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- Open GarageBand and select "File > New" in the upper left corner. Create the name of your new song and adjust the time and the key that you want to make your song.
- Once the screen is finished loading for your new song, select the symbol of "+" in the lower right corner of the screen. This will create your new track.
Note: you can also do this by selecting "Track > New Track" in the top menu.
- Choose whether you want to use "Software Instrument", "Real Instrument" or "Electric Guitar".
A- "Software Instrument" lets you record using instruments already mounted in GarageBand using the keys on your computer, or connected via MIDI or USB keyboard.
B-''Real Instrument" allows you to record voice or instruments using the microphone on your computer.
C-"Electric Guitar" allows you to edit recordings of electric guitar with amplifier fitted on GarageBand, with delay and sustain settings.
Add tracks in the Software Tools
Select "Software Instrument". The default instrument is "Grand Piano", but also counts with a wide variety of instruments for your preference. When you add a new track, a full menu of these will be available in a menu on the right side of the screen.
Press the "I" icon in the lower right corner to bring the menu to the front or minimize it.
Bring the keyboard to the front. You can play music with any instrument that you like using the keyboard on the screen available in GarageBand. To make the keyboard visible, select "Window > Keyboard" or press "Command+K". Just click the keys on the keyboard with your mouse to play music.
You can also use the "Musical Typing" option, which allows you to play music with the keyboard of your computer instead of the mouse. For this option, select "Window > Musical Typing" or press "Shift+Command+K". Also, you can enter this mode from the "Keyboard" mode by pressing the "A" icon in the upper-left corner of the keyboard.
In both modes, the part of the miniature keyboard in blue is the eighth in which you are. You can adjust the eighth by pressing anywhere different miniature keyboard.
Record a track. To start recording, click the round red button at the bottom of the screen, in the same way, that recording with a "Software Instrument." When you click on "Record", that "Real Instrument" track bar will turn red and will expand to the right until you press again the "Record" button again. When you stop recording, the bar for that track will be purple.
When you record with the microphone on your computer, make sure that you're singing and touch in a clear manner and close to your computer. Try to eliminate the noise out as much as you can.
Look for the loop that you want to use. The "Loop Browser" allows you to filter loops depending on its characteristics, such as scale, instrument, mood, genre, and tone. You can also filter several properties simultaneously; for example, you can search loops that are "Jazz", "Piano", and "Grooving". Once you've activated your preferred filters, you'll see a list of available loops. You can listen to any of the loops you want with only giving double clicks on the name. You will also see information about the tempo, key, and duration of the loops and have the option of adding to your list of favorites.
Below, a link that can help you Mastering with Garageband 10 Tip & Tricks.


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Session : 6 - Indoor Thermal Quality Performance Prediction
Description: The webinar provides an overview on human thermoregulation, thermal sensation and comfort perception. Influence factors and performance indicators for the assessment of thermal comfort in uniform and non-uniform environments are summarized. Comfort modeling and its use within the simulation environment is discussed at diverse levels of detail. We close the topic with the development and test of a new thermophysiological model implemented in the acausal modeling language Modelica. In this regard, we introduce a new type of comfort assessment system that can be used for the real-time assessment of local thermal comfort.
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Gallery: Avro Shacketon fuselage aircraft moved to museum
ITS flying days have been over for more than 25 years but for just a short while the Avro Shackleton s fuselage could be seen against the Fenland sky. A giant crane helped to lift the fuselage in which four crew members would carry out surveillance and gi
ITS flying days have been over for more than 25 years but for just a short while the Avro Shackleton's fuselage could be seen against the Fenland sky.
A giant crane helped to lift the fuselage in which four crew members would carry out surveillance and give warnings of enemy aircraft and ships.
The plane has been owned by the Fenland Aviation Museum for 21 years but had to be moved. A Poly Tunnel hangar which has been donated to the museum will house the fuselage and a Jet Provost.
Named after the English explorer Ernest Shackleton, the Avro Shackleton dates back to the 1950s and was used as an early warning system, particularly during the Cold War. Other roles undertaken included search and rescue and as a Maritime Patrol aircraft.
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text: Coke formation rates under propane dehydrogenation reaction conditions on a used monolithic Pt/¿-Al2O3 catalyst have been experimentally determined in a thermogravimetric analyser (TGA) as a function of time on stream covering wide temperature and concentration ranges. For relatively short times on stream, especially at low temperatures and low propylene concentrations, a remarkable initial quadratic increase has been observed in the coke formation rates versus time with a high apparent propylene reaction order. After longer times on stream the coke formation rate decreases to a constant residual coke growth above approximately 12 wt.% coke content. The experimental data have been successfully described by a kinetic rate expression based on a mechanistic dual coke growth model. In this model it has been assumed that initially coke precursor is formed via a propylene oligomerisation process, explaining the observed auto-catalysis for short times on stream.


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Comparing levels of homoplasy in the primate skeleton.
Hard-tissue morphological characters (bones and teeth) are a primary source of information about the evolutionary history of primates. These tissues are commonly found as isolated elements in the fossil record and studied as three separate partitions: the dentition, the cranium, and the postcranium. The relative phylogenetic utility of characters from each partition is often called into question with respect to varying amounts of homoplasy. In this paper, the consistency index (CI) was used to measure levels of homoplasy in each data partition for a sample of fossil and living primates. Sources of bias in the collection and treatment of data and in the internal structure of the data set are addressed. These biases include number of taxa, number of characters, ordering of characters, amounts of polymorphically scored or missing data, and character-state distribution. The results of this study suggest that the levels of homoplasy are very similar, though the postcranial data may be slightly less homoplastic than either the dental or cranial data.
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Accidents & Violence, Author Interviews, Cannabis / 05.12.2019 Interview with: Nathan J. Connealy Doctoral student John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY What is the background for this study? Response: The background, or what prompted this study, is that research on this topic is pertinent right now as more states continue down a path towards legalization. A large share of the research base and public debate centers around the potential adverse effects of marijuana accessibility, consumer-based concerns, and health specific outcomes associated with usage. This research instead focuses on a lesser explored question related to the potential for the physical dispensary locations to impact crime levels, which is also an important consideration when assessing the impact of recreational marijuana legalization. (more…)


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Acceleration of the measurement time of thermopiles using sigma-delta control
PublisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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This work presents a double sliding mode control designed for accelerating the measurement of heat fluxes using thermopiles. The slow transient response generated in the thermopile, when it is placed in contact with the surface to be measured, is due to the changes in the temperature distributions that this operation triggers. It is shown that under some conditions the proposed controls keep the temperature distribution of the whole system constant and that changes in the heat flux at the thermopile are almost instantaneously compensated by the controls. One-dimensional simulations and experimental results using a commercial thermopile, showing the goodness of the proposed approach, are presented. A first rigorous analysis of the control using the Sliding Mode Control and Diffusive Representation theories is also made.
CitationDominguez, M. [et al.]. Acceleration of the measurement time of thermopiles using sigma-delta control. "Sensors", 18 Juliol 2019, vol. 19, núm. 14, p. 3159-1-3159-21.


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|Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day.
- The average temperature in Matad in November is cold at -9.6 °C (14.72 °F).
- Afternoons can be slightly cold with average high temperatures reaching -3.1 °C (26.4 °F).
- Overnight temperatures are generally very cold with an average low of -13.9 °C (7 °F).
- The average daily temperature range/ variation in November is 10.8 °C (19.4 °F).
- The weather in November is arid. An airy 3.9mm (0.2in) of H2O is deposited.
- The shortest day is 8:46 long and the longest day is 9:55 long with an average length of 9:17.
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Navigate to November Weather in Locations Surrounding Matad:
- Cita/ Kadala, Russia - 568.2 kms (353.1 miles) NNW
- Chita, Russia - 564.1 kms (350.6 miles) NNW
- Kyra, Russia - 380.2 kms (236.2 miles) NW
- Dashbalbar, Mongolia - 280.2 kms (174.1 miles) NNW
- Choibalsan, Mongolia - 130.3 kms (81 miles) NW
- Ulan-Bator/ Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - 662.9 kms (412 miles) W
- Bayan-Ovoo, Mongolia - 273 kms (169.7 miles) WNW
- Underkhaan, Mongolia - 377.8 kms (234.7 miles) W
- Maanty, Mongolia - 615.2 kms (382.3 miles) W
- Baruun-Urt, Mongolia - 186.4 kms (115.8 miles) WSW
- Choir, Mongolia - 569.8 kms (354.1 miles) W
- Bayandelger, Mongolia - 296.7 kms (184.4 miles) WSW
- Sainshand, Mongolia - 494.7 kms (307.4 miles) WSW
- Zamiin-Uud, Mongolia - 480 kms (298.3 miles) SW
- Erlian, China - 482.9 kms (300.1 miles) SW


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WorkflowIdleBehavior.TimeToPersist Property
Definition
Gets or sets a value that specifies the TimeSpan that occurs between the time the workflow becomes idle and is persisted.
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 property TimeSpan TimeToPersist { TimeSpan get(); void set(TimeSpan value); };
public TimeSpan TimeToPersist { get; set; }
member this.TimeToPersist : TimeSpan with get, set
Public Property TimeToPersist As TimeSpan
Property Value
The time span used to determine when a workflow is persisted.
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The TimeSpan begins to elapse when the workflow instance becomes idle. This property is useful if you want to persist a workflow instance more aggressively while still keeping the instance in memory for as long as possible. The default value for this property is MaxValue. The TimeToPersist property is only valid if its value is less than TimeToUnload. If it is greater, it is ignored. If the TimeSpan specified by TimeToPersist elapses before the TimeSpan specified by TimeToUnload, persistence must complete before the workflow is unloaded. This implies that the unload operation may be delayed until the workflow is persisted. The persistence layer is responsible for handling any retries for transient errors and only throws exceptions on non-recoverable errors. Therefore, any exceptions thrown during persistence are treated as fatal and the workflow instance is aborted.
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Question: What Is The Most Valuable Commodity?
What is the most valuable resource?
The Economist – The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.
What is the most valuable commodity in the Congo?
ivoryThe most valuable commodity in the Congo is ivory.
Why is time such a precious commodity?
The concept of time is elusive because, well, it stands still for no man. Beyond time being an arbitrary number derived from the Earth's axial rotation and orbital revolution around the sun, it is also the life currency that you can never regain after "spending" it.
Can a person be a commodity?
Easy access to large, almost unlimited, numbers of people has turned us into commodities. For all but the superstars among us, it has, per the definition, rendered humans widely available and interchangeable.
How is time a precious commodity?
But, money is a tool we amass and preserve but at times we can lose sight of why we want money in the first place. … Money facilitates our wants and needs. Doing well enables you to give back financially which, for many people, is important.
Why is time so valuable?
You have the ability to save money, to share stocks, to rent a house, and to lend a hand, but you cannot implement any of these actions with time. One can only SPEND it. So once it's been used; it's gone. This is why time is the only nonrenewable resource, and the only thing we can never get back.
Is money a commodity?
Commodity money is money whose value comes from a commodity of which it is made. … This is in contrast to representative money, which has little or no intrinsic value but represents something of value, and fiat money, which has value only because it has been established as money by government regulation.
How does the DRC make money?
The country's main economic resource is its mineral deposits; mining produces almost nine-tenths of total exports. … The limestone deposits that occur throughout the country are considered to be among the richest in Africa. Congo's forest reserves cover more than half of the country and are among the largest in Africa.
What is the number 1 traded commodity in the world?
Most Actively Traded CommoditiesWTI Crude Oil.Brent Crude Oil.Natural Gas.Soybeans.Corn.Gold.Copper.Silver.
What's the most valuable commodity?
Study Shows Time Is The Most Valuable Commodity.
Is Congo a wealthy country?
The Democratic Republic of Congo is widely considered to be the richest country in the world regarding natural resources; its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of U.S. $24 trillion.
What is a valuable commodity?
A commodity is any useful or valuable thing, especially something that is bought and sold. Grain, coffee, and precious metals are all commodities. The word commodity is usually used in an economic context, as in importing commodities from other countries or trading in the stocks and commodities markets.
Who said time is more valuable than money?
Jim RohnJim Rohn – "Time is more valuable than money.
What four economic activities are practiced in Congo?
Contents6.1 Agriculture.6.2 Fishing.6.3 Forestry.6.4 Mining.6.5 Copper and Cobalt.6.6 Informal sector.
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Select the Smiley balls by clicking and dragging your mouse. Make an energy ball to appear by turning all of the sphere area into pink. Longer the link, higher will be your score. Make the energy ball to reach the end, in the sphere's path. Longer links can be formed with the help of special balls. Instructions:
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Traveling Luck for Uvkusigssaqarfik, Østgrønland, Greenland
Where is Uvkusigssaqarfik?What's around Uvkusigssaqarfik?
Wikipedia near Uvkusigssaqarfik
Where to stay near Uvkusigssaqarfik
Also known as Uvkusigssagarfik Fjord
The timezone in Uvkusigssaqarfik is America/Danmarkshavn
Sunrise at 12:44 and Sunset at 16:28. It's light
Latitude. 65.0833°, Longitude. -40.5833°
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Geographic features & Photographs around Uvkusigssaqarfik, in Østgrønland, Greenland
- a tract of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water.
- Rømer Ø (5.1km)
- Ole Rømer Ø (17.2km)
- Putugua (25.8km)
- Aqitseq (26.4km)
- Nunârtik (28.1km)
- Takisêrajik (28.9km)
- Aaluit (29.7km)
- Nældebladet (32.4km)
- Qêrtartivaq (33.2km)
- Avqusiâjik (33.5km)
- Nuerniagkartôq (34km)
- Ørsted Ø (36km)
- Ikermiit (37.3km)
- Takiseeq (37.6km)
- Ukîverajik (38.3km)
- Ukîverajik (45.5km)
- Hornemann Ø (46.3km)
- Jens Munk Ø (48.6km)
- an area of permanent snow and ice forming the accumulation area of a glacier.
- Apuseeq (20km)
- a haven or space of deep water so sheltered by the adjacent land as to afford a safe anchorage for ships.
- Andræs Havn (44.6km)
- a mass of ice, usually at high latitudes or high elevations, with sufficient thickness to flow away from the source area in lobes, tongues, or masses.
- Lemon Bræ (42.7km)
- a break in a mountain range or other high obstruction, used for transportation from one side to the other [See also gap].
- Ilivte (18.8km)
Airports close to Uvkusigssaqarfik
Kulusuk(KUS), Kulusuk, Greenland (176.4km)


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The ElementOperand is defined in OPC-UA part 4, 7.4.4.2. It is used to identify another element in the filter by its index (the first element has the index 0).
This is required to create complex filters, for example to reference the two operands of the AND operation in ((Severity > 500) AND (Message == "TestString")). The first step is to create content filter elements for the two conditions (Severity > 500) and (Message == "TestString"). A third content filter element is required to create an AND combination of the two conditions. It consists of the AND operator and two element operands with the indices of the two conditions created before:
import QtOpcUa 5.13 as QtOpcUa
QtOpcUa.EventFilter {
 select : [ ... ]
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 QtOpcUa.FilterElement {
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 browsePath: [
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 secondOperand: QtOpcUa.LiteralOperand {
 value: 500
 type: QtOpcUa.Constants.UInt16
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 QtOpcUa.FilterElement {
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 firstOperand: QtOpcUA.SimpleAttributeOperand {
 browsePath: [
 QtOpcUa.NodeId {
 identifier: "Message"
 ns: "_URL_
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 secondOperand: QtOpcUa.LiteralOperand {
 value: "TestString"
 type: QtOpcUa.Constants.String
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 QtOpcUa.FilterElement {
 operator: QtOpcUa.FilterElement.And
 firstOperand: QtOpcUA.ElementOperand {
 index: 0
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Index of the filter element that is going to be used as operand.
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Retainage of Payment, What's the Purpose?
In the last blog, we talked about the punch list and briefly touched on retainage. This month, as part of a look into the "Construction Alliance" and the "Construction Guidelines", we are going more in-depth to discuss why "Retainage of Payment", is an important part of construction, but one that could have a cost implication.
What is Retainage of Payment?Retainage2
Retainage of payment is more commonly referred to as retention of payment or simply retention. It is a percentage of the progress payment (refer to 2021-01-05 blog "Progress Payments - Who Doesn't Want To Get Paid?) that the Owner holds out from each application for payment. In a typical contract, Owners pay 90 to 95 percent of the progress payment. The 1 to 10 percent withheld from the payment is not to be viewed as an incentive to the Contractor to get the work done. Instead, it is meant to be fair for the Owner and the Contractor, providing for errors in estimation of completed Work or protecting the Owner from defective work in place.
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Is there a difference between public and private work retention?
Depending on whether work is being performed for the Federal Government, a State, a Local Municipality or City, there are different laws that control how retention may be withheld. If you are doing work on any public project, it is best to fully understand those statutes or laws that are in place. Private work may proceed with or without retention, depending on the Contract between the Owner and Contractor.
How does it work?
Depending on the percentage of retention withheld agreed upon in the Contract, the Contractor will indicate in a specific column of the pay application the amount of retention in dollars related to the amount being requested. On short-duration projects, this is not usually a problem. However, it is when the Construction takes place over the course of many years, the Contractor and their sub-contractors may suffer from not being fully compensated. For example, the subsurface contractor completes the work within the first few months of the project, has the retainage held, but the work continues for another 4 years. This becomes a dilemma for the Contractor, to pay that subcontractor in full or to continue holding retention.
One way to be fair to all parties, is to set up an interest-bearing escrow account and deposit the money there. This way, the money remains under Owner control, but the Contractor is paid in full plus the interest accrued to the retained funds at the completion of work. Likewise, the Contractor could do the same for their subcontractors.
How long is retainage held?
Typically retainage is held until Substantial Completion. At this point, the amount being withheld is dropped down to cover the estimated cost for completing the work in the Punch List. However, depending on how the Contract and the General / Supplemental Conditions of the Contract are written, retainage may be reduced at set milestones. There are many ways to do this. For example, retention is reduced from 10 to 5 percent at 50 percent of completion. This would allow for the Contractor to pay, in full, subcontractors that have completed their work early and have no defects in the work that need to be resolved.
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Final thoughts!
I have been involved in many projects, and retention is one of those topics that should not be taken lightly. The Owner should remember that this is not meant to be held as an incentive for the Contractor to get the work done. There is enough incentive to complete the work as soon as possible, get off the job site, and onto the next project. As any Contractor would agree, the longer they remain on the site, the less money the project makes.
Please make certain to read the guideline "Retainage of Payment", and if you have any comments, please let me know. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Next month join me as we discuss the "Safety Consideration".
Till next month…
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A common question that crops up among herpetoculturalists who keep Uroplatus is how much UV they need. This is an important question, because UV, especially UV-B, can be critical to reptiles (and other animals) because it is involved in the pathway that produces vitamin D3 and allows for calcium to be absorbed by the body. But it is not really clear how this works in nocturnal reptiles. In Uroplatus we have the interesting case that the geckos, although active at night, sleep "out in the open," as it were—at least the bark-mimicking geckos tend to sleep on tree trunks and there is the possibility that these trunks are exposed to sunshine, giving the gecko a chance to bask. If this is the case, then in the captive husbandry of the geckos the opportunity to bask in UV-rich light would need to be provided. Over three years of field research, we tried to gather data on the UV exposure of sleeping Uroplatus during the day, using a Solarmeter 6.2 in the rainforests of Madagascar.
The following is an account of attempts to make measurements in Montagne d'Ambre in 2017–2018, Marojejy in 2016, and in a high-altitude forest near Bealanana in northern Madagascar in 2015–16. These observations are therefore directly relevant to Uroplatus sikorae, U. sameiti, U. giganteus, U. aff. henkeli Ca11, U. ebenaui, U. finiavana, U. fotsivava, U. lineatus, and U. alluaudi (and a few undescribed species that are not yet public knowledge), but they can be generalised over all Uroplatus species with the correct level of caution. See below.
First of all, there were several major challenges in assessing the UV exposure of Uroplatus:
- We have had a lot of trouble with the Solarmeter readings because they vary dramatically within centimetre distances. How do you standardise the measurements? Over the three expeditions we conducted, we did not have any success in finding a way to take these measurements in a standardized way, in part because it was difficult to integrate the Solarmeter usage into the daily regime, and in consequence it was not used as often as could be desired, and never in a standardized way. We tried in 2017–2018 to have a student collect the data over transects whilst looking for chameleons, but in the end it was too tedious, unreliable, and time-consuming to be continued. Not to mention rainy!
- There are dramatic differences to be accounted for depending on the perching habits of the species, making generalisations difficult. Bark-mimic species (henkeli complex, giganteus, fimbriatus, sikorae/sameiti complex, and lineatus, but also to a lesser extent alluaudi, guentheri, peitschmanni, and malahelo) may at times be exposed to full sun for brief moments, but probably not for long. The angle at which light hits them is always steep, and typically they are experiencing diffuse light because they are on the trunks of trees, where there is the most shade. By contrast, leaf-mimic species tend to be mostly or completely sheltered during the day, exposing only part of their bodies at all to the light, and certainly not basking. So what is the relevance of environmental UVB readings at all to these animals, which are generally hidden from the light?
- Light in the forest varies dramatically (1) by time of day, (2) by position, (3) by canopy type, (4) by microhabitat, (5) by altitude, and most strongly (6) by season. We conduct fieldwork during the rainy season, where light is lowest and rainfall is heaviest, and where in a single day we have massive swings from dark-as-night cloud cover to bright direct sunlight to diffuse light with or without rain. Needless to say, readings at a single moment in the day are not helpful, because we need an impression of the average exposure of the species to advise husbandry.
Given all of these caveats, you will hopefully understand why this report is fragmentary and perhaps not obviously useful. But it perhaps contains relevant notes on the ecology of species to make informed decisions about using UV light in your Uroplatus care.
UVB levels within the forest typically range from 0 to 15 µW/cm2. In dense primary forest, usually we are getting 0-2 µW/cm2, with upwards of 5 in more open areas, and sometimes up to 15 µW/cm2 in patches where the sun is shining at that very moment. In more open forests, the maximum we have seen is up to 30 µW/cm2, but sometimes we can get as much as 50 µW/cm2 in really blazing sun (probably more frequent in the dry season!). Outside the forest and on its edge we are getting triple digits sometimes, but this is really in areas where Uroplatus basically never occur (maybe useful if anyone keeps edge-loving chameleons though, especially Furcifer pardalis, F. petteri, and Calumma nasutum group species).
All in all, the maximum a rainforest Uroplatus is probably ever exposed to is probably 30 µW/cm2, and as mentioned above, this is probably more than a leaf-mimic species ever experiences. This is not an average value, however. As these geckos really do not seem to bask, and rather are hit coincidentally by light as the sun moves across the sky, the average exposure of any Uroplatus is probably between 8 and 10 µW/cm2, and lower in leaf-mimics. Thinking about the drier forest Uroplatus, where the canopy is less dense, we can raise these numbers a bit and say 10-15 µW/cm2 is a likely good average (again lower in leaf-mimics from drier forest, so U. malama and U. ebenaui).
Bear in mind that altitude also plays a big role: lower altitudes have less cloud cover, and typically more bright-sun-days per year than higher altitudes. So for example, U. ebenaui and U. finiavana may both occur in Montagne d'Ambre, but the latter occurs at higher altitudes than the former, and in more dense forest, and as a result, it must receive considerably less UV exposure. Fortunately, altitude and forest-type correlate rather strongly, so as long as you adjust UV levels for one or the other, you should come out okay.
Uroplatus pietschmanni (and possibly U. alluaudi) is probably exceptional, because it is a high-canopy species and as such probably has higher UV exposure than its relatives. Increasing by one or two µW/cm2 would probably cover this difference though. Uroplatus lineatus is also exceptional because bamboo forest has higher light levels than deciduous or rainforest. As such, it may be advisable to keep U. lineatus with higher light levels in general, and slightly higher UV levels than e.g. U. giganteus, which occurs in the rainforests beside the bamboo forest of U. lineatus.
Bear in mind when thinking about your husbandry that the weather is constantly changing in the forest. Clouds make UVB exposure swing massively. Replicates of natural environments in little boxes cannot mimic this effect, so it is safer to go with a lower-side-of-average value, rather than go straight for the high values of UV exposure. On the other hand, it would not be unreasonable to treat leafand bark-mimic Uroplatus from the same location with the same exposure, and simply provide more shelter opportunities for leaf-mimics… This would be more representative of their natural conditions. This is for the keeper to decide.
So far, the information from field observations is fragmentary and limited. Many factors could change the meaning of what we have observed so far; seasonal changes may vary exposure dramatically, these geckos may be basking more or less than we imagine, and they may be more sensitive to UV levels than diurnal lizards. Remember that no measurements from directly beside resting Uroplatus have yet been obtained, and these will be a critical step in informing decisions further. As such, this is still very much up to the keepers to decide.
As a parting note, consider that UV exposure may not be necessary for the survival of Uroplatus in captivity, but it may still be highly beneficial for them. In a large enclosure, providing a moderately weak UV light is unlikely to do damage.


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Campbelltown, now a suburb/district captured as part of greater Sydney, is 50 kms southwest of the city centre. The Tharawal Aboriginal people lived here for 40 000 people. In On 1 December 1820 Campbelltown was named and founded by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. His wife, Elizabeth's family name was Campbell.
In the decades following World War II Campbelltown gradually change from a town, surrounded by rural land to a suburb of Sydney, with the development of new suburbs along the rail line towards Campbelltown.
This sculpture in Mawson park is of Mrs Elizabeth Macquarie. It was unveiled on 5 August 2006. The sculptor is renowned artist Tom Bass.
Bass's statue depicts Elizabeth Macquarie with a sunbonnet, apron and watering can, and surrounded by a bed of irises. Bass gained inspiration for the statue from local historical reports, which said Mrs Macquarie was known to have given bunches of irises to local settlers when accompanying her husband on his official visits. I'm glad I was there today in Iris blooming season!
The Anglican church in the background, St Peters, dates from 1823.

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M K Gandhi Library
Named after Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, The M K Gandhi Library (situated at 140 Queen Street) was officially opened on 10 September 1921 - at a time when the provision of public library services to Indians was sorely neglected. The library was the vision of Parsee Rustomjee, a retailer and merchant from India who settled in South Africa. He set up the Trust in memory of his wife, Shrimati Bai Jerbai. The Bai Jerbai Rustomjee Trust, as it was called, controls the running of the library and the Parsee Rustomjee Hall, which is part of the library.


of the partial inbreeding coefficient. In that matrix, the value in row \(i\) and column \(j\) indicates the probability of IBD of individual \(i\) for alleles coming from ancestor \(j\). Values in the upper diagonal of the matrix always take values of zero. Of course, the summation of \(F_{i(j)}\) over every column \(j\) equals \(F_{i}\) when \(j\) are founder ancestors.
m <- ip_Fij(arrui, mode = "founders") # ancestors considered are founders (by default)
base::rowSums(m) # this equals ip_F(arrui) %>% .$Fi
By default, ip_Fij only considers partial inbreeding conditional to founders, but it can also be extended to any ancestor using the mode = "all" argument. A custom number of individuals can also be used (see ?ip_Fij). Note however that for a large number of individuals, the computation of this matrix may require a substantial amount of time. In every case, columns of the returned matrix are sorted by ancestor identity use.
Figure below shows the contribution of the two founders in the Barbary sheep pedigree to inbreeding values \(F>0.35\).
arrui <- arrui %>% purgeR::ip_F()
tibble::tibble(founder1 = m[, 1], founder2 = m[, 2], Fi = plyr::round_any(arrui$Fi, 0.025)) %>%
 tidyr::pivot_longer(cols = c(founder1, founder2), names_to = "Founder", values_to = "Fij") %>%
 dplyr::group_by(Fi, Founder) %>%
 dplyr::summarise(Fij = sum(Fij)) %>%
 ggplot() +
 geom_bar(aes(x = Fi, y = Fij, fill = Founder), stat = "identity", position = "fill") +
 scale_x_continuous("Inbreeding coefficient (F)", limits = c(0.35, 0.625)) +
 scale_y_continuous("Partial contribution to F (in %)", labels = scales::percent_format()) +
 scale_fill_manual(values = c("darkgrey", "black")) +
 theme(
 panel.background = element_blank(),
 legend.position = "bottom"
 )
Alternatively, partial inbreeding can also be estimated via genedrop simulation (using option genedrop). This will however result in less precise estimation of \(F_{i(j)}\), and might only be convenient to use in terms of performance for very large and complex pedigrees. In these cases, a value of genedrop = 100 might give results that are well correlated with exact estimates (\(r > 0.9\) for the pedigree examples provided).
Ancestral inbreeding coefficient
The ancestral inbreeding coefficient (\(F_{a}\), Ballou 1997) measures the probability of IBD of an individual for an allele that has been in homozygosity in at least one ancestor.
This parameter provides information not only about inbreeding, but can also be used to detect purging, since individuals with inbreeding \(F\) and ancestral inbreeding \(F_{a}\) are expected to be more fit than individuals with the same level of inbreeding but lower \(F_{a}\), given that the ancestors of the former have survived and reproduced despite their higher inbreeding (see Boakes & Wang 2005 and López-Cortegano et al. 2018 for analyses using this parameter).
Ancestral inbreeding can be estimated for an individual \(i\) with dam \(d\) and sire \(s\) as:
\[F_{a_{i}} = \frac{1}{2}[F_{a_{d}} + (1-F_{a_{d}})F_{d} + F_{a_{s}} + (1-F_{a_{s}})F_{s}]\] Alternatively, a gene-dropping simulation approach can be used, following Baumung et al. (2015), providing unbiased estimates of \(F_{a}\). This is because, above expression assumes that \(F\) and \(F_{a}\) are uncorrelated, which is not true.
Both approaches can be used with the function ip_Fa. Note that the computation of \(F_{a}\) requires estimating \(F\) in advance. Use argument Fcol to declare a column with \(F\) values if it has been computed and saved in advance (this will save time), or leave it blank to compute it on the go.
# F was pre-computed above
darwin %>%
 purgeR::ip_Fa(Fcol = "Fi") %>%
 dplyr::filter(names == "William Erasmus Darwin")
#> id dam sire names Fi Fa
#> 1 60 54 52 William Erasmus Darwin 0.06298828 0.001953125
# Compute F on the go (it won't be saved in the output)
# And enable genedropping
atlas %>%
 purgeR::ip_Fa(genedrop = 1000, seed = 1234) %>%
 dplyr::select(id, dam, sire, Fa) %>%
 tail()
#> id dam sire Fa
#> 943 943 882 737 0.6475
#> 944 944 653 822 0.6000
#> 945 945 653 822 0.6000
#> 946 946 740 822 0.6050
#> 947 947 740 822 0.6075
#> 948 948 897 737 0.6340
\(F_{a}\) can also be estimated based on population estimates of \(N_{e}\) and generation numbers, using the expression from López-Cortegano et al. (2018):
\[F_{a(t)} = 1 - (1-\frac{1}{2N})^{\frac{1}{2}t(t-1)}\] This can be achieved with the function exp_Fa (e.g. exp_Fa (Ne = 50, t = 50)).
Purged inbreeding coefficient
The purged inbreeding coefficient (\(g\)) gives the probability of IBD for deleterious recessive alleles. The reduction of \(g\) when compared to standard inbreeding depends on the magnitude of a purging coefficient (\(d\)) that measures the strength of the effective deleterious recessive component of the genome (García-Dorado 2012), so that \(d=0\) implies \(F=g\), and higher \(d\) (up to 0.5) means lower \(g\) in more inbred individuals. It can be calculated in pedigreed populations from the purged kinship coefficient (\(\gamma\)), in a similar way as standard inbreeding, following the methods described in García-Dorado (2012) and García-Dorado et al. (2016):
\[\gamma_{i,i} = \frac{1}{2}(1+g_{i})(1-2dF_{i})\]
\[\gamma_{i,j} = \frac{1}{2}(\gamma_{i,j_{d}}+\gamma_{i,j_{s}})(1-dF_{j})\] Where \(j_{d}\) and \(j_{s}\) are \(j\)'s mother and father respectively, and \(i\) is older than \(j\).
The function ip_g computes the purged inbreeding coefficient, given a value of \(d\). The choice of a proper value of \(d\) can however be complex. A separate vignette titled "Inbreeding and Purging Estimates" describes methods to help computing the inbreeding load as well as the purging coefficient.
atlas %>%
 ip_F() %>%
 ip_g(d = 0.48, Fcol = "Fi") %>%
 dplyr::select(id, dam, sire, Fi, tidyselect::starts_with("g")) %>%
 tail()
#> id dam sire Fi g0.48
#> 943 943 882 737 0._PHONE_ 0.06066578
#> 944 944 653


What tool does a farmer use? Kids put their reasoning skills to the test as they match each worker with his tool. Kids love imagining about what they'll be when they grow up, and this exercise helps get them thinking about just that.
Check out Tools of the Trade #2 to learn about other jobs and their tools.


Foodservice Equipment – How a Garbage Disposal Works
How a Garbage Disposal Works
Many people think a garbage disposal works like a blender, with spinning blades chopping and breaking down the waste. In reality, garbage disposals work in a different way – and there are NO blades involved.
Instead, impellers, or lugs, mounted on a spinning plate use centrifugal force to continuously force food waste particles against a stationary grind ring.
The "grind ring" breaks down the food waste into very fine particles, virtually liquefying them. After they're ground, the running water flushes the particles through the "grind ring" and out of the disposer and into your waste water pipe.
From there, it flows to a wastewater treatment plant or your septic system.


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The effects of geographical locations on the chemical characterization of Erkence olive oil variety which cultivated in six different locations were evaluated in the west of Turkey.
The agricultural ecological map of each location was created using GIS. Olive oil samples were analyzed fatty acid, sterol and phenolic and also, LC IMS Qtof spectrometer and Progenesis QI software were used to determine the geographical fingerprints of olive oil samples in different locations.
Statistical analysis show that olive oil compositions differ significantly (p <0.05) by region. The Principal Component Analysis of the different locations analyzed revealed that "geographical location" factor significantly affects the olive oil quality.
Keywords: Geographical location, olive oil, sterols, phenolic compounds, LC IMS Qtof spectometer


Contributing to Apache Drill – Part 2 : Freemarker Code gen implementation
Implement Drill Trigonometric functions – Using Freemarker code generation
This post is a followup to this last post Contributing to Apache Drill – Math Functions. Lot of Drill function implementations are moving towards Freemarker code gen implementation since there is a need to generate lot of function definitions with different argument datatypes etc.
Freemarker allows us to define templates which would be used to bake java code ready to be used in Apache Drill.
So here are the steps to start contributing to Drill:
Freemarker Textual data description (Tdd):
Some data is prepared for the trigo functions which can be used in the freemarker templates to generate java code. Here we provide all the different implementations of the functions we need freemarker to generate . We have added three definitions for Sin/Cos/Tan functions and have also mentioned all the parameters the function can accept.
The data description for trigo functions is written in : exec/java-exec/src/main/codegen/data/MathFunc.tdd
trigoMathFunctions : [
 {className: "Sin", funcName: "sin", javaFunc : "java.lang.Math.sin", outputType: "Float8", types: [
 {input: "Int"},
 {input: "BigInt"},
 {input: "Float4"},
 {input: "Float8"},
 {input: "SmallInt"},
 {input: "TinyInt"},
 {input: "UInt1"},
 {input: "UInt2"},
 {input: "UInt4"},
 {input: "UInt8"}
 ]
 },
 {className: "Cos", funcName: "cos", javaFunc : "java.lang.Math.cos", outputType: "Float8", types: [
 {input: "Int"},
 {input: "BigInt"},
 {input: "Float4"},
 {input: "Float8"},
 {input: "SmallInt"},
 {input: "TinyInt"},
 {input: "UInt1"},
 {input: "UInt2"},
 {input: "UInt4"},
 {input: "UInt8"}
 ]
 },
 {className: "Tan", funcName: "tan", javaFunc : "java.lang.Math.tan", outputType: "Float8", types: [
 {input: "Int"},
 {input: "BigInt"},
 {input: "Float4"},
 {input: "Float8"},
 {input: "SmallInt"},
 {input: "TinyInt"},
 {input: "UInt1"},
 {input: "UInt2"},
 {input: "UInt4"},
 {input: "UInt8"}
 ]
 }
 }

Template for Math Function Generation:
Once the tdd is ready we can now write the Freemarker template to generate our java code. The template would use the data we created in the tdd file. The template for the trigo function is present in: exec/java-exec/src/main/codegen/templates/MathFunctions.java
Refer: Freemarker Manual for help regarding syntax.
<@pp.changeOutputFile name="/org/apache/drill/exec/expr/fn/impl/TrigoMathFunctions.java" />
<#include "/@includes/license.ftl" />
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Functions for Trigo Math Functions
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
package org.apache.drill.exec.expr.fn.impl;
import org.apache.drill.common.types.TypeProtos;
import org.apache.drill.common.types.Types;
import org.apache.drill.common.types.TypeProtos.MinorType;
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.DrillSimpleFunc;
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.annotations.FunctionTemplate;
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.annotations.FunctionTemplate.FunctionScope;
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.annotations.FunctionTemplate.FunctionScope;
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.annotations.FunctionTemplate.NullHandling;
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.annotations.Output;
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.annotations.Param;
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.annotations.Workspace;
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.fn.impl.StringFunctions;
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.holders.*;
import org.apache.drill.exec.record.RecordBatch;
/*
 * This class is automatically generated from MathFunc.tdd using FreeMarker.
 */
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public class TrigoMathFunctions{
 static final org.slf4j.Logger logger = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(TrigoMathFunctions.class);
 private TrigoMathFunctions(){}
 <#list mathFunc.trigoMathFunctions as func>
 <#list func.types as type>
 @FunctionTemplate(name = "${func.funcName}", scope = FunctionScope.SIMPLE, nulls = NullHandling.NULL_IF_NULL)
 public static class ${func.className}${type.input} implements DrillSimpleFunc {
 @Param ${type.input}Holder in;
 @Output ${func.outputType}Holder out;
 public void setup(RecordBatch b) {
 }
 public void eval() {
 out.value = ${func.javaFunc}(in.value);
 }
 }
 </#list>
 </#list>
}

 Build Drill
$ mvn clean install -DskipTests
Thats All. Its this simple.
We just need to build Drill again and we can check the new java classes generated in the project. The new generated code can be viewed after clean build at : exec/expr/fn/impl/TrigoMathFunctions.java
Output
Time to hit the query on Sqlline and check out output
0: jdbc:drill:zk=local> SELECT employee_id, first_name,
. . . . . . . . . . . > sin(employee_id) as SIN_VAL,
. . . . . . . . . . . > cos(employee_id) as COS_VAL,
. . . . . . . . . . . > tan(employee_id) as TAN_VAL
. . . . . . . . . . . > FROM cp.'employee.json' limit 20;
+-------------+------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| employee_id | first_name | SIN_VAL | COS_VAL | TAN_VAL |
+-------------+------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
| 1 | Sheri | 0.8414709848078965 | 0.5403023058681398 | 1.557407724


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Sens techniqueThe largest French hydrographic area for water planning and management. The Master Plan for Water Development and Management (SDAGE) and its programme of measures are drafted on the scale of a basin or group of basins. The major stakeholders in water management which are basin committees, basin coordinator prefects, basin delegations and the water agencies operate on this scale. There are fourteen basins or groups of basins in France.
According to the Ministry for the Environment and AFB
Termes associés à des définitions du Sandre
Documents de référence
Soumis au comité de relecture.


C++ complex atan
The C++ complex atan function computes the arc tangent of a complex number.The declaration of the asin function is given below.
template<class T> complex< T > atan(const complex< T >& x);
Parameters:
x – A complex number for which arc tangent is to be computed.
Return type
complex number -The arc tangent of 'x' complex number.
Some points to note:
i) The arc tangent function is computed using the formula.
complex atan function
ii)The real number of an arc sine computed complex number is outputted in the interval [-π/2 , π/2].But the imaginary value is unbound.
This function is same as the C <complex.h> header 'catan' function.
Code example
complex< double > c1(45.6 , 8.90);
cout<< atan( c1 ) ;
Output in Code::Blocks,
(1.54967,0.00412128)
The real value is 1.54967 and the imaginary part is 0.00412128.
Explanation
In the above program the complex number supplied is 45.6 + i8.90 ,so the using the (above)formula, atan(45.6 + i8.90 ) , can be expressed as,
i/2 [ ln( (i + 45.6 + i8.90)/(i – 45.6 + i8.90)) ]
The 'ln' is a natural logarithm function,which is the loge function.If you reduce the expression to a complex number form the number obtained is 1.54967 + i0.00412128.
Link : C++ cmath log function

*Side Note
Some cases of atan function,
 ➥atan(conj(z) )=conj( atan(z) )
 ➥atan(±0 + i(±0)) ,returns (±0 , i(±0)).
 ➥atan(±0 + iNaN) ,returns (nan , inan).
 ➥atan(±x + i(±∞) ) , returns ±π/2 + i(±0) ,for finite x.
 ➥atan(x + iNaN) ,returns NaN + iNaN and optionally raises the invalid floating-point exception, for nonzero finite x.
 ➥atan(±∞ + iy) returns ±π/2 + i0, for positive-signed finite y.
 ➥atan(±∞ + i∞) ,returns ±π/2 +i0.
 ➥atan(±∞ + iNaN) ,returns ±π/2+i0.
 ➥atan(NaN + iy) ,returns NaN +iNaN ,and optionally raises the invalid floating-point exception, for finite y.
 ➥atan(NaN + i(±)∞) ,returns NaN + iNaN .
 ➥atan(NaN + iNaN) ,returns NaN+iNaN.


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Hotseat: Michael Morpurgo
Children's author Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo is one of the UK's best-loved kids' authors and he's been talking to Newsround about his latest book, Shadow.
The former Children's Laureate has seen loads of his books get turned into stage plays and now Hollywood director Steven Spielberg is turning one of Michael's most famous books, War Horse, into a movie!
Michael Morpurgo's Shadow - book cover
Shadow is based on the true story of a sniffer dog in Afghanistan, who went missing during an attack while out on patrol.
The soldiers thought the dog was dead, but 14 months later he shows up alive. The question is, who looked after him all that time?
Shadow is an imagined story about what happened to the sniffer dog. An Afghan boy called Aman befriends the dog when it turns up outside the cave where he lives.
When Aman's family flees the country and comes to England as asylum seekers, the dog Aman has called Shadow won't leave their side...
Why did you choose to set your new book in Afghanistan?
I've written a lot about war before but particularly wars that have been in the past. With these stories we know the outcome. But when we write about a war that's going on, it's much sharper because we're still full of anxiety about it.
You've written quite a few books about war - what's your interest in war?
Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.
I grew up in 1943 [during World War II], I was a war baby. The first world I knew was a country that had been through a war. It affected me deeply.
Why should kids be interested in war?
It's important because kids know it's there, they watch TV, they know these things are going on. Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
How did you research for the book?
I did a lot of research about soldiers in Afghanistan, and about Afghan people living in north Afghanistan. I found out about people living in caves in a place called Bamiyan. I researched those people in particular and decided that's where my family should come from.
I also researched a detention centre for asylum seekers called Yarl's Wood. It's the only place in the country where we still imprison children and I was very upset about that.
I visited Yarl's Wood. I didn't visit Afghanistan but I did talk to people who had been there.
Shadow is based on a dog - are you a dog lover?
Yes, we've had dogs in my family all my life until seven or eight years ago, when our beloved lurcher died and we felt we couldn't replace her. Now is the only time I've never a dog.
What's your favourite animal?
Elephants, but they're quite difficult to keep in your house!
I like their eyes - when you look into their eyes you know they're intelligent. I'm fascinated by how ancient they are and how they're prehistoric animals.
You have seven grandkids - do you test out your stories on them?
I don't test my stories on them anymore. I did a little with my children when I was younger. But I do test my stories out on school children. When I visit schools I read them what I've been writing.
I only tested out Shadow on my wife. She always says the same thing - it's very good, but it's not as good as War Horse.
War Horse is being made into a movie - how do you feel about that?
I feel very flattered that one of our great storytellers [Steven Spielberg] has chosen War Horse to make into a film. He's one of very few directors who can do it justice.
It's a very difficult story to tell. At the heart of the story there's an animal - the horse tells the story. There are no stars. It's about a war, the young people, and the animals with them. [Spielberg] will tell it brilliantly in the cinema.
What tips would you give kids who want to become writers?
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
Start writing two or three lines every day about something interesting that's happened to you. Go places, meet people - so you have lots to write about.
Read a lot of books, read everything - fill your head with stories, poems, facts.
What kids' book do you wish you had written?
Treasure Island. It's the first book I loved, when I was about nine, the greatest adventure story for boys. Robert Louis Stevenson is my writing hero.


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This video of just 6 minutes and 45 seconds can greatly help you answer questions in your GCSE exam.
There was a question in the 2014 exam asking why bigger earthquakes don't necessary kill more people. Well this video answers this very well. Professor Iain Stewart explains how different earthquake waves spread from the focus of the quake and how these 3 different waves cause different amounts of damage.
He then explains the human influence on the number of people killed and the amount of buildings destroyed and the percentage of the infrastructure that is destroyed. If you want a high grade at GCSE watch this video and write down all the facts that influence the impact of an earthquake on people. (think of building quality, where the main roads are located, what type of ground the buildings are on and other factors as well)
And as the professor says "Its not earthquakes that kill people its buildings
And if you want to revise convection currents and plate boundaries here is about 74 seconds of video from the same man to assist you 🙂


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Welcome, lovely person! You might be here because somebody wants you to learn about lamâsching. Don't be afraid, even if you already know that it has to do with physical contact between human beings, you are currently reading an internet page (probably even being alone - although having trustful people around you would allow you trying this out afterwards) and have nothing to fear.
So what is lamâsching?
Lamâsching involves at least two people, preferably more. It is all about feeling great and sharing great feelings on a physical level. That may involve giving and receiving hugs, soft stroking, touching different parts of other peoples' bodies. Everybody will respect your privacy and expect the same from you, that is why lamâsching is considered safe (see Lamâsching Protocol (Elina's School) for details).
What is lamâsching not?
Lamâsching is not a gathering of crazy people that want to grope you. Although every body may react differently on warm-hearted touch - especially when not being used to - it should not be considered as a sexual act.
- Immediately speak out, stop or leave the activity if you feel uncomfortable.
- Speak out if you are unsure about what you are doing or get the feeling a person may feel uncomfortable.
- Use your hands to touch the people around you.
- You may stroke with soft pressure, so it feels nice.
- Bring your body close to other bodies to give and get a warm feeling.
- You may focus on an invidivual person for some time to create a more intense experience if you feel like it.
- Try out using other parts of your body to reach people as well (feet, arms, maybe head, nose, mouth).
- This is not a sexual activity, so don't act like it.
- No touching of private/intimate body parts except this is agreed (also be careful/ask before touching head when new people are around you).
- Respect any limits people communicate.
- No kissing (except in an agreed area - the founders of the lamâsching culture did not see such a school yet).
A very good read is the warmly expressed experience from Tilmann (Lamâsching Culture). Afterwards, read about different lamâsching schools, try it out and create your own!


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Experimental Documentary & Museum Exhibition
Last of the Dictionary Men: Stories from the South Shields Yemeni Sailors is an exceptional hybrid exhibition consisting of exciting major and large-scale visual arts installations by internationally renowned artists, Tina Gharavi and Youssef Nabil.
Bridge + Tunnel Voices engaged members of the 1st generation South Shields Yemeni community to create a project recording the history of their community, including their unique stories of migration, their working lives and their integration into the North East. The work has captured their remarkable and unknown heritage – one that has thrived in South Tyneside for over a century. Some of the older members of the community (having mainly worked as seamen in the Merchant Navy) have lived in the area for over 60 years and are part of a distinct Diaspora that is one of the oldest recorded Middle Eastern communities existing in Britain today.
Over a three-year period, Bridge + Tunnel collaborated with the remaining fourteen first-generation seamen to commemorate a remarkable story of successful integration; an important, but little-known part of British immigrant history. Last of the Dictionary Men is an exhibition that offers a unique portrait of the complexities of modern British identity.
Including pieces by artist and filmmaker Tina Gharavi and photographer Youssef Nabil, the catalogue captures the remarkable journey of the Yemenis of South Shields and their inspiring stories of finding a new home in Britain.
"This is a gem of a book, a fascinating, touching and uplifting account of the Yemenis of South Shields. Tina Gharavi sought out the last of a generation of sailors who came to Britain to work on the ships, married Geordie women and settled in the community. Youssef Nabil's beautiful portraits accompany the story, brilliantly evoking the spirit, the dignity and humour of this remarkable group of men." -Venetia Porter, Curator, British Museum


Current Affairs MCQ 18th MAY 2021
Current Affairs For 18th MAY 2021
01. Who among the following has been appointed as the
UN Humanitarian chief?
a) Martin Griffiths
b) John Holmes
c) Kenzo Oshima
d) Stephen O'Brien
Answer: a.
Explanation: Veteran British diplomat Martin Griffiths has been appointed as the new Chief at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), for a period of five years.
- He will replace Mark Lowcock, a Briton who has served as undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator for four years.
- He is currently serving as the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen.
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) aims to strengthen the international response to complex emergencies and natural disasters.
02. Government of which of the following state constituted high power advisory committee on COVID-19?
a) Rajasthan
b) Odisha
c) Kerala
d) Madhya Pradesh
Answer: b.
Explanation: Odisha government has constituted a high power advisory committee on COVID-19.
- The committee, comprising of eminent doctors and scientists will aid and advise the state
government on vaccination, infrastructure expansion and combat readiness for future covid waves.
- The state government has also floated a global tender to procure 3.8 crore doses of vaccines for universal vaccination against COVID-19.
03. India and which of the following country agreed to work towards increasing COVID-19 vaccine availability and saving lives?
a) United States
b) Russia
c) New Zealand
d) Singapore
Answer: a.
Explanation: Commerce and Industry Minister, Piyush Goyal held a virtual meeting with US Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai.
- Both the ministers discussed measures to enhance COVID-19 vaccine production.
- The meeting focused on increasing vaccine availability in an inclusive and equitable manner to combat the
global pandemic caused by Covid-19.
- The proposal of India on waiver of certain Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights provisions to increase global vaccine production were also discussed.
- Both sides agreed to work towards the common resolve of increasing vaccine availability and saving lives.
04. Paris city council has put forward plan to drastically reduce car traffic in centre of French capital by which year?
a) 2025
b) 2022
c) 2030
d) 2050
Answer: b.
Explanation: A plan to drastically reduce car traffic in the centre of the French capital Paris by 2022 has been put forward by the city council.
- The scheme would ban through traffic in four central districts, giving priority instead to cyclists, pedestrians,
and public transport.
- Low-traffic zones will result in a less polluted, greener, more peaceful and safer city.
- Residents and businesses would still be allowed to drive in the central area, but through traffic would be
- The scheme followed the example of other cities such as Madrid, Nantes, and Rome.
05. Which among the following country successfully landed its rover Zhu Rong on Mars?
a) Russia
b) United Arab Emirates
c) China
d) Japan
Answer: c.
Explanation: China has successfully landed its rover Zhu Rong on Mars. It successfully landed in the Utopia Plain in southern part of Mars on after seven months of space travel and three months in orbit.
- Zhu Rong is part of China's first spacecraft for Mars, Tianwen-1, which was launched in July 2020 with
three parts – orbiter, lander and rover.
06. Sunil Jain, who passed away at the age of 58 years, was a well-known for the which of the following profession?
a) Social activist
b) Journalist
c) Politician
d) Director
Answer: b.
Explanation: Eminent journalist and Managing Editor of Financial Express, Sunil Jain passed away due to Covid- 19 related complications.
- He was the son of former Times of India Editor Girilal Jain.
- He was an alumni of the Delhi School Economics and Hindu College.
- He started his journalism career with India Today as a business editor after a brief tenure at FICCI as an export policy expert.
- He also worked with Business Standard for eight years, before returning to the Express Group with The Financial Express in 2010.
07. National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), located in which State/UT will start month long online summer workshopNAIMISHA 2021?
a) Chandigarh
b) Goa
c) New-Delhi
d) Uttar Pradesh
Answer: c.
Explanation: National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) is the premier art gallery under Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
- The main museum at Jaipur House in New Delhi was established on 29 March 1954 by the Government of India.
- It will start a month long online summer workshopNAIMISHA 2021.
- This unique art fiesta will provide a platform to create and engage with the arts.
- The workshops have been designed on painting, sculpture, print making and videography and puppeteering and other related arts.
08. Which among the following state observes its 'Statehood Day' on
May 16?
a) Assam
b) Himachal Pradesh
c) Rajasthan
d) Sikkim
Explanation: Sikkim is located in the northeastern part of the country, in the eastern Himalayas and is one of the
smallest states in India.
- Sikkim Foundation Day is observed in India every year to commemorate the day when it became part of the Indian Union.
- On 16 May 1975, Sikkimone of India's Seven Sister states, officially became a part of the country abolishing the long rule of monarchy.
- Sikkim was made a part of India under the 35th Constitutional Amendment Act.
09. Who among the following chaired the review meeting to assess preparedness of States and UTs to deal with Cyclone Tauktae?
a) Piyush Goyal
b) Narendra Modi
c) Amit Shah
d) Rajnath Singh
Answer: c.
Explanation: Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a review meeting with the Chief Ministers of Gujarat, Maharashtra & Administrator of Daman & Diu and Dadra Nagar Haveli.
- The meeting aimed to assess preparedness of States, UTs and Central Ministries and
Agencies concerned to deal with the situation arising out of Cyclone Tauktae.
- He reviewed the preparedness of all the health facilities especially adequate power
backup arrangements in all COVID hospitals in the areas likely to be impacted by the
10. Who among the following has been appointed as the nominee director on board of Bank of India?
a) Kalpana Morparia
b) Shikha Sharma
c) Narayanan Vaghul
d) Vandita Kaul
Answer: d.
Explanation: Government has appointed Vandita Kaul, additional secretary in the Finance Ministry, as the nominee director on board of Bank of India.
- Bank said it has received the communication from the Finance Ministry about her nomination on May 13, 2021.
- Bank of India has a total of eight members on its board, including the MD and CEO Atanu Kumar Das, its four executive directors, one nominee director each from the government and the RBI and one shareholder director.


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Gender in the time of COVID-19: Evaluating national leadership and COVID-19 fatalities
By Leah C. Windsor (Minerva)
This recent article by Minerva-funded researcher, Dr. Leah Windsor and colleagues explore the idea that women world leaders are doing better (i.e., fewer deaths in the countries they lead) than men world leaders. They show that in aggregate, women and men leaders do about the same - that women world leaders do not fare significantly better. However, the role of country culture is quite important: countries with more egalitarian social cultures have fewer deaths, and those with women leaders have even fewer.
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Summary of: Hauser, R., Probst, R., & Harris, F. P. (1993). Effects of atmospheric pressure variation on spontaneous, transiently evoked, and distortion product otoacoustic emissions in normal human ears. Hearing research, 69(1-2), 133–145. _URL_
Pressure in the middle ear changes along with changes in atmospheric pressure. The tympanic membrane will push inward if atmospheric pressure shifts in the positive direction, or outward if atmospheric pressure shifts in the negative direction. The resulting tympanic membrane distention is a result of a pressure differential across the plane of the tympanic membrane. The pressure differential directly impacts how energy conducts through the middle ear. Since otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) depend on efficient conduction via the middle ear, such pressure differentials influence the measurement of all types of OAEs, including spontaneous (SOAE), transient-evoked (TEOAE), and distortion-product (DPOAE) OAEs. This paper discusses the effect of changes in atmospheric pressure via a pressure chamber on the frequency and amplitude of SOAEs, TEOAEs and DPOAEs within normal-hearing adults. In general, changes in atmospheric pressure reduce the amplitude for all OAE types more in the low frequencies relative to high frequencies, and small changes in atmospheric pressure result in large amplitude reductions below 4 kHz. SOAEs appear to be the most sensitive to pressure changes in the 4 to 5 kHz region. Observed changes in the TEOAE spectrum to pressure variations suggest an increase in stiffness in middle-ear transduction upon the presence of a pressure differential across the tympanic membrane (TM). These results indicate that OAEs are sensitive to ambient pressure changes and as a result, lend credence to the practice of obtaining clinically useful OAE measurements when the pressure differential across the TM is near zero, i.e., at tympanic peak pressure (TPP). Currently, the Titan is the only commercially available OAE device capable of obtaining OAEs at TPP.


stones. The stones used to resize an aluminum cylinder differ from those used to resize a cast iron or steel cylinder. Remember also that the honing stones must be in good condition. If not, they should be redressed or replaced before you commence the project.
Once the engine block is securely anchored, and the cylinder in position, lower the hone into the bore until the bottom end of the hone protrudes ½ inch or 1.5 centimeters beyond the lowest point of the bore hole. Then adjust the hone until its cutting stones contact the narrowest part of the cylinder; this will normally be at the bottom of the bore. The hone should not be excessively tight against the walls of the cylinder. If you cannot turn the hone by hand, loosen the adjustment knob until you are able to.
The drill should be set to operate within the range of 300 to 700 rpm. When the drill is started, move the hone up and down inside the cylinder at a pace of 40 to 50 times per minute. If all you need to do is a deglazing, just a few strokes will be necessary.
When resizing a cylinder, you will need to work out its narrowest end first. As the cylinder acquires a more uniform diameter, the hone should move gradually further along the cylinder length. The ends of the honing stones should not move more than ½ inch beyond either the top or bottom of the cylinder as the hone is used.
Follow instructions of the hone manufacturer when honing is done. Lubricant such as cutting oil must be used with some hones. Refer to recommendations of the manufacturer to determine the correct lubricant. On the other hand, some hones will not work at all if there is lubricant on the cylinder walls.
As honing proceeds, be sure to check cylinder bore diameter regularly, particularly when resizing. Try to stop every 10 to 20 hone strokes to check not just cylinder size, but its cross hatching. A cylinder is normally honed only enough to produce a uniform pattern of cross hatching on its walls. If a cylinder is being resized for a larger piston, it should be honed until the desired diameter has been reached.
To check bore diameter, remove the hone from the cylinder, and take the measurements described above(INSIDE MEASUREMENT TOOLS). As you cease honing for a measurement, keep the hone traveling up and down in the bore until the cutting stones have stopped turning. As rotation speed decreases, reduce the speed at which you are moving the hone up and down the cylinder. This will maintain proper cross hatching patterns. Once the hone has stopped, loosen its adjusting nut so that you do not scratch the cylinder wall as the cutting stones are extracted from the bore.
If you are resizing a cylinder, it is important to check its size frequently to avoid enlarging the bore too much. When the cylinder is within 0.002 inches or 0.05 millimeters of your desired diameter, the coarse stones you were using should be replaced with fine stones to finish the project. The procedure for finish honing is exactly the same as for coarse honing.
Cleaning the reconditioned cylinder: once honing has been finished, the cylinder walls must be cleaned. It is critical to remove all grit and other particles left by the honing process. The engine block should first be washed with cleaning solvent. Solvent will remove any lubrication oil that was used from the cylinder, however it will not completely remove grit and other particles. To remove these remaining particles, the cylinder must be washed with soap and hot water, and a stiff brush. Be sure your soap solution is very sudsy. Suds will get into cross hatching and float out gritty particles. To complete the cleaning process, wash the cylinder with hot water and dry it with soft clean cloths, or better yet, compressed air. When the cylinder is dry, a fresh coat of new motor oil should be applied to its walls to prevent rusting.
After honing is completed, measure the bore again to be sure it is the proper size. Record your new measurements; you will need them later on to determine piston to cylinder bore clearance.


Uncle Jed's Barbershop Q&A
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Use these questions with children 7 to 10 years old to discuss the following economic concepts in Uncle Jed's Barbershop: bank failure, opportunity cost, saving, savings goal, and segregation.
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Teachers, view the lesson plan using Uncle Jed's Barbershop.
Book written by Margaree King Mitchell (ISBN: 978-0-689-81913-7).
1. A savings goal is a good or service you want to buy in the future. What was Uncle Jed's savings goal?
Uncle Jed wanted to open a barbershop.
2. Saving is keeping some income to buy things in the future. Name some of the "fancy equipment" Uncle Jed wanted to buy for his barbershop?
Shiny sinks, four barber chairs, and a big, tall, red-and-white barber pole
3. The book says most people in the South were poor and that most were sharecroppers. What are sharecroppers?
Sharecroppers are farmer who don't own their own land but work someone else's land in exchange for a share of the crop.
4. Why did Sarah Jean have to go to the colored waiting room and wait so long to have the doctor examine her?
At that time there was segregation—blacks and whites were often kept separate and treated differently. Sarah Jean had to wait until the doctor had finished with all of the white patients.
5. At first, why wouldn't the doctors perform the operation Sarah Jean needed?
The doctors wouldn't perform the operation until her family had the money to pay for it.
6. Opportunity cost is the value of the next-best alternative when a decision is made; it's what is given up. What was Uncle Jed's opportunity cost when he gave Sarah Jean's daddy the $300 for the operation?
Uncle Jed's opportunity cost was opening his barbershop. He would have to wait until he saved more money to open his shop.
7. A bank failure occurs when banks are unable to meet depositors' demands for their money. How did a bank failure affect Uncle Jed?
Uncle Jed lost all of his savings, so he had to start saving for a barbershop all over again. Today, people who have accounts at banks and credit unions are protected from losing their money like Uncle Jed did. If the bank fails, there is insurance that will give those with accounts at the bank the amount they had on deposit—up to $250,000.
8. How was Uncle Jed finally able to open his own barbershop?
He didn't give up on his dream and continued to save his money until he reached his goal.
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Documentation forHybrid Cloud Observability Advancedand Server Configuration Monitor
Specify element credentials in SCM
Server Configuration Monitor (SCM) elements, including SQL queries, scripts, registries, and files, can be executed using custom credentials. Credentials can be added to both custom and out-of-the-box profiles (although out-of-the-box profiles cannot be edited otherwise). When creating or editing an element, you can decide what credentials can be used during polling. SCM defaults to Use Orion default credentials if you don't specify credentials. This default also applies to elements that were created in previous versions of SCM. This setting means that everything is polled exactly the same as before using LOCAL_SYSTEM user on the Windows Agent and swiagent user on the Linux Agent. However, some elements, such as Database elements, require credentials, as Windows Authentication is not supported.
Adding credentials can be useful in a variety of situations. For instance, if you're searching for a particular configuration file, and previously, the agent did not have the permissions needed to access those files, you can now change the credentials so that you can access the files you're looking for. Similarly, if there is a PowerShell script you are trying to run, and previously, it did not have adequate permissions, you can now add credentials to that and run the script as desired.
There are a few limitations to custom credentials you should be aware of:
 - Only username-password credentials are supported.
 - Username length is limited to 255 characters.
 - Passwords cannot be empty.
To specify credentials for a newly created element:
 1. Add a configuration element for monitoring.
 Step 1 - Define credentials
 2. Under Access Authentication, select Add new credentials from the drop-down menu.
 Step 2 - Define credentials
 3. Enter the desired credentials, and click Add.
 Step 3 - Define credentials
To set credentials for elements that have already been assigned:
 1. From Server Configuration Monitor Settings, click the Assigned Elements tab, and select the elements for which you'd like to set credentials.
 Select Assigned Elements to set credentials
 2. Click Set Credentials.
 Click Set Credentials
 3. Select Connection string and Credentials for each element type (as applicable), and then click Set.
 Set credentials for assigned elements
A list of all credentials that are currently in use as well as inactive credentials in your instance of SCM is available when you click the Credentials tab. From here, you may edit or delete credentials, but you can add them only using the process described above.
Credentials tab
SCM also makes it possible to add or edit multiple elements of a specific profile at the same time. This allows you to change a credential directly rather than changing each affected element for routine password updates if you make them every 90 days. It also enables you to make a mass change on a profile to a different set of credentials. When you make this change, it updates all elements on the profile to the new credential at once. To add or edit multiple elements at the same time:
 1. From the Edit configuration profile screen, select multiple configuration elements, and click Edit.
 Edit multiple configuration elements simultaneously
 2. Select Access authentication, and use the drop-down menu to specify credentials for all selected elements. Then click Save.
 Save new credentials


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Arthur Miller makes formal choices related to theme and conflict in Death of A Salesman. This results from the historical context and Miller's personal vision. Discuss theme and conflict in Death of A Salesman.Cite speeches and scenes that illuminate the theme in each case and that bring out the conflict.
Write 2 pages, double-spaced.
Attached is the act: "Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller" read through it and write the paper.


Many hosts advertise 99.99% uptime or anything above 99.9%. Is 99.9% any different from 99.99%. Does it make a difference to anyone. The difference is only 0.09%, for crying out loud!! Well, there is a difference

 - A 99.99% uptime means 54.84 minutes of downtime a year.
 - A 99.9% uptime means a total of 6.91 hours of downtime a year.
 - A 99% uptime means 3.6 days of downtime a year!!
Web Hosting consumers need to seriously look at their Web Hosts uptime claims and compare the downtime they have faced with the figures above.
For a Web Host, does it take the same monitoring mechanism to sustain a 99.99% and a 99.90% uptime. Obviously not. But first a look at what is Uptime.
Uptime and downtime
Uptime is a measure of the time a computer system has been "up" and running. It came into use to describe the opposite of downtime, times when a system was non-operational.
Downtime refers to a period of time or a percentage of a timespan that a machine or system (usually a computer server) is offline or not functioning, usually as a result of either system failure (such as a crash) or routine maintenance. – Wikipedia
A Web Host has to actively monitor Downtime of all the services running on each Internet Servers. What services need to be monitored? An Internet server has services like Webservers, Email server, DNS, FTP, Control panel software, PHP and many other goodies. These services are assumed to be available 24/7. If a Web Host claims 99.99% uptime, all of the advertised services should be available 24/7 at 99.99% and available at promised speed.
Web Site owner and the Web Host can confirm that all these promises are being kept through Uptime Monitoring. This article deals with ways and means of measure uptime.
Uptime monitoring
Uptime monitoring is basically Downtime monitoring. Some Web Hosts confuse uptime monitoring with the number of days the server was up. This is not what we aim to measure here. In uptime monitoring, Web Hosts measure the number of times the services went down, for what duration and at what speed the services are available.
Are some people assuming that a good server will never have downtime ? On the contrary all kinds of downtime are not bad. Some are required for maintenance activities, like installing new services, configuring and optimizing. Maintenance related downtimes have to be carefully scheduled to reduce the impact on customers. For example if customers are mainly located in the United States, the Web Host can decide to conduct maintenance related activities after business hours.
Downtime caused by System failures on the other hand are the ones to be checked. System failure downtime can be the result of Overloaded servers, security attacks such as DOS attacks, poorly configured or outdated software. Web Hosts should take preventive measures to ensure that these problems are plugged as much as possible. And to ensure that downtime are detected early on, Web Hosts should use Network monitoring services or software.
Network Monitoring services
A Network Monitoring service will monitor one or more services on servers that are open to the Internet. A monitoring service will have servers around the world which checks your server or website in intervals of 1 minute to 1 hour.
When you sign on to a monitoring service, you need to check the locations they have hosted their monitoring software. Typically they will have at least one or two in each continent.
The most important aspect of a monitoring service is the Monitoring Intervals. Do they check every minute, every 5 minutes or every hour? If the interval is 1 hour, a service can go down for half hour and no one would be the wiser. The service wouldn't record it as a downtime. Obviously it makes sense to go for an Interval at least 5 minutes or lesser. The provider's charges go higher as the intervals go shorter.
Also check the methods through which they notify you. Do you receive alerts via email, IM and SMS. Choose a service that provides you your choice of communication. If you are on the road most of the time, a SMS alert would be more useful than an email alert.
Alertra.com is a good paid service. They let you receive downtime notifications on email, Instant messenger and SMS. They also have some good free trials to check out their service. _URL_ is a good free monitoring service. For intervals less than 5 minutes, they charge nominal fees.
Monitoring with software
Its also useful to use software which you can install on another server and remotely monitor your Internet servers. There are Commercial and Free options as usual.
Nagios is the best Open source software out there in my opinion. Its highly configurable to include unlimited servers and regular and custom ports.
Another good Open source software is Zabbix. It has some excellent graphic visualization, generally available only in commercial software.
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Human touch – 3rd party server human" monitoring service providers
If you have colocated servers or unmanaged servers, your Datacenter will expect you to monitor the servers yourself. Even if you have signed on a Server monitoring service or installed a Monitoring software, the best these can do is to alert you. The best that a Server monitoring service or a Monitoring software can do is to alert you. You need to work and get the server or service running back on its feet again.
What if you are on vacation. In any case you need your 8 hours of undisturbed sleep right ? There are human monitoring service providers, who will either monitor your servers themselves, or work with your monitoring providers to Take action when an alert comes in.
Here is how it typically works. The human monitoring service provider gets an alert when any service goes down. If the server is still up and only one service is down, they will login to your server and bring up the service. In case the server itself has gone down, they will call your Datacenter on their emergency numbers and ask them to reboot your server. Basically they take over the coordination work which you would otherwise do yourself. And all this happens when you are fast asleep in your bed.
Bobcares.com is a leading provider in this business. They staff their facility 24/7. These services are provided either standalone or clubbed with other technical support services. Other companies are touchsupport.com and supportresort.com
Conclusion
Uptime monitoring is an important way of measuring your Web Hosting operations performance. A way to know if you are keeping your promise to your customers.


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The Adventure Game Machine stories are room-based, although a room can be a field, the top of a tower, a river bed, etc., and not just an actual room.
Here are the data needed for a specific room (note – the name shown is what will be used in the database as the field name):
roomid – This is an autoincremented integer.
name – Mainly for the authoring tool, this is what you call the room. Examples: Kitchen Pantry, Left Side of Grand Hallway
sdesc – The short description is shown at the top of the playing window, often this will be the same as the name field.
ldesc – The long description is shown inside the text area of the player.
lit – A boolean value that shows whether the room is naturally lit or not. If not, the player needs to have some sort of light source with them.
north, south, east, west, up, down – The roomid of the location in that direction. So each room "knows" where the possible exits lead. A blank value in a field means there is no exit in that direction.
entryevent – The ID of an event record that triggers when the player enters this room.
exitevent – The ID of an event record that triggers when the user exits this room.
audio – The ID of an audio record (more about that later). If this room was an outdoors location you could have bird sounds, wind, etc., or pots and pans for a kitchen.
picture – The ID of a picture record (more about that later). If you want more than text you can include a picture of the room.
That should be enough to get going. It's quite possible I forgot something major, or will come up with a need for another parameter, but we'll deal with that if/when it comes up.
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Here's the SQL needed to create the room table in SQLite:
CREATE TABLE rooms
(roomid INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT,
lit INTEGER DEFAULT 1,
north INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
south INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
east INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
west INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
up INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
down INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
preenter INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
postenter INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
preexit INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
postexit INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
audio INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
visual INTEGER DEFAULT 0,


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Each extra jump has a certain type, dictated by the accessory or mount. Jumps of the same type will not stack with each other but will stack with other types, allowing for more than two consecutive jumps. For example, equipping a Cloud in a Bottle and a Tsunami in a Bottle will grant two additional jumps, while combining a Cloud in a Bottle with a Cloud in a Balloon will only grants one extra jump. Each type displays a unique particle effect when used, which always occur in the same order: Summoned mount's jump first, followed by Sandstorm, Blizzard, Fart, Tsunami, and Cloud.
An extra jump uses the same jump speed as the base jump but with different a different jump duration. For example, with default jump speed, a sustained jump from a Sandstorm in a Bottle lasts 3 times longer than a base jump, reaching a maximum height of 21.18 tiles, which is an increase of 238% compared to the base jump reach of 6.27 tiles.
Accessories[edit | edit source]
Extra jumps are granted by the five types of bottle accessories and their upgrades, listed in the following table. As described above, while it is possible to stack multiple jumps of different types (i.e. different rows), it is not possible to stack multiple jumps of the same type (i.e. within the same row).
|Cloud||75%||11.46 tiles (+82.78%)|
|19.97 tiles (+218.5%)|
|Blizzard||150%||14.7 tiles (+134.45%)|
|25.69 tiles (+309.73%)|
|Sandstorm||300%||21.18 tiles (+237.8%)|
|37.15 tiles (+492.5%)|
|Fart||200%||16.86 tiles (+168.9%)|
|29.51 tiles (+370.65%)|
|Tsunami||125%||13.62 tiles (+117.22%)|
|23.79 tiles (+279.43%)|
Mounts[edit | edit source]
There are four mounts that allow an additional jump mid-air.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- Jumping underwater with Flippers will count as an extra jump, preventing that jump from being used after breaching the water's surface.
Tips[edit | edit source]
- Extra jumps can be used shortly before hitting the ground to reset fall damage.
- The maximum total jump reach from a sextuple jump (obtainable e.g. by equipping a Bundle of Balloons, a Fart in a Balloon, and a Sharkron Balloon) is 92.35 tiles (+1372.89%). This can be further increased by equipping some of the boosting accessories: With the Soaring Insignia, a Frog Leg, the Amphibian Boots, and the Moon Lord Legs, the maximum total jump reach from a sextuple jump would be 301.1 tiles (+4702.23%).
Footnotes[edit | edit source]
- In relation to jump duration of the first jump.
- Assuming gravity is default, no other boosts are in effect, only the jump type from the respective row is used, and the second jump is activated immediately after the first one is completed. The increase in percent is referring to the increase from base jump reach (6.27 tiles).
- In relation to jump duration of the first jump with the mount.


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Two UW–Madison researchers build ties with Indonesia
It took a trip halfway around the world to bring two University of Wisconsin—Madison scientists together.
Paleoanthropologist John Hawks and climate scientist Dan Vimont had never crossed paths on the Madison campus due to their very divergent areas of study. But they landed on common ground at the Kavli Indonesian-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, held July 11-15 in Solo, Indonesia.
Co-organized by the Indonesian and U.S. National Academies of Sciences, the symposium brought together a mix of young American and Indonesian scientists from a range of fields — nanotechnology to earthquakes — to discuss globally relevant research and to foster collaborations between the two countries. The UW–Madison researchers were two of just nine U.S. scientists invited to speak.
The Frontiers of Science symposia have promoted connections between young scientists since 1989, with increasing importance placed on international relationships with scientists in Europe and Asia. The Indonesian-American symposium began in 2011 in response to the Obama administration's call for stronger ties with scientists in predominantly Muslim countries.
"The goal is to get people talking — to help Indonesian scholars develop their scientific infrastructure and to get more Americans involved who might have an interest in working there," says Hawks.
Vimont, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and a climate researcher in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, discussed international food security in the face of changing climate, a critical concern in a country whose rice imports in a bad growing year can equal roughly a fifth of the total global rice market. Hawks, a UW–Madison anthropology professor, spoke about human evolution and genetic variation.
Both met potential future collaborators and came away with a stronger appreciation of the research needs and opportunities in Indonesia. In addition to the scientific sessions, the participants attended cultural events and local tours, and Hawks was able to spend a day at a nearby dig with an Indonesian paleontologist.
"I see science as a unifying theme for bringing people together," Vimont says. "These symposia are a piece of a broader effort to use science as a way to encourage development."


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I have no idea what a locus means so
The complex number u is given by u=(7+4i)/(3-2i). In the form x+yi, x=i, y=2
Sketch and argand diagram showing the point representing the complex number u. Show on the same diagram the locus of the complex number z such that [z-u]=2. Give a thorough description would be good.
Find the greatest value of argument. Urgent.