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Today, I came across a program known as 7stacks. It is an easy to use, freeware that lets Windows 7, Vista and XP users to have "stacks" of icons. In Windows 7 stacks appear in the taskbar and in Windows XP and Vista stacks appear in the QuickLaunch Toolbar. So what's the use of stacks? By using stacks, users can reduce icon clutter, and combine a group of related icons into a single icon. If programs like Yahoo messenger, Google talk, and msn messenger are open then they all will be grouped under one stack in the taskbar.
It also allows you to browse and access documents within a folder very quickly. Usually, when you want to edit a series of frequently used documents, you'd have to either launch the app and go to My Computer icon> My Documents folder and then pick the file you want. With 7stacks, just create a stack to that document's folder, and open that document in a couple of clicks. Pretty easy isn't it?
-In 7 and Vista, 7stacks uses Aero, making the stacks look like part of Windows itself.
-Browse subfolders within a stack, just like in OS X Snow Leopard.
-3 different styles of stacks: Normal, Grid, and Menu
-Normal displays a stack of icons vertically, with a text description next to it.
-Grid displays a "squarish" grid of icons only; useful when displaying a large number of items like document folders.
-Menu displays a cascading menu of items, with a very small icon and a name next to it. Hover over subfolders to browse inside those folders.
-In Windows 7, create a new stack by right-clicking on any stack and selecting "Create New Stack" from the JumpList entry.
-In Menu mode, 7stacks doesn't even need to be in a toolbar. You can use it right from your desktop, or any other folder.
-Pin up to 10 different stacks on the Windows 7 taskbar
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Use case: Implementing GROUP BY – HAVING with bit-vectors
In this post I wanted to discuss a design pattern for implementing GROUP BY -- HAVING requests, common in data-mining application.
Problem description:
Let's say we have a fact table with multiple fields, all indexed using bit-vector based inverted lists.
Our goal is to run a query which best to describe in pseudo SQL :
SELECT fact1, count(*) FROM FactsTable
WHERE fact1 > 'value' AND fact2 BETWEEN 10 and 100 OR fact 3 = 'valueX'
GROUP BY fact1
HAVING COUNT(*) > 100
The proposed "query plan" for this type of query is a two step process.
Step 1. Program runs a WHERE clause, retrieving bit-vectors corresponding to various parts of the logical expression (fact1 > 'value', fact2 BETWEEN 10 and 100, fact 3 = 'valueX'). When all vectors are in memory, series of ANDs and Ors gives us the result. This is a low complexity problem.
Step 2. Program got the bit-vector from Step 1 (Query Bit-Vector).
All we need to do now is to iteratively read all possible bit-vectors corresponding to fact1. Number of vectors here depends on the total number of variants (facts) in the fact1 field (in other words we are looking at fact1 cardinality). It can be quite large, but many intermediate results have a good chance to be filtered out with a HAVING criteria.
To perform GROUP BY – HAVING we propose to execute logical operation AND between the query vector and all fact1 vectors. HAVING is trivial – all you need is to count bits in the AND product vector.
Lets look at the pseudo code for this:
LOOP (until we have bit-vectors)
{

 bv_file.read(buffer); // read BLOB
 bvect* pbv = new bvect(BM_GAP); // GROUP vect
 // deserialize BLOB
 bm::deserialize(*pbv, buffer);
 *pbv &= bv_query; // GROUP BY AND
 if (pbv->count() >= 100 )// HAVING
 {
 // process query results
 }
 delete pbv;
}
Scalability?
Algorithmic complexity of this approach is directly proportional to number on GROUP BY vectors we have to read , deserialize and AND. The good news is that there is no loop iteration carried dependencies, so this algorithm can be easily parallelized – all deserializations, ANDs and bit-counting can be done in parallel. For dense bit-vectors BitMagic will use vector operations with SSE2, SSE4.2 to use wide-parallel hardware acceleration. So this algorithm is multi-core friendly and should scale well given that IO subsystem is sufficiently capable delivering new the raw data.
On a well balanced system we will be able to utilize a large number of CPUs / Cores and solve this problem fast.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
BitMagic Library v.3.6.4 released
Release 3.6.4 significantly (up to x2 times) improves performance of deserialization.
This round of optimization should make all bit-vector database IO operations more efficient.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
AMD CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer for Windows®
Sharing some experience with AMD CodeAnalyst profiler.
This profiler from AMD is free, simple, lightweight and implemented as a Visual Studio plugin (apparently there is Linux version, but I did not try it yet).
Default profiling mode is time-sampling.
I took a few screenshots:
From Blog
From Blog
From Blog
Pros and Cons:
1. Easy to use, you can start your session in a few minutes (+)
2. Hot-spot detection is easy, chart based, results are generally believable (+)
3. Profiler is lean and works fast, profiled program is not slowed down. (+)
3. AMD CodeAnalyst is free (+)
4. Different screens (chart and data) sometimes give contradicting results, which is a bit confusing. (-)
 In the screenshots above 1 and 3 indicate different proportion in hot-spot data (maybe I don't understand something or bug in visualization).
5. I failed to get call stack for hot-spots even though configuration promised to collect it. (-)
 This can be a big issue for large projects with multiple code paths.
 Similar tools like Intel Parallel Studio can show call stacks and allows easy call stack analysis.


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An extraordinary heat wave has proved fatal for thousands of Alaska salmon this summer, CNN reports. Alerted by locals, scientists traveled along the Koyukuk River in July and spotted 850 unspawned dead salmon. "We were boating, going about 35 or 40 miles per hour, and we know we missed a lot," Stephanie Quinn-Davidson, director of the Yukon Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, tells the Juneau Empire. "On a boat going by relatively fast, we were probably getting at most half the fish and at the least about ten percent of the fish." Unable to find infections, parasites, or lesions, they pointed a finger at the coinciding heat wave.
After all, scientists have never recorded higher than 76 degrees around Cook Inlet, south of Anchorage, since they began logging stream temperatures there in 2002—but on July 7 they measured 81.7 degrees. "2019 exceeded the value we expected for the worst-case scenario in 2069," says Sue Mauger, who co-authored a 2016 study on climate change in Alaska. Experts say the salmon likely die by heat-induced heart attack or suffocation when heat lowers oxygen in the water. One hope is that salmon who make it to spawning grounds will give life to equally resilient fish: "Hopefully they'll pass those genes on that allowed them to persist," says Davidson. (Read more salmon stories.)

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The National Sunflower Association says a common sunflower disease has been found in fields across the Dakotas after a wet planting season.
The group says downy mildew was been found in about two-thirds of fields surveyed over the last two weeks in North Dakota and South Dakota. About 70 fields were surveyed. Only 8 fields surveyed had had more than 5 percent of their crop infected.
Infected plants will often die and if they survive they will not yield. The group says yield loss doesn't usually occur unless downy mildew occurs in large patches of a field.
Downy mildew is caused by a pathogen that lives for many years in soil. When it rains after planting, the pathogen produces spores that infect roots and cause a systematic infection.
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Conclusive Presumption Law and Legal Definition
Conclusive Presumption or absolute presumption or irrebuttable presumption of law refers to presumption which cannot be overcome or changed by any additional evidence or argument. It refers to rules of law and are usually mere fictions. Modern courts repudiate conclusive presumptions when they are not fictions. For example, a child below 7 years of age is incapable of committing a felony.

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From the almighty Wikipedia :
"A navy shower (or "sea shower") is a method of showering that allows for significant conservation of water and energy by turning off water during the "middle" portion. An initial thirty seconds or so are used to get wet, followed by soap and lather, which is then rinsed off in a minute or less. The total time for the water being on is typically under two minutes.
Navy showers originated on naval ships, where supplies of fresh water were often scarce. Using this method, crew members were able to stay clean, while conserving their limited water supply. The idea has been adopted by many people who wish to conserve water and the energy needed to heat the water, for both environmental and economic reasons. Maritime cruisers often take navy showers when they are not in a port with easy access to fresh water. A ten-minute shower takes as much as 230 L (60 U.S. gallons) of water, while a navy shower usually takes as little as 11 L (3 U.S. gallons); one person can save 56,000 L (15,000 U.S. gallons) per year."

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Plotting expressions is important to visualize data, relationships between variables, and perform analysis. Mathcad plotting allows visualization of variable values, functions, and data points. Included in this demonstration is common calculus techniques such as symbolic or analytic solutions to differentiation or integration. Use the following worksheet to step through example problems related to using trending capabilities and calculus analysis in a Mathcad worksheet.
- Mathcad Plotting and Calculus Worksheet (xmcd)
- Mathcad Plotting and Calculus Worksheet (pdf)
- Mathcad Plotting and Calculus Worksheet Solution (pdf)
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f 1 mapping nodes to nodes, then a function f 2 mapping arcs to arcs is trivial because there is at most one arc between any pair of endpoints. THEOREM ON SIMPLE GRAPH ISOMORPHISM Two simple graphs (N 1, A 1, g 1 ) and (N 2, A 2, g 2 ) are isomorphic if there is a bijection f: N 1 N 2 such that for any nodes n i and n j of N 1, n i and n j are adjacent if and only if f (n i ) and f (n j ) are adjacent. (The function f is called an isomorphism from graph 1 to graph 2.)
16 Section 5.1Graphs and Their Representations15 Proving That Graphs Are Not Isomorphic To prove that two graphs are not isomorphic, we must prove that the necessary bijection(s) do(es) not exist. Certain conditions under which it is clear that two graphs are not isomorphic are: 1. One graph has more nodes than the other. 2. One graph has more arcs than the other. 3. One graph has parallel arcs and the other does not. 4. One graph has a loop and the other does not. 5. One graph has a node of degree k and the other does not. 6. One graph is connected and the other is not. 7. One graph has a cycle and the other does not.
17 Section 5.1Graphs and Their Representations16 Planar Graphs A planar graph is one that can be represented (on a sheet of paper, that is, in the plane) so that its arcs intersect only at nodes. Designers of integrated circuits want all components in one layer of a chip to form a planar graph so that no connections cross. A simple, connected, planar graph (when drawn in its planar representation, with no arcs crossing) divides the plane into a number of regions, including totally enclosed regions and one infinite exterior region. Leonhard Euler observed a relationship between the number n of nodes, the number a of arcs, and the number r of regions in such a graph. This relationship is known as Eulers formula: n a + r = 2.
18 Section 5.1Graphs and Their Representations17 Planar Graphs THEOREM ON THE NUMBER OF NODES AND ARCS For a simple, connected, planar graph with n nodes and a arcs: 1. If the planar representation divides the plane into r regions, then n a + r = If n 3, then a 3n If n 3 and there are no cycles of length 3, then a 2n – 4. We can use this theorem to prove that certain graphs are not planar.
19 Section 5.1Graphs and Their Representations18 Homeomorphic Graphs DEFINITION: HOMEOMORPHIC GRAPHS Two graphs are homeomorphic if both can be obtained from the same graph by a sequence of elementary subdivisions in which a single arc x–y is replaced by two new arcs xv–vy connecting to a new node v. The graphs in parts (b) and (c) of the figure below are homeomorphic because each can be obtained from part (a) by a sequence of elementary subdivisions. (However, neither can be obtained from the other by a sequence of elementary subdivisions.)
20 Section 5.1Graphs and Their Representations19 Nonplanar Graphs A graph that is planar cannot be turned into a nonplanar graph by elementary subdivisions. A graph that is nonplanar cannot be turned into a planar graph by elementary subdivisions. Homeomorphic graphs are either both planar or both nonplanar. KURATOWSKI THEOREM A graph is nonplanar if and only if it contains a subgraph that is homeomorphic to K 5 or K 3,3. If a graph has a subgraph homeomorphic to the nonplanar graphs K 5 or K 3,3, then the subgraphand hence the entire graphis nonplanar.
21 Section 5.1Graphs and Their Representations20 Adjacency Matrices The usual computer representations of a graph involve one of two data structures, either an adjacency matrix or an adjacency list. Suppose a graph has n nodes numbered n 1, n 2,..., n n. This numbering imposes an arbitrary ordering on the set of nodes; recall that a set is an unordered collection. Having ordered the nodes, we can form an n x n matrix where entry i,j is the number of arcs between nodes n i and n j. This matrix is called the adjacency matrix A of the graph with respect to this ordering. Thus, a ij = p where there are p arcs between n i and n j. For example, the following graph has a corresponding adjacency matrix.
22 Section 5.1Graphs and Their Representations21 Adjacency Lists Many graphs, far from being complete graphs, have relatively few arcs. Such graphs have sparse adjacency matrices; that is, the adjacency matrices contain many zeros. Yet if the graph has n nodes, it still requires n 2 data items to represent the adjacency matrix, even if many of these items are zero. Any algorithm or procedure in which every arc in the graph must be examined requires looking at all n 2 items in the matrix. A graph with relatively few arcs can be represented more efficiently by storing only the nonzero entries of the adjacency matrix. An adjacency list consists of a list for each node of all the nodes adjacent to it. Pointers are used to get us from one item in the list to the next. Such an arrangement is called a linked list. There is an array of n pointers, one for each node, to get each list started.
23 Section 5.1Graphs and Their Representations22 Adjacency Lists: Example The adjacency list for the graph of the figure on the left contains a four-element array of pointers, one for each node. The pointer for each node points to an adjacent node, which points to another adjacent node, and so forth. In the figure, the dot indicates a null pointer, meaning that there is nothing more to be pointed to or that the end of the list has been reached.
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An improved maintenance management strategy for gas field equipment in Escravos gas–to–liquid plant, Nigeria
Onyenanu, Tochukwu Emmanuel
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The safety record of most petrochemical industries in the world and Nigeria in particle, has not been able to come down to the maximum allowable range of 0 - 0.1 percent of tolerance on recordable injuries, due to increasing failure rates of equipment within the plant. Investigations on the maintenance audit carried out on the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) revealed that 85 percent of such failures are directly linked to improper adaptability of an effective maintenance management strategy and plan within the petrochemical industries in Nigeria. Equally, the growth and continuous operation of any plant depends to a large extent on the maintenance of the equipment that refines the Crude Oil and natural Gas. As such, various maintenance management systems have been used over the years for the actualisation of the above purpose but with minimal success. This is evident in the fact that the level of maintenance performance of most Nigerian Petroleum Companies is always on the corrective maintenance model, which indirectly implies that the plant normally breaks down before maintenance management is applied. A critical look at the deficiency of improper adaptability of these maintenance management plans have conspicuously manifested in five major categories of maintenance failures which includes the following; * Failure of safety critical equipment due to lack of maintenance * Human error during maintenance * Static or spark discharge during maintenance in an intrinsically unsafe zone * Incompetence of maintenance staff, and * Poor communication between maintenance and production staff. These gaps as identified in this research must be corrected in the Nigerian Gas Industry if meaningful progress is to be made. Gas – To – Liquid technology is a very complex technology and with natural gas as the basic raw material, the technology not only looks intimidating but also is full of potential hazards. People are naturally afraid of the complex nature of gas in a confined environment (because of its highly combustible nature), its gaseous state makes it more complex for it to be kept under control and at the same time be moved from one form to another at different temperatures and pressures. The maintenance audit carried out on the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) revealed some major loopholes in the maintenance management strategies adopted in the country. The audit reveals that the degree of adherence to conditions attached towards the maintenance management strategy of this equipment (in this case Gas field equipment) was too poor. Based on the above, this research is meant to improve the existing maintenance management strategy, by developing a Maintenance Management Strategy (MMS) that will be suitable for gas field equipment in the Escravos Gas–To– Liquid (EGTL) plant, planned to be commissioned in Nigeria early 2011. The need to research the above mentioned Maintenance Strategy became imperative due to the fact that the rate at which most of the petrochemical plants in the world are being gutted by fire, mainly due to poor maintenance management systems is alarming. This research work proffered solutions that will reduce or completely eliminate the highlighted problems above. This was based on investigations and analysis carried out in the chosen research area. Models were developed for the actualization of this Improved Maintenance Management Strategy (IMMS), so that the desired safe operability of the gas field equipment in the Escravos Gas–To– Liquid (EGTL) plant will be achieved without maintenance failure of any kind.
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History of DAISY
The DAISY study - The D iabetes A uto I mmunity S tudy in the Y oung - started in July 1993. The primary goal of DAISY is to learn how genes and the environment interact to trigger the onset of type 1 diabetes, the third most common chronic disease in children. In order to do this, the study follows two unique groups, children with a diabetic relative (either a sibling or parent), and children at an increased genetic risk (without a diabetic relative). While investigators have been able to find some of the most important genes which may increase the chances of developing the disease, the environmental factors and their interaction with these genes is still in question. Areas of interest are viruses, dietary factors, immuniztions, and social stressors. Continued follow-up through the child's important developmental stages will help us to gain a better understanding of the nature of diabetes, which may eventually lead towards prevention.


text: Irregular Pyramids are defined as a stack of successively reduced graphs. Each vertex of a reduced graph is associated to a set of vertices in the base level graph named its receptive field. If the initial graph is deduced from a planar sampling grid its reduced versions are planar and each receptive field is a region of the initial grid. Combinatorial Pyramids are defined as a stack of successively reduced combinatorial maps. Combinatorial maps are based on half edges named darts and the receptive field of a dart is a sequence of darts in the base level combinatorial map. We present in this paper preliminary results showing how to define regions from the receptive fields of the darts.


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Applied Behavior Analysis MS
Applicants must meet the general graduate admission requirements of the Graduate School, described in the UMSL Bulletin. Students are considered for admission to the graduate program in Applied Behavioral Analysis only after they have formally applied for admission through the Graduate School. Applications may be completed on-line.
In addition to Graduate School admission requirements, the following requirements apply:
- An undergraduate degree with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
- Letter of Intent/Statement of Purpose (1-2 pages)
- One Letter of Reference
To earn an M.S. in Applied Behavior Analysis, students must complete at least 23 credit hours of graduate-level course work, 10 credit hours of practicum experience, and at least 6 credit hours of Thesis Research for which students will be required to write and defend a thesis.
Required Foundation Courses
Students are required to complete the following courses within the first 15 credit hours of study.
|SPEC ED 6641
|Basic Principles and Concepts of Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6642
|SPEC ED 6643
|Research Methods in Applied Behavior Analysis
Students are required to complete the following courses.
|SPEC ED 6644
|Behavior Interventions in Applied Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6645
|Ethics and Professionalism in Applied Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6646
|Verbal Behavior Concepts and Applications
|SPEC ED 6647
|Advanced Concepts and Principles in Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6648
|Behavior-Based Consultation and Supervision
Required Practicum Courses
Through the course of five semesters, students are required to complete practicum courses in order to accrue the minimal hours of supervised experience required by the BACB to qualify for the BCBA exam.
|SPEC ED 6651
|Practicum I in Applied Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6652
|Practicum II in Applied Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6653
|Practicum III in Applied Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6654
|Practicum IV in Applied Behavior Analysis
|SPEC ED 6655
|Practicum V in Applied Behavior Analysis
Required Research Courses
Students take a minimum of 6 thesis credit hours (no more than 3 per semester) starting in year two of the program.
|SPEC ED 6661
|Thesis in Applied Behavior Analysis
Students are required to complete a total of 6 credit hours of thesis. The student will engage in sustained and self-motivated study through the research process, conferring with advisors, and drafting and revising a manuscript. The thesis proposal must be approved by the committee and successfully defended. A committee chair will be identified, who will consult with the student on selecting two other members for the committee.
Students will work with their committee chair to identify a thesis project such as the following but not limited to a literature review, a scholarly tutorial, or an empirical study. The thesis project should be a scholarly work related to behavior analysis.
Students are expected to follow all other general requirements of the Graduate School regarding master's degree and thesis requirements.


Display hidden fields from grid in edit form as texts
There are situation where we need to display the fields in edit form as texts, without a need to update it – just for information. In this article I will explain how to achieve this.
In Guriddo jqGrid there is no build-in way to display certain fields in forms as text for information purposes. Fortunately we have a custom functions with which we can do this.
In this example we will use custom_element and custom_value in editoptions object. The another requirement is that the field should be hidden in grid, but displayed into the form. Below are the settings in colModel which will do this:
colModel: [
 label: 'Freigh',
 name: 'Freight',
 width: 150,
 hidden : true,
 editable: true,
 edittype: "custom",
 editoptions: {
 custom_value: getFreightElementValue,
 custom_element: createFreightTextElement
 editrules : { edithidden : true }
In order not to display the field in grid, but in edit form we need to set the hidden option to true and edithidden option to true in editrules object
Now the field should be defined as editable and tell that a custom edit will be applied. This is done with editable: true and edittype: "custom" options in colModel. When a custom edit type is used we need to define two functions in editoptions – custom_element, which is responsible for the creation of our element and custom_value which is responsible for the manipulation of the value for that element. Bello are our two functions.
function createFreightTextElement(value, editOptions) {
 return $(""+value+"");
function getFreightElementValue(elem, oper, value) {
 if (oper === "set") {
 if (oper === "get") {
 return $(elem).text();
As can be seen the function which creates the element createFreightTextElement create a simple span element and append the value in this element. The function getFreightElementValue set the value in form when we walk through the records with navigator buttons (oper = set) and return the value when we push the Submit button form (oper= get). In case if there is a no need to submit this value to the server a serrializeEditData event should be defined in order to remove this Element. Below is the code that do this.
 { edit: true, add: false, del: false, search: false, refresh: true, view: false, align: "left" },
 // edit form options
 closeAfterEdit: true,
 delete data['Freight'];
 return data;
That is all. The example can be seen in our demo page here
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The aim of this School Based Assessment is to investigate unemployment in the community of Block 2E Garvey Meade, Portmore and to give or suggest recommendations that can be put in place to improve the unemployment rate in the community
Methodology EMPLOYED
In order to carry out this research the researcher will be using printed questionnaires. A questionnaire is an inexpensive way to gather data from a potentially large number of respondents, it is a series of questions written or typed and given to individuals to obtain statistically useful information about a given topic. Questionnaires were used because of its advantage to gather numerous information from different persons in a short time span, when compared to doing multiple interviews. The researcher also gathered information from other sources such as the internet and books. This was done so that the information presented was as close to a hundred percent accurate as possible.
The researcher of this assignment wanted to know the main cause and effect of unemployment in his community and how it impacts the community and its members. The researcher structured a set of five questions to aid in his effort, these are: What are the effects of unemployment?
How are the unemployed surviving?
What are some benefits of unemployment?
* What is the main reason for unemployment?
* What can be done to reduce unemployment?
The researcher collected the information presented in this S.B.A from the community of Block 2E Garvey Meade in Portmore, St. Catherine which holds approximately twenty-five households. A total of fifteen questionnaires were prepared for distribution, as the researcher thought that it was necessary to obtain answers from at least fifty percent of the inhabitants of the community. The researcher had expected for ten questionnaires to return.
The researcher wanted to ensure as much accuracy as possible...
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Configuring a Conditional Countdown and Command
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Setting up a Countdown
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Configuring a Conditional Countdown and Command
You can specify an arbitrary command that is executed when the countdown has reached 0.
Additionally, you can specify a command that determines whether the countdown is to be started.
Example use case: The countdown is running, but the user does not interact with the device in order to make the countdown stop. When the countdown has reached 0, the system checks whether a session is running, e.g. an appliance mode Citrix session. If yes, the user is logged off from this session.
If no command is set to be executed after countdown, the screen will be locked instead.
The user that issues the commands depends on the firmware version in use:
To specify the command that determines the condition:
 1. In the Setup, go to System > Registry and open the registry key sessions > xlock0 > options > countdown_condition_cmd (sessions.xlock0.options.countdown_condition_cmd).
 2. Enter the command in the field Countdown condition command. Example: pgrep wfica (determines if a Citrix session is present)
 3. Click Apply or Ok.
 If the command returns 0, the countdown or commando is started.
 If the command returns a non-zero value, the countdown or commando is not started.
To specify the command to be executed after the countdown:
 1. In the Setup, go to System > Registry and open the registry key sessions > xlock0 > options > countdown_done_cmd (sessions.xlock0.options.countdown_done_cmd).
 2. Enter the command in the field Countdown done command. Example: killall wfica (terminates the Citrix ICA client)
 The command is executed synchronously before the countdown goes away. If the command doesn't terminate quickly, it must be sent to the background by appending "&".
 3. Open the registry key sessions > xlock0 > options > countdown_done_cmd_continue (sessions.xlock0.options.countdown_done_cmd_continue) and specify whether the screensaver should be started after the command has been started.
 With IGEL Linux v5, the screensaver does not start immediately. It will be started after the idle timeout defined under User Interface > Screen Lock/Saver > Options > Timeout.
 With IGEL OS Linux 10, the screensaver is started immediately.
 4. Click Apply or Ok.


Fatty Upper Pubic Area
Fatty Upper Pubic Area
Introduction: fatty upper pubic area
What is a FUPA? FUPA, or a Fatty Upper Pubic Area, is amongst the most commonly sought-after reasons for cosmetic surgery. As the acronym describes, a FUPA is a collection of adipose tissue, or put, fat, located between the hip bones in the pubic region.
Childbirth, aging, rapid weight loss, and genetics may contribute to the formation of a FUPA. FUPA can affect both males and females and is often a significant point of contention. In females, the FUPA often becomes more apparent after a Caesarean section. This is due to a low-set incision, commonly known as a Pfannenstiel incision, which anchors the skin and subcutaneous tissues down to the underlying muscle with scar tissue. This, in turn, creates a prominence of underlying fatty tissue in the pubic area. In males, this often happens simply due to the excess of fatty tissue in the pubic area. Either male or female, the FUPA sticks out of clothes and is quite unsightly for some.
FUPA Components
The common misconception is that the only issue at hand is fat, when in fact, a FUPA can involve excess fat, skin, or both! There are several non-surgical approaches to soften the overall appearance of the FUPA. These include riding, crunches, leg raises, rollups, superman pose, burpees, pelvic tilt, and classic Pilates moves, such as The Hundred- all of which address both the fat and skin.
One should not minimize the importance of a healthy lifestyle to lose lower abdominal fatty tissue! Create a cardio routine, be mindful of what you eat, and de-stress with yoga and meditation.
Surgical Correction of FUPA
The goal of surgical correction of the FUPA is to create a gentle rather than a prominent convexity. The key to modification of a FUPA is to prevent a striking appearance, such as a concavity. These goals are achieved by understanding whether the issue at hand is related to skin redundancy or excess fat.
Excess fat may be addressed with liposuction of the FUPA, while redundant skin may be addressed with excision of the excess skin. In fact, loose skin can become a concern following FUPA skin excision is performed through a lower tummy tuck incision. An incision allows for resetting of the height of the pubic area, providing a pubic lift, and enhancing the overall appearance of the pubis.
Ideal pubic height ratios are based on the evaluation of supermodels; these distances extend from the inframammary crease to the belly button, the belly button to the upper groin, and the upper groin to the bottom of the genitals, as 44%, 38%, and 18% respectively.
Redefining FUPA: What It Is and Why It Occurs
The Fatty Upper Pubic Area, commonly known as FUPA, refers to excess fat over the area right between the hips and above the pubic bone. This condition, also known as a "panniculus," can result from childbirth, aging, rapid weight loss, and genetics.
The Psychological Impact of FUPA
Beyond the physical aspect, FUPA can have significant psychological effects, impacting self-esteem and body image. Understanding its causes and treatment options is crucial for both physical and mental well-being.
The Causes Behind FUPA
Genetics and Body Composition
Genetics plays a pivotal role in where fat is stored in the body, including the upper pubic area. Individual body composition significantly influences the likelihood and extent of FUPA.
Lifestyle Factors and Weight Fluctuations
Lifestyle choices, such as diet and exercise, and weight fluctuations, especially rapid weight loss or gain, are key contributors to the development of FUPA.
Non-Surgical Approaches to Managing FUPA
The Role of Diet and Exercise
A balanced diet and regular exercise are the first lines of defense against FUPA. Targeted exercises, while they cannot spot-reduce fat, can strengthen and tone the lower abdominal muscles, contributing to a more defined appearance (Verywell Health).
The Importance of a Healthy Lifestyle
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including proper nutrition and regular physical activity, is essential in managing and preventing FUPA.
Surgical and Cosmetic Procedures
Liposuction and Other Surgical Options
For those seeking more immediate results, surgical options like liposuction can effectively reduce fat in the upper pubic area. These procedures should be considered after evaluating all risks and benefits.
Non-Invasive Treatments
Non-invasive treatments such as CoolSculpting and Laser Assisted Lipo offer alternatives to surgery, targeting and reducing fat cells in the FUPA area.
Psychological and Emotional Considerations
The Impact of FUPA on Self-Esteem
The presence of FUPA can significantly affect an individual's self-esteem and body image. Addressing these psychological aspects is as important as treating the physical condition.
Seeking Professional Help
It's important to consult with healthcare and mental health professionals to address both the physical and emotional aspects of FUPA.
Conclusion: Fat upper pubic fat
Addressing FUPA requires a holistic approach that includes understanding its causes, exploring treatment options, and considering the psychological impact. Whether through lifestyle changes, surgical procedures, or a combination of both, it's possible to manage and reduce a fatty upper pubic fat effectively.
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In Club Penguin, players had the ability to throw snowballs. This was done by first clicking the snowball icon in the toolbar (or by pressing the T key), aiming at the target and then clicking it with the left mouse button. When a snowball hit something, it made a "squish" sound. In addition, some objects around the island could also be interacted with using snowballs in certain ways, such as the Clock Tower.
Snowballs were often used in snowball fights, or when a penguin was annoyed or mad at someone. Another possible usage was to "point" or show other penguins where an object is, such as a pin.
Snowballs were also used to operate certain devices, such as the Island Lifter 3000, the Snowball Power Generator and the watering system which used to be at the Mine Shack. Some of these devices had a main usage in parties, such as the machine at the Cliff, which was used to proceed in the quest of the Wilderness Expedition 2011.
In several rooms or during certain parties, snowballs turned into different items (such as food, bubbles, water balloons, paint balloons, trash, etc.). During Marvel Super Hero Takeovers, snowballs thrown while wearing Super Gloves were given special properties, such as freezing certain targets.
In addition, snowballs thrown by Herbert and Sam the Sasquatch had a unique sprite. While Herbert hit a penguin with a snowball, the player would be buried in a pile of snow.
- In almost all the rooms during the Water Parties, the snowballs turned into Water Balloons.
- This was one of the first times where a snowball had special type.
- If you threw a snowball in the Box Dimension, it bounced up and down in the air before it touched the ground, which could mean that the Box Dimension did not follow normal physics laws.
- The Underwater replaced the snowballs with bubbles.
- The Recycling Plant replaced the snowballs with a variety of recyclable items.
- In the Water Dojo, snowballs turned into Water Balloons.
- In almost all the rooms during the Adventure Party: Temple of Fruit, the snowballs turned into fruit.
- During the Star Wars Takeover, if you wore the Stormtrooper Helmet and Stormtrooper Costume while you were in another Planet, snowballs were laser shots.
- The School replaced the snowballs with paper balls (if thrown in the classroom) and Pizza (if thrown in the cafeteria).
- In the Puffle Hotel Spa, snowballs turned into soap bubbles. If you threw it at a penguin, it was covered in bubbles.
- In the Mall, snowballs turned into coins, a reference to how you "make a wish" and toss a coin into a fountain.
- During all of the Puffle Parties, the snowballs were replaced by Puffle O's in the Puffle Feeding Area. Also, the snowballs were replaced by plastic balls in the Forest, except for the Puffle Party 2011 and the Puffle Party 2013.
- At the Pizza Parlor during Camp Penguin, penguins who threw snowballs would throw pizza instead.
- During the April Fools' Party 2008, the snowballs in the Lighthouse and the Beacon were replaced by paint balls.
- In both the Water Parties, the snowballs were replaced by water balloons.
- If you threw a snowball in the Forest during the Holiday Party 2009, it would become an ornament so you could "decorate" the tree.
- During the April Fools' Party 2010, snowballs changed into tomatoes, pizzas, and other snacks. At the Dock, it changed to paintballs.
- At the Medieval Party 2010, in the first challenge of Ye Knight's Quest 2, when a snowball was thrown anywhere, it would melt to water.
- During the Music Jam 2010, if you threw a snowball in the Casa Fiesta room, it would turn into confetti.
- During the 5th Anniversary Party, if you threw a snow ball, it will turn into a red, green, yellow, purple, or whatever color you were wearing.
- During the Holiday Party 2010 and 2011, if you threw a snowball in the Lighthouse or Beacon it would turn into a coin. If you threw a snowball in the??? room it would turn into an ornament.
- During the Island Adventure Party 2011 if you threw a snowball on the Iceberg, it would turn into a fish.
- During the Underwater Expedition, if you threw a snowball, it would slide down to the left because of the island being tilted.
- During the Marvel Super Hero Takeover 2012, wearing one of the three super gloves, the Icy Power Gloves, the Cosmic Power Gloves, and the Lightning Power Gloves would throw a specific kind of power snowball.
- During Adventure Party: Temple of Fruit, the snowballs were replaced with fruit.
- During The Fair 2012 on the Iceberg, the snowballs were replaced with paint balls.
- During Operation: Blackout, members could throw extra large snowballs by wearing the Herbert Disguise.
- During Holiday Party 2012, in the Bakery Penguins could throw snowballs and snowballs would change into ingredients for cookies depending where they stood.
- Players transformed as Frost Bites could throw snowballs, and snowballs would change into freezing snowballs, and you could freeze penguins and other decorated objects.
- When Dinosaurs threw snowballs at Penguins at the Prehistoric Party 2013, it was puke.
- Also during the Prehistoric Party 2013, if you throw a snowball while wearing a prehistoric item, you would throw meat to give to dinosaurs.
- During the Hollywood Party, if you are wearing the Digital Camera the flash will appear and the stars will appear on the other penguin, this means you can see the white squares on the Become a Director catalog.
- During the Marvel Super Hero Takeover 2013, the snowballs were power snowballs if you used power gloves. The snowballs can be increased to a bigger size if you control a robot to throw a snowball.
- During the Medieval Party 2013, you can breathe fire if you turn into an Ultimate Mega Dragon and you can throw a spell when you put on the Wizardly Jacket, Wizardly Hat and Magical Wand.
- During the Holiday Party 2013, if you threw a snowball at the Dock, it would turn into an ornament.
- During the Future Party, snowballs turned into certain types of missiles depending of the robot you were using in certain rooms of the Future Club Penguin Island.
- During the Penguin Prom, if you threw a snowball at the School, it would turn into a graduation cap.
- During the Frozen Party, members could unlock frozen snowballs to freeze rooms by collecting all of the magic snowflakes hidden around the island.
- The Marshmallow transformation could also throw giant snowballs.
- During Pi Day, if you throw a snowball in the Mine Shack, it would turn into a pie.
Club Penguin App
Players who had the Club Penguin App could throw snowballs at their online friends; which was displayed as a big snowball on the screen. When clicking the snowball, a message popped up and asked if the friend wanted to throw back a snowball.
- There was a bug in the Mine Shack, when you threw a snowball it would be round at the tracks. This bug was later fixed.
- The maximum amount of snowballs in a room was 10. If another snowball was thrown, the earliest one was removed.
- Snowballs could be used to rotate the target at the Clock Tower.
- When Rockhopper threw a snowball, Yarr pulled out a mini-telescope and looked after it.
- Bouncer, the Elite Puffle, was specially trained to throw snowballs.
- Third-party cheating programs allowed penguins to throw snowballs off-screen.
- The F.I.S.H. catalog said not to report penguins for throwing snowballs at you.
- There was a server named 'Snowball'.
- The icon of the snowball was changed on April 17, 2014, as part of the toolbar update that took place during the Puffle Party 2014.
- If a penguin was in a certain position on a chair or an item, when hit by a snowball, they went through it.
- If you held the 'T' key and rapidly clicked, you could throw snowballs extremely fast, though this was only client side.
- In an unknown update, if a player got hit by a snowball, they could not perform any action such as waving or dancing. To do so, the player needed to move to another point of the room first.
- A giant snowball appears on the Club Penguin: Game Day! logo and game disc.


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Given a binary tree, Find the Maximum Path Sum between Any Two Leaves
Objective: Given a binary tree, Find the maximum path sum from one leaf node to another.
Input: A binary tree.
- Now we will calculate the max path sum between two leaves node
- So our max path will be either on the left sub tree OR
- Our max path will be either on the right sub tree OR
- Our max path will have some part in left and some part in right and passes through through the root
- Take a variable say, "maxSoFar=0" this will our final result.
- Do postOrder traversal, This will give you result from left and right subtree
- Now at each node calcuate sumCurrent =Max of (result of leftSubtree,result of RightSubtree, result of leftSubtree+result of RightSubtree + Root data)
- if(maxSoFar


Trading The Butterfly Pattern
The Butterfly pattern, discovered by Bryce Gilmore, is a reversal chart pattern that consists of four distinct swings in the market.
The rules to identify the Butterfly trading pattern are strict and requires the use of certain Fibonacci ratios that were made public by Scott Carney.
If you use ratios from Fibonacci to identify certain patterns, you are essentially trading a harmonic pattern which the Butterfly pattern is considered as.
In this article, you are going to learn a Butterfly Pattern trading strategy that includes:
 1. How to identify the Butterfly pattern using the required Fibonacci retracement and extension ratios
 2. How to calculate your stop loss level
 3. Where to set your profit target
These types of patterns, harmonic patterns, are not for everyone.
You must buy into Fibonacci as a means of trading and believe there is an edge in doing so.
That said, one important aspect of the Butterfly trading pattern is an A-B=C-D formation and that is something I personally use as a rule of thumb for profit targets and potential turning points. It does not have to be an exact match
How To Identify A Butterfly Harmonic Pattern
The Butterfly pattern is similar to the Gartely as both form a warped "W" or "M" shape. The difference is the Gartley is considered a completed pattern when a Fibonacci retracement ratio and an extension level coincide
The Butterfly is considered to be complete when two Fibonacci extensions coincide.
For the Butterfly pattern to be found, we need four points in the market: X, A, B, C and D, which is considered a Potential Reversal Zone and not a point.
It is this location you would look for a trade position.
Each swing has a relationship to another which are specific Fibonacci numbers and are needed to validate the swings:
 - AB leg should equal 78.6% retracement of the XA leg
 - BC leg should be between 38.2 and 88.6% retrace of the A-B leg
 - C-D swing is 168 to 261.8% extension of A-B swing
 - The most important number in this pattern is the 127% extension of the XA leg
 - Both bullish butterfly patterns and bearish patterns use the same ratios
bearish butterfly trading pattern
This is an example of a Bearish Butterfly Pattern where we would want to short a reversal. The red star is the Potential Reversal Zone and you would look to position in the trade in that zone.
Because the reversal zone can be known ahead of time (1.27% extension of X-A / 1.68-2.618% ext of A-B), you can set an alert for when price enters this zone.
How To Trade The Butterfly Pattern
Tradingview has a superb tool (XABCD pattern) for drawing the Butterfly pattern but it can also be done with the Fibonacci tool.
butterfly chart patterns
 1. This is the X point and is the first place we click with the tool
 2. This ending forms that XA swing
 3. We click at this point and we get the AB leg (70% retrace in this example)
 4. Clicking here gives us the BC leg (C ends at an 87.9% pullback against the AB leg)
 5. This is the Potential Reversal Zone and completes the CD leg (This forms a 153% extension of XA leg and 235% extension of BC leg
Remember, the Potential Reversal Zone is known in advance.
The following chart shows the same chart using Fibonacci retracements and extensions. After point four ( BC leg) has completed, you can then project upwards to find the zones and mark off the areas of interest.
potential reversal zone of butterfly pattern
The red zone is the 1.618 extension of the BC leg and the 1.272 (1.618) extension of the XA leg. This is the minimum zone and you would prefer to have a price closer to the 1.272 end of the zone.
The yellow zone includes the extreme extension level of the BC leg and the minimum 1.272 of the XA leg.
While the hard and fast rule is the AB leg must be a retract 78.6% of XA leg, let's agree that markets are not exact and close is close enough.
Stop Loss Location + Profit Targets
Every method of trading should have a stop loss and the harmonic Butterfly pattern has a built-in stop-loss location.
Your stop loss on a short reversal trade should go just beyond the trading zone outlined via the Fib ratios. Some traders, if the price has not breached the 1.618 extension of the XA leg, will put their stop loss above that location.
Profit targets can be Fibonacci retracements of the entire CD leg. You can also trail your stop above each high (for a short) each time a new low is made
stop loss profit targets for butterfly trading pattern
When considering profits, use the levels as zones and monitor price action. What we don't want to see is strong momentum against our positions and remember that Fibonacci levels hold no magic in the markets.
Learn to line up the levels with actual support and resistance levels that may affect the direction of price.
Butterfly Pattern – A Twist
The important numbers of the Butterfly are the 78.6% level and the 127% extension level. We can use those two levels to form the bones of a trading strategy.
This is an uptrend and we pull the Fibs from highs to low.
When price meets the 78.6% level, we take a long position with the 127% extension level as our price target.
Note that at the top of the chart where the red X is located, price did not breach the 78.6% level and therefore there is no long trade taken. We then reverse to trading shorts.
Trading Reactions
Another method that will utilize the same important ratios of the Butterfly pattern allows us to play both sides of the trend.
In this case, we are trading the break of the 78.6% level and taking profits at that 127% level.
The yellow dashes are the break of the 78.6 levels and the yellow splash is the 127 level where you'd take profits and reverse if possible.
We will then look to see a reaction in the opposite direction of our previous trade. We are looking to take advantage of:
 - Momentum once price breaks the 78.6% level
 - Reversal momentum once price hits the 127% level, reverses, and traps traders that must exit.
The last trade on the right is a current long that just broke the 78.6% level.
As for stop locations, you could use a ratio of 61.8 to tuck your stop behind
Butterfly Pattern Trading Strategy Wrap Up
The Butterfly pattern can be simple to spot when you see a pullback (AB leg) from the initial XA leg. You will then look for a higher low (uptrend) that would form the end of the BC leg.
The stop loss and price targets are built-in which takes much discretion out of the Butterfly strategy.
The biggest issue for a trader is defining swings in the market that can be used to draw the pattern. The rule of thumb is to use a swing that is obvious.
Look around your charts for the pattern and define your trading rules for a Butterfly strategy or for the last two just mentioned.
To learn about the price patterns I prefer, please download your free Price Pattern Guide
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Youkai Drifter
Youkai drifters are sensitive to the happenings of the spirit world, as well as the mysterious youkai who flit between it and the mortal realm. Compared to other rangers, youkai drifters come about their trade not by choice, but by happenstance or inheritance. The gift of spiritual sensitivity is fleetingly rare, after all, and most youkai drifters are inspired to take up their trade after a childhood of fleeing from terrible spirits that only they ever seemed to be able to see. Such rangers are usually found in places where the divide between the world of spirits and the world of mortals is dangerously thin, but they travel anywhere that the fates of mortals and youkai are intertwined.
Ranger Level Feature
3rd Ritual Casting, Spirit Sense
7th Rites of Banishment
11th Rites of the Shikigami
15th Rites of the Sealed Name
Ritual Casting
Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to cast purify food and drink and speak with animals, but only as rituals. You gain the ability to cast additional spells as rituals at the levels specified on the following table. If a spell doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.
Ranger Level Spells
3rd purify food and drink, speak with animals
7th beast sense, locate animals or plants
15th speak with plants, water breathing
18th banishment, locate creature
20th seeming, scrying
Spirit Sense
Starting at 3rd level, you become sensitive to the presence and goings-on of youkai. You have a special sense that allows you to perceive youkai that are normally imperceptible, as well as objects and structures related to them. Most aberrations, beasts with magical abilities, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, and monstrosities are considered youkai, as well as most non-humanoid creatures with the shapechanger tag. This sense doesn't foil magic that renders such creatures invisible, such as invisibility, but it does negate invisibility gained from special traits, such as that of an invisible stalker. You also gain proficiency in the Insight and Perception skills. If you are already proficient in these skills, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with them when used against a youkai.
The GM decides which creatures qualify as youkai for the purpose of this feature, with oni and rakshasa being the most common examples.
Rites of Banishment
Starting at 7th level, you learn secrets that allow you to banish or seal away youkai. You gain the ability to cast banishment and imprisonment, but only as rituals. You can only target youkai, as defined by the spirit sense feature, whose challenge rating or level is equal to or less than your level with these spells. Since the GM has the final say over what creatures qualify as youkai, they also have the final say over what creatures you can banish or imprison with these spells.
When you cast banishment or imprisonment as a ritual, you can choose to target a 10-foot-radius area instead of a creature. If you do, the first youkai to enter that area within the next 10 minutes becomes the target of the spell.
Rites of the Shikigami
At 11th level, you can conduit a ritual that binds a youkai to your service. Choose a youkai that is no larger than Medium and that has a challenge rating of 1/4 or lower. That creature becomes a shikigami companion that accompanies you on your adventures. Add your proficiency bonus to the shikigami's AC, attack rolls, and damage rolls, as well as to any saving throws and skills it is proficient in. Its hit point maximum equals the hit point number in its stat block or four times your ranger level, whichever is higher. Like any creature, it can spend Hit Dice during a short rest oo regain hit points.
The shikigami obeys your commands as best as it can. It takes its turn on your initiative, though it doesn't take an action unless you command it to. On your turn, you can verbally command the shikigami where to move (no action required by you). You can use your action to verbally command it to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Help action. Once you have the Extra Action feature, you can make one weapon attack yourself when you command the shikigami to take the Attack action. If you are incapacitated or absent, the shikigami acts on its own, focused on protecting you and itself. The shikigami never requires your command to use its reaction, such as when making an opportunity attack.
While traveling through your favored terrain with only the shikigami, you can move stealthily at a normal pace.
If the shikigami dies, you can obtain a new shikigami by spending 8 hours magically bonding with a willing youkai that isn't hostile to you and that meets the requirements.
Rites of the Sealed Name
At 15th level, you are able to perform a ritual that grants you possession over a youkai's name, binding them to your service.
You gain the ability to cast planar binding as a 9th-level, but only as a ritual. You can bind any youkai with this ritual rather than being restricted to celestials, elementals, fey, and fiends only.
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Understanding Sharepoint 2013 Distributed Cache Service, Microblogs and feeds
All started with the new sharpoint 2013 newsfeed web part. Suddenly it displayed me an error message saying;
"The operation failed because the server could not access the distributed cache. Internal type name: Microsoft.Office.Server.Microfeed.MicrofeedException. Internal error code: 55. Contact your system administrator for help in resolving this problem
Then I had to understand what is Distributed Cache first. Here's what i've gone through, from its design to configurations and finally some known issues. From the bottom line what Distributed Cache (DC) does is, it enables cacheing functionality for some key sharepoint features including;
 - Newsfeeds
 - Authentication
 - OneNote client access
 - Page load performance
 - Security Trimming
Mainly microblog features and feeds are rely on the DC to store data for very fast retrieval across all entities. The Distributed Cache service is built on Windows Server AppFabric, which implements the AppFabric Caching service.
The Architecture – How social feeds works with Distributed Cache
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Activities are posts and replies that can be either user-generated or system-generated. There are several types of activities in SharePoint Server 2013. These include the following:
 - Microblog activities This includes posts, replies, likes, mentions, or tagging an item.
 - Following activities This includes when a user follows people, documents, sites, or tags.
 - User profile activities This includes birthday, job title change, anniversary, updates made to Ask Me About, creating a new blog post, or posting on a Community Site.
 - Document activities This includes when a document is edited or a document is shared.
In SharePoint Server 2013, the newsfeed (or just simply the feed) displays activity information to users. Users access the feeds from a user's My Site. In SharePoint Server 2013, a user's My Site has several feeds available from which to choose. These different feeds show different views of activity information by filtering or pivoting on activity metadata. The different feeds available to users from their My Sites include the following:
 - Newsfeed This is the default view when visiting a user's My Site. The Newsfeed contains recent activities from followed entities. The Newsfeed displays 20 items and is sorted in reverse chronological order. Items listed in the Newsfeed are activities from entities a user follows, and conversations from any site feeds the user follows. Site feeds are explained later in this article.
 - Everyone The Everyone feed shows the last 20 posts or replies across all users. The distinction between the Everyone feed and the Newsfeed is that theNewsfeed only shows activities from entities the user is following.
 - Activities The Activities feed shows all activities associated with a user, including system-generated activities. The Activities feed represents the most accurate view of a user's activities because it shows all activities and not just recent activities, which occurs with the Newsfeed. This feed is also seen when users browse to their profile or About Me page for a user.
 - Mentions The Mentions feed for a user displays all posts or replies where that user was mentioned.
 - Likes The Likes feed displays a list of posts or replies that the user has liked. This is not related to the I Like It feature from SharePoint Server 2010.
 - Site feeds Activities are publicly accessible unless the activity refers to content that the user does not have access to. If feed functionality is required for a restricted group of users, a site feed should be used. Site feeds display posts and replies among the users of the group. Site feed posts and replies display in the Newsfeed of a user only if the user has access to the site feed. Site feeds do not display system-generated activities. By default, the site feed feature on a team site is enabled.
The microblog features and feeds rely on the following two caches: the Last Modified Time Cache and the Feed Cache.
 - Feed Cache The Feed Cache stores recent activities and recent conversations for all entities
 - Last Modified Time Cache The Last Modified Time Cache is used to determine the last modified time for all items in the Feed Cache.
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Considerations when implementing Distributed Cache
 - An administrator can allocate memory to the Distributed Cache. This allocation significantly affects the performance of the Distributed Cache service
 - Consider using a dedicated Distributed Cache server when you use the newsfeed and microblog features.
 - If you are using custom applications in SharePoint Server 2013 which use the AppFabric client APIs, or are creating custom caches, you should create a separate AppFabric cache cluster to support your custom applications. Do not use the AppFabric cache cluster supporting your SharePoint Server 2013 farm. Run your separate AppFabric cache cluster for your custom applications on separate servers from the servers dedicated to your SharePoint Server 2013 farm.
 - In a SharePoint Server 2013 farm, there must be at least one cache host running the Distributed Cache service.
 - On a server that has more than 16 GB of total physical memory, allocate a maximum of 16 GB of memory to the Distributed Cache service. If you allocate more than 16 GB of memory to the Distributed Cache service, the server might unexpectedly stop responding for more than 10 seconds.
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Warning – Important Safety Tip
 1. Do not administer the Distributed Cache through the Service window in Administrative Tools under Control Panel, or through the AppFabric for Windows Server application on the Start menu. This could get the Distributed Cache service into a state where you might need to rebuild your farm.
 2. Microsoft recommends you avoid starting a Distributed Cache service instance on servers that are already running SQL Server, Search, Excel Services or Project Services.
 3. If you plan to have more than one Cache Host, the first server added should be configured to allow inbound ICMPv4 traffic.
 4. The right way to start the service is with the Add-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance PowerShell cmdlet. You run this on a SharePoint server you would like to add to your Cache Cluster, which makes the current server a Cache Host. Simply stopping the service instance would cause the contents of the cache on that server to go missing, degrading performance.
Some common issue related to Distributed Cache
 - Sharepoint 2013 Newsfeed does not display feeds, follows, everyone etc.
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Yammer or Sharepoint for Document Collaboration
With SharePoint and Yammer integration roadmap advancing, and Microsoft's advice is clear (Go Yammer!), customers and would-be customers of both products are recognizing overlaps in functionality and asking questions around how the two products could (and should) run side-by-side.
The inconvenient truth, at this stage, is that there is no one-size-fits-all answer. How organisations use the platforms side-by-side will depend on a range of unique factors, such as current adoption and levels of customization. Underpinning any strategy should be a solid understanding of the technical scope of each product, and where that scope overlaps.
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SharePoint DocumentSet vs Folders
Once i was thinking that DocumnetSet is same as a folder in SharePoint. So i did some readings and found this.
It says;
"There is a difference between a folder in SharePoint and a folder on your desktop. Microsoft made them look the same in the GUI to make it easier on users, but that's where it stops. In SharePoint, a folder is simply a "view". In other words, it is a way to limit the number of items the database displays. If you look at the URL, it's a long complicated way of saying only show me the stuff assigned to this naming designation.
So if folders are views in SharePoint, why can't I change them like views? You got me there. Somewhere along the line, the capabilities of the "folder" view and the "normal" view diverged and different rules applied. For example, I can add unique permissions to folders, but I can't add column properties. The opposite is true for views."
The point is in SharePoint 2010, Microsoft decided to change how it thought about Content Management. Since content types have caught on as the best way to solve the problem of "a single set of rules and naming conventions," they started to think how they could exploit that scenario to group things together. THUS, the document set.
A document set is a group of related documents that can be created in one step and then managed as a single entity. A document set is not a view, but a special content type. It is managed and deployed from a site collection level. You can create custom document set content types with site columns and managed metadata. You can apply unique permissions to document sets. You can view a document set's version history. You can trigger workflows within a document set."
Here is the Complete article i've found.
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Unable to view uploaded documents in Sharepoint Meeting Workspace
This is something interesting. I've found this while I was developing an event management app. So apparently I was selected the Meeting Workspace Site Definition. The problem occurs when I was uploading a document to a document library. In here we can't use SPFile.CopyTo(); So I used
SPSite site = SPContext.Current.Site;
SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web;


I need a 8 m x 4 m x 0.6 m RC plinth (mechanical requirement) which needs to be built onto loose gravel. Obviously I am going to over excavate, back fill with selected material and bed my plinth on that.
The plinth accommodates 2 x 65 m3 water tanks, placed symmetrically. The tanks are $\phi$3 m, 9 m high and weigh 796 kN when full. The wind load on each creates a 206 kNm moment and horizontal force of 38 kN.
I need to design the plinth for bending and check the soil for shear failure. I assume the max. bearing capacity of the soil to be 150 kPa.
I want to simulate this using FEM. How do I address the support conditions. I understand that I should use springs as supports, but how would I get the equivalent spring constants if my spring is soil?
 - $\begingroup$ What is the purpose of the FEA? Is this a learning exercise, or do you just want to design the tank foundation and think that FEA is the way to go? Your answer to this comment is crucial as it differentiates between putting you in a world of hurt (and much cost) or a rather simple RC design... $\endgroup$ – Paul Uszak Dec 4 '15 at 21:52
 - $\begingroup$ This is a real design, for a real project. My design suite has a module that employs FEA for beams on elastic supports, i.e. ground beams. This module does meshing and modelling the springs in the background. But I wish to understand the FEA modelling side so I can use the 3D modelling software to do the same. $\endgroup$ – SlydeRule Dec 5 '15 at 5:27
Before jumping into elastic support conditions, you have to realise that it's not a ground beam. For three reasons:
 1. With a minor axis width to depth ratio of 6ish, it's not far away from a square. If you stick a wide support somewhere near the ends of the section, the load will simply arch over the supports in pure compression. You'd almost be able to build it in brickwork!
 2. Ground beams by definition span between supports. Your plinth is continuously supported by the fill. It's a raft if anything.
 3. Also, how will you apply the moment? Water does't transfer bending moment.
The approximations suggested by Wasabi of the ground elasticity will totally negate your efforts at an accurate assessment of stresses within both the supports and the plinth.
If you're going to use an FEA analysis, you'll be looking at modelling the plinth as several layers of concrete cubes, sat on several more layers of cubes of fill, all within a surrounding matrix of cubes representing the gravel. If you're designing a skyscraper have at it, otherwise the soil investigations and modelling effort required would make this one of the most over designed structures I've ever seen. Do the following:
 1. Treat the plinth as infinitely stiff
 2. Check that the allowable bearing pressure isn't exceeded by either the dead weigh with a uniform ground pressure, or a triangular ground pressure due to the moment when the tanks are empty, or both.
 3. Design the plinth for bending and shear due to the same load patterns
 4. Ignore the lateral 38. The plinth won't slide due to self weight and friction.
You could do this in an afternoon after getting back from the pub. Flippancy aside, I've done similar (your approach) for a multimillion pound project. Don't. It's a pig.
What you need is the modulus of subgrade reaction (MSR) of the soil. This is a measure of soil deflection under a given pressure, so the unit is in (for example) kPa/m, or equivalently, as I'm more accustomed to see it, kN/m3.
MSR is obtained via plate-bearing tests, but there are also quite a few different tables that give some "typical values" for different soil compositions (obtained via plate-bearing tests). That being said, these tables can present huge ranges for a given soil type. I've found some tables here (page 37), here (Table C.3 on pages _PHONE_) and here (Table 1.2 page 16).
Technically this does not mean, however, that you can simply get the MSR and multiply it by the tributary area of each element since MSR isn't a soil property but a shorthand for the interaction between the soil and the foundation (different foundation sizes and shapes imply in different MSR values). There are equations you can use to find the corrected MSR, references to which can be found here (section 5.2.2 starting on page 128).
That being said, I have seen some people (including books) simply adopt the default MSR, so do that at your own risk. Foundations aren't my specialty, so I can't even say how significant the correction equation is.
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The question you asked is one that is commonly discussed, but unfortunately, one which does not have a definitive answer. There are very little data in the literature regarding the stability of epinephrine in an automatic epinephrine injector exposed to temperatures outside the recommended range. I know of none that have looked at the effect of one day of storage out of this range. There is one study of which I am aware by Dr. Simons and colleagues (see abstract copied below) that has addressed this issue in terms of longer periods of time.
I have also copied below the instructions for storage (suggested ranges of temperature) to assure stability of the injectors for both the EpiPen and the Auvi-Q. As you can see, they are relatively similar instructions.
However, in practice, it is quite common for patients to be forced to store their injectors in temperature ranges outside of those recommended by the package insert. The manner in which one handles this, however, is based upon experience and clinical judgment without any evidence-based guidelines. Thus the only opinion I can offer you is not based on either consensus recommendation, or evidence-based, published literature.
However, unless the epinephrine in the autoinjector has frozen (and requires re-thawing), I would not replace an injector after one night or day of storage outside the recommended range.
Thank you again for your inquiry and we hope this response is helpful to you.
Long-term stability of epinephrine dispensed in unsealed syringes for the first-aid treatment of anaphylaxis
Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
Volume 102, Issue 6, June 2009, Pages 500–503
Background: When epinephrine autoinjectors are unavailable or unaffordable, patients at risk for anaphylaxis in the community are sometimes provided with an unsealed syringe containing a premeasured epinephrine dose for use in first-aid treatment of anaphylaxis episodes.
Objectives: To study the stability of epinephrine solution in unsealed syringes under conditions of high ambient temperature, low vs high humidity, and light vs dark.
Methods: Forty unsealed syringes each containing an epinephrine dose of 0.3 mg (as a 1-mg/mL epinephrine solution) were stored at 38°C for 5 months, with 10 syringes at each of 4 different standardized storage conditions: dark and light at low (15%) humidity and dark and light at high (95%) humidity. Duplicate syringes were removed monthly from each storage environment and analyzed for epinephrine content vs control syringes.
Results: The epinephrine dose, expressed as the percentage remaining of the mean control dose, was below compendial limits (90% to 115% of label claim) by 3 months after storage at 38°C and low humidity and by 4 months after storage at 38°C and high humidity. Light had no significant effect.
Conclusion: In hot climates, if an unsealed syringe prefilled with an epinephrine dose is provided for the first-aid treatment of anaphylaxis, it should be replaced every few months on a regular basis with a new syringe containing a fresh dose of epinephrine.
Storage and Stability
Always store EpiPen® or EpiPen® Jr in the carrier tube with the blue safety release on until you need to use it. Store at 25°C (77°F); EXCURSIONS PERMITTED TO 15° - 30°C (59 ° - 86°F).
Do not refrigerate. Protect from light. Periodically check to make sure the solution in the auto-injector is not brown in color. Replace if it is discolored or contains a precipitate.
16.2 Storage and Handling
Epinephrine is light sensitive and should be stored in the outer case provided to protect it from light. Store at 20°-25°C (68°-77°F); excursions permitted to 15°-30°C (59°-86°F). Do not refrigerate. Before using, check to make sure the solution in the auto-injector is clear and colorless. Replace the auto-injector if the solution is discolored, cloudy, or contains particles.
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Be stoked this school year! Bring Makey Makey to your classroom.
Chain Reactions with Strawbees and Makey Makey
Gamify your chain reaction by using a Strawbees grabber connected to Makey Makey to start a timer in Scratch when you grab a conductive egg. Drop the egg on the Strawbees roller coaster track. When the egg rolls into the egg drop, it stops the timer.
Build Strawbees Inventions
 Build a roller coaster track and mechanical arm or grabber with Strawbees!
Some resources to get you started playing with these chain reaction elements:
The Strawbees roller coaster track tutorial
The Strawbees Mechanical Arm or Grabber
 Make sure you've printed this STL File to hold Makey Makey onto your Strawbees inventions. (Thank you Erik T for creating this 3D printing file!)
 Here is what our full project in action looks like!
 Code a Timer in Scratch and Recorder Variable
 To create a timer in Scratch, you'll want to create a variable and name it "Seconds timer." You need to code your timer to "set to 0" when the green flag is clicked.
 To have the timer start with a key press, use the "When up arrow is pressed" hat to trigger the timer. Place a "wait 1 sec" stacking block from the control palette in side a "forever" loop and attach a "change seconds timer by 1" to the "wait 1 sec block. Now Scratch will count up by 1 second forever! This is one quick and easy way to code your own timer.
 You'll want to use another key press to stop the timer. By placing the "if __ then" block underneath the "change timer by" block, you can tell Scratch what to do if another key is pressed. Find the "key pressed" sensing block in the sensing palette. This block checks to see if a specific key is pressed.
 So our code here is triggered by the up arrow and changes the timer by 1 every second forever unless the "space" key is pressed. If the "space key is pressed" then the timer script is stopped.

 To record the time it takes for your egg to drop, you need the following code to set the "record time." For fun we also added a cloud variable, so for now, our way to check if we need to "record the time" is set to record if it is less than the current longest time of our "longest time variable."
 See our full Scratch game here, and use the code pictures below to help you with your Scratch project.

 Make Strawbees Grabber into a Makey Makey Switch
 In this step, you are going to make your grabber into a Makey Makey switch! You'll wire one grabber to the "up arrow" to start the timer, and the other side of the grabber to "EARTH." When the two sides pick up the foil covered egg (or ball) it will complete the circuit and start the timer in Scratch.

 Making a Connection
 To wire the grabber, you'll use foil for the hands, and some conductive copper tape to create your wiring. Make sure the two copper traces never touch or you will accidentally set off your circuit. For the hinges, we left the backing on our tape so it could be flexible. (Like a bandaid!)
 Then hook one alligator clip to your straw and the "up arrow" and one alligator clip to the other connection and "EARTH."

 Create an Egg Drop Landing Switch
 Build your Egg drop lander however you want! Ours was designed by an 11 YO. To wire the landing bed as a switch, use two copper tape traces and connect some foil to the edge of your Strawbees landing pad. Make sure there is an air gap between the two flaps of foil. When the egg lands on the foil, it will press the two pieces together and trigger the "space key" on your Makey Makey.
 We used this STL file from Strawbees Inventor Erik Thorstensson to attach our Makey Makey to the Strawbees Egg drop landing pad.

 Connect Makey Makey to Scratch
 Plug in your USB and test your start and stop timer! Here is the whole project described and played during our webinar with Strawbees!
 We'd love to see your projects! Make sure to tag us on social if you make something like this project.

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Innovation economics professor Knut Blind tells us why standards are key to surviving in a highly complex 21st-century global economy.
Innovation and standardization might seem polar opposites, but over many years various scholars have noted connections – very close ones, even – between the two. ISOfocus sat down with renowned researcher and professor Knut Blind to discuss the relationship – and "rules of the game" – and provide insights into how this knowledge can be useful to scholars, industrial strategists, policymakers and standards practitioners alike. What he says very much supports the notion that standardization and standards can be used to promote innovation. Here are a few highlights from the interview.
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- n. Alternative form of knockoff.
- v. Used other than as an idiom: see knock, off.
- v. transitive To bump or hit so that something falls off
- v. idiomatic, intransitive To quit; stop doing work or other activity. The term originated from the practice aboard slave galleys to have a man beat time for the rowers by knocking on a block or drum; when he stopped, the rowers could rest.
- v. idiomatic To kill someone
- v. idiomatic To reduce or remove
- v. idiomatic To steal.
- v. transitive To make a copy of, as of a design.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See knock off in the vocabulary.
- n. a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.
- v. to quit (working).
- v. to accomplish; -- frequently used when the task is accomplished rapidly.
- v. colloq. to kill; to defeat (opponents).
- v. to discount, to deduct (a sum from a price).
- v. to rob.
- v. to make a knockoff of; to copy or imitate, usually without permission or admission of copying.
- v. cut the price of
- v. write quickly
- v. take by theft
- v. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- v. stop pursuing or acting
"To build Rijeka all they had to do was knock off chunks of rock, roll them down to the edge of the valley, stack them in rectangles, and top the rectangles with thatched roofs; and that was all they had done, about the time Columbus started across the Atlantic to find India."
"That a deep, hungry team could add a post-up scoring threat like seven-footer James Edwards obtained from Phoenix Suns in midseason, the Pistons had all the tools to knock off Boston."
"There's diurnal fluctuation in the grounding line, of course, about three metres as the tide goes up and down, and eventually the abrasion will knock off enough ice at the bottom to unbalance the berg."
"So he was called Scraps, and, since he was nobody's dog, was everybody's dog -- so much so, that Mr. Jackson promised to knock Ah Moy's block off if he did not feed the puppy well, while Sigurd Halvorsen, in the forecastle, did his best to knock off Henrik Gjertsen's block when the latter was guilty of kicking Scraps out of his way."
"We got to run the mangle to-night, but Thursday we'll knock off at six."
"He had previously beaten not only Dick Nixon, a former vice-president of the United States, but U.S. Senator William F. Knowland, an Oakland publisher who was another Republican powerhouse in California, and I suspect he thought it would be even easier to knock off this newcomer to politics from Hollywood."
"The Skipper' "At some point all of us wanted to knock off Marcia—and so I did," says Roxanne Diesel, author of the Brady script."
"No one's expecting another 30-something-point game Monday, but Heat coach Erik Spoelstra knows it'll take one of those efforts to knock off the Cavs."
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Re: Re: Urgent : HOW to Extract rdf data from xml file
From: amit_opus
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:41:50 +0530
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"S. Mike Dierken" wrote:
Hi,
 Thanks for replying. I know that XSLT is used to transform XML to RDF.
I have visited the site
It provides the rdfExtractify.xsl to convert xml to rdf, but the output as show on the site is not easily understood. I have tried the same file, but still it provides a very long RDF file as output.
I am providing a sample input and output of what i want.
<webmaster> linda </webmaster>
<rdf:Description about" ">
But there must be a single generic file (XSLT ) which must generate an RDF file for any XML file.
> From: amit_opus
> Hi Friends,
> Can anyone tell me how to create an rdf file from xml file.
> My input file should be xml and it should provide me its RDF as output.
> I have tried the.XSL to parse the XML file But it did not work out.
I'm not an RDF knowledgeable person, but I'll try to help as much as I can.
RDF is meant to represent information (typically metadata about Web
resources) and has a certain syntax/appearance when saved as XML.
XML can be used to either highlight ('markup') sections of information
within text, or represent information in a structured format.
There is no general way to take some unknown XML and output it as RDF. You
need to understand the meaning and structure of the XML - the information it
is trying to represent - and then express that same information back into
the RDF way of describing information.
If you want to convert some XML (that you have a good understanding of) into
RDF with XML syntax you can use XSLT to do that conversion. The XSLT file
(which you write for each type of XML input and each type of output) would
have all the rules for extracting the information you want from the input
XML and specifies what the output will look like.
Here are some links that might be of use (I apologize if this is information
you already know):
What is RDF? by Tim Bray (who knows his stuff)
RDF Tutorial by Pierre-Antoine Champin
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text: A mathematical model and a numerical solution procedure are developed to simulate flow field through a 3D permeable vessel with multibranches embedded in a solid tumour. The model is based on Poisseuille's law for the description of the flow through the vessels, Darcy's law for the fluid field inside the tumour interstitium, and Starling's law for the flux transmitted across the vascular walls. The solution procedure is based on a coupled method, in which the finite difference method is used for the flow in the vessels and the boundary element method is used for the flow in the tumour. When vessels meet each other at a junction, the pressure continuity and mass conservation are imposed at the junction. Three typical representative structures within the tumour vasculature, symmetrical dichotomous branching, asymmetrical bifurcation with uneven radius of daughter vessels and trifurcation, are investigated in detail as case studies. These results have demonstrated the features of tumour flow environment by the pressure distributions and flow velocity field. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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8 Most Thrilling Attractions of Albania You Can't Dare to Miss
Albania is rich in diverse historical and cultural attractions, which attract both locals and tourists' attention. If you wish to explore this amazing country, check on the weather in Tirana and head to meet thrilling adventures!
Albania Weather and Climate Data
The climate of Albania varies depending on the region, however, in general it is qualified as the Mediterranean. Tirana, the capital of this country, is characterized by hot, sunny summers and cold, but mild winters. The average daily temperature is 7°C in January, while in July and August it reaches 25°C.
Summer, which runs from June to August, is the best time for attending Albania. The sun shines almost every day, and the Adriatic Sea is warm and comfortable for swimming and water activities. This period of time is also characterized by the least precipitation amount. In total, rainfalls number ranges from 800 to 1000 millimeters per year, depending on a region.
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June of 2020 is hot and sunny, with a bit of rainfall. The temperature ranges from 18 to 31 degrees Celsius on average. The wind speed is about 15 km/h and precipitation amount around 1.50 mm daily.
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 1. Albanian Riviera.
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