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Using solid state clutch brake control power supplies can increase clutch brake life, improve system reliability and simplify installation of clutch brake systems.
Many clutch brake systems use a PLC (or sensor) to control an electromechanical relay to switch the output of a power supply (bridge rectifier) to the clutch brake unit. This approach has several shortcomings. When the brake turns off and the clutch turns on (or vice versa) there is no delay time to allow the flux (energy) in the brake to fully decay before the clutch starts to engage. This 'fighting' or overlap between the clutch and brake each cycle shortens the clutch brake life. This approach also requires extra panel space and wiring from a PLC (or sensor) to a relay to a power supply to the clutch brake. Lastly, a relay has an inherently shorter life than a solid state switch.
A solid state clutch brake control power supply overcomes these problems. With built in adjustable switching time delay, the control can be set for optimum performance and clutch brake life by eliminating the 'fighting'. And, because the switching and power supply functions are built in, these controls can directly connect from your PLC (or sensor) to your clutch brake. Lastly, as all solid state devices, the life expectancy can be measured in the 100s of millions of cycles instead of the thousands.
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Keywords: Convective Planetary Boundary Layer, CPBL parameterisation, similarity theory, resistance laws
Parameterisation of convective PBL using surface data for the wind and stability classes
A simple two-layer model of convective planetary boundary layer (CPBL), consisting of a Surface Layer and an Ekman layer over it and developed in accordance with the similarity theory is used to obtain the vertical profiles of the temperature, wind velocity and the turbulent exchange coefficient in CPBL from the surface wind measurements and atmospheric stability data. As input to this model the internal to CPBL parameters are needed. The internal parameters can be obtained from the experimental data applying two approaches: first one (called 'top-down' approach) uses data for the geostrophic wind and the potential temperature. The second one (called here 'bottom-up' approach) uses data from the surface meteorological observations. The description of this approach is the subject of the present paper. The proposed approach determines the external to CPBL parameters from the meteorological data measured in the surface layer on the basis of the Similarity theory. The comparison of the CPBL model simulations with some experimental data from Sofia shows reasonable consistency with the proceeded experimental data.

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The basic behavior of the shear deformation plate theories derived from the recently proposed Reissner's and Jing-Liao's functionals is studied in this paper. The difference between these two functionals is on the energy form of transverse normal stress. In Reissner's functional, the transverse normal stress has to be assumed as well as displacements and transverse shear. On the other hand, the independent variables in Jing-Liao's functional include only displacements and transverse shear. The comparison of these functionals is made through two examples, one with assumed transverse normal stress and the other without. It is found that for the cases studied in this paper Jing-Liao's functional provides a simpler, sometimes even better, alternative approach than Reissner's functional in formulating shear deformation theory of thick plates.
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- Ceramics and Composites
- Civil and Structural Engineering


text: Filipinos came to Vallejo as early as 1912, and some families here can count five generations back to their roots in the Philippines. Many came to Mare Island Naval Shipyard, where Filipinos found steady, well-paying jobs that spared them from menial work and stoop labor in the fields of California. With each major conflict of the 20th century, and finally with the relaxation of immigration quotas in 1965, waves of Filipino newcomers arrived on these shores. They advanced in their work at the shipyards, settled down, and started families, buying homes and establishing successful businesses. Now this active, politically empowered Filipino community numbers in the tens of thousands, yet traditional histories ignore its contribution to Vallejo's heritage.


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The Jumpstart Deployment Web Service (JS DWS) is filled with so much more functionality that can be used to customize your task sequence in order to fit you needs. This blog post will explain how you can extend the existing task sequence that comes with Jumpstart 2012. The following example will execute a PowerShell script that is located at the server that hosts the JS DWS.
The figure below shows the logical flow of how a call is made.
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Copy the PS script to the correct location
What you need before you start is the PowerShell script that you want to execute. In my case it is called "Write-JumpstartEventLog.ps1". This script should be located in the script folder for JS DWS. This folder is a configuration setting in the web.config for the JS DWS. Open the web.config file and locate the add-element with the key-attribute PowerShellScriptFolder. It should look like this:
Here is your script folder path for JS DWS. In my case it is C:\Jumpstart\Scripts. Copy the PS script into that folder.
Add the Windows Script File
The script that makes the actual call from the task sequence to the JS DWS must be available. This script is called JumpstartExecutePS.wsf and can be copied in to the folder
\\<ServerName>\Packages$\JS1.1.1\OSD\MDTScripts\Scripts
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Now it is time to add a Run Command Line action to the task sequence to execute the script that calls the JS DWS.
Edit your task sequence by right clicking and select "Edit".
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cscript "%deployroot%\scripts\JumpstartExecutePS.wsf" /WebServicePrefix:"http://%_SMSTSMP%:54224″ /ScriptName:"Write-JumpstartEventLog.ps1″ /NamedArguments:"-Message:'Jumpstart Rocks'" /debug:true
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Cross-cultural comparison of motor competence in children from Australia and Belgium
journal contributionposted on 01.01.2015, 00:00 authored by F Bardid, J R Rudd, M Lenoir, R Polman, Lisa BarnettLisa Barnett
Motor competence in childhood is an important determinant of physical activity and physical fitness in later life. However, childhood competence levels in many countries are lower than desired. Due to the many different motor skill instruments in use, children's motor competence across countries is rarely compared. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the motor competence of children from Australia and Belgium using the Körperkoordinationstest für Kinder (KTK). The sample consisted of 244 (43.4% boys) Belgian children and 252 (50.0% boys) Australian children, aged 6-8 years. A MANCOVA for the motor scores showed a significant country effect. Belgian children scored higher on jumping sideways, moving sideways and hopping for height but not for balancing backwards. Moreover, a Chi squared test revealed significant differences between the Belgian and Australian score distribution with 21.3% Belgian and 39.3% Australian children scoring "below average." The very low levels reported by Australian children may be the result of cultural differences in physical activity contexts such as physical education and active transport. When compared to normed scores, both samples scored significantly worse than children 40 years ago. The decline in children's motor competence is a global issue, largely influenced by increasing sedentary behavior and a decline in physical activity.


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This paper explores the tradeoffs between domestic and productive uses of biomass energy sources in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia using a non -‐separable farm household model where labor and other input allocations to energy collection and farming are analyzed simultaneously.
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Jesus emerged in the sky: Rome Italy
Thousand of Europeans observed glowing and bright shine of Jesus emerging clouds out of the sky in Rome Italy. Moment strengthened the faith of Jesus in their Hearts like never before. many Europeans cried and put the list of wishes, desires, and problems to Jesus and asked for forgiveness. Many people claimed this as unicorn moment in their life and believed them as extremely lucky souls. They hoped Jesus noted there demands and wishes and they expect their life would be better in the future.
Roughly it happened 4 decades back in France Europe that time and people who witnessed had same reaction. They believe the generation who got a chance to witness this moment or in any other way considered as special people. This time in Italy hundreds of witnesses claims to have a better future after Jesus assure them to be blessed.
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Dramatic pictures have emerged showing what looks like a glowing image of Jesus above an Italian town as sunlight broke through the clouds. Alfredo Lo Brutto, from Agropoli, Italy, captured the figure bursting through grey skies above the sea while at his home. The shape created by the spectacular light show, at sunset on Friday, seemed to resemble the renowned Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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ADDING COPIES 1. Search shelflist for card. a. If card has IO on it, or is an IO shelflist card, do not pull, mark "IO" on printout. b. If card has any other designation, pull card. 2. Search IO for matching record. a. Make sure to look at bib record to make sure it really is a match. Some things to check are publisher, edition, year of publication, number of pages and parts. b. If not a match give to Karen. 3. Write call number on title page. 4. Make processing card with call number and author/title information for any items that need to be bound. Make sure to stamp with bindery instructions. 5. Go to holdings record to add copy. a. Change copy status and classification type code. Usually they will be 1I when you initially look at the record, you need to change it to 1L. b. If the item is part of a multi-volume set, the copy status will be 2 for an incomplete set and 3 for a complete set. (1) Make volume (MARC) holdings record (Ask for more explanation) c. Type location code. Usually it is "mus". d. Add call number if necessary. EXAMPLE: 002 1L CN mus |b M222.C43 |c W3 6. Create item record for added copy. a. With holdings record on screen, type "citm ". For example above the command would be "citm 2" b. Add enum/chron. info., if applicable c. Scan barcode in Item ID. If the item needs to go to bindery staple the barcode to the processing card. 7. Add any other copy holding needed to match shelflist card. a. Do not create item records for these. b. Write "IO" in top right hand corner of card.


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One of the earliest records of giants appearing in a procession other than
that of the Corpus Christi celebrations is recorded in Sineu in 1653 in a
payment of 1 lliura, 8 sous 12 diners to be paid to Master Craftsman
Pere Antoni to make the costume to be worn by the giant at the celebrations
of the patron saint, St Rock. It is unknown if the giant also participated
in the Corpus Christi procession. There is also documentary evidence of this
giant accompanying the Sineu cossiers.
The present day giants are made from fibreglass with an internal aluminium
structure. They were presented to their town on 8 October 2005, on the
occasion of their baptism, in the presence of other giants, including
some from Minorca. Their godparents were the giant Toni of Sa Poble and
the Inca giantess. He was named Marc in honour of St Mark the patron saint
of the town and she became Maria dels Āngels in honour of Our Lady in one of her
many guises. Marc measures 3.78 metres and weighs 34 kilos. Maria dels Āngels
measures slightly less at 3.75 metres but weighs one kilo more.
They were built by Aragonesa de Fiestas in Zaragoza.
He represents the traditional blacksmith; tools of trade in one hand, a
horseshoe in the other. She is dressed as a typical countrywoman, a gatherer
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There is ample evidence from different research disciplines that location factors such as employment opportunities or the availability of amenities and facilities are a powerful predictor of settlement behaviour. Recent research suggests that citizens' mean personality traits could be an additional predictor of where young people settle. We therefore explore 1) the extent to which recent graduates in the Netherlands are geographically clustered with respect to five different personality traits, 2) whether the geographical clustering of graduates is intensified as they grow older, 3) how regional environmental characteristics are related to personality traits, and 4) the extent to which personality traits play a role in graduates' location choices. Our results reveal a distinct geographical clustering of personality traits among the different regions in the Netherlands. We also show that this geographical clustering becomes more blurred as graduates age. The results furthermore show robust associations between personality traits and several environmental characteristics with respect to demographic, economic, health, political, sociocultural, crime, and religious outcomes. In addition, we show that personality traits play a role in graduates' location choices. Economic factors seem to have a larger impact in determining location choices than personality traits.
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Walbro is a manufacturer of small-engine carburettors and their product line-up includes two-cycle, four-cycle and diaphragm carburettor models. The Walbro carburettor is commonly used on lawnmowers, chain saws and other equipment powered by small engines. Tecumseh is a popular brand that uses various Walbro carburettor models on select Tecumseh products, including Walbro's WT, WHG and LMK models. Walbro carburettor identification is a straightforward process which requires locating the Walbro identification number stamped on the outside body of the carburettor.
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The Watchtower is the outer space headquaters of DC legends known as the Justice League. It has been portrayed as either a moon base like headquarters and as an orbiting satellite.
During Grant Morrison's run on the Justice League in April of 1997 he debuted the Watchtower which would then on be a staple in justice league comic lore. in Morrison's tale he tells that the Watchtower is constructed from technology of various races including but not limited to the Martians, kryptonian, and Thanagarians. The arrival of Orion and Big Barda during Grant's run even brought technology from New Genesis and Apokolips to the Watchtower. It was at this time the Watchtowers location was the moon.
A decade later writer Ed Benes gathered a new justice league team and with it he moved the moon base from the surface of the moon to simply orbiting around the earth. Artist and current Co-Publisher Jim Lee of DC comics was commissioned to design the orbiting satellite. This version of the watchtower has been the standard ever since and even featured in the cartoon Justice league Unlimited.
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text: Background: Examining the distribution of variation has proven an extremely profitable technique in the effort to identify sequences of biological significance. Most approaches in the field, however, evaluate only the conserved portions of sequences - ignoring the biological significance of sequence differences. A suite of sophisticated likelihood based statistical models from the field of molecular evolution provides the basis for extracting the information from the full distribution of sequence variation. The number of different problems to which phylogeny-based maximum likelihood calculations can be applied is extensive. Available software packages that can perform likelihood calculations suffer from a lack of flexibility and scalability, or employ error-prone approaches to model parameterisation. Results: Here we describe the implementation of PyEvolve, a toolkit for the application of existing, and development of new, statistical methods for molecular evolution. We present the object architecture and design schema of PyEvolve, which includes an adaptable multi-level parallelisation schema. The approach for defining new methods is illustrated by implementing a novel dinucleotide model of substitution that includes a parameter for mutation of methylated CpG's, which required 8 lines of standard Python code to define. Benchmarking was performed using either a dinucleotide or codon substitution model applied to an alignment of BRCA1 sequences from 20 mammals, or a 10 species subset. Up to five-fold parallel performance gains over serial were recorded. Compared to leading alternative software, PyEvolve exhibited significantly better real world performance for parameter rich models with a large data set, reducing the time required for optimisation from?10 days to?6 hours. Conclusion: PyEvolve provides flexible functionality that can be used either for statistical modelling of molecular evolution, or the development of new methods in the field. The toolkit can be used interactively or by writing and executing scripts. The toolkit uses efficient processes for specifying the parameterisation of statistical models, and implements numerous optimisations that make highly parameter rich likelihood functions solvable within hours on multi-cpu hardware. PyEvolve can be readily adapted in response to changing computational demands ad hardware configurations to maximise performance.


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Crystal Mountain is located southeast of Seattle in the Cascade Mountain Range and is the largest ski resort in the state. Started in 1962, it gets 350 inches of snowfall annually and has over 2,600 acres of terrain.
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Our maps show elevation changes in the landscape through contour lines. Each line represents a particular elevation, so you can determine the degree of slope by how close the lines are to one another (very close lines indicate a steep slope area). The dot on the map represents the base of the ski area. The elevation climbs away from the dot and shows the shape of the ski area from above, as well as the surrounding areas. The elevation and geographic coordinates indicated at the bottom of the map refer to the base of the ski area. The interval distance represents the elevation change between each line.
The maps are based off of US Geological Survey topographic maps which were created in quadrant sections. In other words, the USGS created maps that can be pieced together like a mosaic to create the entire US. Our maps use up to 4 quadrants to form a map of the ski mountain area. If there is a vertical and/or horizontal line on our map, they show where two or more quadrants meet.
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Positive periodic solution for Nicholson-type delay systems with impulsive effects
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In this paper, a class of Nicholson-type delay systems with impulsive effects is considered. First, an equivalence relation between the solution (or positive periodic solution) of a Nicholson-type delay system with impulsive effects and that of the corresponding Nicholson-type delay system without impulsive effects is established. Then, by applying the cone fixed point theorem, some criteria are established for the existence and uniqueness of positive periodic solutions of the given systems. Finally, an example and its simulation are provided to illustrate the main results. Our results extend and improve greatly some earlier works reported in the literature.
Keywords
 - Nicholson-type systems
 - positive periodic solutions
 - delay
 - impulsive effect
 - cone fixed point theorem
1 Introduction
To describe the population of the Australian sheep-blowfly and to agree with the experimental data obtained in [1], Gurney et al. [2] proposed the following Nicholson blowflies model:
$$ N'(t)=-\delta N(t)+PN(t-\tau)e^{-aN(t-\tau)}, $$
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where \(N(t)\) is the size of the population at time t, P is the maximum per capita daily egg production, \(\frac{1}{a}\) is the size at which the population reproduces at its maximum rate, δ is the per capita daily adult death rate, and τ is the generation time. Nicholson's blowflies model and many generalized Nicholson's blowflies models have attracted more attention because of their extensively realistic significance; see [39]. Recently, in order to describe the models of marine protected areas and B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia dynamics, which are examples of Nicholson-type delay differential systems, Berezansky et al. [10], Wang et al. [11], and Liu [12] studied the following Nicholson-type delay systems:
$$ \left \{ \textstyle\begin{array}{@{}l} N'_{1}(t) =-\alpha_{1}(t)N_{1}(t)+\beta_{1}(t)N_{2}(t)+\sum_{j=1}^{m} c_{1j}(t)N_{1}(t-\tau_{1j}(t))e^{-\gamma_{1j}(t)N_{1}(t-\tau_{1j}(t))},\\ N'_{2}(t) =-\alpha_{2}(t)N_{2}(t)+\beta_{2}(t)N_{1}(t)+\sum_{j=1}^{m} c_{2j}(t)N_{2}(t-\tau_{2j}(t))e^{-\gamma_{2j}(t)N_{2}(t-\tau_{2j}(t))}, \end{array}\displaystyle \right . $$
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where \(\alpha_{i}(t), \beta_{i}(t), c_{ij}(t), \gamma_{ij}(t), \tau_{ij}(t)\in C(R, (0,\infty))\), \(i=1,2\), \(j=1,2,\ldots, m\). For constant coefficients and delays, Berezansky et al. [10] presented several results for the permanence and globally asymptotic stability of system (1.2). Supposing that \(\alpha_{i}(t)\), \(\beta_{i}(t)\), \(c_{ij}(t)\), \(\gamma_{ij}(t)\), and \(\tau_{ij}(t)\) are almost periodic functions, Wang et al. [11] obtained some criteria to ensure that the solutions of system (1.2) converge locally exponentially to a positive almost periodic solution. Furthermore, Liu [12] established some criteria for the existence and uniqueness of a positive periodic solution of system (1.2) by applying the method of the Lyapunov function.
However, species living in certain medium might undergo abrupt change of state at certain moments, and this occurs due to some seasonal effects such as weather change, food supply, and mating habits. That is to say, besides delays, impulsive effects likewise exist widely in many evolution processes. In the last two decades, the theory of impulsive differential equations has been extensively investigated due to its widespread applications [1316].
Therefore, it is more realistic to investigate Nicholson-type delay systems with impulsive effects. However, to the best of our knowledge, few authors [17] have considered the conditions for existence and uniqueness of positive periodic solution for system (1.2) with impulsive effects. Thus, techniques and methods on the existence and uniqueness of a positive periodic solution for system (1.2) with impulsive effects should be developed and explored.
In this paper, we consider the following class of Nicholson-type delay systems with impulsive effects:
$$ \left \{ \textstyle\begin{array}{@{}l} y'_{1}(t) =-\alpha_{1}(t)y_{1}(t)+\beta_{1}(t)y_{2}(t)+\sum_{j=1}^{m} c_{1j}(t)y_{1}(t-\tau_{1j}(t))e^{-\gamma_{1j}(t)y_{1}(t-\tau_{1j}(t))},\\ y'_{2}(t) =-\alpha_{2}(t)y_{2}(t)+\beta_{2}(t)y_{1}(t)+\sum_{j=1}^{m} c_{2j}(t)y_{2}(t-\tau_{2j}(t))e^{-\gamma_{2j}(t)y_{2}(t-\tau _{2j}(t))},\\ \quad t\geq t_{0}>0, t\neq t_{k},\\ y_{i}(t^{+}_{k})=(1+b_{k})y_{i}(t_{k}),\quad t\geq t_{0}, t=t_{k} i=1,2, k=1,2,\ldots, \end{array}\displaystyle \right . $$
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where \(\alpha_{i}(t),\beta_{i}(t),c_{ij}(t),\gamma_{ij}(t),\tau_{ij}(t)\in C([0,\infty),(0,\infty))\), \(i=1,2\), \(j=1,2,\ldots,m\). \(\triangle y_{i}(t_{k})=y_{i}(t^{+}_{k})-y_{i}(t^{-}_{k})\) are the impulses at moments \(t_{k}\).
In Equation (1.3), we shall use the following hypotheses:
(H1):
\(0< t_{0}< t_{1}< t_{2}< \cdots\), \(t_{i}\), \(i=1,2,\ldots\) are fixed impulsive points with \(\lim_{k\rightarrow\infty}t_{k}=\infty\);
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\(\{b_{k}\}\) is a real sequence, and \(b_{k}>-1\), \(k=1,2,\ldots\) ;
(H3):
\(\alpha_{i}(t)\), \(\beta_{i}(t)\), \(c_{ij}(t)\), \(\gamma_{ij}(t)\),


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First recorded during the canonisation of Saint Lawrence Justinian under Pope Leo X (_PHONE_), the Devil's Advocate (Advocatus Diaboli) used to be an official position within the Roman Catholic Church, whose job was to uncover character flaws, misrepresentation of evidence or fraudulent behaviour.
During the canonisation process, the Promoter of the Faith (Promotor Fidei), better known as the Devil's advocate (Advocatus Diaboli), was a lawyer appointed by Church authorities to to take a sceptical view of the proposed candidate. Meanwhile, an opposing case would be made by the Promoter of the Cause, also known as God's advocate (Advocatus Dei), who would argue in favour of canonisation.
These specific positions of office are now obsolete and both functions are now performed by the Promoter of Justice (Promotor Justitiae) but, where the candidate might prove controversial, informal testimony may still be sought from those opposed to the canonisation.
However, the Devil's Advocate has now entered into common parlance and is used to refer to someone who takes a contrary position in an argument or discussion, in order to encourage further consideration and debate about the topic's potential ramifications.


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The map shows the zoning of the city and each house remoteness from the main transport arteries. The color of the buildings indicates their distance from the main roads, and the color of the zoning layer indicates the type of land use of the area. On the map, you can filter houses by their distance to the road, and using the bar chart, you can see the different zoning categories where these houses belong to.
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About the Project
The City of Abbotsford partnered with the Provincial and Federal governments, through the Building Canada Fund and Transport Canada's Rail Safety Improvement Program, as well as with Southern Railway of British Columbia and Canadian Pacific Railway, to improve traffic congestion and safety as a result of ongoing Highway 11 congestion and railway operations at Vye Road. The subject area extends across the City of Abbotsford and BC Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure ("MOTI") jurisdictions. Key project improvements included:
- The elimination of an at-grade rail crossing intersection for through traffic on Vye Road. This was achieved through a two-lane divided, paved collector road with a 13m wide, 65m long overpass structural crossing, about 8.5m in height, over the Canadian Pacific ("CP") and Southern Railway of British Columbia ("SRY") railways. This road provides unobstructed east-west traffic between Highway 11 and Riverside Road which crosses over 762mm and 1067mm diameter FortisBC Transmission Pipelines that supply a large portion of the Lower Mainland and the Fraser Valley with gas;
- The construction/widening of turn lanes at Highway 11 crossing at Vye Road and 4th Avenue;
- The construction of a 1.3km widening of Highway 11 to extend the centre NEXUS lane from about 300m south of Vye Road to the USA border;
- Safety improvements and the widening of 4th Avenue eastbound lane extending between the at-grade railway crossing to the west of Highway 11. The safety improvements consisted of the construction of concrete curbs and medians, and the installation of various traffic signs and light posts; and,
- The upgrade of various underground utilities including water, sewer and storm mains.
The project was awarded in early 2021 as a Design-Build Project to Eurovia BC who retained EXP Services Inc. ("EXP") for geotechnical, material testing and environmental consulting services.
The major engineering challenges included design elements that addressed high to moderately compressible soils, remediation and management of contaminated soils, groundwater, surface water run-off and waste discharges from neighbouring industrial properties. Ground improvement through surcharge and preload combined with the use of expanded polystyrene foam (light weight fill) was used to limit post-construction settlement of the 8.5m high overpass embankments. Environmental challenges included researching and selecting various commercially available liners with resistance to the chemicals in soil, groundwater, surface water and soil-vapour to determine the most protective and durable liner for the embankment (8.5 m high) comprising of EPS blocks. EXP's team researched various environmental liners which would provide maximum protection for the EPS over the lifetime of the structure. During project construction, archaeological finds shut down the project for an extended period of time along with a flood in the project area in 2021 due to heavy rainfall and water levels in the Sumas River that breached the dyke system. Civil, Geotechnical, Material and Environmental engineers during and after the shutdown ensured that the project design challenges including challenging site conditions were overcome by showing exceptional teamwork and coordination. Engineering design and construction services were provided with a focus on design excellence, exceptional service and timeliness.
The geotechnical and environmental design along with material testing services provided by EXP met the project requirements of both MOTI, City of Abbotsford and Eurovia. The EPS embankment was wrapped successfully with an environmental liner protective of current and future spills of chemicals and adverse site conditions. The enhanced quality and durability requirements of the stakeholders were met and resulted in a significant contribution to the infrastructure improvements in the area.
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Players rocking around Assassin's Creed Odyssey's fresh take on Ancient Greece are likely to stumble upon the pirate Xenia, a stout woman of firm resolve who will eventually ask for the hero's help in tracking down various artifacts. This is accomplished by following Xenia's treasure maps, the likes of which aren't exactly easy to follow, either because their locations are vague or because the maps seem to be pointing players in different directions toward unrelated rewards.
Xenia treasure hunt guide
First things first: before players can start tackling Xenia's five separate treasure hunts, they need to fulfill certain requirements. Neither Xenia nor her treasure hunts will be available until players complete the side quests Red in the Wreckage and Lost and Found. At that point, players can converse with Xenia to have her ask the hero to track down five (technically six) distinct treasures.
Additionally, it's recommended but not necessarily required for players to be around a mid-game level before starting Xenia's treasure hunts — maybe level 30 or so, though some of the tasks can be accomplished around level 17.
Birds of a Feather
For this treasure hunt, players will be given three different treasure maps and tasked with finding the Golden Feather of Ajax. Looking at the maps isn't strictly necessary for this mission; instead, head to Isle of Salamis, found just west of Attika. On the island will be a lighthouse — the Lighthouse of the Father of Ajax, as it turns out. Inspect the cloth-covered pot near the lighthouse, then walk down the stairs and speak to the lighthouse keeper to learn that the Golden Feather of Ajax was stolen by bandits.
He'll point players toward the bandits' hideout, the Mycanean Tomb of Ajax, located in an underground vault near the middle of the island. Bust in and crack the bandit's skulls, then search the bandit leader's corpse to find the Golden Feather of Ajax. With the feather in tow, return to Xenia to complete the quest.
Xenia will be pleased with the hero's aptitude for seeking out hidden treasure, and will offer a reward in the form of currency as well as another treasure hunt. This one is called Sacred Vows, and it involves discovering the location of a golden Macedonian Bracelet to be used as an offering to the gods.
In this case, it's the third map that Xenia offers that will be provide an accurate location for the treasure: in Cape Sounion, on the main island of Attika, in an area known as the Sanctuary of Sounion. Head to the location, speaking with various townsfolk, opening various boxes, and generally searching for clues to the bracelet's whereabouts.
After enough time spent investigating, players will stumble upon a couple arguing about the bracelet Xenia is seeking — they'll be the ones hanging out nearest the water's edge. Through conversation, it is revealed that the bracelet was thrown off a cliff into the Mediterranean sea. No problem; just dive in after it. The bracelet can be found not too deep underneath the water's surface, next to the cliff edge and a patch of coral. Grab it, then return to Xania to put an end to the second treasure hunt.
She Who Controls the Seas
Back in Xenia's company, the pirate will be so happy with the hero's performance that she'll offer up yet another treasure hunt. This one is called She Who Controls the Seas, and it involves tracking down Triton's Shell of the Tides, a golden conch that can reportedly control the sea.
The map needed for this hunt is the one that shows the Triple Peninsula of Chalkidike in Makedonia. Specifically, the player needs to head to an area known as the Underwater Cave of Chalkidike, which can accessed by diving into the water at the location featured on the map, just off the southern coast between the western and central peninsulas. A good way to find it is to search for the boxes floating at the water's surface.
Inside the Underwater Cavern, use Athena's sight to get a better view of the surroundings, then follow the path up and out of the water and back into another pool before surfacing on the other side. Some bandits will be lurking around this caves, so dispatch them through any preferred means, then search around the cave to locate the conch shell, which is sitting within a chest flanked by wooden barricades. Grab it, then head back to Xenia.
Throw The Dice
Once again, Xenia will express her own sort of gratitude for the hero's success, and will offer monetary recompense as well as the option to track down even more artifacts. This time around, Xenia will ask the player to find two items: Pan's Flute and Apollo's Lyre. There's a catch, though: a man named Autolykos stole the maps from her, and they must be found before the treasure can be located.
Xenia will point the player toward the man's typical hangout in Nauplia, specifically the are known as Wetlands of the Hydra. Head for the docks within the area's settlement to locate the man, then smash the nearby pots in order to convince him of the gravity of the situation. He'll divulge the location of the maps, hidden within his home right next to the Nauplia Shipshed. The path won't exactly be easy — Autolykos has the place well-guarded — but stealthy heroes should have no problem sneaking in and grabbing the maps out of the treasure chest near the main entrance.
With the maps in-hand, players will be in for an easy ride. The first map will plainly show that Pan's Flute can be found in the Cave of Pan, which is found around Marathon Beach in northern Attika. On the other hand, Apollo's Lyre can be found not too far from the Forgotten Ruins of Makris within Euboea — the lyre is sitting out in the open among several stone columns and a statue of a man being bitten by a snake. Grab both the treasures, then head back to Xenia to start the final treasure hunt.
Once again in the company of the fearsome pirate, Xenia will introduce the player to Galateia, who will tell a story of how she lost precious cargo after her crew was attacked on a previous mission. Agree to take on the quest to begin the search for Galateia's Priceless Treasure, the admittedly cheap-sounding Old Coffer.
Galateia informs the hero that her ship was attacked near Pellene, and eventually tasks players with finding the Olouros Fortress. The fortress itself is in Achaia, a location on the eastern end of the area known as Erymanthos Peaks, just south of Scavenger's Coast.
This area will not be easy — the level requirements for this mission indicate that players should be around level 43, so expect more than a few difficult encounters. Players under that level will need to make the best use of stealth possible. Within the fortress, not too far from a canvas-roofed entrance on the southeastern side, players will spot a small table next to a lit brazier; the Old Coffer can be found on the left side of the table near some ornate pots. Grab it, then return to Xenia to complete her quest line and earn the Pirate's Life For Me achievement.
Xenia's treasure maps are just the tip of the iceberg — Assassin's Creed Odyssey has plenty more hidden treasures spread about Ancient Greece. To learn more about the others, or to learn about other game mechanics, quest details, or boss strategies, make sure to head over to Shacknews' elaborate Assassin's Creed Odyssey walkthrough and guide hub.


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I'm trying to build a high-performance distributed system with Akka and Scala.
If a message requesting an expensive (and side-effect-free) computation arrives, and the exact same computation has already been requested before, I want to avoid computing the result again. If the computation requested previously has already completed and the result is available, I can cache it and re-use it.
However, the time window in which duplicate computation can be requested may be arbitrarily small. e.g. I could get a thousand or a million messages requesting the same expensive computation at the same instant for all practical purposes.
There is a commercial product called Gigaspaces that supposedly handles this situation.
However there seems to be no framework support for dealing with duplicate work requests in Akka at the moment. Given that the Akka framework already has access to all the messages being routed through the framework, it seems that a framework solution could make a lot of sense here.
Here is what I am proposing for the Akka framework to do: 1. Create a trait to indicate a type of messages (say, "ExpensiveComputation" or something similar) that are to be subject to the following caching approach. 2. Smartly (hashing etc.) identify identical messages received by (the same or different) actors within a user-configurable time window. Other options: select a maximum buffer size of memory to be used for this purpose, subject to (say LRU) replacement etc. Akka can also choose to cache only the results of messages that were expensive to process; the messages that took very little time to process can be re-processed again if needed; no need to waste precious buffer space caching them and their results. 3. When identical messages (received within that time window, possibly "at the same time instant") are identified, avoid unnecessary duplicate computations. The framework would do this automatically, and essentially, the duplicate messages would never get received by a new actor for processing; they would silently vanish and the result from processing it once (whether that computation was already done in the past, or ongoing right then) would get sent to all appropriate recipients (immediately if already available, and upon completion of the computation if not). Note that messages should be considered identical even if the "reply" fields are different, as long as the semantics/computations they represent are identical in every other respect. Also note that the computation should be purely functional, i.e. free from side-effects, for the caching optimization suggested to work and not change the program semantics at all.
If what I am suggesting is not compatible with the Akka way of doing things, and/or if you see some strong reasons why this is a very bad idea, please let me know.
Thanks, Is Awesome, Scala
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What you are asking is not dependent on the Akka framework but rather it's how you architect your actors and messages. First ensuring that your messages are immutable and have an appropriately defined identities via the equals/hashCode methods. Case classes give you both for free however if you have actorRefs embedded in the message for reply purposes you will have to override the identity methods. The case class parameters should also have the same properties recursively (immutable and proper identity).
Secondly you need to figure out how the actors will handle storing and identifying current/past computations. The easiest is to uniquely map requests to actors. This way that actor and only that actor will ever process that specific request. This can be done easily given a fixed set of actors and the hashCode of the request. Bonus points if the actor set is supervised where the supervisor is managing the load balancing/mapping and replacing failed actors ( Akka makes this part easy ).
Finally the actor itself can maintain a response caching behavior based on the criteria you described. Everything is thread safe in the context of the actor so a LRU cache keyed by the request itself ( good identity properties remember ) is easy with any type of behavior you want.
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As Neil says, this is not really framework functionality, it's rather trivial to implement this and even abstract it into it's own trait.
trait CachingExpensiveThings { self: Actor =>
 val cache =...
 def receive: Actor.Receive = {
 case s: ExpensiveThing => cachedOrCache(s)
 def cacheOrCached(s: ExpensiveThing) = cache.get(s) match {
 case null => val result = compute(s)
 case cached => self.reply_?)(cached)
 def compute(s: ExpensiveThing): Any
class MyExpensiveThingCalculator extends Actor with CachingExpensiveThings {
 def compute(s: ExpensiveThing) = {
 case l: LastDigitOfPi =>...
 case ts: TravellingSalesman =>...
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I've also calculated the last digit of Pi, what did you make it to be? ;p – Noel Kennedy Nov 16 '12 at 15:08
The last one is π – Viktor Klang Nov 17 '12 at 0:04
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Leggatt and the captain are not so much related as they are symbolic representations of each other. According to Lionel Trilling:
the two young men are virtually the same person.
In literary terms, Leggatt is the captain's doppelganger, or his ghostly twin. In Freudian psychology, Leggatt is the "Id" (the emotional, secret desires) to the captain's "Ego" (the logical side which mediates the emotional). Remember, when the captain first sees Leggatt? He says:
He was complete but for the head. A headless corpse!
Leggatt is the headless version of the captain. The head is the logical; the body is the emotional. So, Leggatt is the side of the captain which he hides from the crew, his secret desires and fears.
The word "double" is used 19 times in the novella. Obviously, Leggatt is a mirror-image doppelganger who confesses that which the captain has wished to keep secret. The captain harbors the fugitive and dresses him like himself:
Later, he connotes the dark side of his double:
The Captain's ("Ego's") goal then is too conceal his Leggatt ("Id") from Captain Archibald, the "Superego," or moral construct that projects social values.
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IJSRP, Volume 11, Issue 4, April 2021 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Shiv Prakash Mishra
The solubility of substance is depends on temperature and interaction of solute-solvent with its dissociation in ionic form as ionic strength of acid at different pH, where their partitioning (K) are observed between two immiscible liquid-liquid solvents system. Presently, we have been reported to benzoic acid for these solubility as well as its partitioning study at different pH between in hydrophilic aqueous water and hydrophobic organic benzene layers at room temperature (25°C). Here, the benzoic acid are distributed between such solvent by applying shake-flask method and by titrimetrically, there equilibrium concentration in both solvents are analyzed. The solubility of benzoic acid and it partitioning between water and benzene buffer solution at different pH range as 4.0, 7.0 and 9.0 have been studied well.


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There is no doubt that animals and animal industries are integral to the socio-economic wellbeing of rural and urban Australia. Climate change brings with it a variety of environmental stressors which will have range of negative impacts on animal industries, threatening food safety and security, animal and human health, and local and national economies.
Adaptation of production animals to climate change is the key to minimising impacts. Adaptation relies on better awareness of the effects of climate change on animal productivity and health, and identification of the vulnerabilities and opportunities that climate change presents to animal industries. This knowledge can inspire proactive farm, industry and social changes that will in turn lead to more sustainable, healthy and productive animal industries.
The animal health, production and biosecurity theme aims to build awareness of the climate change threats to animal farming industries and communities. The theme aims to encourage multidisciplinary climate change research in animal sciences that will provide holistic solutions to key climate change issues including:
- land, feed and water availability and usage
- genetics and breeding
- infectious disease control
Ultimately participants in this theme, both academic and non-academic, will provide inspiration and instruction to foster sustainable animal farming in a changing climate.
The theme plans to produce informative climate change adaptation fact sheets for key industries, develop online discussion forums and cutting edge research updates, and visit farming communities over the next two years.
We encourage researchers, farmers, local and national government representatives, and rural and urban communities involved with the animal industries to get involved with this PIARN theme as active members. Member input is valued and encouraged as we work to adapt our animal industries to climate change.

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This test monitors the error statistics in the CCLogging database.
Target of the test : The TP server
Agent deploying the test : An internal agent
Outputs of the test : One set of outputs for every CCLogging database monitored.
Configurable parameters for the test
Parameter Description
Test period
How often should the test be executed
The host for which the test is to be configured.
Refers to the port at which the specified host listens to.
Enter the name of a specific MS SQL instance that is to be monitored. The default value of this parameter is "default". To monitor an MS SQL instance named "CFS", enter this as the value of the Instance parameter.
The IP/host name of the database host.
The port at which the database host listens.
The user name to be used for logging into the database. This user should be authorized to connect to the CCLogging database.
Enter the password for logging into the CClogging database
Confirm Password
Provide a comma-separated list of error message patterns to be monitored in the format, Displayname:messagepattern. Here, the Displayname is just a name that is used to uniquely identify the message pattern, and will be displayed in the monitor interface. The messagepattern is an expression of the form - *expr* or expr or *expr or expr* or *expr1*expr2*... or expr1*expr2, etc. A leading '*' signifies any number of leading characters, while a trailing '*' signifies any number of trailing characters. For example, Error1:*cc_err*,Error2:*login*.
Detailed Diagnosis
To make diagnosis more efficient and accurate, the eG Enterprise system embeds an optional detailed diagnostic capability. With this capability, the eG agents can be configured to run detailed, more elaborate tests as and when specific problems are detected. To enable the detailed diagnosis capability of this test for a particular server, choose the On option against Detailed Diagnosis. To disable the capability, click on the Off option.
The option to selectively enabled/disable the detailed diagnosis capability will be available only if the following conditions are fulfilled:
 - The eG manager license should allow the detailed diagnosis capability
 - Both the bad and normal frequencies configured for the detailed diagnosis measures should not be 0.
Measurements made by the test
Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Errors found
Indicates the number of error messages logged into the CCLogging database.
The detailed diagnosis of this measure, if enabled, provides the details of the error messages that were logged into the CCLogging database.


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Is Hydrogen gas present in biogas? As it is highly inflammable, may it ignite the other gases like methane?
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What's your question here? Are you asking why biogas with hydrogen doesn't spontaneously ignite? – Oreotrephes Jul 10 '13 at 6:51
first question is whether Biogas constitutes Hydrogen and if yes why doesn't then the biogas spontaneously ignite? – sk1 Jul 10 '13 at 6:57
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The constitution of the biogas depends greatly on its source and the fermenting microbe. But in general, it does contain hydrogen about 0-1%. Even if it did contain large amounts, the mixture would be inflammable, but it would not burst into flames without any external igniter, which could be any small fluctuation of heat if the mixture is too unstable. But in general, an inflammable gas doesn't start burning on its own.
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The auto ignition temperature of a combustible mixture of hydrogen in air is 500 degrees C source - Wikipedia. It will not spontaneously ignite, some part of it must first reach that temperature through a spark, flame, or other heat source. Once it ignites, the methane of course will burn too.
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. The following has been tested and is known to work:
qmgr -c "set server operators += root@*"
This functionality is not strictly required, but it makes determining the reason nodes are marked down significantly easier!
Another possible caveat to this functionality is that it only works if the canonical hostname (as returned by the hostname command or the file /proc/sys/kernel/hostname) of each node matches its identity within TORQUE. If your site uses FQDNs on compute nodes but has them listed in TORQUE using the short versions, you will need to add something like this to the top of your NHC configuration file:
* || HOSTNAME="$HOSTNAME_S"
This will cause the offline/online helpers to use the shorter hostname when invoking pbsnodes. This will NOT, however, change how the hostnames are matched in the NHC configuration, so you'll still need to use FQDN matching there.
It's also important to note here that NHC will only set a note on nodes that don't already have one (and aren't yet offline) or have one set by NHC itself; also, it will only online nodes and clear notes if it sees a note that was set by NHC. It looks for the string "NHC:" in the note to distinguish between notes set by NHC and notes set by operators. If you use this feature, and you need to mark nodes offline manually (e.g., for testing), setting a note when doing so is strongly encouraged. (You can do this via the -N option, like this: pbsnodes -o -N 'Testing stuff' n0000 n0001 n0002) There was a bug in versions prior to 1.2.1 which would cause it to treat nodes with no notes the same way it treats nodes with NHC-assigned notes. This should be fixed in 1.2.1 and higher, but you never know....
Grid Engine Integration
Sun Grid Engine (SGE) has had a somewhat "colorful" history over the years. It has evolved and changed hands numerous times, and there are currently multiple incarnations of it which are developed under both commercial and open source models. Unfortunately, I don't have a whole lot of experience with any of them -- it was on its way out when I first joined the team at LBNL and was eliminated completely shortly thereafter. So I'm afraid I don't have the expertise to get NHC working with any of the Grid Engine variants.
The good news, though, is that Dave Love -- developer of the Son of Grid Engine open source project -- does! He has made multiple contributions over the years to help get NHC integrating effectively with SGE and all the assorted Grid Engine variants. Additionally, he put together a great recipe to help SGE users (and other users of GE incarnations), so rather than try to reproduce it here and keep it updated, I recommend you peruse his work in its entirety if you're a user of one of those products! 🤵
Periodic Execution
The original method for doing this was to employ a simple crontab entry, like this one:
MAILTO=_EMAIL_
*/5 * * * * /usr/sbin/nhc
Annoyingly, this would result in an e-mail being sent every 5 minutes if one of the health checks fails. It was for this very reason that the contributed nhc.cron script was originally written. However, even though it avoids the former technique's flood of e-mail when a problem arose, it still had no clean way of dealing with multiple contexts and could not be set up to do periodic reminders of issues. Additionally, it would fail to notify if a new problem was detected before or at the same time the old problem was resolved.
Version 1.4.1 introduces a vastly superior option: nhc-wrapper. This tool will execute nhc1 and record the results. It then compares the results to the output of the previous run, if present, and will ignore results that are identical to those previously obtained. Old results can be set to expire after a given length of time (and thus re-reported). Results may be echoed to stdout or sent via e-mail. Once an unrecognized command line option or non-option argument is encountered, it and the rest of the command line arguments are passed to the wrapped program intact.
This tool will typically be run via cron(8). It can be used to wrap distinct contexts of NHC in a manner identical to NHC itself (i.e., specified via executable name or command line arg); also, unlike the old nhc.cron script, this one does a comparison of the results rather than only distinguishing between the presence/absence of output, and those results can have a finite lifespan.
nhc-wrapper also offers another option for periodic execution: looping (-L). When launched from a terminal or inittab/init.d entry in looping mode, nhc-wrapper will execute a loop which runs the wrapped program (e.g., nhc) at a time interval you supply. It attempts to be smart about interpreting your intent as well, calculating sleep times after subprogram execution (i.e., the interval is from start time to start time, not end time to start time) and using nice, round execution times when applicable (i.e., based on 00:00 local time instead of whatever random time the wrapper loop happened to be entered). For example, if you ask it to run every 5 minutes, it'll run at :00, :05, :10, :15, etc. If you ask for every 4 hours, it'll run at 00:00, 04:00, 08:00, 12:00, 16:00, and 20:00 exactly--regardless of what time it was when you originally launched nhc-wrapper!
This allows the user to run nhc-wrapper in a terminal to keep tabs on it while still running checks at predictable times (just like crond would). It also has some flags to provide timestamps (-L t) and/or ASCII horizontal rulers (-L r) between executions; clearing the screen (-L c) before each execution (watch-style) is also available.
Examples:
To run nhc and notify root when errors appear, are cleared, or every 12 hours while they persist:
# /usr/sbin/nhc-wrapper -M root -X 12h
Same as above, but run the "nhc-cron" context instead (nhc -n nhc-cron):
# /usr/sbin/nhc-wrapper -M root -X 12h -n nhc-cron
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# /usr/sbin/nhc-wrapper -M root -X 12h -A '-n nhc-cron'
Same as above, but run nhc-cron (symlink to nhc) instead:
# /usr/sbin/nhc-wrapper -M root -X 12h -P nhc-cron
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# ln -s nhc-wrapper /usr/sbin/nhc-cron-wrapper
# /usr/sbin/nhc-cron-wrapper -M root -X 12h
Expire results after 1 week, 1 day, 1 hour, 1 minute, and 1 second:
# /usr/sbin/nhc-wrapper -M root -X 1w1d1h1m1s
Run verbosely, looping every minute with ruler and timestamp:
# /usr/sbin/nhc-wrapper -L tr1m -V
Or for something quieter and more cron-like:
# /usr/sbin/nhc-wrapper -L 1h -M root -X 12h
Configuration
Now that you have a basic working configuration, we'll go more in-depth into how NHC is configured, including command-line invocation, configuration file syntax, modes of operation, how individual checks are matched against a node's hostname, and what checks are already available in the NHC distribution for your immediate use.
Configuration of NHC is generally done in one of 3 ways: passing option flags and/or configuration (i.e., environment) variables on the command line, setting variables and specifying checks in the configuration file (/etc/nhc/nhc.conf by default), and/or setting variables in the sysconfig initialization file (/etc/sysconfig/nhc by default). The latter works essentially the same as any other sysconfig file (it is directly sourced into NHC's bash session using the . operator), so this document does not go into great detail about using it. The following sections discuss the other two mechanisms.
Command-Line Invocation
From version 1.3 onward, NHC supports a subset of command-line options and arguments in addition to the configuration and sysconfig files. A few specific settings have CLI options associated with them as shown in the table below; additionally, any configuration variable which is valid in the configuration or sysconfig file may also be passed


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Set the Mode and Use Complex Numbers on TI-83 Plus
On the TI-83 Plus graphing calculator, you can set the mode and use complex numbers. The second from the last line of the Mode menu gives you three options: Real, a + bi, and
The last two options are used when working with complex numbers. The a + bi options tells the calculator to display complex numbers in rectangular form, and the
options tells it to display complex numbers in polar form.
Select either a + bi or
so the calculator knows you're working with complex numbers. The remaining menu items can be set as they appear in the figure.
Independent of the mode setting, a + bi or
complex numbers can be entered in the calculator in either a + bi rectangular form or in
polar form. You enter the imaginary number i in an expression by pressing [2nd][.]; e is entered by pressing
If the calculator is in Radian mode,
in the polar form of a complex number is entered in radian measure; if the calculator is in Degree mode,
is entered in degrees.
Although the figures in these examples involve real-number arithmetic, everything can be used when doing complex-number arithmetic — provided the calculator is in Complex mode. (Remember, you can enter the imaginary number i into an expression by pressing [2nd][.].)


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Why Do Piano Keys Stick?
There are 1000 different reasons why piano keys stick but most commonly is a change in humidity or temperature. As you change the environment around the piano it will have to acclimate which can effect the keys.
Typically when you start running your A/C or Heat for the season or after you move a piano, the keys can stick for a short time. If your keys are sticking longer then a week, there's a different problem that needs to be addressed.


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There are barriers for all of us when pursuing leisure activities, ranging from financial, social, or availability and distance of the leisure activity you wish to pursue.
Barriers To Leisure Pursuits
However, there are also other barriers to leisure pursuits, including inaccessible hiking trails, strobe lights at concerts, loud and unending noise at gatherings, learning difficulties trying new things.
Each barrier presents you with a unique set of challenges. This article will explore some of these challenges and ways to work around them. Of course, there is always an alternative activity if something is inaccessible to you.
Everyone wants to go hiking as it is good exercise and one of the best ways to connect with nature. However, if a trail has too steep of an incline, it will be hard for people with joint or back issues to venture up the path. Additionally, very few trails are paved and flat enough to use a wheelchair on.
- One alternative is to go to a park. Parks are usually paved and flat and can be just as beautiful as hiking in the woods.
- Another option is to go to a scenic overlook. There will be signs to pull over to see a view on the highway.
- Find some spots that you love, or go for a drive in a woodsy area with the windows down.
- Finally, if you cannot leave your home, try sitting by an open window or caring for a garden or houseplants.
2. Strobing Lights
If you have photosensitive seizures, nearly everywhere you go is a risk, including watching your favorite TV show. You could be scrolling on social media and come across a video with flashing lights.
One of the most common places for there to be flashing lights is at concerts. Many people love live music and experiencing music firsthand in a crowd.
Unfortunately, there is no ingredient list for a show, so it is not always clear if there will be strobe lights at the concert or not.
- One option is to call the music venue and see what they have planned.
- Another option is to go to friendlier events like acoustic open mics at coffee shops or get some friends together to listen to your favorite album and dance around. Though not the same as going to a live concert, you can create your own show!
3. Sensory Overload
There are many leisure pursuits that are enjoyed in large groups. However, gatherings can be incredibly overwhelming for many when the location's noise, smells, taste, and visual sensations are consistent.
For example, imagine a restaurant with music playing in the background with multiple conversations occuring, that are loud as they are trying to speak over the music to be heard.
In the background, plates are crashing about, and the smells from cooking fill the air. As people come into the restaurant, the air becomes thick and hot.
Then add in wait staff moving around, asking you questions, and you have a scenario that has the potential to trigger sensory overload.
- Spending time with people in a small group or one-on-one is an excellent way to avoid sensory overload. It will not be as loud, and only one conversation will happen.
- If the music is too loud, ask for it to be lowered. You can even do this at restaurants.
- An accessibility aid you can try is to use earplugs. You can purchase in or over your ears or use both simultaneously for double the protection. You will only be able to hear what's very close to you or nothing at all, depending on the ear protection you're using.
4. Learning Difficulties
Some leisure pursuits may be very frustrating if you have difficulty learning new things.
For example, crossword puzzles, Sudoku, new languages, playing an instrument, cooking, knitting, and more might take some people longer to learn than others.
However, taking your time to understand something as you are able is ok. Growth happens when you step out of your comfort zone, and new things might take a bit more practice.
Find someone who will support you while you learn. It will be helpful to have a kind teacher who can explain things and encourage you.
- If something is making you upset, put it down for a while, take a break. Sometimes walking away for a few minutes is the right thing to do.
- If you feel negative when trying something new, then try the new thing for a predetermined time frame and then do something that you know and love. Rewarding yourself in this way will help you validate the positives within you rather than the negatives. It will help you gain confidence and will also make you happy.
Triggers and leisure pursuits are tricky as they are not universal but rather a personal imprint within individuals based on their life experiences.
Therefore, flashbacks can occur by even the slightest mention of something, the smell in a location, hearing a particular language, song, or word, feeling a rough or smooth object, tasting a bitter, salty, or sweet food.
Many people who have triggers spend a lot of time researching a place, person, movie, or even a tv show before participating as they need to feel safe. The energy expended to do this research can be very exhausting.
With professional help and personal determination, many triggers can be reduced or eliminated. Unfortunately, removing triggers is a challenge, and there is no pill or quick fix.
- Seek professional help from your doctor or a psychologist
- Try a Google browsers app that have been created to help with triggering events in a show.
- Feerless is an app that relies on crowdsourcing to identify any potential triggering scenes in Netflix TV shows and movies. A small bubble appears on your screen when a potentially triggering scene emerges. You can choose to fast forward, look away, or exit your show.
- Warn Me is an app where you enter your triggering words so that content will not be shown when you browse the internet.
- Lastly is an app called Soothe, where you can monitor browsing content and hateful social messages.
One person may struggle to climb a mountain but have no trouble seeing violence on TV, while another may have the exact opposite experience.
If your barrier to participating in leisure pursuits is excessive fear of interacting with other people, click this link to access our guide on Social Anxiety and Participation in Leisure Activities
Leisure pursuits are not one-size-fits-all but offer many opportunities and levels of participation for all to enjoy.


Ember Composable Helpers
Simplify your templates using these declarative template helpers.
Ember Composable Helpers repo
ember install ember-composable-helpers
Final template:
{{_TAG_-in (group-by activeGroupBy (filter-by'size' activeSize model)) as |group items|}}
In this video, we're going to talk about refactoring your app using the Ember Composable Helpers addon.
Ember apps often have dynamic interface elements that let users explore their data. Here, we're looking at a shopping app that's displaying some clothes. We can see on the left that users can group clothes by type (we have shirts and pants) or color (blue, green and red). They can also filter by size - regular or tall.
Traditionally an interface like this might be built using a series of computed properties. Let's look at how this page was implemented.
On the left, we have this application's controller and on the right our template. The controller has a few pieces of state that it needs in order to render: the list of clothing items (referenced by the model property), the activeGroupBy option, and the activeSize filter. The computed properties then use this state to transform the clothing items array: filteredItems returns a subset of the original list, and groupedItems takes that filtered list, and transforms it into an object whose keys are the groups and whose values are the items belonging to each group.
The template then uses the standard each-in helper to iterate over the keys and values of the groupedItems object. Finally, it renders each group's items to the page.
We can also see how the interface elements themselves update the controller's state. For example, clicking on the "Color" button sends an action to the controller, which updates the activeGroupBy property. The computed properties are then recalculated, and as a result the interface re-renders.
Ember's Computed Properties work well here, but there's a lot of room for developers to make errors: the dependent keys for each property must be just right; there's a lot of boilerplate for these fairly generic transforms; and most of the code here is imperative and focused on implementation.
Let's see how we can use some simple, declarative template helpers from the Ember Composable Helpers library to clean up our code.
First, we'll install the library by running
 ember install ember-composable-helpers
Next, we'll pull up the documentation. Looking at the index of helpers, we see that the library includes both a group-by helper and a filter-by helper, which is exactly what our app needs. Let's start with group-by.
The docs show us that group-by takes two arguments: the property used to form each group, and the original ungrouped array of objects. Note that in our app, the user can actually change which property is being used to form each group, so we'll be using that dynamic property here, instead of a static string.
Let's go ahead and make the change. We'll replace groupedItems with the group-by helper, passing in the activeGroupBy property and our array of filteredItems.
- {{_TAG_-in groupedClothingItems as |group items|}}
+ {{_TAG_-in (group-by activeGroupBy filteredClothingItems) as |group items|}}
 {{_TAG_ items as |item|}}
Note that we're grouping the filteredItems array here, just like in our computed property, so that our filtering functionality still works.
With that change, we can see that our app renders, and the grouping functionality works - changing the group updates the template. The filtering functionality is also preserved. We can now go back to our controller and delete our groupedItems computed property. We already have a simpler controller and a more declarative template.
Now let's replace the filteredItems computed property. We'll use the filter-by helper. This helper takes a property to filter on, a value that satisfies the filter, and the original unfiltered array. We want to filter on size using the activeSize property, so we'll end up with something like this:
(filter-by'size' activeSize model)
This says we want to filter the original model by looking at each item's size property, and seeing if it matches the current value of activeSize - which can be either regular or tall.
Now, your first instinct here might be to assign this filtered list to a local property using the {{_TAG_}} helper, and then passing that result into our (group-by) helper:
{{_TAG_ (filter-by'size' activeSize model) as |filteredClothingItems|}}
This solution works, but we can do better. The Ember Composable Helpers library is built with composability in mind. This means that helpers can be used in conjunction with each other, which can save us from having to do things like creating temporary variables.
Instead of using {{_TAG_}}, let's leverage the power of subexpressions and compose filter-by with group-by directly:
Note that nested helpers evaluate right-to-left: first we filter the list by activeSize, and then we group the resulting array by activeGroupBy.
Looking at our app, we see that everything works as expected - meaning we can delete our filteredItems computed property. We've now eliminated both of our original computed properties, and we're left with a declarative template that's easy to read, change, and most important, relies on an addon to do its heavy lifting.
As with most things in programming, there are tradeoffs involved when using helpers to move controller or component logic into templates. In our example, we only needed two helpers; but you can imagine a series of computed properties that are much harder to replace.
Computed properties are still extremely useful in Ember applications. They're best suited for domain-heavy or complex transformations. You have the full power of JavaScript, and they're easy to debug and write unit tests for.
However, writing generic computed properties just to group or sort an array is unnecessary and error-prone. In these situations, Ember Composable Helpers is a great fit - and it's really fun to use! In fact, it's so fun that you'll need to be careful not to get carried away and start programming in your templates. The key is to find isolated, generic transforms you've written yourself, and replace them with battle-tested library code that you don't have to maintain.
So give it a shot in your own app! Install the library, and see how you can make your templates simpler and more declarative.'
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MySQL Tables With UTF-8
Here is how to properly setup your database to store and query UTF-8 characters
1. You will need to make sure your tables are setup to store UTF-8 values.
e.g. show create table {tablename}; <– this will output table setup
If you see the 'DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1′, then you will need to change it to 'DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8′
e.g. alter table {table name} default charset utf8;
2. Now that we have setup all the tables to be able to store UTF8 characters, the next step is to display them from your script.
To properly display utf-8 characters, you will need to tell it that the output contains UTF-8 characters.
e.g. set names utf8;
The above command needs to be called before your 'select' statements. Otherwise, all you queries will return with a question (?) marks for any values that contain utf-8 characters.


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RATIONALE: Perceptual learning operates on distinct timescales. How different neuromodulatory systems impact on learning across these different timescales is poorly understood. OBJECTIVES: Here, we test the causal impact of a novel influence on perceptual learning, the androgen hormone testosterone, across distinct timescales. METHODS: In a double-blind, placebocontrolled, cross-over study with testosterone, subjects undertook a simple contrast detection task during training sessions on two separate days. RESULTS: On placebo, there was no learning either within training sessions or between days, except for a fast, rapidly saturating, improvement early on each testing day. However, testosterone caused "off-line" learning, with no learning seen within training sessions, but a marked performance improvement over the days between sessions. This testosterone-induced learning occurred in the absence of changes in subjective confidence or introspective accuracy. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings show that testosterone influences perceptual learning on a timescale consistent with an influence on "off-line" consolidation processes.
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PCBs that incorporate both miniaturized and large components can often be difficult to print in one stroke due to the different paste volume requirements. DEK Electroform variable aperture height technology (VAHT) solves this issue with aperture-specific gasket overgrowths that create more height for larger paste volume deposits. Around defined apertures, gasket height can be 1 to 2 mils higher than the base stencil thickness.
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Risser sign - trends in a South African black population
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dc.date.available 2012-01-16T11:35:10Z
dc.date.issued 2012-01-16
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dc.description M.Med. (Orthopaedics), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 2011 en_US
dc.description.abstract The 5 stages of the Risser sign, which chart the development of ossification of the iliac crest has been widely used as a tool to assess skeletal age and remaining spinal growth, and thereby influence scoliosis management. However, as with other markers of skeletal age, it is under the influence of genetic and environmental factors. Proof of this was given by Risser, who observed that children in warmer climates developed earlier. Numerous other authors have also shown differences for other measures of maturity between different race groups. We tried to show that a different trend occurred in the South African Black population, as compared to published data from other population groups. Radiographs from the Radiology records departments of various hospitals were assessed by 2 independent observers for the Risser sign. This was used to chart trends, which was compared to trends published by Scoles et. al. which was recorded on the Cleveland based Brush-Bolton Collection. The South African black population showed a trend towards starting earlier. They however completed their fusion later. This is suggestive of a longer duration of iliac ossification. Furthermore, the importance of climatic control was shown by the fact that the black & white populations mirrored each other. en_US
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dc.subject Risser sign en_US
dc.subject scoliosis management en_US
dc.title Risser sign - trends in a South African black population en_US
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Gregory I (540-604), was pope from 590 until his death. He is known for his prolific writings and for revising the worship of the western Christian church. He was canonized immediately after his death and he is the patron saint of musicians, singers, students, and teachers.
He argued against the opinion of the Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople, who had said that one would not have been able to touch or feel the resurrected body of Christ. He also associated Mary of Magdalene with the woman that Luke had described as a sinner, and that John called Mary and the sister of Lazarus and Martha, with the Mary from out of whom Mark said seven demons had been cast out.Synonyms: Pope Gregory I


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- Teragram is a measure of weight.
- Ecofocus: Even older forests help control CO2
- Jun 10, 2007 A teragram is equivalent to a million metric tons. Each year, largely as teragrams of carbon into the atmosphere. This is a huge number.
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- of total GHG emissions (7260 Tg CO2 eq.
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- lifetimes of other gases. The relationship between gigagrams (Gg) of a gas and teragrams of CO2 equivalents (Tg CO2. Eq.
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- kt kilotonnes. GtC gigatonnes of carbon (1 GtC = 3.7 Gt carbon dioxide).
- Unprecedented 2007 Arctic Fire Released 50 Years of Stored Carbon
- But in 2007, the largest fire ever recorded in the Arctic swept across the Alaskan Northern Slope region, releasing an estimated 2.1 teragrams (2.3 million tons) of carbon into the atmosphere.
- Tundra Fires Feed Global Warming Loop
- The Anaktuvuk River fire burned 1039 square kilometers (401 square miles), an area roughly the size of Cape Cod and visible from space, and released more than 2.1 teragrams (2.3 million tons) of carbon into the atmosphere.
- Teragram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. Teragram may refer to: 1012 grams, equivalent to a megatonne.
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AHK: How to Code a KML to Excel Exporter
I accidentally opened up a KML file in Notepad once. There are no words in the English language to describe that specific form of horror. It's generally brought on by questions like: "Did I just delete every other file in my C drive?" or "How the shit did I disable my keyboard? That script wasn't even sending keystrokes???"
Or when the IT guy at work remote accesses your computer, fixes the problem, then says, "Oh, hey, I can see you" and then HANGS UP.
I have no webcam on my work computer, guys. NO WEBCAM.
It appears my ADD has hijacked this post. Attempting to refocus.
My point is that I panicked for no reason.Well, not no reason. I mean, look at this:
But when I stopped to really look at it, I realized the innards of a KML are surprisingly readable. It's literally latitude and longitude with some headers in tags. That's it.
So today, in keeping with my recent VBA post, I am forgoing the lovely graphics once again and plowing my way through a script that is, in reality, only useful to me.
You're welcome.
Step 1: Understanding the Problem
See all these points in Google Earth? Plotted them at random. Here's a breakdown of what I want from the KML file:
Step 2: Prepping the File
Let's start off by prompting the user for the KML file in question.
A quick review of AHK functions will get you to FileSelectFile, alls you gotta do is change the output variable to something memorable and filter for KMLs.
I talked about FileRead in a Web Scraper post a while back. Basically, this is how we get the computer to push text into a single variable that we can chop up.
After a long shouting match with my laptop, I discovered FileRead won't read a KML. So before we continue, we have to turn the.kml into a.txt using FileCopy.
Step 3: Trimming the Variable
InStr() is really helpful here. Since we know the latitude and longitude will immediately follow the word "coordinate," we can have the script search for that and then plug the Occurance value into a variable that jumps up by two with each loop–one for and one for .
Setting the return value of InStr to a variable allows you to plug that into StringTrimRight and StringTrimLeft easily enough.
Step 4: Save It Into A CSV
Using FileAppend, you can throw each set of coordinates into a.csv. The only frustrating thing here is remembering to escape any commas or n's for new lines with the ' key.
The Code
In the interest of not staying up all night writing a GUI while binge watching ridiculously old episodes of Unsolved Mysteries, I'm posting the code as is.
Minus the GUI, the copied.txt and destination. csv files have to be manually inserted (they're on the Desktop below), as well as the loop count for the number of points.
FileSelectFile, TheFile,,, KML to Convert, (*.kml)
FileCopy, %TheFile%, c:\Users\Desktop\KML.txt
FileRead, FileContent, c:\Users\Desktop\KML.txt
Occ := 1
loop, #
FoundPos := InStr(FileContent, "coordinates", false, 1, Occ)
StringTrimLeft, TrimContent, FileContent, FoundPos
FoundPos := InStr(TrimContent, "coordinates", false, 1, 1)
StringTrimRight, AllTrimContent, TrimContent, StrLen(TrimContent) - FoundPos + 3
FileAppend, %AllTrimContent%','n, c:\Users\Desktop\KMLTest.csv
Msgbox, Done
That's all. Roll credits. I'm thinking I'll post a One Lovely Blog Post at some point this week, and if not, Processing next weekend.
17 Replies to "AHK: How to Code a KML to Excel Exporter"
 1. Noooooo. When you say things like that, you make me think it's easy even for me, but what's actually going to happen is I'll spend the next 14 hours beating my computer senseless instead of sleeping… I'll try it this weekend and let you know how it goes 🙂
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 1. You know, I've had others suggest that I clean up the language. But programming makes my brain think in expletives. And since GifGuide is more of a progress journal (I write as I break down problems–my posts expand and contract a lot as I plow through), it's just always seemed natural to not filter. That being said, I COMPLETELY understand the awkwardness of referencing a blog filled with rage rants, and I absolutely would not recommend it for children. Sidenote: I really did like your nominees–always looking for more tech oddballs on WordPress. Until next time ECG 🙂
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 2. Oh, the "others" were all in real life–you're definitely the first WordPresser. What's funny is that it's pretty evenly split among brick-and-mortar people I've shown. The main argument against profanity is that if I ever tried to set the blog up on its own to sell a few ads (to at least cover my coffee expenses), who on EARTH is going to back a foul-mouthed amateur. The main argument in favor is who on EARTH is going to back an amateur at all. My main argument is that I have to take out my frustration SOMEWHERE. Better on the interwebs than smashing my computer with a mallet. Hey ECG, is there any chance that you go by the name Panda?
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 1. HOLD IT, you just gave me an AMAZING idea for profanity web scraper to figure out if there's a correlation between the amount of swearing in the post and the programming language and/or functions I'm using in a particular script. Or if the TYPE of swearing switches. To use as a sort of rage gauge, you know? Then I can track my progress over time by looking at whether it's increasing or decreasing–I mean I have a year's worth of posts. To be honest, I sort of thought they all had some cursing, but I've never actually gone through to see. It just occurred to me that this is going to be quite disheartening if the numbers indicate that my anger levels aren't on a downward trend. Surely, you'd think the more exposure to programming, the less frustrated I'd be? Huh. Imma look into this and get back to you.
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