How to charge a Kindle Fire from a power outlet in Jordan
A guide showing how to power a Kindle Fire with a Jordanian power outlet with micro USB Type B cord and a three pinned Type B USB charger, how to recharge a Kindle Fire using a 3 pinned Type G power plug and charging a Kindle Fire using a Europlug Type C USB adapter
Jordanian power outlet
Different combinations of standards and sockets can often be daunting when planning on visiting another country to the first time traveller. With only a handful of different types of sockets being used throughout the world this guide shows exactly what to pick up in advance to power the Kindle Fire . This page is a step by step guide telling you exactly how to charge your Kindle Fire when you're travelling to Jordan using their Type G, B, C, D, F or J Jordanian 230 volt 50Hz plug outlets, Type G power outlets will be typically used by a majority of Jordanians. When visiting Jordan from another country please check that your Kindle Fire can be used with a 240 volt supply. If the Kindle Fire was purchased in a country which uses a lower voltage (for example 110v) check that the Kindle Fire is dual voltage (indicated by 100-240 volts) else you may need to use an additional power transformer to prevent the device from being damaged whilst powering it up.
This list of instructions shows how to connect the Jordanian power outlet to your Kindle tablet. This page assumes you have installed the most recent version of Fire OS for the Kindle, if you don't visit Amazon for the latest Kindle Fire update to ensure you have the most up-to-date fixes for your Kindle. Go to the Amazon.com site for the Kindle Fire device support [2] for more information.
Charging a Kindle Fire in Jordan
Can you use a Kindle Fire in Jordan?
Yes, you can use a Kindle Fire in Jordan by using a power convertor.
What is the best power adapter for recharging a Kindle Fire in Jordan?
When travelling with more than your Kindle Fire and visiting multiple countries the best travel adapter for Jordan to buy is a multiple USB port charger which includes swappable plugs like a 4 port USB travel charger. There are six different standards of wall outlets that Jordanians use (types G, B, C, D, F and J) and using a power charger like this ensures that you are covered for both types C and G.
As these types of chargers are supplied with interchangeable pins and can handle from 100 volts - 240 volts it makes them ideal for over 100 countries in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa simply by switching the included heads over. If your Kindle Fire is compatible with Fast Charge then you'll benefit from faster recharging times by using one of these power adapters, along with support for certain power hungry devices like tablets.
Having a 4 port charger will also allow you to charge multiple devices at once without needing to buy multiple travel chargers for your trip. By only bringing a single travel charger will also keep the overall weight and size down, making it perfect to fold up and store in hand luggage. Because of their space saving versatility these types of adapters can be used when you return home as well as abroad so when you're not travelling they can be used overnight charging multiple smartphones and tablets without using up an additional power outlet.
We recommend searching for a multipurpose travel adapter like this online, the power charger illustrated here is the 4 Port USB Wall Charger which has been tested successfully with multiple USB devices in numerous different countries around the world with good reliably.
Alternative travel adapter for Jordan
The 4 port USB travel charger is the most compact option for travellers from around the world who only have USB devices such as the Kindle Fire, however for visitors also wanting to use their domestic plugs the following power adapters provide larger but more versatile solutions. All 3 power converters offer surge protection which is crucial for visitors of counties with unreliable or unstable power grids to prevent damage to any connected devices. These power adapters come with interchangeable type C, I and G plugs covering Continental Europe, North America, Australia, United Kingdom, Japan, China and over 150 countries around the world:
 - BESTEK Portable International Travel Voltage Converter - The BESTEK travel adaptor has 4 USB charging ports with 3 AC power outlets and is the most popular compact power converter for travellers originating from America going to Jordan.
 - ORICO Traveling Outlet Surge Protector Power Strip - Also having 4 USB ports but only 2 AC power outlets the Orico travel adapter is also aimed at travellers originating from the US using type B plugs and is a more cost effective alternative to the BESTEK with just 1 less AC outlet at almost half price.
 - BESTEK International USB Travel Power Strip - This power strip has just 2 AC outlets but offers a more generous 5 USB charging ports. This versatile power strip is compatible with both American plugs and popular plug types A, D,E/F, G, H, I, L and N making it ideal for most travellers from around the world visiting Jordan. [16] [AD]
What is the best power adapter for recharging a Kindle Fire in Jordan?
How to use a Type G power charger for charging your Kindle Fire from a Jordanian power outlet
Using type B Micro USB cord and a Type G power charger to recharge a Kindle Fire with a Jordanian power outlet.
 1. In order to charge your Kindle Fire using a Jordanian power outlet you will need to use a Type G USB power adapter [4] and a USB 2.0 A Male to Micro B cable [5].
 2. Start the process by taking the Type G USB power adapter and inserting it into the wall outlet. The plug outlet (technically known as a Type G power outlet [3]) can be identified by the three slots containing plastic shutters in a triangle shape for live, neutral and earth pins.
 3. Plug in the USB end of the USB 2.0 A Male to Micro B cable into the bottom of the mains power charger and the other end into the USB charging port on a Kindle Fire.
 4. Turn on the Jordanian power outlet.
 5. The battery symbol which appears in the top corner of the Kindle Fire will display a lightning icon to indicate that the device is charging.
 6. It takes between 4 hours to 12 hours to completely recharge but this is likely to take longer depending on the type of tablet you are charging, the strength of the power source and if you are using the Kindle during the recharging process. For more information on charging the Fire please read the Kindle Fire device support [2] for more details on battery times.
How to use a Type G power charger for charging your Kindle Fire from a Jordanian power outlet
How to use a Type B power charger for charging your Kindle Fire from a Jordanian power outlet
A guide showing how to power a Kindle Fire with a Jordanian power outlet with micro USB Type B cord and a three pinned Type B USB charger.
 1. To supply power to your Kindle Fire from the Jordanian power outlet you will need a Type B USB power adapter [7] and a USB 2.0 A Male to Micro B cable [5].
 2. Begin the process by plugging the Type B USB power adapter in the power supply. You can identify the plug outlet by two thin slots adjacent to each other for live and neutral blades with a semicircular hole below for the ground pin. Please note that power cables with type B outlets which are rated at less that 240 V shouldn't be used in Jordan so we recommend checking first.
 3. Plug in the USB end of the USB 2.0 A Male to Micro B cable into the bottom of the mains power charger and the other end into the USB charging port on a Kindle Fire.
 4. Turn on the Jordanian power outlet.
 5. The battery symbol which appears at the top corner of the Kindle tablet will show a lightning icon which indicates that the device is charging.
 6. It will take between 4 hours to 12 hours to completely charge but this is likely to take longer depending on the type of tablet you have, the strength of the power charger and if you are using the Kindle whilst charging. For more information on charging please read the Kindle Fire device support [2] for more details on battery times.
How to use a Type B power charger for charging your Kindle Fire from a Jordanian power outlet
How to use a Type C power charger for recharging your Kindle Fire from a Jordanian power outlet
A page on how to recharge a Kindle Fire with a Jordanian power outlet with type B Micro USB cord and a Type C power adapter.
 1. To power the Kindle Fire from a Jordanian power outlet you will need a Type C USB power adapter [9] and a USB 2.0 A Male to Micro B cable [5].
 2. Start the process by inserting the Type C USB power adapter in the power outlet. The plug outlet (sometimes known as a Type C power outlet [8] or Europlug) is recognised by the 2 holes adjacent to each other.
 3. Then connect one end of the micro USB Type B connector into the USB power charger and the other end into the USB charging port on a Kindle Fire.
 4. Turn on the Jordanian power outlet.
 5. The battery icon which is found at the top corner of the tablet screen will show a charging icon which indicates that your tablet is charging.
 6. It


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pensando module parses distributed firewall logs created by the
Pensando distributed services card (DSC).
When you run the module, it performs a few tasks under the hood:
- Sets the default paths to the log files (but don't worry, you can override the defaults)
- Makes sure each multiline log event gets sent as a single event
- Uses ingest node to parse and process the log lines, shaping the data into a structure suitable for visualizing in Kibana
- Deploys dashboards for visualizing the log data
Read the quick start to learn how to configure and run modules.
The Pensando module has been tested with 1.12.0-E-54 and later.
Configure the moduleedit
You can further refine the behavior of the
pensando module by specifying
variable settings in the
modules.d/pensando.yml file, or overriding settings at the command line.
The following example shows how to set parameters in the
file to listen for firewall logs sent from the Pensando DSC(s) on port 5514 (default is 9001):
- module: pensando access: enabled: true var.syslog_host: 0.0.0.0 var.syslog_port:
Each fileset has separate variable settings for configuring the behavior of the
module. If you don't specify variable settings, the
pensando module uses
For advanced use cases, you can also override input settings. See Override input settings.
When you specify a setting at the command line, remember to prefix the
setting with the module name, for example,
dfw log fileset settingsedit
An array of glob-based paths that specify where to look for the log files. All
patterns supported by Go Glob
are also supported here. For example, you can use wildcards to fetch all files
from a predefined level of subdirectories:
/path/to/log/*/*.log. This fetches all
.logfiles from the subfolders of
/path/to/log. It does not fetch log files from the
/path/to/logfolder itself. If this setting is left empty, Filebeat will choose log paths based on your operating system.
This module comes with a sample dashboard. For example:
For a description of each field in the module, see the exported fields section.

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Field resistance of transgenic plantain to nematodes has potential for future African food security
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Plant parasitic nematodes impose losses of up to 70% on plantains and cooking bananas in Africa. Application of nematicides is inappropriate and resistant cultivars are unavailable. Where grown, demand for plantain is more than for other staple crops. Confined field testing demonstrated that transgenic expression of a biosafe, anti-feedant cysteine proteinase inhibitor and an anti-root invasion, non-lethal synthetic peptide confers resistance to plantain against the key nematode pests Radopholus similis and Helicotylenchus multicinctus. The best peptide transgenic line showed improved agronomic performance relative to non-transgenic controls and provided about 99% nematode resistance at harvest of the mother crop. Its yield was about 186% in comparison with the nematode challenged control non-transgenic plants based on larger bunches and diminished plant toppling in storms, due to less root damage. This is strong evidence for utilizing this resistance to support the future food security of 70 million, mainly poor Africans that depend upon plantain as a staple food.
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Permanent link to this itemhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/933
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|February 7th is this years GKAS Day|
More than 10 years ago the ADA began Give Kids A Smile, celebrated annually on the first Friday in February. The program was launched with these four objectives in mind:
In 2006 the ADA decided to look for ways to expand Give Kids A Smile to "More Than Just A Day". A National Advisory Committee was constituted to guide expansion efforts, focusing on three primary areas: program enhancement, fundraising and promising practices to highlight Give Kids A Smile program. The committee's vision statement is:
Our goal is the elimination of cavities in U.S. five year olds by 2020.
If you know of a child in need, please use the resources below to find the nearest clinic in your area.
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252 Guidelines for Dispatch Personnel
The following guidelines for Postal Service dispatch personnel are general in nature. Specific dispatch procedures for Postal Service operational employees are in the POM and applicable to the class and content of the mailpiece.
 1. Make sure that the hazardous material, restricted matter, or perishable matter is given proper handling to avoid damage or danger.
 2. Tender to the air carrier only those mailpieces that are properly packaged and marked. Before a shipment is tendered to a carrier, make sure that:
 1. A proper and strong packaging method is used.
 2. A secure method of package closure is used, and there is no visual evidence of leakage or damage. (If damage is detected, isolate the damaged mailpiece and notify the appropriate personnel in case of accident or incident and for proper spill response.)
 3. The outer packaging bears all required markings and/or labels.
 4. A properly completed shipping paper is attached to the outside of the mailpiece and to the dispatch document. The shipping paper must include the information detailed in 326 and Exhibit 326.
 5. If the mailpiece contains a material believed to be nonmailable, separate it from the rest of the mail to avoid introduction into the mailstream and treat it in accordance with POM 139.117-118, as appropriate.
See Chapter 7 for more information regarding the air transportation of mailable hazardous materials, restricted matter, or perishable matter.


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Ordered Hashes in Ruby
Today, while playing a story in my web app development project, I felt the need to have an ordered hash in Ruby 1.8.7. Argh, this version of Ruby doesn't have ordered hash at all! Surprisingly enough, JRuby versions 1.3.1 or 1.5.1 preserves insertion order.
The way Ruby 1.8.7 hash behaves:
The way Ruby 1.9.1 hash behaves:
The way JRuby 1.3.1 hash behaves:
Coming back to our problem, how do I do have something like Ordered Hash data structure with Ruby 1.8.7? There are several libraries that either extend or replace Ruby's Hash. OrderedHash and RubyFacets being some of the famous ones. However, if you are developing a web application using Rails, then you have to search no where - just use Rails' ActiveSupport::OrderedHash. All you need to use it is
require 'active_support/ordered_hash' in your class/module
With Ruby 1.9, this wouldn't be a problem because Ruby 1.9 preserves the insertion order into the data structure. This only gives me foolish happiness for a second or two, after which my academic reasoning onsets bringing sinking unhappiness for the Ruby 1.9 preserving hash ordering by default. Should my prediction go right (or wish come true???) this will revert back to the way it was in Ruby 1.8.* and to solve this problem of having an ordered hash data structure, Ruby future version might have something like OrderedHash, the way Rails has one.
SIDE NOTE: A hash (table/map) is a data structure for storing items in key/value pairs using a hash function. Ideally, the hash function guarantees to map each key to a unique slot index. With this data structure, the average cost of lookup/insertion/deletion for an element remains constant irrespective of the number of elements that this data structure holds. Understandably for this reason this data structure is used in many softwares like databases, caches.
Recommended Books:
The Ruby Programming Language Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (Facets of Ruby) The Well-Grounded Rubyist


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|The Field Description of Igneous Rocks, Second Edition|
|by ||Dougal Jerram|
|Year Published: ||2011|
|Total Pages: ||256|
|Product Code: ||ROCKS|
|The Second Edition of this unique pocket field guide has been thoroughly revised and updated to include advances in physical volcanology, emplacement of magmas and interpreting structures and textures in igneous rocks. The book integrates new field based techniques (AMS and geophysical studies of pluton shape) with new topics on magma mixing and mingling, sill emplacement and magma sediment interaction. Part of the successful Field Guide series, this book includes revised sections on granitic and basaltic rocks and for the first time a new chapter on the engineering properties of igneous rocks.
The Geological Field Guide Series is specifically designed for scientists and students to use in the field when information and resources may be more difficult to access.
Many editions have been updated for 2011 and the guides are:
- Student-friendly in design and cost

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Applications that allow to visualize the air quality forecast for Spain and Europe as well as the concentration maps for the next 12 and 48 hours respectively of the main atmospheric pollutants: ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5).
The app uses the user location to show the air quality forecast at the closest stations through five categories: good, fair, deficient, bad and very bad. It is directed to citizens interested in the air quality status, either because they are susceptible to cardiorespiratory diseases, they have children, they want to practice sport in the open air or are simply concerned about the quality of the air they breathe.
The information displayed is part of the daily forecast generated by the CALIOPE air quality system (_URL_ run in the MareNostrum supercomputer from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Observations from the European Environment Information and Information Network (EIONET) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) are received. The app for Europe has been financed by the European Commission in the framework of the project MYGEOSS.
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basic knowledge which will allow them to treat and protect themselves from illness. This information is important for ordinary people, so the Linked Open Data based herb system is valuable. It will help people to reduce the costs of healthcare. Therefore, these information focus on the medicinal properties of the plant (i.e., what illness can it be applied to, which body part does it affect/ cure, the preparation mode, and the plant part to be used). Due to unstructured and scattered herb information published in majority of herbal portal nowadays, the design of ontology is one of the best techniques to organize the herbal research information. Therefore, development of Nepalese herb information system as a linked database for herbal research domain will be crucial for a feeling of social participation. The proposed system is for providing linked information about herbs that are required by herb researchers and those that researchers are willing to share. Furthermore, new technologies have been brought into this system as well. Resource Description Framework (RDF) is used to define all entities of herbs, all of which are conveniently changed entities. Furthermore, RDF is also useful for linking herbs to external datasets by using the Linked Open Data (LOD). On the other hand, this system can retrieve information about herbs from LOD which corresponds to the binomial name of the herb in the system.
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Title: A Framework for Information and Communication Technologies Adoption at Small and Medium Enterprises in a Context of Nepal
Abstract: ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Adoption at SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) in developing countries has always been a field of challenge and area of interest to address on various factors determining the key issues affecting adoption of ICT. This study has been a theoretical contribution by proposing a conceptual framework for SMEs ICT readiness and adoption, on the basis of the investigating factors affecting ICT Adoption and Maintenance in SMEs and identifying key components, and practically providing significant multifaceted in-depth study on selected ICT adopted SMEs in developing countries in a context to Nepal, which would assist on further research and making strategies and regulatory for ICT professionalism.


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The site of a canal wharf known as Dunton Wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods. It was built during the Imperial period and was situated 450m north east of Baylis's Bridge.
1 The 1886 OS 6″ map shows a wharf at this location on the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal. The adjacent bridge is called Dunton Wharf Bridge on later maps. There seems to be a small complex indicated on the map with a basin and buildings. To the south of the canal, on the towpath side, a blocked arm is crossed by a very corroded metal roving bridge. The arm points towards a group of modern industrial buildings. There are also some 19th century cottages but they appear not to be connected with the canal. To the north of the canal is a flat open space, apparently a wharf, but with no sign of anything but modern buildings.
2 The top lock was the first in a flight of eleven locks at Dunton and was of typical construction broardly similar to others in the Canal with single gates at each end, manually operated by lock gate beams. The lock walls were of brick with mainly stone copings. There is evidence to suggest that two of the locks on this section failed not long after the opening of the canal in 1789. During the demolition of the lock it was noticed that the south-west lock wall had four composite tie beams. These were spaced at intervals along the lock wall and each made from a section of timber connected to an iron tie rod linked to around brick piers or butresses, the opposite wall had only two butresses with all wooden ties. The lock walls were founded on the natural soils and not on concrete as expected.
3 Further report on recording at the lock. The lock itself was of standard design, similar to others on the canal. There was evidence for changes to the design of the lock gates, These changes may have been in response to the failure of two of the Curdworth locks in 1789. The unreliability of the locks at both Curdworth and Dunton remained a continuing problem until 1823 when the faults in their original design were finally rectified.


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Q: Where does the name "Boston Butt" come from, especially considering that the cut comes from the shoulder of the animal?
A: In pre-revolutionary New England and into the Revolutionary War, some pork cuts (not those of high value, like the loin and ham) were packed into casks or barrels for storage and shipment. These barrels were known as "butts." In the Boston area, the cut from the hog's shoulder became known in other regions as the Boston Butt. The name stuck, and today it is still referred to as the Boston Butt almost everywhere in the U.S., except in Boston!


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Step-By-Step Test-Driven-Development with Visual Studio 2012: Part 1
Test-driven development has been enhanced with Visual Studio 2012; learn how to use this powerful tool by building a class library for math functions.
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(This article applies to all editions of Visual Studio 2012, except Test Professional 2012)
There are various ways to build and test software. The specific process followed depends on a variety of factors, including the project itself, team members, project schedule and so on. One such process is termed Test-driven Development (TDD). In TDD, I develop test cases before I write any code. Once I have test cases in place, then I can build the appropriate functionality to make the tests pass.
This is a reverse of the standard coding model, where code is developed first, then tested. But this method has several benefits:
 - The ability to tackle small aspects of the system initially, and evolve the system as the requirements evolve
 - The tests act as documentation for the system
 - The tests serve as a suite of regression tests, ensuring that future code changes don't break existing functionality
Visual Studio 2012 supports the concept of TDD through its unit testing framework. In this column, I'll walk through a simple example of using Visual Studio 2012, and its unit testing framework, to perform TDD. My scenario is building a windows class library for performing math functions, such as addition and subtraction.
To begin, create a blank solution in Visual Studio 2012 named ALM.UnitTestingExample. Add a new C# Windows Class Library project to the solution, and name it ALM.MathLibrary. This project will contain the code for performing the math functions. Now add a C# Windows Unit Test Project to the solution, and name it ALM.MathLibraryTests. A Test Project is a Visual Studio project that contains various tests, such as unit tests and web tests, and will contain the tests designed for the math library. Delete the Class1.cs file from the ALM.MathLibary project, and the UnitTest1.cs file from the ALM.MathLibraryTests project. Finally, add a reference to the ALM.MathLibrary project, from the ALM.MathLibraryTests project.
With the base solution now in place, I can start building the tests. This is a math library which will have functions for addition and subtraction. Right-click on the ALM.MathLibraryTests project, and select Add | New Item. Select the Unit Test object, and name it BasicMathFunctionsTest.cs. This creates a new class file to contain all tests related to basic math functions. Figure 1 shows what the base generated code for this class looks like.
[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 1. The base generated code for a unit test.
Notice the different attributes in the code. Above the class declaration is a [TestClass] attribute. This marks this class as a test class containing test methods, which allows the unit testing framework to pick it up. The generated code also created a sample test method for me, named TestMethod1. This method is also marked with an attribute, [TestMethod]. This attribute allows the testing framework to identify this method as a potential test that needs to be run. Rename TestMethod1 to be AddTest. Right-click on the solution in Solution Explorer and select Build Solution to verify the solution will build.
At this point I have a test project, with a test class and a blank test method. Just for fun, let's run this test and see what happens. Visual Studio 2012 has a window called Test Explorer for interacting and running unit tests. In Visual Studio, select Test | Windows | Test Explorer to open this window, shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. The AddTest Method, with test code added.
When the test project was compiled, the testing framework found the test class and method definitions, and displays the tests in the Test Explorer window. In this scenario, it knows this test has not been run yet, so it lists it under the Not Run Tests category. There are multiple options for running tests. I can right-click on a specific test and run just that test. I can run an entire category of tests. Or I can run all the tests listed in the Test Explorer. Click the Run All link to run all the tests. The solution will be built, and the test will run, with the results showing at the bottom of the test window. In this scenario, the test will pass, as there's no actual test to run. Notice also that the test was moved to the Passed Tests category in Test Explorer.
Now let's build an actual test. As Figure 3 shows, I've added code to the AddTest method.
[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 3. The AddTest Method, with test code added.
For this test, I'm instantiating a class called BasicMathLibrary. I'm going to be testing the Add function of the library, so I specify the expected value, then make a call to the Add method. Finally, I use the Assert.AreEqual method to check whether or not the expected value matches the actual value returned from the Add method. However, if I build the solution, the build will fail (obviously) because I haven't created the BasicMathLibrary class or the Add method. So, following test-driven development principals, I should create the class and the method, as shown in Figure 4.
[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 4. The created class and method, based off the test code.
Notice how I've created the BasicMathLibrary class and the Add method, but haven't built any functionality yet for the Add method. Instead, I am throwing a NotImplementedException exception. This allows me to quickly stub out methods without adding actual logic, to allow my solution and tests to compile.
With the class and method stubbed out, build the solution again. At this point, the solution should compile correctly. Go back to the Test Explorer and click the Run All link. The AddTest will run, and this time will fail, as shown in Figure 5.
[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 5. The Test Explorer window, showing that the AddTest test has failed.
Figure 5 shows the AddTest unit test failed, and gives me details around the failure. In this instance, it tells me that the method or operation isn't implemented, which is what was expected. From here, I can go back to the Add method, implement the appropriate code, then re-run the test. Once that test passes, I create the next unit test, and then go through the same process as outlined earlier.
TDD is a proven methodology for building software that helps ensure the source code is thoroughly unit tested. And Visual Studio 2012, with its unit testing framework, provides the ability to easily implement test-driven development in an organization. In Part 2 of this column, I will continue to build off this example, and show in more detail how to use the unit test framework in Visual Studio 2012.
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Mickey Gousset spends his days as a principal consultant for Infront Consulting Group. Gousset is lead author of "Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012" (Wrox, 2012) and frequents the speaker circuit singing the praises of ALM and DevOps. He also blogs at ALM Rocks!. Gousset is one of the original Team System/ALM MVPs and has held the award since 2005.
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The skin script allow to describe skins the engine will use for actor models (at the moment, only for human skins). It is not used for the gameplay, but only for the look and feel.
Model file embed a list of skin name. The engine only use the first one to find image file name. Others are not used, but can be, anyway, useful for third party model viewers and editors. The engine
Each skin is describe with the keyword actorskin. It contain a string id (used to find image file name), a name (displayed in the user interface) which is translatable, and some properties.
V_BOOL: Describe if we can use this skin in single player mode.
V_BOOL: Describe if we can use this skin in multiplayer mode.
This example register a foo skin to the game. The game will search for skins using _foo suffix. This skin is available in both multiplayer and singleplayer game.
actorskin foo {
 name "_My foo skin"
 singleplayer true
 multiplayer true
Resolution of image skin name
The engine use three things to found the file name used for a skin.
 - The first image defined of the embedded skin defined inside model file. Most of the time it is the name of the model itself.
 - The separator _ (underscore) for readability.
 - The actor skin id as suffix.
For example: It exists a model called body.md2. It embedded the skin file name body. And it exists an actor skin name called forest. The engine will check the image filename body_forest. If this image do not exists, the engine will use the default skin name.
 - base/models/soldiers/foo
 - body.md2
 - body.jpg
 - body_forest.jpg
Script order
The engine use the first embedded skin from models. It is a special case cause here - it doesn't use any suffix. To avoid loading error, the engine must read this skin entry on first, and this skin must be called default.
actorskin default {
 name "_Urban"
 singleplayer true
 multiplayer true
It is anyway an artificial order limitation. We should fix it with code. Patch is welcome.
Sharing actor skin
Elite skin by turkana.
We can share an own actor skin with a pk3 file. You can check _URL_ for an example of skin.
To use this file, we can move it on the game base directory, or on the home base directory. It add a new "Elite" skin, for the multiplayer mode only.
Some notes:
 - A pk3 can contain more than one new actor skin.
 - It should not overwrite official content.
 - The script should be prefixed with skins_.
 - Actor skin name and script should avoid conflict name.
Multiplayer limitation
The game engine only share numerical skin id, and not named skin id. If a player use a custom actor skin, we don't know if other people will see the same model. Anyway the player himself will see the right model. Patch is welcome.
If all players use the same pk3 files, and the same game content, all players will have the same right result.


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Why is it important to get a breeding bird survey done?
- Canada is the seasonal home to over 450 migratory bird species of which 390 are protected under the 1994 Migratory Birds Convention Act (MCBA) and the 2022 Migratory Bird Regulations (MBR).
- It is illegal to capture, kill, injure, or disturb migratory birds, their nests, or eggs if they are listed in the MBCA.
- Our Qualified Biologist understands the legal implications and has the expertise to ensure these birds are not disrupted to keep your development or jobsite within the law.
- An empty nest doesn't mean it is not in use.
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The Baths of Caracalla (Italian: Terme di Caracalla) in Rome, Italy, were the second largest Roman public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between AD 212 and 216, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. Chris Scarre provides a slightly longer construction period 211-217 AD. They would have had to install over 2,000 tons of material every day for six years in order to complete it in this time. Records show that the idea for the baths were drawn up by Septimius Severus, and merely completed or opened in the lifetime of Caracalla. This would allow for a longer construction timeframe.
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Devil's curve for a = 0.8 and b = 1.
Devil's curve with a ranging from 0 to 1 and b = 1 (with the curve colour going from blue to red).
In geometry, a Devil's curve is a curve defined in the Cartesian plane by an equation of the form
y^2 (y^2 - a^2) = x^2 (x^2 - b^2).
Devil's curves were studied heavily by Gabriel Cramer.
The name comes from the shape its central lemniscate takes when graphed. The shape is named after the juggling game diabolo, which involves two sticks, a string, and a spinning prop in the likeness of the lemniscate. The confusion is the result of the Italian word diavolo meaning 'devil'.[1]
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Haymarket Square is a widened portion of Randolph Street, between Des Plaines and Halsted, which once served as a common market area for the surrounding working class neighborhood. On May 4, 1886, it became synonymous with one of Chicago's most famous incidents, in which at least ten men died, four were hanged, and another committed suicide in jail -- the infamous Haymarket riot between police and anarchists.
The riot did not take place in Haymarket Square, but instead around the corner, north on Des Plaines. The incident took place following a socialist/anarchist rally which was originally intended to take place in Haymarket Square, but since the weather was so poor that evening, the turnout for the rally had been underwhelming, and the organizers thought it best to move to a smaller venue.
Despite the fact that none of the action in the Haymarket affair actually took place in Haymarket Square, the city ordered an heroic 9-ft statue of a policeman built in the middle of the Square to honor the policemen who lost their lives there.
This obviously displeased anarchists and radicals who felt the police had been the chief cause of the violence. A disgruntled streetcar driver mowed down the statue in 1927 on the anniversary of the riot. The statue was rebuilt. Weather Underground terrorists blew up the statue in 1969. The statue was rebuilt. The Weathermen blew it up again in 1970. The state was rebuilt, and given its own 24-hour police retinue to ensure its safety. After a few years, the irony in using actual policemen to protect a statue of a policemen dawned on someone, and the statue was removed to police headquarters.
Pictured here is the eastern half of Haymarket Square. The western half, closer to Halsted, was demolished in the 1960s to make room for the Kennedy Expressway. Note the diagonal parking areas on both sides of Randolph, a highly unusual feature for a Chicago street, but evincing the original "square".


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If you've ever been to an ocean, you've probably seen sand dollars on the beach or in souvenir shops. You may have even seen live sand dollars moving around on the sandy ocean floor. But what exactly are these creatures?
Sand dollars — sometimes called sea cookies, snapper biscuits, sand cakes, cake urchins or pansy shells — are species of flat, burrowing echinoids that belong to the order Clypeasteroida. Sand dollars are related to sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish.
When sand dollars are alive, they live in shallow coastal waters along the sandy ocean floor. Unlike the white color of dead sand dollars, live sand dollars are usually green, purple or blue. Some people think live sand dollars look like fuzzy cookies!
Live sand dollars are covered with a dense, velvety layer of short spines and tubular feet. They use these spines and tubular feet to burrow into the sand and move around.
You may have noticed that sand dollar skeletons feature a pattern that looks like a flower. This pattern is where the live sand dollar's tubular feet are located. In addition to helping the sand dollar move, these tubular feet also help direct food found on the ocean floor to the sand dollar's mouth.
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Nordic gender equality cooperation has continued for over 40 years and has produced good results. Nevertheless, many challenges remain to create a sustainable future. Through continued Nordic cooperation in the field of gender equality, we can learn from each other and help increase gender equality in the region.
Nordic information for gender knowledge, NIKK, will contribute to such shared learning by strategically supply research, policy, practice and other relevant information on gender equality and gender equality work in the Nordic countries.
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Can I reduce aluminum oxides at 1600˚F?
At the start of this blog series, a question was raised about the ability to remove/dissociate aluminum oxides by heating a vacuum furnace used for aluminum brazing up to about 1600°F (870°C). Look at Fig. 1 once again and notice that the curve for aluminum oxide is at the far right on that chart, along with the oxide curves for titanium and magnesium.
According to Fig. 1, if someone was aluminum brazing in a vacuum furnace at approximately 10-5 torr and they desired to operate one diagonal to the right of the aluminum-oxide curve, they would need to heat their vacuum furnace up to about 2800°F (~1550°C), which is physically impossible. It must be understood that once aluminum oxide forms in a brazing operation, it cannot be removed by any type of thermal process in that furnace.
Fig. 1. Metal/metal-oxide curves for metals (published in the AWS Brazing Handbook, Fifth Edition, 2007, pp. 120) // Credit: Dan Kay
Guidelines for Furnace Burnout (Clean-up) Cycles
When considering furnace burnout/clean-up cycles, it is important to operate a brazing furnace at a temperature that is at least 100°F (50°C) above the highest processing temperature that is used in that furnace (whether that be for brazing, heat treating or another process) and to hold the furnace at that temperature for a minimum of one hour or longer in order to allow effective volatilization of any materials that may have condensed onto the inside walls during previous heating cycles. Such burnout cycles should also be able to remove/volatilize materials from the hot-zone cage (heating elements, connectors, etc.). Since the hot-zone cage often consists of a number of layers of material, it is important to hold the high-temperature cycle for at least one hour or more to be able to penetrate into those layers.
A furnace burnout cycle is not designed to remove (dissociate) oxides. Instead, it is designed to remove materials – such as oils, lubes, base-metal outgassing products, etc. – from the furnace walls that may have condensed on it over time.


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changecoords2d - change coordinate systems in a 2d plot
changecoords2d(p, coords = coord);
a two-dimensional plot structure
the name of a two-dimensional coordinate system, or
is the name of a two-dimensional coordinate system.
This is a replacement for
for two-dimensional coordinate systems, to correct bugs in that procedure in Maple 6.
The two-dimensional plot data structure
may be produced by any of the commands that plot two-dimensional graphs, with any plotting options allowed by those commands. Note that any plot options other than coords must be part of the command that produces
, not an option to
may be any of the available two-dimensional coordinate systems:
, or a system defined using
. The transformations used are given in the
With the construction
, the roles of the two coordinates are reversed. Thus while
produces a plot where the
coordinates of the original plot
are interpreted as polar coordinates
they are interpreted as
Some of the coordinate systems have from one to three parameters, which may be specified in functional form, e.g.
. If parameter values are not specified, the defaults are 1, 1/2, and 1/3 for the three parameters.
The output is a two-dimensional plot data structure which may be displayed directly or assigned to a variable, perhaps modified further, and displayed later.
This function is part of the
Maple Advisor Database
changecoords2d(plot(cos(x), x=-Pi/2..Pi/2, scaling = constrained), reverse(polar));
changecoords2d(pointplot([seq([1,Pi/10*i],i=0..19)], style=line), polar);
Warning, the name changecoords has been redefined
changecoords2d(plot(1, x=0..1), logcosh(2));


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The population of Delaware in 2002 was 805,945. Its rank was 45th in the nation. (The District of Columbia is included for ranking purposes.)
Per Capita Personal Income
In 2002 Delaware had a per capita personal income of $32,090. This per capita personal income ranked 15th in the United States and was 104 percent of the national average, $30,906. The 2002 per capita personal income reflected an increase of 1.9 percent from 2001. The 2001-2002 national change was 1.2 percent. In 1992 the per capita personal income of Delaware was $22,670 and ranked 9th in the United States. The _PHONE_ average annual growth rate of per capita personal income was 3.5 percent. The average annual growth rate for the nation was 4.0 percent.
Total Personal Income
In 2002 Delaware had a total personal income of $25,862,407. This total personal income ranked 45th in the United States. In 1992 the total personal income of Delaware was $15,753,972 and ranked 45th in the United States. The 2002 total personal income reflected an increase of 3.2 percent from 2001. The 2001-2002 national change was 2.3 percent. The _PHONE_ average annual growth rate of total personal income was 5.1 percent. The average annual growth rate for the nation was 5.2 percent.
Components of Personal Income
Total personal income includes net earnings by place of residence; dividends, interest, and rent; and total personal current transfer receipts received by the residents of Delaware. In 2002 net earnings accounted for 68.2 percent of total personal income (compared with 68.9 in 1992); dividends, interest, and rent were 17.7 percent (compared with 19.6 in 1992); and personal current transfer receipts were 14.0 percent (compared with 11.5 in 1992). From 2001 to 2002 net earnings increased 2.5 percent; dividends, interest, and rent increased 1.6 percent; and personal current transfer receipts increased 9.1 percent. From 1992 to 2002 net earnings increased on average 5.0 percent each year; dividends, interest, and rent increased on average 4.0 percent; and personal current transfer receipts increased on average 7.2 percent.
Earnings of persons employed in Delaware increased from $21,407,523 in 2001 to $21,922,876 in 2002, an increase of 2.4 percent. The 2001-2002 national change was 1.5 percent. The average annual growth rate from the 1992 estimate of $13,292,286 to the 2002 estimate was 5.1 percent. The average annual growth rate for the nation was 5.3 percent.
Climate - Delaware has generally hot and humid summers and
fairly mild winters. In July, average daytime temperatures are usually in the upper 20°s to lower 30°s C (80°s F) or even
higher. But because summer nights tend to be cooler than the days, July averages are about 24° C (about
75° F). In addition, onshore sea breezes can reduce daytime temperatures along the coast by 3° to 6° C
(5° to 10° F). January averages range from -1° C (31° F) at Newark, in the north, to 3° C (38° F) at
Bridgeville, in Sussex County. Nearly three-fifths of Delaware's days are classified as sunny. Precipitation (rainfall and snowfall) in Delaware is evenly distributed throughout the year, with
slightly more in June and July than in any other month. Most of the state receives between 1020 and
1170 mm (40 and 46 in) a year. Severe droughts are uncommon. Thunderstorms occur frequently in summer,
and in winter there is generally light snowfall.
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Diogo Vasconcelos, who chairs the Association of Young Farmers of the South (AJASUL), told Lusa agency that he is concerned about the news that the regional parliament of Andalusia, in Spain, has approved a "non-legislative proposal" recommendation, requesting water from Alqueva due to the drought.
This desire to bring water from the Alqueva to Andalusia, namely from the Guadiana River downstream of the dam, has also been expressed by farmers in the Spanish region.
"I don't understand why we should give up the little stored water that we have, in one of the few places we have to store it, to Spanish farmers, when the Portuguese also have a lack of water", said Diogo Vasconcelos.
Pointing out that Portugal is also facing "a very long period of drought", with "so little water and storage capacity", the association leader considered that the country "cannot afford" to give up or sell what it has stored.
"I hope this isn't just news", he stressed, arguing that the transfer or sale to the Spanish "will not solve the problem of lack of water in the country, but will worsen it".
Considering that "the Spanish installed more irrigation than they could irrigate", the president of AJASUL highlighted that farmers in the neighbouring country, like the Portuguese, are faced with "a lack of storage capacity".
Diogo Vasconcelos added that the eventual delivery of water from Alqueva to Spanish farmers is also "a matter of national defense", as, faced with a possible "serious lack of water in the Alentejo, the only solution is Alqueva".
The Andalusian parliament approved a proposal to transfer water rights from users of Alqueva to users of the Tinto-Odiel-Piedras and Chanza river basin, within the scope of cooperation between Portugal and Spain, due to the extreme drought situation facing the agricultural sector in the Huelva area, reported the newspaper Público, in the middle of this month.


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ManagementOperationObserver.Completed Event

Occurs when an operation has completed.
Namespace: System.Management
Assembly: System.Management (in System.Management.dll)
public event CompletedEventHandler Completed
The event handler receives an argument of type CompletedEventArgs containing data related to this event. The following CompletedEventArgs properties provide information specific to this event.
Property
Description
Context (inherited from ManagementEventArgs)
Gets the operation context echoed back from the operation that triggered the event.
Status
Gets the completion status of the operation.
StatusObject
Gets or sets additional status information within a WMI object. This may be null.
Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.
The following example demonstrates how to perform an asynchronous instance enumeration. The example uses the ManagementOperationObserver class to handle management information and events asynchronously.
using System;
using System.Management;
// This example demonstrates how
// to perform an asynchronous instance enumeration.
public class EnumerateInstancesAsync
{
 public EnumerateInstancesAsync()
 {
 // Enumerate asynchronously using Object Searcher
 // ===============================================
 // Instantiate an object searcher with the query
 ManagementObjectSearcher searcher =
 new ManagementObjectSearcher(new
 SelectQuery("Win32_Service"));
 // Create a results watcher object,
 // and handler for results and completion
 ManagementOperationObserver results = new
 ManagementOperationObserver();
 // Attach handler to events for results and completion
 results.ObjectReady += new
 ObjectReadyEventHandler(this.NewObject);
 results.Completed += new
 CompletedEventHandler(this.Done);
 // Call the asynchronous overload of Get()
 // to start the enumeration
 searcher.Get(results);
 // Do something else while results
 // arrive asynchronously
 while (!this.Completed)
 {
 System.Threading.Thread.Sleep (1000);
 }
 this.Reset();
 }
 private bool isCompleted = false;
 private void NewObject(object sender,
 ObjectReadyEventArgs obj)
 {
 Console.WriteLine("Service : {0}, State = {1}",
 obj.NewObject["Name"],
 obj.NewObject["State"]);
 }
 private bool Completed
 {
 get
 {
 return isCompleted;
 }
 }
 private void Reset()
 {
 isCompleted = false;
 }
 private void Done(object sender,
 CompletedEventArgs obj)
 {
 isCompleted = true;
 }
 public static void Main()
 {
 EnumerateInstancesAsync example =
 new EnumerateInstancesAsync();
 return;
 }
}
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Did you know? The lifespan of joint sealants exhibits significant variability, influenced by factors such as environmental conditions, product types, and structural settling. Ranging from 5 to 10 years, with some requiring repairs in as little as a few years, proper maintenance is crucial. It is essential to incorporate an annual sealant inspection regimen for your buildings. This proactive approach ensures their resilience against the challenging weather elements typical of the Mid-Atlantic region: rain, snow, ice, wind, and more. An improperly sealed building, or a building with worn out and deteriorated sealant, will cost you – both in additional expenses for preventable repairs, additional heating/air conditioning expenses, problems related to insect or vermin infestations, etc.
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Mar 2004Laser Components GmbHRequest Info
WILMINGTON, Mass., March 25 -- Laser Components GmbH has introduced JenColour, a product line of color sensor integrated circuits (ICs) that combines the qualitative advantages of an interference filter directly deposited onto a Si-wafer with a PIN-diode technology optimized for the visual wavelength range. This technology has already been proven in many applications where color recognition in the automated process technology and simple measurement tasks for color deviation using hand-held equipment were solved.
The achievable quality of the color measurement significantly depends on the type and quality of the filter function. The new generation of color sensors is based on the implementation of the standard distribution functions as defined in the DIN 5033. This implementation method allows a color measurement with spectral properties using the three-range procedure. Compared to conventional standard PIN technologies, which reach their maximum between 600 nm and 800 nm and a lower sensitivity in the blue spectral range, the maximum sensitivity of the technology used in JenColour is approx. 580 nm.
For more information, visit: _URL_; e-mail: _EMAIL_
Laser Components Instrument Group Inc.
10 Upton Drive
Wilmington, MA 01887 USA
New address/phone as of March 29, 2004:
9 River Road
Hudson, NH 03051
Phone: _PHONE_
Fax: _PHONE_


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DescriptionThe creativity of the past: Tradition as a standard and resource in folk art This papers explores the role of tradition in creative production taking folk art as a case study. It is argued that traditions are formed by a system of representations and practices trasmitted from generation to generaton but also constituted for artisans and lay audiences by a social representation of what is 'traditional'. Creativity in the context of craft is shaped both by representations from the past and representations of the past since its meaning is related most often to the idea of mastery, of using tradition in ways that both continue and 'take it forward'. Examples of creative production in the artistic craft of Easter egg decoration in Romanian communities will be offered to illustrate the use of tradition in creative work both as a standard against which new creations are evaluated and a resource, a pool of representations artisans draw from in an effort to advance their craft. In the end an image of Easter egg decoration emerges as a 'neo-tradition', continuously reconstructed in action and representation.
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text: We sought to improve the feasibility of strain rate imaging (SRI) during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) in 56 subjects at low risk of coronary disease. The impact of several SRI changes during acquisition were studied, including: (1) changing from fundamental to harmonic imaging; (2) parallel beamforming; (3) alteration of spatial resolution and (4) narrow sector acquisition. We assessed SR signal quality, a quantitative measure of signal noise and measurements of SRI. Of 1462 segments evaluated, 6% were uninterpretable at rest and 8% at peak stress. Signal quality was optimised by increasing temporal (p = 0.01) and spatial resolution (p < 0.0001 vs. baseline imaging) at rest and peak. Increasing spatial resolution also minimised signal noise (p < 0.0001). Inter-observer variability of time to peak SR and peak SR were less with high temporal and spatial resolution. SRI quality can be improved with harmonic imaging and higher temporal resolution but optimisation of spatial resolution is critical.


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Starting up your hot tub after a fresh water fill
Before starting up your filled Beachcomber Hot Tub, ensure that the knife valves within your Energy Management System are in the open position to allow water to flow. Also ensure that the bottom Drain and Fill Valve is closed. Open the topside Air Control valves. Turn on your breaker to the hot tub, and turn the FlexJets on at the Topside Controls. You may need to turn the pumps off and on several times to purge the air from the lines. Once your hot tub is running and circulating, it will begin to heat to 100F as a pre-set factory temperature.
To start your hot tub water for the first time, it's convenient to start in the evening. This allows the Conditioning Products the time they need to do their job overnight. Here are the simple steps to follow:
Take a sample of the water, and test pH with your provided kit to ensure it is from 7.2 to 7.8. Adjust with pH Plus or pH Minus. You may need to add Resist to raise Total Alkalinity to prevent pH bounce.
In the evening:
To ensure that no metals or minerals can stain or scale, to prevent rust or corrosion, and to prevent calcium buildup, add one full bottle of Eliminate 1 to the circulating hot tub, and wait 15 minutes.
Add 2 oz. (60 mL) per 250 gallons (1000 liters) of Eliminate 2.
Add 3 1/3 oz. (100 mL) per 250 gallons (1000 liters) of Purezyme 3 to eliminate scum line, prevent odors and cloudy water, and enhance water sparkle.
In the morning:
At this point, you will be ready to shock the water. Refer to the sanitizer program that you are using for your hot tub, shock the water by distributing your sanitizer directly into the circulating, heated water, and wait 15 minutes.
Add 1 oz. (30 mL) per 250 gallons (1000 liters) of Pure Blue to agglomerate particles so that the Microfilter can catch them, to help water sparkle.
For further information on how to achieve that crystal clear water that makes a Beachcomber such a pleasure to use, see our Water Treatment page.


Last name origins & meanings:
 2. German: habitational name from Loy in Oldenburg.
 3. Dutch: variant of Lowy.
 4. Italian (Sardinian): from the personal name Loi, a short form of Balloi, a pet form of Salvatóre.
 5. Spanish and Italian: possibly from a reduced form of the personal name Eloy (see 1 above), of which the Italian form is Eligio.
 6. French (Picardy): nickname for someone who was quick to have recourse to the law: a frequent or vexatious litigant, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a lawyer.
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Non-zero torsion and late cosmology
Miguel Cruz, Fernando Izaurieta, Samuel Lepe
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In this work, we study some thermodynamical aspects associated with torsion in a flat FLRW spacetime cosmic evolution. By implementing two Ansatze for the torsion term, we find that the model admits a phantom regime or a quintessence behavior. This scheme differs from the Λ CDM model at the thermodynamical level. The resulting cosmic expansion is not adiabatic, the fulfillment of the second law of thermodynamics requires a positive torsion term, and the temperature of the cosmic fluid is always positive. The entropy of the torsion phantom scenario is negative, but introducing chemical potential solves this issue. For a Dirac-Milne type Universe, the torsion leads to a growing behavior for the temperature of the fluid but has no incidence on the rate of expansion.
Original languageEnglish
Article number559
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume80
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Kotlin program to get the current time in milliseconds
Why you need time in milliseconds?
The current time is different in different parts of the world. And it is not a good practice to use local time in an application. You can either store the time in UTC and convert it to different locals or you can store the milliseconds counted from a specific date-time.
Unix time/Unix timestamp/epoch/POSIX time is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970(midnight UTC/GMT). We can get this time as milliseconds in Kotlin, Java or any other languages. If you are tracking some user events like how much time a user has spent after the first start, you can store the start time and end time as milliseconds. This is just one example.
In this post, I am listing down two different ways to get the current milliseconds in Kotlin. Just go through the examples and drop one comment below if you have any questions.
Method 1 : Using currentTimeMillis() :
currentTimeMillis is defined in System.java. It returns the current time or difference between the current time and midnight, January 1, 1970, UTC in milliseconds. This method is defined as below :
public static native long currentTimeMillis();
The return value is long.
fun main() {
 println(System.currentTimeMillis())
}
Method 2: Using the Calendar class :
This is another Java class. Calendar.java class provides time-related methods. This class is defined in java.util package. To get the current time in milliseconds, we can simply create one instance of Calendar and get the timeInMillis value. It gives us the current epoch time.
import java.util.Calendar
fun main() {
 val calendar = Calendar.getInstance()
 println(calendar.timeInMillis)
}
Combining two :
import java.util.Calendar
fun main() {
 val calendar = Calendar.getInstance()
 println(calendar.timeInMillis)
 println(System.currentTimeMillis())
}
Execute it. You will get output something like below :
1579886694096
1579886694114
There is a small difference because the execution of println takes some time.
Kotlin print milliseconds
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'At night' versus 'In the night'
1-He works at night.
2- He works in the night.
3- He works nights.
Do all have the same meaning?
Hi Tom,
I would suggest (1) refers to doing work at night probably of a clerical /academic nature because then it's quiet.
I think (2) would refer to someone doing something when the rest of us are asleep but I can only think of Dracula!
(3) would refer to someone who works during the night instead of during the day as part of some shift system and that could be as a police officer or a nurse in a hospital.
I immediately thought of a burglar or some kind of gangster. But on the other hand, Batman works in the night a lot.
Thank you, Alan and Jamie!
All those examples were good but could there be some flexibility in them? :o I mean, Alan, can a student work in the night and a thief at night? In other words, your examples showed that all of the sentences are grammatically correct–could they be interchanged regardless of who is working?
Thanks in advance
In English, you can never say never, but I don't think they would normally be interchangeable.
Hi Tom
I agree with Alan and Jamie. Grammar is only part of language (as you know ;)). You also have to get the meanings and associations right.
My pet barked all night.
In the above sentence, the grammar is correct, but the meaning? What if my pet is a cat? 8)


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Chemistry in Context: A Citizen-First Approach to Foster Student Engagement and Motivation
WEBINAR (69 minutes) recorded April 9, 2020
Students are the next generation of citizens who will need to deal with the consequences of today's global challenges (i.e., climate change, air and water quality, nutrition). As such, all students need to understand basic chemistry principles to gauge the accuracy of media reports. In this webinar, we will present a strategy to introduce fundamental chemistry concepts through a context-first approach using the ACS textbook Chemistry in Context. With chemistry principles woven into discussions on a need-to-know basis, students can easily grasp how chemistry influences their everyday lives. We will describe how a variety of media (e.g., videos, simulations, labs, demos) can be used to initiate in-class discussions and assist students with retaining knowledge outside of the classroom.


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Rising Rents and Rare Availability: Canada's Booming Rental Crisis
In 2022, there was an unprecedented increase in the supply of rental housing across the country, but demand outpaced supply growth, driving up rents to record-low levels and restricting mobility.
Between October 2021 and October 2022, 55,000 specifically designed rental units will enter the market, representing the fastest growth since 2013. Although vacancy rates fell to an all-time low of 1.9 percent throughout the year, those extra units did very little to increase the amount of rental supply that was available.
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) lists several factors for the rise in demand for rental housing.
- Growth in immigration.
- Decreasing affordability of home ownership.
- Returning college students in significant urban centers.
The average national rent for a two-bedroom apartment was $1,258 in 2022, up 56% from the previous year and significantly more than the 28% average increase between 1990 and 2021, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).
The most expensive markets in the nation are Toronto and Vancouver, where the average rent is $1,779 and $2,002, respectively.
The sudden increases in rental costs were most detrimental to renters with low incomes. Less than 20% of the rental stock is comprised of reasonably priced housing, making them difficult to find.
More tenants chose to remain in their homes as rental prices rose across the nation to avoid paying higher prices. Rental turnover rates dropped from 15% in 2021 to 13% in 2022.
Given the evidence provided by CMHC that turnover has a significant impact on rental housing prices, these numbers are not surprising. According to the company, a 2-bedroom apartment turned over to a new tenant experienced an average rent increase of about 18%; however, tenants who opted to remain in their rental properties only experienced a 26% increase.
In 2022, Montreal had the highest percentage of affordable rental units, largely because of its older and smaller buildings, larger overall rental stock, and perhaps more individual owner-landlords.
In Canadian cities, rental condominiums made up 19.3 percent of the total rental stock, with Vancouver leading the way at 42.5 percent.
While Montreal had a meager 60.7 percent, Calgary and Toronto also had high rates of condo rentals (over 30%).
At $1,930 a month, renting a two-bedroom condo was significantly more expensive than renting an apartment.


Graphite lubricates fault zones
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Graphite is known to be a low-friction material, and rocks rich in graphite are often found in fault zones. Oohashi et al. conducted laboratory studies to determine how much graphite is needed to reduce the frictional strength of a fault. Their experiments included samples with various mixtures of graphite and quartz, as well as pure quartz and pure graphite, and they covered large displacements (up to 100 meters), a range of slip rates (from 200 micrometers per second to 1.3 meters per second), and a range of shear strains (up to several tens of thousands).
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Field experience has shown that inefficient transport of small cuttings is a main factor for excessive drag and torque during extended-reach drilling; however, very little is known about the transport behavior of small cuttings. In this study, extensive experiments with three sizes of cuttings (0.45 to 3.3 mm) were conducted in a field-scale flow loop (8 in.×4.5 in., 100-ft long) to identify the main factors affecting small cuttings transport. The effects of cuttings size, drillpipe rotation, fluid rheology, flow rate, and hole inclination were investigated.
The results show significant differences in cuttings transport based on cuttings size. Smaller cuttings result in a higher cuttings concentration than larger cuttings in a horizontal annulus when tested with water. However, a lower concentration was achieved for smaller cuttings when 0.25-ppb polyanionic cellulose (PAC) solutions were used. Unlike the transport of large cuttings, which is mainly dominated by fluid flow rate, the key factors controlling small cuttings transport were found to be pipe rotation and fluid rheology. Improvement by pipe rotation in the transport efficiency of small cuttings is up to twice as large as the improvement in large cuttings transport. Compared with water, PAC solutions significantly improve smaller cuttings transport, while the transport of larger cuttings is only slightly enhanced.
Mathematical modeling was performed to develop correlations for cuttings concentration and bed height in an annulus for field applications. Predictions from a three-layer model previously developed for larger cuttings were also compared with experimental results. Differences (up to 80%) indicate the need for improving the frequently used three-layer model by including correlations specifically developed for small cuttings to get a better design of extended-reach drilling. This study is also useful for horizontal or high-angle well drilling and completion through sand reservoirs.
Efficient cuttings transport is a major challenge when a long extended-reach well with a horizontal and highly inclined section of more than 20 thousand feet is drilled (Guild et al. 1995; Gao and Young 1995; Schamp et al. 2006). Cuttings can be ground to finer sand while being transported out of the hole, especially when rotary drilling is used. Drilling may not be able to proceed if cuttings transport remains a problem in such a hole. Because of excessive drag and torque caused by small cuttings settled at the lower side of the horizontal or inclined section, it may not be possible to run casing in place even if drilling to the target depth can be achieved. Similar problems exist in horizontal and highly inclined wells drilled through unconsolidated sand reservoirs.
Field practice and experimental observations (Parker 1987; Larsen 1990; Gavignet and Sobey 1989; Ahmed 2001; Bassal 1995) show that smaller cuttings are more difficult to transport under certain conditions. Moreover, smaller particles tend to more easily stick a drillpipe because of their cohesive effects (Ahmed 2001; Gailani et al. 2001). It is even more difficult to release the pipe once it is stuck by small, sand-sized cuttings.
An investigation into previous studies in the area of hole cleaning and sand transport shows that very limited information is available for small cuttings transport under drilling conditions. Though different cuttings have been tested by several investigators (Parker 1987; Larsen 1990; Ahmed 2001; Bassal 1995; Ford et al. 1990; Peden et al. 1990; Martins et al. 1996), no study has been conducted on small cuttings transport in horizontal or high-angle annuli involving drillpipe rotation. Previous conclusions about the cuttings size effects on cuttings transport are quite diverse, and even contradictory in some cases (Parker 1987; Larsen 1990; Gavignet and Sobey 1989; Ahmed 2001; Ford et al. 1990; Peden et al. 1990; Martins et al. 1996). Their experiments, upon which these conclusions are based, were conducted under incomparable conditions. It may not be correct, or at least not safe, to state explicitly that smaller cuttings are harder or easier to transport. The result may depend on various combinations of drilling parameters. This study was undertaken to understand why and under what conditions they are harder or easier to transport.


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My workflow is sometimes the following:
- Delete many images from the media library at once (named for example,
- Re-upload a series of images with the same file names (
The media library retains and display shows the old images as thumbnails and previews, even though they are deleted.
Obviously this problem is avoidable by adding images with distinct file names, but I wondered if there were some better way that works regardless of naming convention. Or something else that I'm completely missing?


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by itself with ckraid --fix, why not make it automatic? A: This can be done by adding lines like the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 || { ckraid --fix /etc/raid.usr.conf mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 } or mdrun -p1 /dev/md0 if [ $? -gt 0 ] ; then ckraid --fix /etc/raid1.conf mdrun -p1 /dev/md0 fi Before presenting a more complete and reliable script, lets review the theory of operation. Gadi Oxman writes: In an unclean shutdown, Linux might be in one of the following states: The in-memory disk cache was in sync with the RAID set when the unclean shutdown occurred; no data was lost. The in-memory disk cache was newer than the RAID set contents when the crash occurred; this results in a corrupted filesystem and potentially in data loss. This state can be further divided to the following two states: Linux was writing data when the unclean shutdown occurred. Linux was not writing data when the crash occurred. Suppose we were using a RAID-1 array. In (2a), it might happen that before the crash, a small number of data blocks were successfully written only to some of the mirrors, so that on the next reboot, the mirrors will no longer contain the same data. If we were to ignore the mirror differences, the raidtools-0.36.3 read-balancing code might choose to read the above data blocks from any of the mirrors, which will result in inconsistent behavior (for example, the output of e2fsck -n /dev/md0 can differ from run to run). Since RAID doesn't protect against unclean shutdowns, usually there isn't any ''obviously correct'' way to fix the mirror differences and the filesystem corruption. For example, by default ckraid --fix will choose the first operational mirror and update the other mirrors with its contents. However, depending on the exact timing at the crash, the data on another mirror might be more recent, and we might want to use it as the source mirror instead, or perhaps use another method for recovery. The following script provides one of the more robust boot-up sequences. In particular, it guards against long, repeated ckraid's in the presence of uncooperative disks, controllers, or controller device drivers. Modify it to reflect your config, and copy it to . Then invoke after the root partition has been fsck'ed and mounted rw, but before the remaining partitions are fsck'ed. Make sure the current directory is in the search path. mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 || { rm -f /fastboot # force an fsck to occur ckraid --fix /etc/raid.usr.conf mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 } # if a crash occurs later in the boot process, # we at least want to leave this md in a clean state. /sbin/mdstop /dev/md0 mdadd /dev/md1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hdc2 || { rm -f /fastboot # force an fsck to occur ckraid --fix /etc/raid.home.conf mdadd /dev/md1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hdc2 } # if a crash occurs later in the boot process, # we at least want to leave this md in a clean state. /sbin/mdstop /dev/md1 mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 mdrun -p1 /dev/md0 if [ $? -gt 0 ] ; then rm -f /fastboot # force an fsck to occur ckraid --fix /etc/raid.usr.conf mdrun -p1 /dev/md0 fi # if a crash occurs later in the boot process, # we at least want to leave this md in a clean state. /sbin/mdstop /dev/md0 mdadd /dev/md1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hdc2 mdrun -p1 /dev/md1 if [ $? -gt 0 ] ; then rm -f /fastboot # force an fsck to occur ckraid --fix /etc/raid.home.conf mdrun -p1 /dev/md1 fi # if a crash occurs later in the boot process, # we at least want to leave this md in a clean state. /sbin/mdstop /dev/md1 # OK, just blast through the md commands now. If there were # errors, the above checks should have fixed things up. /sbin/mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 /sbin/mdrun -p1 /dev/md0 /sbin/mdadd /dev/md12 /dev/hda2 /dev/hdc2 /sbin/mdrun -p1 /dev/md1 In addition to the above, you'll want to create a which should look like the following: /sbin/mdstop /dev/md0 /sbin/mdstop /dev/md1 Be sure to modify both rc.sysinit and init.d/halt to include this everywhere that filesystems get unmounted before a halt/reboot. (Note that rc.sysinit unmounts and reboots if fsck returned with an error.) Q: Can I set up one-half of a RAID-1 mirror with the one disk I have now, and then later get the other disk and just drop it in? A: With the current tools, no, not in any easy way. In particular, you cannot just copy the contents of one disk onto another, and then pair them up. This is because the RAID drivers use glob of space at the end of the partition to store the superblock. This decreases the amount of space available to the file system slightly; if you just naively try to force a RAID-1 arrangement onto a partition with an existing filesystem, the raid superblock will overwrite a portion of the file system and mangle data. Since the ext2fs filesystem scatters files randomly throughput the partition (in order to avoid fragmentation), there is a very good chance that some file will land at the very end of a partition long before the disk is full. If you are clever, I suppose you can calculate how much room the RAID superblock will need, and make your filesystem slightly smaller, leaving room for it when you add it later. But then, if you are this clever, you should also be able to modify the tools to do this automatically for you. (The tools are not terribly complex). Note:A careful reader has pointed out that the following trick may work; I have not tried or verified this: Do the mkraid with /dev/null as one of the devices. Then mdadd -r with only the single, true disk (do not mdadd /dev/null). The mkraid should have successfully built the raid array, while the mdadd step just forces the system to run in "degraded" mode, as if one of the disks had failed. Error Recovery Q: I have a RAID-1 (mirroring) setup, and lost power while there was disk activity. Now what do I do? A: The redundancy of RAID levels is designed to protect against a disk failure, not against a power failure. There are several ways to recover from this situation. Method (1): Use the raid tools. These can be used to sync the raid arrays. They do not fix file-system damage; after the raid arrays are sync'ed, then the file-system still has to be fixed with fsck. Raid arrays can be checked with ckraid /etc/raid1.conf (for RAID-1, else, /etc/raid5.conf, etc.) Calling ckraid /etc/raid1.conf --fix will pick one of the disks in the array (usually the first), and use that as the master copy, and copy its blocks to the others in the mirror. To designate which of the disks should be used as the master, you can use the --force-source flag: for example, ckraid /etc/raid1.conf --fix --force-source /dev/hdc3 The ckraid command can be safely run without the --fix option to verify the inactive RAID array without making any changes. When you are comfortable with the proposed changes, supply the


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Commuters in Virginia got a shock when a deer ran through a metro station. Main surveillance cameras captured the galloping deer.
It is not clear how the mammal made it into the subway, but eventually it managed to make it back out unharmed.
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Image-reconstruction algorithms implemented on existing computerized tomography (CT) scanners require the collection of line integrals that are evenly spaced over 360 deg. In many practical situations, some of the line integrals are inaccurately measured or are not measured at all. In these limited-data situations, conventional algorithms produce images with severe streak artifacts. Recently, several other image-reconstruction algorithms were suggested, each tailored to a specific type of limited-data problem. These algorithms make minimal use of a priori knowledge about the image; only one has been demonstrated with real x-ray data. We present a new operator framework that treats all types of limited-data image-reconstruction problems in a unified way. From this framework we derive iterative convolution backprojection algorithms that make no restrictions on the location of missing line integrals. All available a priori information is incorporated by constraint operators. The algorithm has been implemented on a commercial CT scanner. We present examples of images reconstructed from real x-ray data in two limited-data situations and demonstrate the use of additional a priori information to reduce streak artifacts further.
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Melbourne: If reading and re-reading text was still not enough for you to remember it during exams, researchers have devised a new font to help make the process bit more reliable.
Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have developed a new font which tricks the human brain into using deeper cognitive processing to remember the text written in it.
As Cnet reports, the font, ironically called Sans Forgetica, is a sans serif style typeface which slants to the left, an usual design principle in typography, and has holes in it.
The unusual features are exactly what make the font use cognitive psychology and make one better remember the text written in it. The psychological learning principle is known as 'desirable difficulty' making the obstruction (holes) work towards better memory retention.


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1. Reduce your construction time
In addition to safety, time and cost are often the driving challenges in construction. In fact, when you consider that large projects are often 80 percent over budget, which puts a corresponding strain on the project budget, they are among the most pressing. Concrete monitoring helps you not only avoid these risks, but even reduce construction time by up to 30 percent.
How is this possible?
The curing of concrete to the desired compressive strength can be controlled to a certain extent, but ultimately it is a chemical process that takes time. You may not be able to speed up the process with concrete monitoring, but you can tighten up the procedures. This is because the sensors provide you with the relevant information on the maturing process directly from the concrete. As a result, the strength calculations are continuously updated and you are informed of any progress in real time.
So while other contractors wait until the magic 28 days are up and the information from the lab arrives, you get all the compressive strength data in real time. Instead of waiting for test results, you know when the time is right and can remove the formwork on your own. It is not uncommon for this to happen seven days earlier than planned. Such time savings per concrete pour have a significant impact on construction time.
2. Reduce the cost of construction
The logical consequence is that a reduced construction time is also easier on the budget. It also increases productivity because if your team finishes earlier on the construction site, you can tackle the next project faster.
But there are even more aspects under which concrete monitoring saves you money. Here come the top five:
- You reduce your labor costs
- You shorten the rental period of equipment
- You need fewer test samples
- You save material
- You have lower laboratory costs
All in all, you can save up to 20 percent on construction costs. Many others try to do this by dumping prices in purchasing or personnel. Using concrete monitoring makes it much easier and fairer: you simply increase efficiency without charging your men or service providers more.
3. Improve your project management
Relying on data from the past may work in many industries – not so in construction and especially not when working with concrete. If the actual compressive strength does not match the estimate because the maturing process is delayed due to temperatures, for example, the entire construction project is literally thrown into turmoil. The same applies if you rely exclusively on others, as in the example of concrete strength in the laboratory.
Concrete monitoring gives you the ability to use a tool properly. Using data measured directly in the concrete and combined with supplementary information in the dashboard, you have everything at your fingertips to make precise forecasts on strength development. Instead of comparing empirical values and making assumptions, you have the results in black and white.
This gives you better decision-making, regardless of time and place. You don't even need to be on site to do this, as you can access the data from any internet-enabled device. This way, you can significantly simplify and improve your project management.
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4.Make the documentation simple
Annoying, but unavoidable: Every process during construction or production must be documented. Complete documentation is essential in order to comply with regulations and quality control requirements. In addition, you also have an obligation to the building owners or clients to prepare your processes transparently. Last but not least, the correct logging even protects you, because when it comes to warranty, you have the burden of proof.
We can't take everything off your hands, but when it comes to documenting the maturing process of your concrete and its quality, you can rely on us. That's because ConcR's IoT sensors measure all relevant data directly in the box, automatically send it to the cloud, and reliably store it there. Your workers no longer need to keep lists, and quite apart from the labor savings, you also minimize the risk of incorrect records.
This data can be found in the ConcR portal:
- Documentation of temperature and strength monitoring
- Display of the complete temperature history
- Automatic execution of the maturity calculation
- Display of the correlation between time and strength development
Using ConcR's proprietary software, you can export all data in the format you need and make it available to your team, builders or clients.
5.Use facts instead of assumptions
Concrete simulations have an enormous disadvantage: the general conditions are rarely as in the manual. In reality, conditions are rarely predictable. The most important, and at the same time most difficult, to predict influence is changing weather conditions. Particularly in extreme conditions, such as very high or very low outside temperatures, there is a risk of delays as well as defects such as cracks.
Concrete monitoring sensors give you access to real data at all times. With an accuracy of +/- 0.5 degrees Celsius, ConcR's sensors provide you with both the hydration temperature in the concrete and the ambient temperature. So as soon as you notice any discrepancies, you can take action yourself to protect your concrete and prevent serious defects.
6. Simplify your quality assurance with concrete monitoring
On every job site, there are critical areas in the concrete, depending on the strength, location and stress. Fracture tests are only an inadequate way of solving problems here because their results do not represent the entire construction site and are often inconsistent.
Sensors can be used specifically at problem areas so that you have a full overview of the development of compressive strength even at critical points. This allows you to detect weak points before they become a problem.
You also benefit from the use of concrete monitoring in long-term quality management: thanks to their long battery life, the sensors continue to send data to the cloud even after completion of the construction project, which is an invaluable advantage for their operators as well, especially in very complex projects such as road or bridge construction.


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Digitized documents from the Lewis Library's collections are now available through Indiana Memory!
These collections from the Byron R. Lewis Historical Library at Vincennes University highlight the importance of Vincennes, Indiana's oldest city, and the state's oldest college to early Indiana statehood. Initial collections to be digitized include early family papers reflecting the city's French heritage, documents reflecting the origins of higher education in Indiana, and selected early Knox County government records. This project was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Indiana State Library.
Byron R. Lewis Historical Library
The Byron R. Lewis Historical Library is located on the Vincennes campus of Vincennes University. It is a comprehensive repository of historical documents, books and letters emphasizing the history of the former Indiana Territory, an area that once comprised the present states of Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and a part of Minnesota.
Its mission falls into two broad categories:
Regional History Collection. The RHC is a comprehensive group of letters, documents and manuscripts dating from the 18th century with an emphasis on the settlement and development of the American Midwest. The collections are of a governmental, business and private nature. There are more than 645 individual collections covering more than 90 feet of archival space. Lewis Library contains collections of photographs, books, pamphlets, newspapers, art, artifacts and other historical materials.
University Archives. The library serves as the archives for Vincennes University, founded in 1801 as one of America's oldest institutions of higher learning. Archival collections include presidential papers, records, photographs, and various university publications.
In addition, the library maintains some genealogy materials (in both published and manuscript form) with an emphasis on Knox County and Southern Indiana.
Open Monday through Friday, 1 pm to 4 pm.
For more information please call _PHONE_ or email the Lewis Library Assistant at _EMAIL_ .


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Dive Alert Plususes a small amount of air from your SCUBA tank to make a piercingly loud sound in air or water. People have been able to hear a Dive Alert Plus one mile away from a diver in need above water. In conditions where visibility is limited, a Dive Alert Pluscan be a life saver. Underwater you can sound for attention quickly with a squeeze of the device.
HOW IT WORKS
The Dive Alert Plususes chrome-plated brass couplings to attach to your power inflator. Squeezing the device engages the actuator valve stem causing a small amount of air to flutter a stainless steel diaphragm, emitting a piercingly loud sound from the injection-molded thermoplastic body. The subsurface / underwater signal is produced by a percussion "buzzing" noise made by a piston hitting a stainless steel diaphragm much like a drum.
DiveAlertPLUS does not require any modification to your equipment, and it does not interfere with the normal operation of your equipment.
Once the tank is turned on and the DiveAlertPLUS connected, squeeze the DiveAlertPLUS softly underwater for a subsurface signal.