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Gomal Zam Dam Multipurpose Project is being implemented as part of a WAPDA's vision 2025 programme to irrigate the area of 660,000 hectares. Gomal Zam Dam is located at Khajuri Kach on Gomal River. The Dam is 133 meters high roller compact concrete (RCC) Dam to create a dead storage of 300 million cubic meters, a live storage of 800 million cubic meters and flood retention storage of about 300 million cubic meters. The dam will incorporate a spillway, a bottom outlet, desilting sluices and other appurtenant works. An irrigation component serving a CCA of about 66,000 ha, including a barrage with a canal head regulator of about 37 cumecs, and concrete lined main and distributary canals. Hydropower component comprising intake, headrace tunnel, pressure shaft, a tailrace tunnel and a powerhouse to generate about 17MW is provided.
Geological Investigation of the Project by Geological Specialist
Geo-technical Investigation by Principal Geo-technical Engineer
Hydrological Study / Investigation by Principal Hydrologist
Survey Control of the Project by Survey Specialist
Flood Control and Irrigation Works by Irrigation Engineer
Contract Management by Contract Specialist


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In this paper the results of simultaneous and spatially coincident, multi-frequency, polarimetric, spatio-temporally
collocated measurements of waved pool water surface microwave reflective (radar backscattering coefficient) and
emissive (brightness temperature) characteristics angular dependences at 5.6GHz, 15GHz and 37GHz are presented.
Angular measurements were carried out for various water surface roughness parameters at clear air, cloudy and rain
conditions. For these measurements C-, Ku and Ka-band, polarimetric, combined scatterometric-radiometric systems
were used, set jointly on a mobile buggy moving along the measuring platform. Structures, operational features and the
main technical characteristics of the utilized systems are presented too. The paper has an aim as well to attract attention
of interested researchers and to invite them to perform their own or joint researches using available devices and facilities.

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2. Remove host from the pool
Lesson 12 out of 182
Removing of the host, located in the pool is performed via the 1. Manage servers in the pool > 2. Remove host from the pool.
Indicate IP-address or DNS-name for the host to be removed from the server pool:
After the confirmation, server will be deleted from the pool:
Attention! Task execution may take a rather long time (up to 2-3 hours and more) depending on the task complexity, data volume used in such tasks, capacity and server load. You can check the currently executed tasks by using menu item 5. Background tasks in the pool > 1. View running tasks. If task completion log files are needed to be reviewed, they are located in the following directory /opt/webdir/temp.


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Question: Is it safe to refreeze a partially thawed turkey? I started to defrost a frozen turkey for a holiday dinner, but now I've had a change in plans. Can I refreeze the turkey?
Answer: It's fine to refreeze a thawed turkey — as long as you thawed it in the refrigerator. If that was the case, you can put it right back into the freezer according to the United States Department of Agriculture. If your turkey is fully thawed, you can safely keep it refrigerated for an additional one or two days before refreezing it. When you eventually thaw the turkey a second time, you may notice a decrease in quality, but it'll certainly be safe to eat.
If, on the other hand, you thawed the turkey in cold water or the microwave, the USDA advises that you should cook it immediately. That's because with either method, the turkey could have at least temporarily warmed up to a temperature higher than 40°F. At that point, harmful bacteria can begin to multiply and only further cooking will destroy it; simply refreezing the turkey won't do the trick.
Finally, if you thawed the turkey on the counter or in hot water, you shouldn't eat it at all. The USDA cautions that it's dangerous to eat any meat or poultry that's been thawed under those two methods, as the outer layer of the food would have been allowed to sit between the bacteria-breeding temperatures of 40° F and 140° F for far too long to be safe.

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By Rachel Walsh
Old Faithful is a geyser in Yellowstone National Park that is powered by an instrusive pluton that is believed to be at a depth of 2.4 km to 4.8 km below the surface. The water is heated, and pumped through a plumbing system up through many geysers, one of which is old faithful. The height the water can reach is up to 56m. The duration of each eruption is 1.5 to 5 min. and the volume of water can reach up to 32 m3. I am going to investigate the rate, velocity of water at the hole and the possible pressure by the pluton.
- the plumbing is one vertical pipe of equal diameter through all 3.6 km (average) of the earth to the pluton.
- The eruption is at a constant rate.
- The change of temperature is irrelevant
- The pressure at the opening of the hole is atmospheric
Radius of opening: 0.2m
Possible viscosity of brine:1.3 x 10-3 Pa *s (Francke et al)
Density of brine: 1090 kg/ m3
Q= v/t to 32 m3 / 300s = 0.11 m3/s
Velocity of water:
pgh = ½ pv2 to (9.8 m/s)(56m) = ½ v2
v = 23.4 m/s
Change in pressure from pluton to surface:
Q = pR4(deltaP)/8hL à 0.11 m3/s = p(0.2m)4(deltaP)/8(1.3x10-3 Pa*s)(3600m)
deltaP = 1100 Pa
Francke, Henning. "Density and Viscosity of Brine: An Overview from a Process Engineers Perspective." Sci Verse. Cheme Der Erde - Geochemistry, n.d. Web.


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How to change a drive letter on windows 10 or windows 11.
You can change your drive letters in Windows 10 and 11 using the Disk Management utility.
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What changing a drive letter does, how to change a drive letter, how to fix programs broken by changing a drive letter.
Changing the letter of a drive is easy on Windows 10 and Windows 11, but you should do it as soon as you add the drive to prevent future hassles. Find out how to change a drive letter here.
Windows assigns drive letters alphabetically --- starting with C --- when they're initialized. If you want to change a drive letter, you should do it before you install anything on the drive. Changing a drive letter after programs are installed could break them since there will be references to an installation location that is no longer there.
Windows has gotten pretty smart about updating shortcuts so that programs work after changing a drive letter. Most of your applications' shortcuts will probably be automatically corrected. Unfortunately, Windows isn't as good about updating file associations. You'll have to manually set the default apps associated with files to fix file associations if they were broken by changing the drive letter.
It is possible to change the boot drive letter to something else, but we don't recommend it. Changing C:\ to another letter is likely to result in severe issues, like a PC that cannot boot into Windows at all. Even if it were able to boot, there would be a huge number of programs that would not be able to run.
Technically speaking, while they are commonly called drive letters, each letter actually refers to a partition on a disk. If you have multiple partitions on a single disk, you will need to assign a letter to each partition to make them all accessible. If a disk has just a single partition, it will just have a single letter pointing to that partition. (However, you do not have to assign a letter to each partition. Partitions without drive letters will not appear in File Explorer and elsewhere.)
Changing a drive letter is pretty simple. Click the Start button, type "Disk Management" in the search bar, and then hit Enter.
The program name displayed in the search will not be Disk Management. It will be "Create and format hard disk partitions."
You could also hit Windows+X or right-click the Start button, and then click "Disk Management."
Identify the drive you'd like to change in the Disk Management Window. In this example, we'll change the letter of the D:\ drive to J:\. You can right-click the drive on the text list, or on the menu below. Either works.
Select "Change Drive Letter and Paths" in the right-click menu that appears.
In the window that pops up, click "Change."
Select whatever letter you want from the drop-down menu. Then click "Ok."
Two popups will warn you about changing your drive letter. Click "Yes" on both of them, and then restart your computer.
Once Windows has restarted, the drive letter should be changed.
There are a few ways you can fix a program broken by changing the drive letter.
Fix The Shortcut
If you're lucky, the only thing that is broken is the shortcut. Fix a shortcut by right-clicking the shortcut on your desktop, and then click Properties.
You need to change the target of the shortcut to the new drive letter.
For example, if GIMP was previously installed at " D :\GIMP 2\bin\gimp-2.10.exe," and you changed the D drive to J, change the target of the shortcut to " J :\GIMP 2\bin\gimp-2.10.exe."
Finalize the change by clicking "Apply" and then "Ok."
Reinstall the Program
Reinstalling the program will generate new entries in the registry, so everything on the computer will know where to look for the program. Some installers won't like reinstalling directly over existing files, so you may need to rename or delete the old installation first.
Change the Drive Letter Back
If you changed the drive letter of a drive with a lot of programs installed, it might be easier to change the drive letter back. Changing the drive letter back should automatically fix any programs and file associations that were broken.
Edit the Registry
You can break programs, or even Windows itself, by editing the registry. Be careful, and learn about how to edit the registry before you try it. Make sure you backup the Windows registry first. You should not attempt this method unless you have no other options.
Windows, and a lot of programs, track where programs are installed via the Windows registry. It is possible to manually adjust the registry to fix broken programs. Keep in mind that there could be dozens of registry entries you need to edit. A program like GIMP can have registry entries for the context menu, for the "Open With" menu, for any file associations, and for the location of its executables. Other programs may only have a few entries related to where it is installed.
If you're not deterred, here's how you do it.
First, you need to know where the program was previously installed. In this case, the program was installed to the "D:\GIMP 2" folder, and the executables were found the "D:\GIMP 2\bin" sub-folder. It is now located at "J:\GIMP 2" instead.
We need to update the registry to reflect the change in location. Click the Start button, type "regedit" into the search bar, right-click Regedit, and click "Run as administrator."
In Regedit, hit Ctrl+F to bring up a search window. Type in the old location for the program you're trying to fix --- "D:\GIMP 2" for our example --- then click "Find Next."
Once Regedit has found something with "D:\GIMP 2" as part of a path, it'll show it to you. Here is an example from the GIMP search.
To actually change them, double click the name of the registry entry you want to modify. Then change the drive letter to J, or whatever you chose. If you didn't otherwise move the folder, leave the rest of the path alone. Then click "Ok."
You'll need to repeat this multiple times. To find the next result using your search term, you can hit the F3 key. There will be a popup once you've found all of the entries.
Changing drive letters can be a simple way to customize your PC. Do it before you install anything on the drive, however. You'll prevent any problems before they occur, and probably save yourself quite a bit of troubleshooting.
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Applies To: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2016
If you want to change a drive letter assigned to a drive, or you have a drive that doesn't yet have a drive letter, use Disk Management to change it. You can also mount the drive in an empty folder so that it appears as a folder. For more information, see Mount a drive in a folder .
If you change the drive letter of a drive that already contains Windows or apps, apps might have trouble running or finding the drive. We suggest not changing the drive letter of a drive that already contains Windows or apps.
The following steps show how to change the drive letter.
Open Disk Management with administrator permissions.
In Disk Management, select and hold (or right-click) the volume on which you want to change or add a drive letter and select Change Drive Letter and Paths .
Screenshot showing the Disk Management window with the Change Drive Letter and Paths feature selected.
If you don't see the Change Drive Letter and Paths option or it's grayed out, the volume either isn't ready to receive a drive letter or it's unallocated and needs to be initialized . It might also be that the drive isn't accessible, which is the case with EFI system partitions and recovery partitions. If you've confirmed that your volume is formatted with a drive letter that you can access but you're still unable to change it, that's beyond the scope of this article. We suggest contacting Microsoft Support or the manufacturer of your PC for more help.
To change the drive letter, select Change . To add a drive letter if the drive doesn't already have one, select Add .
Screenshot of the Change Drive Letter and Paths dialog.
Select the new drive letter and choose OK . Then select Yes when prompted about how programs that rely on the drive letter might not run correctly.
Screenshot of the Change Drive Letter or Path dialog that shows how to assign a new drive letter.
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The Chesapeake Bay Trust in partnership with the District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) has recently opened the DC Urban Agriculture Small Grant Program! The application deadline is May 21, 2021 at 6pm – apply now!
DOEE formalized the Office of Urban Agriculture in 2020 which works to increase food production in the District of Columbia and to support a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient food system. The Office is a central hub working with the DC Food Policy Council, sister agencies, the University of the District of Columbia, farmers, and community members to support urban agriculture, increase access to fresh, healthy produce, empower communities, and create green jobs.
About the DC Urban Agriculture Small Grant Program: The goals of the program are to support increased infrastructure and operations at urban farms and to advance strategies to support the success of agriculture initiatives for socially disadvantaged farmers. Food and nutrition education remains an integral component of an informed farm operation and contributes to healthy communities. This grant program seeks to provide funding to building capacity for crop production and distribution, and to increase knowledge within farmers and District residents through agricultural education experiences.
Maximum Request Amount: Up to $10,000
Funds available: $38,400
Deadline: May 21, 2020 at 6pm
Eligible applications: Applicants physically located in the District of Columbia that are Nonprofit organizations; Faith-based organizations; Universities/educational institutions; or Private Enterprises.
Project examples (include but not limited to):
- Fencing, cold storage, wash/pack stations, sheds, pavilions for food processing and education events, hoop houses, greenhouses, and shipping containers for indoor growing
- Controlled Environment Agriculture technology: lighting, hydroponic and aquaponic components
- Utility Installation: water and electrical lines, solar panels
- Farm equipment such as tools and irrigation supplies
To review the Request for Applications (RFA) and to apply, visit the Trust's website – _URL_
Have an idea but want to talk to through it before applying? Have questions after you read the RFA? Let's chat! Contact Bre'Anna Brooks at _EMAIL_ or _PHONE_, ext. 112.


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Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art presents 8–12 exhibitions per year in the Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, the Barbara & Paul Uhlmann Gallery, and the Kemper East Gallery. The Museum curates exhibitions from its Permanent Collection and of the work of emerging, midcareer, and established artists.
Abstracted Wonders: The Power of Lines presents a selection of abstract works from Kemper Museum's Permanent Collection. The featured artists employ artistic approaches from kinetic art, geometric abstraction, Color Field, and Op (optical) art. Geometry and patterns in geography like those made by land and water inform horizontal, vertical, and perpendicular lines in these two- and three-dimensional works.
Kemper Museum presents a major exhibition of works by internationally-renowned New York-based artist Polly Apfelbaum (American, born 1955). Featuring textiles, ceramics, and works on paper, Apfelbaum's artistic practice branches out into broader social and historical contexts, and is situated in the legacy of post-war American art. She is best known for expansive polychromatic installations, which coalesce the radical and the beautiful, simultaneously domestic and irreverent.


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Year 7 - Autumn Term 2015
Pupils will explore:
What do we mean by Signs and Symbols?
How useful are signs and symbols in everyday life
Religious symbols and their meanings
The importance of symbols to religious believers
Food and symbolism
A local church – St Oswalds at Bidston
Visit from the local vicar to talk about his role and the place of the Church in the community
The nativity story and its symbolism
Christmas celebrations around the world
Activities will include food tasting, exploring religious artefacts, making a Christingle, ICT research on Christmas traditions and drama.
Year 8 Religious Education – Autumn Term 2015
Pupils will explore three World Religions this year. In the first term, they will focus on the religion of Judaism. They will find out about:
Jewish beliefs about God
Abraham - the founder of Judaism
The importance of Moses to the Jewish religion
The festival of Passover
The Seder meal and symbolic foods
The ten commandments
The Torah and its importance in everyday life
Objects associated with prayer
The Synagogue and Worship
Activities to include storytelling, acting out a seder celebration, tasting symbolic foods, designing their own Passover plate and making their own Torah scroll.
Year 9 Religious Education – Autumn Term 2015
Students will study Festivals and Celebrations this term. They will explore:
What is a Festival?
Research special days and festivals from around the world
Consider the importance of special days to us as individuals and as a community
Interview someone about their special day, find out how they celebrate and why it is special
Chinese New Year
The Jewish festivals of Purim and Hanukkah
Harvest and Sukkot
Activities will include ICT research, class presentations, conducting interviews, puppet play, craft activities and designing a Jewish Sukkah.


What does Microsiemens mean?
 - PPM means Parts Per Million. With a conductivity metre you can measure the number of all dissolved particles. Often the conductance is also shown in microsiemens. He says something about the amount, not the quality of the water components. 5 ppm lead, quicksilver, uranium or cadmium can be catastrophic, 1000 ppm calcium in comparison is perfect! Whoever wants to judge the quality of water with a measurement of conductance, is either completely uninformed or purposefully does not tell the truth, for to advertise —> reverse osmosis, I refer to this in another section.
 - Where does the increase in ppm come from, even though the water before electrolysis is filtered and like that the contaminants are removed? In the cathode chamber minerals build up from 2 litres of water in 1 litre alkaline activated water. Aside from some filters also adding —> calcium, because it is good for us and for the buffering of activated water. That is why it has mostly more ppm, yet fewer contaminants, which can be measured in alkaline activated water.
 - Last but not least I have to point out that with the conductance solely electrolyte, hence ions can be measured in the water, electrically neutral atoms cannot.
 - Furthermore you should consider, that the very bad contaminants like lead, quicksilver or uranium, also hormones and antibiotics in minimal amounts are very harmful. Heavy metals are measured in micrograms, whilst the good metals like calcium, magnesium or potassium are measured in milligrams, so the order of magnitude is a thousandth bigger. If a filter can remove ppm from the water, it does not mean by a long way that the "evil" ones were removed.
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In Japanese mythology, an ikiryō (Japanese term for "astral projection")is a manifestation of the soul of a living person separately from their body. It is therefore associated with near death experiences and is also frequently reported as spontaneously experienced in association with sleep and dreams, illness, surgical operations, drug experiences,sleep paralysis and forms of meditation.
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Ikiryo is a manifestation of the soul of a living person separately from their body.
Traditionally, if someone holds a sufficient grudge against another person, it is believed that a part or the whole of their soul can temporarily leave their body and appear before the target of their hate in order to curse or otherwise harm them, similar to an evil eye.However, this temporary separation would result in sickness. If the separation became permanent, the person who held the grudge would die. The Ikiryo are said to be able to possess another living person without the originator even being aware of it Buddhist literture describes the Ikiryo as being particularly difficult to exorcise. The spirits are not tied to whomever they possess, and may freely move about bodies.

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This is yet another Ping Monitor utility written in VB.NET on.NET Framework 2.0. It fulfills the need of steadily monitoring through a "PING" the status (the aliveness) of some PCs and servers on a network, keeping a history of each state transition (ON to OFF and viceversa) and visually highlighting the last status of each machine.
This application is far from being a complete and sophisticated tool. I wrote it for a colleague who needed a starting point for a more advanced and customized tool implementation.
One service, one database, one IU
In order to continuously monitor some machine, we need to have a monitoring EXE continuously runnning. So, I decided to implement the "monitor engine" as a Windows Service application (taking advantage of unattended execution, automatic restart in case of power failure, and so on). This
PingMonitorService simply has to:
- read from some configuration storage (such as a database table) the list of machines to be monitored (along with the monitoring frequency);
- execute the actual monitoring sending a "PING" to each machine configured as to be monitored;
- log the outcome of each "PING" somewhere.
Other than a Windows Service for the monitoring and a database as a storage, we obviously need also a user interface (UI) to interact with the configuration and the log; that's why I created a simple Windows Form application (named
PingMonitor) to accomplish these tasks: showing the last PING status of the monitored machines and editing the
I decided to use a SQL Server 2000 (or 2005) database to host both the configuration (that is, a list of machines to be monitored) and the log.
The following are the two table schemas, expressed in T-SQL code, with some explanations.
The configuration table
CREATE TABLE HostList (
ID int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
Host nvarchar(50) NULL,
IsHost char(1) NULL,
ShowInMonitor char(1) NULL,
DoPing char(1) NULL,
PingFreq int NULL,
IDparent int NULL,
CONSTRAINT PK_HostList PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (ID ASC)
WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF) ON PRIMARY
) ON PRIMARY
HostList table will contain the list of the machines to be monitored. For each machine, it stores: the machine name with a unique ID (
ID fields), the frenquency of monitoring (
PingFreq field, expressed in seconds), a flag indicating if the monitoring is currently activated (
DoPing field) and a flag indicating if the specific machine has to be shown in the UI (
Being able to list a hierarchycal tree enables you to organize the machines to be monitored in groups and subgroups, the
HostList table supports the concept of parent-child node relationships (via the
IDparent field) and the concept of "folder" tree nodes, that are intermediate nodes not corresponding to an host but simply being the parent of other nodes (for them, the
IsHost flag is not set to "yes").
The user interface provided by the
PingMonitor application allows you to visually edit the tree while directly modifying the underlying
HostList table (please, notice that the deletion of nodes and the addition of children nodes is allowed through the context menu on the tree).
The log table
CREATE TABLE PingLog (
Host varchar(50) NOT NULL,
Status varchar(5) NOT NULL,
RecordingDate datetime NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_PingLog] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (Host ASC, Status ASC,
WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF) ON PRIMARY
) ON PRIMARY
PingLog table will contain an entry for each detected state transition (ON to OFF or viceversa) for each monitored machine during a monitored period of time. The
Host field contains the name of the monitored machine, the
RecordingDate field contains a timestamp of the recorded entry and the
Status field simply contains the value "ON" or "OFF" (respectively indicating a successful and an unsuccessful "PING").
Some notes about the service
PingMonitorService has been implemented on the standard Windows Service application template of Visual Studio 2005. Being a standard.NET Windows Service, it has to be installed through the installutil.exe utility (see here for reference).
When started, the service reads its CONFIG file in order to retrieve:
- the connection string to the configuration database (see
- the configuration reloading frequency (see
ReloadConfigFrequency appSetting): it indicates the number of seconds before reloading all the configuration parameters (this enables the service to adapt its behavior based on new settings in the
HostList table eventually modified by the user through the PingMonitor UI).
To determine if it's time to "PING" a machine, the service simply looks at the total number of seconds passed after midnight and checks if this number is a multiple of the specific
PingFreq for that host (notice that only status transitions are stored, not each status detection).
If CurrentSecond Mod CInt(dr("PingFreq")) = 0 Then
Dim IsAlive As Boolean = HostIsAlive(dr("Host"))
Dim LastStatus As String = HostLastStatus(dr("Host"))
If LastStatus = "" OrElse _
(LastStatus = "ON" And Not IsAlive) OrElse _
(LastStatus = "OFF" And IsAlive) Then
Notice that the polling interval in the
MainTask() is currently set to 900ms, to be sure that at least one "tick" happens for every second (obviously, it could occur twice in some seconds). If the host list is very very big, the execution of the
TryPing() method could be long enough to make the service miss some "PING" to some hosts (so please carefully configure the hosts list and the specific
The "PING" itself is done, in a very simple way, through the
Private Function HostIsAlive(ByVal Host As String) As Boolean
Dim pingSender As New Ping
Dim reply As PingReply
reply = pingSender.Send(Host)
If reply.Status = IPStatus.Success Then
Catch ex As Exception
Some notes about the UI
The UI application is very simple; it consists of two forms: the monitoring form and the configuration form.
The application needs a CONFIG file where the connection string to the support database is specified (see
The monitoring form is just a
DataGridView populated by a query on the
PingLog table; the query is designed to show only the last entry for each host having
The refresh frequency for the
DataGridView can be specified in the
ReloadFrequency appSetting of the application configuration file. Entries with an "OFF" status are highlighted by simply implementing the
CellFormatting() event handler:
Private Sub dgMonitor_CellFormatting(...)
Dim v As Object = dgMonitor.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells("Status").Value
If v IsNot Nothing AndAlso v.ToString() = "OFF" Then
For Each i As DataGridViewCell In dgMonitor.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells
i.Style.BackColor = Color.Orange
The configuration form contains a treeview with a detail panel, shown when a host node is selected (see the first picture in the article).
No special remarks needed on this. Just notice that the update of the underlying
HostList table is done immediately after modifying values on the UI controls, through updates on the corresponding
DataTable suddenly written down by the
As stated in the Introduction, this application is to be considered as a starting point for a more advanced and customized tool implementation. Its basic idea and implementation are intentionally very simple, hoping it can be useful for you in building something more complex.
Content of the downloadable ZIP (now available also in a C# version) for this article:
DBTablesCreation.sql file - contains the T-SQL scripts for creating support database tables on Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005;
PingMonitorService folder - contains the Visual Studio 2005 project for the service;
PingMonitor folder - contains the Visual Studio 2005 project for the UI WinForm application.


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Working Paper No. 90.Ladda ner
This study empirically examines the relationship between knowledge capital and performance heterogeneity at the firm level. The model is based on a knowledge production function comprising of four interdependent equations linking innovativeness to innovation input, innovation output and productivity. The empirical part is based on Korean firm level innovation data. The model is estimated using advanced econometric methods. We investigate whether innovation is a significant and contributing determinant of performance heterogeneity among firms. In examining the relationship between innovation and productivity we correct for selectivity and simultaneity biases. The results show that there is a two-way causal relationship between knowledge capital and labor productivity. Firm-specific effects positively contribute to innovation output but they are negatively related to productivity. Industry heterogeneity does not affect innovation output or productivity.
Heshmati, A., Kim, Y-K. & Kim, H. (2006) The Effects of Innovation on Performance of Korean Firms. Ratio Working Paper No. 90.


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The Effects of Water Levels on Safe Boating
By Al Wade
Kuttawa, Ky – Those bathtub rings on the shorelines of our lakes testify to changing lake levels. Alan Wade is a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, and next he explains how varying water levels affect boating.
Kentucky Lake's and Lake Barkley's water levels change, as all of us who boat on either lake know. These changes in water levels can be tricky, especially if you are boating out of the main channels. Charts will help, but you need to know what the water level is on that day to really understand your chart.
Reservoir levels start going back up in mid-March. Most reservoirs fill to their highest level by June 1. Reservoirs are drawn to their lowest level by January 1 to provide water-storage capacity in order to reduce flood damage from rain run-off which is most likely to happen in winter and early spring. When it rains in the summer or fall, the water is more likely to soak into the ground, with some run-off. But, when it rains in the colder months, most of the water will run-off into the lake which can change the lake level. We all remember when Nashville received a historical level of rain, which raised our lake level dramatically with dire consequences for many homes, especially in Livingston County.
These high levels of water affect boaters. Debris floats out into the lakes. Sometimes there are logs and trees which may be partially submerged and pose hidden dangers for boaters.
Low water levels also affect boaters. If you are a regular boater in Lake Barkley, you surely are aware of many protruding trees or rocks. What was passable last week may be dangerous this week, if the water level is lower.
How do you know what the water level is? Go to _URL_ for up to date information. Select the reservoir for which you need information, either Lake Barkley or Kentucky Lake or any other. You will find the Reservoir Elevation, which is the water behind the dam, and the Tailwater Elevation, which is the water below the dam.
Be informed. This information may better help you to understand lake conditions and travel on-water more safely.
As always, avoid excessive speed, avoid alcohol, and always wear a life jacket!
If you want to know more about this topic or the Coast Guard Auxiliary, search online for US Coast Guard Auxiliary 4 Rivers, for a flotilla near you.
Alan Wade is a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, a volunteer branch working to contribute to the safety and security of our citizens, ports, waterways and coastal regions.


Purple Feet When Sitting
Do your feet turn purple after you sit? Purple feet when sitting may sound alarming. It may make you think about artery blockages or a compressed vein. But, usually the color changes are not a sign of danger.
The Most Common Cause of Purple Feet When Sitting
You may have never heard the term acrocyanosis. But, that is the most common cause of purple feet when sitting. Sometimes people are alarmed when they notice that their feet turn color with sitting. This color change can also happen in other common situations like prolonged standing or when coming out of the shower. But, if the discoloration resolves quickly with elevation, it is usually acrocyanosis.
Purple feet when sitting
Purple feet from acrocyanosis
Acrocyanosis is usually primary. This means it is usually just that – discoloration of the feet. Primary acrocyanosis is not associated with pain or with damage to the skin. But, sometimes it can be more severe. Then, it might be secondary to something else. In these cases, you have to find the other cause.
Cold Reaction
Our arteries constrict when exposed to the cold. That is a normal response. The idea is that by constricting, the arteries limit exposure to the cold and protect the body. When the arteries constrict, some blood gets trapped in the toes. That blood releases oxygen to the surrounding tissue. Once that happens the remaining blood that has lost its oxygen will look blue.
If this is the cause for the purple feet, rewarming them will result in improvement in the discoloration.
Purple Feet after Frostbite
But, there is another type of purple feet from cold. Sometimes the foot suffers injury from extreme cold. That will result in frostbite. Sometimes, even long after frostbite, there will be remaining damage. It is not clear if this is damage to the arteries or damage to the nerve endings. But the end result is exaggerated response to the cold. So after such injury, even mild cold might cause significant color changes. In some people there will also be numbness. Obviously, in these cases we will suspect at least some cold induced peripheral neuropathy.
Purple Feet with Heat
Some people notice that their feet become more purple when it is hot. Another common situation is coming out of a hot shower. In both cases the reason for the discoloration is the same. When it is hot, our blood vessels dilate. Basically, they are trying to get more blood to flow through them to get rid of some of the excess heat. But, in some people some of the blood will linger in the feet. The reason is that when the blood vessels are dilated, blood flows more slowly. In essence, it is like a river. When the river widens, water flows more slowly. And when blood lingers, it gradually loses its oxygen and looks blue.
This situation can seem alarming, but it is now dangerous. Typically, walking around or cooling off will improve the discoloration. Obviously, compression stockings can help prevent pooling of blood. But on the other hand, they might feel hot in warm weather. So whether to use them is a matter of choice.
Medication Side Effects
Some medications damage the nerves around the feet. For instance, medications for a type of blood cancer called multiple myeloma. These medications can cause peripheral neuropathy, which may be associated with purple feet when sitting. But there are other medications that can affect the blood vessels directly.
Adderall
Adderall induced vascular disease is a problem that does not receive much attention. There are scientific publications about this matter, though. Adderall can cause narrowing of the small arteries in the hands and feet. This can result in Raynaud's phenomena, purple feet and even gangrene.
Some people take Adderall to help them concentrate when they study or work. So, often Adderall is involved in causing purple feet when sitting.
Dangerous Causes of Purple Feet When Sitting
Artery Blockages
The most common cause for artery blockages is peripheral artery disease. Severe lack of blood flow to the feet will result in discoloration. The feet may seem pale or sometimes purple (or black). Peripheral artery disease that is severe enough to cause color changes will often also cause pain. This pain is usually worse with leg elevation and better with dangling the legs down. So, many patients prefer to be sitting. These symptoms should not be ignored. They can result in tissue loss or even amputation.
Deep Vein Thrombosis
A deep vein thrombosis can reduce the flow of blood out of the leg. Of course, this will result in stagnation of blood in the feet and lower parts of the leg. This is worse with sitting, because the legs are down. You must never ignore sudden discoloration of one leg, especially if it is accompanied with pain and swelling.
Purple Feet in Wheelchair Bound People
People who are wheelchair bound obviously sit (or lay down) all day and night long. This causes some specific problems related to the blood flow to the feet and legs. While many wheelchair bound people do not have swollen legs, many do. Often, they have swollen purple feet.
The mechanism behind these symptoms is a bit complex. First, there is dependent edema. This is the reason for the swelling. However, then, because of the lack of motion and the chronic dependency, there is also pooling of blood in the feet. Lack of motion means that the foot, ankle and calf pumps are not moving blood out of the foot. So, blood lingers and releases its oxygen to the surrounding tissue. Blood without oxygen looks blue or purple. Essentially, this is acrocyanosis, that is more pronounced, and harder to reverse.
Also, part of keeping blood flowing normally in our feet involves proper innervation. Obviously, many wheelchair bound people do not have appropriate nerve action. So, blood vessels dilate from lack of tension. This dilatation makes the problem worse. It allows more fluid to leave the blood vessels and it reduces the flow rate of blood out of the feet.
Importantly, wheelchair bound people are at risk for developing a blood clot. So, never ignore one leg swelling. Especially, if it happened suddenly, with or without purple discoloration.


"VisualEsxtop.zip" in to a folder you want to store the tool
 - Go to the folder
 - Double click "visualesxtop.bat" when running Windows (Or follow William's tip for the Mac)
 - Click "File" and "Connect to Live Server"
 - Enter the "Hostname", "Username" and "Password" and hit "Connect"
 - That is it…
Now some simple tips:
 - By default the refresh interval is set to 5 seconds. You can change this by hitting "Configuration" and then "Change Interval"
 - You can also load Batch Output, this might come in handy when you are a consultant for instance and a customers sends you captured data, you can do this under: File -> Load Batch Output
 - You can filter output, very useful if you are looking for info on a specific virtual machine / world! See the filter section.
 - When you click "Charts" and double click "Object Types" you will see a list of metrics that you can create a chart with. Just unfold the ones you need and double click them to add them to the right pane
There are a bunch of other cool features in their like color-coding of important metrics for instance. Also the fact that you can show multiple windows at the same time is useful if you ask me and of course the tooltips that provide a description of the counter! If you ask me, a tool everyone should download and check out.
Let's continue with my second favorite tool, perfmon. I've used perfmon(part of Windows also know as "Performance Monitor") multiple times and it's probably the easiest as many people are already familiar with it. You can import a CSV as follows:
 1. Run: perfmon
 2. Right click on the graph and select "Properties".
 3. Select the "Source" tab.
 4. Select the "Log files:" radio button from the "Data source" section.
 5. Click the "Add" button.
 6. Select the CSV file created by esxtop and click "OK".
 7. Click the "Apply" button.
 8. Optionally: reduce the range of time over which the data will be displayed by using the sliders under the "Time Range" button.
 9. Select the "Data" tab.
 10. Remove all Counters.
 11. Click "Add" and select appropriate counters.
 12. Click "OK".
 13. Click "OK".
The result of the above would be:
Imported ESXTOP data
With MS Excel it is also possible to import the data as a CSV. Keep in mind though that the amount of captured data is insane so you might want to limit it by first importing it into perfmon and then select the correct timeframe and counters and export this to a CSV. When you have done so you can import the CSV as follows:
 1. Run: excel
 2. Click on "Data"
 3. Click "Import External Data" and click "Import Data"
 4. Select "Text files" as "Files of Type"
 5. Select file and click "Open"
 6. Make sure "Delimited" is selected and click "Next"
 7. Deselect "Tab" and select "Comma"
 8. Click "Next" and "Finish"
All data should be imported and can be shaped / modelled / diagrammed as needed.
Another option is to use a tool called "esxplot". It hasn't been updated in a while, and I am not sure what the state of the tool is. You can download the latest version here though, but personally I would recommend using VisualEsxtop instead of esxplot, just because it is more recent.
 1. Run: esxplot
 2. Click File -> Import -> Dataset
 3. Select file and click "Open"
 4. Double click host name and click on metric
Using ESXPLOT for ESXTOP data
As you can clearly see in the screenshot above the legend(right of the graph) is too long. You can modify that as follows:
 1. Click on "File" -> preferences
 2. Select "Abbreviated legends"
 3. Enter appropriate value
For those using a Mac, esxplot uses specific libraries which are only available on the 32Bit version of Python. In order for esxplot to function correctly set the following environment variable:
export VERSIONER_PYTHON_PREFER_32_BIT=yes
Limiting your view
In environments with a very high consolidation ratio (high number of VMs per host) it could occur that the VM you need to have performance counters for isn't shown on your screen. This happens purely due to the fact that height of the screen is limited in what it can display. Unfortunately there is currently no command line option for esxtop to specify specific VMs that need to be displayed. However you can export the current list of worlds and import it again to limit the amount of VMs shown.
esxtop -export-entity filename
Now you should be able to edit your file and comment out specific worlds that are not needed to be displayed.
esxtop -import-entity filename
I figured that there should be a way to get the info through the command line as and this is what I came up with. Please note that <virtualmachinename> needs to be replaced with the name of the virtual machine that you need the GID for.
VMWID='vm-support -x | grep <virtualmachinename> |awk '{gsub("wid=", "");print $1}''
VMXCARTEL='vsish -e cat /vm/$VMWID/vmxCartelID'
vsish -e cat /sched/memClients/$VMXCARTEL/SchedGroupID
Now you can use the outcome within esxtop to limit(l) your view to that single GID. William Lam has written an article a couple of days after I added the GID section. The following is a lot simpler than what I came up with, thanks William!
VM_NAME=STA202G ;grep "${VM_NAME}" /proc/vmware/sched/drm-stats | awk '{print $1}'
References
The following documents / articles have been used as a reference:
Changelog
07-01-2010 | decreased %RDY from 20 to a value of 10
22-01-2010 | added CPU –> TIMER/S
22-01-2010 | added MEM –> N%L
24-01-2010 | added sections (howto)
02-02-2010 | expanded analyze section and included screenshots
10-02-2010 | decreased %CSTP from 100 to 5
10-02-2010 | decreased KAVG from 5 to 2
23-03-2010 | increase %SWPWT from 1 to 5
23-03-2010 | added "e", "V", "i", "2", "4", "6", "8" in the "views" section
16-06-2010 | added "-l" functionality and stressed NFS added option
08-11-2010 | added "l", "e", "l", "#", "%SYS", "ZIP/s", "UNZIP/s", "CACHEUSD"
11-11-2010 | added threshold for "CONS/s
12-03-2011 | Redid some of the formatting
25-05-2011 | added "limiting the view section"
03-01-2012 | added NUMA details
08-07-2013 | added VisualEsxtop
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garbage collector Deletes objects that are no longer referenced by heap references or field symbols and for which no method is registered as an event handler. The garbage collector is called periodically by the ABAP runtime environment. It tracks the reference variables of deleted objects. See also weak reference.


Big array with random numbers with python
When working with large arrays of random numbers in Python, it is important to consider the efficiency and performance of the code. In this article, we will explore three different approaches to solve this problem and determine which one is the most efficient.
Approach 1: Using a For Loop
The first approach involves using a for loop to iterate through the array and generate random numbers. Here is the code:
import random
array = [random.randint(1, 100) for _ in range(_PHONE_)]
This code uses the random.randint() function to generate random numbers between 1 and 100. The loop runs for 1,000,000 iterations, creating a large array with random numbers.
Approach 2: Using NumPy
The second approach involves using the NumPy library, which provides efficient and optimized functions for working with arrays. Here is the code:
import numpy as np
array = np.random.randint(1, 100, size=_PHONE_)
This code uses the np.random.randint() function from NumPy to generate random numbers between 1 and 100. The size parameter specifies the size of the array, which in this case is 1,000,000.
Approach 3: Using the random module
The third approach involves using the random module in Python, similar to the first approach. However, instead of using a for loop, we can use the random.choices() function to generate random numbers. Here is the code:
import random
array = random.choices(range(1, 101), k=_PHONE_)
This code uses the random.choices() function to randomly select numbers from the range 1 to 100. The k parameter specifies the number of elements to choose, which in this case is 1,000,000.
After evaluating the performance of each approach, it is clear that Approach 2 using NumPy is the most efficient. NumPy provides optimized functions for working with arrays, resulting in faster execution times compared to the other approaches. Therefore, when dealing with large arrays of random numbers in Python, it is recommended to use NumPy for improved performance.
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Who Done It?
Have you ever wondered how police use eyewitness statements to solve crimes? After interviewing several witnesses, it might at first seem impossible to find out "whodunit," but if investigators think of the collection of statements as a system of equations, they can start to put together the pieces of the puzzle.
Why It Matters
If one witness says the bad guy has black hair and is a man, while another one insists the criminal is female and blond, their statements are inconsistent. Based on these two statements, no conviction can be made. If two eyewitnesses both say that the criminal is an elderly gentleman with gray hair, a conviction still can't be made. That's because these are dependent statements.
To make a conviction, an officer of the law needs two independent statements that are consistent with each other. For instance, "The bank robber was middle-aged man with a red beard," and "The man who held up the bank was had a tattoo on his left arm." This same principle applies to system of equations: whether the equations are consistent, inconsistent, dependent, or independent will determine the number of solutions.
Take a look at what happens when inconsistent statements are given in court:
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Wireless bridge sensor powered by traffic vibrations
A novel wireless sensor for use on bridges that is powered by the vibrations of vehicles passing overhead has been developed by researchers at Clarkson University in Potsdam, USA. The device, which measures temperature, humidity, light and pressure, could function for years without requiring maintenance or battery replacement.
The sensor is composed of an electromagnetic energy harvester and energy conversion circuitry that are made up of piezoelectronics and supermagnets that could be produced from a range of materials, explains Assistant Professor Edward Sazonov.
When the harvester is excited by vibrations, it produces AC voltage on the output, which is conditioned into low-voltage DC and stored. Once enough energy has been collected, the sensor powers up, takes a measurement, and transmits the data over a wireless link.
'Traffic excitation is not steady but rather generates pulses of energy,' says Sazonov. 'The electronics track the optimal point of energy conversion and efficiently harvest those pulses.'
The team has successfully completed a field test, and is looking to conduct longer-term trials, as well as improve the amount of energy produced by the system.


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When it comes to the world of unique and fascinating inventions, the Tesla coil certainly stands out. This high-voltage, high-frequency electrical transformer is known for producing impressive electrical discharges and has become a popular project for hobbyists, science enthusiasts, and even performers. However, one question that often arises is: "How much does a Tesla coil cost?" In this article, we're going to explore the factors that determine the cost of a Tesla coil and provide you with a better understanding of what to expect when it comes to investing in this captivating piece of technology.
Understanding the Components of a Tesla Coil
Before delving into the cost, it's essential to understand the basic components of a Tesla coil. A typical Tesla coil consists of the following key parts:
|Responsible for transferring power from the power source to the secondary coil.
|Produces the high voltage and frequency output that is characteristic of Tesla coils.
|Stores electrical energy and helps in the discharge process.
|Controls the release of electrical energy from the capacitor to the primary coil.
|Provides the energy needed to power the Tesla coil.
These components, along with other supporting materials and safety features, contribute to the overall cost of building or purchasing a Tesla coil.
Factors Affecting the Cost of a Tesla Coil
Several factors influence the cost of a Tesla coil, and understanding these factors can help you make an informed decision based on your needs and budget. Some of the key aspects that impact the cost include:
- Size and Power Output: The size and power output of a Tesla coil play a significant role in determining its cost. Larger coils with higher power outputs often require more materials and components, resulting in a higher overall cost.
- Quality of Components: The quality of the components used in the construction of a Tesla coil can vary widely, and higher-quality materials and parts typically come with a higher price tag. When considering the cost, it's essential to assess the quality of the components to ensure the reliability and performance of the Tesla coil.
- DIY vs. Pre-Assembled: For those interested in building their own Tesla coil, the cost will largely depend on the availability and cost of raw materials, as well as any specialized tools and equipment required. On the other hand, pre-assembled Tesla coils, while more expensive, offer the convenience of a ready-to-use solution.
- Special Features and Customization: Tesla coils can be equipped with various special features, such as remote control systems, musical modulation capabilities, and aesthetic enhancements. These features and customizations can add to the overall cost but may provide additional value based on individual preferences.
Considering these factors, it's important to carefully assess your specific requirements and goals when determining the budget for a Tesla coil.
Cost Range for Tesla Coils
With the variety of options available, the cost of a Tesla coil can vary significantly. As a general guide, here's an overview of the typical cost range for Tesla coils based on their size and complexity:
|Tesla Coil Type
|Small to Medium-Sized DIY Kits
|$100 – $500
|Larger DIY Builds
|$500 – $2000
|Pre-Assembled Medium-Sized Coils
|$1000 – $3000
|High-End or Custom Coils
|$3000 – $10000+
It's important to note that these cost ranges are approximate and can vary based on individual suppliers, manufacturers, and specific features included in the Tesla coils.
Frequently Asked Questions On How Much Is A Tesla Coil : Uncovering The Cost
What Is A Tesla Coil?
A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit that produces high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity.
How Does A Tesla Coil Work?
The Tesla coil works by creating high-voltage electrical currents through resonance, resulting in spectacular electrical discharges known as "sparks. "
What Are The Applications Of Tesla Coils?
Tesla coils are used for educational demonstrations, entertainment, scientific research, and to create high-voltage electricity for various experiments.
Are Tesla Coils Dangerous?
Yes, Tesla coils can be dangerous if not handled properly. They produce high voltage and can cause electric shock if not used with caution.
As you explore the world of Tesla coils, it's clear that the cost can vary widely based on a range of factors. Whether you're a hobbyist looking for a DIY project or a performer seeking a professional-grade coil, understanding the components and key cost determinants will help you make an informed decision. Ultimately, the investment in a Tesla coil can offer an unparalleled level of fascination and entertainment, making it a unique and rewarding addition to your world of innovation and experimentation.


How to install Insync in Solus
Insync is a cross platform Google Drive client
It's possible to sync local or symlinked directories with your Google Drive or OneDrive using insync, third-party software available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Maintaining a connection to Google Drive is now easy and efficient. Data stored in Google Drive may be accessed immediately, and the software ensures that it is constantly in sync. Although it's a paid service, Linux users love it because it is easy to set up.
Solus (formerly Evolve OS) is a Linux-based operating system for the x86-64 architecture created in-house. Users can select between the Budgie desktop environment, GNOME, MATE, and KDE Plasma as their desktop environment.
Installing Insync in Solus
Before delving into this article guide, it is vital to highlight the necessary prerequisites needed to get going.
Prerequisites
 1. Solus Operating system or a VirtualBox containing Solus.
 2. Terminal
 3. Internet access
Once you have assembled the necessary prerequisites, you can proceed and install insync. However, if you have not installed or virtualized Solus, check out this brief installation guide to help you.
Quick summary of installing Solus
Follow the steps provided here to install or virtualize Solus:
Step 1: Go to _URL_ and download your desired ISO package
Step 2: Install VMware or VirtualBox, depending on your preference
Step 3: Launch the VirtualBox/VMware software and create a new virtual machine.
Step 4: During the software selection process, choose 'Fedora' and locate your downloaded ISO package.
Step 5: Once you have set the preferences as you deem fit, continue with the installation process. This entire process will take a while to complete. Be patient until you get a 'Restart now' prompt.
Step 6: Restart your virtual machine and enjoy using Solus.
I hope this short illustration guide helped you accomplish this task. However, if it did not, don't freak out. Check out this detailed guide on how to install Solus.
Now that we are done with Solus installation, it is time to focus on installing insync on our Solus operating system.
Note: Solus' package manager is eopkg, based on PiSi (Packages Installed Successfully as Intended), a package manager created for Pardus, a Debian-based distribution supported by the Turkish government. Because it was fashioned from the ground up, the amount of packages accessible in its repository is restricted, in contrast to Arch and Arch-based distros like Manjaro, which include AUR. However, it also supports Flatpak and Snap packages. If you want to utilize a graphical interface to manage the software installed, there is a Software Center that you can access via the icons next to the menu.
How to install insync in Solus
Below is a step-by-step tutorial guide to aid in completing the installation of insync on your Solus operating system.
Step 1: Launch the terminal using the 'menu section' as illustrated below:
launch terminal
Launch terminal
Step 2: The command provided herein will download the insync installer from the Solus GitHub official page.
Note: Ensure to copy and paste the command to avoid running into unprecedented errors.
sudo eopkg bi --ignore-safety _URL_
download insync files
Download insync files
Step 3: After successfully downloading the insync installer, execute the line of code below to install the downloaded installer file:
sudo eopkg it insync-3.7.11.50381-83-1-x86_64.eopkg
install downloaded isync file
Install the downloaded insync file
That's all. By now, insync should have been installed on your Solus operating system. You can locate it in the programs section.
locate installed insync software
Locate installed insync software
How to uninstall insync from solus
If you are done using the software and wish to uninstall it, don't freak out, as the process is as simple as abc. All you need to do is launch the terminal and execute the following command to get rid of insync:
sudo rm insync-3.7.11.50381-83-1-x86_64.eopkg
Conclusion
Although insync is a paid service, most Linux users love the software due to its astonishing flawless and easy-to-use interface. It is a perfect alternative to Gnome online accounts that will ease your work. This article has provided an in-depth, step-by-step installation procedure. We hope you found it helpful.
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Before beginning the steps below, confirm that a GL Account Number has been assigned to "Bad Debt Account" on the GL Defaults List. If you have any questions regarding this system parameter setting, please contact your Veracross account manager for assistance.
To write off an unpaid AR Invoice Item, perform the following steps:
- On the Accounts Receivable homepage, locate the invoice by running a report or query with criteria that will cause the invoice to be included in the results.
- Click on the Invoice Number to open the detail display of the invoice.
- Locate the item to be written off and click on the item "detail" icon.
- Once on the invoice item detail, click in its "General Ledger" tab.
- Enter a "Tent. Adj. Date:" (typically around the current date).
- Select the Reason, "Write-off".
- Press the "Update AR Invoice Item" button.
- Close the invoice item detail, and return to the AR Invoice Header.
- Press the "Update AR Invoice Header" button.
- A new unposted line item is created (note that it reflects a zero $ amount).
- Click on this new item's "detail" and view the amount that appears in the "Write Off Amount" box.
- After confirming that all looks good, click on the Action button and select the option "Post Invoice/Items"
- Review the invoice and the JE generated by posting operation to confirm all looks good.
Please watch the video below demonstrating How to Write Off an AR Item by clicking directly on the screen. You can make the video larger by clicking on the Full-screen button.


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Assessment Objective 1 (Recall, Select, Communicate): Activities for recall include crosswords, matching exercises and gap fill, while structured research and empathy tasks develop selection and communication skills.
Assessment Objective 2 (Explanation and Analysis): Structured class discussions, speeches and reports develop explanation and analysis skills, building up to writing the perfect exam answer.
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Journal of Applied Business Research
A monocentric model of land use that assumes urban spatial size is determined by a set of exogenous variables is employed to test the hypothesis that urban land size is negatively related to gasoline prices. Using a model from Brueckner and Fansler (1983), the amount of urbanized land area is shown to be a function of population, income, agricultural land prices and commuting costs. The latter is measured as the price of gasoline, broken into two components; the amount of any state gasoline excise tax imposed plus the total price paid by consumers minus such a tax. Using 1990 data, an empirical model that defines the dependent variable as the average-sized urban area in each state is estimated. The results confirm that higher levels of population and income contribute to larger amounts of urbanized land area, while higher land prices are primarily associated with smaller urban size. Of importance to this study, the results indicate that states with higher gas prices, mainly due to increased state gasoline excise taxes, are associated with smaller urban size.


Question: How Long Can Meat Stay At 50 Degrees?
What is the 2 4 hour rule?
How long can milk last at 50 degrees?
Also, remember that after this milk is opened it should be treated like regular milk and kept cool at 40° F or cooler. It's important to remember that opened milk, regardless of the type, should never be left in temperatures above 40° F for more than two hours."
Is 50 degrees too warm for a refrigerator?
The temperature inside your refrigerator needs to be cold enough to inhibit bacterial growth, and warm enough so the food doesn't freeze. Refrigerators should be set to 40 degrees F (4 degrees C) or colder. A good temperature range for a refrigerator is between 34-38 degrees F (1-3 degrees C).
Will yogurt spoil at 50 degrees?
According to the US Department of Health & Human Services, you should throw out yogurt if it's been out at room temperature for more than two hours. If the temperature is higher than 90 degrees Fahrenheit, you only have one hour to eat that yogurt sitting out of the refrigerator.
Is 45 degrees a safe temperature for a refrigerator?
At what temperature does bacteria grow on food?
Temperature: Most bacteria will grow rapidly between 4°C and 60°C (40°F and 140°F). This is referred to as the danger zone (see the section below for more information on the danger zone).
Will eggs go bad at 50 degrees?
Once eggs have been refrigerated, it is important they stay cool, even during a power outage. … A cold egg left out at room temperature can sweat, facilitating the growth of bacteria. Eggs are required to be refrigerated at 45˚ or lower for safety and optimal freshness.
Will eggs spoil at 50 degrees?
Does reheating food kill bacteria?
Proper heating and reheating will kill foodborne bacteria. … This bacterium produces a toxin that can develop in cooked foods that sit out at room temperature for more than two hours.
Can meat be stored at 50 degrees?
Meat should be stored in the coldest part of the refrigerator. As storage temperatures approach 40°F perishability increases. Rapid growth of bacteria begins at about 50°F. Meat in-transit from the place of purchase, or left to thaw at room temperature, invites the growth of spoilage organisms.
How Long Can Chicken stay at 50 degrees?
Is yogurt safe at 50 degrees?
At what temperature will eggs spoil?
40°FThe presence of bacteria inside an egg is what eventually causes it to "go bad," or rot. However, keeping an egg at refrigerator temperatures (below 40°F, or 4°C) slows the growth of bacteria and helps prevent it from penetrating the shell ( 5, 6 ).
Is it OK to leave eggs unrefrigerated?
"A cold egg left out at room temperature can sweat, facilitating the movement of bacteria into the egg and increasing the growth of bacteria. Refrigerated eggs should not be left out more than two hours." Consumers themselves should not try to wash their eggs, the USDA warns.
Will cheese spoil at 60 degrees?
Don't let it sit out for more than four hours! There has been some extensive research done in Wisconsin that proves cheese can stay out for up to six hours at 70°F or colder. Some cheeses tested for low levels of listeria, salmonella, Escherichia, and staphylococcus but nothing life-threatening.
Can food spoil at 50 degrees?
How long will meat keep at 45 degrees?
How long can food sit at 50 degrees?
How warm can a refrigerator get before food goes bad?
40 °FBefore using any foods, check your refrigerator and freezer thermometers. If the fridge is still at or below 40 °F, or the food has been above 40 °F for only 2 hours or less, it should be safe to eat.


Determining if objects are permanently unavailable
You can determine if objects are permanently unavailable by making a request using the TSM administrative console.
Before you begin
About this task
This example is provided for your information only; this procedure cannot help you identify all failure conditions that may result in unavailable objects or tape volumes. For information about TSM administration, see TSM Server documentation.
 1. Log in to an Admin Node:
 1. Enter the following command: ssh admin@Admin_Node_IP
 2. Enter the password listed in the Passwords.txt file.
 2. Identify the object or objects that could not be retrieved by the Archive Node:
 1. Go to the directory containing the audit log files: cd /var/local/audit/export
 The active audit log file is named audit.log. Once a day, the active audit.log file is saved, and a new audit.log file is started. The name of the saved file indicates when it was saved, in the format yyyy-mm-dd.txt. After a day, the saved file is compressed and renamed, in the format yyyy-mm-dd.txt.gz, which preserves the original date.
 2. Search the relevant audit log file for messages indicating that a retrieval failure occurred. For example, enter: grep ARCE audit.log | less -n
 When a retrieval fails, the ARCE audit message (Archive Object Retrieve End) displays ARUN (archive middleware unavailable) or GERR (general error) in the result field. The following example line from the audit log shows that the ARCE message terminated with the result ARUN for CBID 498D8A1F681F05B3.
 See the instructions for understanding audit messages.
 3. Record the CBID of each object with a request failure.
 You might also want to record the following additional information used by the TSM to identify objects saved by the Archive Node:
 - File Space Name: Select Support > Grid Topology. Then, select Archive Node > ARC > Target > Overview.
 The file space name is the Archive Node's node ID.
 - High Level Name: Equivalent to the volume ID assigned to the object by the Archive Node. The volume ID takes the form of a date (20091127), and is recorded as the VLID of the object in archive audit messages.
 - Low Level Name: Equivalent to the CBID assigned to an object by the StorageGRID system.
 4. Log out of the command shell: exit
 3. Check the TSM server to see if the objects identified in step 2 are permanently unavailable:
 1. Log in to the administrative console of the TSM server: dsmadmc
 Use the administrative user name and password that are configured for the ARC service. Enter the user name and password in the Grid Manager. (Select Support > Grid Topology. Then, select Archive Node > ARC > Target > Configuration.)
 2. Determine if the object is permanently unavailable.
 For example, you might search the TSM activity log for a data integrity error for that object. The following example shows a search of the activity log for the past day for an object with CBID 498D8A1F681F05B3.
 > query actlog begindate=-1 search=276C14E94082CC69
 12/21/2008 05:39:15 ANR0548W Retrieve or restore
 failed for session _PHONE_ for node DEV-ARC-20 (Bycast ARC)
 processing file space /_PHONE_ 4 for file /20081002/
 498D8A1F681F05B3 stored as Archive - data
 integrity error detected. (SESSION: _PHONE_)
 Note that depending on the nature of the error, the CBID might not be recorded in the TSM activity log. You might need to search the log for other TSM errors around the time of the request failure.
 3. If an entire tape is permanently unavailable, identify the CBIDs for all objects stored on that volume: query content TSM_Volume_Name
 where TSM_Volume_Name is the TSM name for the unavailable tape. The following is an example of the output for this command:
 > query content TSM-Volume-Name
 Node Name Type Filespace FSID Client's Name for File Name
 DEV-ARC-20 Arch /_PHONE_ 216 /20081201/ C1D172940E6C7E12
 DEV-ARC-20 Arch /_PHONE_ 216 /20081201/ F1D7FBC2B4B0779E
 The Client's Name for File Name" is the Archive Node volume ID (TSM "high level name") followed by the object's CBID (TSM "low level name). That is: /Archive Node volume ID /CBID or, in the first line of this example: /20081201/ C1D172940E6C7E12
 Recall also that the Filespace is the node ID of the Archive Node.
 You will need the CBID of each object stored on the volume and the node ID of the Archive Node to cancel the retrieval request in the next step.
 4. For each object that is permanently unavailable, cancel the retrieval request and inform the StorageGRID system that the object copy was lost:
 Attention: Use the ADE Console with caution. If the console is used improperly, it is possible to interrupt system operations and corrupt data. Enter commands carefully, and only use the commands documented in this procedure.
 1. If you are not already logged in to the Archive Node, log in as follows:
 1. Enter the following command: ssh admin@grid_node_IP
 2. Enter the password listed in the Passwords.txt file.
 4. Enter the password listed in the Passwords.txt file.
 2. Access the ADE console of the ARC service: telnet localhost 1409
 3. Cancel the request for the object: /proc/BRTR/cancel -c CBID
 where CBID is the identifier of the object that cannot be retrieved from the TSM.
 If the only copies of the object are on tape, the "bulk retrieval" request is canceled with a message "1 requests canceled". If copies of the object exist elsewhere in the system, the object retrieval is processed by a different module so the response to the message is "0 requests canceled".
 4. Notify the StorageGRID system that an object copy has been lost and an additional copy must be made of the indicated object: /proc/CMSI/Object_Lost CBID node_ID
 where CBID is the identifier of the object that cannot be retrieved from the TSM server.
 For Archive Nodes, you cannot use a range of CBIDs.
 node_ID is the node ID of the Archive Node where the retrieval failed.
 In most cases, the StorageGRID system immediately begins to make additional copies of object data to ensure that the system's ILM policy is followed. In a StorageGRID system configured to use an ILM rule with only one active content placement instruction, copies of an object are not made. If an object is lost, it cannot be recovered. In this case, running the Object_Lost command purges the lost object's metadata from the StorageGRID system.
 When the Object_Lost command completes successfully, it returns the message CLOC_LOST_ANS returned result 'SUCS'.
 5. Exit the ADE Console: exit
 6. Log out of the Archive Node: exit
 5. Reset the value of Request Failures in the StorageGRID system:
 1. Go to Archive Node > ARC > Retrieve > Configuration, and select Reset Request Failure Count.
 2. Click Apply Changes.


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Support multi-language to help different language speakers learn and use hyperledger fabric at the same documentation website.
Rich Zhao,
Technical Working Group China(TWGC) has been working for a long time to translate fabric documentation, so far we found it is the best way to maintain documentation.
Help different language speakers learn fabric in their own language.
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Hyperledger Fabric documentation is written in English. For those contributors whose native language is not English, they have difficulty contributing to or using hyperledger projects. If the documentation and log messages in software code can be translated into their own native language, it will help build a larger community of contributors and users.
Technical Working Group China has been working for a long time to translate fabric documentation, we use a separate repo to host the documentation but if we can use the same website as the English documentation, it would be more official and convenient for users to use.
Besides, Chinese, we do see other languages are required too.
TWGC has translated about half of fabric v2 documentation with the current solution, it is available at
The solution needs：
 1. documentation manage framework, sphinx which Fabric is using. Fabric English documentation uses Sphinx v1.7 to manage documentation materials, like.rst,.md files, and the structure layout and build to final output format HTML, pdf, ePUB, etc. Sphinx is a documentation framework based on python, we need to upgrade sphinx to version 2 for more compatible. It has been done through
 2. A repo to store documentation material and collaborate among contributors. Fabric English documentation uses the same repo as fabric code, it is okay for other languages to use the same existing repo, but as the documentation doesn't share the update release pace as code, it is better to use a separate repo to host ALL documentation materials. All means do NOT separate other language documentation from English documentation, as others are translated from English. Translators/contributors need to monitor English status.
 3. A translation tool. We prefer Because,
 1. it is free for open source projects. The paid account has a statistics report, but it is fine without reports.
 2. More importantly, it is very collaborative, translators can working simultaneously, translating, reviewing, etc.
 3. It provides a CLI tx, like git, contributors can use tx to pull from/push to transfex
 4. readthedocs account to host the documentation. Fabris is using it, just need to merge other languages into it.
For more detail refer to:
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Suggest using a separate repo to host all documentation material.
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 1. Not exactly sure why this is coming to the TSC. This seems to be specifically about translating Fabric documentation to other languages.
 Are you asking Hyperledger to provide something here?
 2. Looking at the history of this page I see that this is nothing new. Ry Jones why did you ask for TSC members to review this? Housekeeping?
 1. Yes, housekeeping. These three proposals were left in unfinished state, or were using the old format with the previous TSC list.
 3. This is a great effort, but I'm not sure that it fits best as a project, which is supposed to be a coding effort.
 Can we find some good way to organize documentation efforts?
 4. After discussing with translation volunteers in TWGC, we decided to use github to maintain fabric document, as github is able to track everyone's contributing.


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The colors on Pakistan's flag showcase the state's official commitment to uphold the rights of religious minorities in the country. The sea of green represents Islam and the majority of Muslims in Pakistan while the white stripe is symbolic of religious minorities and the state's promise to defend their rights.
Unfortunately, Pakistan's actual record on minority rights stands in sharp contrast to the symbolism reflected on the Pakistani flag.
Last year, a minority rights group ranked Pakistan as the sixth-most-dangerous country in the world for minorities. While the rights of minorities, including minority Muslim sects, are under near-constant threat in Pakistan, the most captivating and underreported story about minorities in Pakistan pivots around the Jewish community, which has virtually disappeared from Pakistani society.
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Awards & Honors: 2000 National Humanities Medalist
Herman T. Guerrero
Herman T. Guerrero's nickname, "Jun Pan," tells a piece of his family history and a small piece of the history of the Northern Mariana Islands as well. He inherited the name from his father, who was interned in the islands by the Americans at the beginning of World War II. His father was pressed into service as a baker for the native prisoners at Camp Susupe; he proved so successful that the military asked him to stay on as the islands' civilian baker after the war. He was called Pan, or "Bread," and his son proudly bears the name of Jun Pan, "Bread Junior."
Guerrero is working to reclaim the islands' colonial history and the legacy of the native Chamorro people, who were nearly wiped out by Spanish colonists in the seventeenth century. He serves on the board of directors of several companies, including his family bakery, and has worked on the CNMI (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) Humanities Council since 1992.
One of his and the council's efforts is the Genealogy Project, which is being conducted with the help of the University of Guam's Micronesian Area Research Center. Guerrero sees "a tremendous growth in native islanders' interests in tracing their ancestral roots."
He also helped create "Spain in the Marianas: First Contact and Aftermath" with the Northern Mariana Islands Museum of History, as well as displays on linguistics, religion, and cross-culturalism.
In the course of four hundred years, the islands passed from Spanish to German to Japanese rule, becoming an U.S. territory in 1947. In 1978 they became a Commonwealth, and in 1985 islanders were granted partial U.S. citizenship. Over the same stretch of time, the islands moved from the era of galleon trade to the nuclear age.
Guerrero's personal history reflects some of the complexity of the islands. He went to high school in Saipan and Guam, received a B.A. in Sociology from St. John's University in Minnesota, and did graduate work at the University of South Florida. He has served as a Representative in the Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature, and has worked in the CNMI Office of the Governor and in the Department of Education.
In all of his projects, Guerrero seeks social cohesiveness by documenting the past and promoting discussion for a population that has culture, language, and generation gaps left from its colonial past. An exhibition on the islands' Japanese era is on display at the CNMI Museum until July 2001, and Guerrero is working with the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa to obtain the oldest records of the Chamorran people. He is also promoting a museum exhibition on the U.S. portion of the islands' administrative history.
As he sees it, "The humanities and humanities education allows the indigenous people of the Northern Mariana Islands Archipelago a rediscovery and an affirmation of their native identity. It also allows them the wherewithal to tackle the modern day challenges that they face as they continue to forge their way within the political, economic, and social spheres of an increasingly global community."


the signal dispatcher. An easier solution to this particular problem is for create_permissions to clear the content types cache before it recreates permissions, that way the necesarry content types will be created as needed (see attached patch). Results #10933: Avoid " TypeError: Cannot convert Decimal("0.0000") to Decimal " when the decimal module has been reloaded Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:54:32 GMT gagravarr If for some reason the decimal module gets reloaded (seems fairly easy to trigger when using runserver, but we've seen it once or twice wiht apache + mod_python too), then calling on a model with a decimal field will blow up (see for example) One workaround is to have extra code in the decimal field logic in django, to detect when the value is no longer being recognised as a Decimal but is one, and port it over to the new decimal object. --- django/db/models/fields/ (revision 9643) +++ django/db/models/fields/ (working copy) @@ -579,6 +579,11 @@ def to_python(self, value): if value is None: return value + # Work around reload(decimal) problems + if not isinstance(value, decimal.Decimal) and \ + len(str(value.__class__).split("'")) == 3 and \ + str(value.__class__).split("'")[1] == 'decimal.Decimal': + return decimal.Decimal( value.to_eng_string() ) try: return decimal.Decimal(value) except decimal.InvalidOperation: I'm not sure if this is an ideal fix or not, but it'd be great to have this (or something like it) in django to help avoid the issue Results #10941: Add querystring helper methods to Page class Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:57:52 GMT benspaulding Working with pagination and query strings within a template can be painful. Personally, I have never had a situation when I was paginating using a GET parameter where there were not other parameters that needed to be preserved through out the various pages. Take search, for example. There may be parameters for searching within one or more models, for a particular author and sorting by date. Maintaining all of these parameters within the pagination links takes some serious template logic. {# Linebreaks added for readability. In real life this would need to be one, long line. #} Next page That kind of logic shouldn't be in a template. I have created a patch that would allow for something much simpler, like so: Next page Though there has been much talk of creating template tags which would produce all-out pagination bars, I believe this particular functionality should be an actual method on the page object for two reasons: This is basic functionality whose end result is hard to dispute (as opposed to a full pagination bar where markup and features could be disputed eternally), This does not require the request context processor to be installed. Note that this patch includes documentation. Tests are still needed. I am not married to the exact implementation, but I and others I have discussed this and feel that this simplicity and fuctionality belong in Django's pagination. Results #11072: Add Info Window Html to GMarker Mon, 11 May 2009 17:07:03 GMT Ubercore I did a quick search for this and didn't find any previous work. It allows you to set HTML for a GInfoWindow on an instance of a GMarker. No support for options on the info window yet, this is just the simplest case. I did see that it's possible to accomplish this using the GEvent class in, but I think there's value in being able to set it directly on the marker. google-map.js uses bindInfoWindowHtml() to add the info window when the marker is added. A more complete solution might involve implementing GInfoWindow and GInfoWindowOptions, but I didn't want to implement them since they have no public constructor in the Google Maps API. Maybe represent the info window as a tuple of (html, { options})? Anyway, this tackles the simplest case. Example usage: marker = GMarker(object.location, title=object.address) marker.infowindowhtml = "
Info Window!
"; Results #11074: syncdb should execute custom field SQL separately from initial model SQL Mon, 11 May 2009 19:42:12 GMT psmith Currently, if I have exception-throwing SQL in a <app>/<model>.sql file, this breaks GeoDjango's creation of geometry fields and indexes on./ syncdb. You wind up with a database table that has the regular Django fields but is missing geometry fields at the end of the syncdb command. This is because GeoDjango's field-specific post-table-creation SQL which actually creates the geometry fields (from the post_create_sql() hook) is lumped in with the initial model SQL. I am proposing that custom field post-table-creation SQL like GeoDjango emits and user-specified initial model SQL in *.sql files be run in separate transactions. Arguably if my custom initial model SQL is broken then I shouldn't expect syncdb to work cleanly. But it may be surprising that my probably unrelated initial model SQL leaves my GeoDjango model tables (or any model with a custom field that implements post_create_sql()) in an incomplete or undefined state because it happens to be executing in the same transaction as the custom field SQL. syncdb does charge ahead and create as much as possible despite exceptions, so I think one could argue that leaving the database in as consistent a state as possible despite errors is a decent goal. Results #11111: WSGIRequest should not make PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME unicode Thu, 14 May 2009 01:01:30 GMT mgood The WSGI spec requires the standard environment values to be str, not unicode types, but the WSGIRequest object updates the environ (via self.META which is a reference), setting PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME to unicode objects. These unicode values led to some issues with WebTest which checks to ensure that the environ only contains str values. Results #11156: Unnecessary savepoints with Oracle Wed, 20 May 2009 10:24:55 GMT Richard Davies Savepoints are implemented in the Postgresql and Oracle backends, and provide a useful features to users of both. In addition, the framework itself wraps various calls in savepoints (e.g. inside django/db/models/ This is to work around a Postgresql-specific oddity that the open transaction needs to be rolled back to a prior savepoint if it experiences a database exception. This oddity is not present on Oracle, so the extra savepoints are not required. We probably need to split the current single backend flag uses_savepoints into two: can_savepoint and needs_savepoint_after_exception. See Results #11265: ForeignKey/OneToOneField should support user-defined id attribute name Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:03:46 GMT dstora Currently, when defining a ForeignKey/OneToOneField field XXX, Django automatically defines a XXX_id attribute to store the id value. However, it is sometimes desirable to decide of the name as XXX_id may not be the most appropriate. Let's take the following example: I initially have a table "Payment" with a "ccy_code" field designating a 3-letter currency code. My model definition looks like:


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In this quick tutorial you'll learn how to draw a Dingo in 8 easy steps - great for kids and novice artists.
The images above represents how your finished drawing is going to look and the steps involved.
Below are the individual steps - you can click on each one for a High Resolution printable PDF version.
At the bottom you can read some interesting facts about the Dingo.
Make sure you also check out any of the hundreds of drawing tutorials grouped by category.
How to Draw a Dingo - Step-by-Step Tutorial
Step 1: Draw the head by making a narrow heart-shape and then adding a gap on the right side, bumps for a nose and mouth, and a straight line in between the ears.
Step 2: Add lines to define the ears, tiny ovals for the eyes, and a circle with dots for the nose. For the mouth, add a line for the top of the mouth and then have a half-oval come down for the tongue.
Step 3: Draw the body with a diagonal line for the neck and a mostly horizontal line on top for the back.
Step 4: Draw the front leg by making two lines that meet by the foot facing left. Add lines for toes.
Step 5: Draw the bottom half of the body, curving upward before drawing the hind leg with the foot pointed directly downward.
Step 6: Draw the other front leg a lot like the first front leg, except that the foot should be facing to the right to make the Dingo look like its walking.
Step 7: Draw the other hind leg where the large upward curve is in the bottom of the body, and have it face the same way as the front forward leg.
Step 8: Draw the tail by continuing off the back and closing the gap, ending in a point. Your Dingo is now done!
Interesting Facts about Dingoes
Dingoes are wild dogs. Scientists believe that they are descendants of domesticated dogs that were brought to Australia at least 5000 years ago. Dingoes are no longer kept as pets. They live all over Australia, except on the island state of Tasmania.
Did you know?
- Dingoes live for about 7 to 15 years.
- Dingoes, on average, weigh between 28 and 45 pounds. The average height of dingoes is 19 to 23 inches.
- Dingoes do not bark – they howl.
- Dingoes eat plants, fruits, reptiles, birds, and a variety of mammals.
- Dingoes dwell in forests, grasslands, and the outskirts of desert habitats.
- Dingoes live in groups called packs. On average, there are 10 dingoes in a pack.
- Depending on the part of Australia in which they live, some dingoes are active at night while others are active during the day.
- Dingo fur comes in a wide range of colors: tan, grey, red, yellow, brown, and black.
Dingoes are the largest land animals in Australia. Therefore, they do not have any natural predators, except for crocodiles. Humans are the biggest threat to their survival. Dingoes are considered vulnerable to extinction because of deforestation caused by humans. Deforestation is when people remove massive amounts of forest area to build roads, buildings, and other structures.


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A stone crushing company is planning to purchase a Wheel Loader to be used for conveying raw stone to a large Stone Crushing Machine and loading crushed stone in trucks. A new Wheel loader can be purchased directly from Caterpillar company for $150,000. The new Wheel Loader will reduce the annual cost by $25,500 and increase annual operating expenses by $4,500. The useful life of the Wheel Loader is 20 years. After 20 years it will have a salvage value of $30,000. Company uses straight line method of depreciation for all assets.
Compute accounting rate of return of wheel loader using average investment approach.
Step 1; Computation of depreciation:
Annual depreciation = (Cost of the asset – Salvage value)/Useful life
= ($150,000 – $30,000)/20
Step 2; Computation of annual net cost saving:
Annual net cost saving = $25,500 – ($4,500 + $6,000)
Step 3; Computation of average investment in asset:
Because the company uses straight line method of depreciation, the average investment can be computed by adding cost of the asset to the residual value and then dividing by 2. It is shown below:
Average investment = (Cost of the asset + Residual value)/2
= ($150,000 + $30,000)/2
Step 4; Computation of accounting rate of return:
Accounting rate of return = Annual net cost saving / average investment
= $15,000 / $90,000


This feature requires 1.0.22 of the Meeting Room 365 app (or later) to function.
We now allow all devices to adjust their brightness on a schedule, letting you configure a brightness level change (from 0, or dark, to 1, or full brightness) at any hour you choose.
This can be set in the Hardware tab of your display, under Brightness Schedule.
However, this might be a bit complicated, since you will be creating a schedule object that contains a list of hours, and the brightness setting you wish to apply.
This can also be set in the advanced configuration editor, or via CSV. The key for this feature is brightnessSchedule and the value is an object containing the hours and brightness levels (the display will set the brightness at least once to the specified value during the hour mentioned.
For the most common use-case, you can copy the following template:
{ "7": 1.0, "19": 0.1 }
In this example, the display would go full brightness at 7am, and back to 10% brightness at 7pm. You can adjust the 7 and 19 to any hour you like.
Note, when setting up this feature, you will only see brightness changes during the hours specified (if you set this example up at 1pm, you won't see a change until 7pm).
Setting a key in the advanced configuration editor
Visit the Advanced Configuration Editor from your display
Insert or Append a new key called brightnessSchedule
Set the value (right side) to { "7": 1.0, "19": 0.1 }
Advanced Configuration Example: Setting up a new key -> value pair
That's it! Feel free to reach out if you'd like to have us enable this for you.
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