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Dual pressure reducing stations for control and monitoring of irrigation system
The Olmos project in Peru, is a mega project diverting water from the Huancabamba river
By Sarit Hatzbany, Application engineer in the Irrigation sector supporting the Europe & India market, Bermad
The Olmos project in Peru, is a mega project diverting water from the Huancabamba river. The project was a joint venture between the Netafim drip irrigation company which designed and executed the project, Valmont Industries, which supplied the center-pivot irrigation systems, and BERMAD which designed and supplied unique automatic hydraulic solutions for this project.
A 20 km-long canal and tunnels system was built, reaching a reservoir with a volume of 790,000 cubic meters located in the heart of the agricultural area of about 93,000 hectares. 19 sub-zones of 500 hectares each is watered by 97 center-pivot irrigation machines. The total capacity of the project is 34,000 cubic meters per hour – approximately half of Israel's national carrier!
After a comprehensive analysis, including hydraulic simulations control & hydraulic solutions were specified: control valves regulating pressure and flow, air valves and water meters. In order to provide the system complete protection and reliability, dual pressure-reducing stations were installed on the main lines including double-chamber valves that provide immediate and reliable response. Water meters and control valves were installed at the inlet to each center-pivot irrigation machine that can be remotely controlled according to the different irrigation programs.
The project has been operational with great success since 2015; additional agricultural areas have been networked with piping and hydraulic solutions that guarantee accurate and reliable water supply for irrigation.
See how this mega project supplies water to the Olmos agricultural community in Peru.- Click to watch the video
BERMAD Solutions for Mechanized Irrigation


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acriflavine, dye obtained from coal tar, introduced as an antiseptic in 1912 by the German medical-research worker Paul Ehrlich and used extensively in World War I to kill the parasites that cause sleeping sickness. The hydrochloride and the less irritating base, neutral acriflavine, both are odourless, reddish-brown powders used in dilute aqueous solutions primarily as topical antiseptics or given orally as urinary antiseptics. Once used in the treatment of gonorrhea, acriflavine has been replaced by the antibiotics.
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text: Industrial solar cell fabrication generally adopts printing process to deposit the front electrodes, which needs additional heat treatment after printing to enhance electrical conductivity. As a heating method, laser irradiation draws attention not only because of its special selectivity, but also because of its intense heating to achieve high electric conductivity which is essential to reduce ohmic loss of solar cells. In this study, variation of electric conductivity was examined with laser irradiation having various beam intensity. 532 nm continuous wave (CW) laser was irradiated on inkjet-printed silver lines on glass substrate and electrical resistance was measured in situ during the irradiation. The results demonstrate that electric conductivity varies nonlinearly with laser intensity, having minimum specific resistance of 4.1 x 10-8 Ωm at 529 W/cm2 irradiation. The results is interesting because the specific resistance achieved by the present laser irradiation was about 1.8 times lower than the best value obtainable by oven heating, even though it was still higher by 2.5 times than that of bulk silver. It is also demonstrated that the irradiation time, needed to finish sintering process, decreases with laser intensity. The numerical simulation of laser heating showed that the optimal heating temperature could be as high as 300 oC for laser sintering, while it was limited to 250 oC for oven sintering. The nonlinear response of sintering with heating intensity was discussed, based on the results of FESEM images and XRD analysis.

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- any of the woody or treelike tropical and semitropical grasses of the genera Bambusa, Phyllostachys, Dendrocalamus, and allied genera, having woody, usually hollow stems with stalked blades and flowering only after years of growth.
- the stem of such a plant, used as a building material and for making furniture, poles, etc.
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- prominence of a syllable in terms of differential loudness, or of pitch, or length, or of a combination of these.
- degree of prominence of a syllable within a word and sometimes of a word within a phrase: primary accent; secondary accent.
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- any similar mark.
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- a musical tone or pattern of pitch inherent in a particular language either as a feature essential to the identification of a vowel or a syllable or to the general acoustic character of the language. Cf. tone (def. 7).
- Often, accents.
- the unique speech patterns, inflections, choice of words, etc., that identify a particular individual: We recognized his accents immediately. She corrected me in her usual mild accents.
- the distinctive style or tone characteristic of an author, composer, etc.: the unmistakably Brahmsian accents of the sonata; She recognized the familiar accents of Robert Frost in the poem.
- a mode of pronunciation, as pitch or tone, emphasis pattern, or intonation, characteristic of or peculiar to the speech of a particular person, group, or locality: French accent; Southern accent.Cf. tone (def. 5).
- such a mode of pronunciation recognized as being of foreign origin: He still speaks with an accent.
- a stress or emphasis given to certain notes.
- a mark noting this.
- stress or emphasis regularly recurring as a feature of rhythm.
- a symbol used to distinguish similar quantities that differ in value, as in b′, b ʺ, b‴
(called b prime, b second or b double prime, b third or b triple prime, respectively).
- a symbol used to indicate a particular unit of measure, as feet (′) or inches (ʺ), minutes (′) or seconds (ʺ).
- a symbol used to indicate the order of a derivative of a function in calculus, as f′ (called f prime) is the first derivative of a function f.
- words or tones expressive of some emotion.
- accents, words;
speech: He spoke in accents bold.
- distinctive character or tone: an accent of whining complaint.
- special attention, stress, or emphasis: an accent on accuracy.
- a detail that is emphasized by contrasting with its surroundings: a room decorated in navy blue with two red vases as accents.
- a distinctive but subordinate pattern, motif, color, flavor, or the like: The salad dressing had an accent of garlic.
- to pronounce with prominence (a syllable within a word or a word within a phrase): to accent the first syllable of "into''; to accent the first word of "White House.''
- to mark with a written accent or accents.
- to give emphasis or prominence to;
Lamplamp (lamp),USA pronunciation n.
- any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas. Cf. fluorescent lamp, incandescent lamp.
- a container for an inflammable liquid, as oil, which is burned at a wick as a means of illumination.
- a source of intellectual or spiritual light: the lamp of learning.
- any of various devices furnishing heat, ultraviolet, or other radiation: an infrared lamp.
- a celestial body that gives off light, as the moon or a star.
- a torch.
- lamps, the eyes.
- smell of the lamp, to give evidence of laborious study or effort: His dissertation smells of the lamp.
- to look at;
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Improve the performance of Apache Iceberg's metadata file operations using Amazon FSx for Lustre on Amazon EMR
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Apache Iceberg is an open table format for large datasets in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and provides fast query performance over large tables, atomic commits, concurrent writes, and SQL-compatible table evolution. With Amazon EMR 6.5+, you can use Apache Spark on EMR clusters with the Iceberg table format.
Iceberg helps data engineers manage complex challenges such as continuously evolving datasets while maintaining query performance. Iceberg allows you to do the following:
 - Maintain transactional consistency on tables between multiple applications where files can be added, removed, or modified atomically with full read isolation and multiple concurrent writes
 - Implement full schema evolution to track changes to a table over time
 - Issue time travel queries to query historical data and verify changes between updates
 - Organize tables into flexible partition layouts with partition evolution, enabling updates to partition schemes as queries and data volume changes without relying on physical directories
 - Roll back tables to prior versions to quickly correct issues and return tables to a known good state
 - Perform advanced planning and filtering in high-performance queries on large datasets
In this post, we show you how to improve the performance of Iceberg's metadata file operations using Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon EMR.
Performance of metadata file operations in Iceberg
The catalog, metadata layer, and data layer of Iceberg are outlined in the following diagram.
Iceberg maintains metadata across multiple small files (metadata file, manifest list, and manifest files) to effectively prune data, filter data, read the correct snapshot, merge delta files, and more. Although Iceberg has implemented fast scan planning to make sure that metadata file operations don't take a large amount of time, the time taken is slightly high for object storage like Amazon S3 because it has a higher read/write latency.
In use cases like a high-throughput streaming application writing data into an S3 data lake in near-real time, snapshots are produced in microbatches at a very fast rate, resulting in a high number of snapshot files and causing degradation in performance of metadata file operations.
As shown in the following architecture diagram, the EMR cluster consumes from Kafka and writes to an Iceberg table, which uses Amazon S3 as storage and AWS Glue as the catalog.
In this post, we dive deep into how to improve query performance by caching metadata files in a low-latency file system like FSx for Lustre.
Overview of solution
FSx for Lustre makes it easy and cost-effective to launch and run the high-performance Lustre file system. You use it for workloads where speed matters, such as high throughput streaming writes, machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, and financial modelling. You can also link the FSx for Lustre file system to an S3 bucket, if required. FSx for Lustre offers multiple deployment options, including the following:
 - Scratch file systems, which are designed for temporary storage and short-term processing of data. Data isn't replicated and doesn't persist if a file server fails. Use scratch file systems when you need cost-optimized storage for short-term, processing-heavy workloads.
 - Persistent file systems, which are designed for long-term storage and workloads. The file servers are highly available, and data is automatically replicated within the same Availability Zone in which the file system is located. The data volumes attached to the file servers are replicated independently from the file servers to which they are attached.
The use case with Iceberg's metadata files is related to caching, and the workloads are short-running (a few hours), so the scratch file system can be considered as a viable deployment option. A Scratch-2 file system with 200 MB/s/TiB of throughput is sufficient for our needs because Iceberg's metadata files are small in size and we don't expect a very high number of parallel connections.
You can use FSx for Lustre as a cache for the metadata files (on top of an S3 location) to offer better performance in terms of metadata file operations. To read/write files, Iceberg provides a capability to load a custom FileIO dynamically during runtime. You can pass the FSxForLustreS3FileIO reference using a Spark configuration, which takes care of reading/writing to appropriate file systems (FSx for Lustre for reads and Amazon S3 for writes). By enabling the catalog properties lustre.mount.path, lustre.file.system.path, and data.repository.path, Iceberg resolves the S3 path to FSx for Lustre path at runtime.
As shown in the following architecture diagram, the EMR cluster consumes from Kafka and writes to an Iceberg table that uses Amazon S3 as storage and AWS Glue as the catalog. Metadata reads are redirected to FSx for Lustre, which updates asynchronously.
Pricing and performance
We took a sample dataset across 100, 1,000, and 10,000 snapshots, and could observe up to 8.78 times speedup in metadata file operations and up to 1.26 times speedup in query time. Note that the benefit was observed for tables with a higher number of snapshots. The environment components used in this benchmark are listed in the following table.
Iceberg Version Spark Version Cluster Version Master Workers
0.14.1-amzn-0 3.3.0-amzn-1 Amazon EMR 6.9.0 m5.8xlarge 15 x m5.8xlarge
The following graph compares the speedup for each amount of snapshots.
You can calculate the price using the AWS Pricing Calculator. The estimated monthly cost of an FSx for Lustre file system (scratch deployment type) in the US East (N. Virginia) Region with 1.2 TB storage capacity and 200 MBps/TiB per unit storage throughput is $336.38.
The overall benefit is significant considering the low cost incurred. The performance gain in terms of metadata file operations can help you achieve low-latency read for high-throughput streaming workloads.
Prerequisites
For this walkthrough, you need the following prerequisites:
Create an FSx for Lustre file system
In this section, we walk through the steps to create your FSx for Lustre file system via the FSx for Lustre console. To use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), refer to create-file-system.
 1. On the Amazon FSx console, create a new file system.
 2. For File system options, select Amazon FSx for Lustre.
 3. Choose Next.
 4. For File system name¸ enter an optional name.
 5. For Deployment and storage type, select Scratch, SSD, because it's designed for short-term storage and workloads.
 6. For Throughput per unit of storage, select 200 MB/s/TiB.You can choose the storage capacity according to your use case. A Scratch-2 file system with 200 MB/s/TiB of throughput is sufficient for our needs because Iceberg's metadata files are small in size and we don't expect a very high number of parallel connections.
 7. Enter an appropriate VPC, security group, and subnet.Make sure that the security group has the appropriate inbound and outbound rules enabled to access the FSx for Lustre file system from Amazon EMR.
 8. In the Data Repository Import/Export section, select Import data from and export data to S3.
 9. Select Update my file and directory listing as objects are added to, changed in, or deleted from my S3 bucket to keep the file system listing updated.
 10. For Import bucket, enter the S3 bucket to store the Iceberg metadata.
 11. Choose Next and verify the summary of the file system, then choose Create File System.
When the file system is created, you can view the DNS name and mount name.
Create an EMR cluster with FSx for Lustre mounted
This section shows how to create an Iceberg table using Spark, though we can use other engines as well. To create your EMR cluster with FSx for Lustre mounted, complete the following steps:
 1. On the Amazon EMR console, create an EMR cluster (6.9.0 or above) with Iceberg installed. For instructions, refer to Use a cluster with Iceberg installed.
To use the AWS CLI, refer to create-cluster.
 1. Keep the network (VPC) and EC2 subnet the same as the ones you used when creating the FSx for Lustre file system.
 2. Create a bootstrap script and upload it to an S3 bucket that is accessible to EMR.Refer to the following bootstrap script to mount FSx for Lustre in an EMR cluster (the file system gets mounted in the /mnt/fsx path of the cluster). The file system DNS name and the mount name can be found in the file system summary details.
 sudo amazon-linux-extras install -y lustre2.10
 sudo mkdir -p /mnt/fsx
 sudo mount -t lustre -o noati


Animated Alien Ship in the Sky using jQuery Spritely
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Hundreds of light years (now don't ask me what is a light year, all I know it is same as a regular year, but with less calories!) away from the galaxy there lived a super intelligent species with big eyes & green naked (or wearing some sort of green bio-mechanical suit!) skin called extrachlorophylletron in the planet discotin, they have been found rarely in the sky of earth traveling around with their domed ship (rocket guys call it an UFO!).
Well, since the first episode we have tested the moving clouds animation using jQuery Spritely plugin 0.6 and in this sequel we are interested to have sprite or flying object in that sky. Also, earlier we used Spritely's pan() feature to animate the clouds and here we will experiment sprite animation using sprite() feature, behold! an alien ship is headed towards the earth.
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Figure: Alien ship in the sky
Sprites! (Sounds like Coke & Sprite?)
Before get our hands into sprite animation, we've played video games like Mario in the Super Mario, fighters in the Street Fighters or say, in movie, like fire breathing Balrog in the "The Lord of The Rings" and there are object(s) flying or moving around the game canvas, those are generally sprites. A Sprite composed with several images of an object together, played sequentially to animate an action and you may add certain controls to them.
So in our tutorial, we will design a flying alien ship (the sprite) with spinning at left or right behavior with sequence of frames like below:
alien ship sprite figure frame
Figure: frames for spinning to left/right
At the above figure, the first row (1) contains three (3) frames (each object at the above figure represents each frame of 180×180) for the spin towards right. In each next frame of the first row, we created white dashed marks on the dark green disk-shaped body and placed/moved them towards more right side, changed the position of the three rounded landers by few pixels to give a shaky feel. And the bottom row (2) contains three (3) frames for the spin towards left.
Checkout the spin direction diagram and a tap/click in the screen attracts the ship to that point with the same spin:
alien ship spin and flight direction sprite
Figure: spin & flight direction diagram
Lets build the following scenarios (you must go through the first episode of this tutorial to understand the rest):
Scenario: We need a Ship in the sky with a green Alien inside (a pilot!).
Add the following CSS class for the ".alien-ship":
.alien-ship {
 background: transparent url(img/sprit-space-ship.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
 position: absolute;
 top: 150px;
 left: 65px;
 width: 180px;
 height: 180px;
 z-index: 2000;
 cursor: pointer;
You can see that, the class is of 180×180, so the following DIV with the class "alien-ship" will display single frame of the ship as background of it. Spritely shows the frames serially by changing background position of the DIV.
alien ship sprite
Figure: the Ship
Scenario: The ship needs a spin.
Lets, invoke Spritely's sprite() feature on the alien-ship DIV like below:
$(document).ready(function() {
 $('_TAG_-ship').sprite({ fps: 9, no_of_frames: 3 });
The above code will position the background frame, 9 frames per second using the given 3.
Scenario: The ship will fly within an area randomly.
Like the following code, using spRandom() method, we can define the boundary of the random movement.
 .spRandom({top: 50, bottom: 200, left: 300, right: 320});
Scenario: Fly the ship at the Tap location (cool for touch works!).
To make the mouse attract the sprite when you click/tap the screen, use this:
The active() method makes this sprite the active sprite on launch – otherwise a sprite with activeOnClick() becomes active only when you click it (or touch it using an iPhone/iPad).
The $('body').flyToTap() method watches for a click on the page at which point, after any current move is complete, the sprite moves to the clicked location. After a few second, if a random movement method has been applied (see spRandom()), it then moves away again.
Scenario: Spin the ship into both directions.
The following method displays frames from the first row (Spin right):
The following method displays frames from the second row (Spin left):
Here, state 1 and 2 are row numbers and may add another row for another movement sequence.
Scenario: Controls in hand.
Check out the demo & source codes given at download section.
(If any extrachlorophylletrons reading this, advance sorry from a human for any misrepresentation of your funkiness)
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A building refers to a structure that supports the basic needs of a civilization. They can only be built by villagers or settlers, and form the backbone of a civilization. Buildings are crucial in establishing a civilization and can be separated into three different categories in the Age of Empires series according to its function.
Types of BuildingsEdit
In the Age of Empires series, buildings are separated into 3 distinct categories with each having its own distinct function. The main types of structures found in the game include:
- Economic buildings
- Military buildings
Economic buildings are crucial when it comes to building a civilization. They are the most important structures in the game as building them is the only way to research technologies that is needed to advance a civilization. These structures provide economic benefits for an entire civilization and usually train economical units such as villagers, fishing boats or trading vessels. Some of these structures serve as a drop off point when a unit collects a particular resource while other economic buildings provide unlimited resources, such as a mill, bank or a factory.
Unlike other buildings which trains units and researches technologies, these structures simply are designed for combat. Fortified structures often have a large amount of hit points, range and decent attack. Unlike other buildings which can only be made of wood, these structures rely on stone, which is considered a rare resource.
Military buildings train units only suited for combat and researches technologies that are required to upgrade these units. Military structures can be separated into categories based on what kind of units they train. These structures are vital for a strong civilization since building them are the only way to achieve a military conquest or victory.
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text: The method for reconstructing the disperse medium characteristics by means of linear functions of measured parameters in application to studies of the atmospheric aerosol is proposed. The optimization problem with restrictions in the form of the system of linear equations is formulated to find the coefficients of linear regression. The optimization criterion and additional a priori information are chosen with respect to the peculiarities of formation and existence of real atmospheric aerosol related to its multifractional structure. Application of the method to data processing of multifrequency laser sounding of the atmosphere is considered. Some results of numerical calculations are presented.


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Taspar eggs were eggs that originated from the Cardassian creature called a taspar. Taspar eggs could be eaten boiled or raw. Most Cardassians were revolted by the sight of live taspar; it had a brownish color and a gelatinous consistency.
As a starving homeless child, Madred scavenged for and ate raw taspar eggs straight from the shell.
Several years later, in 2369, Gul Madred served a raw taspar egg in a similar manner to a captive Captain Jean-Luc Picard in an effort to degrade him. Picard, however, refused to give in to Madred, and ate the Taspar raw, much to Madred's amusement. (TNG: "Chain of Command, Part II")


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We have a number 'Alert' scenarios where we want to send out user alerts, and also retain the body of a message (or part thereof) for resubmission, to replay the orchestration once appropriate remedial action has been taken. I thought we could be clever, and define an envelope schema that would contain details of the alert, in human-readable form, together with an element that could contain the message, for resubmission. By defining the parent of this element as the BodyXPath of the envelope, the alert message itself could be resubmitted, at which point the inner message would be stripped out and re-processed.
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It was the first time I'd used the Mass Copy functoid, and was annoyed to find that it copies the children and attributes of the node selected, rather than the node itself - meaning that you lose the root node name if it isn't already in the output schema. The xsl generated is thus:
(where the element is the parent of the , and our body xpath node.)
This didn't work for us, as we needed the name of the root element copied over, so I replaced the Mass Copy functoid with a Scripting functoid, selected Inline XSLT as the script type, and used the following:
I'm surprised that there isn't a property of the Mass Copy functoid that allows you to do this, as it seems relatively obvious (and easy to implement). Has anyone else had to do this?


Farther vs Further
These two English words are very similar; keep reading for further information.
Farther means "more far/distant" in physical space.
Tom ran farther than Bill.
Which is farther, New York or Los Angeles?
Farthest means "the most far/distant."
I prefer the seat farthest from the window.
Pluto was once considered the farthest planet from the sun.
Further means "more far/distant" figuratively or non-physically, and can also mean "more/additional":
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Who is further along in her research?
Do you have any further ideas?
Further is also a verb: "to advance":
This class will further your understanding of ethics.
Furthest means "the most far/distant" figuratively.
That is the furthest thing from my mind.
The Bottom Line
Many English speakers use both farther and further to mean "more far" in space, but only further can be used for non-physical distance and to mean simply "more." If you are talking about actual distance, you can usually use either word without raising any eyebrows, but keep further in mind for all of your English furthering efforts.
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We report on the development of dual-color photon-counting histogram (PCH) analysis. Dual-color PCH is an extension of regular PCH and considers the photon counts received in two detection channels instead of one. Because each detection channel records a different color, dual-color PCH distinguishes fluorescent species not only by differences in their brightness, but also according to their color. The additional discrimination by color increases the sensitivity of PCH in resolving a mixture of species considerably. Most dual-color fluorescence fluctuation experiments are performed on fluorophores with overlapping emission spectra. This overlap results in spectral cross talk between the detector channels, which reduces resolvability. Here, we demonstrate that dual-color PCH is able to resolve binary dye mixtures in the presence of cross talk from a single measurement without any additional information about the sample. We discuss the effect of sampling time on the fit parameters of dual-color PCH. Differences between dual-color fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and dual-color PCH will also be addressed. We quantitatively resolve a mixture of the two fluorescent proteins CFP and YFP, which is challenging because of the strong spectral overlap of their emission spectra. Dichroic mirrors are needed to direct the light into the two detection channels. We quantify the influence of these filters on dual-color PCH analysis and determine the optimal transition wavelength of the dichroic mirror for the CFP-YFP pair.
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|State||Published - Mar 2005|
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Hare Krishna dear devotees,
Some times we get confused between what exactly is sin and what is reaction? What is the difference between these two? I recently heard a very nice explanation by HH Bhaktividya Purna maharaj and I am copying it's transcript.
What is the difference between reaction and sin?
HH Bhaktividya Purna Maharaj :
Reaction will be you are put into the same situation in which you are giving that trouble, and you are on the other side. That's reaction. Sin means going to hell for some time and going through all the animal species to be punished before you come to that situation.
The person who according to the Vedic literature kills an animal in sacrifice there is no sin. He'll be elevated, the animal will be elevated. As far as karma-kanda goes it looks good all the way round. But there is still reaction that in the future the person that performed the sacrifice will be the animal, and the animal will be the person performing he sacrifice. Now the animal will get to sacrifice you. But it's all good, it's all pious activity. This is the downside. The reaction is there but they won't go to hell for killing the animal and take birth in so many animal species. It's still circle. That's why if one is intelligent one worships Krsna and gets out of that, because it's stupid. Even though it's on this nicest level it's still stupid. Most of the time the two go together, when there is sin there is reaction. But when you perform pious activities you can have reaction without sin. Just like you can have a good reaction and there is no sin. So you can also have a bad reaction without sin. But technically it's all considered sinful because it's not connected to the Lord. Good and bad when it's not connected to the Lord it's sin.
(Lecture, 26th Oct. 2010)
All glories to Srila Prabhupada


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If you want gold or other precious metals, you have to go mining for them, right? Actually, they're probably already sitting right atop your city's streets -- perhaps millions of dollars worth.
With every street a veritable gold mine, Council Associate Partner Veolia is panning for gold on British streets. And the waste recovery leader figures it could find £1 million worth of gold and other precious metals in a year. And that's in the United Kingdom alone.
As absurd as it may seem, there's some precedent for Veolia's efforts. A New York man makes more than $800 a week selling gold and diamond dust that he finds in the cracks of the city's streets and sidewalks. Veolia's system is more high tech and can find many more types of valuable minerals.
Sweeping up money
Veolia is finding the valuables as it sweeps the streets. The sweepers pick up street dust, which is sent to a special facility for analysis and sorting. Similar to a gold-panning operation, Veolia's system combines a washing and floating process with sieves and conveyors.
Regular recyclables, like bottles and aluminum cans, are pulled aside for traditional recycling. Stones and pebbles are recycled too; they're sent off to be used in building and landscaping projects.
The dust that's left is further sorted. It typically contains trace amounts of platinum, rhodium and palladium, valuable minerals that are extracted and reused as well. Over the past year, it found £100,000 worth of precious metals on British streets and that was with just a single processing center. It now plans to open two more.
More minerals are deposited all the time
The minerals on the street are replenished as fast as Veolia can sweep them up. They are not dropped accidentally by people; they are emitted by cars. Platinum, rhodium and palladium are used in the catalytic converters of cars to help filter poisonous emissions. But tiny fragments of those minerals break off and do come out of the tailpipe.
A Forbes analysis finds in a metric ton of street dust, there's likely 4-tenths of a gram of platinum, a similar amount of palladium and a tenth of a gram of rhodium. It may not sound like much, but even those trace amounts are worth about $70.
But it's not about the money
While the money grabs headlines, Veolia started the project because of the environment. The minerals aren't just valuable -- they're also toxic. Street sweeping is critical to preventing more of those materials from running off into the water. But it also wanted to prevent them from ending up in landfills too.
By pulling the toxic minerals out, the remaining dust is safe for use as a material in building projects. In fact, Veolia says its work diverts about 80% of the dust and materials that would otherwise be headed for a landfill.
Which brings us back to the money. Between reclaiming valuable minerals and significantly cutting landfill fees, Veolia says it can give cities a break on street sweeping fees. That, in turn, makes recycling road dust an even more golden idea.


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Harness your inner Greek scholar and approach this math puzzle logically
Inspired by the great Greek philosopher Aristotle, whose works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, the aim of this puzzle is to make every row add up to 38. This will take a very logical mind, indeed – there are fifteen rows in all directions to complete, top to bottom as well as diagonally. Each is made up of three, four or five pieces. This brilliant mathematical concept allows you to complete the puzzle by using every number from one to nineteen.
Challenging, sophisticated and beautifully designed, this antique finish wooden puzzle seamlessly merges math and logic into a fitting tribute to the founder of Western science and philosophy. While this puzzle wasn't invented by Aristotle, it's not hard to imagine that it would have piqued his interest!
Antique finish wooden puzzle measures 5" x 5".
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD – Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.


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CBSE Board NCF-FS System: Schools affiliated to CBSE Board will have to adopt the 'National Framework for Foundational Stage' (NCF-FS) 2022. Let us know what this new system is after all.
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CBSE Board: Now the system of pre-primary schooling is going to change in all the schools affiliated to the CBSE board. Till now, after studying nursery and KG class, children used to get admission in the first class. However, now this whole system is about to change. In fact, CBSE Board has asked all the schools to adopt the 'National Framework for Foundational Stage' (NCF-FS) 2022. It has been prepared by the 'National Council of Educational Research and Training' (NCERT).
NCF-FS 2022 was released in October 2022. Under this new NCF-FS system, schools will have to adopt a three-year pre-primary schooling system. Overall, the NCF-FS system will be of five years, with emphasis on foundational learning.
Read also: Why did the CBSE Board warn the schools? After all, what is the matter, know
What is the new system?
Till now, first of all children had to take admission in nursery class. Then the number of KG used to come and then of the first class. This was called the pre-primary system. However, now there will be a change in this system. After nursery and KG, now there will be one more class at pre-primary level. That is, the pre-primary will now be of three years instead of two.
After this there will be first and second class, which will be part of the primary level. In the schools which already have pre-primary classes, arrangements for lower KG are also being made there. Three pre-primary classes will be started in government schools and Kendriya Vidyalayas. The reason for this is that in both these types of schools, education starts from the first class.
Read also: CBSE Board Exam: CBSE 12th Physics paper was like this, check question bank like this
Schools will have 'Balvatika'
CBSE Board Director (Academic) Joseph Emmanuel said, "To meet the objectives stated in the NCF-FS 2022, schools have been advised to follow the new structure of five years of elementary education and three years of secondary education". Include 'Balvatika' or say nursery classes.
He said, 'There will be more emphasis on activities in school kindergarten classes, which will generate curiosity in children. Attention will also be paid to the health, hygiene, nutrition etc. of the students in the Balvatika class.


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Definition of Rebidden
1. rebid [v] - See also: rebid
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1. Northern Antiquities: Or, An Historical Account of the Manners, Customs by Paul Henri Mallet, Walter Scott (1847)
"Fraternities ceived in the north, but by degrees the object was changed. of this sort still subsisted after the Christian religion was rebidden at them,..."


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Classification of Iran Railway Tracks And determining Principle Specifications Development Plans
- Analyzing the standards of different countries
- Specifying a suitable pattern for classifying Iran railway tracks
- Reducing cost and simplifying to track maintenance plan
- Analyzing standard of different countries from 5 continents.
- Classifying railway with operation indexes(Speed and Tonnage)
- Codifying the railway classification procedure and specifying technical specifications for classes
- Codifying the railway maintenance procedure with a new viewpoint


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6.4.11 Duplicates
If you are a member of a couple of mailing lists, you will sometimes receive two copies of the same mail. This can be quite annoying, so nnmail checks for and treats any duplicates it might find. To do this, it keeps a cache of old Message-IDs: nnmail-message-id-cache-file, which is ~/.nnmail-cache by default. The approximate maximum number of Message-IDs stored there is controlled by the nnmail-message-id-cache-length variable, which is 1000 by default. (So 1000 Message-IDs will be stored.) If all this sounds scary to you, you can set nnmail-treat-duplicates to warn (which is what it is by default), and nnmail won't delete duplicate mails. Instead it will insert a warning into the head of the mail saying that it thinks that this is a duplicate of a different message.
This variable can also be a function. If that's the case, the function will be called from a buffer narrowed to the message in question with the Message-ID as a parameter. The function must return either nil, warn, or delete.
You can turn this feature off completely by setting the variable to nil.
If you want all the duplicate mails to be put into a special duplicates group, you could do that using the normal mail split methods:
 (setq nnmail-split-fancy
 '(| ;; Messages duplicates go to a separate group.
 ("gnus-warning" "duplicat\\(e\\|ion\\) of message" "duplicate")
 ;; Message from daemons, postmaster, and the like to another.
 (any mail "mail.misc")
 ;; Other rules.
 [...] ))
Or something like:
 (setq nnmail-split-methods
 '(("duplicates" "^Gnus-Warning:.*duplicate")
 ;; Other rules.
Here's a neat feature: If you know that the recipient reads her mail with Gnus, and that she has nnmail-treat-duplicates set to delete, you can send her as many insults as you like, just by using a Message-ID of a mail that you know that she's already received. Think of all the fun! She'll never see any of it! Whee!


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Hardware architecture for popcount
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WSEAS Transactions on Computers
Bit-counting implementations are used to count the number of "1's" in a given computer word. There are several techniques to implement bit-counting operation. These techniques are either software algorithms or specialized hardware techniques. The hardware implementations require dedicated hardware supported in the processor or associated math co-processor. The performance of the hardware-supported bit-counting was found to be superior to most software implementations (such as serial shifting). In this paper, a new hardware implementation of bit-counting routine is presented that reduces the number of logic gates and the delay in comparison with existing implementations. The performance of the proposed hardware bit-counting implementations is further investigated and evaluated.
El-Qawasmeh, Eyas; Tubaishat, Abdallah; Baba, Sami; and Dalalah, Ahmed, "Hardware architecture for popcount" (2006). Scopus Indexed Articles. 2439.


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Black hair, blue eyed beauties
All blue-eyed people can be traced back to one ancestor who lived 10,000 years ago near the Black Sea. What many people DO NOT KNOW is that Europe was colonised by AFRICANS about 10K + years ago. Therefore, the chance of any African child being born with blue eyes has been spread throughout the continent since then as a recessive gene. "...the more you know."


Documentation Getting Started WP Statistics Exclusions Page
WP Statistics Exclusions Page
On this page, you will find various settings that allow you to exclude certain types of data from being recorded and displayed in your statistics.
The settings available on the Exclusions page include:
 - User Role Exclusions
 - IP/Robot Exclusions
 - GeoIP Exclusions
 - Host Exclusions
 - Site URL Exclusions
Each of these settings provides a different way to fine-tune your statistics and exclude any unwanted data. By using the options available on this page, you can ensure that your statistics accurately reflect the data that is most important to you.
For accessing the Exclusions page navigate to Statistics → Settings → Exclusions.
At first, you will have the Record Exclusions option to enable. This setting will keep track of all the excluded data in a separate table, along with the reasons for the exclusion. However, it will not include any other information besides the reason for exclusion. This option can generate a large amount of data, including not just actual user visits but also all the hits to your site, including the excluded ones.
User Role Exclusions
The User Role Exclusions option in the WP Statistics plugin allows you to exclude certain user roles from data collection. This can be useful if you want to exclude certain types of users from your statistics, such as administrators or editors.
One of the key use cases for this feature is when you have a test or development environment, in which you have users with admin or editor roles that are not real users but they are triggering data collection to your statistics. By excluding them you will be able to have more accurate data on your website's statistics.
IP/Robot Exclusions
IP/Robot Exclusions
Process of excluding certain IP addresses or user agents from being tracked or blocked by a website or web application. This can improve website performance, security, and functionality by excluding unnecessary traffic, and unwanted visitors, and ensuring access to specific content or features to certain groups of users.
Force Robot List Upgrades
The option allows website administrators to automatically reset the list of blocked or excluded IP addresses or user agents to the default after an update of the WP Statistics plugin. This ensures that the website or application is protected with the latest version of the plugin's security features, but it also means that any custom robots added to the list will be lost if this option is enabled. It's an option that allows the website administrator to keep the website or application up-to-date and secure without the need for manual updates.
Robot Visit Threshold
A setting that determines the number of visits from a robot before it is considered a "real" visit and is recorded in the website's statistics. This allows website administrators to filter out noise caused by search engine crawlers and other automated bots that may inflate website traffic statistics. This threshold can be set to a specific number of visits, and any robots that exceed that number will be recorded as a real visit.
Excluded IP Address List
A feature that allows website administrators to exclude certain IP addresses from being tracked by the website, improving website performance and security. This list can be used to exclude unwanted traffic or to grant access to specific content or features for specific groups of users.
Use Honey Pot
This option is a technique used to identify robots by using a "Honey Pot" page. When enabled, it adds a hidden page on the website that is only accessible to robots, not human visitors. When a robot accesses this page, it is identified as such and can be blocked or excluded from the website's statistics. This technique can be used to improve website performance and security by filtering out unwanted traffic caused by search engine crawlers and other automated bots.
Treat Corrupt Browser Info
As a Bot option is a security feature that allows website administrators to identify and block visitors with corrupt browser information. When enabled, it considers any visitor with a missing IP address or empty user agent string as a robot. This is useful as some malicious bots may try to hide their identity by providing corrupt browser information in order to access the website. By treating these visitors as robots, the website can block their access and improve its security.
GeoIP Exclusions
GeoIP Exclusions is a feature that allows website administrators to exclude certain geographic locations from being tracked or blocked by the website. This can be useful for a variety of reasons, such as blocking unwanted traffic from certain countries or regions or only allowing access to specific content or features for certain geographic locations. By excluding certain geographic locations, website administrators can improve website performance and security, and also target a specific audience with their content or services. It's based on IP address recognition, and it's useful to make sure that the website or the application is accessible to the right users.
Host Exclusions
Host Exclusions is a feature that allows website administrators to exclude certain hostnames or domain names from being tracked or blocked by the website. This can be useful for a variety of reasons, such as blocking unwanted traffic from certain websites or networks or only allowing access to specific content or features for certain hosts or domains.
Site URL Exclusions
Site URL Exclusions is a feature that allows website administrators to exclude certain pages or sections of their website from being tracked or blocked. This can be useful for a variety of reasons, such as blocking unwanted traffic from certain pages or sections or only allowing access to specific content or features for certain pages or sections.
Website administrators can choose from three options:
 - Login page: exclude the login page from being tracked, as it is mostly for internal use.
 - RSS feeds: exclude the RSS feed pages from being tracked, as they are mostly for programmatic use and not for human visitors.
 - 404 pages: exclude the 404 error pages from being tracked, as they are mostly caused by broken links or mistyped URLs.
Additionally, website administrators can manually enter specific URLs that they want to exclude from being tracked.


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A new quality assessment test was carried out to examine the relationship between the perception of audio and video resolutions. Three video resolutions and four audio resolutions were used to answer the question: "Does lower resolution video influence the perceived quality of audio, or vice versa?" Subjects were asked to use their own equipment, which they would be likely to stream media with. They were asked to watch a short video clip of various qualities and to indicate the perceived audio and video qualities on separate 5-point Likert scales. Four unique 10-second video clips were presented in each of 12 experimental conditions. The perceived audio and video quality ratings data showed different effects of audio and video resolutions. The perceived video quality ratings showed a significant effect of audio resolutions, whereas the perceived audio quality did not show a significant effect of video resolutions. Subjects were divided into two groups based on the self-identification of whether they were visually or auditorily inclined. These groups showed slightly different response patterns in the perceived audio quality ratings.
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Design and Flight Testing of Nonlinear Autoflight Control Laws Incorporating Direct Lift Control
This publication describes how direct lift control has been incorporated in a nonlinear autoflight control algorithm. Direct lift control demonstrated its use in earlier aircraft designs. In two recent internal DLR projects, accurate flight path tracking in atmospheric disturbances was an important research goal, where direct lift control could potentially provide an important contribution. In these projects, use has been made of nonlinear control techniques. Objective of this research publication is to incorporate direct lift control in these nonlinear control laws. Simulations as well as flight tests have shown that more accurate flight path changes are achieved by this addition. Direct lift control can be particularly useful for path tracking as well as in turbulent air, since it facilitates lift changes without pitching. More precisely, the non-minimum phase behaviour of the aircraft caused by the elevators is eliminated in this way.


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Google yesterday announced that will stop sending contextual information on the bid requests, starting in February 2020. According to Google, this a result of engagement with the European data protection authorities, and the intent is to take an additional step to further guard user privacy.
Chetna Bindra, Senior Product Manager, User Trust, and Privacy, at Google, wrote that since GDPR, Google has already introduced measures to protect European users. Google requires publishers to obtain consent from users to serve personalized ads, Google applies data minimization practices to the scope of the data shared in RTB bid requests, including truncating device IP addresses and using only resettable user IDs.
What is the contextual information Google will stop sharing?
Content categories are descriptions of the type of content on a specific page, website or app. According to Google, these categories may indicate whether the content is about news or weather, and are intended to provide contextual information to advertisers about the site or app where the impression may appear.
Google was prohibiting advertisers from using the services to build user profiles around sensitive categories but there was always a risk that third-party services will do that. The processing of special category data without consent was one of the 9 concerns about RTB pointed out by the UK regulator.
Chetna Bindra also says that Google will soon update the EU User Consent Policy audit program for publishers and advertisers, as well the audits for the Authorized Buyers program.


Blessed are trees
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Blessed are trees
A new exhibition celebrates Canberra's woodland landscape, Sally Pryor writes.
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Jyll Bradley is momentarily stumped when I ask her to name her favourite treescape in Canberra.
Over the past three years, she has been back and forth between England and Canberra four times, and has spent, all up, almost six months here in the capital. Her preoccupation during her visits here has been, primarily, the trees - Canberra's tree layout, the people who planted them, the residents who love them, and the atmosphere they create. It's all part of a major art project commissioned as part of the city's Centenary celebrations; three years in the making, the multi-disciplinary display opens at the National Library this week.
British Artist Jyll Bradley was commissioned by the Centenary to create an installation City of Trees at the National Library, Canberra.
British Artist Jyll Bradley was commissioned by the Centenary to create an installation City of Trees at the National Library, Canberra.Credit:Melissa Adams
Its content has been kept under wraps until now, but its premise is simple: every tree has a human story to tell, and this is particularly the case in Canberra. The city grew up out of one million trees planted in what was once compared to a sheep paddock, and which now, 100 years later, is more like a forest with a city emerging through it.
And whether they know it or not, every resident of Canberra has a favourite treescape, even if they associate it more with the quality of the light that shines through the naked boughs of an inner-northern suburb in winter, the shade cast by an apple tree in the garden, or a strand of pines glimpsed on the parkway between Tuggeranong and Civic.
Think hard, and you'll work out which it is. After a moment or two, Bradley, who, after all, has made it her business to learn as much as she can about Canberra's trees, realises that she, too, has a favourite.
''I think mine are the York oaks just up by the Parliament,'' she says, referring to York Park oak plantation in Barton.
''I think that's a really profound space, where you see those lines of oaks and then when you look into it and research it, you talk to people and see how interesting it is in terms of the British trying to put the roots of democracy into Australia through the roots of the oak.''
Bradley - a soft-spoken Englishwoman - is not just betraying her allegiances; the York oaks do have a good story attached. The first in the park was planted, symbolically, by the then Duke of York in 1927, to mark the opening of Old Parliament House. More oaks were added during the Great Depression to create jobs for the many unemployed.
The historic plantation was neglected over the years and fell into disrepair; in 2004, Parliament House architect Romaldo Giurgola was invited to design a new landscape for them, which opened in 2011.
''And then the whole change of how life moves on and politics moves on, and people are still fighting. The staunch republicans I met were fighting for those oaks, even though they represent these indelible ties to the UK,'' she says.
''And also the fact that they're English oaks but with an Australian accent - they don't look like English oaks, they don't behave like English oaks at all.''
And she should know, of course. The London-based artist is the daughter of a forester and has long had an affinity with trees. When she met Robyn Archer several years ago in Britain, the creative director of the Centenary invited her to visit Canberra and respond to what she saw. Having never visited Australia before, and knowing next to nothing about Canberra, the first thing she noticed as she flew into the city was the landscape created by the trees.
Now, three years down the track, City of Trees, her multifaceted installation, is set to open. Giurgola is featured in there, reading poetry at the inauguration of the revitalised oaks, along with numerous other Canberra voices to add to the trees' presence.
She says one of the most satisfying aspects of the project has been the different people she has met along the way.
''This is my fourth trip, and in total I've probably spent about five or six months in Canberra. I know the trees, and more importantly, I know why the trees are here,'' she says.
''I think what's great about the whole project is that I've been able to meet people from so many different walks of life, for whom trees mean very different things. Aldo Giurgola will talk about how architecture makes form and trees make space, so he's really interested in how trees create space within a city. Then you'll talk to someone like a forester and they'll be talking about whether it's deciduous or whether it's evergreen and who planted it and why and the history of it. And then other people will talk about the spiritual side of it, so I've tried to capture all that, as well as the founding part of it.''
Showing the installation in the National Library is also a play on the theme.
''It's such amazing honour to show in a national library of a country, it's probably the highest honour for me, especially because I'm also a writer,'' she says.
''What I've really thought about as well is the space of the book, because books are made from many leaves which in turn is made from wood, from paper, and so you'll find in the exhibition lots of references to printing, to paper, to books. In a way you could say that you could read the exhibition … it's like entering the imaginative space of a book.''
All in all, visitors can expect ''a very kind of immersive and contemplative exhibition''.
''It's not your usual exhibition where there's stuff on display and it's sort of in a space. What I've tried to do is construct and create a space that will show the work and create a particular kind of atmosphere of contemplation, emotion, intrigue.''
It's the first time she's created an entire body of work clustered around a central theme. But the theme itself is multifaceted.
''It's not about trees - it's to do with the space that trees create,'' she says.
''I think trees create different spaces in life. They create a practical space in terms of architecture and how we move around the city. They also create an emotional space, they create a spiritual space … and imaginative spaces as well, and in that regard I'm trying to echo that sentiment, if you like, within the exhibition.''
The show runs until October, and Bradley hopes visitors will spend more than a few minutes in the space.
''I say take time, book a couple of hours out of your busy life, come and spend time in the space, and it will be very, very rewarding.''
City of Trees is at the National Library until October 7.
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Should you've been in stone rising company or recently begun yourself, you'll want noticed climbers with chalk whilst increasing. When it's at a gymnasium or some crag (natural scaling shores), climbers ordinarily have a twist or pouch dangling off their own waist. You'll usually see they dip his hands or catch a pinch and then rub hands together.
Intent Behind Growing Chalk
Why rock climbers use chalk? It isn't for style and aesthetics if that is what you are wondering. There exists a really practical reason it's used. The body creates produces moisture which looks on the skin, particularly the palms. Sweet oil, and also different kinds of fluids may naturally shape and stick to the epidermis.
For any type of job, having perspiration in both own hands can be quite a hindrance. While increasing, having moisture onto your own hands and palms can be especially dangerous and insecure. Sweat and moisture may leave the fingers slippery. When scaling, this usually means that you run the danger of losing your traction and also injuring yourself whether you should be in a heightened posture.
The chalk can be used to consume the droplets and moisture which appear in your own hands. This keeps it's dry. The chalk additionally provides you the grip and traction you want to hold from both hands if needed.
What's scaling chalk manufactured from?
Climbing chalk can be a natural compound salt which is a solid chemical. The emblem signifies there is really just alone magnesium atom, one carbon atom, as well as also three oxygen molecules at the most molecule of MgCO3. As a compound, it's pretty safe as it will not contain any hazardous elements.
Magnesium Carbonate isn't used just in scaling. It's employed as a part of various items like fire proofing fabric, flooring, makeup and toothpaste, and dusting powder, etc.. When useful for traction and grip in sports, then it's called scaling chalk or health chalk.
Sorts of Growing Chalk
Growing chalk could arrive in several varieties based upon its planned usage. In the majority of forms, it remains powerful thus simple to manage in your own palms and hands. Magnesium carbonate is normally accessible to several common types.
Magnesium Carbonate in freeform or as powdered chalk is perhaps probably one of the very typical sights in sports. When you've ever observed the Olympic Games, you've seen it despite the fact that you did not know very well what it had been in those days. Now you need to have observed a gymnast step upward to and including basin and employ a white powder liberally on his hands prior to doing. That really is powdered chalk.
One of those troubles with powdered chalk is it can become quite cluttered. Whenever a climber or athlete scooped excess powder off out of his own palms, it increases the present cloud of dust from the area. It's more bothersome when people athletes or nearby breathe within this particular specific powder. Additionally, powdered chalk is quite nice. This implies that it may very quickly make its way outside of bags and spill-over your laundry or alternative gear.
Chalk balls have been essentially loose powder wrapped into a cloth ball that is handy. The fabric tote is constructed from fabric which lets the powder float through in tiny portions. To make utilize of it, then you merely need to hit your ball and catch it. The porous nature of the fabric blows off the wax to both hands. The fabric chunk is a favorite pick for climbers as it's really a handy option whilst increasing. You may certainly carry it into a scatter bag or pouch and also own it even on the steepest shore. Chalk balls are readily the perfect selection for indoor climbing and health spas.
1 drawback of chalk balls would be you can't entirely dip both hands into the chalk. Covering the hands with chalk can be required in outdoor growing scenarios. In such scenarios, chalk balls are not as effective as loose chalk. Some paths are understood to carry chalk balls in addition to loose chalk at a pouch. This permits them to really truly own the very best of these options.
Climbing chalk additionally comes from the shape of rectangular or squarish blocks. The goods are typically magnesium carbonate in a virtually pure type. This implies they don't include any extra ingredients to improve their shape or shape. These cubes can be purchased from stores that sell it packs of eight or six. But, you are going to realize that many shops will willingly market them in individual bits too, for individual usage.
The principal benefit of the sort of climbing Challenge is the fact it provides you with more reachable storage and also potentially more shelflife. You are able to break some of the cubes and utilize it loose powder when keeping the remaining portion of the cube for later usage. In this manner, that you never disintegrate the whole cube to cluttered powder and you also have components made for after usage.
Liquid chalk could very well be the most suitable option among the rest of the kinds of chalk. As its name implies this chalk is sold in liquid form and can be dispersed through tubes or tiny bottles. Since you administer it upon your own palms, the alcohol-based from the chalk lets it wash out and keeps the chalk at your palms. Once the process dries, then the chalk continues much more than other kinds of chalk. Pros recommend using liquid chalk directly prior to beginning a rise such that it melts as much while you begin your scaling session.
Liquid chalk isn't quite as cluttered as loose cut, and that is the reason it is the preferred mode for indoor fitness centers and climbing gyms. Liquid chalk leaves less residue on scaling structures and stones, ergo they have been simpler to keep up. On the flip side, liquid chalk might be relatively higher priced in contrast to other conventional forms.
These various forms of scaling chalk each have their own benefits and drawbacks. The crucial issue to understand and remember is you ought to utilize them based on your own situation along with familiarity. Upon getting hold of just the way each type works, you will be in a position to decide on the ideal scaling chalk for your own circumstance.
Climbers use chalk because to put it simply it can help them stay glued into the wall socket. There are a lot of unique types of chalk, and picking the best one necessitates thinking about your personal circumstance. What can you wish to carry, what type of environment are you really climbing in, and also which will be the principles of this area are typical questions you have to think about.


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JELTA closes its 10th English conference with a burst of new spirit
The Johor English Language Teaching Association (JELTA) concluded their 10th English Conference at New York Hotel, Johor Bahru on the 29th July 2019, on a high note with special guest renowned author and activist, Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir and Setiawangsa MP Nik Nazmi.
Also present at the closing ceremony were the Deputy Head of Academic Sector Johor State Education Department, Shahilon Abd Halim, JELTA President, Vincent D'Silva, teachers, students and other guests.
Parallel to the conference's theme of "Multiple Perspectives in the Teaching and Learning of English as a Second Language", Marina in her special address as an author, columnist and social activist, told her story on how going back to learning creative writing formally helped her discover the need to be critical on what we have consumed daily. She also encouraged teachers to pass on the importance to read and write, taking examples of how the world gets to know popular countries like China and India because of the books that were written by their local authors.
Nik Nazmi brought up the importance of learning and teaching the English language to equip teachers, tutors, and anyone who are in charge to teach or lead in the language department and most importantly for the next generation. He cited that the English language has remained the main medium of communication including educational materials like journals, periodicals, text books and many more. Taking example from neighbouring country, Singapore, he talked about the importance to strengthen the core of national school's education and becoming the first choice for parents to enroll their children into.
One plenary and 2 workshop were held on the final day of the conference and it officially closed after a session of group photography and handing out the token of appreciation to the special invited guests.


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President Pranab Mukherjee has given assent to Payment of Wages (Amendment) Ordinance, 2016, to enable industries to pay wages by cheque or credit into the bank accounts of workers.
The ordinance amends the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 to encourage cashless transactions. With this assent the ordinance becomes law as per article 123 of the Constitution.
Key Provisions of Ordinance
- Allows industries to pay wages to workers earning up to Rs. 18,000 per month, without taking their explicit consent as required under present Act.
- Empowers the Union and State governments to specify industries or establishments where wage payments can be made mandatory through banks.
- However, it is not mandatory for employers to make wage payments through the banking system and they can still pay in cash.
The Union Government had decided to take the ordinance route because after demonetisation of the Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 banknotes in November 2016 had led to a cash crunch, and employers were finding it tough to pay workers in cash. The Payment of Wages (Amendment) Bill, 2016, introduced in Parliament was also not able get passed during winter session of the Parliament.
Article 123 of Constitution: It gives legislative power to President. He can issue ordinances when Parliament is not in session (i.e. recess) if there is urgent need to have a law on some urgent public matter. The promulgated ordinance has similar effect to an act of parliament. However, every ordinance must be laid and approved by both houses of the parliament within 6 weeks from the reassembling. If not placed and approved by both houses of the parliament after reassembling it lapses or becomes invalid.


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Where there's a Huddle there's a Team
How do you know if the volunteer teams at your church are really working? I don't mean are they getting stuff done and meeting objectives, I mean are they developing people. After all the point of building volunteer teams at your church isn't just to use people to accomplish objectives but rather to create opportunities and relationships to develop people.
Team huddles are one of the most overlooked opportunities by many church staff, and yet they are one of the easiest tactics to implement and they bear a disproportionate amount of fruit.
Simply put where there's a team there's a huddle. No huddle…no team. So go looking for huddles at your church. If you don't see any you may be using people instead of developing them.
Team huddles are evidence of…
When you see a team huddle that means someone is leading. Someone is getting the team together and calling the plays.
When you see a team huddle you can rest assured that someone is doing some planning. They're sharing that plan with the team and helping everyone know how they're going to accomplish what they're going to accomplish that day.
When you see a team huddle you can know that people are working together in a coordinated fashion. Yes someone has planed the plays and called the plays but it takes everyone blocking the right scheme, picking up their individual assignments, running the right routes, and putting the ball where it needs to go at the right time for the team to win. That's called coordination.
You know people are being developed when you see a team huddle. Tasks are being delegated and people are being empowerment to make decisions. Responsibility is being shared and young growing leaders are learning to build trust.
You can know that people are being encouraged when you see team huddles. People are celebrating what was accomplished on the last play and individuals on the team are being called out and honored for doing a great job.
If your church isn't using team huddles try having each volunteer team start and end with a huddle using the tactics above. Try it for 30 days…you may be surprised by the results.
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Tearing Down Ministry Silos
One of the common challenges that I see in churches that are stuck is ministry silos. Another word for this is departmentalization. Multiple unique individual ministries operating under one roof. Most churches don't set out this way, but over time they naturally drift towards ministry silos and operating independently from one another. Instead of working with one another, ministries end up competing for volunteers, budget resources, facility space, announcement time, and so on.
The good news is it doesn't have to be this way. In fact here are 5 steps you can take to begin to get rid of silo thinking and behaviors at your church.
1. Share the Mission, Vision & Values
Clearly articulate one mission, vision and set of value statements for the church and then set the expectation that each ministry will live those out within their own context and audience. Allowing segment ministries to develop their own values, vision or mission statements fuels silo thinking.
2. Get rid of Sub-Ministry Brands
Call things what they are. Children's Ministry is Children's Ministry and Student Ministry is Student Ministry (and so on). When you allow segment ministries to develop their own sub-brands not only is it confusing to new people who attend the church to navigate but it encourages silo thinking (it's also more expensive).
3. Coordinated Calendaring Process
Instead of each ministry having their own separate ministry calendars, do the work of annually planning one coordinated ministry calendar for the year. This will force the team to work cooperatively, communicate with one another, understand what each other are doing, and get rid of competing events. You can even take 5 minutes in a meeting once a month to review the upcoming month together and make sure everyone is on the same page.
4. Budget Together
Instead of having each ministry build a budget in isolation and then turn that proposal into an individual or board to make decisions, come together as a team and present your proposals to one another. Then work together to come up with a holistic ministry budget approach for the next ministry year. You know you're getting somewhere when ministry leaders begin to sacrifice financially for one another when they see a proposed initiative or idea from a different segment ministry gets the church further, faster.
5. Replicate Best-Practices
Don't waste time and energy with every ministry department coming up with their own systems for how to do Guest Services, Volunteering, Mission trips, etc. Instead, identify your best practices and the unique approach your church takes to each of these things and then replicate them in each ministry.
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by Richard Davies, floodlist
July 2022 passed largely without any significant major flood events in Europe. However FloodList did record over 20 flood events across 14 European countries that could be described as minor floods. Such events receive little coverage outside of the immediate local area, so are classified as minor flood events. Material and human damages are usually minimal. However monitoring such flood events plays an important role in the development of flood forecasting and response. Reports of minor events will be used within EFAS during the next model cycle upgrade to evaluate the criteria used for issuing flash flood notifications.
Local media reported a 30 minute storm caused wind damage and minor flooding in Craiova, Dolj County, Romania on 02 July 2022. Emergency services received 70 calls for assistance. Media said 60 streets were flooded, along with buildings including 8 houses, a hospital and a museum. Around 25 cars were damaged.
Severe weather including heavy rain and some flooding was reported in Bistrița-Năsăud County on 01 July.
On 06 July media reported storms in the Oltenia Region, with some minor flooding reported in Drobeta-Turnu Severin and Târgu-Jiu.
Local media in Romania reported storms caused minor flooding in Cluj County, Romania, on 30 July 2022.
Local media in Austria reported storms in Lower Austria State on 01 July 2022, mostly affecting the districts of Krems, St. Pölten and Baden. Some minor flooding was reported. Most of the damage was a result of strong winds.
Heavy rain caused minor flooding in parts of Carinthia, Austria, on 15 July, 2022, including in Treffen which had seen severe floods in June 2022.
A period of heavy rain caused floods and landslides in parts of Tyrol, Austria on 22 July and again on 25 July 2022. One person was reported missing near Ruetz after flooding from the overflowing Ruetzbach stream on 22 July. Two people were injured after their car was swept away by a mudslide in Fulpmes.
Serbia and North Macedonia
Storms from 01 July 2022 caused minor flooding in Serbia and North Macedonia. Local media reported a 10 minute period of heavy rain caused flooding in the city of Niš, Serbia, while storms caused wind damage and minor flooding in the city of Zaječar and its surroundings.
Local media reported storms caused minor flooding in Kragujevac, Serbia, in late July 2022.
Heavy rain caused flooding and debris flows in the canton of Bern on 04 July 2022. A hotel was damaged in Schangnau municipality. A debris flow near Lake Brienz damaged a vehicles and blocked a road. Media also reported a train derailed between Brienz and Oberried after it struck a tree that had fallen onto the tracks during the storm. According to Meteo Swiss figures, 20 mm of rain fell in 1 hour in Thun between 15:00 and 16:00 on 04 July 2022. Heavy hail affected parts of the country including Geneva during this period.
Local media reported a powerful storm affected the city of Lviv in western Ukraine on 05 July 2022. Heavy rain flooded streets. Lightning, thunder and hail was also reported. Public transport was disrupted, in particular the electric tram system. Local media quoting the city government reported 20 homes damaged.
Heavy rain and hail caused minor flooding and damages in parts of Madrid, Spain, on 06 July 2022. Media reported 45 interventions by firefighters in 4 hours in Madrid.Heavy rain and hail also affected parts of the province of Teruel, Aragon Region. Media reported damaged roads and fruit crops in areas of Andorra, Calanda and Valjunquer. Andorra City Council activated an emergency protocol.
A storm, hail and heavy rain and hail flooded streets and houses in Samper de Calanda and Castelnou in Teruel Province, Aragon region, on 18 July 2022. Media reported the town of Híjar recorded 36 mm of rain in 1 hour.
Extremely high temperatures were followed by storms in parts of Galicia Region, Spain, on 14 July 2022. Local media reported over 4,000 lightning strikes. Heavy rain caused minor flooding in Monforte de Lemos municipality in the province of Lugo. Wind damage was also reported.
Heavy rain caused minor flooding in the province of Frosinone in the Lazio Region of Italy on 07 July 2022. Severe hail storms affected other parts of northern Italy at this time, including Veneto and Lombardy.
Media reported severe weather in Colle di Val d'Elsa comune in the province of Siena, Tuscany Region, Italy, on 17 July 2022. A bridge was flooded and wind downed trees which damaged a building.
Local media in Finland reported thunderstorms, strong winds and heavy rain caused damages in parts of North and South Karelia Regions on 12 July 2022. Flooding was minor.
Swedish Transport Administration reported flooding on the E4 road between Sörböle and Skellefteå in Västerbotten County, northern Sweden on 14 July 2022.
Heavy rain with hail flooded streets in the city of Gomel, Belarus, on 17 July 2022. Local media reported water level was chest deep in some areas. Rescue operation were carried out by the Ministry of Emergency Situations, including passengers trapped on public transport.
Thunderstorms caused damage in several places in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, late on 20 July 2022. Strong winds downed trees and lightning strikes caused fires. One person died in a road accident that was partly blamed on the poor road conditions. Some basements were flooded in Sigmaringen.
Six people were rescued during heavy flooding in the Londonderry and Strabane areas of the Northern Ireland 23 to 24 July 2022. One person was rescued from a vehicle in water, while five people trapped in flooded properties were also rescued. A number of roads were flooded and impassable. Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said it received a total of 106 emergency calls related to flooding 23 to early 24 July. As a result of the calls, fire crews responded to 49 incidents. Later the BBC said more than 300 homes in the north west have reported flood damage to Derry City and Strabane District Council and that 70 mm of rain fell in 5 hours.
Heavy rain caused minor flooding in areas around Kutno in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland on 23 July 2022. Two roads were damaged. Strong winds also caused damages. On the same day media reported violent storms in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, mostly affecting Dzierżoniów and Strzelin. Some flooding was reported. Strong winds caused severe damage. One person died when a tree fell in the village of Biały Kościół.


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An institutional investor is an entity that trades securities in such large volumes that it qualifies for transactional discounts. This entity typically trades on behalf of its members. An institutional investor may have an in-house research staff, and may also rely on the advice of outside specialists in making investment decisions. It is more likely to engage in sophisticated trading strategies than retail investors. Examples of institutional investors are:
Labor union funds
Life insurance companies
Because of the high trading volumes initiated by these entities, their transactions comprise a large part of the total traffic flowing through the various stock exchanges. Given their high trading volumes, institutional investors typically avoid purchasing the securities of smaller companies, in order to avoid significant ownership percentages.


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Rent guarantee insurance is a valuable risk-management product that shields landlords from income loss if a tenant defaults on rent payments. This article explores the definition, benefits, limitations, and key considerations of rent guarantee insurance.
Rent guarantee insurance: protecting landlords from rent defaults
Rent guarantee insurance is a crucial safeguard for landlords, offering financial protection in case tenants fail to make rent payments as agreed. In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the definition, benefits, limitations, and key considerations of rent guarantee insurance.
Understanding rent guarantee insurance
For landlords, the nightmare scenario involves tenants who cannot or refuse to pay rent. While various insurance options exist for property owners, not all of them cover the loss of rental income due to tenant defaults. Enter rent guarantee insurance, a relatively new import from the United Kingdom that is now available in the United States.
This insurance product is tailor-made to protect a landlord's income if their tenant fails to make rent payments. Much like private mortgage insurance (PMI), which shields lenders from borrower defaults, rent guarantee insurance shields landlords.
If a tenant stops paying rent, the insurance carrier, acting as a guarantor, steps in to cover the rent for a specified period mentioned in the contract. It's important to note that tenants who cease paying remain liable for the owed rent and any associated legal fees. The insurance provider can initiate legal proceedings against delinquent tenants, including eviction and reporting to credit agencies.
When rent guarantee insurance is crucial
Some landlords may opt not to invest in rent guarantee insurance, believing that thorough tenant screening and credit checks ensure financial capability. However, circumstances can change suddenly. For instance, an economic recession could lead to a tenant losing their job and income, making them unable to pay rent.
Alternatively, personal reasons such as divorce or a job opportunity in another state could prompt a tenant to relocate immediately, breaching the tenancy agreement. For landlords who rely on rental income to cover expenses, a tenant's failure to pay can have serious financial implications.
Rent guarantee insurance vs. guaranteed rent schemes
It's essential to distinguish between rent guarantee insurance and guaranteed rent schemes. Rent guarantee insurance focuses on protecting the landlord's income in case of tenant defaults and typically requires landlords to pay the premiums.
On the other hand, guaranteed rent schemes involve landlords handing over the management of their property to a company or real estate agent in exchange for a pre-agreed payment. In such schemes, landlords receive their payment, even if the property remains vacant or the tenant does not pay rent. These schemes can provide a consistent income stream and peace of mind, but they are different from traditional rent guarantee insurance.
The cost of rent guarantee insurance
While rent guarantee insurance offers invaluable protection, it's essential to consider the associated costs. Typically, landlords pay the insurance premiums, which can range from 5% to 7% of the annual rent payments. However, some landlords may choose to pass this cost onto tenants, either by including it in the rent or specifying it in the lease agreement.
It's worth noting that insurance payments often kick in after one month of non-payment. While it's possible to purchase policies without any excess, these policies usually come with higher premiums. Some argue that a tenant's security deposit should be sufficient to cover this initial month of lost income.
Key considerations for rent guarantee insurance
Before investing in rent guarantee insurance, both landlords and tenants should consider several factors:
- The tenant's financial stability and creditworthiness are crucial factors that insurers assess when underwriting the policy.
- Tenants should have a steady job and sufficient income to comfortably cover the rent.
- If tenants cannot meet these criteria, insurers may require a guarantor with the financial means to cover any payment shortfalls.
- Insurance coverage typically starts after one month of non-payment, and policyholders should be aware of any excess payments.
Pros and cons of rent guarantee insurance
Here is a list of the benefits and drawbacks to consider.
- Protection against loss of rental income
- Financial security for landlords
- Peace of mind in uncertain times
- Costly premiums
- May not cover all tenant scenarios
- Waiting period before coverage kicks in
Real-life examples of rent guarantee insurance
Real-life scenarios can illustrate the practical benefits of rent guarantee insurance. Let's explore two examples:
Example 1: The sudden job loss
Imagine you're a landlord with a responsible tenant who has consistently paid rent on time for the past two years. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, your tenant loses their job. As a result, they struggle to make ends meet and fall behind on rent payments.
With rent guarantee insurance in place, you have a safety net. After the specified waiting period, the insurance kicks in, covering the monthly rent until your tenant gets back on their feet or the lease is terminated through legal procedures. This financial protection ensures you can continue meeting your mortgage payments and property maintenance costs without relying on your tenant's income.
Example 2: The tenant's sudden relocation
Consider another scenario where your tenant receives a job offer in a different city and needs to relocate immediately. They inform you of their decision and move out before the lease term ends. While they are responsible for rent until the end of the lease, you face a vacant property and the potential loss of rental income.
With rent guarantee insurance, you're covered. The insurance kicks in after the waiting period, reimbursing you for the rent lost due to your tenant's abrupt departure. This financial support ensures that you don't suffer significant income disruption while seeking a new tenant
to occupy the property.
Additional considerations for landlords and tenants
When exploring rent guarantee insurance, both landlords and tenants should take into account various aspects that can affect their rental experience:
Rental property type
The type of property you're renting can impact your decision regarding rent guarantee insurance. While it's valuable for landlords of single-family homes and multi-unit buildings, it may be less critical for commercial property owners or landlords of high-demand rental units.
Policy customization options
Insurance providers often offer customization options for rent guarantee policies. Landlords and tenants should explore these options, such as coverage limits, waiting periods, and policy terms. Customizing the policy to align with your specific needs and preferences can be beneficial.
Rent guarantee insurance is a valuable tool that provides financial security to landlords facing the uncertainty of tenant defaults. It offers peace of mind and protection against income loss, especially in challenging economic times. While it comes with costs and certain requirements, it can be a worthwhile investment for both landlords and tenants seeking a secure and stable rental arrangement.
Remember, understanding the terms and conditions of rent guarantee insurance is essential for making an informed decision. Whether you're a landlord looking to protect your rental income or a tenant seeking to understand your financial responsibilities, rent guarantee insurance is a topic worth exploring.
Frequently asked questions
What is rent guarantee insurance?
Rent guarantee insurance is a risk-management product that protects landlords from income loss if a tenant defaults on rent payments. It provides financial security by covering the rental income for a specified period when the tenant fails to pay.
Who typically pays for rent guarantee insurance?
Landlords typically pay for rent guarantee insurance. However, in some cases, landlords may pass the cost onto tenants by including it in the rent or specifying it in the lease agreement.
How does rent guarantee insurance work?
When a tenant stops paying rent, the insurance carrier, acting as a guarantor, steps in to cover the rent for the specified period mentioned in the contract. Tenants who cease paying remain liable for the owed rent and any associated legal fees.
What are the limitations of rent guarantee insurance?
Rent guarantee insurance may have limitations, including a waiting period before coverage kicks in (typically one month of non-payment), the requirement for tenants to have a steady job and sufficient income, and the associated cost, which can range from 5% to 7% of annual rent payments.
How does rent guarantee insurance differ from guaranteed rent schemes?
Rent guarantee insurance focuses on protecting the landlord's income in case of tenant defaults and typically requires landlords to pay the premiums. In contrast, guaranteed rent schemes involve landlords handing over property management to a company or real estate agent for a pre-agreed payment, ensuring they receive rent even if the property is vacant or the tenant doesn't pay.
Is rent guarantee insurance a worthwhile investment?
Whether rent guarantee insurance is a worthwhile investment depends on individual circumstances. Landlords who rely on rental income and want financial security may find it valuable. Tenants should consider their financial responsibilities and whether the landlord requires them to pay for the insurance.
Can tenants with a history of defaulting on payments get rent guarantee insurance?
Insurers typically do not provide rent guarantee insurance to tenants with a history of defaulting on payments. To qualify, tenants usually need a stable job and sufficient income. In some cases, insurers may require a guarantor with financial means to cover any payment shortfalls.
Where can I get more information about rent guarantee insurance?
For more information about rent guarantee insurance, you can contact insurance providers, consult trusted real estate professionals, or refer to reputable online resources. It's essential to understand the terms and conditions of the specific policy you're considering.
These frequently asked questions help address potential content gaps in the article by providing additional clarity on key aspects of rent guarantee insurance.
- Rent guarantee insurance protects landlords from income loss due to tenant defaults.
- Landlords typically pay the premiums, but some pass the cost onto tenants.
- Insurers consider tenant financial stability and creditworthiness when underwriting policies.
- Coverage usually starts after one month of non-payment.


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This paper presents a flexible irregular model for heterogeneous cloud storage systems and investigates how the cost of repairing failed nodes can be minimized. The fractional repetition code, originally designed for minimizing repair bandwidth for homogeneous storage systems, is generalized to the irregular fractional repetition code, which is adaptable to heterogeneous environments. The code structure and the associated storage allocation can be obtained by solving an integer linear programming problem. For moderate sized networks, a heuristic algorithm is proposed and shown to be near-optimal by computer simulations.


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Getting Started (Object2VR)
Download a project file to work with (created with Object2VR version 2.0.2.): project files (packed ZIP)
A single-row object VR movie simply consists of one row images. The movie can only rotate around one axis. A multi-row project will let the user view the object from multiple angles or axes. A project can also have multiple view states. View states are generally ways to show the object not only from different angles, but also different perspectives. For example, an object can be shown with different textures.
The Basic Workflow
- Import the image sequence using the Light Table.
◊ TIP: If you have a more complicated project, then try importing using Select Input, instead.
- Adjust the Viewing Parameters and spin control.
- Add some metadata that can be used for a information window.
- Make the object even more interactive using hotspots.
- Add a controller to the object using the Skin Editor.
- Output the project in HTML5, Flash and/or QuickTime.
- Add the output to your website.
- Use Multiresolution to let the user zoom in to the object to see detail.
- Build multiple view states.
- Use automation to capture the images.
- Use Object2VR to process the images and then convert them to a new project.


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Scalable compilation helps reduce compilation time for models that consist of a pattern of repeated components, such as transmission lines or battery packs, by compiling a repeated component once and then reusing these compilation artifacts for other instances of the same component. Scalable compilation improves compilation performance, it does not reduce the simulation time of the model.
- About Scalable Compilation
General workflow and types of models that can benefit from scalable compilation.
- Preparing Your Model for Scalable Compilation
This example shows how to evaluate a model and prepare it for scalable compilation.
- Scalable Compilation Limitations
Limitations for using scalable compilation, such as unsupported patterns, workflows, or simulation modes.
- Determining Optimal Complexity Level for Reusable Components
Guidelines and considerations for determining the optimal model configuration for scalable compilation.
- Reuse Compilation Artifacts of Individual Simscape Blocks
If your model contains multiple instances of the same Simscape™ block, you can use the
simscape.scalable.setBlockConfigfunction to make all or some of these instances reusable.
- Reuse Compilation Artifacts of Textual Components
Scalable compilation also lets you reuse compilation artifacts of repeated textual components.


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The separation of saffron stigmas from fresh flowers is the most important and the most difficult stage of saffron harvesting. Saffron production costs are high because this harvesting stage is done by hand and is very time-consuming. One way of preserving the saffron flower is to dry it. The separating of the stigma from dried saffron flowers can then be done at an appropriate time. This study investigated the separation of the stigmas from dried flowers. The compaction and impaction forces of the loading mechanisms were evaluated. The dried flowers were loaded using pressure rollers and finger drums to test compaction and impaction forces, respectively. The effect of feed rate (2.6, 6, 8.7 g/s), roller drum speed (80, 200, 300 RPM), finger drum speed (500, 700, 900 RPM) and stage of flower development (buds, partially-opened, fully-opened) were investigated on the percentage (wt) of stigmas separated and the percentage (wt) of broken stigmas. The results showed that the percentage of separated stigma in the fully-opened and partially-opened flowers was higher than in flower buds. The percentage of broken stigmas in the buds was 30% lower than for fully-opened flowers. The percentage of broken stigmas increased as the roller speed increased. The results suggested that the performance of finger drums was not satisfactory and that the percentage of separated stigmas was 50%. A pressure roller speed of 200 rpm and a feed rate of 6 g/s were the most favorable conditions for separation of stigmas from partially-opened flowers (99.48%).