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Written and directed by David Engelbach, America 3000 takes place in Colorado, USA in the year 3000. It turns out a nuclear war occurred in 1992 and that has reduced humanity back to a stone age standard of living under the rule of a fierce female tribe. All men are either living in the wild or slaves! When the leader of the dominant female clan dies, there is a dispute over her vacated position; two sisters vie for the honour and are challenged by the leader of a another clan.
As the story develops we meet two young men called Korvis (Chuck Wagner) and Gruss (William Wallace) who escape their city boundaries and explore the area. During their exploration they find a bunker that once belonged to the President of the United States of America.
In the bunker they find a wide range of guns and ammunition and decide to use these to start a revolution!
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How to Create a Fireball Effect in Blender
Jacob Swing shows how you can create, render, and composite a fireball effect right in your hand.
Blender is a one-stop-shop for 3D and so much more. A great example of this is this new tutorial from Jacob Swing. The tutorial covers creating a fireball effect using smoke, particles, and fluids in Blender, tracking them into the footage, and compositing the shot, all without leaving Blender.
A Fireball in Your Hand.
Fire is awesome! So in this two part tutorial series, we go over how to use Blender to generate a fireball that can be tracked to any footage." Part 1 of this tutorial goes over how to create the fireball inside of Blender. Part 2 covers tracking the fireball to the footage and compositing and color grading the render.
About Jacob Swing.
Jacob Swing is an Asia based CG Generalist. He started using Blender back in the late 90's and his love for the program has never waned. Currently, Jacob works as a freelance Modeler and Videographer.


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MacKenzie, Ian A., Ohndorf, Markus and Palmer, Charles (2010) Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring 'permanence' in carbon sequestration. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, 27. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK.
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Opportunistic behaviour due to incomplete contract enforcement is a risk in many economic transactions such as forest carbon sequestration contracts. In this paper, an enforcement-proof incentive contract is developed in which a buyer demands a guaranteed delivery of a good or service given a productive upfront payment, moral hazard in precaution, and the potential for opportunistic contract breach. The optimal design of forest carbon contracts to ensure permanence is derived. Buyer liability for loss of a carbon sink is shown to yield an inefficiently low level of sequestration. Yet it remains higher than the case where liability is neither allocated to the buyer nor the seller. Indexing contract prices to the seller's opportunity costs potentially boosts the upfront investment as does shifting liability to the seller but not beyond first-best levels. Assigning liability is shown to have implications for forest carbon contracts in an international climate policy regime.
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The major components of the DTSS (Phase 1) include:
Link Sewer Network
Deep Tunnel Sewer
Changi Water Reclamation Plant
1. Link Sewer Network
The link sewers connect the existing sewerage pipes from homes and industries to the deep tunnel sewers. Constructed with depths ranging from 10m to 30m underground, a trenchless method was used to minimise disruption of activities above ground. Ranging from 0.3m to 3m in diameter, the link sewers total about 60km in length.
2. Deep Tunnel Sewer
Eight tunnel boring machines were used simultaneously to excavate these deep tunnels. With tunnels as wide as 3.3m to 6m in diameter and depths reaching tunnel sewers received used water from the existing sewerage system.
3. Changi Water Reclamation Plant
The Changi Water Reclamation Plant is the cornerstone of the first phase of the Singapore Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS). Sited on 32 hectares of reclaimed land, CWRP features a state-of-the-art, compact and covered used water treatment facility designed to treat 800,000 cubic metres per day of used water. It can be expanded to handle an ultimate 2,400,000 cubic metres per day of used water.
here for an inside look of the Changi WRP.
4. Outfall Pipes
Two 5km long deep sea outfall pipes channel the excess treated used water from the Changi Water Reclamation Plant for dispersion into the sea.

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Control.OnManipulationInertiaStarting method
Applies to Windows and Windows Phone
Called before the ManipulationInertiaStarting event occurs.
protected virtual void OnManipulationInertiaStarting(
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Event data for the event.
OnManipulationInertiaStarting represents a prewired event handler for the UIElement.ManipulationInertiaStarting event. Practical controls that derive from Control can override the OnManipulationInertiaStarting method and use this to provide control-specific handling and behavior for that input event. The most common scenario is to use the event handler to mark the event as Handled in the event data. The control code has first chance to handle this event, before any event handlers that are wired on a control instance are invoked. When the event data is marked Handled, then other handlers like those on the control instance won't be called. Also, the event won't bubble. For more info, see the "On* event handler overrides" section in Control.
As it's implemented directly on Control, OnManipulationInertiaStarting has an empty implementation. But each ancestor in a control's hierarchy may have provided an implementation. You won't be able to see this implementation because it's internal native code. In some cases a control will already have existing On* overrides that mark the event Handled. Once you've provided an initial On* override for a control, then any controls that you further derive from your own control class would also inherit the On* overrides you define. Any instances you use have that behavior too.
Note App code can still handle events that may have been marked Handled by a control's On* method logic, but they need to use the handledEventsToo parameter for the UIElement.AddHandler method. For more info, see UIElement.AddHandler or Events and routed events overview.
Windows 8 behavior
Windows 8 doesn't fire ManipulationCompleted in cases where the inertial phase has started (and ManipulationInertiaStarting has fired) but the user has tapped on the item before it's finished scrolling, which cancels the inertial phase visually. The issue is fixed starting with Windows 8.1; ManipulationCompleted is fired as soon as the tap action cancels the inertial phase.
Apps that were compiled for Windows 8 but running on Windows 8.1 continue to use the Windows 8 behavior.
Minimum supported client
Windows 8
Minimum supported server
Windows Server 2012
Minimum supported phone
Windows Phone 8.1 [Windows Runtime apps only]
See also
Events and routed events overview
Gestures, manipulations, and interactions
Quickstart: Pointers
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Biomedical Research
An International Journal of Medical Sciences
Abstract
Helicobacter pylori infection and hypertension: Is there an association?
There are conflicting reports in the literature regarding the association of Helicobacter pylori with cardiovascular diseases like hypertension. However there is a paucity of literature from the Indian subcontinent on the relationship between Helicobacter pylori and the heart, coronary artery disease and hypertension. This study aims to evaluate the association between Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and hypertension. 40 hypertensives and 40 normotensive controls were included in the study. The presence of Helicobacter pylori was confirmed by serological evidence of Helicobacter pylori IgG antibodies as estimated by ELISA (> 40 EU/ml considered as positive). 18 subjects with hypertension and 9 controls were positive for Helicobacter pylori as per serological evidence. Chi square test revealed that the difference in the number of seropositive cases was statistically significant (p<0.05). Thus in the present study Helicobacter pylori infection had significant association with hypertension as compared to controls.
Author(s): Vinutha Shankar MS, AVM Kutty, Nachal Annamalai
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al-TREN-o-jest - Pronunciation guide
- Regu-mate Solution
Regu-Mate (altrenogest) Solution 0.22% produces a progestational effect in mares.
Altrenogest is used for suppression of estrus. The mare will experience a predictable occurrence of estrus following drug withdrawal. This allows a regular cycle during the transition from winter anestrus to the physiological breeding season in mares with active ovaries. By managing the reproductive cycle, horse owners have more control over breeding procedures and the timing of the arrival of foals.
In some cases, Regu-Mate Solution is used for pregnancy maintenance. It is also used for reduction of aggressive behavior in stallions.
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No recognized side effects are reported in horses when Regu-Mate is used according to label directions.
If Regu-Mate is added to feed, any medicated feed left over should be destroyed and should not be given to other animals.
Regu-Mate should not be handled by women of child-bearing age. Protective clothing and gloves should be worn when handling Regu-Mate.
Regu-Mate should not be administered to immature animals, or animals with diabetes, uterine infection, history of vaginal discharge, or reproductive abnormalities.
Regu-Mate is not for use in horses that are intended for human consumption.
Regu-Mate is FDA-approved for use in horses. It is a prescription drug restricted to use by or on the lawful written or oral order of a licensed veterinarian. It may be permitted in mares at FEI competitions. It is important to check with the proper individual regulatory body.
Rifampin may increase the speed of metabolism of Regu-Mate.
Check manufacturer's directions.
The drug labels on this website represent drug information listings as submitted to the FDA.The drug labels on this website have not been altered or modified by EquiMed. The drug labels on this website may not be the most current or identical to the current labels shipped with the product. Contact your veterinarian or the manufacturer for the latest information on this drug or medication prior to use.


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Early Encounters in North America
Note: Use of this resource is restricted to current University of Pittsburgh faculty, students, and staff, and may be used for individual research purposes only. Any other use is prohibited.
Early Encounters in North America is a full text collection of primary documents related to early encounters of North American Indian, European, American, and African peoples and cultures in North America, as well as descriptions of the natural features of North America at the time. The documents include: letters, diaries, memoirs, accounts of early encounters, as well as images. The collection is centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico.
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Gayetty's paper, first introduced in 1857, was available as late as the 1920's. Gayetty's Medicated Paper was sold in packages of flat sheets, somewhat like Kleenex boxes. Original advertisements for the product used the tagline "The greatest necessity of the age! Gayetty's medicated paper for the water-closet."
Seth Wheeler of Albany, New York, obtained the earliest patents for toilet paper and dispensers, the types of which eventually were in common usage in the US.
Gayetty first marketed toilet paper in 1857 which originally sold for $0.50 U.S. Dollars in packs of 500 bearing a watermark of his name. The original product contained aloe as a lubricant and was marketed as an anti-hemorrhoid medical product. Gayetty's product was licensed to other manufacturers and sold as late as the 1920's.


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Pros and cons of gearing ratios
Pros of gearing ratios
A gearing ratio is a useful measure for the financial institutions that issue loans, because it can be used as a guideline for risk. When an organisation has more debt, there is a higher risk of financial troubles and even bankruptcy.
Gearing ratios are also a convenient way for the company itself to manage its debt levels, predict future cash flow and monitor its leverage.
Cons of gearing ratios
Using a company's gearing ratio to gauge its financial structure does have its limitations. This is because the gearing ratio could reflect a risky financial structure, but not necessarily a poor financial state. While the figure gives some insight into the company's financials, it should always be compared against historical company ratios and competitors' ratios.


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Memorial Day has just passed, it's fitting to take a look at one of the oldest facilities in the United States for housing soldiers-Jackson Barracks, in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans on St. Claude Avenue. It's been through a lot since 1833-hell and high water, literally. The old building could tell us some stories about all the military heroes, known and unknown, who served their country there, including some latter-day heroes who helped get New Orleanians out of harm's way during Hurricane Katrina. You can visit the Jackson Barracks Military Museum and see military artifacts dating back 200 years. That trip is easily combined with a visit to the Chalmette Battlefield, part of the Jean Lafitte National Park and Preserve, where you can see the site of the legendary Battle of New Orleans, fought January 8, 1815.
Jackson Barracks, originally known as New Orleans Barracks, was built after the War of 1812. The first militia, consisting of four infantry companies, were housed there in 1837. Built on the river, the original facility had a storehouse, four three-story guard towers, and a prison. It had its own levee, road, railroad, and trolley car tracks. Ulysses S. Grant, George B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard and J.E.B. Stuart, were all in these Barracks before the Civil War, although not all at once. After the Mexican-American War, it became the earliest Public Service Hospital for soldiers in the nation in 1849.


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Tubular Heater for Portable Washing Equipment
A manufacturer of portable parts washing systems approached Tempco with a requirement for heating their proprietary, non-hazardous, water-based cleaning solution. Their equipment is used for cleaning industrial machinery parts, particularly for automotive manufacturing.
The cleaning is accomplished via microbes in a process known as bioremediation which is the use of living microorganisms to attack or break-down contaminants. This same method has been used for decades on a much larger scale for cleaning oil spills and industrial wastewater. In this portable application, the microbes are contained within a mat that lays below the wash basin. Operation is quite simple. The heated solution is pumped up to a hand-held nozzle. As the parts are washed, the solution drains, and the mat captures the dirt where the microbes do their work. Mats can be changed out on a regular basis as needed. Essentially, the solution cleans the part(s) and the microbes clean the solution.
The manufacturer had several specifications that needed to be met:
- Maintain the ideal operating temperature of 105°F
- Ability to provide their own sensor to monitor fluid level
- Support of the heater to ensure separation from the vessel floor
Tempco designed and manufactured an L-shaped Tubular Process Heater for their application. At 1,000 Watts and 120 volts, this immersion heater was ideal for heating the cleaning solution to the specified temperature of 105°F. The design incorporated an independent, customer-supplied sensor used to monitor the fluid level inside the vessel. When the fluid level drops below the heated section of the vessel, the sensor activates a warning light on the control box to alert the operator. The operator would then add more fluid to the vessel. Heater mounting brackets were used for two reasons. They provided horizontal support along the heated area to maintain separation from any contact with the vessel's floor. They also provided a method to secure the tubular heater to the washer's control box.
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A shared loop is a loop or subscriber line in telecommunications that is shared by a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) and an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC), providing both digital subscriber line (DSL) and voice service over the same line. Shared loops are also referred to as line sharing or the high frequency spectrum network element. Shared loops provide a CLEC with the opportunity to offer advanced data services simultaneously with an existing end user's analog, voice grade service on a single metallic loop. The loop can be used for simultaneous data transmission and plain old telephone services (POTS).
Techopedia explains Shared Loop
Shared loop is the access network connection between the customer's location and the local public switched telephone network (PSTN) exchange. It is usually a loop made up of two copper wires on which two operators provide services. One operator will utilize the lower frequency portion of the loop to provide voice telephony and the other will use the higher-frequencies to provide high-speed data services. To establish the initial price for shared loop, the following principles are used: The price of the loop will be cost-oriented and set on the basis of reasonable costs, called long run incremental costs (LRIC). Charges for other necessary inputs is on the basis of reasonable LRIC plus mark-up. The company should be able to recover the costs of setting up order handling processes as well as the costs of dealing with operators and maintaining the service. The starting charge will be geographically averaged, but the company may request de-averaged prices if this can be justified by differences in the underlying costs.
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The Grizzlies: Miranda de Pencier and Anna Lambe on the importance of shining a light on traumas in Nunavut
About 10 years ago, film producer Miranda de Pencier heard a story about a high school in Nunavut that floored her. The school started a lacrosse program to help students find hope during a time when teen suicide was on the rise in Inuit communities. Right away, she knew what her next film would be.
Nearly a decade later, and after hundreds of auditions and countless conversations about Canada's struggle through reconciliation, that film was finally made.
The Grizzlies tells the story of teacher Russ Sheppard and the students at the Kugluktuk high school who helped the community find hope.
Ahead of the release of the film, de Pencier and one of the stars of the film, Anna Lambe, sat down with host Tom Power in the q studio to talk about about their experience making the film and what it means to the Inuit community.
The Grizzlies opens in select theatres on Friday, April 19 and it'll have a wider release on Friday, May 3.
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Preparatory studies
Study of Female Head to Right by Burne Jones
Study of Female Head to Right, 1889
Burne-Jones produced studies and drawings as research for larger drawings, watercolours and tapestries. Including studies made for major works such as his 'Pygmalion Series', 'The Briar Rose Series' and 'The Wheel of Fortune'. They reveal Burne-Jones' exhaustive method of building compositions and his passion for Romantic and classical literature.


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The British architecture firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, working together with Estonia's Esplan, have been awarded the first place in the design competition for the new terminal of the Rail Baltic railway at Ülemiste, Tallinn.
Rail Baltic is a planned 870 km electrified railway from Tallinn in Estonia to the Lithuanian-Polish border. The terminal will be the starting point of the Rail Baltic line connecting Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius with the European high-speed rail network, Zaha Hadid Architects said in a statement.
The Ülemiste terminal is designed as a connecting public bridge used by the local community as well as multi-modal transport hub for commuters, national and international rail passengers in addition to air travellers using the adjacent Tallinn airport, the company added.
Smooth integration of other public transport
"Circulation routes through the building have determined the station's spatial geometry to aid navigation and the smooth integration of bus, tram and rail lines that intersect at the terminus," the company noted.
"Incorporating a modular structural system built in phases to enable ongoing operations on the rail lines throughout construction, the station has been designed and planned to BREEAM benchmarks and guidelines."
BREEAM, the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method, first published by the Building Research Establishment in 1990, is the world's longest established method of assessing, rating and certifying the sustainability of buildings. More than 250,000 buildings have been BREEAM-certified and over a million are registered for certification – in more than 50 countries worldwide.
Also designing the Tallinn Old City Harbour
Rail Baltic Estonia announced the international design competition for the terminal station in Ülemiste in May 2019. The competition ended on 3 September.
In August 2017, it was announced that Zaha Hadid Architects were to design the Tallinn Old City Harbour. The Port of Tallinn praised the company's innovative and integrated approach to Tallinn's maritime gateway. "Zaha Hadid has very skilfully created a balanced connection between urban space and the port area with some carefully considered access roads and traffic solutions," Valdo Kalm, the chairman of the Port of Tallinn, said in a statement at the time.
Zaha Hadid Architects is a British international architecture and design firm founded by the Iraqi-British Zaha Hadid (_PHONE_), who was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2004), equivalent of the Nobel Prize of architecture. Her firm's major works include the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany; the Bridge Pavilion in Zaragoza, Spain; the Guangzhou Opera House in China; the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, the UK; the London Aquatics Centre in the UK; and the Port Authority Building in Antwerp, Belgium, among many others.
Cover: The planned Ülemiste Rail Baltic terminal. Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects.


PALL MALL MILITARY SERIES CAVALRY ON SERVICE Illustrated by the advance of the German cavalry across the Mosel in 1870
This is a well written and accurate account of a large mass of German cavalry on service patrol, based on events during the The Battle of Spicheren during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. With good coloured maps comprehensively showing the German cavalry on every second day,and a very full index that gives the most important duties and the amount of instruction that can be gained. An detailed and scholarly work that is rare in it's original 1908 edition.


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- a storm or strong wind from the southwest
- a sailor's waterproof coat or hat of oilskin, canvas, etc.: the hat has a brim that broadens in the back to protect the neck
- A storm or gale blowing from the southwest.
- A waterproof hat of material such as plastic, oilskin, or canvas, with a broad brim behind to protect the neck.


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Elon Musk's writing about a Tesla battery fire reminded me of some of the math related to trying to estimate the rate of a rare event from a single occurrence of the event (plus many non-event occurrences). In this article we work through some of the ideas.
Elon Musk wrote that the issues of the recent battery fire were: a significant impact from a large piece of debris (which would clearly have also been dangerous to a gasoline based vehicle) and a "1 fire in over 100 million miles for Tesla" operating record. There are tons of important questions as to what is a proper Apples to Apples comparison of vehicle safety, but what interested me is the minor issue: how biased is evaluating Tesla right after the first occurrence of a rare bad event?
Roughly: evaluating Tesla right after the first report of a rare bad event (called a "failure") is biased against Tesla. It roughly doubles the perceived rate the event occurs at. The math (based on the Markov property) is quick. If the bad event has probability p (p small) then the expected number of such events in n-trials is n*p. However, the expected number of events in n-trials where we picked n such that the n-th trials has the event (n picked after the events happen) is (n-1)*p + 1 (the normal expectation for the first n-1 events and then the forced 1 for the last event). If n is such that n*p is near 1 (which is plausible for an observation near the first occurrence) then we see the scoring right after the first failure roughly double the perceived failure rate.
Now the correct way to work with duration in this sort of problem is using survival analysis which treats duration as a continuous variable and doesn't treat "100 million miles" as 100 million discrete events (the discrete treatment introduces small unnecessary problems in changing scale to "200 million half-miles" and so on). But, let's stay with discrete events for fun. An important issue is: certain relations that are known for true values are only approximations for estimatesso it really matters what you estimate directly and what you infer indirectly.
For example: suppose we try to estimate directly expected duration to first event instead of event rate? Obviously if you know one of these you know the other. But the relationship between estimates of one to estimates of the other is a bit looser. So you really want to set up your experiments to directly estimate the one you care about.
Duration to first failure estimated by watching for the first failure can be estimated as follows. The probability of seeing the first failure on the k-th observation is exactly (1-p)^(k-1) * p ( you see k-1 successes followed by one failure). And if we see the first failure at the k-th step our natural estimate of the duration to first failure is k. The expected value of this sort of estimator summed over all possibilities is:
The 1/p expected value of the estimate is exactly what you would hope for.
However instead suppose we use a similar "reasonable sounding" procedure to try and estimate the rate p instead of the duration to failure. We say that if the first failure is seen at the k-th step then the reasonable estimate for p is 1/k. This estimate ends up being:
That is: our estimation procedure's expected value of estimate is -p*ln(p)/(1-p) instead of the correct (or unbiased) value of p. This is again an over-estimate, using the observed rate as the estimator is net-upward biased (as also shown in the expected number of failures argument).
Also notice that the multiplicative bias term -ln(p)/(1-p) changes as we change scale of p. If instead of measuring 100 million 1-mile events we measured 200 million half-mile events our number of events bias would go up, but slowly enough that our total miles bias would go down. This is why in survival analysis durations are treated as continuous quantities, so changes in scale don't change estimates. The simplest survival analysis would assume road-debris is constant hazard (doesn't systematically go up or down in the age of the car) and therefore the survival function of the car would be the exponential distribution (not "survival" means avoiding the failure event which stops the observations, not living or dying).
The lesson is: you introduce biases by deciding when you calculate (right after a failure) and choosing what to estimate. But with some care you can get all of this right.


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The benchmark class, also referred to as a "harness hook" is the actual program or script that defines the process of executing the benchmark. Every benchmark deployment requires a benchmark class. However, if your benchmark is written using the Faban harness, the class com.sun.faban.harness.DefaultFabanBenchmark2 will be your default harness hook and the benchmark class is optional. DefaultFabanBenchmark2 defines the process of how to run a benchmark written using the Faban driver framework. A benchmark class is annotated using annotations. They are defined in the package com.sun.faban.harness. Since annotations are not inherited when subclassed, we need to explicitly annotate the relevant methods if you extend DefaultFabanBenchmark2.
Your own benchmark class is only required if you are using a non-Faban benchmark or if you want to customize and control the behaviour of a Faban benchmark that is different from the default. The sample web101 benchmark includes a hook in src/samples/web1/harness/WebBenchmark.java. The hook is a java class that extends com.sun.faban.harness.DefaultFabanBenchmark2 and adds annotated methods to configure and post process the benchmark run. You can customize, configure or subclass the other annotated methods to include any additional tasks that need to be done prior to or after these operations. For example, if the benchmark requires that some script be executed (say to clean out some files) before the start of a run, the start() method can be modified to execute the script before calling super.start(). This can also be done in the method annotated with _USER_ (see the next section).
The benchmark class can be created in the package of your choice and must be placed into the Java source tree of your project. The provided build script will pick up all classes in the source tree and compile and package them properly for deploying into the Faban harness.
The benchmark class is implemented as a plain old Java object (Pojo) with annotated methods and referenced in the benchmark deployment descriptor benchmark.xml explained later under Benchmark Deployment. The benchmark annotations used for the benchmark class are defined in com.sun.faban.harness. The followings are the annotations used:
The method annotated with _USER_ is called for validating the benchmark configuration file. It is the first method called when the benchmark starts after initialization of the benchmark class. No other facility or remote Faban agents are started before or while the validate method is in progress. The validate method is used to validate the benchmark configuration to ensure that it is not only syntactically valid (done by the xml parser) but also semantically valid. It also the only place you may, edit, change, or complete the configuration file.
For integrations of existing benchmarks or workloads, it is a
practice to use XSL
stylesheets to translate the configuration file into the target
benchmark's configuration file. Thus it makes sense to translate the
configuration files in the validate method and this is
also a way to ensure the configuration file is correct. Such code can
be found in the SPECWeb2005
integration example provided in the samples directory of the
The method annotated with _USER_ is the one that gets called after the Faban infrastructure, including remote agents are set up. Having these in place allows you to make remote calls to configure or set up the benchmarking environment. This method is however called before the services, if any are started. The method implementation will commonly contain logic to prepare and reconfigure remote servers or other supporting processes to run the benchmark. For benchmarks written using the Faban driver framework, you may want to subclass the DefaultFabanBenchmark2 and provide a method with this annotation to prepare your rig.
The method annotated with _USER_ is called just before starting the run. The method implementation will commonly contain calls to prepare and reload data required to run the benchmark, etc. Those functions will need all the services to be up and available. Off-line data reload may be better done in configure. For benchmarks written using the Faban driver framework, you may want to subclass the DefaultFabanBenchmark2 and provide a method with this annotation.
The method annotated with _USER_ actually starts the benchmark driver. You will need to ensure all the driver processes on all driver systems get started, and - if feasible - enter the rampup state before returning from this method as the tools timer will get started immediately after this method terminates.
Generally, benchmarks written using the Faban driver framework will not need to override this method. However, in rare circumstances - such as starting processes not controlled by the driver framework, i.e. emulators, - you'll want to override this method. Just make sure you make a call to super.start().
The method annotated with _USER_ is called sometime after the
terminates. The implementation of the end method must wait for the
driver processes to terminate before proceeding.
The method annotated with _USER_ is called after the end method. This may do some post-processing of the benchmark and/or tools results. For benchmarks written using the Faban driver framework, you may want to subclass the DefaultFabanBenchmark2 and provide a method with this annotation.
The method annotated with _USER_ is used by the Faban harness to signal premature termination of the benchmark. It provides the opportunity to cleanup after the benchmark run. Most commonly, the kill method is left empty. Processes started by Faban's execution facilities are automatically terminated, except for daemons or other server processes over which Faban does not have control. Such processes may require explicit termination calls.
The RunContext is the central point for getting information about the run. All methods in RunContext are static. We suggest a static import of all methods in this class:
Then you'll be able to call the RunContext without referring to the RunContext class, which looks just like function calls. You can use the RunContext to obtain information about the benchmark run as well as executing commands on local or remote agents.
The ParamRepository represents the XML configuration file and allows obtaining configuration parameters using an XPath pointing to the parameter. It also allows manipulating and modifying the configuration file (effective only in the validate method) and saving it back to the run using the setParameter and save methods. To obtain the ParamRepository, just call getParamRepository(). This is a method of the RunContext. With the static import above, the benchmark class can refer to this method without providing a reference to the RunContext class.
The ParamRepository provides several methods to access the XML structure within it. Most accesses require an XPath string to locate the parameter. It also provides methods that automatically parse list of strings in the elements, or even parse host:port pairs in the hostport fields frequently used for addressing server instances. Please refer to the ParamRepostory javadocs for more detail, and the configuration file documentation for specific fields used by different Faban components, such as the host:port fields.
The RunContext provides two sets of methods for execution: 1) The exec methods can be used to execute any operating system or shell command. 2) The java methods are used to execute java commands inheriting the classpaths and other java command line parameters from the Faban environment. Both methods make use of the Faban command infrastructure to remotely start processes and execute commands. To construct a command, you will need to create a new Command object. The Command object constructor takes 3 types of parameters:
For any given command, the execution search path for scripts and binaries are as follows, in order:
Please also note that the commands may be re-mapped on an OS-specific command map infrastructure. If a command is mapped, the result follows the search path above.
The command map allows mapping commands called by the Faban harness and the benchmark class to some OS-Specific commands. The command map file is an XML file located at the following location:
The following is an example command map file we use for Solaris. It resides in the $FABAN_HOME/config/SunOS/cmdmap.xml directory:


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Can Walking Through Doorways Prompt Memory Loss? Researchers Say, Yes
Have you ever felt slightly insane, or perhaps a little old, when you get to a room and then can't remember what you went in there for, even though you had just thought about it? It's not just you. New research shows that you're not losing your mind; it's just being compartmentalized.
A recent study conducted by the University of Notre Dame focused on the phenomenon known as an "event boundary" and concluded that we all experience them. The results of the study showed that walking through doorways causes the memory to lapse.
Researcher Gabriel Radvansky explained, "Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an 'event boundary' in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away."
This means that forgetting what you went to the kitchen for is not an issue of faulty memory or the effects of age, but rather a normal function of your brain. Radvansky said, "Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized."
So before you start questioning your sanity or brain function and loading up on ginkgo biloba, consider that there's probably nothing wrong with your mind. Rather than a "senior moment," what you have just experienced is an "event boundary."


. This
 must be accurately modeled in order to tightly bound
 WCET. Several analysis methods have been proposed to
 bound WCET on processors with instruction caches.
 Existing approaches either search all possible program
 paths, an intractable problem, or they use highly
 pessimistic assumptions to limit the search space. In
 this paper we present a more effective method for
 modeling instruction cache activity and computing a
 tight bound on WCET. The method uses an integer linear
 programming formulation and does not require explicit
 enumeration of program paths. The method is implemented
 in the program {\tt cinderella} and we present some
 experimental results of this implementation.",
 acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
 generalterms = "Design; Experimentation; Performance; Theory",
 journal-URL = "_URL_
 subject = "Computer Systems Organization --- Performance of
 Systems (C.4): {\bf Modeling techniques}; Computer
 Systems Organization --- Special-Purpose and
 Application-Based Systems (C.3): {\bf Real-time and
 embedded systems}",
}
@Article{Shi:1999:SSL,
 author = "C.-J. Richard Shi and Michael W. Tian",
 title = "Simulation and sensitivity of linear analog circuits
 under parameter variations by {Robust} interval
 analysis",
 journal = j-TODAES,
 volume = "4",
 number = "3",
 pages = "280--312",
 month = jul,
 year = "1999",
 CODEN = "ATASFO",
 ISSN = "_PHONE_ (print), _PHONE_ (electronic)",
 bibdate = "Fri Jul 27 10:05:33 MDT 2001",
 bibsource = "_URL_
 _URL_
 URL = "_URL_
 _URL_
 abstract = "An interval-mathematic approach is presented for
 frequency-domain simulation and sensitivity analysis of
 linear analog circuits under parameter variations. With
 uncertain parameters represented as intervals, bounding
 frequency-domain responses is formulated as the problem
 of solving systems of linear interval equations. The
 formulation is based on a variant of modified nodal
 analysis, and is particularly amenable to interval
 analysis. Some characterization of the solution sets of
 systems of linear interval equations are derived. With
 these characterizations, an elegant and efficient
 algorithm is proposed to solve systems of linear
 interval equations. While the widely used Monte Carlo
 approach requires many circuit simulations to achieve
 even moderate accuracy, the computational cost of the
 proposed approach is about twice that of one circuit
 simulation. The computed response bounds contain
 provably, or are usually very close to, the actual
 response bounds. Further, sensitivity under parameter
 variations can be computed from the response bounds at
 minor computational cost. The algorithms are
 implemented in SPICE3F5, using sparse-matrix techniques
 and tested on several practical analog circuits.",
 acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
 generalterms = "Algorithms; Design; Verification",
 journal-URL = "_URL_
 keywords = "interval mathematics; process variations; sensitivity;
 uncertainty; worst-case analysis",
 subject = "Hardware --- Integrated Circuits --- Design Aids
 (B.7.2): {\bf Simulation}; Hardware --- Integrated
 Circuits --- Design Aids (B.7.2): {\bf Verification};
 Mathematics of Computing --- Numerical Analysis ---
 Numerical Linear Algebra (G.1.3): {\bf Linear systems
 (direct and iterative methods)}; Mathematics of
 Computing --- Numerical Analysis --- Numerical Linear
 Algebra (G.1.3): {\bf Sparse, structured, and very
 large systems (direct and iterative methods)}; Computer
 Applications --- Computer-Aided Engineering (J.6): {\bf
 Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)}",
}
@Article{Wurth:1999:FMO,
 author = "Bernd Wurth and Ulf Schlichtmann and Klaus Eckl and
 Kurt J. Antreich",
 title = "Functional multiple-output decomposition with
 application to technology mapping for lookup
 table-based {FPGAs}",
 journal = j-TODAES,
 volume = "4",
 number = "3",
 pages = "313--350",
 month = jul,
 year = "1999",
 CODEN = "ATASFO",
 ISSN = "_PHONE_ (print), _PHONE_ (electronic)",
 bibdate = "Fri Jul 27 10:05:33 MDT 2001",
 bibsource = "_URL_
 _URL_
 URL = "_URL_
 _URL_
 abstract = "Functional decomposition is an important technique for
 technology mapping to look up table-based FPGA
 architectures. We present the theory of and a novel
 approach to functional disjoint decomposition of
 multiple-output functions, in which common subfunctions
 are extracted during technology mapping. \par
 While a Boolean function usually has a very large
 number of subfunctions, we show that not all of them
 are useful for multiple-output decomposition. We use a
 partition of the set of bound set vertices as the basis
 to compute {\em preferable\/} decomposition functions,
 which are sufficient for an optimal multiple-output
 decomposition. \par
 We propose several new algorithms that deal with
 central issues of functional multiple-output
 decomposition. First, an efficient algorithm to solve
 the variable partitioning problem is described. Second,
 we show how to implicitly compute all preferable
 functions of a single-output function and how to
 identify all common preferable functions of a
 multiple-output function. Due to implicit computation
 in the crucial steps, the algorithm is very efficient.
 Experimental results show significant reductions in
 area.",
 acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
 generalterms = "Algorithms; Design; Experimentation; Performance;
 Theory",
 journal-URL = "_URL_
 keywords = "assignable functions; Boolean functions;
 computer-aided design of VLSI; decomposition; FPGA
 technology; implicit BDD-based methods; mapping
 synthesis; multiple-output decomposition; preferable
 functions; subfunction sharing gain; subfunction
 sharing potential; TOS; variable partitioning for
 decomposition",
 subject = "Computer Applications --- Computer-Aided Engineering
 (J.6); Hardware --- Integrated Circuits --- Types and
 Design Styles (B.7.1): {\bf Gate arrays}",
}
@Article{Benini:1999:SSC,
 author = "L. Benini and G. {De Micheli} and E. Macii and M.
 Poncino and R. Scarsi",
 title = "Symbolic synthesis of clock-gating logic for power
 optimization of synchronous controllers",
 journal = j-TODAES,
 volume = "4",
 number = "4",
 pages = "351--375",
 month = oct,
 year = "1999",
 CODEN = "ATASFO",
 ISSN = "_PHONE_ (print), _PHONE_ (electronic)",
 bibdate = "Fri Jul 27 10:05:33 MDT 2001",
 bibsource = "_URL_
 _URL_
 URL = "_URL_
 _URL_
 abstract = "Recent results have shown that dynamic power
 management is effective in reducing the total power
 consumption of sequential circuits. In this paper, we
 propose a bottom-up approach for the automatic
 extraction and synthesis of dynamic power management
 circuitry starting from structural logic-level
 specifications. Our techniques leverage the compact
 BDD-based representation of Boolean and pseudo-Boolean
 functions to detect idle conditions where the clock can
 be stopped without compromising functional correctness.
 Moreover, symbolic techniques allow accurate
 probabilistic computations; in particular, they enable
 the use of non-equiprobable primary input
 distributions, a key step in the construction of models
 that match the behavior of real hardware devices with a
 high degree of fidelity. The results are encouraging,
 since power savings of up to 34\% have been obtained on
 standard benchmark circuits.",
 acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
 generalterms = "Design",
 journal-URL = "_URL_
 subject = "Hardware --- Logic Design --- Design Styles (B.6.1):
 {\bf Sequential circuits}; Hardware --- Logic Design
 --- Design Aids (B.6.3): {\bf Automatic synthesis};
 Hardware --- Logic Design --- Design Aids (B.6.3): {\bf
 Optimization}",
}
@Article{Choi:1999:FDA,
 author = "Kyumyung Choi and Steven P. Levitan",
 title = "A flexible datapath allocation method for
 architectural synthesis",
 journal = j-TODAES,
 volume = "4",
 number = "4",
 pages = "376--404",
 month = oct,
 year = "1999",
 CODEN = "ATASFO",
 ISSN = "_PHONE_ (print), _PHONE_ (electronic)",
 bibdate = "Fri Jul 27 10:05:33 MDT 2001",
 bibsource = "_URL_
 _URL_
 URL = "_URL_
 _URL_
 abstract = "We present a robust datapath allocation method that is
 flexible enough to handle constraints imposed by a
 variety of target architectures. Key features of this
 method are its ability to handle accurate modeling of
 datapath units


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There are versions of the Drancel accelerometer-driven real-time synthesis system for:
- Synthesis of light from body motion (with no digital imaging except non-corruptive photography and video) using mobile micro-controller systems.
- Synthesis of sound from body motion (using both computer-based and mobile micro-controller based systems).
- Synthesis of computer-generated visuals from body motion (using PureData/GEM and Java™ control software called DranceWare).
While past R&D involved sound and visuals synthesis, the current R&D focus is on: The Drancel light synthesis system
Nearly all development of the Drancel systems leverages model-based systems engineering with Systems Modeling Language (SysML®) and model-driven software engineering with Unified Modeling Language (UML®), and the Drancel systems are used as a source of educational examples for the Webel IT Australia IT Training seminars and workshops.


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Food competition between trout and dace in the North Pine River, Manitoba
Schlick, Rudolf Otto
Interspecific competition for food between eastern brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis, Mitchill) and two species of dace (Rhinichthys cataractae, Valenciennes) and (Rhinichthys atratulus, Hermann) was investigated in North Pine River, Manitoba. Yearling and larger brook trout did not compete for food with the dace as their diets differed; however, fingerling brook trout and dace competed because their diets were similar. Fingerling trout, in a section of the stream containing a greater number of dace, grew slower than those fingerling trout that were in the non-competitive section of the stream.


Shellfish's Mysterious Pathways to Adulthood : Image
It's hard to tell the difference among early larval stages of various shellfish. But under polarized light, different species of larvae show different birefringence patterns, based on the crystal orientation of the calcium-containing minerals that make up their shells. Later-staged larvae begin to have body shapes that makes them easier to distinguish.


© 2020
The Structure of Complex Images
Part of the Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television book series (CRFT)
Table of contents
 1. Front Matter
 Pages i-xii
 2. Robert B. Ray
 Pages 1-14
 3. Film Studies and Its Problems
 1. Front Matter
 Pages 15-15
 4. Cinephilia, Cavell, and Description-as-Method
 1. Front Matter
 Pages 77-77
 2. Robert B. Ray
 Pages 79-100
 3. Robert B. Ray
 Pages 101-120
 5. Movie Star Performance
 1. Front Matter
 Pages 121-121
 2. Robert B. Ray
 Pages 123-136
 3. Robert B. Ray
 Pages 155-162
 6. Memory Theaters
 1. Front Matter
 Pages 163-163
 2. Robert B. Ray
 Pages 165-196
 7. The Structure of Complex Images
 8. Back Matter
 Pages 249-259
About this book
After over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries. Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world? How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice? What makes it hard to define what counts as "acting"? How do movies like Casablanca and Breathless store the film and world histories of their generations? How can we reconcile auteurism's celebration of the movie director's authority with the camera's automatism? Why have the last four decades of film criticism so often neglected such questions? After beginning with an overview of film studies, this book proposes a shift from predictable theoretical approaches to models that acknowledge the perplexities and mysteries of the movies. Deriving methods from cinephilia, Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Eleanor Duckworth, V. F. Perkins, and James Naremore, Robert B. Ray offers close readings that call attention to what we have missed in such classic films as La Règle du Jeu, It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Casablanca, Breathless, and Tickets.
Images Film Studies Complexity Mystery Classic Cinema Close Reading Structure Film Theory
Authors and affiliations
 1. 1.Department of EnglishUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleUSA
About the authors
Robert B. Ray is Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA. He is the author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema: _PHONE_, The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy, How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies, The ABCs of Classic Hollywood, and Walden X 40. He is also a member of The Vulgar Boatmen, whose records include You and Your Sister, Please Panic, Opposite Sex, and Wide Awake.
Bibliographic information
 - Book Title The Structure of Complex Images
 - Authors Robert B. Ray
 - Series Title Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
 - Series Abbreviated Title Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
 - DOI
 - Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
 - eBook Packages Literature, Cultural and Media Studies Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
 - Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-40630-1
 - Softcover ISBN 978-3-030-40633-2
 - eBook ISBN 978-3-030-40631-8
 - Edition Number 1
 - Number of Pages XII, 259
 - Number of Illustrations 26 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
 - Topics Close Reading
 Film Theory
 Film History
 - Buy this book on publisher's site


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Technology can help you to make a Will during the current measures to manage the coronavirus outbreak.
Here are some things to think about.
Video conferencing
This is certainly one way that technology can help you to prepare your Will. It's so much easier to discuss things when you can see someone.
The process, known as 'taking instructions', can be done via a video conference, and your Will can then be drafted and sent via email or post. Once you have reviewed your draft Will you can have another video conference to go through it in detail and to agree any amendments before the final version is sent to you.
Before taking part in a video conference with your Will writer it is a good idea to collect as much information as you can. This could include a list of your assets such as property, your car, any collections of jewellery or art for example. It's also worth checking your bank accounts, ISAs, investments and savings, because many of us forget what we have.
You will need to appoint someone as your executor to carry out the terms of your Will. Think about who this should be and, ideally, check with them to make sure they are happy to act on your behalf.
Write down any questions you would like to ask, so that you can tick them off as they are covered in the video conference, and so that you remember to ask them at the end if they haven't been answered.
However, your Will can't be witnessed during a video conference. Your witnesses must by physically present when you sign your Will.
Validity of your Will
This is the part of the process that can't yet be replaced by technology. To make a valid Will you must sign and date it and this must be witnessed by two people who are present at the same time. While there have been discussions about changing this requirement during the coronavirus outbreak, it hasn't yet been changed.
Your witnesses must be independent and not related to you. If beneficiaries of your Will or their spouses or civil partners are witnesses, they will lose their inheritance.
However, there are a lot of different ways to make sure your Will is properly signed and witnessed while still following the social distancing rules
Proof of identity
Whoever is helping you to prepare your Will must confirm your identity. This might involve sharing the details of your:
birth certificate
driving licence
armed forces ID card
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) tax document (such as a self-assessment tax return)
police or other government department ID card
benefit book or notification letter outlining your right to benefits.
They will also need proof of residency. As long as you haven't already used them as proof of your identity, you can do this with:
a household utility bill (gas and electricity, dated within the last three months)
driving licence
bank statement
benefit book or notification letter, outlining your right to benefits
house or car insurance certificate
Council Tax statement
local authority rent card or tenancy agreement.
While it's important that you can prove who you are and your address, this information could also be used by criminals to steal your identity, so you must be confident that you are working with a legitimate, trained and regulated professional. Check the company's registration at Companies House and look for independent reviews and testimonials.
If you or anyone you know would like more advice on creating or amending a Will during the coronavirus outbreak, please do get in touch
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In recent years, numerous analytical and experimental researches have been performed on the prediction of thermal stresses in mass concrete structures. However, due to the difficulty of the problem, limitations still exist for both analytical and experimental methods of measuring thermal stresses in mass concrete. In this research, a new experimental device measuring thermal stresses directly in a laboratory setting is developed. The equipment is located in a temperature chamber that follows the temperature history, which has been previously obtained from temperature distribution analyses. Thermal forces are measured continuously by two load cells in the device. The results show that the thermal stresses estimated by the newly developed device agree well with general stress variations in actual structures.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Building and Construction
- General Materials Science


The CONCATENATE function will allow you to combine the text values from multiple cells into a single text string. The "Text" values can be a combination of absolute cell references and text.
This function is most commonly used for creating dynamic titles within a dashboard based on the combination of selections. This function is also used for generating queries with parameters defined from the Xcelsius model.
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Package kakoune
Code editor heavily inspired by Vim
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Features:
 * Multiple selections
 * Customization
 * Text editing tools
 * Client/Server architecture
 * Advanced text manipulation primitives
 * Active development & support
Kakoune is a code editor that implements Vi's "keystrokes as a text editing
language" model. As it is also a modal editor, it is somewhat similar to the
Vim editor (after which Kakoune was originally inspired).
Kakoune can operate in two modes: normal and insertion. In insertion mode,
keys are directly inserted into the current buffer. In normal mode, keys are
used to manipulate the current selection and to enter insertion mode.
Kakoune has a strong focus on interactivity. Most commands provide immediate
and incremental results, while being competitive with Vim in terms of
keystroke count.
Kakoune works on selections, which are oriented, inclusive ranges of
characters. Selections have an anchor and a cursor. Most commands move both of
them except when extending selections, where the anchor character stays fixed
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Keeping a tree watered is the best way to ensure a long life, but it can be difficult to see the water level sometimes, which is why blogger Eric Ayars created a reminder system with an Arduino.
Using a small sensor, an Arduino Pro Mini, a relay, transformer, and an outlet box, he created a system that can detect the amount of water in the tree's tray and blink a morse code message when it's in need of water. Sure, it's probably easier to set up an alarm every couple days to remind you, but this is a clever way to ensure you'll never forget. There's no reason you wouldn't be able to apply it to any other plants you might keep in water, so it could be used year round. You can find the full guide, with schematics and code on Hardware Hacks.


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An improved infrared carbon monoxide analyser for routine measurements aboard commercial Airbus aircraft: technical validation and first scientific results of the MOZAIC III programme
Abstract. The European-funded MOZAIC programme (Measurements of ozone and water vapour by Airbus in-service aircraft) has been operational since 1994 aboard 5 commercial Airbus A340. It has gathered ozone and water vapour data between the ground and an altitude of 12 km from more than 20 000 long-range flights. A new infrared carbon monoxide analyser has been developed for installation on the MOZAIC equipped aircraft. Improvements in the basic characteristics of a commercial CO analysers have achieved performance suitable for routine aircraft measurements : ±5 ppbv, ±5% precision for a 30 s response time. The first year of operation on board 4 aircraft with more than 900 flights has proven the reliability and the usefulness of this CO analyser. The first scientific results are presented here, including UTLS exchange events and pollution within the boundary layer.


Can you hear your baby's heartbeat with an app?
There's an App for That. The Shell app from Bellabeat lets you hear your baby's heartbeat whenever you want. Here's how the amazing technology works. If you've ever found yourself going about your daily routine and desperately wishing you could hear your baby's heartbeat, you'll want to download this app.
Can you really hear baby's heartbeat with app?
It's called Shell, and it was developed by Bellabeat. The free app, available now on Apple's App store, uses the microphone on your cellphone to listen to the baby's heart. It allows parents to listen to the baby's heart, record it and share on social media or email.
Can you use your phone as a fetal Doppler?
My baby heartbeat monitor free app uses your smart phone camera as a fetal doppler heart rate monitor, save and share your baby's heartbeat. This application has a fun and non-medical purpose. You can put the camera phone on the belly of the pregnant mother to see the pulse of the baby's.
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Is there a way to hear your baby's heartbeat at home?
It's possible to hear the heartbeat at home using a stethoscope. Unfortunately, you can't hear it as early as you can with an ultrasound or fetal Doppler. With a stethoscope, a baby's heartbeat is often detectable between the 18th and 20th week. Stethoscopes are designed to amplify small sounds.
Can Apple Watch pick up fetal heartbeat?
No, a fetal monitor on your Apple Watch is not God's gift to women, or to the digital health movement. This week's Apple event has business analysts and digital health enthusiasts hailing Airstrip, a remote cardiac monitoring device that can be used to track the fetal heart rate and uterine contractions.
Why do I feel a pulse in my stomach?
When you eat, your heart pumps extra blood to your stomach and small intestine through your aorta. This helps with digesting food and absorbing its nutrients. That temporary surge can create a more pronounced pulse in your stomach. You might also feel it if you lie down and raise your knees.
How do you self check your stomach for pregnancy?
Walk your fingers up the side of her abdomen (Figure 10.1) until you feel the top of her abdomen under the skin. It will feel like a hard ball. You can feel the top by curving your fingers gently into the abdomen. Figure 10.1 With the woman lying on her back, begin by finding the top of the uterus with your fingers.
Can home Doppler hurt the baby?
Using it for a few minutes once a week shouldn't cause any harm to your baby. At-home fetal dopplers can also be potentially harmful because they can give you a false sense of reassurance, according to the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
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How do you know if your fetus is still alive?
Signs that a baby has died during pregnancy. No foetal movements. A mother's sense that something "isn't right" or not "feeling" pregnant anymore. Vaginal bleeding or uterine cramping.
Can we feel baby's heartbeat by touching stomach?
While this might feel like your baby's heartbeat, it's actually just the pulse in your abdominal aorta. When you're pregnant, the amount of blood circulating around your body dramatically increases.
When can I hear my baby's heartbeat?
A fetal heartbeat may first be detected by a vaginal ultrasound as early as 5 1/2 to 6 weeks after gestation. That's when a fetal pole, the first visible sign of a developing embryo, can sometimes be seen. But between 6 1/2 to 7 weeks after gestation, a heartbeat can be better assessed.
Where can you hear the baby's heartbeat with a stethoscope?
A good quality stethoscope will be able to help you hear the foetal heartbeat around 18 to 20 weeks. Around this time your baby's heartbeat will be strong enough for you to hear with a stethoscope. All you need to do is place the stethoscope on your belly and move it gently until you hear a strong heartbeat.
What do early baby kicks feel like?
Others describe first baby kicks to feel like flutters, gas bubbles, tumbling, a light tickle, a painless "zapping" feeling, a light flicking, or a gentle thud or tap. As baby grows, movements will become much more pronounced and you will feel them more frequently.
Can you hear baby heartbeat underwater?
When you're pregnant and you lie down in the bath tub, with your ears under water, can you hear the baby's heartbeat? No, just like you can't hear another person's heartbeat if you're in a hot tub or pool together.
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Can Apple Watch tell if you are pregnant?
There is no specific setting within watchOS for logging that you are pregnant. Activity-related estimations made by Apple Watch depend, in part, on your personal information. For the most accurate results from the Activity app and Workout during pregnancy, be sure to keep your weight information up to date.
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The CSharp metamodel is the reflection of the C# language, as defined in version 2.0 of "C# Language Specification" from Microsoft Corporation.
The CSharp metamodel contains 81 metaclasses. To better understand it, this page will introduce the main features (metaclasses and links).
You could also browse the model definition csharp.ecore available in sources (see the install section).
Main meta classes
Every metaclass (except metaclass Fragment) inherits from ASTNode. As its name indicates, ASTNode represents a graph node. ASTNode has a reference to metaclass Comment because almost every csharp element could be associated to a comment (block or line comment).
Assembly, Namespace, Type
The root element of each CSharp model is an instance of the Assembly metaclass. It is a translation of the concept of csharp application, so it contains namespace declarations (instances of the Namespace metaclass). And namespace declarations contain type declarations (instances compatible with metaclass Type), and so on...
NamedElement & notion of Proxy
A lot of csharp elements are "named", and this name can be considered as an identifier : methods, packages, types, variables, fields,... So all the corresponding metaclasses inherit from the NamedElement metaclass. It will be useful to resolve references in binding, see the NamedElementRef metaclass.
Another goal of this metaclass is to indicate for each element whether it is part of the current csharp application or not (element from an external.NET library). So external elements are tagged as proxy through a dedicated attribute and can be easily filtered. For example, instruction "Trace.WriteLine" has been decomposed into two named elements (one class and one method) the definitions of which are not part of the current csharp application. So attribute proxy of these elements has been initialized to true.
To represent links between csharp elements, as the C# AST defines only string references, metaclass NamedElementRef initially contained only this information. But an important addition was to resolve bindings between elements, so it is actually possible to navigate directly through the elements graph. It has been represented as a relationship from a NamedElementRef to a NamedElement (proxy or not).
A type declaration has different kinds of contents : fields, methods, static block, initialization block or other type declarations. All of these elements are of type InternalDeclaration metaclass.
Like in many languages, the concept of expression exists in C# : it is a portion of code, without declarations, and its evaluation returns a value, numerical or boolean or other...For example,
All types of expressions shall inherit from metaclass Expression.
An "instruction" in C# is represented by the Statement metaclass. A block of code (Block metaclass) contains a collection of statements, and a block of code may be contained by a method.Some examples of statements in C# :
if, while, for, do,...
All of their definitions use the concept of expression to separate the value from the instruction keyword.
To use the plug-in you need:
- JDK 1.5 or above
- a version of Eclipse 3.3 or above with the following set of plug-ins installed
- EMF 2.3.0 or higher
Gabriel Barbier (Mia-Software)
Fabien Giquel (Mia-Software)
Frédéric Madiot (Mia-Software)
You will find a version of this plug-in attached in the following bug.
As IP review of this plug-in is not finished, here are installation instructions :
- Extract archive file in your Eclipse workspace, then use "import" menu to import this project.
- Use "export" menu to export this project as a plug-in (Deployable plug-ins and fragments) in your Eclipse installation. Don't forget to choose the "Package plug-ins as individual jar archives" option.
- re-start your Eclipse to take this plug-in into account
A first version of the C# discoverer : CSharpDiscoverer


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Ceramics Handbuilding: Pinch and Coil Construction is an excellent introduction to pinching and coiling as a process of pottery making. According to the video instructor, Mollie Favour, the advantage of handbuilding is that it only takes some clay and a few simple tools-many that can be supplied directly from the kitchen. In this lesson, Favour instructs viewers in the production of several complete projects.
Favour teaches the viewer four basic skills needed for building pottery by hand. First, she demonstrates clay preparation by "spiral" wedging. This is a primary skill all new potters must acquire, and Favour demonstrates the method clearly. Next she shows how to make pottery via the pinch method. Then, she shows how to make and use coils. And finally, she demonstrates how to pull a handle.
These basic actions equip new artists to tackle the many handmade projects in the video. These projects include: a bowl, a box with lid, an oval vessel, and a coffee mug. Basic materials, such as slip and glaze, are explained. Favour also shows how she decorates her pots with colored slips and a brush before firing them with a clear glaze.
Mollie Favour's simple, yet concise directions are easy enough for the beginning potter to begin creating right away. I was troubled somewhat by the quality of the camerawork; I found that the artist's hands were out of frame much too often for an instructional video. However, I am still recommending this as a teaching aid for beginning potters and those that would like to begin again.
Title: Ceramics Handbuilding: Pinch and Coil Construction
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VOORHEES, N.J. (CBS) — Two more children have tested positive for the adenovirus at the Voorhees Pediatric Facility, confirms the County Department of Health and Human Services.
The two new cases bring the facility's total to twelve residents who have tested positive for adenovirus.
No deaths have occurred and none of the patients are in critical condition.
The Voorhees Pediatric Facility says it is maintaining enhanced infection control measures, but additional cases may be expected within the facility due to the adenovirus' long incubation and shedding period.
Adenovirus is a respiratory virus which can cause mild or serious illness, though serious illness is less common. Symptoms may include common cold, sore throat, bronchitis, pneumonia, diarrhea, pink eye, fever, bladder inflammation or infection, inflammation of the stomach and intestines and neurological disease.
The facility has stopped all new admissions, until further notice.


Amazon Machine Images: HVM or PV?
Learn the differences between HVM and PV for Amazon Machine Images.
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) have a virtualization type of "HVM" or "PV." What is the difference and which should I choose?
Steve MillidgeSteve Millidge
Under the covers, AWS runs the Xen hypervisor on the bare metal of its servers. Xen has the capability to virtualize in two ways: Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) or paravirtualization (PV).
Paravirtualization is a lightweight form of virtualization which differs from HVM in that it doesn't require any virtualization extensions from the host CPU. If your host server doesn't have Intel VT or AMD-V hardware extensions, then you'll need your guest to be paravirtualized.
PV does, however require that a guest OS has a "Xen-PV-enabled kernel" as well as PV drivers, meaning that the guests know that they are running in a hypervisor.
HVM guests are fully virtualized, so the underlying hardware has to be emulated for the guests to use, incurring performance cost, unlike PV, where the guest OS is modified to be able to run without needing that emulation.
If none of this is making sense so far, let me simplify; HVM requires the host machine to have a certain feature present in its hardware, whereas PV requires the guest OS to have a certain feature present in its software.
In practical terms, PV means that performance is much closer to what you would expect of the underlying hardware compared to HVM because of the extra overheads in HVM. As the Xen wiki says: "Fully virtualized guests are usually slower than paravirtualized guests, because of the required emulation."
The answer is simple, then: Choose PV instances because of the better performance. Right? Well, mostly. Since PV requires software changes, it is not possible to run a paravirtualized Windows guest.
The actual answer is nearly simple, then: If you need Windows, you'll need HVM. If you are using GNU Linux or Unix, you can choose either, but will (in most cases) get better performance with PV. The only caveat to make is that HVM isn't supported for t1.micro GNU/Linux instances.
For further reading, there's a good overview of these different types of guests in the Xen wiki.
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Sediment Transport Measurements in the Nile River at Bani Mazarby M. T. K. Gaweesh, Hydraulics & Sediment Research, Inst, Delta Barrage, Egypt,
M. M. Gasser, Hydraulics & Sediment Research, Inst, Delta Barrage, Egypt,
Document Type: Proceeding Paper
Part of: Hydraulic Engineering
Abstract: Measurements of sediment transport on the Nile River were conducted at Bani Mazar (200 km South of Cairo) during high and low water stages. Bed-load and suspended-load transport rates were measured at five locations in one cross section. Also the bed material was sampled and bed form tracking was performed. The bed-load and suspended-load transport rates were calculated based on the measurements carried out with the Helley-Smith and Delft Hydraulics pump sampler, respectively. The sediment transport rates were also estimated according to different transport prediction formulae. The measured suspended sediment concentrations were very low (maximum of 180 mg/L). In fact, the Nile River transport in Egypt, has become very small after the construction of the High Aswan Dam. The measured bed-load transport was uncertain as the calibration factor is not known, particularly for sand-bed rivers with very low transport. The most commonly relations have not been developed for the hydraulic and sediment conditions that exist presently in the Nile River.
Subject Headings: Sediment transport | Transport rates | Suspended loads | Bed materials | Bed loads | Rivers and streams | Hydraulic loads | Suspended sediment | Nile River | Africa | Egypt | Cairo
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Dynamic matrix control with input saturation constrained
It is proposed, in this paper a dynamic matrix control (DMC) with an anti-windup (AW) based on linear matrix inequalities (LMI). The DMC-AW control is applied in the ballbeam system, in which the main purpose is to control the ball position on a rotating beam. System modeling was performed, which presented two degrees of freedom. For the mechanical system implementation a microcontroller, an ultrasonic sensor, and a servo motor were used. The proposed control was implemented both numerically with the software MATLAB and with the microcontroller ATmega328Pu. The simulation results validated the eciency of the proposed DMC-AW and showed that the approach improves the response of the system under input saturation.


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initiative and is planning a fifth one in 2021. To date, it has published over nine hundred academic digital articles in Spanish on historical and contemporary cases of women architects. In 2018, the blog was visited over one million times by engaged readers who suggested new cases to add (Figure 2). The archival work was further expanded by collaborating with other institutions and digital networks that have linked and published the articles, and the editors have participated in women-only Wikipedia edit-athons that have increased the number of women architect entries on the site from just 2% in 2015 to 8% in 2018. In addition to the use of social media such as Facebook, they took part in the radio program Arquitectos al aire, which also has a YouTube channel. Moreover, the online trend has led to concrete architectural exhibitions, the publication of architecture magazines and the e-book Nuestras Arquitectas: Re-mapeo y Nuevas Cartografías, by Inés Moisset and Carolina Quiroga. In 2016, Un día|Una arquitecta was awarded the Milka Bliznakov Research Prize of the International Archive of Women in Architecture from Virginia Tech. The jury highlighted the use of digital tools and the internet to expand archival content to a wider audience. As a political initiative, in 2017 Un día|Una arquitecta launched a signature petition, called 'Compromiso 30%', demanding a minimal involvement of female participants in professional events, including panel discussions, held in Argentina and Spain. Through digital activism and the community's participation, they exposed images of all-male or dominantly male panels.
The contributors to Arquitetas (in)visíveis (Invisible Women Architects) are less formal in their pursuit of gender equality and more expansive in their use of media. This collective began as a group of undergraduate architecture and urbanism students at the Universidade de Brasília who critically researched and collected data on historically omitted women architects. On International Women's Day 2014, Gabriela Cascelli Farinasso, Hana Augusta de Andrade, Julia Mazzutti Bastian Solé, Laura Pita Viera, and Luiza Rego Dias Coelho released the Facebook page Arquitectas (in)visíveis. An online community grew by sharing articles of interest on feminism and architecture and their initial research on 21 women architects. In the context of their institution, these young women architects (average age of 22) organised an exhibition with lectures that drew the attention of the UnBTV, the television channel of the University of Brasília. On International Women's Day 2015, they joined forces with the site ArchDaily and published a compilation of biographical entries about 48 women architects. With this data they created their own official website that is structured according to different categories (pioneers, in the shadows, architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, social architecture, sustainable architecture) and has a blog section for discussions (Figure 2). Over time, they were invited to participate in conferences, architecture exhibitions, and TEDx Talk Brasilia. They soon realized the need to create a space of dialogue between various people researching gender issues in the built environment from various disciplinary angles, such as psychology, sociology, geopolitics, and the arts. Through an open call for papers, they published the first edition of their magazine, Pioneiras, in August 2016, and the second edition, Nas Sombras, in March 2018. In parallel, they expanded their reach of narratives to YouTube and Instagram. Also, their documentary, Poeira e Batom — 50 mulheres na construção de Brasília, has been shown at various film and feminist festivals. Nowadays, they run O tracso é Delas, a podcast in Portuguese about the traces of women builders.
The group behind Pioneer Women of American Architecture relied on large budgets for creating this historiographical website. In 2012, the aim of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation was to uncover a group of women born before WWII who broke sexual and racial barriers and made important contributions to North American architecture, urbanism, and interior and furniture design and to empowering young architecture students and practitioners. From a jury selection of 50 profiles of pioneer women, the directors, Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, selected the authors for each profile and developed a format for the project. In line with the prestige of the project, Pioneer Women of American Architecture was launched in October 2014 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The website is straightforward and easy to use. It starts with a list of 50 cases leading to well-researched biographical entries with a complete biographical apparatus (Figure 2). The editors expressed their intention to eventually add more case studies documenting the careers of women architects in America.
These three online resources of feminist architectural history engage with new media in various degrees and provide us with free scholarly knowledge on women architects. At the same time, they also attempt to position themselves as authoritative in this expanding field. The website Pioneer Women of American Architecture has remained a canonical resource closer to the concerns of third wave feminism. Not only does it expose her-stories from women who practised in North America, omitting connections with issues of racism and sexism as a global campaign towards intersectional feminism, but it also fails to build a bridge with the new generation of female architects whom they aim to motivate to study architecture. By contrast, the Brazilian case of Arquitetas (in)visíveis is a platform targeted at young activist architects and students that invites other disciplines to discuss the patriarchal and colonial power structure in the built environment across the North/South divides. In line with Generation Z, the collective mobilises various social media to discuss racism, LGBTIQ+ rights, and fascism. Additionally, it has enhanced the architecture-related gender research in Portuguese and encouraged the networking of scholars in this minority language. Similarly, Un día|Una arquitecta has also taken advantage of a growing scene of Latin feminist-activism and the online trending topic of International Women's Day to give visibility to under-researched, non-western cases, both historical and contemporary, in the Spanish language. With the power of digitisation, the project has broken frontiers and for the first time has connected Latin American architectural researchers with Spanish-speaking emigrants in Europe and the United States. However, it has maintained the blog format since its inception and as a result, the content is not rapidly accessible nor visually appealing enough for the new generation of architects.
In the shifting ground of websites, content platforms need to actively engage the youth, who are not only mobile-native and highly integrated and dependant in social media but also socially responsible. As discrimination is still rampant in the profession, it should be also asked whether the use of biographies — a legacy of second wave feminism — is helping to achieve a more egalitarian architectural profession or if it continues to position women as vulnerable and isolated subjects in the architecture discipline.
A Community of Education and Exploration: Reframing Understandings of the Bauhaus
Elizabeth Otto, Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics, Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press, 289 pages, 2019, ISBN: 9780262043298
Few design and architecture institutions have achieved such wide and scholarly recognition as the Bauhaus. Its centennial in 2019 unsurprisingly led to numerous exhibitions and publications that both celebrated and challenged its legacy and impact on the last century of art, architecture, and design. The MIT Press alone — which had already celebrated the school's 50th anniversary in 1969 with its translation from German of the authoritative Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago (Wingler 1962) — published three new books: Bauhaus Futures (Forlano, Steenson, and Ananny 2019), Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus (Blakinger 2019), and Elizabeth Otto's Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics, reviewed here (Figure 3).
Haunted Bauhaus is an enlightening discussion of rarely told histories that Otto also shared in two volumes co-edited with Patrick Rössler: Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School (Otto and Rössler 2019a), and Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective (Otto and Rössler 2019b). The book discusses the embodied and politicized experiences of the Bauhäusler and Bauhäuslerin — terms describing the male and female members of the school that are used to focus on the community of individuals rather than the 'master'-student relationship — and reframes the commonly understood narrative of the Bauhaus as a paradigm of rational modernism. Otto presents instead a diversified array of 'anti-utilitarian experiments in occultism and spirituality, communal and individual expressions of gender and sexuality, and radical politics' (Otto 2019: 3). By doing so, she moves away from the small number of major figures usually discussed and makes visible those concepts and people that histories of the Bauhaus have systematically overlooked or relegated to the margins.
The title of the book refers to Avery Gordon's (2008) concept of haunting to 'illuminate how content that is repressed or unresolved can escape and manifest obliquely despite the systems that usually contain it' — in this case, the 'non-Taylorized bodies and non-normative sexualities' that 'haunt the margins of the Bauhaus' (Otto 2019: 3–4). Otto argues that


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Overview: This protocol was written to guide prediction of migratory bird fallout conditions on the Mississippi Gulf Coast during spring migration. During that time, many migratory songbirds launch from the Yucatan peninsula in the evening, fly north overnight, and reach the Gulf Coast sometime the next day, often mid- to late-morning. Our original goal in creating this protocol was to aid in running a Big Day attempt on the day after a fallout, so we wanted to predict decent fallout conditions on a particular day, and then we wanted decent weather for birding the next day. If that is our goal, after a fallout we want overnight north winds & light rain to keep migrants grounded near the coast, followed by a day of good weather for birding, with some sun to get raptors up. For Big Day planning, the minimum goal should be avoiding really terrible conditions (e.g., running a Big Day after one or more sustained days of sun and south winds during which most of the migrants have departed), even if we don't achieve perfect conditions, and targeting a time window in approximately the last two weeks of April, for maximum diversity. However, if you're not trying to run a Big Day, then you can optionally try to bird on a fallout day itself, and you might have a broader time window (earlier in April, and into early May).
Here are some basic steps to follow:
First check other people's migration forecasts:
- Read any recent posts by Bob Duncan predicting birding conditions for northwest Florida and coastal Alabama on ALBIRDS: _URL_
- Check the latest on BirdCast: _URL_
Second, check various long-term forecasts, to identify potentially good conditions in the future—look for low pressure systems and rain/storms heading for the Gulf Coast.
For example, check the 10-day forecasts for Gulfport, MS on weather.com, National Weather Service, and Weather Underground. Note that all 3 do not always agree, and Weather Underground may be more accurate, due to the use of more weather stations.
Third, when you see a promising weather front on the horizon, start making your own checks for the specific desired conditions:
Check current and predicted launch conditions in the Yucatan, in early evening. If conditions are good (southerly winds, clear skies), birds will be launching. They may also launch against light north winds at ground level, especially during the late migration period (late April / early May). Bad conditions for launch would be cloudy and rainy and/or strong north winds, over the Yucatan.
Check Merida (Yucatan capital city) weather forecast: _URL_
Check marine forecast for the Southern Gulf: _URL_ (or go here and click on part of the map: _URL_
Check prediction for overnight winds over the mid-Gulf (at ~2500 feet elevation). We desire West or Southwest winds ideally, vectoring birds to the east, away from Texas and towards Mississippi. **This may occasionally cause good passerine birding on the MS coast, even without rain. South or Southeast winds OK too.
Check 12-hour forecast for winds at about 2500 feet elevation: _URL_ (or go here: _URL_ and click on "925 mb winds" for 2500-foot elevation plot, or click "300 mb winds" for winds at 30,000 feet elevation, which gives a good overview)
Check predicted surface winds over the Gulf: _URL_ (scroll down to Step 5, and select a forecast time, e.g. +9 or +12 hours to predict nighttime winds if you are checking at 5pm)
Check marine forecast for the Central Gulf: _URL_
Check prediction for a low pressure system bringing a rainy front and (ideally) north (or west) winds out over the gulf, offshore (but not all the way into the central/southern Gulf), in the mid- to late-morning as the migrants who launched the previous evening are getting close to the coast. Rain will usually cause some migrants to fall out, even without north winds, but they won't stick around long without north winds. A dry front will only drop birds if its eastern boundary is right over the MS coast. A front moving out over the Gulf during the night is OK too, stalling in the north Gulf through mid-morning (as long as it isn't too far south early in the night, causing migrants to turn back). If birds have lacked a tailwind overnight, and do not have a tailwind as they approach the coast, a small fallout may occur even without rain.
Check national weather maps: _URL_ (**scroll down and click on forecasts from 12 hours to 6 days)
Use this tool to look at precip probability forecasts: _URL_
Check offshore marine forecast for MS/LA coast: _URL_ (or go here and click on the desired zone: _URL_
Check marine forecast for the North Central Gulf: _URL_
Check forecast for north winds, cloud cover, and/or light rain persisting after the front, and continuing the next day, to discourage migrants from taking off overnight or moving inland, so that we can find them on the day after the fallout. But watch wind forecasts because really strong winds and heavy rain the next day could make migrant detection difficult.
Check local forecast for Gulf Coast, e.g., Gulfport again:
This protocol was compiled by Jason Hoeksema, using advice from a variety of sources, especially Bob Duncan (both from his ALBIRDS posts and his now-out-of-print booklet on weather birding) and Derek Lovitch's 2012 book called How to be a better birder. For an overview or review of interpreting online resources to predict bird migration, see this website: _URL_
Also useful is the "Badbirdz Reloaded" website, which (when it was active) predicted bird migration for Florida (_URL_ but is still a good website on which to read old posts and learn from them.


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How well is your mainframe outsourcer managing capacity and performance?
Part 5: CPU based pricing models
This is the fifth in a series of blogs about how to follow up on your mainframe outsourcer. Previously I've discuss why it is important to follow up on your outsourcer, understanding MIPS and MSU, and the pitfalls of MIPS. In the last blog I discussed the outsourcer's cost structure. In this article I will dig further into the commercial aspects of CPU capacity. Specifically, we will look at how the monthly invoice for the customer is calculated from the technical measurements.
CPU based pricing from an outsourcer can be usage-based, capacity-based, or a combination of the two.
Usage based pricing
As discussed in the previous blog, IBM software is generally billed based on CPU usage, so it is natural for the outsourcer to ensure some level of back-to-back agreement with its customers by also charging based on CPU usage. Some variations on this theme that we have seen are:
– Monthly peak rolling four-hour average
– Absolute monthly peak
– Peak during working hours during the month
– Monthly percentile peak (e.g. 95th percentile where the highest 5% of the peaks are ignored)
– Total or average usage during the month (e.g. average MIPS or total CPU seconds)
– Bands (penalties for using too much or too little)
The units are generally MIPS or MSU. Note that while the outsourcer may be paying IBM for their peak usage and charging you for your peak usage, those peaks may be at different times.
The advantage of capacity-based pricing is predictability. You pay a fixed monthly fee for a fixed capacity, no matter how much you use. There are typically well-defined mechanisms in the agreement for adjusting that capacity on an ongoing basis. Example of this theme include:
– Reserved capacity, sometimes referred to as guaranteed capacity, based on the LPARS 'weight'
– Maximum capacity based on the LPARs configuration, e.g. number of logical CPU's
– Maximum capacity based on hard or soft capping
These elements can be combined in many ways. Here are some examples:
– CP capacity billed based on peak, but zIIP and IFL capacity billed based on number of logical CPU's
– CP and zIIP capacity based on the combined CP + zIIP peak – or based on the peaks for CP and the peaks for zIIP determined independently
– Peaks based on combining the usage of all LPARS or based on each LPAR independently
– Some software products billed based on usage and other software products based on capacity
We recommend the following best practices when deciding on a billing model:
- Work towards alignment of interests with your outsourcer. Think win-win by looking for ways you both can save money.
- Avoid complexity that doesn't add value.
- Ensure transparency through access to data and reporting.
- Understand your current and projected usage patterns when considering alternate billing models.
- Get independent advice from subject matter experts when evaluating your current situation or considering alternatives.
- Understand the relationship between cost and quality of service.
The relationship between cost and quality of service will be covered in more detail in another blog.
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During WW2 the Nazi's created an "Operation Burghard" with the goal of counterfeiting the British pound sterling and US Dollar and then flooding the market with same to collapse those two economies. This secret operation used Jewish masters of counterfeit in Nazi concentration camps. Ultimately 136 million pounds sterling were counterfeited and passed the test thru the actual Bank of England as being authentic. This amounted to four times Britain's financial reserves. Fortunately the majority of the forgeries were boxed up and ended up in an Austrian lake just before the camp was liberated.
Adolf Burger was one of the master counterfeiters who later wrote his memoirs into the book The Devil's Workshop that was made into the movie. Burger toured Europe telling his story of counterfeiting and of the concentration camps of which he had spent time in three. He lived to be 90 years old.