Monstrous Humanoids vs Beastmen, more Chaotic Chaos
The toadmen were created by the ogres as servants.
The lizardmen were rewarded by their swamp-gods.
Dwarves and Elves I haven't decided yet, and welcome suggestions.
Let's have a dwarfy post.
Most tropes that apply to klingons or vikings apply to dwarves.
What's the deal with lizardmen?
What if they don't like the cold?
Here's a rough draft!
Oh, duh. Just have the Czar pass favors to his favorite and require duties of the rulers of the other zones. That's the most straightforward option for sure.
Alright, so, let's use the book to learn about our empire! So, everyone gets 4-6 vassals. I already know I want five kings, but beyond that, I'm just going to use a dieroller to randomly figure out some totals.
1 Emperor
5 kings
26 princes
130 dukes
650 counts
1950 marquis
7869 barons.
Now, I think that the bears and mongols are relatively desolate kingdoms, not to mention that they have substantial nonhuman populations that are harder to sustain, so they will have the lowest population density the book suggests, at 40 people a square mile. The swamp is probably a bit more lively, so I'll give it 50 people/square mile. The southern human kingdom is excellent growing country, with 80 people/square mile. Lastly, the northern kingdom SHOULD be a desolate wasteland, but it's importing lots of food, so we'll give it 80 as well. That's 4,000, 5,000, and 8,000 families per hex.
I *had* written down the exact hexes of each of my kingdoms, but I failed to retain that document, so I'll wing it.
The bear kingdom is about 80 hexes. 320,000 families.
The Northern Human kingdom is about 250. 2,000,000 families
The Centuar Kingdom is about 400. 1,600,000 families
The Southern Human Kingdoms is about 600. 4,800,000 families
The lizard kingdoms is about 240. 1,200,000 families
Total empire size: 1,540 hexes, 9,360,000 families total.
This gives us, first and foremost, an idea of how big our settlements will be based on realm pop. So here's how our realm breakdown works:
Emperor has over 4 million families, owns a max size metropolis.
NHK and SHK own over 2 million each, so they get smaller metropoli too.
CK, LK, and BK all get Large Cities, class II markets.
Princes will then control some fraction of that, but I haven't drawn lines yet or figured out how many princes are assigned to each kingdom. Everyone except the bears can support class 2 markets even at the principality scale though, so every prince except for four controls a large city.
So that's 1 emperor's metropolis, 2 king's metropolises, 3 king's large cities, 22 prince's large cities, and 4 bear prince small cities.
That's probably all the cities worth putting on the large-scale map for the empire. We don't have to roll demand modifiers for all of them, because the trade routes are short enough that unless they're directly adajcent, they don't interfere with each other! Only the one closest to our players will matter.
GODS, METAPHYSICS THEREOF: The more powerful a god is, the less time it spends on the earth, and the more time it spends in the Sacred Realm. The less powerful a god is, the less time it can spend in the Sacred Realm. The line between God and Demi-God is thus drawn based on which domain the being spends more time in.
Very, very powerful beings have a very difficult time entering the material plane, and may do so only at great cost, or with great assistance from the other side. They prefer to act through champions and intermediaries.
Divinity is acquired through the relationship of an individual with communities. Worship is the act of consciously choosing to transmit divine power, but unconsciously, almost all actions resonate with energy. Adoration, fear, lustany time you think about something really hard, that's sort of like worshipping them. It's not as direct as saying "PRAISE [X] WHO I AM WORSHIPPING RIGHT NOW" but it's a start. A lot of the Early Gods were legendary beasts that the first bands of humans told stories about around the campfire, gathered together to fear and hate, and they grew bigger and meaner off of those liquorous emotions. (That's why ancient cthonic gods are kept a secretBecause, say, ten people fearing them is as good as one person worshipping them.) Others ascended to divnity off of more positive emotions and became champions of humanity.
Gods are thus tied to their relationship with their believers, and shaped by it. Most can't benefit from anything other than direct worship and a couple favorite emotions, and it's a lot of effort to learn to accept a new feeling. Even if they went through the effort, Divine Space Hitler can't suddenly turn around and be nice, because he's depending on fear and hatred from the general populace for most of his divine power. He could try for it, and maybe the rebranding would be successful, but he'd probably end up a lot weaker, or forgotten entirely. Even one nice act could ruin his reputation.
Pretty much anything can store energy. It takes a lot of people or a lot of time, usually both, to make something a god, but sometimes stored energy precipitates out as small miracles. Parents superhumanly lifting trees off of children might just be tapping into the bank of stored energy from years of loving that kid.
This does mean that maybe, maybe just once in my campaign, I'll allow the Power of Friendship to be invoked between two characters that really have been friends for a long time.
Once, there were many tribes and city-states in the land-that-would-be-Borya. A lot of them had their own little gods. The ogres killed many of them, used powerful magic to enslave others, and some simply fled, presumably dwindling to mortality without worshippers. When the revolution came, Caesar again defeated the conquered gods, but did not free them, instead, he seized them, and bound them anew to his cause.
The gods of Borya must obey the laws and serve its people, but this was not a choice. They are the Lawful gods because their chains are Law and they unbreakable. Below the slave-gods are the Saints, legendary Boryans who were canonized for their contribution. The pantheon of saints and slave-gods are worshipped collectively by Borya, and when the horse-men of the West were annexed, some of their gods voluntarily became chained.
This is a good place to tie back in to "my" dwarves. Dwarves don't have gods. Instead, they have a form of ancestor worship and belief in a time-bound afterlife. When a dwarf dies, his soul goes to the Great Workshop, where it labors to protect mortal dwarves from supernatural foes. The soul of a dwarf only lasts as long as something the dwarf created is still existent in the world. This is why their traditional leaders are Craftpriests. Those who work in stone or metal are the most highly regarded, for their works will last for centuries if nothing goes wrong. Farmers are regarded as very nearly the lowest of the low, for crops last no more than a year or so before being either eaten or replanted. Dwarves mark objects that are intended for export with secret craft-marks that virtually no non-dwarves can identify. These objects are well made, but are not intended to be the anchors of a dwarven soul. A non-dwarf, any non-dwarf, with an object that was clearly made by a dwarf but does not have the craft-mark will draw instant, unremitting hostility from any dwarf, because it means the immortality of a dwarven soul is in the hands of a non-dwarf. This is not tolerable. Wars have been started over a human noble possessing the wrong dwarven sculpture. Orcs are known to engage in spiritual warfare against dwarves by taking the arms and armor of slain dwarves, partially melting them and twisting them into useless slag, then using catapults to launch them into the courtyards of dwarven fortresses.
The Craftpriests are the most righteous of dwarves, those who are able to channel the power of their ancestors to protect and heal their people and their allies. Furies are dwarves who have sacrificed their chance for immortality to become powerful warriors, capable of slaying many mortal foes. Vaultguards are pretty much normal dwarves. Delvers are almost a sort of holy warrior, breaking the objects of other races so their ancestors will go to their final death. Machinists, though...machinists are heretics. Every good dwarf knows that dwarfishness revolves around doing work with ones own hands. Machinists, though, have become focused on efficiency, on creating things to do work for them. This offends traditional dwarves. Furies will often get along with Machinists, since both are pragmatists at heart, but Vaultguards will be split, and Craftpriests will almost never tolerate the presence of a Machinist. Some


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Cultivation and Education
The Community Action Center Garden program utilizes several different growing spaces to grow and harvest fresh produce for our Food Bank and Mobile Farm Stand program. These spaces include a hydroponic system in our office lobby, community garden plots at Koppel Farm, and a new greenhouse space at the Palouse Discovery Science Center!
Hydroponics – Our indoor hydroponic tanks grow leafy greens year around and can yield over 30 bags of lettuce mix a week! Other than lettuce varieties we can also grow Bok Choi, Kale, Swiss Chard and so much more. These spaces are critical during our long winters when we can't grow outside.
Community Garden – April through October you can find our garden plots at Koppel Farm filled to the brim with veggies. The Pullman Community Garden donates 6 plots to CAC, and we use these spaces to grow things like potatoes, tomatoes, green beans, and more.
Greenhouse at PDSC – New in 2023, our 700 square foot greenhouse allows us room to start more veggies in the spring, grow specialty crops throughout the year, and gives us a site for education and collaboration events in the future.
In addition to food production, the garden program aims to provide garden education to the community and be a valuable resource for those who wish to learn how to grow their own food. In collaboration with local organizations like the Whitman County Master Gardeners and the Palouse Discovery Science Center, we offer several different programs throughout the year.
If you are interested in volunteering with our garden program or have an education event you'd like to see or help facilitate, email Claire at _EMAIL_

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Saturday, 16 December 2017
The Bootleg Myth
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The Bootleg Myth is Bust: More Etymology Dysology Uncovered
Feb. 22, 2013 3:12 am
Research Boots-out The Etymological Bootlegger Origin Myth
Without a single reference to support the claim, all of the major dictionaries and etymology textbooks assert confidently that the words bootleg, bootlegging and bootlegger all stem from the past practice of illegal alcohol peddlers concealing their product inside their boots. OK - let's try to picture these mythical bootleggers and their modus operandi - they put bottles down their boots so nobody would know they were carrying illicit booze. Have you ever put a bottle down your boot and tried to walk?
Surely, you would have to be at least as large as a fantastical child's nightmare 150 foot pirate with massive galleon boots to stand a chance of making a profit by selling bottles of booze that you carry around stuffed down inside of your boots. How much profit could normal sized folk possibly make by stuffing a few tiny bottles of plonk down them for the purposes of transportation and selling? As for not drawing attention to yourself as an illicit product peddler, the whole image is ludicrously Pythonesque .
Imagine it:
Clink, stagger, funny walk, clink, clink, clink: "Oh hello Sheriff, nice day for a casual stroll in these massive boots. Who me, got a problem with my legs. No. Why-ever would you think that?" Clink, clink, clink.
Rees's (2002) unevidenced explanation of the bootlegger phrase is not untypical of the obvious fact that nobody seems to have thought the guesswork through with their head outside of a book:
' The word arose in the American Far West in the mid-nineteenth century when illegal liquor sales were made to Indians on reservations. The thin bottles of alcohol are said to have been concealed in the vendor's long boots.'
Chamber's Dictionary of Etymology (1998) also rolls out the same unevidenced booze down the boots story, as does the aptly named Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2012). Moreover, you'll find the exact same story repeated endlessly in free internet dictionaries such as The New World Encyclopedia:
'The term "bootlegging" first came into use during Prohibition in the United States, and referred to the black market illegal transport and sale of alcohol. Those wishing to illegally transport alcohol would sometimes hide flasks of liquor in the shanks of a boot. Though the term can now be used to refer to the sale or transport of any illicit goods, it almost exclusively refers to the sale or trade of unauthorized music performances, including video or audio copies of concerts, studio outtakes, or songs never intended for release.'
The Bootleg Mythbust
My own research has not turned up a shred of evidence to support this orthodox booze-down-the-boot 'knowledge' claim. Until published evidence is forthcoming, therefore, we should treat this orthodox explanation as a total myth. So what might be a more likely - evidenced - source of the words bootleg and bootlegger?
Using internet dating to create a published bootleg usage time-line reveals that the word bootleg appears to be a US term used by prohibitionists to associate illicit alcohol with foul tasting bootleg (coffee made from burnt bread). Bootleg coffee was a standard prison ration in the US. The name bootleg by way of its close association with a foul tasting inauthentic beverage consumed by convicts was a perfect name with which to label illicit alcohol and those who illegally sold it.
Timeline for published use of the words bootleg and bootlegger.
 1. Bootleg 1854 –leather cut for the leg of a boot - used for many things after the boot is made and worn out including (e.g.door hinges for a cabin 1875. and there was no illicit association with the word in the mid-19th century
 2. Some pistols made in the mid 19th century and used, for example, in 1876 were carried down boots and used illegally . Some such pistols are today named bootleg pistols . However, I can find no evidence that they were so named in the 19th century. If future research reveals that they were so named at the time then that alone would not refute the bootleg coffee source of the word's criminological significance. Because evidence would need to be found that 'bootleg pistols' were (a) associated with criminals and (b) associated with illicit alcohol or (c) bootleg coffee.
 3. Bootleg – faux coffee made from burnt bread, molasses and hot water- 1876 - standard prison ration
 4. Bootleggers 1890 – illegally peddling alcohol during prohibition
 5. Bootleg buckets (prisoners carrying their soup in prison) – 1893
 6. Drinking a bootleg full of rum 1896 - fiction
 7. Bootleg liquor – 1902
 8. Bootleg whisky - 1903
 9. Bootleg relating to stolen goods (coal) 1907
 10. Bootleg records 1932 (fiction)
 11. Bootleg records 1942
 12. Bootleg manufacturing by nation state 1941 – Germany secretly making weapons of war during 1932 (in 1941 magazine article ).
If the words bootleg, bootlegger and bootlegging stem from the practice of illegally trafficking alcohol in bottles or flasks stuffed down the sellers boots then where on this Earth is the published evidence to support this claim, which is so confidently made by the most prestigious etymology dictionaries in the world?
Most tellingly, why was burnt bread coffee called bootleg in the published literature 14 years before the term was used for illicit alcohol? Could it possibly have been some kind of joke about it tasting so bad that it must have been made from the leg of an old boot?
" ... reach into the pan, grab up a handful and drop it into the tin plate of the victim; besides the beef there was a gray mixture called soup; boiled potatoes, hardtack, and coffee that could have been made of nothing else except an old bootleg."
Burnt bread coffee (bootleg coffee) may have its origins in the fact that burnt bread was used in the 19th century to purify water - since it is in fact charcoal. It was given to the sick and also placed in the water of rooms where people were sick because it was believed that charcoal would soak up any contamination and impurities (see Peterson 1857). In modern times we still use charcoal filters to purify water. The use of bootleg coffee in 19th century prisons, the military and elsewhere, while perhaps an aquired or never aquired taste, makes perfect sense in terms of seeking to ensure the water was made safe to drink.
Bootleg music
Bootleg music became big news in 1942. The mass production of bootleg records followed in wake of Petrillo the musician union's chief's imposed ban that lasted 2 years while union member musicians boycotted recording companies in order to eventually secure royalties for musicians. During this period demand for records exceeded supply leading to a noteable rise in the production of bootleg records.
Unless evidence is produced to support what etymologists at least see as the obvious, plausible, compelling but unevidenced bottles of booze down boots explanation, the published literature supports an alternative hypothesis as well as common sense. The Bootleg Coffee Hypothesis is that the US temperance movement and the criminal justice system, implementing their prohibition policies in the USA in _PHONE_ and 1890, labelled illicit alcohol as bootleg and its peddlers as bootleggers as part of a deliberate propaganda exercise to associate illicit alcohol with a foul tasting faux coffee that was known to be consumed by convicts.
The research technique concept that I have coined internet dating (please note that I most certainly never coined the phrase internet dating), which I employed to bust the bootleg myth, is based almost entirely upon the documents that Google has scanned as part of its on-going Library Project. Therefore, books and other documents that are currently un-scanned by Google, may exist to support the currently unevidenced bottles of booze down the leg story, which is current orthodox knowledge as the source of the words bootleg, bootlegger and bootlegging. If new sources apear to disconfirm the bootleg coffee hypothesis then I will update this blog articlet accordingly with a dated postscript.
Postscript 14th April 2013At the time of writing, Wikipedia currently, credulously, has it that the phrase ''bootlegging' is to do with smugglers putting alcohol inside their boots. However, Since Wikipedia is currently unethically engaged in deliberately and systematically plagiarizing the unique results of my original myth-busting work published solely here on Best Thinking, and then deliberately refusing to cite me as the originator of this brand new information that is busting decades old pervasive myths, we should expect Wikipedia to edit-out its daft mistake and yet pretend that Wikipedia editors discovered the new material and information


Recognition accuracy of current operating room alarms
R. G. Loeb, B. R. Jones, Rebecca J Leonard, K. Behrman
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
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This prospective study was performed to determine whether anesthesia clinicians (i.e., both anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists) can identify operating room alarms by their distinctive sounds and to identify factors related to alarm recognition accuracy. Nineteen alarms from 15 commonly used devices were recorded. These sounds were played, in a quiet room, to 44 anesthesia clinicians. The clinicians were asked to choose from a list the device that produced the alarm. After this recognition test, the clinicians rated the importance of each alarm and the frequency with which they heard it in the clinical situation. Clinicians correctly identified the alarm source 34% of the time. The recognition rate was higher for alarms rated as heard more frequently; however, alarms that were rated as more important were less likely to be correctly identified. Complexity of the sound did not influence accuracy of recognition. Most errors were attributed to similarities in sound or function, or both, among alarms. We conclude that anesthetists cannot reliably identify current operating room alarms by their distinctive sounds.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)499-505
Number of pages7
JournalAnesthesia and Analgesia
Issue number4
StatePublished - 1992
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 - Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
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Annual Prospects Report
The Platte River meanders through Platte County and is full of snags and standing timber. Flooding from 2019 and 2020 should have allowed more fish to be produced and those fish should be getting good harvest size. However, the prolonged drought of 2021 to 2022, has drastically reduced the accessibility of the Platte River in places. Channel catfish and flathead catfish are common throughout the Platte and large flatheads are caught each year. Blue catfish are also present in the river and fish over 40 pounds are possible. Blue catfish are most common in the lower 10 miles of the river but are becoming more common further upstream each year. Blue catfish numbers in the lower 3 miles of the river are higher in late spring. Channel and blue catfish take a variety of live and prepared baits. Flathead catfish prefer live fish except in the early spring when feeding on winter killed shad. Flathead catfish prefer woody cover and fishermen should target brush when fishing for them. If you can't get live fish, a large hook full of nightcrawlers or crayfish can often entice a flathead catfish too. Common carp, buffalo, freshwater drum, and gar are also common in the Platte River and traditional baits work well. Pay attention when boating, the bighead and silver carp inhabit the river and can jump into your boat. Anglers can use bighead and silver carp as bait if the fish are dead. Both must be euthanized or returned to the river immediately after being caught or after they jump in your boat.
The Platte River is one of our most accessible rivers. The boat ramp at Schimmel City Access also allows access to the Missouri River just two miles downstream. Sharps Station Access is the uppermost boat ramp. There are also two boat ramps at the Platte Falls Conservation Area near Platte City. The ramps share the same parking area, but one ramp is three miles downstream from the other. There is a big meander or loop in the river, so you can put in and take out from the same parking lot. If you look at this area on a map the river forms a "duck head" as it meanders from one ramp to the next. This makes an excellent short float or half-day fishing trip since only one vehicle is needed. Bank access is also available at several locations including the Platte Falls Conservation Area, which has over 10 miles of river frontage and at Humphrey Access downstream of Platte City. The old boat slide at Humphrey Access has been damaged by flooding and should not be used until repair or replacement has occurred. Union Mill Access, west of Edgerton, is located on a stretch of the river that is able to be waded during the summer months.
There are three boat ramp accesses on the Platte River. Schimmel City (near Farley), Platte Falls (The Duck Head) and Sharps Station (off Interurban Road).


Sigma Embedded Analytics Methodology Whitepaper
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 - Administrative Activities
 These activities are performed by your Sigma administrator.
 1. To start building the assets that will be embedded, connect Sigma to your warehouse to start exploring data.
 2. Create a team for internal data analysts (internal_data_analyst_team) responsible for developing Sigma datasets.
 3. Create a team for internal resources (internal_dashboard_dev_team) responsible for developing dashboards to be embedded.
 4. Create a team (e.g. all_clients_team) that every embed user will be a member of.
 5. Create a team for each customer of yours. Users from each customer will become members of the respective team. You can use Sigma's team creation API to automate the creation of customer team's when you onboard a new customer in your application.
 6. Create account types to map with the embedding license tiers you wish to provide to your customers.
 7. Create user attributes to represent the dimensions that control how data is segregated for each user.
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One Stop Shop (OSS) for e-commerce in the European Union
From last Thursday, July the 1srt, and after delaying its entry into force due to the health crisis of the COVID-19, the One Stop Shop (OSS) System applicable to e-commerce enters into force in the Member States of the European Union. To date, this system has only been applied to Electronically Supplied Services (ESS) through the MOSS system.
First of all, it should be highlighted that this new system simplifies the tax regime of online sales: the supplier that materializes online sales charges VAT to the country of destination (when the sales exceed 10.000.-€ annual turnover in the EU, being the unified criterion) without taking into account the previous requirements of tax representation in each Member State or of the different economic scales of each jurisdiction.
In this sense, VAT records are simplified through the One Stop Shop procedure: e-commerce companies will only have to make one registration for their "Identification Status". Consequently, for employers with a registered office in one of the Member States of the European Union, the State of identification will be the same State as the State where the registered office is located. However, for companies established outside the European Union, their State of identification will be the State from which they make intracommunity deliveries.
In other words, the foreseeable consequences of this new system for employers are: first, a great simplification of the procedures and formalities (and consequently, of the costs associated to the identification and to the tax representation) previously required by VAT registration, since the employer can be registered in a single Member State for all the intracommunity deliveries. Second, as this registration is carried out in a single Member State, the VAT return is also unique: it will only be necessary to submit it to the State of identification of the employer for all the deliveries made within the European Union. Similarly, the accrued VAT will be settled through a single payment determined by this single declaration.
Therefore, Andorran entrepreneurs engaged in e-commerce who make deliveries to any State of the European Union will only have to register in one Member State of the Union and pay the VAT accrued in that same State.
This is undoubtedly an evolution of great relevance to simplify the procedures for intracommunity operators (regardless of whether they are located outside the Union) which, in turn, makes it possible for those parties to comply with their formal obligations, especially for these entities that, with the previous system, could have found a real barrier to the entry of the market because of its high cost.


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Arduino satellite signal - Arduino Arduino Sampling Signal Processing
The following Arduino project generates a black and white PAL composite video signal and shows how to do hard realtime tasks in software (this example is very simple).
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More than 15,000 construction workers have been on strike across Ontario since last weekend. The workers, who include high-rise and low-rise residential builders, floor fitters and operating engineers for cranes and other heavy equipment, are demanding wage increases to keep pace with skyrocketing inflation.
The center of the strike is in the Greater Toronto Area, where real estate speculators and banks have made a killing in recent years from astronomical and still-rising prices for residential properties built by the strikers.
The construction companies prevailed on the Ontario government to declare construction workers "essential employees," so as to force them to work throughout the pandemic on job sites that lacked even the most elementary anti-COVID protection measures. Now they are demanding that construction workers accept below-inflation pay increases for the next three years.
Described as the largest strike in the sector for 20 years, the Ontario construction workers' job action is part of an international upsurge of the class struggle. Recent months have seen strikes by rail workers and grocery store workers in Canada, nurses in the United States and bus drivers in Britain and India, driven by soaring inflation and decades of concessions and stagnant wages. In Sri Lanka, nationwide anti-government protests over the spiralling cost of living have been accompanied by strikes involving millions of workers.
The strikers are members of the Labourers International Union of North America (LiUNA) Local 183 and International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 793. Six groups of LiUNA affiliated workers walked out Sunday, the first day they were in a legal position to strike. The operating engineers joined the strike the next day, after voting down a three-year tentative agreement recommended by the Local 793 bargaining team. Although details are scant, the engineers appear to have been offered a wage increase of just 9 percent, spread over three years. With inflation currently rising at an annual rate of 6.7 percent, its highest in 30 years, workers were all but guaranteed to suffer a huge real-wage cut under the IUOE endorsed deal.
The builders are insisting that two earlier sell-out agreements should serve as a "pattern" for the industry. In February, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers imposed a three-year deal on electricians containing an "increase" of just 8.6 percent, while ironworkers accepted a 9 percent rise with a 0.5 percent premium for Toronto in March.
While the striking construction workers are no doubt determined to fight, they are being straitjacketed by LiUNA and the IUOE within a rigged labour relations system designed to give the employers most everything they want.
Every three years, collective agreements for all 30 trades in Ontario's construction sector expire simultaneously on April 30. Provincial labour relations law stipulates that workers can only stage job action in support of their contract demands during a 45-day period beginning May 1 and ending June 15. If a negotiated settlement is not reached by mid-June, workers are forced to immediately return to work and any and all outstanding issues in dispute are sent to binding arbitration. Under this anti-democratic process workers are robbed of their legal rights to strike and bargain collectively, and their future terms of employment are dictated by a government-appointed arbitrator, who invariably sides with the employers.
Binding arbitration has become a favoured mechanism for the unions and employers to suppress workers' struggles across all economic sectors. In March, the Teamsters turned an overwhelming vote for strike action by 3,000 CP Rail workers into a grovelling capitulation to the demand of CP management and the federal Liberal government the dispute be resolved through binding arbitration. Not only have the CP Rail workers been stripped of any legal means of fighting for improved wages and the reversal of punishing pension cuts imposed in 2012. At CP Rail's insistence, key issues for rail workers, including a brutal scheduling regime and serious safety concerns, have been excluded from the arbitration process, thereby guaranteeing that the anti-worker status quo endures.
Earlier this week, signal operators represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers were sent back to work at Toronto's Union Station after the union accepted binding arbitration to bring a sudden end to a two-week strike.
LiUNA and the IUOE are undoubtedly preparing a no less rotten betrayal of the construction workers' strikes behind the scenes. Both unions refused to lift a finger to defend their members' safety during the pandemic, including when the Doug Ford-led Progressive Conservative government classified them as "essential workers" to ensure that the profits of property developers and rich investors were not endangered during lockdowns.
LiUNA officials have regularly boasted about their role in keeping workers on the job. In a comment summing up the friendly relations that exist between the LiUNA top brass and construction management, Local 183 spokesman Jason Ottey said, "We didn't ask for pandemic pay, we do not have a work from home option, and as a result, we thought that our management partners would show their appreciation in this round of bargaining."
While Ottey and the rest of the LiUNA bureaucracy never called for pandemic pay, thousands of construction workers most certainly would have done so if they had possessed their own fighting organizations committed to the shutdown of all nonessential activity with full pay for workers until COVID-19 was brought under control. Instead, because the privileged trade union bureaucrats wanted to stay on good terms with their "management partners," they were forced to get infected on the job with COVID-19 and spread the deadly virus to their friends and loved ones.
Construction workers were not alone in making this bitter experience. Unions across all sectors played a similarly disgraceful role, from the teacher unions in the education sector to Unifor in the auto plants and the UFCW in the meat packing industry.
If any doubt remained about whose side LiUNA is on, it was dispelled last week when its international vice-president for eastern and central Canada, Joseph Mancinelli, came out in support of the re-election of the Ford government in the June 2 Ontario election. In a laudatory op-ed comment in the Toronto Sun, a far-right tabloid, Mancinelli asserted that Ford, who has gutted public spending, attacked workers' rights, and prioritized corporate profits over the protection of human life during the pandemic, had introduced "fair labour laws" and "cut red tape" over the past four years.
The construction strike is unfolding amid a provincial election campaign dominated by the impact of the rising cost of living for working people. None of the political parties have any intention of improving workers' living standards and guaranteeing decent-paying, secure jobs. In fact, the Liberals and New Democrats, who are routinely hailed as "progressive" parties by most trade unions, are preparing to collaborate in the formation of a pro-austerity government. They are already in a governmental alliance at the federal level, where they are leading the charge to war with Russia, massively hiking military spending and enforcing "fiscal responsibility."
To secure above-inflation wage increases and improved working conditions, construction workers must take the struggle into their own hands by building rank-and-file committees completely independent of the corporatist trade unions and established political parties. Such committees would fight to make the current strike the starting point for a broader mobilization of working people against the construction bosses and the big business-government assault on workers' social rights as a whole.
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I'd like to share with you a very good video From Marco Pivetta who is part of the Doctrine Project core team
Tried to summarize the video in points:
 1. Doctrine is for: OLTP, DDD, Object Oriented, not for reporting, use SQL instead
 2. Entities should work without ORM and without DB
 3. Design the Entities first
 4. Entities represent your Domain
 5. Design the database after modeling your domain
 6. Entities are not typed array
 7. You have to think about how objects talk to each other instead of what the objects contain
 8. No behavior = No need for ORM
 9. Respect Law of Demeter (LOD)
 10. Keep collections hidden in your Entities
 11. Entities should always be in a valid state
 12. Use named constructors, ex. public static function fromUserInput()
 13. Avoid entity Setters
 14. Don't couple with the application layer
 15. Avoid writing business logic inside LifeCycle Callback
 16. Avoid auto-generated identifiers, use UUID instead
 17. Avoid derived primary keys, use UNIQUE instead
 18. Avoid composite primary keys
 19. Don't deal with UNIQUE constraint problem inside the application
 20. Try to design data structures in such a way that are append only
 21. Avoid soft deletes, as they break data integrity, use audit log or archiving instead
 22. Use Annotations Mapping in private packages
 23. Use XML Mapping in public packages
 24. Eager loading is useless, avoid it
 25. Avoid Bi-Directional Associations, because they are overhead, use DQL instead
 26. Use custom repositories for improved expressiveness
 27. Query functions are better than repositories
 28. Avoid ObjectManager::getRepository(), as it is a ServiceLocator, inject Repositories instead
 29. Use $repository->find() that can return null
 30. Use $repository->get() that throws exceptions to simplify error logic and can not return null
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Breakthrough in supply chain packaging management
Trading Labels of Warrington in Lancashire has developed Webnosys, an integrated information portal which links brand owners, their product suppliers and packaging/printing suppliers.The software developer says it will transform the packaging supply chain because partners can share secure information anywhere in the world, at any time and at any stage of a product's life cycle. It is proving particularly effective in sourcing from overseas markets.
"Webnosys tells all those involved in the supply chain exactly what is happening at any given time," says managing director Steve Pemberton. "It manages the whole life cycle of an item of packaging. Reducing waste is achieved as much in terms of saving time, sourcing and manufacturing more effectively as it is in eliminating wasted product."
Originally a niche product for the labels market, Webnosys can now manage various packaging formats for use across all in-store consumables. This means it can build and manage a label specification to a consistent format, while storing a visual reference of the label linked to the specification. Users can group specifications and manage a range of products from concept to launch, standardizing to a control timeline and sequence where necessary. They can also tender a range of electronic labels to a set list of potential printers, collate the returns and rank bids for evaluation. Another trick is to collate and store inventory levels at various points in the supply chain, allowing data to be collected electronically from a common MIS without re-keying data. Brand owners can publish the sales rate of an item alongside its inventory and generate data relating to customer demand. They can also upload cutter profiles from a converter and pass them to a design/artwork studio.
To meet security concerns, the primary database is held locally and web access acts as a window into the data. Each partner can access only their own data. Uploads made using the web are verified before their return to the database to protect data integrity, although users can share valuable information for the benefit of those who need it. Webnosys is supplied either as a fully managed service or as an application hosted on a brand owner's computer system. An unnamed major UK retailer is already using the system for its own-label operation.

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Sexual activity between teenage girls is higher then ever before, claims new research
Teenage girls in America are having more sexual contact with other females than ever before, according to new research.
Sexual activity between young girls is reported to have gone up in the last decade, while teenage pregnancy has gone down.
New analysis of the U.S. National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) has revealed the surprising shifts in the sexual activity.
Teens: Sexual activity between young girls is reported to have gone up in the last decade, while teenage pregnancy has gone down (file photo)
A comparison of NSFG data in 2002 and figures from 2006 to 2008 showed that 11 percent of 17-year-old girls in the more recent statistics had engaged in contact with other girls, compared with just five percent in 2002.
The same girls also claim to have had significantly less heterosexual sexual contact, at just 46 percent in 2006-2008, compared with 63 per cent in 2002.
The decrease could in go some way to explain in the drop in the number of girls who have been pregnant from 18 per cent to 12 per cent.
'Factors that may account for this drop include our findings that more were waiting until later in adolescence to become heterosexually involved.
Sexually active: Teenage girls in America are having more sexual contact with other females than ever before, according to new research (file photo)
'More were using emergency contraception
if they were heterosexually active, and perhaps even that more were
engaging in same-sex behavior,'
Dr. Nanette Gartrell, NSFG lead author, told the Windy City Times.
'It will be interesting to see if the next cycle of NSFG data collection reveals whether these changes are a long-term trend.' she added.
The survey results were published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
The findings follow a study by Boise State University, which found that 60 percent of heterosexual women have been sexually attracted to other women, while 50 percent confessed to having had same-sex fantasies, reports the Huffington Post.
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Bombing of Alteria
Alteria Burning
Conflict: Garmillas Civil War
Date: 2199
Place: Alteria
Result: *Garmillas Victory
 - Alteria bombed
Alterian Rebels
Military of the Great Garmillas Empire
Alterian rebles
Hundreds of Imperial Guard ships
Casualties and Losses
 - Most if not all of Alteria's population
 - Planet severely damaged
 - Garmillas Governor
 - Any Garmillans not off planet
The Bombing of Alteria was one of the most destructive acts the Imperial Guard committed during the Garmillas Civil War.
After word of Space Battleship Yamato existance and how a ship from a planet being invaded by the Empire had caused so much trouble for the Imperial Asto Navy, many worlds began revolting against Garmillas and Dessler.
Prior to the Battle of Carell 163. The population of Alteria began a revolt. ("Point of No Return")
The assaultEdit
When the rebellion began many Garmillans were forced to evacuate as the natives began taking their planet back, however many weren't able to escape. The Governor escaped the planet and requested aid. Dessler sent Hydom Gimleh to deal with the rebellion. When the Governor met Gimleh aboard his ship, and after hearing his pleas for aid in defending the remaining Garmillan on the planet he instead ordered the Governor be killed.
The fleet moved in to bombing position as massive missile began raining down on the planet killing the celebrating Alterians. After the bombs explode the Carriers release bombers and fire upon the surface cities while bomber destroyed smaller more remote locations. In a matter of minutes a once blue world was largely burnt. ("Point of No Return")
This event caused a rift in Garmillas leadership between those who thought they were being to brutal and those who didn't. In addition Lord Dessler was apparently killed in an assassination shortly after the planet was bombed. ("Point of No Return")
Many of the surviving Alterians would find themselves in prison camps. These people were presumably released after the new Garmillas government takes power. ("The Planet That We Head For")
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
The Hollow Earth
Radial Ice Betrays North Polar Hole
The image above shows the radial ice flow from the north polar opening to the hollow earth. This pattern projects outward from a conspicuous ring of ice approximately 80 miles in diameter. The 80 mile opening likely restricts to approximately 50 miles at its narrowest point.
According to calculations made by comparing the polar and equatorial diameters of the earth, a 50 mile opening would indicate that the crust is approximately 600 miles thick at the poles, slimmed down from an 800 mile crust at the equator.
With such a small diameter opening, it becomes apparent just how easily an "anomaly" such as this can be wiped from satellite imagery and kept from the prying eyes of the public.
(Image provided by Chris Baird.)
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How Does Alexandrite Laser Differ From A Diode Laser
How Does Alexandrite Laser Differ From A Diode Laser
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How does alexandrite laser differ from a diode laser
How does alexandrite laser differ from a diode laser
So, what is the difference between the two lasers.
1. Principle of operation
The alexandrite laser produces radiation energy that acts on melanin and destroys hair cells. The diode laser penetrates much deeper.
2. What hair removal is it intended for?
The Alexandrite laser is only effective for dark hair on white skin. It is categorically impossible to use it if the skin is dark, tanned, and also to sunbathe within two weeks after epilation. The diode laser also removes lighter and finer hair and can also be used on darker skin.
3. How is the procedure going
The alexandrite laser does not come into contact with the skin, the hair is removed by means of a flash, it is, as it were, burned out. The procedure is accompanied by a specific smell of burnt hair. In the case of a diode laser, epilation is carried out by a contact method, using a special gel that serves as a conductor.
4. Feelings during epilation
If you come across an ad in an advertisement that laser hair removal is completely painless, this is certainly not the case. Painful sensations depend largely on the area of exposure. For example, in the deep bikini area, they will be present. However, beauticians advise against using pain relievers if you can be in pain. The nature of the pain is slightly different when using these two lasers: in the case of alexandrite sensation, pinpoint, diode - longer.
5. Result
Hair after any laser falls out within two to three weeks, but after alexandrite hair over the skin is burned, when using a diode laser, it does not change its appearance. For dark hair on light skin, both lasers give good results. It also depends on the individual, so it makes sense to try both. Many people switch from alexandrite to a diode laser, as after several procedures the hair becomes thinner and lighter.
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I would like to get some advice on the most efficient way to return a list of unique values of a discrete-valued raster using Python and GDAL.
I had thought that the most obvious way would be to examine the raster's attribute table, but if I do band.GetDefaultRAT() on the band of a raster dataset that contains an attribute table (the table is visible in ArcCatalog, anyway), the result is always None:
>>> rat = band.GetDefaultRAT()
>>> rat == None
True
In that case, I end up having to scan through each cell of the raster and build a list of unique values manually. Is this the only way to do it?
Or is there a way to build an attribute table with Python and GDAL, then query it for a list of unique values?
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 - Which version of GDAL are you using btw?
 – R.K.
 Sep 13 '12 at 7:29
 - stupid question but what is RAT?
 – nickves
 Sep 13 '12 at 9:28
 - RAT stands for Raster Attribute Table.
 – Markus M.
 May 3 '16 at 2:59
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If I understood correctly, you can use np.unique function from numpy lib:
from osgeo import gdal
import numpy as np
ds = gdal.Open("myimg.ext")
band = ds.GetRasterBand(1)
array = np.array(band.ReadAsArray())
values = np.unique(array)
or you can one-shot it:
values = np.unique(np.array(ds.GetRasterBand(1).ReadAsArray()))
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 - Why wrap band.ReadAsArray() in a np.array call? Doesn't it already return a numpy array?
 – jpmc26
 Jul 23 '18 at 18:08
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 Yes it does. Wrapping it in a np.array has no performance drawbacks, as it is not a copy but it uses the same memory address and helps your IDE identify the object so you'll have auto-completion enabled.
 – nickves
 Jul 25 '18 at 10:32
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Masking Data prior to SQL 2016
I was recently asked by a friend of mine what would be the best way to mask data in SQL Server. Now you may be aware that dynamic data masking was introduced in Microsoft SQL server version 2016. However for older versions of SQL server there are primarily just a few variations of same approach when it comes to masking data. The most common and easiest way to achieve this is just script out the data in a view and expose the view to end users or obfuscate the data while being fetched by a procedure.
Before we can talk about masking data it is important to understand when to mask data versus when to encrypt it. Typically you would mask information where you need to validate a portion of the information without accessing it completely. Example of this would be to mask the digits of the credit card so that you can verify the last 4 digits. At the same time you would still encrypt the CVV number. Another example would be masking email ID but encrypting the password for a log in. In either case the lines between went to masking and encrypting are blurring with recent advances. Encryption has a significantly higher overhead compared to masking. Therefore for high volume transactions masking is often considered advantageous over encryption. However this decision is often dictated by sensitivity and criticality of the data itself and therefore even though you might have high volume transactions there are scenarios where you would consider encryption over masking. Personally my preference is always refer encryption as masking is never foolproof. Having said that neither is encryption however in terms of effort, encryption will last longer than masking. Now let's get into the different approaches with regard to masking.
To start off let's explore permissions. One way that you can prevent unwanted access to sensitive information is by explicitly denying select permission on the column. This way non permissioned accounts when trying to access the column would encounter an error and therefore prevent access entirely. In the event access to this column is required, permissions are elevated within an application role. However this approach isn't technically masking it is purely denying access to a column until an elevated privilege has been obtained. The below script demonstrates an example of this approach. Having said that let's move on to actual masking.
Create table MaskMyData
id int identity(1,1),
Customername varchar(100)
insert into MaskMyData
select 'Jayanth' UNION ALL
select 'James' UNION ALL
select 'Jayesh'
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[MaskMyData] ([id]) TO [NoAccess]
select * from MaskMyData
select id from MaskMyData
One of the easiest way to mask data is to add logic within the body of views or procedures to explicitly mask columns as part of the output. This approach prevents access by restricting the amount of information that will be presented as the output of the view or the procedure. This approach only works in scenarios where all data access is conducted using the specific view or procedure. Another limitation of this approach is the fact that it is much easier to implement during the early stages of development. At this stage you have much more control over how the data access is actually performed rather than trying to build it retrospectively. The below example demonstrate how to achieve this effect.
CREATE VIEW MaskCustomers
SELECT id, left(CustomerName, 2)+'XXXXXXX' as CustomerName
FROM MaskMyData
select * from MaskCustomers
In scenarios where you're trying to implement masking retrospectively it is probably easier to expose the data as a computed column rather than via a view. The idea being that the table is already in use within multiple pieces of code and for a fairly large application it might be difficult to identify all the moving parts and retrospectively fix them. In such cases you can create a function that will mask the data and then refer that function within a computed column followed by renaming the computed column as needed. This way all table that access the data continues to remain as is including column names. However due to the use of the scalar function to individually mask data coming from each row there might be a performance implication for highly transactional systems. This needs to be taken into account when designing the system. An example of this approach is shown below.
Create function dbo.Masker (_USER_ varchar(100))
Returns VARCHAR(100)
declare _USER_ varchar(100)
set _USER_= LEFT(_USER_,2)
RETURN _USER_
ADD MasedCName as dbo.Masker(Customername)
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I am thinking on the following problem:
If $|G|=12$ and there is no element of order $2$ in its center then $3$-Sylow subgroup of $G$ cannot be normal in $G$.
I was told that to assume the $3$-Sylow subgroup of $G$, say $P$, is normal in the group and go to reach a contradiction.
My attept: $|P|=3$ so it is cyclic, $P=\langle x\rangle=\{1,x,x^2\}$. As above hint, I would have for all $g\in G$ two possibilities: $gxg^{-1}=x$ or $gxg^{-1}=x^2$. Cannot to go any further. I am in doubt if the hint leads me to a contradiction properly and if so, it does with a long proof. Any help or any other way are welcome to me. Thanks for your time.
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This is a followup to math.stackexchange.com/questions/158339/… – Jack Schmidt Jun 24 '12 at 19:10
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Hint #1: Show that all Sylow 2-subgroups are abelian. So if an element of a Sylow 2-subgroup commutes with the elements of $P$, then it belongs to the center.
Hint #2: At this point the questions you should ask from yourself are: 1) What possibilities (up to isomorphism) are there for the Sylow 2-subgroup H? 2) Given that $P$ was assumed to be normal, what possibilities are there for the conjugation action for the non-trivial elements of $H$. Remember that conjugation action is a homomorphism from $H$ to $Aut(P)$.
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:About you first hint: That the Sylow 2-subgroups is abelian is obvious cause they are of order 4. So I should show that an element of one of these subgroups COMMUTE with $x$. Thanks. As you said me later, you put a loop in my mind finding the result. :-) – Babak S. Jun 24 '12 at 10:14
Correct (re: the 1st hint). Be a bit careful in that the element of $H$ that commutes with $P$ should be of order two. It doesn't really matter much in this case, but for full credit... :-) – Jyrki Lahtonen Jun 24 '12 at 10:29
I am on the way you paved. Yes, with that element say $y$, I can see that $G$ is being generated by $x$ and $y$. Thanks. Thanks. – Babak S. Jun 24 '12 at 10:38
To follow your attempt:
For every $g \in G$, we have $gxg^{-1} = x$ or $gxg^{-1} = x^2$. Thus $x$ has $1$ or $2$ conjugates, in other words, $[G : C_G(x)] = 1$ or $[G : C_G(x)] = 2$. In both cases, $2$ divides the order of $C_G(x)$, and thus $C_G(x)$ contains an element $y$ of order $2$. This gives us the desired contradiction. Can you see why $y$ must belong to the center of $G$?
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Thanks for your answer. It solves my problem in detail. :) – Babak S. Jun 25 '12 at 5:39
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Indonesia, biomass, renewable energy, agricultural residue, energy production
Indonesia has great potential of biomass sources from their agricultural residue, which can potentially be used for alternative energy generation. This preliminary research explores the most suitable technology for energy generation from agricultural residue and its challenge for application in Indonesia. The study showed that biomass utilization via the direct combustion process is recommended for energy generation. It is also reported that the pretreatment process of drying and washing, are required to increase the fuel quality and plant efficiency.
Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering | Energy Systems | Heat Transfer, Combustion | Oil, Gas, and Energy
Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State
Irhamna, Adrian Rizqi, "Potential Energy Generation from Agricultural Residue in Indonesia" (2020). English Language Institute. 37.
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AMP 124 : Turbine Engine Theory and Inspection
This course introduces the turbine engine. Emphasis is placed on turbine engine development, application, theory, components, materials and construction, and operating and power extraction principles. Upon completion, students should be able to explain turbine engine theory and operating principles, describe procedures for 100-hour and Borescope inspections, and perform a hot section inspection by disassembling and reassembling a turbine engine. This is a CORE course.


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Spatial Intensity Correlation and Aperture Averaging Measurements in a 20 Mile Retro-Reflected Lasercom Link
NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC ADVANCED SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY BRANCH
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The Naval Research Laboratory has established a lasercom test bed across the Chesapeake Bay. The test bed uses a bi-static transmitterreceiver arrangement on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay and various configurations of 5 cm retro-reflectors on the eastern shore to produce a 32 km retro-reflected lasercom test range. Experiments measuring the lasers transverse spatial profile after propagation over the test range have been performed. These experiments use an InGaAs CCD to image the pupil plane of the 40 cm receiver telescope and a frame grabber to store contiguous images for analysis. Analysis of these image sequences allows measurement of transverse spatial correlations across the received beam after 32 km retro-reflected propagation of the beam. Various configurations and numbers of retroreflectors were studied to investigate the impact of number and arrangement of retro-reflectors on the received beams spatial profile and spatial correlations. Additionally, since the CCD output is stored as a contiguous stream of images, analysis of these images intensity variance in time allows measurement of aperture averaging effects as a function of number of retro-reflectors and their geometry. Results from these experiments are presented.
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How to check the preview state?
- Dahua XVR (GUI4.0) running the latest firmware.
- A display connected to the Dahua recorder.
Step by Step Instruction
1. Live View Screen
1) Channel name, modify at Main Menu ->CAMERA->CAM NAME.
2) Channel number:
- The analog channel number is related to the interface.
- The IP channel number is related to the adding order.
3) Camera status, there are 4 statuses in total.
|Indicates recording status. This icon displays when the video is being recorded.|
|This icon displays when the motion detection occurs in the scene.|
|This icon displays when the video loss is detected.|
|This icon displays when the channel monitoring is locked.|
2. If no Image
- Camera itself breaks down.
- Recorder do not support decoding camera's resolution. Such as 4K camera for most of the low-end recorder.
- Cable failure or cable is too long, signal is attenuated during transmission.
- For IP cameras, check if camera and recorder's IP addresses are in the same segment. Make sure main stream and sub-stream in CAMERA-ENCODE page is opened and set correctly.
3. If no Sound
- Main menu "ENCODE" page, audio/video boxes of main and sub stream are not ticked.
- Audio source is not correctly selected. LOCAL: the audio signal is from the Audio In port. HDCVI : the audio signal is from the coaxial cable of the camera.
- XVR and HCVR-4M do not support front-end device audio function currently.
- Camera's built-in mic breaks down.
- Loose connection.


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An object synchonization. Has a sync state NEW,MODIFIED or DELETED and a ClientSyncId that should be a unique id. The client can use the ClientSyncId to find the object. This object is the base for all the sync objects: JSSyncCalendarEntry, JSSyncCalendarRecurrence, JSSyncMeeting, JSSyncMeetingRecurrence and JSSyncTask
Property name Value Description
ClientSyncId String A unique id assigned by the client. The client can use this id to locate the object client side. This should be set when doing a SyncCommit
LastModified DateTime This is the time when the object was last modified client side. This should be set when doing a SyncCommit
State JSSyncState The sync state NEW,MODIFIED or DELETED


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STARTING VORTEX BEHIND A DISK NORMAL TO THE FLOW
A classical example of axisymmetric unsteady flow, this phenomenon precedes the establishment of a permanent regime, and
characterizes a starting movement.
The red streak that covers the front of the disk is emitted exactly at the point from which all streamlines are initiated
(that is, the stagnation point); along the side of the disk it turns green through dilution, and reveals the vortex structure
of the toroidal wake.
Image created by Henri Werlé. Reproduced with permission from his spectacular
collection Courants et Couleurs published in 1974 by ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab.
For further information, see
On the Flow of Fluids Made Visible,
Leonardo, Vol. 8, No. 4. (Autumn, 1975), pp. 329-331.

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What is aiortc?
aiortc is a library for Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) and Object Real-Time Communication (ORTC) in Python. It is built on top of asyncio, Python's standard asynchronous I/O framework.
The API closely follows its Javascript counterpart while using pythonic constructs:
 - promises are replaced by coroutines
 - events are emitted using pyee.EventEmitter
To learn more about aiortc please read the documentation.
Why should I use aiortc?
The main WebRTC and ORTC implementations are either built into web browsers, or come in the form of native code. While they are extensively battle tested, their internals are complex and they do not provide Python bindings. Furthermore they are tightly coupled to a media stack, making it hard to plug in audio or video processing algorithms.
In contrast, the aiortc implementation is fairly simple and readable. As such it is a good starting point for programmers wishing to understand how WebRTC works or tinker with its internals. It is also easy to create innovative products by leveraging the extensive modules available in the Python ecosystem. For instance you can build a full server handling both signaling and data channels or apply computer vision algorithms to video frames using OpenCV.
Furthermore, a lot of effort has gone into writing an extensive test suite for the aiortc code to ensure best-in-class code quality.
Implementation status
aiortc allows you to exchange audio, video and data channels and interoperability is regularly tested against both Chrome and Firefox. Here are some of its features:
 - SDP generation / parsing
 - Interactive Connectivity Establishment, including half-trickle
 - DTLS key and certificate generation
 - DTLS handshake, encryption / decryption (for SCTP)
 - SRTP keying, encryption and decryption for RTP and RTCP
 - Pure Python SCTP implementation
 - Data Channels
 - Sending and receiving audio (Opus / PCMU / PCMA)
 - Sending and receiving video (VP8 / H.264)
 - Bundling audio / video / data channels
 - RTCP reports, including NACK / PLI to recover from packet loss
Requirements
In addition to aiortc's Python dependencies you need a couple of libraries installed on your system for media codecs:
 - OpenSSL 1.0.2 or greater
 - FFmpeg 4.0 or greater
 - LibVPX for video encoding / decoding
 - Opus for audio encoding / decoding
Linux
On Debian/Ubuntu run:
apt install libavdevice-dev libavfilter-dev libopus-dev libvpx-dev pkg-config
pylibsrtp comes with binary wheels for most platforms, but if it needs to be built from you will also need to run:
apt install libsrtp2-dev
OS X
On OS X run:
brew install ffmpeg opus libvpx pkg-config
License
aiortc is released under the BSD license.
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Today is International Overdose Awareness Day, a day to raise awareness of and reduce the stigma of drug-related deaths. It's important to recognize that women, trans and non-binary people who are unhoused and/or living in unsafe situations are impacted significantly by the drug poisoning epidemic across Canada. There is a need for gender-specific harm reduction services that recognize and respond to the intersection of substance use, gender-based violence and other forms of inequality that shape the lives of women, trans and non-binary people. This blog will discuss the Safer Drug Use Space, a new pilot program in Hamilton, Ontario, which was developed specifically for women, trans and non-binary people.
The YWCA Hamilton operates a transitional living program and overnight drop-in space for women, trans and non-binary people without children in their care. Over the past few years, the YWCA Hamilton has been responding to an increasing number of drug poisonings and overdoses across programs and has grieved many lives lost because of a toxic drug supply.
In direct response to the drug poisoning crisis in Hamilton, the YWCA Hamilton, Keeping Six and the Hamilton Social Medicine Response Team (HAMSMaRT) came together to develop and pilot a new program designed to support women, trans and non-binary people who use drugs and are without housing. In April 2022 they opened the Safer Drug Use Space in an existing overnight drop-in program and transitional living program operated at YWCA Hamilton.
The YWCA Hamilton partnered with Keeping Six (Hamilton Harm Reduction Action League), a community-based organization that defends the rights, dignity and humanity of people who use drugs led by people who use drugs. This partnership allowed for the development of a program that integrated peer workers. This program also incorporates the perspectives of people with lived/living experience(s) of homelessness and the needs of people who use drugs in Hamilton. The HAMSMaRT is a group of health care providers who believe that health is political and who aspire to remove barriers to clinical care. Through a partnership with HAMSMaRT, the Safer Drug Use Space has ongoing support from allied healthcare providers and an on-site Safer Supply Clinic.
The Safer Drug Use Space is operated through an exemption provided by Health Canada and the Office of Controlled Drugs and Substances, as an Urgent Public Health Needs Site (UPHNS). The Safer Use Drug Space operates every night from 10 p.m. to 9 a.m. Guests can bring their own illicit drugs into the space, get access to clean harm reduction equipment, consume substances (inject, ingest or snort) and be monitored for at least 20 minutes after consumption by both a YWCA Hamilton staff and a worker from Keeping Six.
It is common for individuals to stay longer than 20 minutes, to connect with staff and each other. Snacks are provided along with an opportunity to create art.
"The special thing about our safer use space that makes it stand out from others is that it's for women, trans and non-binary people exclusively and there's not a lot of that. I am proud to say that I am a part of this from the beginning. To be able to watch it grow and to connect and build relationships with other women from all walks of life in a space where everybody feels safe is such a privilege." - Danielle (Dani) Deloitinville (Keeping Six)
Since opening its doors, the Safer Drug Use Space has connected many women, trans and non-binary people to a range of supports and services including:
- Crisis support following gender-based violence
- Emergency reproductive healthcare services
- Mental health services
- Gender-affirming healthcare services
It is so much more than just a safer space to use drugs - it is a point of connection for people who have been excluded from accessing other services and shelters because of their substance use.
In the first four months since opening, we have had 109 unique women and non-binary people access our space. We have supervised 1,071 injections and reversed 14 drug poisonings/overdoses. We have had 0 calls for EMS or police to our space.
We believe that Safer Drug Use Spaces are an important part of a low-barrier approach to supporting people experiencing homelessness in shelter services, housing programs and drop-ins. This approach to care saves lives and keeps people who use drugs safe and connected to services.
We encourage other organizations who are interested in learning more about how to integrate Safer Drug Use Spaces into their programs to reach out to Mary (Safer Use Space Coordinator/Community-Based Researcher) at _EMAIL_.


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Commonslab is a member of consortium H2020 MSCA-RISE-2020 Project CHARTIST
Project Number 101007896
Based on chiral metamaterials and metasurfaces enhanced by graphene and carbon nanotubes, this project aims at providing theoretical basis, performing proof of concept experiments, and building a prototype device for unprecedented dynamic control of THz-wave polarization.
The project relies on solid theoretical background that will enable analytical and numerical modelling interaction of the THz radiation with chiral metamaterials and metasurfaces and will also reveal the most promising techniques to control helicity in the THz range by external stimuli.
The chiral metamaterials and metasurfaces will be fabricated by advance fabrication techniques including femtosecond micromachining of multilayer substrates, laser sculpturing of the carbon nanotube films and e-beam lithography.
The enhancing of the fabricated chiral structures with graphene will provide additional channels for
manipulating the helicity-sensitive transmittance and reflectivity, which can be employed for the THz polarization control.
The proposed research program implemented via intersectoral and international mobility and connected training, dissemination and outreach activities will enable the knowledge and technology transfer, wider professional networking, acquiring new skills and exploitation of project results by European THz industry.
In parallel, the world-wide professional CHARTIST network will considerably enhance the future career prospects of early stage researchers and widen the professional opportunities for experienced researchers involved.


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Why is TruProof the right product for you?
Two proof comparisons of the same meter, produced simultaneously, show the extent to which pulse delay can affect your bottom line.
The difference in achieved repeatability and improved meter factor through elimination of the timing bias is dramatic. In this case, a savings of nearly 0.25% of meter throughput.
(with and without pulse delay)
Meter with factory programmed signal damping
No signal damping applied


Photo by Maksym Tymchyk on Unsplash
As customer demands grow more exacting, businesses need to cater to their needs quickly. The continuous increase in customers and road traffic can hamper the smooth delivery of products and services.
Route planning apps like Roadwarrior enable businesses to take advantage of their software and eliminate their worries about slow and hassle deliveries. Smart route optimization apps can take the weight off your shoulder by giving you efficient solutions guaranteed to benefit your employees and customers.
Here are some reasons why you should invest in a route planning app for your business:
1.Decreases distance and fuel expenses
These apps can automatically and quickly calculate the routes that your delivery vehicles will take to decrease the distance that needs to be driven. Doing this will also lessen the fuel costs. Make sure to utilize a good route planning app that can assure you of this benefit.
In addition to that, your vehicles will have reduced carbon emissions since they use less fuel than others. The shorter the travel distance, the lower the fuel usage, and the lesser they will contribute to emitting carbon. Using route planning apps is also another way to be eco-friendly.
2.Saves travel time
Since the app can calculate the distances that the vehicle will travel, your employees can save time planning which routes they will take. This way, you're also protecting your employees, especially delivery drivers, from getting lost and overfatigue.
Most software has algorithms that compare different travel times depending on the mode of transport too. Instead of relying on your employee's stock knowledge about routes and stressing them about planning their delivery routes, you can just leave the job to route planning apps. With this, you can also expect more deliveries completed within the day.
3.Ensures customer and employee satisfaction
Route planning apps can give you estimates of how long you will travel. This can give your customers a heads up on which day or what time their orders will come so they can coordinate with you whenever they are not available to receive them.
For employees, you will be able to distribute the workload among the drivers appropriately. This will eliminate inequality in travel times and distances that might spur some problems between the employees and you. The planning apps can solve a lot of hassles related to the delivery of products or services.
4.It helps create stronger delivery strategies.
Route optimization software allows you to do simulations to help make better decisions regarding delivering your products or services. It is advantageous to operational planning and your overall delivery system by calculating the travel time and distance of various vehicles to determine the most efficient option and compare the best delivery times.
Route planners have prevailed due to GPS and the Internet. As a business, you must take advantage of these innovations to upgrade your company's services. Not only will these apps give your employees less hassle, but they can also ensure further customer satisfaction. The faster you can provide services and products to them, the more they will like and trust you.


text: Phytolith carbon (C) sequestration has been identified to be a relatively stable and efficacious mechanism to securely reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration. As a fast-growing and Si-accumulating plant, moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) can produce large quantities of phytolith-occluded carbon (PhytOC). In this study, we sampled the mature leaves, leaf litter and soils from moso bamboo stands located in Qingshan (30°13′N, 119°47′E; Lin'an, China) to study topographic effects on phytolith and PhytOC production in moso bamboo ecosystems. Our results showed that the phytolith contents of mature leaves and leaf litter in moso bamboo stand decreased with the slope steepness as follows: 2–5° > 5–15° > 15–35°, and showed an increasing tendency with the slope position as follows: lower slope < middle slope < upper slope. The PhytOC production flux also showed the same trend as that for phytoliths and ranged from 10.32 to 16.16 kg CO 2 ha − 1 year − 1 . Our data indicate that topography, especially slope position and slope steepness, should be considered as some key factors to enhance bamboo phytolith C sequestration during future bamboo afforestation and reforestation.


Monday, 4 June 2012
Zantedeschia
Zantedeschia ( /ˌzæntɨˈdɛskiə/) is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa from South Africa north to Malawi. The name of the genus was given as a tribute to Italian botanist Giovanni Zantedeschi (1773–1846) by the German botanist Kurt Sprengel (1766–1833). Common names include arum lily for Z. aethiopica, calla, and calla lily for Z. elliottiana and Z. rehmannii although it is neither a true lily (Liliaceae), nor Arum or Calla (related genera in Araceae). It is also often erroneously spelled as "cala lily". It has often been used in many paintings, and is visible in many of Diego Rivera's works of art (see The Flower Vendor, amongst others).
The Zantedeschia are rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plants growing to 1-2.5 m tall with leaves 15–45 cm long. The inflorescence is a showy white, yellow or pink spathe shaped like a funnel with a yellow, central, finger-like spadix.
The Zantedeschia species are poisonous due to the presence of calcium oxalate. "All parts of the plant are toxic, and produce irritation and swelling of the mouth and throat, acute vomiting and diarrhea."[3] However leaves are sometimes cooked and eaten.


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In view of the popularity of catering establishments, the design of cafes and restaurants is a popular service today. Trusting such tasks is better than qualified specialists, because the project should take into account a lot of nuances. This is a link to the terrain, taking into account the infrastructure and location of neighboring buildings, and safety standards and sanitary norms, economic factors. Also it is necessary to take into account the expected maximum number of visitors, the location of equipment, design and other details. Designing food enterprises requires a deep understanding of the specifics of catering, knowledge of the basic principles of the restaurant business.
When designing a catering establishment, attention is paid to the following factors:
Let's start, perhaps, from the end, because for the establishment of food binding to the terrain is extremely important. Sometimes problems arise during construction in three cases, when a restaurant or cafe is planned to open in a residential building, which is not always welcome by its inhabitants. Or the future institution is located in the historical center of the city and can spoil the appearance. Such nuances should be taken into account in advance, making up the design of a cafe or restaurant.
Usually, customers insist on giving the main attention to the hall, because this territory is open to guests of the future institution. It is important to think about the location of the tables, competently design the bar and the reception desk. However, no less attention should be paid to what is hidden from the eyes of visitors. In particular, the kitchen with the accommodation of the necessary equipment must comply with the existing safety standards. Another key point that is important to think carefully is the design of the ventilation of the restaurant or cafe. This will directly affect the comfort of both staff and guests.
When planning the future establishment of public catering is necessary, in fact, the development of three projects:
Engineering design of cafes and restaurants includes the development of an architectural solution and the location of communications: electricity, ventilation, water supply, heating and others. The technological design takes into account the specificity of the equipment used, its layout and connection schemes, and an explanatory note is attached to it. And finally, the final stage - the design design of a restaurant or a cafe. At this stage, art solutions for the decoration of the facade, materials and colors of interior decoration are being thought through. The customer is presented a 3D project with full visualization of the future institution.
Our company offers competent and operative designing of cafes and restaurants taking into account all the wishes of the customer.
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Is India Falling into the Malthusian Trap?
April 30, 2008 • News
The connection between Malthus and India are twofold. For one, the country provided the fitting final stage to re-enact his theory on divergent growth pattern between population and foodgrain production even as late as the 1960s, when India was plagued by booming population growth and a diffident growth in food production.
However, there was a more tenuous connection between the economist and Indian economic history. Malthus was the first professional economist by training to teach at the college founded at Haileybury in England by the East India Company to train its young administrators on the rudiments of economic theory.
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Stress in a name
Stress in a word is often on the last syllable (stress shown in bold below).
ka = door
araba = car
pazar = market, bazaar
Pazar = Sunday (= market day)
With composite words, one of the sub-words takes the stress:
Pazartesi = Monday (literally: Pazar + ertesi = the day after Sunday)
As suffixes get appended, the stress still remains on the last syllable, unless the suffix is an unstressed suffix:
zel = beatiful
güzellik = beauty
güzelliğin = your beauty
güzelliğinden = from your beauty
In proper names such as city and country names, the second last syllable mostly takes the stress:
 - Istanbul
 - İzmir
 - Edirne
 - Nikaragua
 - İngiltere
 - Yugoslavya
 - Ankara
İstanbul from space:
- left: Europe, right: Asia
- north: Black Sea, south: Marmara Sea
- in between: the Bosphorus
The old İstanbul is a little below the center of the photo.


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How do I send less pictures to Platerecognizer
If the goal of the setup is to send to Platerecognizer only the license plates that move in a selected area in the selected direction, right?
In this case the scheme that you have now might be improved in the following ways:
1. If you have the Cross-Line Detector module is after the ANPR – this is great if you need to save only episodes of where LPs are moving in the right direction. BUT all LPs are sent to Platerecognizer in this setup, and filtering by direction happens after we get the response.
If it's critical to filter our direction before sending LPs to Platerecognizer then we'd need to redo the scheme placing the Cross-Line Detector before ANPR. However, the Cross-Line doesn't work without a module that tells it about the object type (in the scheme where Cross-Line is placed after the ANPR this role is played by the ANPR) so we'd need an Object Recognizer module where you need to tick object type (car). OR instead of the 'Object Recognizer' module you could use 'Object Detector' module – it reacts to any objects, no matter their type – but we don't really need it in here.
In Cross-Line place the line with the direction going in which you want to "catch" cars.
2. If image crop is needed, you can use the Image Crop module, it is better placed after the camera in the chain.
3. Important ANPR should have these settings:
Recognize only changed areas: ticked
Detection Interval: higher than the default 50 ms (=0.05 of a second, default timeout). Try different values to find the best – to not miss anything (lower than 2000ms) and yet to not send too many pics to PR (higher than 50ms).
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When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer corps. Although his conclusions riled more than a few senior officers, no one denied the significance of the study, and it was named Best Book of the Year by Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honorary society. The work focuses on the period after the Civil War when the United States emerged as a power to be reckoned with and its navy developed into a professional fighting force. This revelatory portrait of the officer corps in the late 19th and early 20th centuries has remained an important reference work for more than thirty-five years. This new edition includes a new preface and foreword.
Peter Karsten is a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of many books, including the three-volume Encyclopedia on War and American Society.


Psychological Implications of Motherhood and Fatherhood in Midlife: Evidence from Sibling Models
Pudrovska, Tetyana
Working paper no. 2007-02
Using a sample comprising full, twin, half-, step-, and adopted siblings, I examine psychological consequences of motherhood and fatherhood in midlife. My analysis includes between-family models that treat siblings as independent observations, and within-family models accounting for unobserved shared genetic and environmental endowments that may confound the relationship between parenthood and well-being. Further, I examine whether the psychological impact of parenthood varies based on siblings' genetic similarity. The findings reveal that parenthood has similar psychological implications for middle-aged mothers and fathers. The main differences arise from specific structural contexts of parenthood. The association between parenthood and mental health at midlife partly reflects shared and nonshared genetic influences. In contrast, shared early-life environment does not explain the psychological impact of parenthood.


Distance Murmansk Mainz. Directions, total distances, average speed, travel time, calculate cost and fuel consumption
Road distance Murmansk Mainz
The total distance represents the road distance in km or miles between Murmansk and Mainz. Initially this is displayed in km but you can always change it using the settings (by selecting the distance in miles or the distance in km):
Average speed
The average speed for the route Murmansk - Mainz is calculated by taking into account the speed limit on each road segment as well as their length.
Travel time
The time required for a car to travel the distance between Murmansk and Mainz, taking into account the speed allowed for each road segment.
Time of arrival
The time of arrival in Mainz is calculated considering that you are departing immediately from Murmansk It takes into account the total travel time.
Fuel price
Total consumption
It represents total fuel (in liters or gallons) needed to travel the road distance from Murmansk to Mainz.
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points of interest: - ATM Murmansk or Hotel Name, Mainz
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