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The dictionary defines "pervert" as
1 a: to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt b: to cause to turn aside or away from what is generally done or accepted : misdirect
2 a: to divert to a wrong end or purpose : misuse b: to twist the meaning or sense of : misinterpret
Likewise, "perverse" is defined:
1 a: turned away from what is right or good : corrupt b: improper, incorrect c: contrary to the evidence or the direction of the judge on a point of law
2 a: obstinate in opposing what is right, reasonable, or accepted : wrongheaded b: arising from or indicative of stubbornness or obstinacy
3: marked by peevishness or petulance : cranky
4: marked by perversion : perverted
So when I read today at LifeSiteNews that Brazilian President Luiz Lula said that opposition to homosexuality was "perverse," in addition to recalling sayings like "the pot calling the kettle…", a passage from the Bible came to mind.
Here's what the LifeSiteNews article said:
After calling for a universal embrace of the homosexual movement, the president affirmed that "homophobia" is perhaps "the most perverse disease impregnated in the human head."
Homosexuality fits the definition of "pervert" and "perverse" because it perverts (to divert to a wrong end or purpose; misuse; turns aside from what is good and morally right) God's design–and the apparent natural function–for human sexuality and is perverse in that the act and those who promote it are being "obstinate in opposing what is right, reasonable, or accepted" and are often "marked by peevishness or petulance."
That Bible verse that came to mind? Isaiah 5:20, which says
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light
I guess those words can also simply describe the kind of world we've come to live in.
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How to Use the Red Letter Tribe
Introduction: How to Use the Red Letter Tribe
About: my name is Adam!
So, you want to become a regular poster on State Radio's message board, do you?
It's not as easy as you may think. if you make a mistake, you could be shot down, and banished from the boards. but don't be intimidated. Most people on the tribe are kind, lovely State Radio fans, such as yourself.
Just follow these steps, and maybe one day you will be as cool as Shannon or Red.
Step 1: Creating a Username
When you come up with a username, there are a couple of things you might want to consider
1. Something creative
2. Something that is nice and easy to pronounce
3. Or just ignore the previous two, and tell everyone your name.
Step 2: Posting - Replying to a Topic
To reply to a topic, simply press the "Post Reply" button.
Now that you have done that, it is time to post your reply.
Just remember these three simple rules:
1. Keep it intelligent (this means good grammar and spelling)
2. ALWAYS stay on topic
3. Never double post (see step 4)
Step 3: Posting - Starting a New Topic
When you are ready to start a topic, choose wisely, cause' them RLT folk don't take kindly to "dumb" threads.
Here are some questions to ask yourself before posting:
1. Am I posting in the right thread? (Is it SR related, Non-SR related, about a show, or does it belong in the activism forum?)
2. Is it necessary? (does it serve any purpose whatsoever?)
3. Has this already been posted? use the search feature.
Step 4: Editing a Post
So you messed up on a post? Edit it!
Also, as mentioned in step 2, DO NOT double post! Just Edit your last one.
Here is how.
Use the Edit Button.
Step 5: Quoting
There are two ways to quote: a quote from another RLT'er, or a quote from another person/source.
To quote an RLT'er hit the "cloud button" above their post.
To quote someone else, click the quote button on the "Post Reply" page and type or copy the quote.
Step 6: Sending a Private Message
If you would like to privately contact another member you can send them a private message.
to do that click on the private message icon above one of their posts.
Step 7: Entering a URL
Putting a URL in your post can be tricky, but here's how.
1. click on "URL"
2 Enter the page you are linking to into the box.
3. Enter the URL text
Step 8: Linking to a Picture
one of the most confusing things for people is linking to a picture, here is the patented 4 step process:
1. Find the picture
2. Right/Control click, and select "view image"
3. Copy URL
4. Create a link to the page from 2 (see step 7)
Step 9: HOORAY!
Now You are Ready to be an RLT pro!
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This Phase I research is intended to evaluate the feasibility of manufacturing low-cost, acid-resistant sanitary sewer pipe from sulfur concrete. Sulfur is an abundant mineral recovered from coking, natural gas processing, and petroleum refining. Secondary recovery of sulfur, resulting from environmental regulation, produces more material than is needed by U.S. industry. The U.S. Bureau of Mines developed a process by which elemental sulfur can be used as a thermal cement with aggregate fillers to make concrete. Sulfur concrete appears to be a good solution to solve the problem of deteriorating sewerage structures made from Portland cement. Portland cement is alkaline and has been found to perform poorly in the acid environment in most sanitary sewer systems. Alternative materials that can solve the problem of premature failure of concrete pipe are expensive. The purpose of this Phase I project is to develop a low-cost alternative to traditional concrete pipe.
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In the preliminary investigation a spring was put under load and the results were as follows:
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Grapho originates from a work by Inna Kochkina that researches writing methods through the relation of the body and the inking roll. The term 'Grapho' means to write, with reference to the form of the letters; to form letters on material. Kochkina challenged her handwriting by making large-scale letters with the inking roll. The process developed into questioning possible and comfortable movements of her hand and her body. Connecting strokes with one another, was the main focus of her investigation. The curves in the letters are the result of a continuous movement. Once Inna Kochkina decided to turn letters into the digital font new questions appeared. How to translate the beauty of analog forms and textures into a digital font? Leaving the textures to their analog origin she decided to focus on the monotone's complexity that allows forming letters into irregular connections and line continuance. This can be typeset through the font's OpenType features. Grapho is intended to be used for both digital and print media, allowing users to explore various possibilities. In addition to the typeface, Grapho also includes a variety of alternate characters, and ligatures—as well as analog letters that can be provided upon request.
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1. Obtain your unlocking code through doctorSIM here by simply selecting the BlackBerry model you want to unlock.
2. Turn on your BlackBerry phone with no SIM card inserted.
3. Click the Options icon - Select Advanced Options - Select SIM Card
4. To activate a hidden menu, type the letters MEPD (they will not appear on screen as you type them).
The following will appear:
Network Subset (Disabled)
Service provider (Disabled)
5. Type MEP2 (all together with no spaces).
Type the letters MEP, then hold down the Alt key and press 2.
6. When told to Write MEP Network Code (10 attempts)?, insert the unlocking code provided by doctorSIM.

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Today we will decorate phone case for smartphone with vegetative ornament. For this you don't need to be an artist and stock up on expensive paints, it is enough to remember how to make a herbarium. This knowledge will come in handy in the production of exclusive case.
Before you decorate a case for your smartphone with their hands prepare:
- the case of transparent plastic;
- flowers, twigs or leaves;
- epoxy resin;
- wax paper;
- sticks for ice cream;
- heavy book;
- the spray varnish.
Step 1. Prepare your favourite plants. First, they need to dry thoroughly. If the leaves or the flowers will not dry, epoxy can react with the fluid and change the color of the plants. To properly dried, flatten the leaf or flower, put them between sheets of plain paper for the printer and send it all in a book. In this form, allow the plants to dry. Depending on your chosen flower, this process will take from one to three weeks.
Step 2. The dried petals need to varnish. The varnish seals the pores of the plants and stores it in the proper form. Put the item dried on wax paper and cover it with varnish spray. Once one side is dry, apply the material on the other side.
Step 3. You can use plant in the natural form or paint it to make it more colorful. In this master class leaves were fixed stationery clip and painted in a nice mint shade of regular paint in aerosol form.
Step 4. Put your plants in an arrangement on the case for smartphon. It ought to be done, as the work with epoxy resin requires a clear coherence and speed of movements. That is, you have to imagine where and what element of the composition will be placed.
Step 5. In a separate bowl, mix epoxy resin and special hardener. Mix thoroughly for 60 seconds. Stir stick for an ice cream. Can divide the liquid into two parts and add coloring pigment, if you want a colored case.
Step 6. Gently but quickly brush apply the first coat of resin with or without pigment.
Step 7. Until the resin is dry, using tweezers, place the plants in an arrangement.
Step 8. Once the plants will slightly seize, cover the case with the second layer of resin. This time take fully transparent epoxy.
Let the case to dry thoroughly. Your case with floral ornaments ready!
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text: Closed-loop decoder adaptation (CLDA) is an emerging paradigm for achieving rapid performance improvements in online brain-machine interface (BMI) operation. Designing an effective CLDA algorithm requires making multiple important decisions, including choosing the timescale of adaptation, selecting which decoder parameters to adapt, crafting the corresponding update rules, and designing CLDA parameters. These design choices, combined with the specific settings of CLDA parameters, will directly affect the algorithm's ability to make decoder parameters converge to values that optimize performance. In this article, we present a general framework for the design and analysis of CLDA algorithms and support our results with experimental data of two monkeys performing a BMI task. First, we analyze and compare existing CLDA algorithms to highlight the importance of four critical design elements: the adaptation timescale, selective parameter adaptation, smooth decoder updates, and intuitive CLDA parameters. Second, we introduce mathematical convergence analysis using measures such as mean-squared error and KL divergence as a useful paradigm for evaluating the convergence properties of a prototype CLDA algorithm before experimental testing. By applying these measures to an existing CLDA algorithm, we demonstrate that our convergence analysis is an effective analytical tool that can ultimately inform and improve the design of CLDA algorithms.


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New research from smart building technology firm, Infogrid, has found over half of hybrid employees in the UK are worried about how healthy their work environments are, with 53 per cent saying they're concerned poor air quality and ventilation will impact their general health, rising to 70 per cent amongst London-based hybrid workers.
The survey of 2,000 UK hybrid workers by OnePoll, on behalf of Infogrid, finds that hybrid workers are facing a Catch-22 moment as we enter the colder months; balancing worries over the cost of working from home with concerns about their own wellbeing in the office. To reduce personal energy use and bills at home, nearly a quarter (23 per cent) plan to increase the frequency they go into work this winter to save money as they combat the cost of living crisis. But, at the same time, they have concerns about the health and safety of these environments.
As winter approaches, one in five (21 per cent) hybrid workers are fearful about catching Covid and other bugs due to poor air quality in their workplace, with this figure rising to 24 per cent of those aged 18-34.
The research suggests that many employees feel their concerns are not being heard by employers who may be failing to realise the importance of air quality. Over a third (35 per cent) of the hybrid workforce believe that while their company is taking steps to improve air quality, they aren't doing enough – rising again amongst the younger generation to 48 per cent.
In fact, 17 per cent of hybrid employees don't think employers have carefully considered air quality when designing the workplace – suggesting that safe and healthy ventilation is not being taken seriously enough. One in four (25 per cent) believe clean air in the workplace should be implemented as a company policy.
The data comes from Infogrid's Air Quality and Health in the Workplace: Key Insights and Hybrid Worker Perspectives report.
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Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy (AZOOR) is a rare condition of unknown etiology that typically manifests itself by asymmetrical visual field loss, persistent photopsia projected in the visual loss zone, acuity reduction and often, with widespread photoreceptor dysfunction on the electroretinogram (ERG).
This disease affects young to middle aged patients, and woman are more affected that men. Some patients have antecedent viral-like illness.
In the majority of patients, the retina recovers over a period of one to three years, but in some cases, permanent vision impairment may occur.


Determining if there is Air in the Brine System
A good way to determine if you have air in your brine system is by observing your balance tank. The two illustrations below depict a situation where there is air in the brine system. The illustration on the left depicts the brine pump running. This is evident by the pressure on the brine pressure gauge. Note that the brine level in the balance tank is quite low. The reason for the lower brine level is that all of the air in the system is being compressed by the brine pump. The pressurization of the air reduces the volume of air in the floor piping grid. This reduced air volume is then replaced by brine from the balance tank. The illustration on the right shows the system after the brine pump has shut off. Note that the pressure gauge is now at 0 PSI pressure. The air decompresses and returns to its original volume which displaces brine from the floor piping grid back into the balance tank. If there is a great deal of air in the system it will displace so much brine that it will overflow down the drain as shown in the right hand illustration. The real hazard here is each time the pump cycles on and off more air will enter the system and eventually a great deal of brine will be lost potentially destroying the chiller.
Two images of balance tanks, left with brine pump on and right with brine pump off


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Before we explain the importance of a base year in commercial leases, it is important to understand the context in which the base year analysis is applicable.
There are many types of commercial leases but the two most common forms of a commercial lease are a triple net lease and a gross lease. A triple net lease (NNN) is a lease where the landlord passes through all of the expenses associated with the property to the tenant – expenses like property tax, maintenance and utilities. In a gross lease the landlord typically pays all of the property's expenses. The third category is what is called a modified gross lease. In that scenario the lease contemplates that there may be increases in the property's expenses by assigning a base year to the lease so that the landlord will have the ability to pass through increase costs to the tenant.
So why is base year important? In a gross lease or modified gross lease the landlord typically agrees to cover the tenant's share of the annual operating expenses. That said the landlord typically limits their annual exposure to the amount of expenses incurred in the base year of the lease – which is typically the first year of the lease. The landlord then continues to pay the property's expenses in the amount in the base year but the tenant agrees to pay its share (percentage) of any increases in the property's expenses going forward. Each year in the future the tenant is then responsible for their share of increased expenses beyond the base year level.
For help with your commercial lease or other leasing dispute, please contact us today. At Schorr Law, our team of real estate lawyers have litigated and assisted with literally thousands of real estate matters and we recognize the importance of detailed, experienced advice for our clients.
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Midwives Dispel Common Myths About Self-Care
By Angelique Mugirente, Program Officer, Jhpiego, Nanuka Thapa, Senior Program Officer, Jhpiego, Vusi Ndaba, Project Officer, Jhpiego, Yvonne Delphine Nsaba-Uwera, University of Rwanda School of Nursing and Midwife.
In collaboration with the Self-Care Trailblazer Group and Jhpiego, we hosted a workshop earlier this summer at the International Confederation of Midwives' Triennial Virtual Congress on the role of self-care in taking care of ourselves and our patients.
Self-care often has many different meanings to different people. When we talk about self-care, we are using the World Health Organization's definition as "the ability for individuals, families, and communities to promote, maintain health, prevent disease, and cope with illness with or without the support of a healthcare provider." Each one of us has seen the power of self-care in our own lives and in our midwifery practice.
Unfortunately, self-care can often be misunderstood. Many people believe that midwives and other health professionals are opposed to self-care. But we know that isn't true. Self-care is an essential part of everyone's life, especially health workers. We know that self-care benefits our patients and ourselves. But it is not surprising that there are myths and misconceptions about self-care because it's often not discussed. That's why we want to dispel common myths and share why self-care is important to us as health professionals and to our patients.
Myth 1: Self-care is just for patients.
A care mindset is what led us into our profession. It's not uncommon to put our own physical and mental health on the backburner, so we can care for our patients. In a survey conducted among midwives in Rwanda, more than half of the respondents reported that self-care is for their patients.
We've heard midwives say, "I should be able to cope" or "I don't have time for self-care. I need to do other things first." But this mindset can come at a cost. A recent systematic review of burnout among healthcare providers in Sub-Saharan Africa found high rates of burnout among midwives along with emotional exhaustion and other physical issues. As health workers, we must walk the talk. We need to prioritize our physical and mental health and practice self-care just as we promote it for our patients. Self-care should be integrated with occupational health and safety in the workplace. Employee wellness programs can also be streamlined to address the self-care gaps by healthcare providers.
Myths 2: Taking care of ourselves is a selfish act that takes too much time.
Many people believe that prioritizing your own health is a selfish act. This belief is all too common amongst some health professionals. We're trained to put others' needs before our own. As midwives we are always short of time and think we don't have time for self-care. In the survey of Rwandan midwives, 79 percent of the midwives responded that they do not have time to take care of themselves. In a Rwandan midwife's typical week, the time allocated to self-care is almost nonexistent, not only for the practice itself but also for discussion and advancement of self-care amongst the team. So many of us have thought, "What will others think about us if we're practicing self-care when we have patients who are in pain?"
But the truth is nobody will benefit if we as midwives ignore our own physical and mental health. Even short breaks to make sure we're attending to our own physical health needs can have a tremendous impact. We will not be able to take care of our patients if we're in poor physical health or emotionally exhausted. It is important to remember that our need for self-care doesn't go away the busier we get. By taking care of ourselves, we are making sure we can continue to take care of others. Self-care is not a selfish act!
Myth 3: Self-care diminishes the role of providers.
We have heard providers' concerns over policies and programming that promote self-care worrying that it can be unsafe or diminish their role in patient care. The reality is only a small percentage of the care patients receive is from health professionals. The majority of healthcare people use throughout their lifetime is outside of the health system. Self-care is an essential part of all aspects of our work as midwives. Self-care approaches are used in family planning to prevent unintended pregnancies and provide infertility services. Self-care helps eliminates unsafe abortions and is used to prevent sexually transmitted infections and improve antenatal, delivery, postpartum and newborn care. As midwives, we are trained to partner with our patients to ensure that they know about and are able to access evidence-based self-care such as self-injectable contraception or digital health apps. This helps them have ownership of their health, improving health outcomes. At the same time, it also helps us focus our time and attention on our patients with the highest needs.
Myth 4: Self-care is a substitute for the health system.
Similar to the concern that self-care diminishes the role of the provider, there is also a prevailing myth that self-care is a substitute for the formal health system. Too many people believe that self-care is an 'either or' proposition where people either have access to the full services of a health system or they will have to practice self-care on their own. Self-care is not a work-around to the health system. The strongest health systems around the world recognize that self-care is an essential part of the health system. Those health systems support providers in partnering with their patients. These providers work to ensure that individuals have the knowledge, tools, and resources to promote and maintain physical and mental health, prevent illness, and continue to care for themselves after they have left the clinic to exert more control over their health.
Myth 5: Self-care is whatever makes you feel better.
The term self-care is often used in popular culture to mean de-stressing and finding a way to relax after a hard day. But for something to be self-care, it has to have a positive impact on one's health. For example, studies have found that there is a high percentage of cigarette smoking among healthcare workers in some countries. In some countries, there's even a higher rate of smoking amongst health workers than the general population. Healthcare workers who smoke often report it is to relieve stress or feel less anxious. Other people will spend time trying to destress or find temporary relief in the short-term by using harmful or destructive behaviors. But gaining short-term relief at the expense of our long-term health isn't self-care. Instead there are healthier behaviors that people can adopt to help cope with stress such as yoga, meditation, or physical exercise.
Myth 6: Self-care is important, but only during the pandemic.
Self-care has received attention over the last 18 months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. We've all been practicing self-care by washing our hands, checking symptoms to make sure we don't have COVID-19, or using digital platforms to avoid going to a clinic for care. The pandemic has demonstrated that our patients can practice self-care safely in the privacy of their homes by using evidence-based tools and approaches. This has reduced the risk of exposure and allowed us to focus our time and attention on the most critical tasks. But, self-care isn't only important during a pandemic and not only for vulnerable patients it is for everyone at all times. Self-care has existed for millenia and it will continue to exist long after the pandemic has ended. What the pandemic has done is create a critical opportunity to chart a new frontier in healthcare where we can take what we've learned about the benefits of self-care and strengthen the policy and regulatory environment for self-care interventions.
Myth 7: Self-care is free.
Many people hear the term self-care and they think it's free and just a cost-cutting measure for the health system. While some interventions, such as performing a breast self-exam, are free, that's not universally true for all self-care measures. There are often associated costs with self-care approaches whether it's a woman using a self-sampling for human papilloma virus (HPV) kit in the privacy of her home or midwives providing health education sessions to their patients about antenatal care. The products, tools, and providers' time does come with a cost and it's important that those costs are not shifted to our patients and that healthcare providers' time goes uncompensated for supporting self-care. Self-care can be a cost-effective method for health systems, but we must recognize that these approaches still have costs and should be included in health budgets.
These myths about self-care are untrue. What is true is that midwives and other healthcare providers are key partners in promoting effective self-care, equipping people to follow best medical practices, and driving awareness of how patients can safely contribute to their own health. As healthcare providers, we should practice self-care in our own lives and champion it with our families, patients, peers, communities, and in our professional networks. We can advocate within our country's health


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Conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC) is an extension of traditional behavioral consultation in that parents and teachers, with the assistance of a consultant, are joined to identify and address child-related difficulties collaboratively. This article presents a background review of the conceptual and empirical grounds for CBC. A case study of the use of CBC with a young student manifesting an irrational fear of sleeping in his bedroom at home is presented. Specifically, procedures and outcomes of each stage of CBC are described. Considerations for interpreting and using case study results are also presented.


of running with multiple processes as you need to consider that each process will use up to the nominal maximum amount that your web application uses. Thus, how much memory your web application uses dictates how many separate processes you can use in a multi process configuration before you run out of system memory.
When using the Tornado web server though there is a hidden trap which I don't believe many would appreciate exists and would have done something about.
The issue in this case is that when the Tornado web server receives a request which contains request content, it will by default read all that request content into memory before even passing the request to the handler for that request. This is noted in the Tornado documentation by the statement:
By default uploaded files are fully buffered in memory; if you need to handle files that are too large to comfortably keep in memory see the stream_request_body class decorator.
It is a little detail, but the potential impacts of it are significant. This is because of the fact that Tornado can in theory process so many requests at the same time and so those concurrent requests can each be buffering up to 100MB at the same time and so blowing out memory usage. In fact, I am not even sure if there is a hard limit.
Even if there is a hard limit it is likely to be set to be quite high. Such a limit isn't therefore generally going to help, as Tornado will only block requests automatically when the request content length is specified as being greater than 100MB in size. If chunked request content were being sent, it can't even block it as the amount of request content will not be known in advance, so it still has to read and buffer the request content to work out the size and whether the limit is reached.
With such a high default limit and there being no effective limit that can be applied at the outset for chunked request content, it is actually relatively easy, as a result of the buffering, to cause a Tornado web application to use up huge amounts of memory. This doesn't even need to be the result of a concerted denial of service attack by a malicious actor. Instead, if you are using Tornado for handling large file uploads and need to deal with slow clients such as mobiles, then many concurrent requests could quite easily cause a Tornado web application to use quite a lot of memory just during the phase of initially reading the request in.
This is all in contrast to WSGI applications where no request content is read until the WSGI application itself decides to read in the content, allowing the WSGI application itself to decide how it is handled. This is possible with WSGI because of the blocking model and use of processes/threads for concurrency. Things get much harder in ASYNC systems.
Tornado 4.0+ does now offer a solution to avoid these problems but it is not the default and is an opt in mechanism for which you have to add specific code into your web application on each request handler.
This newer mechanism in Tornado is that rather than the request content being buffered up and being passed complete to your handler as part of the request, it will be passed to your handler via a 'data_received()' method as the data arrives. This will be the raw data though and does mean that if handling a form post or file upload, you will need to parse the raw data yourself to decode it.
Anyway, the point of raising these issue is to highlight the need to pay close attention to the Tornado web server configuration and how request content is handled. This is because the default configuration and way things are handled, is as I understand it, susceptible to memory issues and not just through the normal operation of your web application but also through deliberate attacks. In a memory constrained environment of a PaaS, the last thing you want is to run out of memory.
What the overall best practices are for Tornado for handling this I don't know and I welcome anyone pointing out any resources where it clearly explains how best to design a Tornado web application to avoid problems with large request content.
From my limited knowledge of using Tornado, I would at least suggest look at doing the following:
 - If you are not handling large uploads, set the 'max_buffer_size' value to be something a lot smaller than 100MB. It needs to be just enough to handle any encoded form POST data or other file uploads you need to handle.
 - Look at the new request content streaming API in Tornado 4.0+ and consider implementing a common 'data_received()' method for all your handlers such that more restrictive per handler limits can be placed on the 'max_buffer_size'. This could be handled by way of a decorator on the method. With this set the limit to '0' for all handlers which would never receive any request content. Even if handling a form post, set a limit commensurate with what you expect. You would though also need new common code for parsing form post data received via 'data_received()'.
 - For large file uploads, use 'data_received()' to process the data straight away, or save the data straight out to a temporary file, rather than buffer it up in memory, until you are read to process it.
Although I have looked specifically at request content as that presents a more serious problem due to possibly being used as an attack vector, also be mindful to what degree Tornado may buffer up response content as well when it cannot be written out to a client in a timely manner. It has been a while since I have looked at that side of Tornado so I can't remember exactly how that works.

In closing on this issue, it needs to be stressed that this isn't an OpenShift specific issue. It can happen in any environment. It is raised in relation to OpenShift because of it being common that PaaS offerings generally have less memory available per instance for your web application to use.

For those who understand the inner workings of Tornado better than I, which wouldn't be hard, if I have misrepresented anything about how Tornado works then please let me know, providing an explanation of what does happen.
Automatic scaling of gears
Another issue which needs some attention when using ASYNC applications on OpenShift is how automatic scaling for gears works.
The issue with automatic scaling is that a main selling point of ASYNC web applications is that they can handle a much larger number of concurrent requests. Because of how automatic scaling works though, the fixed thresholds on when scaling occurs may result in some surprises if you enable use of auto scaling in OpenShift for an ASYNC web application handling a large number of concurrent requests.
As this is a more complicated issue I will look at that in a subsequent post.
Friday, July 3, 2015
Using Apache to start and manage Docker containers.
In the last couple of posts (1, 2) I described what needed to be done when migrating a Python web site running under Apache/mod_wsgi to running inside of a Docker container. This included the steps necessary to have the existing Apache instance proxy requests for the original site through to the appropriate port on the Docker host and deal with any fix ups necessary to ensure that the backend Python web site understood what the public facing URL was.
In changing to running the Python web site under Docker, I didn't cover the issue of how the instance of the Docker container itself would be started up and managed. All I gave was an example command line for manually starting the container.
docker run --rm -p 8002:80 blog.example.com
The assumption here was that you already had the necessary infrastructure in place to start such Docker containers when the system started, and restart them automatically if for some reason they stopped running.
There are various ways one could manage service orchestration under Docker. These all come with their own infrastructure which has to be set up and managed.
If instead you are just after something simple to keep the Python web site you migrated into a Docker container running, and also manage it in conjunction with the front end Apache instance, then there is actually a trick one can do using mod_wsgi on the front end Apache instance.
Daemon process groups
When using mod_wsgi, by default any hosted WSGI application will run in what is called embedded mode. Although this is the default, if you are running on a UNIX system it is highly recommended you do not use embedded mode and instead use what is called daemon mode.
The difference is that with embedded mode, the WSGI application runs inside of the Apache child worker processes. These are the same processes which handle any requests received by Apache for serving up static files. Using embedded mode can result in various issues due to the way Apache manages those processes. The best solution is simply not to use embedded mode and use daemon mode instead.
For daemon mode, what happens is that a group of one or more separate daemon processes are created by mod_wsgi and the WSGI application is instead run within those. All that the Apache child worker processes do in this case is transparently proxy the requests through to the WSGI application running in those separate daemon processes. Being a separate set of processes, mod_wsgi is able to better control how those processes are managed.
In the initial post the example given was using daemon mode, but the aim was to move the WSGI application out of the front end Apache altogether and run it using a Docker container instead. This necessitated the manual configuration to proxy the requests through to that now entirely separate web application instance running under Docker.
Now an important aspect of how mod_wsgi daemon process groups work, is


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OPINION: Drug drivers under watch
IT IS timely for us all to take note that the Queensland Police Service is now conducting roadside drug driving testing.
Below is an extract taken from its web page on the drug testing process:
What is the testing process?
You will undergo a simple and painless preliminary saliva test (screening test) which will take three to five minutes. If a negative result is returned you will be free to go. If a positive result (drug detected) is returned you will be taken to a police vehicle for a second saliva test.
If the second saliva test is positive for drugs, your driver licence will be suspended for 24 hours and the remainder of the saliva sample will be sent for laboratory analysis. Following a positive laboratory result, motorists will be notified and charged with a traffic offence for drug driving. If you are unable to provide a saliva sample you will be required to provide a specimen of blood for analysis.
What level of drugs can be detected without penalty?
There will be zero tolerance. Any trace of the nominated drugs in your system and you can be penalised.
What are the penalties?
A first offence carries a penalty of up to $1593 and you could be disqualified from driving for up to three months. Any subsequent offences can carry higher penalties and driver licence suspensions prior to appearances in court.
It is also worth noting that unlike alcohol, which is metabolized by your body relatively quickly, drugs stay in detectable levels within your system for much longer periods.
Weeks in some cases.
This along with zero tolerance spells disaster for your licence if you are stupid enough to use drugs and drive.
If you still stupidly think using drugs is something you want to do, then maybe you need to factor in not driving for a couple of months until it's out of your system.... sooner or later you will be caught. If you are caught, there goes your licence, your insurance and if you kill or maim somebody in the process you will have a holiday at taxpayers' expense.


text: Hi guys. I have two spreadsheets. One of them has a whole range of data, with about 2000 rows and 20 columns. The first column is called 'Code' and each piece of data in this column is a 6 digit number. They are all different. The second spreadsheet is very similar but has 3000 rows (and 20 columns like before). Again, the first column is called 'Code' and is filled with 6 digit numbers. Now, many of the fields in this first column are identical to those found in the first spreadsheet. Does anyone know of a way for me to open to the second spreadsheet (the one with 3,000 lines) and have Excel check to see which of the fields in the 'Code' column are already present in the 'Code' column of spreadsheet 1 and automatically remove them, leaving me with the remaining 1,000 unique lines that are only present in the 2nd spreadsheet? If anyone can help that would be awesome. Thanks.


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Solving Succession Planning:
Best Practices Workshop
Succession planning is a critical link in the talent management lifecycle to ensure continuity of performance, and a proactive, long-term approach is key.
Close the loop of your talent management knowledge and skills with this step-by-step workshop on effective succession planning in the digital workplace.
Delegates will be equipped with practical guidelines on how to execute a successful succession planning strategy, including the relevant theories, tools and approaches to ensure a comprehensive, objective approach.
Why is Succession planning important?
98% of organisations feel that succession planning is critical for effective performance. However, only 35% have a succession plan in place. There's a big disconnect in organisations between the need for a succession strategy and the ability to implement a structured, objective process.
This workshop aims to close that gap by providing a comprehensive approach to succession planning: what it is, why it is important, and how to go about implementing it in your organisation.
Who is it aimed at?
The workshop is aimed at HR professionals who work in the talent management space. Prior experience with succession planning and HFMtalentindex tools is beneficial, but not required.
Psychologists, psychometrists, line managers and independent HR consultants will also benefit by rounding off their talent management skills.


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Demons of Domesticity offers a social history of the English gas industry from the 1880s to the late 1930s, with an emphasis on the corporations that served London and the Home Counties. It documents the hitherto unexamined role that women played in the development of the industry by considering two major interlocking themes: the expansion of sales occupations for women in the English gas industry, and the parallel growth and diversification of the industry's marketing strategies. During the late-nineteenth century, the home became the focal point for a number of debates concerning female employment and gender roles. As an increasing number of labour saving domestic devices came onto the market women found themselves targeted by manufacturing companies and utility suppliers, both as consumers and advocates. Foremost among these companies were representatives of the gas industry who actively addressed domestic issues. As the promoters, purveyors and consumers of domestic technology, Demons of Domesticity suggests that English female employees and consumers were not the hapless dupes of corporate marketing, but instead had clear ideas about how domestic technology could and should be used to reconfigure the public and private spaces of work and home.
Contents: List of figures; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; The Victorian kitchen revolutionised; Exhibitions and the spectacle of selling; Lady demons and 'well-dressed men': gender and sales in the Edwardian gas industry; 'Keep the gas fires burning!': war and reconstruction; Marketing modernity: gas versus electricity between the wars; 'A women's industry': demonstrations of difference and equality; Conclusion; Biography; Index.


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Children's Day on the Farm
April 22 @ 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
PLEASE NOTE: Brattonsville Road will be closed for visitor safety from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30. Please follow the posted detour.
Detour Information: From McConnells Highway (SC-322) turn southbound onto Williamson Road (State Route 560) Travel 1.5 miles on Williamson Road and turn right onto Percival Road (State Route 380) Travel 2.1 miles on Percival Road to reach Historic Brattonsville
Children's Day on the Farm will be held in two sessions. The 1st session will be from 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and the 2nd session will be from 1 – 4 p.m.
Join us for Children's Day on the Farm and learn all about how children lived, worked, and played in the 19th century! See how children were involved in 19th-century farm life and trades through make-and-take activities and hands-on demonstrations.
On-Going Activities Include:
- Make-and-take activities:
- Meet Historic Brattonsville's Barnyard Animals
- Blacksmithing demonstration
- Historic hearth cooking
- Plowing demonstration
Scheduled Activities Include:
- Brattonsville site tour:
11 a.m. during the 1st session
2:30 p.m. during the 2nd session


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Selection rule for Dirac-like points in two-dimensional dielectric photonic crystals
KAUST DepartmentComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Program
Waves in Complex Media Research Group
MetadataShow full item record
AbstractWe developed a selection rule for Dirac-like points in two-dimensional dielectric photonic crystals. The rule is derived from a perturbation theory and states that a non-zero, mode-coupling integral between the degenerate Bloch states guarantees a Dirac-like point, regardless of the type of the degeneracy. In fact, the selection rule can also be determined from the symmetry of the Bloch states even without computing the integral. Thus, the existence of Dirac-like points can be quickly and conclusively predicted for various photonic crystals independent of wave polarization, lattice structure, and composition. © 2013 Optical Society of America.
SponsorsThis work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. _PHONE_), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2012ZZ0077), and the KAUST Baseline Research Fund.
PublisherThe Optical Society
- Wyckoff positions and the expression of polarization singularities in photonic crystals.
- Authors: Wheeldon JF, Schriemer H
- Issue date: 2009 Feb 16
- Double Dirac cones in two-dimensional dielectric photonic crystals.
- Authors: Li Y, Mei J
- Issue date: 2015 May 4
- Three-dimensional dielectric phoxonic crystals with network topology.
- Authors: Ma TX, Wang YS, Wang YF, Su XX
- Issue date: 2013 Feb 11
- Light propagation in three-dimensional photonic crystals.
- Authors: Kawashima S, Ishizaki K, Noda S
- Issue date: 2010 Jan 4
- All-optical bistability and switching near the Dirac point of a 2-D photonic crystal.
- Authors: Mattiucci N, Bloemer MJ, D'Aguanno G
- Issue date: 2013 May 20


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Multi-effect for gentle tweaking through to full-on mangling!
ShapeShifter is a multi-effect VST plug-in which gives you a number of tools for changing your sounds, ranging from subtle effects through to extreme mangling of your audio. The following effects modules are included:
1. Waveshaper linked to a step sequencer, allowing you to create changes in tone that normal waveshapers can't achieve
2. Resonant Filter including an LFO and step sequencer to control the cut-off frequency
3. Stereo Delay including step sequencers to vary the delay settings over time
4. Gate to create rhythmic changes in volume
5. Chorus & Reverb to fill out sounds and add some polish
6. Compressor for controlling the dynamics of the audio.
ShapeShifter uniquely ties a waveshaper to a step sequencer, allowing you to blend between waveshaper settings in time with your track, creating interesting changes in tone.
Additionally, the signal path is configurable so that the effects can be ordered any way you like for maximum flexibility.
Price: £35 / €52 / $60
* Fixes a compatibility problem with certain hosts, namely Sonar and Orion.


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Spring has sprung! This is the season of rebirth and reinvention. While some organizations are beginning their new fiscal year, others may be reviewing their Q1 performance or gearing up to start their budget process. Regardless of what category your hospital or health system falls into, it is essential to remember the impact productivity has on sustained improvement and continued fiscal strength. Like so many things, productivity should follow a traditional "life cycle" and be a routine focus of operational and management strategies year-over-year. Here are some ways to kick-start the productivity life cycle in your organization:
- Refresh Targets and Benchmarks – Healthcare is a highly dynamic industry. Pandemic aside, care delivery models, billing/reimbursement practices, and compliance requirements are perpetually changing. To keep your workforce optimization and performance improvement strategies effective, it is essential that productivity goals and comparisons be updated annually. This will ensure that any and all changes to operations have been properly accounted for and new industry or service-line standards are being used to shape staffing practices based on patient demand.
- Reinvigorate Staff – Communication and accountability are the key to positive results from any improvement initiative. No one knows an organization and its operations better than the employees. Engage them! Include department leaders in regular strategy sessions surrounding productivity efforts and related goals. Reiterate that productivity is not a one-time solution, but an ongoing tool for effective management. By continuously educating staff on how to be better stewards of their resources, reaffirming their buy-in on the process, and frequently recognizing their contributions, lasting efficiencies are gained.
- Revitalize Your Bottom Line – With personnel expense comprising more than half of most hospital's operating costs, maintaining proper staff/volume alignment is often the easiest way to see black. Carrying out this strategy does, however, come with its own set of challenges. The best approach is to start small. Set realistic and achievable goals, sending your organization on a journey to improved performance over a 12 to 18-month period. Provide leaders with the tools necessary to track performance and realize success. Once initial goals have been achieved, reevaluate workflow and performance, eliminate waste, and identify means for continued improvement. The cost-savings generated can then be reinvested back into the staff and the organization before beginning the process again.
Productivity should be viewed as a "living" solution to sustained performance improvement. It needs to be nurtured and given proper attention to produce the desired results. By instilling a productivity "life cycle" in your organization, you establish a means for these principles to take root and bear "fruit" year after year.
Let the ALTIUS team guide your hospital or health system in the development of an effective productivity process that can be repeated annually! Reach out to us directly here to learn more.


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Article ID: 294901
This article was previously published under Q294901
When you print a TEXTAREA element that is larger than a single page, Internet Explorer only prints the first page of the TEXTAREA.
To work around this problem, hide the TEXTAREA element, and copy the contents of each TEXTAREA in a newly created DIV element during the onBeforePrint event. After you print the page, remove the DIV element during the onAfterPrint event, and the TEXTAREA becomes visible again. See the "More Information" section for a code sample that demonstrates this workaround.
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
The following code illustrates how to reproduce this problem:
In the actual results, only one page appears in preview, and only one page is printed. In the expected results, several pages should appear in preview, and all of the pages should print.
WorkaroundThe following code illustrates how to hide the TEXTAREA elements and replace them with DIV elements that contain the contents of the initial TEXTAREA elements:
For more information, see the following Microsoft Web site:
Introduction to Regular ExpressionsFor more information about developing Web-based solutions for Microsoft Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft Web sites:
Article ID: 294901 - Last Review: September 29, 2012 - Revision: 4.0
Retired KB Content Disclaimer
This article was written about products for which Microsoft no longer offers support. Therefore, this article is offered "as is" and will no longer be updated.


AWS Data Pipeline
Developer Guide (API Version 2012-10-29)
Locating Error Logs
This section explains how to find the various logs that AWS Data Pipeline writes, which you can use to determine the source of certain failures and errors.
Pipeline Logs
We recommend that you configure pipelines to create log files in a persistent location, such as in the following example where you use the pipelineLogUri field on a pipeline's Default object to cause all pipeline components to use an Amazon S3 log location by default (you can override this by configuring a log location in a specific pipeline component).
Note
Task Runner stores its logs in a different location by default, which may be unavailable when the pipeline finishes and the instance that runs Task Runner terminates. For more information, see Verifying Task Runner Logging.
To configure the log location using the AWS Data Pipeline CLI in a pipeline JSON file, begin your pipeline file with the following text:
{ "objects": [ { "id":"Default", "pipelineLogUri":"s3://mys3bucket/error_logs" }, ...
After you configure a pipeline log directory, Task Runner creates a copy of the logs in your directory, with the same formatting and file names described in the previous section about Task Runner logs.
Hadoop Job and Amazon EMR Step Logs
With any Hadoop-based activity such as HadoopActivity, HiveActivity, or PigActivity you can view Hadoop job logs at the location returned in the runtime slot, hadoopJobLog. EmrActivity has its own logging features and those logs are stored using the location chosen by Amazon EMR and returned by the runtime slot, emrStepLog. For more information, see View Log Files in the Amazon EMR Developer Guide.


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Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT)Homepage
What are the key issues related to the role of the affective domain in teaching geoscience that you would like to engage at the workshop?
Role of affective domain in learning content; Interplay of students' perceptions and emotions about evolutionary theory (tension between scientific theory and general beliefs that scientific theories are "just" another belief system parallel to religious beliefs)
What expertise or experience (in study of the affective domain or teaching of geoscience) will you bring to the workshop? How would you like to contribute to the workshop?
Doing research focusing on the relationship between motivation, affect (interest, attitudes, self-concept, self-efficacy) and conceptual understanding of high school science. Teaching in the preservice program (middle school and high school) with an emphasis on theory-based program integrating e.g., Nature of Science, equity, and affective dimension of learning scientific concepts.
Essay: A dialectical relationship between students' motives and interest and teaching approaches
The following case study focuses on how students' perceptions about a science course are reflected in their motivation and interest in learning and how this relates to the teacher's teaching approaches. The case study is part of a research project investigating how students' motivation and affects (interest and attitudes toward science) influences their learning of science concepts in a one-year grade 11 Science General course. The study was conducted at an independent university preparatory all boys' school, which has a strong academic reputation. The grade 11 Science General course was being offered at the school for the first time. It was intended to meet the students' need for a senior science credit while providing an alternative to the typical university preparation courses in physics, chemistry, and biology. It is not accepted as a prerequisite for studying science at university. It was also profiled as an environmental science course with an implicit and probably unintended emphasis on its lower status in contrast to the discipline-oriented science courses. Thus, the course was only chosen by students not planning to pursue a career in science.
The course used a curriculum that I developed in cooperation with the teacher. Based on the Ontario Science Curriculum it emphasized the role of science and technology in daily life and in relation to social and environmental issues. The course units included topics such as nutrition, waste management, space and micro-gravity, and technologies in everyday life. Using student-centered teaching strategies the topics were taught focusing on ethical, environmental, and economic issues that involve various societal viewpoints. I collected data using a mixed-methods approach: weekly classroom observation, individual student and teacher interviews and questionnaires administered three times throughout the school year. For this case study, I focus on students' and teacher interviews.
The analysis of the series of students' interviews reveal five major perceptions of the course, which did not change throughout the school year: "Dead-end", "just a credit", "for non-science people", "not a real science course", and "everyday knowledge accumulation". The boys used these perceptions as a justification for why they put only a minimum of effort into it; it does not count as a prerequisite for any of the subjects that they want to study at university; it "only" gets them there. This pragmatic approach is also linked to students' perception of not being able to do the real science. They stressed that if they were capable of doing science, then they would not have enrolled in this "not a real science course" or "course for non-science people"; instead they would have enrolled in any of the discipline-oriented courses. These various themes emphasize how deeply the boys internalized the school's mission of high academic standards valuing only discipline-oriented university-preparation courses positively and viewing them as the standard of imparting academic knowledge. Yet, students' perception also reflects two socioculturally determined public views: First, of science as a subject for only smart people (Bell & Lederman, 2003) and second, that an understanding of environmental or socio-scientific issues (Sadler & Zeidler, 2005) such as global climate change, land-use decisions, cloning or stem cell research as not being real science. However, it was these topics that resulted in a situational change of their interest and motivated them to develop an understanding about topics that had relevance for their future lives. This situational change did not, however, result in a change of the boys' general motivation and interest. Instead, their perception of these topics as easy and everyday, their internalized socioculturally determined view of science, and their internalized school mission were more powerful messages and were incorporated into the students' motivational structure.
The teacher, Amanda, was aware of the boys' dominant perceptions of the course. However, through highlighting the importance of the connections of science to everyday life she was able to challenge their negative feelings towards science sporadically. It was these connections that triggered situational change in students' motivation and interest and at the same time, kept up Amanda's on-going effort and motivation to find interesting activities and topics alive throughout the school year, although by the end her frustration with the course was clearly evident.
These results hint towards a dialectical interdependence of students' individual motives and interests and teacher's teaching approaches. They also suggest the importance of integrating more STS topics in our science curricula or, more radically, teaching scientific concepts through their immersion in STS topics.
Bell, R.l., & Lederman, N.G. (2003). Understanding the nature of science and decision making on science and technology based issues. Science Education, 87, 352-377.
Sadler, T.D., & Zeidler, D.L. (2005). Patterns of informal reasoning in the context of socioscientific decision making. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 42 (1), 112-138.


text: AbstractDue to the increasing deployment of sensors in water distribution networks (WDNs) for continuous monitoring, hydrodynamic data are readily available for engineers to improve the daily operations of WDNs. In collaboration with Public Utility Board (PUB), Singapore's National Water Agency, an alternative model calibration approach using continuously monitored data is proposed to facilitate PUB's smart water grid (SWG). The generic approach was developed as an integrated solution methodology for practical engineers to conduct a series of systematic analyses daily, namely, (1) estimating the system's daily nonrevenue water (NRW) volume and NRW time series; (2) adjusting the available pumps' operational curves and control statuses, followed by calibrating the system's net demand pattern to fulfill the flow balance accounting for the actual consumption; (3) identifying and rectifying possible offsets in the monitored pressure head values for each sensor station; (4) performing model calibration with anomaly localization analysis when the system's total NRW volume exceeds its assumed background NRW volume; and (5) calibrating other physical properties to fulfill the system's energy balance, especially for the peak demand hours. The effectiveness of our proposed approach was then tested and verified using a real-world WDN having total pipe length of >650 km with available monitoring data. Key findings from the case study analysis include (1) anomaly events localized including, but not limited to, five out of six reported leaks for the selected week to within 400 m with lead time of 1–2 days; (2) the system's initial flow imbalance addressed by estimating the daily NRW volume and localizing the possible anomaly events; and (3) pipe roughness values calibrated to further improve the energy balance in the system, especially during the peak demand hours, by attaining an average mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) score of 2.5%.


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Effect of Hydraulic Properties of Backfill and Geocomposite Drainage Materials on Seepage Response in Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls
This research aims to investigate the effect of water retention characteristic of the soil and drainage material (geocomposite) on seepage responses in mechanical stabilized earth walls by using geocomposite as drainage system. A set of experiments on physical models was conducted such that the data set obtained from the tests were used to calibrate the numerical models. The well calibrated numerical models were then used to perform parametric study. The studied parameters were van Genuchten parameters (ga, gn, Sres, Ssat) and coefficient of permeability (k) of the relevant materials. Results from the parametric study show that the water retention characteristic of the soil outside the reinforced zone plays no role to the hydraulic response of the soil inside the reinforced zone. However, the coefficient of permeability of the soil outside the reinforced zone plays important role to the level of the phreatic surface inside the reinforced zone. Hence, the coefficient of permeability of the soil outside the reinforced zone must be taken into account when designing drainage system.
mechanical stabilized earth wall; geocomposite, drainage system; numerical modeling
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shtool-mdate (1) - Linux Man Pages
shtool-mdate: GNU shtool pretty-print last modification time
NAME
shtool mdate - GNU shtool pretty-print last modification time
SYNOPSIS
shtool mdate [-n|--newline] [-z|--zero] [-s|--shorten] [-d|--digits] [-f|--field-sep str] [-o|--order spec] path
DESCRIPTION
This command pretty-prints the last modification time of a given file or directory path, while still allowing one to specify the format of the date to display.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-n, --newline
By default, output is written to stdout followed by a ''newline'' (ASCII character 0x0a). If option -n is used, this newline character is omitted.
-z, --zero
Pads numeric day and numeric month with a leading zero. Default is to have variable width.
-s, --shorten
Shortens the name of the month to a english three character abbreviation. Default is full english name. This option is silently ignored when combined with -d.
-d, --digits
Use digits for month. Default is to use a english name.
-f, --field-sep str
Field separator string between the day month year tripple. Default is a single space character.
-o, --order spec
Specifies order of the day month year elements within the tripple. Each element represented as a single character out of ''"d"'', ''"m"'' and ''"y"''. The default for spec is ''"dmy"''.
EXAMPLE
 # shell script
 shtool mdate -n /
 shtool mdate -f '/' -z -d -o ymd foo.txt
 shtool mdate -f '-' -s foo.txt
HISTORY
The GNU shtool mdate command was originally written by Ulrich Drepper in 1995 and revised by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse [at] engelschall.com> in 1998 for inclusion into GNU shtool.
SEE ALSO
shtool(1), date(1), ls(1).


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Child Honouring is a philosophy—a vision, an organizing principle, and a way of life—the children-first way of sustainability.
It starts with three givens:
The primacy of early years—early childhood is the gateway to humane being.
We face planetary degradation that is unprecedented in scope and scale—a state of emergency that most endangers the very young, and that requires a remedy of equal scale.
This crisis calls for a systemic response in detoxifying the environments that make up the world of the child.
Child Honouring is a children-first approach to healing communities and restoring ecosystems. It views how we regard and treat our young as the key to building a humane and sustainable world. It is a novel idea—organizing society around the priority needs of its youngest members.
The essence of the vision is expressed in A Covenant for Honouring Children and its underlying principles.
Its spirit is invitational—a call to imagine and create a diversity of child-friendly cultures. A child-honouring society would show love for its children, and thus for all of us, in every facet of its design and organization.


What Is the Integrated Domestic Violence Court in New York?
People who are facing both criminal domestic violence charges as well as separate family court matters, such as a divorce or child custody proceedings, may end up having all of their cases transferred into an Integrated Domestic Violence court. When this occurs, a single judge will preside over all of the separate cases affecting the person and their family.
People are unable to request that their cases be transferred to an IDV court. The judges that hear these matters instead screen potential cases and make recommendations for transfer. If a judge determines a person's cases should all be transferred, the person is also unable to prevent this from occurring. While these courts primarily handle people charged with misdemeanor domestic violence cases, the courts will occasionally accept families in which the person who is criminally charged is facing a felony.
The philosophy behind the IDV court system is that by streamlining all of the cases, the process will be less confusing and less costly for the parties involved. People whose cases are transferred will undergo judicial monitoring of their progress. The cases still remain separate although they are all in front of the same judge. The judge will apply the different evidentiary standards and burdens of proof required in each case separately.
When a person is charged with a domestic violence case and they also have a separate family court matter, it is possible their cases will be transferred to an IDV court. People who have questions regarding the IDV court processes may benefit by seeking the help of a criminal defense attorney. An attorney may be able to provide guidance regarding the different burdens of proof required for the criminal matter as well as for the family law cases. The attorney might then be able to design a comprehensive strategy best designed to defend their clients.


we created above, click Create. It will take 4–5 minutes.
4. Let's move to the API we created.
5. Choose APIs from the primary navigation pane and then choose + Create API to create a new API of either an edge-optimized or regional endpoint type.
6. For the root resource (/), choose Create Method from the Actions drop-down menu, and then choose GET.
7. In the / GET — Setup pane, initialize the API method integration as follows:
 - Choose VPC Link for Integration type.
 - Choose Use Proxy Integration.
 - From the Method drop-down list, choose GET as the integration method.
 - From the VPC Link drop-down list, choose [Use Stage Variables] and type ${stageVariables.vpcLinkId} in the text box below.
 - We will define the vpcLinkId stage variable after deploying the API to a stage and set its value to the ID of the VpcLink created above.
 - Type a URL, for example, _URL_, for Endpoint URL.
 - Here, the hostname (for example, muditademo.com) is used to set the Host header of the integration request.
 - Leave the Use Default Timeout selection as it is unless we want to customize the integration timeouts.
 - Choose Save to finish setting up the integration.
3. Give the target Network load balancer we created above, click Create. It will take 4–5 minutes.
4. Let's move to the API we created.
5. Choose APIs from the primary navigation pane and then choose + Create API to create a new API of either an edge-optimized or regional endpoint type.
6. For the root resource (/), choose Create Method from the Actions drop-down menu, and then choose GET.
7. In the / GET — Setup pane, initialize the API method integration as follows:
 - Choose VPC Link for Integration type.
 - Choose Use Proxy Integration.
 - From the Method drop-down list, choose GET as the integration method.
 - From the VPC Link drop-down list, choose [Use Stage Variables] and type ${stageVariables.vpcLinkId} in the text box below.
 - We will define the vpcLinkId stage variable after deploying the API to a stage and set its value to the ID of the VpcLink created above.
 - Type a URL, for example, _URL_, for Endpoint URL.
 - Here, the hostname (for example, muditademo.com) is used to set the Host header of the integration request.
 - Leave the Use Default Timeout selection as it is unless we want to customize the integration timeouts.
 - Choose Save to finish setting up the integration.
8. With proxy integration, the API is ready for deployment. We can configure further if requiredlappropriate method responses and integration responses.
9. From the Actions drop-down menu, choose Deploy API and then choose a new or existing stage to deploy the API.
10. Note the resulting Invoke URL. We need it to invoke the API. Before doing that, we must set up the vpcLinkIdstage variable.
 - In the Stage Editor, choose the Stage Variables tab and choose Add Stage Variable.
 - Under the Name column, type vpcLinkId.
 - Under the Value column, type the ID of VPC_LINK, for example, gi****.
 - Choose the check-mark icon to save this stage variable.
 - Using the stage variable, we can easily switch to different VPC links for the API by changing the stage variable value.
11. Get the invoke URL and hit it, we will get the application running on it without hiccups.
That's it, the API call is going now with the private network via VPC link.
I would like to express my deep gratitude for your generous support Raju Banerjee.
Case study: How we helped a leading BFSI corporation improve process efficiency by 60% using AI-based OCR.
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Written by Vinit Balani, Associate product manager at Powerupcloud Technologies
Demonetization has changed the way the Indian banking sector functions. While the wider acceptance of Aadhaar has made documentation and authentication easier, for BFSI clients mainly the insurance companies, document verification is still required for processing of loans and policies. Most of this process still remains manual, adding to the time required for opening an account or processing the claims.
One of India's largest insurance companies was facing this challenge and wanted to resolve this problem. In this case study, we highlight the problem statement and take you through how Powerupcloud came up with the solution using AI automation.
Problem Statement:
With a customer base of 115 million users and expanding, one of India's largest private Insurance companies wanted a resolve the problem where field agents were dealing with a large quantum of information including images captured as a part of a KYC process.
The company already had an android application for these agents to capture photos of documents, while an account was being created. However, once these photos were captured the data had to be manually entered into the customer repository.
Another challenge was the bad quality of document photographs being taken by the agents, which often resulted in them going back to the customer to re-capture the photos. This was ultimately also increased lead-time for account opening.
The company was looking to automate this process using an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) solution, which could help approve or reject the photo based on quality at the point of capture itself.
Proposed Solution:
Powerupcloud proposed creating a native android application to be integrated within the company's primary application by leveraging AWS Rekognition's OCR technology. In addition an application with features to improve the image and do a quality check using open source technologies.
The current scope included developing an OCR mechanism for only the Aadhaar Card. With its successful implementation, it is now going to be extended to other KYC documents.
Solution Flow:
Solution Details
The app (OCR) developed by Powerupcloud is a native android app integrated within the company's existing android app. The OCR app gets triggered when the Aadhaar document has to be captured by the field agent.
Once the image is captured, it allows the user to crop and enhance the image using features like brightness, contrast, saturation, etc. Post this, the image quality check is done for brightness, contrast, and blurriness. If the image fails the quality check, the agent is asked to re-capture it. However, if it passes the test, the Aadhaar image is scanned to check for QR code and extract information from it. If the scan succeeds, the output with parameter values (like Aadhaar number, Name, Gender, Address) is sent to the company's application. However, if the QR scan is not successful, the text/parameters are extracted from the image using AWS Rekognition's OCR technology.
The extracted parameters are then passed on to the company's Android application as JSON. Below are some snapshots of the native OCR app –
Results
The application is now live and being used by 6000+ field agents across India. There has led to a 60% reduction in the lead-time for processing an application. In addition, the solution has also helped improve the productivity of the field agents who can now cover a lot more customers.


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A Data Fusion Framework for Large-Scale Measurement Platforms
The need to assess internet performance from the user's perspective grows, as does the interest in deployment of Large-Scale Measurement Platforms (LMAPs). The potential of these platforms as a real-time network diagnostic tool is limited by the volume, velocity and variety of the data they generated. Fusing this data from multiple sources and generating a single piece of coherent information about the state of the network would increase the efficiency of network monitoring. The current practice of visually analysing LMAPs' data stream would certainly benefit from having automatically generated notifications in a timely manner alerting human controllers to the network's conditions of interest. This paper proposed a data fusion framework for LMAPs that makes use of mathematical distribution based sensors to generate probabilistic sensor outputs which are fused using a Dempster- Shafer Theory.
Citation : Rattadilok, P. et al. (2015) A data fusion framework for large-scale measurement platforms. Big Data (Big Data), 2015 IEEE International Conference on,
ISBN : 9781479999262
Peer Reviewed : Yes


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No worries is an Australian English expression, meaning "do not worry about that", "that's alright", or "sure thing". It is similar to the English no problem. The phrase is widely used in Australian speech and represents a feeling of friendliness, good humour, optimism and "mateship" in Australian culture. The phrase has been referred to as the national motto of Australia.
The phrase has influenced a similar phrase used in the Tok Pisin language in Papua New Guinea. No worries utilization migrated to New Zealand after origination in Australia. Its usage became more pervasive to British English after increased usage in Australian soap operas that aired on television in the United Kingdom. Linguistics experts are uncertain how the phrase became utilized in American English; theories include use by Steve Irwin on the television program The Crocodile Hunter and usage by the United States media during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. It has also gained usage in Canadian English.
"No worries" is an Australian English expression, meaning "do not worry about that", or "that's all right". It can also mean "sure thing" and "you're welcome". Other colloquial Australian terms which mean the same thing include "she'll be right". The expression has been compared to the American English equivalent "no problem". In their book Australian Language & Culture: No Worries!, authors Vanessa Battersby, Paul Smitz and Barry Blake note: "No worries is a popular Australian response akin to 'no problems', 'that's OK' or'sure thing'."
Cultural origins
Early documentation dates the phrase back to 1966. According to author of When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures, Richard D. Lewis, the phrase is a form of expression of the laissez-faire attitude in Australian culture. Anna Wierzbicka comments that the expression illustrates important parts of Australian culture, including: "amiability, friendliness, an expectation of shared attitudes (a proneness to easy'mateship'), jocular toughness, good humour, and, above all, casual optimism". She concludes that along with "good on you", the expressions reflect the "national character" and "prevailing ethos" of Australia. Though initially utilized in Australia, the phrase migrated to New Zealand as well.
Wierzbicka writes in her book Cross-cultural Pragmatics that the expression "permeates Australian speech", "serves a wide range of illocutionary forces" and displays a "casual optimism". In her 1992 book Semantics, Culture, and Cognition, Wierzbicka classifies the phrase as "among the most characteristic Australian expressions", along with "good on you".
The term can also be used in the context of an apology. The phrase "no wucking furries" has the same meaning in Australia; as a spoonerism of "no fucking worries", and is contracted to the phrases "no wuckers" and "no wucks". The phrase has been used widely in British English since the late 1980s, a development partly attributed to the success of Australian soap operas like Neighbours in the United Kingdom.
"No worries" was referred to as "the national motto" of Australia in 1978, and in their 2006 work, Diving the World, Beth and Shaun Tierney call "no worries, mate" the national motto of the country. Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Annette Kobak calls the expression a "ritual incantation" which has "particular charm". The phrase "no waris" in the Papua New Guinea language Tok Pisin is derived from the Australian English term.
According to The Sunday Mail a 2004 newspaper report notes that "no worries" has begun to be used in American English. Writing in a 2004 article for The Advertiser, Samela Harris comments: "The Americans have no idea of the etymology of 'no worries'. So, while they may cheerily adopt our 'no worries' mantra, 'no worries' will never catch on as an attitude." According to Tom Dalzell, author of two books on slang usage in the United States, linguistics experts are not certain how the expression became popular in that country. Usage of the term by Steve Irwin on The Crocodile Hunter, as well as attempts by members of the American press to imitate the expression during the 2000 Sydney Olympics, have been put forth as theories explaining the pervasiveness of the expression in the United States. Linguistics professor Kate Burridge writes in her 2004 book Weeds In the Garden Of Words that expressions including "no worries", "absolutely", and "bottom line" have become less prevalent in favor of newer sayings. The phrase has had some usage in Canadian English.
See also
- Australian English vocabulary
- Don't worry
- Hakuna matata
- Macquarie Dictionary
- No problem
- She'll be right
- Sure thing
- Partridge, Dalzell & Victor 2006, p. 1390
- Stuart-Hamilton 2007, p. 161
- Angelo & Butler 1998, p. 22
- Tierney & Tierney 2006, p. 32
- Nolan & Hinkelman 1996, p. 274
- Morrison, Conaway & Borden 1994, p. 9
- Battersby, Smitz & Blake 2007, p. 33
- Hoffmann 2009, p. 120
- Lewis 2005, p. 209
- Wierzbicka 1992, p. 388
- Moon 1998, p. 271
- Cryer 2006, p. 139
- Hoffmann 2009, pp. 119–121
- Wierzbicka 1991, p. 56
- Bowe & Martin 2007, p. 56
- Goddard 2006, p. 72
- "No worries infiltrates British English". National Nine News (news.ninemsn.com.au). Archived from the original on 11 Jul 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
- New York Times staff 2001, p. 1499
- Romaine 1991, p. 148
- Biber & Finegan 1994, p. 63
- Whiting, Frances (25 July 2004). "It's, like, out of control". The Sunday Mail. p. 018.
- Harris, Samela (20 May 2004). "No worries, mate, she'll be right, and have a nice day". The Advertiser. p. 020.
- McKenna, Michael (22 January 2003). "Crikey, strine takes over". The Courier-Mail (Queensland Newspapers). p. 3.
- McGarry, Helen (12 September 2004). "Language – Books Extra". The Sun Herald. p. 72.
- Molloy, Matt (10 September 2009). "No medals, no worries". The Beacon (_URL_). Retrieved 21 February 2010.
- Keller, Mike; Gregg Keizer (18 February 2009). "No WiFi? No worries – transform your iPhone into a wireless modem". itbusiness.ca (ITworldcanada.com). Retrieved 21 February 2010.
- Angelo, Denise; Butler, Sue (1998), Australian Phrasebook: Language Survival Kit, Lonely Planet, p. 22, ISBN 0-86442-576-7
- Battersby, Vanessa; Smitz, Paul; Blake, Barry (2007), Australian Language & Culture: No Worries!, Lonely Planet, p. 33, ISBN 1-74059-099-6
- Biber, Douglas; Finegan, Edward (1994), Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register, Oxford University Press US, p. 63, ISBN 0-19-508364-4
- Bowe, Heather Joan; Martin, Kylie (2007), Communication Across Cultures: Mutual Understanding in a Global World, Cambridge University Press, p. 56, ISBN 0-521-69557-0
- Cryer, Max (2006), The Godzone Dictionary: Of Favourite New Zealand Words and Phrases, Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand: Exisle Publishing Limited, ISBN _PHONE_
- Goddard, Cliff (2006), Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context, Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN 3-11-018874-0
- Hoffmann, Thomas; Lucia Siebers (2009), World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 119–121, ISBN _PHONE_
- Lewis, Richard D. (2005), When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, p. 209, ISBN 1-904838-02-2
- New York Times staff (2001), The New York Times Book Reviews 2000, Taylor & Francis, p. 1499, ISBN 1-57958-058-0
- Moon, Rosamund (1998), Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-Based Approach, Oxford University Press, p. 271, ISBN 978-0-19-823614-6
- Morrison, Terri; Conaway, Wayne A.; B


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Chapter 5-Statistical Treatment of Data, Data Interpretation, and Reliability
Pages: 6 Published: Jan 2005
MOST PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL measurements, performed under nominally identical conditions, yield differing data. The results of corrosion tests are no exception. Sometimes the difference between values is less than the measurement accuracy and cannot be detected. At other times the difference approaches the magnitude of the values. Unfortunately, corrosion test data tend to be in the latter category more often than in the former.
Paper ID: MNL11011M
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Episode 111: Motorcycle Flip
Air Date: October 29, 2008
Throwing a wooden pole into the spokes of a motorbike's front wheel will cause it to flip. (Based on a scene in the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.)
The Mythbusters first obtained a bike similar to the type used during filming of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. They built a mechanized rig that could fire a pole at human-like speeds. During a full-scale test with the bike moving at a speed of 40 miles per hour, the bike snapped the wooden pole without stopping, busting the myth. Undeterred, The MythBusters decided to redo the test with a steel pole. Although the steel pole did stop the bike, it skidded instead of flipping, definitively busting the myth. The team analyzed the movie scene and discovered that explosives were used to flip the bike. They then built a mortar and used it to flip the bike in an elaborate recreation of the movie scene.
While escaping prison, you could climb down a wall using a rope made of toilet paper.
To compensate for toilet paper's low tensile strength, Tory twisted it into multiple yarns to create rope. After creating the rope, Tory found that it was strong enough to support his weight. During a test climbing down a courthouse, Tory had difficulty keeping a firm grip on the rope. Nonetheless, the Build Team declared the myth plausible.
While escaping prison, you could climb down a wall using a rope made of bedsheets.
Grant found that making his bedsheet rope was very easy and quick in comparison to the toilet paper and hair ropes. During the test, the rope held Grant's weight and he successfully descended to the ground.
While escaping prison, you could climb down a wall using a rope made of hair.
In order to make a rope, Kari braided numerous ponytails together, with some difficulty. Despite initial doubts, she managed to successfully climb down the hair rope. The Build Team declared this myth plausible since getting the necessary amount of hair to create a rope would be extremely impractical.
 1. Richard Landgraff says:
 If you slow the Indiana Jones movie down, you will see he is pushing the tapered and pointed BROKEN end of the pole through the spokes. Much more plausible than the squared ends the Mythbusters tried.
 - MSpears says:
 It makes no difference, Richard. The point is, the bike would have skidded, not flipped. THAT was what they were testing.
 Maybe if the myth was "Is it easier to push a pole with a tapered end through the spokes of a moving motorcycle wheel", THEN it would make a difference.
 - Dstephens80 says:
 My issue with the bike flip is that they changed the front wheel to make it stronger. Seems to me if they used a regular wheel the flag pole would have broke the spokes causing the wheel to collapse which would have buried the front fork into the ground causing an immediate stop with no chance to skid potentially causing the flip they were seeking, minus the explosive dust ball of course.
 2. Adriana Castiglioni says:
 can you make mt. dew glow in the dark????????????
 3. Richard Akers says:
 I am just wondering why a tapered, pointed, broken end would make a difference on how the bike reacted to having something shoved through the spokes. I have spent quite a bit of time on a motor cycle, and have accidentally locked up the front brakes more than once. same result every time. Front tire slides. no flip.
 4. Alan Barbato Sr. says:
 hey i have a holiday myth for ya. i heard that a turkey will burst/explode if you deepfry it before you defrost it!?! happy holidays to all at mythbusters me and my family love to watch you all.
 ps. adam watch those eyebrows!! lol!
 5. nadine says:
 hey can you die from brainfreeze?????? not just one but like 40 or 80 brainfreeze??????????????????????????????????????
 much love
 - MSpears says:
 No, because brainfreeze isn't actually caused by your BRAIN getting cold, it's caused by overstimulation of the vagus nerves at the back of the throat.
 6. Zac says:
 How High Do You Have To Be To Injure Yourself While Attempting To Jump Into Water Because One Of My Friends Said Someguy Died Parashooting Off A plane And Landing Body First Into To Water.
 Also Mythbusters Is My Favourtie Show So When U Need A Kid To Spice Things Up Email Me!!! =]
 7. Ryan Lee says:
 i think you guys might need to do the motorcycle one again because each time i see the rod go inside, the motorcycle has already tipped over a bit. and if you guys are going to do it again, try using training wheel to keep it up straight
 8. Troy says:
 I have seen a motor cycle flip, when a stick had gotten it to the front spokes. In this situation it was on dirt and most of the spokes had broken, the front forks dug in to the ground and caused the bike and rider to flip end over end. It really did not go airborne as in the movie. In the situation the Mythbusters set up there was no way the bike would have flipped. Especially with the steel wheel Jamie made, the forks could not dig in like the situation I had see or would they on tarmac.
 - Bryce says:
 The key is when Adam says that if the wheel comes to a sudden stop from the flag pole being shoved through it the bike will keep its forward momentum and skid, but if they'd had kept the original spoked wheels it wouldn't come to an abrupt stop, but slow down very quickly, producing the same effect as slamming on the front brakes which can flip a bike forwards, I've done it on a four wheeler.
 - Bob says:
 I absolutely agree with your assessment. The test was invalidated and doomed to failure the moment Jamie built the unbreakable wheel. I know what it feels like to have a front wheel collapse and do a heady over the handle bars with the wheel collapsed. Not as explosive as the Jones movie special effects but bad enough. They really screwed up on this one.
 - Steve says:
 Thank You Bryce and Bob!!! Changing the wheel changed everything. It also didn't help that they tied a dummy from its back to the back of the motorcycle, thus changing the how the force would be distributed by the rider. Of course, that assumes that the dummy weighed anything close to a real person. I've been riding motorcycles since I was 9 and I'm 51. All anyone has to do is watch bikers performing rear "wheelie" acrobatics to know that a bike can flip from the front wheel stopping abruptly. But I also agree that it wouldn't get airborne like in the movie.
 - Vic says:
 No way this myth was properly busted. Why? Because motorcycle stunters are capable of doing endos.
 Therefore, some combination of proper modulation of the front brake, and the cg of the deceleration forces of the rider on the bike can cause an effect similar to that of the movie.
 I call for a retest.
 - Jeremy says:
 I have personally flipped a Honda Shadow at 60 mph. The front wheel bearing seized and it was all over. It flipped three times, the first one tossing me forward like a very suprised ragdoll. I was not tied down to the back, the road surface was asphalt, and the tires had about 10,000 miles on them.
 - MSpears says:
 And I bet you learned a very important lesson, too.
 Inertia is PAINFUL. :-D
 9. billy and jorge says:
 in the movie Wanted it shows the you could curve a bullet is it true
 - MSpears says:
 They tested this myth. No, it isn't.
 10. tanner woehl says:
 your show is the best tv show ever i think they should put mythbusters on all the time i liked that one what will stop a speeding bullet in the shortest distance i think that would be CCCCooooooooooooooooLLLLLLL
 11. caleb says:
 i know that it is possible to flip a bike, my dad did it once when he was riding fast and then he put on the front brakes instead of the back brakes. Although, it was a normal bike not a motor bike.
 12. Tamdhy says:
 Please help me!!! I'm searching for the episode in which the boys test out a viral video that shows a toilet being exploded. I don't remember what they used on the video, but Jamie and Adam tested it using sodium and eventually potassium. It took a lot to actually make the toilet break apart. Can you identify which season and episode for me?
 13. D Two says:
 could an airplain drop the twin tower? and how? make a show on that, that would get u guys some good ratings!
 14. Parmanand Persaud says:
 Hello Mythbusters, I love your shows and I watch them all the time. I have an experiment that I would like to do with you guys. I am talking about going " GREEN" to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by 2% if this experiment is a success. The two main items are "WATER AND CARBON DIOXIDE. We know gas can be dissolve in water