and furthermore performs this sampling in a lazy manner. This enables it to outperform previous Bayesian model-based reinforcement learning algorithms by a significant margin on several well-known benchmark problems. As we show, our approach can even work in problems with an infinite state space that lie qualitatively out of reach of almost all previous work in Bayesian exploration.
Current exploration algorithms can be classified in two broad categories: Heuristic, and PAC optimal. While numerous researchers have used heuristic approaches such as epsilon-greedy exploration successfully, such approaches lack formal, finite sample guarantees and may need a significant amount of fine-tuning to produce good results. PAC optimal exploration algorithms, on the other hand, offer strong theoretical guarantees but are inapplicable in domains of realistic size. The goal of this paper is to bridge the gap between theory and practice, by introducing C-PACE, an algorithm which offers strong theoretical guarantees and can be applied to interesting, continuous space problems.
Bayesian reinforcement learning (BRL) provides a formal framework for optimal exploration-exploitation tradeoff in reinforcement learning. Unfortunately, it is generally intractable to find the Bayes-optimal behavior except for restricted cases. As a consequence, many BRL algorithms, model-based approaches in particular, rely on approximated models or real-time search methods. In this paper, we present potential-based shaping for improving the learning performance in model-based BRL. We propose a number of potential functions that are particularly well suited for BRL, and are domain-independent in the sense that they do not require any prior knowledge about the actual environment. By incorporating the potential function into real-time heuristic search, we show that we can significantly improve the learning performance in standard benchmark domains.
Bayes-adaptive planning offers a principled solution to the explorationexploitation trade-offunder model uncertainty. It finds the optimal policy in belief space, which explicitly accounts for the expected effect on future rewards of reductions in uncertainty. However, the Bayes-adaptive solution is typically intractable indomains with large or continuous state spaces. We present a tractable method for approximating the Bayes-adaptive solution by combining simulationbased searchwith a novel value function approximation technique that generalises appropriately over belief space. Our method outperforms prior approaches in both discrete bandit tasks and simple continuous navigation and control tasks.
Model-based Bayesian Reinforcement Learning (BRL) allows a found formalization of the problem of acting optimally while facing an unknown environment, i.e., avoiding the exploration-exploitation dilemma. However, algorithms explicitly addressing BRL suffer from such a combinatorial explosion that a large body of work relies on heuristic algorithms. This paper introduces BOLT, a simple and (almost) deterministic heuristic algorithm for BRL which is optimistic about the transition function. We analyze BOLT's sample complexity, and show that under certain parameters, the algorithm is near-optimal in the Bayesian sense with high probability. Then, experimental results highlight the key differences of this method compared to previous work.


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Who is being monitored?
Politicians regularly claim that they need to ban encryption to protect the children. But who is actually being monitored?
To protect the children! This is what politicians often state as the main argument when they push for weakening or banning encryption. So let's find out what current surveillance methods, namely the monitoring of telecommunications, is being used for in Germany.
Who is being monitored?
In the major mass media in Germany massive propaganda is being made for tightening the surveillance of telecommunications because of the allegedly widespread child pornography. It increasingly looks like politicians are framing the need to ban encryption to protect our children from sexual abuse. The unnamed aim: To heighten the acceptance for more surveillance among the population.
However, when looking at the actual monitoring orders issued by German courts, the numbers speak a very different language.
The surprising result: In Germany, more than 47.3 per cent of the measures for the surveillance of telecommunications according to § 100a StPO where ordered to find suspects of drug related offenses in 2019. Only 0.1 per cent of the orders where issued in relation to child pornography.
Nevertheless, the main reason for the targeted measures - investigations into drug related offenses - is rarely if ever mentioned when calling for more surveillance options for law enforcement agencies.
Comparison of the percentage of monitoring orders for child pornography and drug offenses in Germany, 2009-2019.
In most cases the surveillance of telecommunications was ordered for drug-related crimes. No other area had so many surveillance measures ordered.
In Germany, just under half of all telecommunication surveillance measures were carried out for drug offences in recent years. This is shown in the annual statistics of the Federal Office of Justice (BfJ).
The annual overviews of the Federal Ministry of Justice show on the basis of which individual catalogue offence of § 100a of the Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO) the interceptions were ordered. Most of the interceptions were ordered for violations of the Narcotics Act on the basis of Section 100a (2) no. 7a and no. 7b of the Code of Criminal Procedure. In 2010, 6,880 cases were registered in this regard (33.7% of all cases). About ten years later, in 2019, there were 8.624 cases (47.3% of all cases). In connection with the distribution, acquisition and possession of child pornography, only 19 cases were registered in 2010 (0.1% of all cases). In 2019, there were 21 cases (0.1% of all cases) registered.
In recent years, child pornography has played only a marginal role in telecommunications surveillance in practice, quite in contrast to the media coverage regarding this complex of topics.
Call for banning encryption
Even though the numbers speak a very clear language, politicians and media continue to fuel the myth that we need to ban encryption to protect the children. This is very dangerous. With framing the debate in such a way that banning encryption would be needed to protect the children, politicians try to swing the public opinion in their direction.
However, banning encryption is impossible: It is impossible to enforce a human law aiming at banning the laws of mathematics. Because mathematics says that you can have good encryption, it can simply be programmed with code that fits on one sheet of paper.
Only outlaws would have encryption
As a result, only people who are ready to break the law will have encryption. The general public will not.
Or as Phil Zimmermann put it: "If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy."
What the politicians are asking for, is, consequently, wishful thinking. The Register has made a pointy prayer out of it that all politicians asking for a ban on encryption should learn by heart:
"Oh Lord, grant us this day all the data, but keep it from the sight of the evil-doers. And if that's not possible, because it isn't, even for thou, oh Lord, force industry to give it to us by framing them as complicit in child sex abuse. Amen."
The truth is: If an encrypted service contains a backdoor "for the good guys only", it contains a backdoor. It's impossible to make an encrypted system insecure without making it insecure.
Recent successes in criminal investigation, such as the breaking of Encrochat, an encrypted chat app widely used by criminals as well as the AN0M crackdown where hundreds of criminals were arrested after having used an encrypted messaging app secretly run by the FBI, show that it is also not necessary to outlaw encryption for all citizens in order to prosecute criminals.
Lives depend on encryption
Politicians will continue to call for a ban on encryption to "protect the children." But make no mistake here: Free and democratic societies depend on encryption as much as they depend on free speech and the right to privacy.
Whenever you use encryption, you are protecting someone who needs it to stay alice. - Bruce Schneier
Encryption is essential to protect activists, lawyers, human rights defenders, journalists, and many more.
That's why demanding a ban on encryption must stop.
Stop the crypto wars now!


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