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Surrey Police Federation is a branch of the Police Federation of England and Wales, who are the representative body to which every police officer below the rank of Superintendent belongs. It was established by the Police Act 1919 to provide the Police with a means of bringing their views on welfare and efficiency to the notice of the government and the Police Authorities.
All the elected officials of the Police Federation must be serving Police officers. Police officers are not permitted to belong to trades unions and must not take part in politics. Under the provisions of the Police Act, the police are forbidden to take industrial action and to incite anyone to do so is a criminal offence. Police pay, allowances, pensions and conditions of service are negotiated nationally in the Police Negotiating Board, which covers the United Kingdom Police service.
Following a police strike in London in 1918, and subsequent trouble between an unofficial body called the National Union of Police and Prison Officers and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, the Government appointed Lord Desborough to head a Committee of Inquiry into the Police Service.
The Committee reported in June, and recommended standard conditions of service for all police forces in Great Britain. The Home Secretary was to become directly responsible for the service, and an advisory Police Council was to be appointed.
Desborough also recommended that there should be a Police Federation to represent the interests of constables, sergeants, inspectors and chief inspectors on matters affecting their welfare and efficiency.
The Government quickly accepted the Desborough Report and the pay scales he recommended. This meant a substantial improvement in police pay for most forces. It was also announced that, following the passages of the Police Act and the setting up of the Police Federation, members of the police forces would no longer be allowed to belong to a trade union, meaning the end of the Police Union. A second strike, called in defiance of the Police Act, was a failure: only on Merseyside was there a large response from the police, and rioting had to be put down by military intervention. All 2,000 strikers were dismissed.
1920 – First meeting of the Police Council The first meetings of the Police Council of England and Wales drew up new Police Regulations which were approved by Parliament. Many local authorities strongly objected to the new powers of the Home Secretary and complained about the high level of police wages.
The Police Pensions Act standardised pensions for all police forces. However, by requiring officers to serve for 30 years, instead of 26 years, for their maximum pension entitlement, in many areas conditions were worsened.
The Home Secretary told the Joint Central Committee that a pay cut for provincial forces, as recommended by the Geddes Committee on Public Expenditure, could only be avoided by savings in other areas. It was agreed that there should be: a cut in rent allowances and the abolition of tax refunds on them; a 'levy' of 2.5% of pay; reductions in plain clothes and subsistence allowance; overtime was to start after nine hours duty instead of eight. The 'levy' was considered a temporary measure.
The agreement at the Police Council split the JCC and aroused bitter protests from branch boards. It was a major blow to confidence in the new Federation.
The levy was renewed for another year. In July, the Government yielded to pressure from the local authorities and reconvened Lord Desborough's Committee to reconsider the pay scales it had drawn up in 1919.
Desborough reported that the Committee saw no reason to alter police pay, saying that it was not the right time for "disturbing an agreement come to so recently".
Following disagreement at the Police Council, a Committee under Lord Lee recommended that the deductions from pay and rent allowances should be ended, but that pension contributions should be doubled to 5%.
The year of the General Strike saw the Times newspaper set up a National Police Fund, in response to public's gratitude for the work of the service.
The Police (Appeals) Act gave members of the police service a limited right of appeal against disciplinary decisions.
The JCC was unable to find a secretary after Station Sergeant Berry resigned because there were no official facilities. After much argument, the Home Secretary agreed to an annual grant of £300 a year to cover all Federation expenses, and agreed that the JCC Secretary, although not a full-time Federation official, would be given 'every facility' to do the work.
The Police Council convened, for the first time since 1925, to discuss the Home Office proposal for a National Police College to train the higher ranks. The scheme was accepted by all bodies represented on the Police Council, but was abandoned because of the economic crisis the following year.
The Home Office agreed that the new JCC Secretary, Constable Albert Goodsall of the Metropolitan Police, should be the first full-time official of the Federation.
The May Committee on National Expenditure recommended a cut of 12.5% in police pay as part of general cuts in public spending, phased over two years. May also recommended the abolition of the right to retire on 'half pay' pensions after 25 years' service.
A sub-committee of the Police Council recommended that there should be no change in pensionable pay, but that there should be 'temporary deduction'. The sub-committee was divided on the pensions issue, but a majority proposed that the pay of new entrants should be reduced.
The Government decided to reduce police pay by 10% in two instalments of 5%, taking into account the reduction in police pay when pension contributions were increased in 1925.
The Federation held a series of mass meetings of the membership to protest against the pay cuts.
A Committee, under Sir George Higgins, recommended that the pay of new entrants to the police should be lower than the pay of existing officers. The Government accepted the report and two scales of pay, 'A' for existing officers and 'B' for recruits, were introduced.
Lord Trenchard, the Metropolitan Commissioner, persuaded the Home Secretary to ban the Federation from holding Open Meetings, on the grounds that they were being used to make protests against Government policy.
The JCC submitted a resolution to the Home Secretary which drew attention to 'dissatisfaction in the Force'.
Lord Trenchard's Annual Report for 1932 contained a strong attack on the Metropolitan Branch Boards, accusing them of attempting to stir-up discontent in the force and of issuing a steady stream of propaganda against his policies.
The Commissioner's Report also contained his proposals for a Metropolitan Police College, which would train bright young officers and recruit others from public schools and universities. After graduating from the college, the students would be given the rank of Junior Station Inspectors.
A scheme to recruit constables on ten-year contracts in the Metropolitan Police was announced. These officers would not qualify for promotion or permanent appointments, but would be paid a gratuity on completing their engagement.
The Trenchard proposals were embodied in the Metropolitan Police Act of 1933, and amongst other provisions, Metropolitan chief inspectors were taken out of membership of the Police Federation.
The 10% pay 'cut' was reduced by one-half (and abolished altogether the following year).
1939 – World War Two impacts on the service With the outbreak of war, the right of police officers to retire on pension was suspended, and they were classed as a reserved occupation. Thousands of officers who were military reservists were called up and their places were taken by temporary police officers, members of the wartime Police Auxiliary Service.
For the first time since Desborough, police pay was increased, thanks to a five shillings a week supplementary payment to take into account wartime inflation, plus a war duty allowance of three shillings in lieu of overtime. This only applied to men receiving less that £5 a week.
A Committee, under Lord Snell, reported that the pensions of police widows and the allowances paid to dependent children should be increased, provided that the pension contribution was increased to 7%. The Federation opposed any increase in contributions and the Snell Report was shelved. The JCC Chairman, Inspector Strangeways, resigned after being censured for supporting increased contributions.
The ban on Open Meetings, imposed in 1932, was lifted.
After a long period of strained relations between the Federation and the wartime Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison, the entire JCC was summoned to the Home Office where they were told they were entitled to submit representations. However if Morrison refused their requests, it was their job to justify his decisions to their membership, not to continue to press their claims.
'Scale B', the lower pay scale for post-1932 recruits, was abolished. Police pay was formally increased for the first time since 1919.
The ban on married women serving in the police service was lifted.
The Report of the Police Council Committee on Rent Allowances recommended that the rent allowance should be high enough to reimburse the reasonable rent and rates of all members occupying unfurnished rent property. New maximum allowances of 30 shillings for the provinces and 35 shillings for London were recommended, and these proposals were accepted by the Government. The system by which police authorities paid a compensatory grant in respect of income tax on rent allowances was also introduced.
The National Police College was established, offering higher training for serving officers. Hendon Police College had closed in 1939, and had not been reopened.
A 'London Allowance' was introduced for the first time, starting at £10 a year for constables.
The Oaksey Committee of Inquiry into the Police Service published its First Report after a lengthy examination of pay and conditions of service. Oaksey recommended a modest pay increase, conditional upon police officers agreeing to 'average'; i.e. to have their pensions based on the their average pensionable pay over the last three years of their service.
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Graffathon is a three-day computer graphics hackathon aimed for novices. Every participant will create a computer program that produces a non-interactive multimedia presentation also known as demo. The event is targeted at real beginners who have no previous graphics coding and/or demoscene experience. The demos can be made in small groups of two or three people. One can also make the demo by themselves or find a group at the event.
The program consists of helpful presentations and workshops which guide you on how to create your first demo. In addition, we teach you the basics of demoscene and democulture.

source: m-a-p/FineFineWeb


X-properties->string
Name
X-properties->string -- Prints the X properties of WIN into a string.
Synopsis
(X-properties->string #&optional (win (get-window))
 (recurse #t))
Description
Prints the X properties of WIN into a string. WIN is a window object, an X window id, or 'root-window. If RECURSE is non-#f, also list properties of referenced windows.
Implementation Notes
Module:
Defined in scheme/xprop-extras.scm at line 192 (CVS log)


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The 2023 Bimota DB was a motorcycle manufactured by Bimota in Rimini, Italy. The First impression of Bimota DB 2023 is good. The Bimota DB is an awesome bike. The quality and attention to detail that has been given to make the DB are very impressive. The Bimota DB 2023 is as successful as Bimota's first Ducati-powered bike, it will go a long way to restoring health after the 500 Vdue disasters. DB stands for Ducati Bimota, i.e the first Bimota powered by a Ducati engine compared to, for example, the SB3 – Suzuki, Bimota, the third design.
2023 Bimota DB Design
The shape 2023 Bimota DB was unusually organic with a High profile, narrowing into a square headlight enclosed in a bezel inspired by a Ferrari Daytona's nose. The body seemed to flow from the headlight directly to the seat, closing the steering head and creating a straight line that gave the Mantra its unusual proportions. The 16-liter fuel tank was split into wings that flanked the frame, ostensibly to lower the center of gravity and provide more space for the long-distance downstream inlets raised from the 900SS while retaining a low silhouette. The electrical system was powered by a pair of 12-volt batteries wired in parallel, mounted above the front cylinder behind the oil cooler with the intake channel passing between them, as Bimota considered a single battery to be inadequate for application and two smaller units would be made easier to pack in design.
The 2023 Bimota DB was a curious signature of Bimota to run two 6-volt batteries in series to power a 12-volt system, so the Bimota DB seemed to update the strange practice. A small glove compartment was incorporated into the back of the tank in front of the seat. The clips were mounted on top of the top triple in four-inch lifts to give the required upright seating position. At the top of the cabin was an ostentatious burlwood wood control panel with an analog speedometer and tachometer surrounded by carbon fiber bowling pins. Despite the presence of only two cylinders, Lakic thought it appropriate to install four exhaust drums. A swoopy belly pan and a body-colored rear hitch completed the abbreviated bodywork, which was not wholly bare or closed, providing an insight into the mechanical operation of the machine while maintaining some protection from the wind.
2023 Bimota DB Reliability
The Bimota DB is a phenomenal handling machine and is a bit more agile and has faster steering than the Ducati 1098. It's a fickle beast to set up and is unlikely to be perfect for you from the box as the suspension needs care. Configuration to suit the weight and driving style of the rider. Once the fully adjustable ExtremeTech 2v4 rear shock absorber and 43mm Marzocchi Corse RAC forks are ready. The Bimota DB models came with Continental tires, which had no front feel or rear grip but are now equipped with Pirelli Super Corsa, which are excellent. Brembo Monobloc clamps would stop a high-speed train with sixpence, but it's hard to use all its power, as it's almost impossible to hold on with severe braking. The tank is too narrow to lock it with your knees, so you'll need to use all your strength to stop with your arms, which can cause fatigue to the rider.
2023 Bimota DB Suspension
The front suspension was courtesy of the conventional 43 mm Paoli fork with Bimota signature, combined with a length-adjustable Paoli shock absorber at the rear. The geometry of the chassis was virtually the same as that of the DB2 with a steel grille despite being a completely new design wheelbase of 54 inches, a 24-degree rake, and 3.6 inches of travel. The 17-inch three-spoke Marchesini alloy wheels were shared with the Ducati 900SS, which contributed to the design. The brakes everywhere were, with four-piston axial mounting P4 clamps biting 320mm floating cast iron Brembo discs at the front and a caliper of two pistons with 230 mm rotor at the rear.
2023 Bimota DB Engine
The engine selected for the Bimota DB was an unmodified air-cooled 904 cc Ducati SOHC twin that would have powered the contemporary 900SS, the same unit that had been widely used in the DB2. With the Bimota costume, the 92x68mm evergreen twin was powered by a pair of 38mm Mikuni carburetors with its own airbox design. This configuration produced 86 hp and 66 lb/ft of torque on the crankshaft usually in the 70 hp range measured on the wheel, which was so close to the same numbers that Ducati claimed for the 900SS. Anyone who complained about the powertrain should have directed their anger at Ducati, not Bimota. Or whoever was in charge of specifying the carburetor installed in the factory.
A good move because the air-cooled 904 cc is an excellent engine and fits the Bimota DB perfectly. The best thing about DS is that it has enough time to be fun. Enough noise and vibration to have character. But it's still soft enough to be one really good road bike engine. It's not the fastest by far, but Ducati has focused on giving 904 a wide torque dispersion as well as a very smooth gearbox. In first gear, the instantaneous stroke is enough to lift the front wheel without trying and at all times there is always enough thrust. Unfortunately, the clutch is heavy. But DB is unlikely ever to be used as a passenger, it's not really a problem.


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GenerateData
GenerateData is an advanced scripting action designed to create dynamic 'items' to use elsewhere in a script.
There are 4 types of GenerateData configuration which you can use within your script. When you add the action to your script, select the type you want to add:
 - Email
 - Number
 - Data
 - String
 - Password
Email
If you need to create unique email addresses so as not to always use the same one and therefore be rejected by the target website's validation, you can create a 'consistently unique' email format. This means you can easily search for, identify and delete accounts registered from User Journeys using the defined format. Part of the email addresses used is always consistent (i.e. always starts with "test"), and part is randomised so every address is unique.
 1. Enter a Name. This will create a Script Variable to recall elsewhere in your script using this name.
 2. Enter this into the Format: rapidtest+%_EMAIL_
 3. Enter this in the Parts attribute: %random_string%
GenerateItem Email address
The "%s" in the Format will be replaced by "%random_string%" Parts. This will produce an email address such as:
 - _EMAIL_
 - _EMAIL_
 - _EMAIL_
If you wish to increase the randomisation you can add the random string twice. Just add an extra "%s" to the Format and then a second "%random_string%" to the Parts (comma separated).
 - Format: test+%s%_EMAIL_
 - Parts: %random_string%,%random_string%
Number
This setting generates randomised numbers into formats that can include pre-defined alphabetical characters.
The Format option is free text so you can enter anything into it. Any hash symbols (#) will be replaced with a random number between 0 and 9. Examples:
 - 0161 ### #### – 0161 _PHONE_ (landline phone number with pre-defined area code)
 - +447######### – +447882847294 (mobile number with pre-defined country code)
 - PR##-##-A# – PR51-08-A1 (random product/SKU code to a pre-defined format)
 - AW## #DB – AW13 9DB (random post code for a specific area)
This example will generate a random UK mobile number into the variable name.
Date
Format
The format dictates how the date will be generated and can be used for producing whole or part dates and times. Format options can be found here. If you wish to enter a character and not have it interpreted into its corresponding format option, then it must be escaped with a backward slash (\).
 - Y-m-d – this would produce a date such as "2022-08-27"
 - H:i:s – this would produce a time such as "10:55:25"
 - Y-m-d H:i:s \(\B\S\T\) – this would produce a full timestamp including a set timezone in brackets "2022-10-05 09:59:15 (BST)" (note the backward slashes to escape the brackets and timezone characters)
 - Y – this will simply produce the year such as "2022"
If you require multiple date parts to use separately then you will need to use multiple Date actions, one per date part.
Transform
This option can be used to dynamically change the date and time returned using a plain text expression. If no Transform option is given then the date and time will default to the server's current timestamp in UTC.
Some examples of plain text transform expressions:
 - "+7 days" – this will produce a date that is +7 days ahead of the server's current date when the test runs
 - "next Monday" – this will produce the date of the next Monday
 - "last year" – this will produce the current date, minus one year
 - "+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds" – this will produce the date to the provided Format but exactly 1 week, 2 days, 4 hours and 2 seconds in the future
Note: the date produced will always be relative to the server's current date and time in UTC when it runs a test of your script.
This example generates a "Y-m-d" formatted date 7 days in the future.
String
This type generates randomised strings. Whilst very similar to the Password GenerateItem type, this type will only use alphabetical characters. Its intended use was for generating random names or addresses.
The Transform option allows you to specify the case of the string. Available options are: 'UpperFirst', 'UpperAll', 'LowerAll'.
Password
This type simply generates random passwords and doesn't have any additional options as the others do.
Whilst similar to the random string type, this type differs because it will randomly upper and lowercase the characters, includes numbers and adds two special characters.
The two special characters will be selected randomly from this list: ! ? [ ] { } * £ @
Use in a Journey
You can recall the value you have created in other actions within your script. You can identify it by writing $ScriptVariable.name. For a more in depth guide about recalling items later in your script, see script variables.
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Chewing: We don't think about it, we just do it. But biologists don't know a lot about how chewing behavior leaves telltale signs on the underlying bones. To find out, researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo have been studying the jaw joints of carnivorans, the large mammalian order that includes dogs, cats and bears.
Last week, the scientists described results that they didn't expect to find. In the paper, published online on Aug. 24 in PLOS ONE, they reported that the jaw joint bone, the center around which chewing activity revolves (literally), appears to have evolved based more on an animal's size than what it eats.
While focused on carnivorans, the research may also provide some clues to how jaw joints function in general, including in humans and could improve the understanding of temporomandibular disorders (TMJ), which cause pain in the jaw joint and in the muscles that control the jaw.
"Even though it is clear that the carnivoran jaw joint is important for feeding, no one knew if jaw joint bone structure across species was related to the mechanical demands of feeding," explained M. Aleksander Wysocki, first author and a doctoral student in the new computational cell biology, anatomy and pathology graduate program in the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences in the Jacobs School.
Wysocki and co-author Jack Tseng, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences in the Jacobs School, took a multifaceted approach. They examined 40 different carnivoran species from bobcats to wolves, looking at the jaw joint bone called the mandibular condyle.
The jaw's pivot point
"The mandibular condyle is the pivot point of the jaw, it functions similarly to the way the bolt of a door hinge does," Wysocki said. "Studies have shown that this joint is loaded with force during chewing."
He noted that the team was especially interested in the intricate, spongey bone structures inside the jaw joint, also known as trabecular bone. "We thought that this part of the skull would be the best candidate for determining relationships between food type and anatomy."
For example, because hyenas crush bone while consuming their prey, it could be assumed that their jaw joints would need to be capable of exerting significant force. "On the other hand, an animal that eats plants wouldn't be expected to require that kind of jaw joint structure," he said. "But we found that diet has a weaker relationship with skull anatomy than we thought. Mostly it's the animals' size that determines jaw joint structure and mechanical properties."
The researchers took computed tomography (CT) scan data of skulls from 40 species at the American Museum of Natural History, then built 3D models of them, from which they extracted the internal bone structure. Using a 3D printer, the scientists then printed 3D cores, based on virtual "core samples" taken from the mandibular condyle of each jaw joint, which they then scaled and tested for strength.
"Using a compression gauge, we measured how rigid these jaw joint structures were and how much force they could withstand," Wysocki said.
No significant correlation
The testing revealed no significant correlations between the shape or mechanical performance of the jaw joint bone and the diets of particular carnivorans.
"The mandibular condyle absorbs compressive force during chewing so we hypothesized that this was a part of the skull that was likely to be influenced by what the animal eats," Wysocki said. "It turns out that body size is the key factor determining the complexity of jaw joint bone structure and strength."
He noted that some previous research has revealed that despite the wide variety of diets consumed by different carnivorans, the overall skull shape is considerably influenced by non-feeding variables.
"Still, given how critical the temporomandibular joint is in capturing prey and eating it, these results are very striking," he said. "For over a century, it has been assumed that skull shape is closely related to what an animal eats. And now we have found that jaw joint bone structure is related to carnivoran body size, not what the animal is eating."
Wysocki said that the reasons for this apparent disconnect may be that larger carnivorans don't need such powerful jaws because they are proportionately larger than their prey, or possibly because they share the work involved by hunting in groups. He also said that other factors such as developmental constraints of bone structure could play a role in producing the trends observed in the study.
"Our research shows that factors other than diet need to be considered when attempting to understand jaw joint function," Wysocki concluded. "It turns out that the functional anatomy of the jaw joint is much more complex than we thought."
For the record, the findings revealed that the species that demonstrated the greatest maximum compressive strength during chewing force simulations, was the wolverine (Gulo gulo), followed by the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), the malagasy civet (Fossa fossana), the honey badger (Mellivora capensis) and the kinkajou (Potos flavus).
source : sciencedaily.com

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


Friday Jan 03, 2014
ODI 12c - Components and LKMs/IKMs
Here I'd like to illustrate some nice capabilities of ODI 12c's knowledge module framework in combination with the new component based mapper. Some of this was prompted from recent questions from Holger Friedrich (on migration from OWB..'where is delete'), Stewart Bryson and Mark Rittman (on components and KMs here) and a general nagging thought I had that people were generally unaware of the capabilities. There's a lot more we can illustrate and talk about in this area, so this is a little taster...
Customized loading, integration and error management can be defined using knowledge modules. There is a text based substitution library that makes building such knowledge modules very easy - especially with the abundance of examples - plus the substitution reference documentation is a good reference guide (intro here, reference here). This can be used in harmony with ODI 12c components. In 12c we have modularized a lot and introduced components (components are logical and describe the WHAT of the transformation, component KMs describe the HOW, just like regular KMs), also we have formalized some parts of the framework but it is still as open as ever.
In supporting the odiRef substitution library we have chosen a similar approach to how the sub-select worked in 11g. If you want to build your own integration you can use the odiRef methods to get the target shape, details, connection etc. The source for the target, just like in 11g is provided via the odiRef methods also and may be rolled into the odiRef.getFrom method.
To illustrate, if you want to perform an integration to do a delete operation, then the following snippet is sufficient - in 11g or 12c (the code in red is boiler plate). In ODI 12c you can now have an arbitrary mapping graph leading up to the target;
 1. DELETE FROM <%=odiRef.getTable("L","TARG_NAME","A")%> T
 2. WHERE (<%=odiRef.getTargetColList("", "[COL_NAME]", ", ", "\n", "UK")%> )
 3. IN
 4. (
 5. select * from (
 6. <%for (int i=odiRef.getDataSetMin(); i <= odiRef.getDataSetMax(); i++){%>
 7. <%=odiRef.getDataSet(i, "Operator")%>
 8. SELECT <%=snpRef.getColList(i,"", "\t[COL_NAME]", ",\n", "", "UK")%>
 9. FROM <%=odiRef.getFrom(i)%>
 10. WHERE (1=1) <%=snpRef.getJoin(i)%> <%=snpRef.getFilter(i)%> <%=snpRef.getGrpBy(i)%> <%=snpRef.getHaving(i)%>
 11. <%}%>
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For example in the mapping below, I am using the subquery filter component to identify some rows that I then want to DELETE from the CONTACT_LIST target. The integration type property on target datastores was introduced in 12c and supports a set number of integrations to help filter the IKMs, if you select None, you can pick any IKM applicable for the technology.
If you look at the physical design for the above mapping you can now pick the IKM which performs the delete, the subquery filter also has a component KM which produces code, this code is rolled into the odiRef methods in the template. This then lets arbitrary map designs to be created and still build customized KMs for loading, integrating and error management. The odiRef substitution methods are simple text based APIs for producing text based on simple primitives.
This then produces the following SQL statement to perform the DELETE DML, our IKM has no knowledge of how to construct subquery filter, pivot or any other complex transformation - the code has been modularized. The code produced is below;
 2. IN (
 6. = SOME (
 7. SELECT
 9. FROM
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 14. )
Another useful illustration of things working in harmony is related to the improved code generation for Oracle connectivity - the basics of database links have been greatly improved (no more requirements for view on source, but still supported). The framework change in order to support this will have more use cases down the line too. Now you can use the 12c database link LKMs to pull data from tables over a database link and leverage custom IKMs on the target. One of the 11g issues was related to the requirements the 11g Oracle to Oracle database link LKM placed on users, this has been greatly improved, you can now take advantage of this, plus use existing IKMs, build new ones etc.
The mapping above uses new 12c LKMs to access remote Oracle datastores and a customized IKM to illustrate the mix and match capabilities.
Hopefully this gives you some background and insight into the ODI 12c mapping and knowledge module capabilities that you weren't aware of. Looking forward to any questions and additional ideas, insights that you have.
Wednesday Sep 09, 2009
The techniques that we will leveraged for this are the following:
All the objects mentioned in this article can be downloaded. Save
this XML file
 - Name your target table
Interface Definition Tab
SAMPLER_ID number(3)
SAMPLER_NAME varchar2(30)
SAMPLER_PRICE number(10,2)
Sampler Interface Table Creation
 - Have a naming convention that is simplified
 - Limit the number of parameters
 - Limit the complexity of the code
 - RandomBool(): generate a 0 or a 1
For our example, we will build the following mappings:
Column Mapping
SAMPLER_ID RandomNumber(1,999)
SAMPLER_NAME RandomString('A', 1, 30)
SAMPLER_PROMOTION case when RandomBool()=0 then 'FALSE'
else 'TRUE'
SAMPLER_PRICE RandomDecimal(1,10000)
In ODI, the mappings will look like this:
Sampler Interface Mappings
Sampler IKM
10,000 records generated in 5 seconds
Statistics are available in the Operator interface.
Sampler Stats
 - Use the same logic to create your interface
Data Integration Showcased at OpenWorld 2009
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Administration Provided by Computer Support Group
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Computer Support Group (CSG) provides full support for desktop and laptop computers on the ECE network based on the following conditions:
- The installation meets the operating system requirements set forth by ECE's Service Level Agreement (SLA).
- The installation has been performed by a CSG member.
- The installed operating system is managed through one of the Georgia Institute of Technology's (GT) enterprise directory technologies ("GTAD" for Windows or "GTED" for Linux).
- Installation is for computers owned by the Georgia Institute of Technology only; installation on a personally owned system is not permitted.
- The CSG maintains the Administrator/root password and is responsible for all security patches and updates to the system.
- The CSG will provide installations of or access to GT's licensed applications if and when necessary.
- Enhanced user account permissions can be provided, if necessary or applicable.
The ECE CSG will provide best-effort support for systems under the following conditions:
- The installation has been approved by the CSG through the help and support ticketing system (_EMAIL_).
- The CSG is notified of any distribution changes so we can keep our "database of information" up to date.
- The installation must meet the policies, standards, and procedures set forth by ECE's SLA as well as those set forth by the Office of Information Technology (OIT) for all of campus.
- A primary point of contact (POC) is established for each individual system. A valid Georgia Institute of Technology email address must be provided (_USER_.gatech.edu) by the POC.
- The POC is responsible for overseeing the timely application of all security patches and bug-fixes applicable to the operating system and its software applications.
- The POC is responsible for overseeing the security and integrity of the operating system and its software applications (e.g. monitoring for viruses, Internet worms, etc.).
The CSG will provide best effort support for the installation of GT licensed applications on systems not managed by the CSG, provided that the system is the property of GT and meets the criteria set above. In the event a non-CSG maintained system is determined to have been "compromised", it will be immediately removed from the network. It is then the POC's responsibility that the system be repaired or, if necessary, reinstalled before it will be allowed to reconnect to the network.
The following apply to both scenarios listed above. Further questions concerning this can be addressed to _EMAIL_:
- CSG centrally managed services (including, but not limited to, WWW, FTP, SQL, SVN) are not to be enabled on the system.
- Installations pertaining to booting of multiple operating systems are not permitted.
- Use of Virtual Machine software is not permitted without prior approval from the CSG through _EMAIL_.
- Software downloaded from ECE's Microsoft Imagine (formerly DreamSpark) program cannot be installed on GT owned computers. This is a violation of the DreamSpark program's license agreement.
Failure to comply with any of the above guidelines will result in the system being immediately disconnected from the network.
The ECE CSG is not approved to provide support for any hardware or software not purchased by GT (i.e., personally owned). For those, please contact the Technology Support Center (TSC).
Last revised September 19, 2016.


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Science says that air pockets are what makes a fluffy pancake. So, your major goal is to first obtain these bubbles in the batter, and then, solidify them.
These bubbles are formed from the release of gas, which is the product of adding baking powder to the pancake batter. When activated, baking powder performs its role as a chemical leavening agent, by producing CO2 gas. It is this gas that subsequently forms the bubbles.
The activation of the baking powder occurs in two stages:
- While mixing the ingredients: when you mix your dry and liquid ingredients, chemicals in the baking powder react, causing an initial and slow release of gas.
- When heating the batter: when you pour the batter onto a hot pan, a second, bigger burst of gas occurs.
This is exactly when pancakes get that exquisite fluffiness they are treasured for. The greater the heat, the more powerful is the release of gas.
Tip: you can't make fluffy pancakes with gluten-free flour. Without the elastic property of the gluten, the air pockets won't form in the batter.
As mentioned above, the next important step to getting fluffy pancakes is the solidification of the bubbles. This is also obtained during the heating process.
As soon as the batter hits the hot pan, less time than it takes for the bubbles to pop, the liquid in the batter cooks and turns to steam, the proteins in the egg coagulate, and the CO2 bubbles solidify into a network of air pockets. This produces the airy interior that gives a pancake its fluffy texture.
Keep in mind that the pan has to be hot enough (375 F.) to cause quicker activation of the baking powder, and subsequently, large bubbles and fluffiness.
Here are a few other important tips that'll help you get fluffy pancakes:
- Sugar slows the development of the gluten making the pancake softer, less rubbery, and less elastic. Sugar also aids browning.
- Salt also slows the development of the gluten, but it also produces a firmer dough.
- Fat will shorten the strands of gluten, reducing its elasticity. Therefore, substituting cream for milk would lead to a denser, less fluffy pancake.
- Flip the pancakes as gently as possible to avoid bursting the bubbles and making your pancakes very flat.


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Electrical Motor Control (Spring 2021)
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- TRC, Table Rock Campus, White City
- Spring 2021 lasts from Monday, April 5, 2021 to Friday, June 18, 2021
- Introduces the fundamentals of electric relay control of AC electric motors found in industrial and commercial manufacturing applications. Students will gain an understanding of the operation, installation, design, and control of AC electric motor control circuits, transformers, ladder logic controls, and control relays for many common applications. Students will also develop skills in interpreting schematics, system design, motor start/stop circuits, and motor sequence control. In addition, students will be introduced to systems troubleshooting, reversing motor controls, automatic input devices and basic timer controls. Students will continue to develop skills in interpreting schematics, system design, motor start/stop circuits, and motor sequence control. Safety is emphasized throughout, highlighting motor safety, lockout/ tagout and safety interlocks.
- Hybrid Classes: This course will run in hybrid format with some course content delivered in person and some online. Specific schedules will be sent out to students on what sessions to attend prior to the class starting. Information about Web-based classes and required orientations can be found at _URL_.
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Drought, floods to halve Sri Lanka's Yala 2017 rice crop
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ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is expecting paddy output during the minor Yala cropping season to fall 48 percent to 789,000 metric tonnes in 2017 from a year earlier amid lagging effects of last year's drought and floods in the wet zone.
Sri Lanka's main Maha season paddy output has already plunged 49 percent to an estimated 1.478 million tonnes, down from last year's record 2.9 million tonnes, the state Department of Agriculture said.
Rains returned in the first quarter of 2017 with floods in the Western and South-Western areas of the island, but major irrigation tanks in the dry zone remain at low levels.
Dry zone tanks are filled during the North Eastern monsoon in the last quarter of the year. Both monsoons failed in 2016, leading to low water levels for rice growing this year.
Floods in Colombo, Gampaha, Matara, Ratnapura and Hambantota destroyed 5,349 hectares of newly sown paddy, leading to 16,870 metric tonnes of crop losses.
This year, only about 400,000 hactares of rice is expected to be sown, down 20 percent from last year.
In a weather update in June the Department of Agriculture said dry weather will prevail in the dry and intermediate zones until mid-September with only occasional showers, which will not be enough to boost storage in irrigation tanks, requiring stringent water issue.
Total expected paddy output in 2017 would be 2.267 million tonnes, down 48 percent from last year's 4,420 million tonnes.
After setting aside stocks for seed paddy and wastage, 2.28 million tonnes of paddy is expected to be available for milling. About 1.38 million tonnes of rice is expected to be milled this year, generating a deficit of 978,00 tonnes of rice.
However, reliable data about stock with large-scale private domestic rice traders are not readily available.
The government cut import taxes on rice to allow traders to import rice. State agencies that are notorious for procurement corruption and buffer stock fraud are also planning to import 300,000 tonnes of rice.


text: Schemmer completed preliminary and final design of the two miles of 36-inch water main in Yankee Hill Road from S. 56th Street to S. 84th Street in Lincoln. The alignment was chosen to incorporate not only the existing ground elevations but also a future four-lane urban roadway that would involve significant changes to the existing roadway vertical profile. These profile changes required the water main to be up to 30 feet deep at times. A geotechnical investigation of the two-mile alignment was completed to determined soil parameters for excavation, backfilling over the pipe, stability of excavations, potential groundwater issues, potential for ground settlement and soil support of pipe joints against water pressures. The project also involved designing three cased bore locations under existing roads. Approximately 1,000 feet of rural water main were relocated during construction.


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Program «Multichannel frequency comparator»
Program "Multichannel frequency comparator" is designed to control the multichannel frequency comparator. The program provides processing and keeping of the measurement results of the phase difference, frequency difference and frequency instability.
Frequency comparator VCH-315/VCH-315M (the Comparator) is designed to measure the relative frequency difference and frequency signals instability of the time and frequency standards. It contains eight identical measuring channels and performs high precision phase and frequency comparison.
- verification of metrological parameters of precision frequency signals sources;
- time and frequency etalon systems;
- automatic measurement systems;
- scientific research measurements.
Download «Multichannel frequency comparator» v 2.21.04.125 (x32, x64, Windows)


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Administrator Job Description
Mission Statement
Role and responsibilities
 1. The Administrator is responsible to the Director and Board.
 2. To ensure all financial, filing and correspondence systems are in place and running efficiently.
Specific Tasks
 1. Update mailing lists to supporters and community agencies;
 2. Pursue funding agencies and complete funding applications as necessary;
 3. Maintain correspondence with supporter and community contacts;
 4. Prepare income and expenditure details for accountant;
 5. Respond to requests for information and general correspondence and necessary duties to run an efficient office;
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TUESDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Many first-year medical
students in the United States may have an unconscious preference
for white and upper social class people, but these biases don't
appear to affect patient care, according to the results of a survey
at one medical school.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researchers analyzed the
responses of 202 first-year medical students who took part in a
Web-based survey that included the Implicit Association Test (IAT),
used to assess unconscious (or "implicit") preferences.
The survey also included direct questions about the students'
race and class preference, and eight hypothetical patient
assessments, focusing on pain evaluation, informed consent, patient
reliability and patient trust.
The IAT results showed that 34 students (17 percent) had no
implicit race preference, 140 (69 percent) had a white preference,
and 28 (14 percent) had a black preference.
The test also showed that 174 students (86 percent) had an
implicit upper-class preference, 22 (11 percent) had no preference,
and six (3 percent) had a lower-class preference.
However, there was no link between implicit race or social
preferences and the students' performance on the patient
assessments, according to the study published in the Sept. 7
medical education theme issue of the
Journal of the American Medical Association.
Race and socioeconomic status are associated with health care
disparities among patients in the United States, Dr. Adil Haider
and colleagues noted in a journal news release. They said that
medical school could offer a good opportunity to decrease implicit
biases and possibly reduce doctor-related health care disparities,
although discussions with students suggest that may not be
"It has been recommended that medical education curricula focus on integrating cross-cultural education to reduce disparities; however, students have noted the existence of a 'hidden curriculum' in which what is taught about bias in the classroom differs starkly from in-hospital training experiences," Haider's team concluded.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more

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plzz#
Mapdl.plzz(rotvel='', deltarotvel='', **kwargs)#
Plots the interference diagram from a cyclic modal analysis.
APDL Command: PLZZ
Parameters
rotvel
Rotational speed in revolutions per minute (RPM) used to define the speed line. If blank, use the rotational speed (from OMEGA) specified in the prestressing step of the linear perturbation analysis. If explicitly input as 0, or if the linear perturbation was not used, no speed lines are plotted.
deltarotvel
Adds speed lines about the RotVel speed line corresponding to RotVel ± DeltaRotVel. Only plotted if RotVel is known.
Notes
PLZZ plots the cyclic modal frequencies as points on a frequency vs. harmonic index (nodal diameter) graph. If rotational speed (RotVel) is provided, the speed line is also plotted, leading to the interference diagram (also known as the SAFE or ZZENF diagram). If DeltaRotVel is also provided, two additional speed lines are plotted, enveloping the safe speed line itself.
For more information, see Postprocessing a Modal Cyclic Symmetry Analysis in the Cyclic Symmetry Analysis Guide.


text: Tempo is a declarative concurrent programming language based on classical first-order logic. It improves on traditional concurrent logic programming languages (e.g., Parlog) by explicitly specifying aspects of the behaviour of concurrent programs, namely their safety properties. This provides great advantages in writing concurrent programs and manipulating them while preserving correctness. The language has a procedural interpretation that allows the specification to be executed, also concurrently. Tempo is sufficiently high-level to simulate practical concurrent programming paradigms, and can act as a common framework in which algorithms for a variety of paradigms may be expressed, compared, and manipulated.


desafuero in French
1. (general) excès (m)
2. (ofensa) outrage (m)
Example Sentences
And the conversation went way beyond what he called, tongue in cheek, the "small matter" of the desafuero.
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As Narco News reported yesterday, Mexican public opinion has turned, sharply, against the desafuero, in favor of López Obrador, and against Fox's heir apparent Santiago Creel.
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Fox and Creel and the other desafuero-plotters are now, stuck with a "poster boy" for "respect for institutions" that is anything but one.
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Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
Aves > Passeriformes > Sittidae
Names in different Languages
GermanKanadakleiber
EnglishRed-breasted Nuthatch
FrenchSittelle à poitrine rousse
SpanishTrepador canadiense
Description
Red-breasted Nuthatch is one of the two Nuthatch species seen around Montreal. Energetic, acrobatic small bird feeding on conifer seeds in winter and insects in summer.
How to Identify
Two characteristics allow to distinguish this species from them more common White-breasted Nuthatch. First, the Red-breasted Nuthatch belly's is reddish and secondly, the bird has a black stripe from the beak over the eye to the neck. It is an acrobatic bird able to walk head down on tree trunks and on the bottom of branches.
Where When to Spot
In Montreal The Red-breasted Nuthatch is rarer than the White-breasted Nuthatch. The only sighting in Montreal occured in winter in Montreal Botanical Garden.
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2019-02-17Jardin Botanique de Montréal
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Butterfree is a Bug/Flying-type Pokémon from the first generation. It evolves from Metapod at Level 10, after evolving from Caterpie at Level 7.
Butterfree resembles a vaguely anthropomorphic butterfly with a purple body. Unlike true insects, it has two body segments and four light-blue legs. The upper legs resemble small, three-fingered hands, while the lower pair resemble long, digit-less feet, Butterfree has two long antennae. a light blue snout with two fangs underneath, and a large, red compound eyes. Its two pairs of veined are white with black accents. The oval scales of a female Butterfree's lower wings are black, but white in males.
It loves the honey of flowers and can locate flower patches that have even the tiniest amounts of pollen. Butterfree's are known for their migratory breeding pattern.
In the Anime
Ash's Butterfree was once a Caterpie that was captured by him, and when it fully evolved, it had mated with a Pink Butterfree and they haven't been seen in the series since.
Powers and Abilities
Butterfree can travel up to six miles from its nest in search for honey, which it carries on the hair of its legs. It consumes sap from trees pierced by Heracross (which was shown in the anime).
Also their wings are covered in poisonous powder that can repel water, allowing it to fly even in the rain. Butterfree is able to produce spores that can hinder foes (i.e. Poison Powder, Stun Spore, and Sleep Powder). It is able to learn Psychic-type moves (Confusion, Psybeam, Psychic, etc).
Its other abilities include:
- Compound Eyes - boosts the Pokémon's accuracy.
- Tinted lens - Doubles the power of this Pokémon's "not very effective attacks".
- Butterfree's name is the combination of butterfly and free (referencing its ability to fly after being grounded for its pre-evolution stages).
- Butterfree is the first Pokémon to have an alternate color, pink. This was displayed in a single female in the anime, unlike the other shiny Butterfree's that have green eyes, and pink wings, limbs, and snout, this Butterfree is differed in its pink body and wings.
- It is often seen as a parallel to Beedrill in several ways:
- Both their unevolved forms evolve at level 7, and again at later 10.
- Both go through a metamorphosis-like evolution and have the same base stat total of 395.
- While Beedrill is exclusive to Black and Black 2, Butterfree is exclusive to White and White 2.
- However Beedrill has a mega stone, while Butterfree (as of yet) does not.
- Butterfree shares its category with Beautifly. Both are known as the Butterfly Pokémon.


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The Greek island of Samos was one of the areas affected by the earthquake that struck in the Aegean Sea Friday.
The 6.6 magnitude tremor, centered off Turkey's Izmir province, caused destruction in Turkey as well as on some Greek islands.
Anadolu Agency Video News (AAVN) videoed damaged buildings, vehicles and destruction on the island of Samos four days after the disaster.
The people of the island have been trying to heal their wounds as they mourn the death of two teenagers.
The young victims of the earthquake were students, a girl aged 15 and a boy aged 17. Severe damage was observed in 300 homes and over 70 workplaces on the island, according to initial estimates.
Many vehicles near the sea were reportedly submerged and businesses were damaged by a small-scale tsunami that occurred after the earthquake.
The National Observatory of Athens' Institute of Geodynamics initially put the magnitude of the quake at 6.6 but later revised it to 6.7.


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Boscardin, M. L. (2005). The administrative role in transforming secondary schools to support inclusive evidence-based practices. American Secondary Education, 33(3), 21-32.
The role of secondary administrators, including but not limited to principals, guidance directors, curriculum supervisors, department chairs, and special education directors, is important to the success of students with disabilities. Administrators equipped with the knowledge and skills to support the implementation of evidence-based practices of teachers in inclusive and accessible instructional environments are poised to be effective advocates of improved educational outcomes of all students. In this paper, we examine two ways in which administrators facilitate the development, adoption, use, and evaluation of evidence-based educational interventions within secondary schools. One considers refocusing the administrator role from one of manager to one of effective instructional leader. The other focuses on key leadership strategies for improving the instructional practices of teachers and the educational outcomes of students with disabilities.


PPC adopts measure to combat CO2-related cost swings
The main power utility PPC and energy ministry have decided to adopt a CO2 emission right costs-related clause designed to increase electricity tariffs when CO2 costs are elevated and decrease them when these emission right costs are lower.
The power utility was driven to adopt this measure, whose details still remain unknown, to combat current pressure on its share price and improve finances for better terms in capital markets.
To be implemented at the beginning of 2019, the measure is expected to be officially announced within the next two to three days.
Given the higher CO2 emission rights costs, which have quadrupled over the past year or so, the measure is expected to prompt tariff hikes for the time being.
Meanwhile, in another energy sector development, authorities have decided to reduce a RES-supporting surcharge (ETMEAR) imposed on electricity suppliers as a result of the RES special account's surplus figures.


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The Talakhaya Revegetation Project was implemented in 2006, where community planting efforts were greatly increased to reduce impacts of decades of deforestation by illegal burning.
The 14 minute, locally shot and produced documentary highlights the challenges they face with burning and soil erosion, the revegetation efforts of the community, and the project's successes over the last 5 years to reduce sediment from running off of the land and polluting adjacent coral reef ecosystems. The short film will air immediately following Channel 2's evening news programs.
Funding for the film and the Rota DLNR headed revegetation program has come from the U.S. Coral Reef Initiative.
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Record of Leaf and Pollen cf. Sloanea (Elaeocarpaceae) from the Middle Siwalik of Darjeeling sub-Himalaya, India and its Palaeobiogeographic Implications
Journal of the Geological Society of India
Fossil leaf impressions and pollen grains comparable to modern Sloanea sp. of Elaeocarpaceae collected from the middle part of the Siwalik sediments (Geabdat Sandstone Formation; Pliocene) in Darjeeling foothills of eastern Himalaya are reported in the present communication. On the basis of macro morphological features, leaf remains are described as a new species Sloanea siwalika sp. nov. This is the first authentic record of the occurrence of leaf and pollen grains comparable to the genus Sloanea L. from the Cenozoic sediments of India and Asia as well. The recovery of this species and other earlier-described evergreen taxa from the same formation, suggests the existence of a tropical, warm and humid climatic conditions during the depositional period. The present study further suggests that after Pliocene the taxon might have shifted from Darjeeling Himalayan region to the adjoining southeast Asian land masses, due to possible climate change caused by post-Pliocene orogenic movement of the Himalaya.
More, Sandip; Rit, Rajarshi; Khan, Mahasin Ali; Paruya, Dipak Kumar; Taral, Suchana; Chakraborty, Tapan; and Bera, Subir, "Record of Leaf and Pollen cf. Sloanea (Elaeocarpaceae) from the Middle Siwalik of Darjeeling sub-Himalaya, India and its Palaeobiogeographic Implications" (2018). Journal Articles. 1450.


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1. (v) transfer to another; "communicate a disease"
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3. (v) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song"
4. (v) send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"
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The Mississippi Chronic Illness Coalition was formed in 1996 to improve the long-term health of all Mississippians and help reduce the impact of chronic health conditions affecting the state.
The MCIC has a statewide membership of over 200 individuals representing 120 organizations. The focus of the coalition's activities is expanding from diabetes to cardiovascular disease and other major health concerns. MCIC is raising awareness of these issues with the Know Your Numbers campaign.
Chronic Illnesses in Mississippi
Mississippi suffers disproportionately from chronic illnesses, and has some of the highest rates of chronic diseases in the nation. Among others, we are addressing:
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Kidney Disease
Risk Factors for Chronic Disease
- Smoking: Smoking is the single most important modifiable risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
- High Blood Pressure (Hypertension): High blood pressure also puts Mississippians at risk for cardiovascular diseases.
- High Blood Cholesterol: High cholesterol, especially when combined with hypertension, greatly increases the chances for a heart attack or stroke.
- Lack of Regular Physical Activity: Mississippi adults and youth fall well below recommended levels of daily physical activity, and Mississippi children are more sedentary and engage in more screen time than the national average.
- Overweight/Obesity: Mississippi ranked number one — the highest in the nation — in obesity in 2012.
- Preventive Health: Mississippi suffers from strong disparities in health care and preventive health services which could reduce the impact of chronic illnesses, improve lives, and reduce lifetime health-related costs.
MCIC Chronicles is the MCIC's newsletter, published periodically each year.


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The Dam Instrumentation Project is a major element of the Dam Safety Program at the district. The project will install state-of-practice automated geotechnical instrumentation at Almaden, Anderson, Calero, Chesbro, Coyote, Guadalupe, Rinconada Treated Water Reservoir, Stevens Creek, Uvas and Vasona dams to accomplish the following objectives:
- Monitor internal movement and water pressure at the ten district dams mentioned above.
- Develop a system at each dam that is capable of collecting, checking, recording, and archiving the collected data and alarming staff when parameters exceed set threshold limits.
The installed instrumentation will provide critical information to potentially identify needed capital improvements to ensure the structural integrity of the district's dams.


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Trends in Poverty and Social Indicators: An Update, PRCPB Working Paper No. 16
This paper provides an update of the changes that Bangladesh has undergone in terms of its poverty and social indicators over the last one and a half decades. Several key social and human development indicators have been considered which provides an analysis of the trends at both the national as well as the district levels.
The paper observes that Bangladesh has achieved notable progress in terms of poverty and social indicators over the past one and half decades. There are, however, significant variations between regions (districts) with respect to these achievements. The paper also pointed out that the country's health and nutrition programs, particularly those targeted towards mothers and children underwent some problems after 2000. As a result, the improvements in child and maternal health have slowed down. Therefore unless attention is paid to these matters, Bangladesh's progress on the MDG goals may seriously be hindered in these respects.
Trends in Poverty and Social Indicators:An Update, PRCPB Working Paper No. 16, Programme for Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh (PRCPB)/ Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), Manchester, UK, 37 pp.


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George Marshall House (museum)
Dating from 1870, the George Marshall House, is now maintained as a small art museum with modern painting and sculpture on display. There are also several abstract sculptures outside, and historic plaques about the site. These buildings have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
On our visit, the warehouse was just open, allowing visitors to wander through the building that has been wonderfully restored with period artifacts so that one has the complete illusion of stepping 300 years into the past. The nearby Marshall House is now an art museum and gift shop, which was also open, but unattended.
G. A. Marshall's
Old Line Store Est. 1867
Groceries. Coal. Wood
Here is the description of this site from the Old York Historical Society
which maintains it along with eight other museums.
The John Hancock Warehouse and George Marshall Store document three hundred years of commercial life along the York River. Of the many wharves and warehouses which fronted the river and York Harbor in the 18th century, the John Hancock Warehouse is the only remaining commercial building from the Colonial period in York. The York River was the town's major "highway" and played a significant role in York history. The river shaped the daily lives of townspeople in the 18th century and gave York a more cosmopolitan outlook and influence than most inland communities of that time.
The exact construction date of the warehouse is not known, but it is thought to date from the 1740s. Local historians cite Thomas Donnell as first owner of the wharf and builder of the warehouse. The Warehouse was later sold to Daniel Bragdon who came into financial difficulties during the Revolutionary War and was forced to borrow from Boston patriot John Hancock, mortgaging his warehouse interest in 1787. When Bragdon died four years later, the property passed to Hancock. John Hancock owned Bragdon's share of the property until his death in 1793.
The warehouse acted as a store and was likely used as the Customs House for the District Port of York. The customs collector collected taxes on ships coming into harbor loaded with china, fabrics, silver, furniture, and tea by way of London and Boston. Coasters that traded at ports from Nova Scotia to Georgia carried mail, grain, and furs. Barrel staves and hoops, tallow, apples and potatoes were exported from York to the West Indies.
John Hancock Wharf (warehouse)
The warehouse passed through several owners before George Marshall bought the site in 1867. Next door, he built the George Marshall Store and sold general merchandise as well as wood, building materials, and coal.
When Marshall died, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed his sister Adaline Marshall acting Collection of Customs for the Port of York. She was the only woman to ever serve that post in the United States. The port of York was closed by President William Howard Taft in 1913, one of his last acts before leaving his office.
Another sister, Katherine E. Marshall, took over her brother's business. When health forced Kate to give up the business in 1954 she turned the "Old Customs House" over to the Newcomen Society in North America. Restoration began in 1956 and was followed by a two-phase restoration in 1979 and 1980 when a new foundation was added and the entire wharf area was built up behind new pilings to protect the building from flooding. Old York acquired the building from the Newcomen Society in 1994. The majority of timbers and flooring are original.
The John Hancock Warehouse today contains an exhibit on York's maritime heritage and commerce on its upper floor while the ground floor has been faithfully restored to evoke the early 19th century Customs House for the port. Annual events such as "Fourth on the Wharf," a celebration of our nation's birth, are held on the riverside property. The George Marshall Store is now used for changing exhibits and lecture space for the organization.
The John Hancock Wharf
and Marshall House
The John Hancock Wharf is the earliest surviving wharf and warehouse from York's period as a colonial port, dating from the 1870s. Used as the town's first customshouse after the Revolution,m it is named for the Boston patriot John Hancock, who briefly owned it in the 1790s.
Next to the warehouse and fronting on Lindsay Road is the circa 1870 George Marshall Store. This structure was a center for mercantile activity along the York River for close to a century, selling not only a "general line" of goods, but also wood and coal, all unloaded at the wharf behind the building.
York River waterfront in a view taken about 1910. At the left is shown the Marshall Store with the Hancock Warehouse just behind and to the right. This rare image documents the twilight of the river trade with schooners docked and unloading goods at the Marshall Wharf. Within a few years, railroads would supercede water borne vessels for the transportation of goods and this age old method of trade would be eclipsed, leaving wharves empty and silent. Photograph collection of Old York Historical Society.


Customize CUDA Fortran Profiling with NVTX
The NVIDIA Tools Extension (NVTX) library lets developers annotate custom events and ranges within the profiling timelines generated using tools such as the NVIDIA Visual Profiler (NVVP) and NSight. In my own optimization work, I rely heavily on NVTX to better understand internal as well as customer codes and to spot opportunities for better interaction between the CPU and the GPU.
Two previous Pro Tip posts on Parallel Forall showed how to use NVTX in CUDA C++ and MPI codes. In this post, I'll show how to use NVTX to annotate the profiles of Fortran codes (with either CUDA Fortran or OpenACC).
NVTX has a lot of features, but here I'll focus on using it to annotate the profiler output with timeline markers using nvtxRangePush() and nvtxRangePop(). I'll show you how to insert markers with custom labels and colors. Continue reading
CUDA 7.5
Simple, Portable Parallel C++ with Hemi 2 and CUDA 7.5
The last two releases of CUDA have added support for the powerful new features of C++. In the post The Power of C++11 in CUDA 7 I discussed the importance of C++11 for parallel programming on GPUs, and in the post New Features in CUDA 7.5 I introduced a new experimental feature in the NVCC CUDA C++ compiler: support for GPU Lambda expressions. Lambda expressions, introduced in C++11, provide concise syntax for anonymous functions (and closures) that can be defined in line with their use, can be passed as arguments, and can capture variables from surrounding scopes. GPU Lambdas bring that power and convenience to writing GPU functions, letting you launch parallel work on the GPU almost as easily as writing a for loop.
In this post, I want to show you how modern C++ features combine to enable a higher-level, more portable approach to parallel programming for GPUs. To do so, I'll show you Hemi 2, the second release of a simple open-source C++ library that I developed to explore approaches to portable parallel C++ programming. I have written before about Hemi on Parallel Forall, but Hemi 2 is easier to use, more portable, and more powerful.
hemi-logo-blogIntroducing Hemi 2
Hemi simplifies writing portable CUDA C/C++ code. With Hemi,
 - you can write parallel kernels like you write for loops—in line in your CPU code—and run them on your GPU;
 - you can launch C++ Lambda functions as GPU kernels;
 - you can easily write code that compiles and runs either on the CPU or GPU;
 - kernel launch configuration is automatic: details like thread block size and grid size are optimization details, rather than requirements.
With Hemi, parallel code for the GPU can be as simple as the parallel_for loop in the following code, which can also be compiled and run on the CPU.
void saxpy(int n, float a, const float *x, float *y)
 hemi::parallel_for(0, n, [=] HEMI_LAMBDA (int i) {
Hemi is BSD-licensed, open-source software, available on Github. Continue reading
Combine OpenACC and Unified Memory for Productivity and Performance
The post Getting Started with OpenACC covered four steps to progressively accelerate your code with OpenACC. It's often necessary to use OpenACC directives to express both loop parallelism and data locality in order to get good performance with accelerators. After expressing available parallelism, excessive data movement generated by the compiler can be a bottleneck, and correcting this by adding data directives takes effort. Sometimes expressing proper data locality is more effort than expressing parallelism with loop directives.
Wouldn't it be nice if programs could manage data locality automatically? Well, this is possible today with Unified Memory (on Kepler and newer GPU architectures). In this post I demonstrate how to combine OpenACC with Unified Memory to GPU-accelerate your existing applications with minimal effort. You can download the source code for the example in this post from the Parallel Forall GitHub repository.
Jacobi Iteration with Heap Memory
I'll use the popular Jacobi iteration example code which is representative of many real-world stencil computations. In contrast to the previous OpenACC post, I modified the array data allocation to use heap memory instead of using automatic stack-allocated arrays. This is a more common scenario for real applications since real-world data arrays are often too large for stack memory. This change also makes it a more challenging case for OpenACC since the compiler no longer knows the size of the arrays. The following excerpt shows the main loop of the Jacobi iteration with 2D index computation. Continue reading
Increasing the Luminosity of Beam Dynamics with GPUs
Adrian_CERNWhat is dark matter? We can neither see it nor detect it with any instrument. CERN is upgrading the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), which is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built, to explore the new high-energy frontier.
The most technically challenging aspects of the upgrade cannot be done by CERN alone and requires collaboration and external expertise. There are 7,000 scientists from over 60 countries working to extend the LHC discovery potential; the accelerator will need a major upgrade around 2020 to increase its luminosity by a factor of 10 beyond the original design value.
Ph.D. student Adrian Oeftiger attends EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland which is one of the High Luminosity LHC beneficiaries. His research group is working to parallelize their algorithms to create software that will offer the possibility of new kinds of beam dynamics studies that have not been possible with the current technology.
Brad: How is your research related to the upgrade of the LHC?
Adrian: My world is all about luminosity; increasing the luminosity of particle beams. It is all about making ultra-high-energy collisions of protons possible, and at the same time providing enough collisions to enable fundamental particle physics research. That means increasing the luminosity. I'm doing my Ph.D. in beam dynamics in the field of accelerator physics.
High Luminosity LHCThese days, high-energy particle accelerators are the tools of choice to analyze and understand the fundamental building blocks of our universe. The huge detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, buried about a hundred meters underground in the countryside near Geneva, need ever-increasing collision rates (hence luminosity!): they gather statistics of collision events to explore new realms of physics, to detect extremely rare interaction combinations and the tiniest quantities of new particles, and to find explanations for some of the numerous wonders of the universe we live in. What is the dark matter which makes up 27% of our universe made of? Why is the symmetry between anti-matter and ordinary matter broken, and why do we find only the latter in the universe?
CERN is preparing for the High Luminosity LHC, a powerful upgrade of the present accelerator to increase the chances to answer some of these fundamental questions. Increasing the chances translates to: we need more collisions, so we need higher luminosity. Continue reading
CUDA 7.5
CUDA 7.5: Pinpoint Performance Problems with Instruction-Level Profiling
[Note: Thejaswi Rao also contributed to the code optimizations shown in this post.]
Today NVIDIA released CUDA 7.5, the latest release of the powerful CUDA Toolkit. One of the most exciting new features in CUDA 7.5 is new Instruction-Level Profiling support in the NVIDIA Visual Profiler. This powerful new feature, available on Maxwell (GM200) and later GPUs, helps pinpoint performance bottlenecks, letting you quickly identify the specific lines of source code (and assembly instructions) limiting the performance of GPU code, along with the underlying reason for execution stalls.
In this post, I demonstrate Instruction-Level Profiling by showing how it helped understand and improve the performance limitations of a CUDA kernel that implements the Iterative Closest Point algorithm (the original source code, by Thomas Whelan, is available on Github). I'll show how instruction-level profiling makes it easier to apply advanced optimizations, helping speed up the example kernel by 2.7X on an NVIDIA Quadro M6000 GPU.
Profiling the kernel using the Guided Analysis feature of the Visual Profiler showed that the kernel performance was bound by instruction and memory latency. Latency issues indicate that the hardware resources are not used efficiently since most warps are stalled by a dependency on a data value from a previous math or memory instruction. Figure 1 shows that the compute units are only 40% utilized and memory units are around 25% utilized, so there is definitely room for improvement.
Figure 1 Kernel Performance Limiter (Bound by instruction and memory latency).
Stall Analysis in Previous Profiler Versions
Before CUDA 7.5, the Visual Profiler was only capable of pointing out performance issues at the application or CUDA kernel level. For stall latency analysis, the CUDA 7.0 Visual Profiler produces the pie chart in Figure 2 by collecting various stall reason events for the entire kernel.
Figure 2 Legacy (CUDA 7.0) pie chart for stall reasons (generated using events collected at kernel level).
Figure 2 Legacy (CUDA 7.0) pie chart for stall reasons (generated using events collected at the kernel level).
This pie chart shows that the two primary stall reasons in this kernel are synchronization and memory dependencies. But if I look into the kernel code, there are lots of memory


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Optimal Design And Distribution Of Viscous Dampers For Shear Building Structures Under Seismic Excitations
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Viscous dampers (VDs) are effective and widely used passive devices for the protection of civil structures, provided that appropriate design is carried out. For this purpose, optimal design and optimum distribution of VDs method are presented for a shear building under the critical excitation by using random vibration theory in the frequency domain. In the optimization, by using Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm and the top floor displacement are evaluated as objective functions taking into consideration upper and lower limits of VDs damping coefficients, so that optimal damper placement and properties of the shear building can be determined. In this design, the VDs-shear building system is tested under the three different ground motions being compared to some methods in the literature and uniformly distributed VDs placed at each story. It is shown that the results of the study are both compatible and very successful in reducing the response of the structure under the different ground motions. © 2019 Cetin, Aydin and Ozturk.


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IT Enabled Agility in Organizational Ambidexterity
Association for Information Systems
The aim of ambidextrous organizations is to balance exploratory and exploitative learning concepts. They innovate through experiments and research, and capture the value of innovations through refinement and continuous improvement. In this paper, we study the relationship of organizational ambidexterity and IT enabled agility. Based on a case study with a German car manufacturer we find that (1) entrepreneurial agility impedes exploitative concepts, (2) adaptive agility impedes exploratory concepts and (3) ambidextrous organizations exhibit structures that allow them to transfer results from exploratory to exploitative activities through IT enabled agility. Our findings suggest that exploitative concepts require IT enabled agility mechanisms that are incompatible with those for exploratory concepts, and oppositely. We found that knowledge transfer between business units often occurs, but is yet not fully integrated from an organizational perspective. We highlight the need for ambidextrous organizations to facilitate permeable boundaries with IT enabled agility by offering a transfer.
Röder, N., Schermann, M., and Krcmar, H. (2014): "IT Enabled Agility in Organizational Ambidexterity", Americas Conference on Information Systems, Savannah, GA, USA.


Elementals are prominent in folk tales of the Fae and certain other groups, and considered good and ill omens alike.
The old magical folk of the Grand East and the Dominion's conquered territories, Yokai are said to have been a common sight before the Asuran Empire fell. Yokai were spirits that manifested as objects, beasts and humanoids alike, but in modern times, little remains of them save for statues in their likeness throughout the Orient.
The name 'Sylvan' applies to two distinct, but closely-related entities: Primarily, they are a race of immense, primordial trees bearing a hive-mind and intensely magical sapBut also, any humanoid that should drink their sap, and take on their floral qualities…
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File::MimeInfo::Cookbook - various code snippets
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Some code snippets for non-basic uses of the File::MimeInfo module:
Matching an extension
A file does not have to actually exist in order to get a mimetype for it. This means that the following will work:
 my $extension = '*.txt';
 my $mimetype = mimetype( $extension );
Mimetyping an scalar
If you want to find the mimetype of a scalar value you need magic mimetyping; after all a scalar doesn't have a filename or inode. What you need to do is to use IO::Scalar :
 use File::MimeInfo::Magic;
 use IO::Scalar;
 my $io_scalar = new IO::Scalar \$data;
 my $mimetype = mimetype( $io_scalar );
In fact most other IO:: will work as long as they support the seek() and read() methods. Of course if you want really obscure things to happen you can always write your own IO object and feed it in there.
Be aware that when using a filehandle like this you need to set the :utf8 binmode yourself if apropriate.
Mimetyping a filehandle
Regrettably for non-seekable filehandles like STDIN simply using an IO:: object will not work. You will need to buffer enough of the data for a proper mimetyping. For example you could mimetype data from STDIN like this:
 use File::MimeInfo::Magic;
 use IO::Scalar;
 my $data;
 read(STDIN, $data, $File::MimeInfo::Magic::max_buffer);
 my $io_scalar = new IO::Scalar \$data;
 my $mimetype = mimetype( $io_scalar );
Be aware that when using a filehandle like this you need to set the :utf8 binmode yourself if apropriate.
Creating a new filename
Say you have a temporary file that you want to save with a more proper filename.
 use File::MimeInfo::Magic qw#mimetype extensions#;
 use File::Copy;
 my $tmpfile = '/tmp/foo';
 my $mimetype = mimetype($tmpfile);
 my $extension = extensions($mimetype);
 my $newfile = 'untitled1';
 $newfile .= '.'.$extension if length $extension;
 move($tmpfile, $newfile);
Force the use of a certain database directory
Normally you just need to add the dir where your mime database lives to either the XDG_DATA_HOME or XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variables for it to be found. But in some rare cases you may want to by-pass this system all together. Try one of the following:
 @File::MimeInfo::DIRS = ('/home/me/share/mime');
 eval 'use File::MimeInfo';
 die if $@;
or:
 use File::MimeInfo;
 @File::MimeInfo::DIRS = ('/home/me/share/mime');
 File::MimeInfo->rehash();
This can also be used for switching between databases at run time while leaving other XDG configuration stuff alone.
AUTHOR ^
Jaap Karssenberg <_EMAIL_>
Copyright (c) 2005, 2012 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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The blow sensor is not only for blowing, it will generally register any bending of the piezo disk. I posted it because if it can register a bit of air, then it can probably also register the movement of an eyebrow
when attached close to it on the skin.
when you are referring to the picture here _URL_
without the resistor the voltages created by the piezo will be very high, since there is no path to ground. the input pin consumes virtually no current at all. all electrons will "queue up" in
front of that input pin. leaving the resistor out *might* damage the chip
(the chip has some protection built in, and when one pin is damaged there are often lots more left functioning anyway)
But if you take too low a resistor, the piezo will be sort of shorted to ground and you will not see a signal.
be sure to use a resistor of several megaohm, as the example says.
also, the piezo requires a 5 volts voltage difference
between it's two wires, that difference will not be there when one wire is connected to the 5Volts terminal but the other is ONLY connected to a high-impedance input pin. This setup without looks very much like a piezo with just one wire attached. the resistor closes the loop towards the Ground terminal of the board. only then will the voltage difference on the piezo be 5 volts. voltages are always "experienced" with reference to ground, and therefore you will need some connection to the ground terminal.
it's the same "experience" as grabbing the mains while on rubber tiles, compared to grabbing it when standing in a puddle ;D


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Robert Stivers: Veiled Image
Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery
July 28, 2012 - January 20, 2013
The work was striking, and the exhibition –hung in a patchwork style– displayed the work perfectly. It gave the impression that each image was trying to reach out of the frame to say something and consequently the room, though eerily silent, felt activated. - Lorraine Davis, Times Quotidian A face emits a silent scream, bodies emerge from mist, a landscape zooms by swiftly. Faces recede into darkness while fragments of memory float forward. Such haunting dream imagery are featured in the photographs of Robert Stivers. The Akron Art Museum is once again pleased to organize a new photography exhibition of works drawn from our impressive collection. Comprised of nearly a dozen years' worth of photographs, the gallery will be filled with images emanating emotion from Stivers's shadowy world. A back injury in the early 1980s ended the artist's dance career, which was followed by a short stint as a stockbroker and insurance agent. He found renewed creative inspiration with photography in 1988. Self-taught in the art of photography, Stivers prides himself on his printing skills. His photographs are carefully printed on matte papers and often hand-toned or manipulated in the darkroom. His evocative combination of technique and imagery results in entrancing, disjointed narratives that push the imagination to fill in the details of the story. This exhibition is organized by the Akron Art Museum and supported by funding from the museum's Evelyne Shaffer Endowment for Exhibitions.


How to Create a Mirror of the Desired Window
Available in:Actual Window Manager, Actual Multiple Monitors.
 1. Open the desired window.
 2. Click with the right mouse button to the icon of Actual Window Manager in the system tray and select Configure...
 3. Go to the Multiple Monitors -> Mirroring in the left menu of the opened window.
 4. Click to the Add a New Item button on the toolbar.
 5. Check the Window box in the Source Parameters section.
 6. Select the window opened in the step 1 with one of the two ways:
 1. Window Selector - just select the desired running window.
 2. Window Finderjust drag the crosshair icon to the desired window
 7. Set desired parameters in the Mirroring Settings section.
 8. Click to the Apply Button.


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Corporate events and team building activities play a crucial role in strengthening workplace relationships, boosting employee morale, and fostering a sense of camaraderie among colleagues. While traditional approaches are effective, incorporating photo booths into such events adds an element of fun and creativity that can truly elevate the experience. In this blog post, we will explore why photo booths are a fantastic addition to corporate events and team building initiatives.
Icebreaker and Engagement:
Photo booths provide an excellent icebreaker for employees who may not interact regularly. These interactive spaces encourage individuals to come together, break down barriers, and create shared memories. By providing an enjoyable and relaxed environment, photo booths facilitate conversation, laughter, and bonding, enabling colleagues to connect on a more personal level.
Enhanced Team Building:
Team building activities are designed to strengthen relationships and promote collaboration within the workplace. Photo booths contribute to this objective by encouraging teams to work together, coordinate poses, and showcase their creativity. As employees step into the booth, they let go of inhibitions, embrace their playful side, and generate a sense of unity among teammates. This shared experience helps foster team spirit and a positive work environment.
Branding and Promotion:
Corporate events often present an opportunity to showcase a company's brand and values. Photo booths can be customized with branding elements such as logos, slogans, and color schemes. By incorporating these elements, companies can create a memorable and immersive brand experience for employees and event attendees. Additionally, the photos captured in the booth can be easily shared on social media platforms, amplifying brand exposure and generating excitement among a wider audience.
Photo booth prints serve as tangible and cherished souvenirs for participants. Employees can take home personalized mementos, reminding them of the enjoyable experiences shared during the event. These physical reminders not only evoke positive emotions but also strengthen the sense of belonging and pride within the organization. Additionally, digital copies of the photos can be shared online, further extending the reach and impact of the event.
Boosting Employee Morale:
Engaged and motivated employees are the backbone of any successful organization. By incorporating photo booths into corporate events, companies demonstrate their commitment to employee well-being and foster a positive work culture. The inclusion of such enjoyable and interactive activities uplifts spirits, encourages creativity, and provides a break from the routine, resulting in increased job satisfaction and improved employee morale.
Photo booths have emerged as an innovative and popular addition to corporate events and team building activities. Their ability to break the ice, enhance team bonding, promote branding, and create lasting memories make them a valuable asset in any workplace setting. By incorporating photo booths into corporate events, companies can create a lively and engaging atmosphere that fosters camaraderie, boosts morale, and strengthens relationships among employees. So, the next time you plan a corporate event or team building initiative, consider adding a photo booth to capture the joy, laughter, and spirit of togetherness that defines your organization.


Flowering desert: How does this nature phenomenon happen?
Flower Atacama Desert
There are only a few places in the world where the natural phenomenon of the flowering desert occurs: Australia, United States, Peru and Chile are some of them. However, it's in Chile where this nature show draws the most attention; this is due to its purple, yellow and white flower beds that cover the surface of the driest place on earth: the Atacama desert.
During the Chilean flowering desert, which mainly occurs in the coastal area of the Atacama region, an average of 200 different species bloom, many of those are considered endemic, such as the "garra de león" (Bomarea ovallei) or the delicate red Añañuca (Myostemma phycelloides). But this spectacle is not something you see everyday. In order for this massive blooming to happen, certain conditions are necessary, such as the right temperature and humidity that allow the seeds to sprout.
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Acoustics and Vibration Measurement (VIB 201-E)
Engineers, Scientists, or Technicians
This self-directed online course will enable calibration technicians to precisely and reliably measure acoustics and vibration in accordance with relevant ISO standards. The material covers both conceptual and practical components of sound measurement, and the tools and units necessary to reliably measure acoustics and vibration.
- Measurement Methods
- Measuring Instruments
- Quantifying Sound and Vibration
- Accelerometer Design and Calibration
Hours Required to Complete
1 LEU Awarded
This e-learning course requires internet access to complete.


Before creating a communication plan, we often recommend that schools and districts conduct a communication audit. In many ways, an audit sets the stage for more meaningful communication planning.
Through a communication audit, you can gain a better understanding of stakeholders' perceptions of your school or district, get a sense of what stakeholders think about your current communication efforts and determine which types of information are of particular interest to your stakeholders. It also allows you to find out how your stakeholders prefer to be informed.
While school district communication audits can take many forms, there are a couple key components common to most of them:
1) Inventory of current practices
As an initial step, an audit features a review of all of a school district's current communication practices, including the methods used to reach stakeholders. For example, does the district currently use social media, direct mail or e-newsletters?
Through this process, you can determine, in broad strokes, what is working well and any potential areas of improvement.
2) Community and staff surveys
A great method of gathering valuable feedback from stakeholders is to conduct a survey focused on the district's current communication efforts. This typically centers on a survey of community members and staff. A survey allows you to capture baseline data related to how people come to think about the district, where they get their information and the challenges they experience in obtaining news and information about the district.
In general, it is best practice to leave surveys open for 20-30 days. Specific efforts should be taken during this time to ensure a solid response rate. This may include sending a postcard to all residential addresses in the district, emailing parents and staff, posting the survey to social media and distributing a news release.
In addition to a communication inventory and survey, communication audits may include focus groups. This is often a good option if there are issues or data points uncovered in the survey that need to be more closely examined.
Once you have completed a communication audit, you will have the data and information you need to engage in comprehensive communication planning. It marks the first step in your efforts to better communicate and engage with your stakeholders, which over time leads to greater overall trust between a district and its community.


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Hide the date from the taskbar in Windows 7
By default, Windows 7 displays the date next to the time in the notification area of the taskbar (system tray). This used to be the case with previous versions of Windows when you resized the taskbar to a large enough height to allow enough space to show the date, and even the day of the week. In this tutorial, we will show you how to hide the date from the Windows 7 taskbar, without having to hide the time! This means that you will keep the system clock, but only show the time, without a date.
Note that this tutorial assumes that you want to hide the date from the taskbar, but that you still want to keep the time showing in the notification area; if this is not the case, Windows 7 lets you show or hide the clock altogether, and completely remove it from the taskbar.
Show only time in taskbar, no date
To hide the date from the taskbar, follow these steps:
- Right-click on an empty area of the taskbar, and choose "Properties"
- Windows 7 will open the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" window
- Make sure that the Taskbar tab is selected
- When, as is the case by default, Windows 7 uses "Large Icons" in the taskbar, it makes your taskbar higher, as shown on the screenshot below:
- In the Taskbar properties window, check the "Use small icons" checkbox
- Now, click Apply to preview the change; Windows 7 will make the icons smaller, and at the same time make the taskbar itself smaller. As you noticed, the taskbar no longer displays the date, but it still displays the time:
- And, best of all, even if the date is now hidden from the taskbar, you can still see it by moving your mouse cursor above the clock, and leave it there for a second or so:
And this is all it takes to hide the date from the Windows 7 taskbar! You can at any time get the date by moving your mouse above the system clock, or by quickly resizing (temporarily) the taskbar, to get not only the date, but also the day of the week:
Tip: you can also view a full month calendar in the taskbar (instead of just a simple day or date), by giving a single click on the system clock. Some older versions of Windows used to accept a double-click, which would show the full date and time settings, but since Windows Vista you have this mini built-in calendar, right in your taskbar.up ↑