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Place Photos
You can use the Places SDK for iOS to request place photos to display in your application. Photos returned by the photos service come from a variety of sources, including business owners and user-contributed photos. To retrieve photos for a place, you must take the following steps:
 1. Call [GMSPlacesClient fetchPlaceFromPlaceId], passing a string with a place ID and a callback. This will call the callback with a GMSPlacePhotoMetadataList object.
 2. On the GMSPlacePhotoMetadataList object access the results property and select the photos to load from the array.
 3. For each GMSPlacePhotoMetadata to load from this list call [GMSPlacesClient loadPlacePhoto:callback:] or [GMSPlacesClient loadPlacePhoto:constrainedToSize:scale:callback:]. These will call the callback with a usable UIImage. Photos can have a maximum width or height of 1600 pixels.
Sample code
The following example method takes a place ID and gets the first photo in the returned list. You can use this method as a template for the method you will create in your own app.
Swift
// Specify the place data types to return (in this case, just photos).
let fields: GMSPlaceField = GMSPlaceField(rawValue: UInt(GMSPlaceField.photos.rawValue))!
placesClient?.fetchPlace(fromPlaceID: "INSERT_PLACE_ID_HERE",
 placeFields: fields,
 sessionToken: nil, callback: {
 (place: GMSPlace?, error: Error?) in
 if let error = error {
 print("An error occurred: \(error.localizedDescription)")
 return
 }
 if let place = place {
 // Get the metadata for the first photo in the place photo metadata list.
 let photoMetadata: GMSPlacePhotoMetadata = place.photos![0]
 // Call loadPlacePhoto to display the bitmap and attribution.
 self.placesClient?.loadPlacePhoto(photoMetadata, callback: { (photo, error) -> Void in
 if let error = error {
 // TODO: Handle the error.
 print("Error loading photo metadata: \(error.localizedDescription)")
 return
 } else {
 // Display the first image and its attributions.
 self.imageView?.image = photo;
 self.lblText?.attributedText = photoMetadata.attributions;
 }
 })
 }
})
Objective-C
// Specify the place data types to return (in this case, just photos).
GMSPlaceField fields = (GMSPlaceFieldPhotos);
NSString *placeId = @"INSERT_PLACE_ID_HERE";
[_placesClient fetchPlaceFromPlaceID:placeId placeFields:fields sessionToken:nil callback:^(GMSPlace * _Nullable place, NSError * _Nullable error) {
 if (error != nil) {
 NSLog(@"An error occurred %@", [error localizedDescription]);
 return;
 }
 if (place != nil) {
 GMSPlacePhotoMetadata *photoMetadata = [place photos][0];
 [self->_placesClient loadPlacePhoto:photoMetadata callback:^(UIImage * _Nullable photo, NSError * _Nullable error) {
 if (error != nil) {
 NSLog(@"Error loading photo metadata: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
 return;
 } else {
 // Display the first image and its attributions.
 self->imageView.image = photo;
 self->lblText.attributedText = photoMetadata.attributions;
 }
 }];
 }
}];
Caching
Photos loaded using [GMSPlacesClient loadPlacePhoto:callback:] or [GMSPlacesClient loadPlacePhoto:constrainedToSize:scale:callback:] are cached both on disk and in-memory by the Foundation URL loading system in the shared NSURLCache.
To configure the caching behavior you can change the shared URL cache using [NSURLCache setSharedURLCache:] in your application delegate's application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method.
If you do not want your application to share a NSURLCache with the Places SDK for iOS you can create a new NSURLCache and use this exclusively within your app without setting it as the shared cache.
Attributions
In most cases, place photos can be used without attribution, or will have the required attribution included as part of the image. However, if the returned GMSPlacePhotoMetadata instance includes an attribution, you must include the additional attribution in your application wherever you display the image. Note that links in the attribution must be tappable. See the documentation on attributions.
Usage limits
Retrieving an image costs one unit of quota; there are no usage limits for retrieving photo metadata. Read more about usage and billing.


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When set to hair mode, particle system creates only static particles, which may be used for hair, fur, grass and the like.
The first step is to create the hair, specifying the amount of hair strands and their lengths.
The complete path of the particles is calculated in advance. So everything a particle does a hair may do also. A hair is as long as the particle path would be for a particle with a lifetime of 100 frames. Instead of rendering every frame of the particle animation point by point there are calculated control points with an interpolation, the segments.
The next step is to style the hair. You can change the look of base hairs by changing the Physics Settings.
A more advanced way of changing the hair appearance is to use Children. This adds child hairs to the original ones, and has settings for giving them different types of shapes.
You can also interactively style hairs in Particle Mode. In this mode, the particle settings become disabled, and you can comb, trim, lengthen, etc. the hair curves.
Hair can now be made dynamic using the cloth solver. This is covered in the Hair Dynamics page.
Blender can render hairs in several different ways. Materials have a Strand section, which is covered in the materials section in the Strands Page.
Hair can also be used as a basis for the Particle Instance modifier, which allows you to have a mesh be deformed along the curves, which is useful for thicker strands, or things like grass, or feathers, which may have a more specific look.
- Regrow Hair for each frame.
- Enables advanced settings which reflect the same ones as working in Emitter mode.
- Set the amount of hair strands. Use as little particles as possible, especially if you plan to use softbody animation later. But you need enough particles to have good control. For a "normal" haircut I found some thousand (very roughly 2000) particles to give enough control. You may need a lot more particles if you plan to cover a body with fur. Volume will be produced later with Children.
Settings for adding movement to hair see Hair Dynamics.
- Draw hair as curves.
- Draw just the end points if the hairs.
- The number of segments (control points minus 1) of the hair strand. In between the control points the segments are interpolated. The number of control points is important:
- for the softbody animation, because the control points are animated like vertices, so more control points mean longer calculation times.
- for the interactive editing, because you can only move the control points (but you may recalculate the number of control points in Particle Mode).
- 10 Segments should be sufficient even for very long hair, 5 Segments are enough for shorter hair, and 2 or 3 segments should be enough for short fur.
Hair can be rendered as a Path, Object, or Group. See Particle Visualization for descriptions.
- Fur Tutorial, which produced (Image 4b). It deals especially with short hair.
- Blender Hair Basics, a thorough overview of all of the hair particle settings.

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Navy pump house, Little Chebeague Island, 1947Item 67320 info
National Archives at Boston
The Navy used similar shipboard firefighting trainers at schools around the world through the Vietnam War era.
An apparently insignificant relic on the shore of a small island in Casco Bay was crucial to successful firefighting efforts on Navy ships in World War II.
In two years of operation, the Chebeague Island school trained some 15,000 sailors.
After the war, the government sold the island to a private investor. The state purchased it in 1972.


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Iowa Food Waste Reduction Project
The Iowa Waste Reduction Center recently launched the Iowa Food Waste Reduction Project. The goal of this project is to reduce the generation of food waste and its disposal in Iowa landfills. By developing comprehensive educational tools, helping to build infrastructure for waste diversion outlets, and advocating for policy changes, the project aims to become a national leader in reducing food waste and diverting it from landfills.
Earth Week Photo Contest
UNI project to monitor how much food is thrown away
On Jan. 1, UNI's Iowa Waste Reduction Center launched a new food waste reduction project, whose goal is to raise awareness among institutions and, ultimately, consumers, about waste and the pressure it puts on landfills.
The program will include a website that will act as a virtual food waste reduction center.
UNI student 'Recycles Rite'
Winners of the Biggest Loser Energy Contest!
Annual Northern Iowa Food and Farm Partnership (NIFFP) Meeting
Cranksgiving event held in Cedar Falls to benefit food bank


Tamarack (Larix laricina)
Tamarack trees in the fall, photo by Linda Baird White, American Conifer Society
Tamarack tree needles
#5 gallon pot purchase size: 2'-3' tall
Mature height: 40'-50'
Mature width: 15'-30'
Tamarack is a native tree to Minnesota and is unique because it is a deciduous conifer. This tree has horizontal to drooping branches and is pyramidal in form. The needles are a bluish-green before turning a brilliant yellow in the fall and then dropping. It is a low maintenance tree and does best with little to no pruning. This tree is often planted in groups. Tamarack will grow in average to wet conditions and prefers acidic soil. Full sun to part shade.


Migrating a NIM client by using LPM
When Live Partition Mobility (LPM) is used to move a machine from one physical server to another and the machine is defined as a Network Installation Management (NIM) client, the NIM administrator must update the cpuid attribute for the NIM client to reflect the new hardware value after the LPM migration completes.
To update the cpuid attribute, complete the following steps:
 1. On the NIM client, acquire the new cpuid ID by running the following command:
 uname -a
 2. On the NIM master, run the following command:
 nim -o change -a cpuid=cpuid client
 Note: The OS_install network installer no longer supports the installation of the Linux® operating system because of the removal of Cluster Systems Management (CSM) support in the AIX® operating system.


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After a hot summer for much of western Europe and parts of the British Isles, warmth will keep on rolling into autumn.
The continued warm and dry weather will keep Scandinavia on high alert for wildfires throughout the season while a change to wet weather is predicted from Italy into Greece.
Warmth to last into October across the British Isles, France and Germany
Persistent heat dominated much of western Europe throughout the summer and, while the magnitude of the heat is expected to wane by October, temperatures will continue to be well above normal from the British Isles into France and Germany.
"Temperatures will average 1-3 degrees Celsius (2-6 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal throughout the United Kingdom this autumn," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alan Reppert said.
A similar or even greater divergence from normal is forecast across France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.
A noticeable dip in temperatures is expected by November as rainfall becomes more frequent from the U.K. into northern France and western Germany.
The arrival of late-season rain will bring not only an end to lasting unseasonable warmth but also much-needed rain to areas that dealt with drought conditions in recent months.
The most significant rain will fall from western Ireland into Northern Ireland and western Scotland; however, all of the U.K. will receive beneficial rainfall throughout November.
"River levels will rise slowly, and the drought will lessen, especially in Wales and western England," AccuWeather Meteorologist Tyler Roys said.
"While our area of greatest concern for windstorms this autumn is from Portugal into western France, one or two named storms may impact the British Isles through November," he said.
A wet November is also expected in Paris, Brussels, and Cologne, Germany.
Farther south and east, rainfall will be more inconsistent with near- to slightly below-normal rainfall from Lyon, France, to Stuttgart and Berlin in Germany.
Italy and eastern Mediterranean to become wet, stormy
Hit-or-miss thunderstorms throughout the summer left parts of Italy, Greece and the western Balkan Peninsula drenched while others endured a hot, dry summer.
This pattern will hold into September before a significant shift toward widespread wet weather is expected from October into November.
Slow-moving storm systems will bring downpours at an increased frequency throughout Italy and neighboring parts of the western Balkan Peninsula between the Dinaric Alps and the Adriatic Sea.
This wet weather will expand into Greece as the season progresses, bringing an end to wildfire concerns but bringing the risk for flash flooding and mudslides, especially in areas that endured wildfires in recent years.
"Some of the storms will bring damaging hail and winds, along with an increased risk for waterspouts," Roys said.
"The areas at highest risk for damaging storms will be across Italy and Greece."
The increasing wet weather will also limit warmth across the region. While September will likely be a warmer-than-normal month, near- to below-normal temperatures are expected from October into November.
Scandinavia wildfire threat to remain high, snowfall to be limited
A hot, dry summer which turned into the worst drought in decades across parts of Scandinavia set the stage for numerous wildfires.
Sweden has been hardest hit as more than 50,000 acres burned during the summer, and drought conditions have worsened throughout the season.
Unseasonable warmth and drier-than-normal weather are expected to continue for much of autumn across the region with no significant rainfall to aid drought conditions and significantly lower the wildfire risk.
By October and November, temperatures will trend much lower compared to the scorching summer heat; however, a lack of rainfall will still bring the risk for wildfires due to dry vegetation.
"Given the dry and very warm conditions across Scandinavia this summer and autumn, I expect the harvest to be smaller than in previous years and there could be rationing of produce and higher prices," Roys said.
Snowfall will be below normal through November in Oslo, Norway, Stockholm and Helsinki due to the combination of above-normal warmth and drier-than-normal conditions.
Windstorms to threaten Portugal, northwestern Spain and western France
While much of Europe is expecting drier-than-normal weather throughout the autumn season, locations from Portugal to western France may endure periods of storminess.
These areas will be at risk for multiple damaging windstorms from September through November.
The threat will come in a variety of forms as post-tropical storms from the Atlantic Ocean will bring the risk for impacts in September and October, followed by more traditional windstorms from mid-October through November.
Each of these storms will bring a variety of risks; however, the early-season post-tropical threats are expected to bring heavy rainfall with the threat for widespread flooding and locally damaging winds.
"Any rainfall will be beneficial for crops following a largely dry summer across Portugal and Spain," Reppert said.
The threat will shift more to widespread damaging winds during the second half of the season with flooding becoming more localized.
Aside from the windstorm threat, slightly above-normal temperatures are expected in western France and the Iberian Peninsula.
No long-lasting heat waves are predicted early in the season, and overall rainfall will be near normal.
Warmth to persist as drought concerns build for eastern Europe
It will seem like a never-ending summer across parts of eastern Europe as prolonged warmth continues throughout the upcoming autumn.
Above-normal temperatures will prevail each month from September through November from the Baltic states into the eastern Balkans and Ukraine.
"While typically it turns noticeably cooler during October, it will feel like summer's grip doesn't want to relax this year," Reppert said.
Outdoor plans will benefit from the extended warmth and prolonged dry spells; however, agriculture will suffer further crop damage.
Along with the prolonged warmth, drought will become a more widespread concern during the upcoming months.
The greatest concern for drought will be across Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Belarus where warm, dry weather during summer will carry over into early autumn. Rainfall will remain scarce through November resulting in a poor harvest and poor soil moisture for future planting.
The warm and dry weather will last into November limiting the risk for any accumulating snowfall throughout the lower elevations of eastern Europe.
Download the free AccuWeather app to stay aware of the warmth.
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Hundreds of dead fish were discovered on Interstate 40 when floodwaters receded following Hurricane Florence.
A cool start to autumn will give way to increasing warmth and humidity across the Northeast in the coming days.
The formation of Subtropical Storm Leslie and Tropical Depression Kirk may only be the start of a busy next couple of weeks in the tropical Atlantic.
The newest storm in the western Pacific Ocean will track through the Philippine Sea, continuing to gather strength before impacting land later in the week.
Following a brief lull in tropical weather across the Atlantic Basin, several areas of interest have developed this weekend, including the season's newest named storms.
The start of Oktoberfest 2018 is upon us and big changes in the weather are expected for the opening days of festivities.
The same storm system that produced deadly flooding in Texas late last week will channel rounds of heavy downpours into the lower Mississippi Valley throughout much of this week.
The NASCAR Playoffs will continue tonight at the Richmond Raceway amid warm and potentially unsettled weather.

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The Hunters Federation of Côtes d'Armor studies the wintering numbers of woodcock by carrying out ringing operations around the edges of the department's forest massifs.
Every winter, the Federation organizes 3 days of counting on the massifs of the region and the coastal area and lake shores: the Beffou forest, the Avaugour-Bois-Meur massif and Lann Ar Waremme.
This makes it possible to monitor the evolution of wintering woodcock populations in these 2 hunting reserves each year.
Starting date: 2009
Species: Eurasian Woodcock (Scolopax Rusticola)
Species characteristics: Huntable species/ Migratory species
Type of actions: Management of habitats and wildlife, Research and data collection
Leading partners: Fédération départementale des chasseurs des Côtes d?Armor


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Does GSM Phone Really Block Communication In A Cell?
Is it true that the guys at the Technical University of Berlin can block all mobile communications in a cell with an old GSM phone jammer? As far as I know, they have updated the firmware of the phone in some way to prevent phone calls. Is it possible and feasible, or is it just fake?
We have also heard of this research at perfectjammer.com. What happens when you receive a call or text message? Your base station receives it first, and then looks for devices that must receive it. It just sends the query to all connected phones, and they must answer. When the station receives a positive reply, it will redirect the call or SMS. But using the smartphone vulnerability, we can stop the process by simply answering "yes" to all queries sent by the base station.
This is how a simple GSM cell phone may start to act as acell phone jammer. There is no update yet, whether the hacker program can be used to intercept calls and messages, but it is technically possible. These researchers also calculated that to create a powerful DDoS attack in German, they only need 11 "updated" mobile phones, enough to block communications throughout the country.


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Algebra Seminar talk
Antoine Mottet (Univerzita Karlova)
Cores of structures with a Ramsey expansion
A core is a relational structure whose endomorphisms behave locally as automorphisms. Cores are objects that appear naturally in the study of constraint satisfaction problems, and in this context it is an important question to determine which classes of structures can be reduced to the study of the cores inside them. The class of finite structures is a trivial such example, and the class of countably categorical structures is another (Bodirsky, 2003). In this talk, I will show that the same holds for structures admitting a countably categorical Ramsey expansion. This is joint work with Michael Pinsker.

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Smart Home Skill v2-to-v3 Migration Guide
If you published a Smart Home Skill that uses the v2 message format, update it to use the v3 message format. This migration enables you to take advantage of new features and provide the best experience for your customers. In addition, v3 is required for Works with Alexa certification.
You should make changes in the developer console and in your Lambda function code. This topic covers the differences between v2 and v3, and changes you need to make to your skill to migrate it to payload version 3. It's important to note that if you complete this migration successfully, your existing customers get access to new features without any action on their part.
What's new in smart home development?
 - Capabilities replace actions in discovery: Device functionality is described with more flexibility using Capability Interfaces instead of Actions in the device discovery process. For example, PowerController or BrightnessController could be used to describe a device that supports being turned on and off and has a brightness setting. For more information, see Alexa.Discovery and the interface topics we've provided.
 - Querying capability: Use the new capability design to identify the device properties that Alexa can query, enabling customers to check the current state of a device using Alexa or the Alexa app.
 - Updates pushed to the Alexa app through state reporting: v3 enables you to report the state of your smart device, and for those state changes to appear in the Alexa app. For example, when a light is turned on using a light switch, you can report this information to Alexa. Alexa caches this information, and a customer sees the light is on in the Alexa app. For details, see State Reporting.
 - Flexibility between asynchronous and synchronous messaging: In v3, how you respond to directives is flexible; you can respond either synchronously or asynchronously depending on the device and the capabilities of your device cloud. Read about the kinds of responses you can provide in the State Reporting document.
While you work on your v3 solution, you can continue to update your existing Lambda function that targets v2 until v2 APIs are deprecated.
How do I get started?
Look at the documentation and tools provided and start building a Lambda function for v3.
Steps to migrate your skill
Complete the following steps to update your skill from v2 to v3.
Select v3 in the Developer Portal
To switch your skill from v2 to v3, choose Payload Version v3 in the developer console. To do this:
 - In the developer console, select the Development version of the skill.
 - In the Payload version of the Build page, select v3. This signals Alexa to send v3 messages to your skill. Note that when you create a new skill, it will automatically target v3.
 - Optionally request permissions to send asynchronous and proactive events. To do this, select Send Alexa Events in the Permissions section. Note that you can opt-in to these permissions later if needed. For details, see Send Events to the Alexa Event Gateway section.
Create a new Lambda
 - Create a new Lambda function. You can create this in the N Virginia (US) or Ireland (EU) region.
Migrate your code to v3
Using your previous implementation as a guide, implement v3 functionality, which is, parse the v3 directive format and compose Response events in the v3 format. For more details on how to parse and implement v3, see the Smart Home Interface Message Guide, interface topics and example code provided in the Steps to Create a Smart Home Skill topic.
 - Provide a discovery response that describes devices that implement v3 capability interfaces. See Alexa.Discovery for more information.
 The following table lists device fields and how they map between v2 and v3 discovery responses.
 Purpose v2 field v3 field
 Device identifier applianceId endpointId
 Manufacture name manufacturerName manufacturerName
 Name assigned by customer friendlyName friendlyName
 Description of the device such as now it is connected friendlyDescription description
 Map of string key/value pairs to store information about the device ' additionalApplianceDetails' cookie
 The cookie property expects the same key/value pair format as additionalApplianceDetails so you can copy entries over as-is.
 Describe requests that a device can respond to actions array capabilities array
 Device model name modelName None
 Describes whether a device is currently reachable isReachable None
The format for capabilities is significantly different than v2 actions. Read Alexa.Discovery for more details. Note that for each interface, you will report the properties and their level of support, indicating whether you support asynchronous and proactive events.
Following are some examples of how you would represent the same device actions in v2 and v3 format.
Thermostat example
Thermostat Discovery Response - v2 Actions
{
 "actions": [
 "incrementTargetTemperature",
 "decrementTargetTemperature",
 "getTargetTemperature",
 "setTargetTemperature"
 ]
}
Thermostat Discovery Response - v3 Capabilities
The following code example shows a discovery response that indicates proactive events will be sent by specifying proactivelyReported and retrievable are true for the supported properties.
{
 "capabilities": [{
 "type": "AlexaInterface",
 "interface": "Alexa.ThermostatController",
 "version": "3",
 "properties": {
 "supported": [{
 "name": "targetSetpoint"
 },
 {
 "name": "lowerSetpoint"
 },
 {
 "name": "upperSetpoint"
 },
 {
 "name": "thermostatMode"
 }
 ],
 "proactivelyReported": true,
 "retrievable": true
 }
 }]
}
Light example
Light Discovery Response - v2 Actions
{
 "actions": [
 "turnOn",
 "turnOff",
 "setPercentage",
 "incrementPercentage",
 "decrementPercentage",
 "setColor",
 "setColorTemperature",
 "incrementColorTemperature",
 "decrementColorTemperature"
 ]
}
Light Discovery Response - v3 Capabilities
The following code example shows a discovery response that indicates proactive events will be sent by specifying proactivelyReported and retrievable are true for each property.
{
 "capabilities": [{
 "type": "AlexaInterface",
 "interface": "Alexa.PowerController",
 "version": "3",
 "properties": {
 "supported": [{
 "name": "powerState"
 }],
 "proactivelyReported": true,
 "retrievable": true
 }
 },
 {
 "type": "AlexaInterface",
 "interface": "Alexa.ColorController",
 "version": "3",
 "properties": {
 "supported": [{
 "name": "color"
 }],
 "proactivelyReported": true,
 "retrievable": true
 }
 },
 {
 "type": "AlexaInterface",
 "interface": "Alexa.ColorTemperatureController",
 "version": "3",
 "properties": {
 "supported": [{
 "name": "colorTemperatureInKelvin"
 }],
 "proactivelyReported": true,
 "retrievable": true
 }
 },
 {
 "type": "AlexaInterface",
 "interface": "Alexa.BrightnessController",
 "version": "3",
 "properties": {
 "supported": [{
 "name": "brightness"
 }],
 "proactivelyReported": true,
 "retrievable": true
 }
 }
 ]
}
 - Create implementations for the v3 capability interface directives that you choose. You will need to parse the request messages and compose event responses. The following table provides guidelines for the interfaces you should implement based on device capability and actions you have have identified in v2.
 Operation Version 2 Actions v3 Capability Interface
 Turn things on and off turnOn
 turnOff
 Alexa.PowerController
 Change a percentage value for a light decrementPercentage
 incrementPercentage
 setPercentage
 Alexa.BrightnessController
 Change a generic percentage value decrementPercentage
 incrementPercentage
 setPercentage
 Alexa.PercentageController
 Get or set a temperature setTargetTemperature, incrementTargetTemperature,
 decrementTargetTemperature
 Alexa.ThermostatController
 Get the temperature of a device getTemperatureReading, getTargetTemperature Alexa.TemperatureSensor
 Get or set the lock state of a device getLockState, setLockState Alexa.LockController
 Change the color of a light setColor Alexa.ColorController
 Change the color temperature for a light decrementColorTemperature, incrementColorTemperature, setColorTemperature Alexa.ColorTemperatureController
 Activate or deactivate a scene turnOn, turnOff Alexa.SceneController
 Retrieve a camera feed turnOn, turnOff Alexa.CameraStreamController
 - Repeat the capability implementation step until you have updated your Lambda


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When selecting pen refills, identify the pen manufacturer and model, check the size and shape of the existing ink cartridge, and find a refill that matches these characteristics. Check whether there are quantity and shipping promotions and buy refills in bulk to ease the process of procuring future refills.Continue Reading
Some pens can take standard refills while others require the refill cartridges specified by the manufacturer. To find the right refill, look for cartridges that have the same size and shape as the cartridge of your existing pen. Ensure that the identified refills are made for the type and model of your pen. Although a rollerball refill and a fountain pen refill may be from the same manufacturer, they may not require the same refill. Check the tip size of your pen, and ensure that the refill does not have a wider or narrower tip than the one you are used to.
If buying a refill online, pay attention to the refill color as computer screens may not show the color shade correctly. For example, blues and blue-blacks are easy to mistake. Check the listed characteristics to ensure you buy the refill you intended to get. Consider ordering refills with multiple colors and tip sizes to explore new ways of writing.Learn more about Office Supplies


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* Imagine that you have some data on an unemployed population. You would like to give job training to some of these workers however you are concerned that those who volunteer to be part of the job training program are fundamentally different than those who did not sign up for the job training.
* We have data on 2000 individuals
set obs 2000
* Educational attainment is known
gen education = rnormal()
gen ability = rnormal()
gen motivation = rnormal()
* Ability and motivation levels are unobservable.
* Thoe who have greater motivation are more likely to sign up for the job training program.
gen p_sign_up = normal(motivation)
* The decision to seek trianing or not is a random one.
gen sign_up = rbinomial(1,p_sign_up)
* If we give training to everybody that signs up then
gen train = sign_up
* Once, workers have recieved training the training has some benefit on expected earnings.
gen u = rnormal()
gen exp_earn = ability + 2*education + motivation + train*.5 + u*2
* Let's see how well we can estimate the returns to training.
reg exp_earn train education
* We can see that because ability (part of the error term) is correlated with assignment to training selection bias into training is causing it to look more effective than it actually is.
* Alternatively, when choosing who to give training to we could instead choose to give it only to a random selection of those who signed up for training.
gen train2 = rbinomial(1,.5) if sign_u==1
replace train2 = 0 if train2 ==.
gen exp_earn2 = ability + 2*education + motivation + train2*.5 + u*2
* If we stop there then we actually have not helped anything.
reg exp_earn2 train2 education
* However, if we restrict our estimation to only people who signed up for the training program we can use the randomness of the program to estimate unbiased results.
reg exp_earn2 train2 education if sign_up==1
* The only catch is that now we cannot argue that we have an unbiased estimate of the effect of the training program for the entire population. Only for those that chose to sign up. This is not entirely a bad thing. If we make the program voluntary then it will be based on sign up anyways. Thus selecting based on signing up is not an unreasonable restriction.


fieldnamesStatistics
Get statistics of every column in the input table.
fieldnamesStatistics provides detailed information on the column for the input table.
Operator Usage in Easy Mode
 1. Click + on the parent node.
 2. Enter the Fieldnames Statistics operator in the search field and select the operator from the Results to open the operator form.
 3. In the Input Table drop-down, enter or select the table on which this operator runs to generate the statistics.
 4. Click Run to view the result.
 5. Click Save to add the operator to the playbook.
 6. Click Cancel to discard the operator form.
Usage Details
fieldnamesStatistics(inputTable: TableReference, valuesLimit:Long)
Input
 - inputTable (TableReference): The table on which this operator runs to generate the statistics.
 - valuesLimit (Long) (Optional): Total number of distinct values in the JSON output. The default is 100.
Output
A table containing the column names and their statistics, for example, non null count, distinct count, min, max, mean, and stdev.
Example
Input
nameIDfloatValIPlongVal
test112.3212.32.43.411341235253
lhub210.510.32.43.411341230253
fieldnamesStatistics(table)
Output
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Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea
The island of Bioko is a mass of earth of volcanic origin with a surface area of just over 2000 km2. It is located in the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of Cameroon and Gabon. There are two seasons: a dry season (November to March) and a rainy season (April to October). The average annual temperature is 25 0C. Rainfall varies from 1930 mm in the north to 10990 mm in the south. About 40% of the island is inaccessible by land due to the dense tropical forest.
The island is made up of small slow rivers where blackfly vectors of the Simulium damnosum complex – S. yahense Bioko form – breed.
There are an estimated 90 000 people living on Bioko Island. The island is the only island known to be endemic with onchocerciasis. The geographical location of the island protects it from re-invasion of the blackfly.
Large scale aerial and ground larviciding started in 2003, and aerial spraying continued in 2005. Environmental assessment surveys showed no detrimental environmental impact of these vector control activities.
Ivermectin distribution started in 1990. Community-directed treatment with ivermectin started in 2000.
In 2005, the Simulium yahense Bioko form was eliminated from Bioko Island. Reinforcement of community-directed treatment with ivermectin is expected to lead to rapid elimination of onchocerciasis.


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What Does Developer Evangelist Mean?
A developer evangelist is a specific role within a company's engineering team that is focused on bridging internal and external communications. The developer evangelist typically maintains a presence as an "ambassador" for the company, interacting with the outside world through social media and in person.
A developer evangelist is also known as a technology evangelist, technical evangelist or technology advocate.
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A developer evangelist is typically a skilled developer, but does not actually spend most of his or her time writing code. Instead, the developer evangelist is essentially going out into the community to spread the news about what his or her company is doing, build relationships, and participate in a kind of "developer ecosystem." Part of this job would often entail communicating with both corporate developers, and those working on open-source technologies who are unconnected to a proprietary license product and brand.
The developer evangelist job is heavy on communications. In posting a job opening for this particular role, a Microsoft post defines the developer evangelist's mission as "to secure platform adoption and revenue growth through evangelism, community engagement, relationship marketing and a vibrant solutions ecosystem."
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Creating a Plot Plan in Home Designer Pro
| Reference Number: KB-00576 Last Updated: 05-28-2014 12:57 PM
The information in this article applies to:
I would like to know how to create a plot plan in Home Designer Pro. How is this accomplished?
Once you have created a floor plan, you are probably ready to create your plot plan. Use the following procedure to learn how to create a basic plot plan, then take what you learn and apply it to your own design.
To begin creating a plot plan
- Launch Home Designer Pro, and select File> New Plan.
- Next, select CAD> Lines> North Pointer, then click and drag a North Arrow straight up in your floor plan view.
- Next, select CAD> Points> Place Point, and click one time to place a point to the lower left as a start point for the property line.
The entire property line may be relocated later, so don't worry about exactness at this time.
- Once the point is on the screen (it should look like an x), select CAD> Lines> Input Line to display the New CAD Line dialog.
- Click on the Num Style button to display the Number Style / Angle Style dialog, and make the following changes:
Note: These settings only apply to numbers displayed in the specification dialogs and status bar. They do NOT apply to objects display in plan and other view windows.
- Under Number Style, move the radio button to Decimal Feet.
- Under Angle Style, move the radio button to Quadrant Bearing.
- Click OK to return to the New CAD Line dialog.
- In the End Point section of the dialog, make the following selections:
- Click the radio button beside Relative to Start Point.
- Place a check in the box beside Polar.
- Next, using the numbers that follow, enter the information to define the property line.
Press the Next button to stay in the dialog to enter the next value.
Distance = 122.21', Angle = N82° 49'E
Distance = 98.75', Angle = N2° 17'W
Distance = 143.56', Angle = N87° 47'W
Distance = 122.33', Angle = S12° 20'E
The above coordinates serve as an example only. Use these coordinates to learn how to create a plot plan. Once you understand the process, you can substitute in your own coordinates.
- Press OK after entering in the last value to close the dialog and return to floor plan view, where we can see the polyline we created.
- Next, use the Select Objects tool to select the polyline you created, and click on the Open Object edit too to display the Polyline Specification dialog.
- Go to the Line Style panel, and in the lower right of the dialog in the Display Options category, check the boxes beside Show Length and Show Angle then click the OK button to return to your floor plan view.
Note that it defaults to having lengths of inches and angles in regular degrees. Most property lines are shown in bearings and decimal feet.
To change the display to decimal feet and bearings
- Select Edit> Default Settings.
- Expand the CAD category, select General CAD, and click on the Edit button.
- In the CAD Defaults dialog:
- Under Display Line Angle as, select Quadrant Bearing.
- Under Display Line Length as, move the radio button to Decimal Feet.
- Click OK to apply the change and close the CAD Defaults dialog.
- Click Done to close the Default Settings dialog.
- In Home Designer Pro 2012 and newer, to increase the size of the Length and Angle displayed on your Plot Plan polyline, select Tools> Display Options.
- Navigate down to the CAD, Default layer, click to highlight its name, and use the Text Style drop down menu to select the Plot Plan Text Style and click OK.
Now the property line should display properly.
If you want to add details such as the property offset, now is the time to make these changes.
To create setback lines
- Select Edit> Preferences and under the Edit category, select Behaviors.
- Under Edit Type, move the radio button to Concentric, and in the Jump field, type in the setback distance required by your local planning department, such as 10'.
- Click OK to close the Preferences dialog and return to floor plan view.
- Using the Select Objects tool, click the plot plan polyline to select it, then click the Copy/Paste edit button.
- Place your cursor over a corner edit handle, click and drag towards the center of the polyline until a copy of the polyline appears inside.
- Select the inner polyline and click the Open Object edit button to open the Polyline Specification dialog.
- On the Line Style panel, select a dashed line style from the drop-down list, then uncheck Show Length and Show Angle, and click OK.
- When you have finished creating your concentric copy, select Edit> Edit Behaviors> Default to restore the default edit behavior.
- Finally, select CAD> Points> Delete Temporary Points to remove the point that we started our plot plan polyline from.


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- Mischievous and prevalent, the nature sprites of Pandaria resemble the prevalent features of their surroundings, like shrubs or rocks. Their appearance allows them to easily hide and engage in their favorite pastime – playing tricks on others for inscrutable reasons. Many forest sprites' pranks – disguising themselves as stools to trip people, or throwing fruit and nuts at wanderers – seem harmless. Mountain spirits' means of interaction tend to have a higher incidence of violence and death, involving rockslides and falls off cliffs.
- Rumor has it that more deadly, unique varieties of sprites have emerged in Sha-tainted areas. If sprites' behavior is simply a reflection of the environments that surround them, any such creatures must be monumentally dangerous.
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This study examined framing strategies of protest movements in Dakar Senegal, particularly those focused on issues of foreign exploitation. Two major groups were surveyed, FRAPP and Cos M23, with interview notes and transcripts forming the basis of frame analysis. The findings showed that Cos M23 utilized a narrow frame that focused on linking certain sets of behaviors to being a good citizen, while FRAPP created a larger discursive framework in which diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framing strategies were present in order to both link France and western imperialism to issues as well as induce the general public to take actions against those diagnosed issues. These findings provide valuable non-western insight on framing strategies and help provide data on domestic civil society activism in Senegal.
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There exists one test project for each cultivate project. Additionally you need to checkout the cultivate.test project, which contains common files for all tests. The following directories may exist in each project:
For writing prolog tests take a look at the MisnamedTestCaseTest example in cultivate.basic.test:
Creation of a new test consists of 4 steps:
First you need to write your testdata. Do this by creating a new testdata-* src folder and adding it to the build path. Now write your packages and classes. Afterwards you must run the generator-factbases-project.launch via the eclipse launcher menu. This will create the file *.qlf in the factbases directory. Now you can write your test by extending the AbstractPrologTestCase. It will automatically consult the prolog file prolog/load.pl of your project. Additionally you have the following helper methods to use:
For executing predicates in a changing context, the
ContextualPredicate class is provided. it supports the following methods:
IMPORTANT: Before you can run your tests with JUnit you have to alter _URL_.cs3.cultivate.test.framework/test.properties to match the correct paths.


Real estate market niche
This is the last in a three-part series about supercharging your real estate business with a marketing niche. Part I of the series discusses how selecting a niche helps you to grow your business. Part II explained how to identify potential niches. This final entry will help you evaluate a real estate market niche choose one that will work for you.
If you do a search on the internet, you'll find a wealth of information on how to determine the value of a market. The approach described below is a common sense way to evaluate a real estate market niche that doesn't require hiring a marketing agency to complete a six-month study.
Evaluate Your Niches' Potential
The first thing you need to do is evaluate the potential for each real estate market niche you identified.
 1. Identify the activity in the niche for the past year or two.
Naturally, the more information you have, the better your evaluation will be. Therefore, get as much information as you can. You'll need to pull information from your MLS and other resources, so first determine how you can identify the niche.
You'll need to use criteria that you can pull from the MLS as a start. For example, determine if you can use zip codes or subdivision names to describe your niche. In addition, think of the other fields you can use to filter transactions. For example, there may be a field agents use to identify the listing as an historical home or a waterfront property.
Make a chart, and for each transaction in the niche, identify:
 - The transaction – perhaps by address
 - The dollar value of the transaction
 - The agents involved in the transaction
 1. Determine if the niche is large enough to support you.
Total up the dollar value of the transactions in the niche. Then, ask yourself: "What if I could capture 5, 10 or 20 percent of the market? Would that allow me to reach my income goals?"
If the answer is that you'd need 50 or 75 percent of the market, you either need the capital required to keep going until you reach that goal, or you need to choose a more active niche.
 1. Real estate market nicheEvaluate your competition.
Look at the chart and sort it according to agent name, and calculate how much of the real estate market niche each agent has captured. For example, if there were 500 transactions and one agent did 10 transactions, that agent would have 2 percent of the market.
Look for trends. Does one agent have a large part of the market? Are there five agents that do the bulk of the transactions, then it falls off to a number of also-ran agents? If one agent has 90 percent of the market, you'd need have much more to offer to break in to that niche. But, let's assume that there are five agents that share the bulk of the transactions.
Your next step would be to research those agents. If you know some of them already, you've got a head start, but you'll still need to do some research.
 - Look at their websites. Do they promote themselves as experts in the niche you're evaluating?
 - What does their website tell you about how they brand themselves and how they sell their services?
 - Look at review websites like Facebook, Zillow and Trulia. Do they have a five star rating on those sites? What do their clients say they liked about their services.
 - Find out everything you can about each agent that would affect their strength as a competitor. Are they mid-career and picking up steam? Are they heading toward retirement? Are they brand new? How many transactions do they complete a year? Do they have any production awards?
After you've gathered information about a competitor, look for things that you do better than they do. Pay attention to any negative reviews to find out what people don't like about working with them. At that point, you should be able to make an educated guess as to how difficult it will be to break into the market.
Make a Choice and Go For It!
You can compare the information you gathered about each of your potential niches and make an informed choice to actively pursue the most promising. Once you've made that commitment, go all out. Brand yourself and your website for that niche and market to the people in that niche.
Finally, ask yourself this question: Would you rather have a small chance of getting a very small part of a huge market, or a good chance at getting a significant portion of a specialized market? When you become the go-to person in a niche, finding new clients will be a breeze – they'll come to you.
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Many people who are using the MacBook Pro generally do not loose any files or data because of the system error but because of their own error. MacBook Pro is the the most advance laptop developed by Apple. It provides different security and preventive measures to reduce the chances of data loss from the system. The MacBook Pro also has the Trash folder which acts as a container for the files which have been deleted from the drive by using the delete button. You can also delete the file by dragging them to the trash icon. But sometimes the people are in such a hurry that they delete the files without checking the selection they have made. They have a choice that either they can restore the deleted files from trash or permanently delete it by emptying the trash. You should recheck the trash folder before emptying as it might contain some important file. If you have lost them then you must be searching for how to recover emptied trash on MacBook Pro.
Even if some people say that the files which are deleted by emptying trash is permanently gone you will be glad to know that those files can be recovered. This is because the files which are deleted from the trash still remain on the hard disk and continue to occupy the same space until they are are overwritten by the new file. The operating system only deletes the location of the deleted files and mark the hard disk space as available. If you want a successful recovery then you should prevent that space from being overwritten by stop using the system for any other purpose. But there is no need of a recovery process if you have a valid and updated back up of the files you have lost. You can check your external hard drive or any cloud service for the back up.
If you are unable to find any back up then you can Use Mac trash recovery software. It is very effective software that can restore all the files that have deleted by scanning the drive using its advance algorithm. It can recover files with different file types that can be any document or multimedia files. If also provide you the preview by which you can choose your desired files and leave the rest. The software is very easy to handle so any novice user can use it without any worry. So quickly download the file and restore trash on MacBook Pro.
How to Use Mac trash Recovery Software
Step 1 : Install Mac trash recovery software and then run it.
Step 2 : Select the disk volume from where the files have been deleted.
Step 3 : Selet the file types of the deleted files.
Step 4 : Select the scan mode and start scanning.
Step 5 : When the scanning is finished you can restore them.


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The largest insect known to have existed looked like a gigantic dragonfly. It is not known whether it is a direct ancestor of modern dragonflies but it is more directly related to a griffinfly. The largest of these was the Meganeuropsis Permiana, which could reach a wingspan of 28″ or 71cm. There are many theories as to what caused the creatures to get so big but one is that the early atmosphere on earth had 20% more oxygen than we have now.
How big is that? Well, it's gigantic. The largest dragonfly that currently exists only has a wingspan of 7.5″ so the ancient relative is nearly four times as large. Even in body mass, it was the largest insect. It was even large than this thing:
In fact, here's a to scale model of it on a log:
Well, at least it wasn't a mosquito!


inefficient to serialize a whole network of entities and send it across the wire. Take the example of showing a list of orders to the user. In this scenario, you really don't need to transfer the gory details of every order to the client application. All you need is perhaps the order number, order date, and the total amount for each order. Later, if the user wishes to see the details of a specific order, you can always serialize that entire order and send it across the wire.
Value objects provide a solution for all these problems. Yes, they require you to write a little extra code, but in return, you get a bullet-proof business layer that communicates efficiently with the presentation layer. You can think of a value objects as a controlled view in to one or more entities that is relevant to your client application. Note that AndroMDA provides some basic support for translation between entities and value objects, as you will see in the tutorial.
Services and NHibernate sessions
Another key concept about AndroMDA generated applications is the strong association between service methods (i.e., operations exposed by a service) and NHibernate sessions. But before we introduce this concept, we must lay out some ground work. The NHibernate session is a runtime object that allows an application to create, read, update, and delete entities in the data store. As long as the session is "open", these entities are attached to the session and you can navigate from one entity to another using relationships between them. If a related entity is not yet in memory, NHibernate will automatically pull it in for you (this is called "lazy loading"). However, as soon you close the NHibernate session, the entities that exist in memory are considered to be "detached", i.e., NHibernate no longer knows about them. You are free to hold references to such entities, but NHibernate will no longer pull in associated entities if they don't exist in memory already. If you accidentally try to access such associated entities, you will get an NHibernate LazyInitializationException.
Now that we understand this background material, let us discuss the relationship between a service method and an NHibernate session. When a client application calls a service method, a new NHibernate session is opened automatically. You do not have to write any code to do this. Similarly, when the service method exits, the associated NHibernate session is closed automatically. In other words, the lifespan of an NHibernate session is bounded by the beginning and ending of a service method call. Consequently, entities are attached to an NHibernate session for the entire duration of the service call, but are detached from this session as soon as the service call ends. As a result, if your service method returns raw entities, the client must be extra careful not to access related entities that are not in memory already. Anyway, you can avoid all this by following the recommendation in the earlier section, i.e., transfer all relevant information into value objects while the session is still open and pass these value objects back to your caller as a return value. In other words, think of a service method as a logical transactional boundary - do everything you need to do within the method, and then return the results as value objects.
Another implication of the strong association between a service method and an NHibernate session is that client applications should not try to bypass the service layer and interact directly with the lower layers. You may be able to brute force your way into one data access object, but sooner or later, you will get into trouble!
What's next?
Now that you understand the basic tenets of AndroMDA, let's describe the sample application we will implement in this tutorial.
Please continue to part 2.
Further reading
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GeneralConvince us to use AndroMDA... [modified] Pinmemberdursaliye28-Aug-06 6:04
GeneralOn first blush... PinprotectorMarc Clifton26-Jul-06 17:45
...after browsing through the two articles and perusing the website, this looks rather overly complicated. Maven, Java, MagicDraw, NHibernate, UML diagrams. Wow. Obviously, you guys have put a lot of work into this, but I honestly think, having designed and implemented an MDA application myself (see sig), it doesn't really make development easier. You say:
AndroMDA is a great choice when
* You are starting a new project
* You want to save time by generating as much code as possible
* You are building an application that stores its data in a database
Of course everyone wants those three things, but have you really succeeded at achieving any one of them? Time is saved not just by code generation but my making tools easy to use. Persistence is a complicated matter, especially when you consider table joins, working with DataSet's, automatically synchronizing current users, etc. And why a UML diagram? I have rather strong convictions that you start with the DB schema, create your virtualized views, and wire them up to your controls. There's no object model (or code generation) necessary unless you need to implement application specific business rules.
Anyways, like I said, there's clearly a lot of work in this. I'll keep my eye on it. Smile | :)
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Julia Louise Gage Carpenter (1851 – 1931) was the sister of Maud Gage Baum and sister-in-law of L. Frank Baum. Baum borrowed details from the life of the Carpenter family when he wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
After Julia Gage married James D. "Frank" Carpenter in 1882, the couple attempted to homestead in La Moure County, North Dakota, at a site about twenty miles outside of the tiny town of Edgeley. The location was isolated, bleak, and treeless; the wood for their cabin had to be brought to the site by wagon. Baum exploited this detail to paint the gray bleakness of the Kansas prairie at the start of his most famous novel: the wood for the cabin of Uncle Henry and Aunt Em also had to be transported by wagon to its desolate location. Like Henry and Em, the real-life Carpenters eventually had to abandon their homestead. Frank Carpenter worked at several jobs, including blacksmith, in Edgeley between 1899 and 1901; then the couple and their surviving children, daughter Magdalena and son Harry, moved to Fargo. The family eventually settled in Chicago while the Baums were living in the city.
The Baums were especially close to Magdalena Carpenter; at one point Maud even attempted to adopt her niece, though sister Julia would not consider it. Baum borrowed from the Carpenters once more for literary effect: when he wrote The Twinkle Tales he chose the setting of Edgeley for the stories. Magdalena Carpenter is said to have been intelligent and independent; arguably, the character of Twinkle has some resemblance to her.
Julia Gage Carpenter kept a diary of her homesteading experience, which has been used by scholars and historians as a source for the subject.
Julia and Magdalena Carpenter were the witnesses for Baum's last will and testament.
- L. Frank Baum. Twinkle and Chubbins: Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland. Introduction by Michael Patrick Hearn. Escanaba, MI, The International Wizard of Oz Club, 1987.
- Katharine M. Rogers. L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: A Biography. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2002.


be deployed via WinRM onto a Windows instance. It's possible to select the wrong artifact in Service.
 - Ensure you have access to the deployment environment, such as VPC, subnet, etc.
 - Ensure your WinRM Connection can connect to your instances, and that your instances have the correct ports open. See Set Up WinRM on Your Instances above.
Port Conflicts
Do not target the same port as another website. In service, in Create Website, ensure $SitePort=80 points to a port that isn't in use. In the following example, the port was changed to 8080 to avoid the error:
You can keep the same port and use host header names to host multiple IIS sites using the same port. For more information, see How To Use Host Header Names to Configure Multiple Web Sites in Internet Information Services 5.0. This article is about an old version of IIS, but the same concepts apply.
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Skeif Rolling Papers from Cafe420 is a King Size rolling paper produced exclusively for South Africa.
Skeif Rolling Papers is categorised as an unbleached hemp cigarette rolling paper. Unbleached rolling paper is 100% eco friendly and is made using hemp paper pulp. Skeif Rolling Papers is produced with an all natural gum line, harvested from the African Acacia tree right here in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Skeif Rolling Papers is focused on using paper that minimizes the use of chemicals in the production process. White rolling papers usually have a chemical aspect because of the presence of chlorine or calcium carbonate, which help slow down the burn. For this reason Skeif Rolling Papers are naturally brown and organic.
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Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins
Published November 22nd 2006 by Routledge – 224 pages
The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins,
Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that covers all the Mary Poppins books, exposing just how subversive the pre-Disney Mary Poppins character truly was. Drawing important parallels between the character and the life of her creator, who worked as a governess herself, Grilli reveals the ways in which Mary Poppins came to unsettle the rigid and rigorous rules of Victorian and Edwardian society that most governesses embodied, taught, and passed on to their charges.
Giorgia Grilli teaches children's literature at the University of Bologna. She has published four books on children's literature in Italian.


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|Creating and Administering Oracle Solaris 11 Boot Environments Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library|
A boot environment is a bootable instance of the Oracle Solaris operating system image plus any other application software packages installed into that image. System administrators can maintain multiple boot environments on their systems, and each boot environment can have different software versions installed.
Upon the initial installation of the Oracle Solaris release onto a system, a boot environment is created. You can use the beadm(1M) utility to create and administer additional boot environments on your system.
Note - In addition, the Package Manager GUI provides some options for managing boot environments.
Note the following distinctions relevant to boot environment administration:
A boot environment is a bootable Oracle Solaris environment consisting of a root dataset and, optionally, other datasets mounted underneath it. Exactly one boot environment can be active at a time.
A dataset is a generic name for ZFS entities such as clones, file systems, or snapshots. In the context of boot environment administration, the dataset more specifically refers to the file system specifications for a particular boot environment or snapshot.
A snapshot is a read-only image of a dataset or boot environment at a given point in time. A snapshot is not bootable.
A clone of a boot environment is created by copying another boot environment. A clone is bootable.
Shared datasets are user-defined directories, such as /export, that contain the same mount point in both the active and inactive boot environments. Shared datasets are located outside the root dataset area of each boot environment.
Note - A clone of the boot environment includes everything hierarchically under the main root dataset of the original boot environment. Shared datasets are not under the root dataset and are not cloned. Instead, the boot environment accesses the original, shared dataset.
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1, The difference between shower gel and bath salt
The main function of shower gel is to clean the skin. Some shower gels also have the functions of whitening, moisturizing and sterilizing. The scented shower gel can also adjust the mood. However, in addition to the cleaning effect, the shower gel is not so obvious. In addition to cleaning, bath salts contain iron, calcium, magnesium, selenium and other trace elements, which can also remove melanin from the skin and can effectively whiten and remove freckles. And the particles in it can also remove the old dead skin cells, remove acne, acne and so on.
2, Shower gel and bath salt suitable for the difference in skin quality
Shower gel is divided into alkaline and acidic. It has a strong alkaline cleaning ability and is more suitable for people with oily skin, but it is also more irritating to the skin. Acidic and neutral shower gels are not as strong in their ability to remove oil. They usually contain a moisturizer, so the skin is moisturized after use, and any skin type can be used. However, bath salts are irritating to the skin, and exfoliating is powerful, so people with sensitive skin should not use it or use it less. Especially when there is a wound on the skin, it is very irritating if bath salts are used, and it may cause pigmentation.
3, The difference between the use of shower gel and bath salt
If you use an acidic or neutral shower gel that is not harmful to the skin, it can be used every day, not only does it not cause damage to the skin, but also keeps the skin clean and avoids clogged pores. However, bath salt can not be used every day, because the particles in the bath salt have the effect of exfoliating. If used every day, the stratum corneum will become weaker and weaker, and the skin will become fragile and sensitive. Therefore, bath salt is best. Use once a week.
4, The difference between shower gel and bath salt ingredients
The ingredients of shower gel are generally surfactants, foam stabilizers, various preservatives, skin care agents, colorants, etc. Some high-quality shower gels also add vitamins, hydrolyzed proteins and other ingredients that are good for the skin. The ingredients in the bath salt are more special. They contain herbal extracts, mineral ions, natural sea salt and plant essential oils, so they not only cleanse the skin, but also soften and moisturize the skin.


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WHAT: An apparatus to allow scanning transmission X-ray microscopy of the electrodes, electrodeposits, and electrolyte of an active electrochemical cell has been developed and its performance demonstrated. Tracking of potential induced chemical changes at a single point can be performed at 1 msec periodicity. Mapping changes as a function of applied potential along a line or over an area can also be performed. The figure shows the apparatus and sample results for spectral changes in the C 1s region associated with electrochromism of polyaniline. For more details please see the publication.
OTHER INFORMATION: : Guay et al. Analytical Chemistry 77 (2005) 3479-3487
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A Python module to customize the process title
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author:Daniele Varrazzo
The setproctitle module allows a process to change its title (as displayed by system tools such as ps and top).
Changing the title is mostly useful in multi-process systems, for example when a master process is forked: changing the children's title allows to identify the task each process is busy with. The technique is used by PostgreSQL and the OpenSSH Server for example.
The procedure is hardly portable across different systems. PostgreSQL provides a good multi-platform implementation: this module is a Python wrapper around PostgreSQL code.
Installation
setproctitle is a C extension: in order to build it you will need a C compiler and the Python development support (the python-dev or python3-dev package in most Linux distributions). No further external dependencies are required.
You can use pip to install the module:
pip install setproctitle
You can use pip -t or virtualenv for local installations, sudo pip for a system-wide one... the usual stuff. Read pip or virtualenv docs for all the details.
Usage
Note
You should import and use the module (even just calling getproctitle()) pretty early in your program lifetime: code writing env vars may interfere with the module initialisation.
The setproctitle module exports the following functions:
setproctitle(title)
Set title as the title for the current process.
getproctitle()
Return the current process title.
The process title is usually visible in files such as /proc/PID/cmdline, /proc/PID/status, /proc/PID/comm, depending on the operating system and kernel version. These information are used by user-space tools such as ps and top.
setthreadtitle(title)
Set title as the title for the current thread.
getthreadtitle()
Get the current thread title.
The thread title is exposed by some operating systems as the file /proc/PID/task/TID/comm, which is used by certain tools such as htop.
Environment variables
A few environment variables can be used to customize the module behavior:
SPT_NOENV
Avoid clobbering /proc/PID/environ.
On many platforms, setting the process title will clobber the environ memory area. os.environ will work as expected from within the Python process, but the content of the file /proc/PID/environ will be overwritten. If you require this file not to be broken you can set the SPT_NOENV environment variable to any non-empty value: in this case the maximum length for the title will be limited to the length of the command line.
SPT_DEBUG
Print debug information on stderr.
If the module doesn't work as expected you can set this variable to a non-empty value to generate information useful for debugging. Note that the most useful information is printed when the module is imported, not when the functions are called.
Module status
The module can be currently compiled and effectively used on the following platforms:
 - GNU/Linux
 - BSD
 - MacOS X
 - Windows
Note that on Windows there is no way to change the process string: what the module does is to create a Named Object whose value can be read using a tool such as Process Explorer (contribution of a more useful tool to be used together with setproctitle would be well accepted).
The module can probably work on HP-UX, but I haven't found any to test with. It is unlikely that it can work on Solaris instead.
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Telestra uses the DIS gateway file to configure many of the DIS parameters for radios, as well as other networking configuration. This application note discusses using the DIS gateway to set up a variety of networking configurations. For more information about setting radio parameters see Application Note 93: Using the Waveform Mapping File to Set DIS Transmitter PDU Enumerations in Telestra.
In ACE Studio, select the Project and Layout. To add a DIS Gateway file select the "servers" folder in the ACE Studio Project Manager and select the DIS Gateway or add a new DIS gateway by right-clicking on the canvas. Click the "Edit File" button to edit the DIS Gateway file. See the examples below.
Warning!! Do Not click the "Wizard" button. Modifying anything in the DIS Gateway window and selecting "OK" will overwrite everything in the manually edited text file.
The [interfaces] section sets the DIS networking configuration includingport, interface, and IP scheme. The [interfaces] section also allows forflexible control of DIS networking on a per DIS exercise ID basis.Below is a typical example, which sets the DIS version, ethernetinterface, UDP Port, and broadcast address for all DIS traffic.
[interfaces] main_bcast = 10.2.255.255 port = 53124 if = eth0
Here is an enhanced example, where each PDU type is put their ownmulticast address:
[interfaces] signal_mcast = 18.104.22.168 receiver_mcast = 22.214.171.124 main_mcast = 126.96.36.199 entity_mcast = 188.8.131.52 port = 53124 if = eth0
Separate ports may also be used for transmit and receive. If noneare specified the default is 53000:
[interfaces] main_bcast = 10.2.255.255 port = 53124 tx_port = 53001 if = eth0
The [interfaces] section may be enhanced to apply different ruleson a per DIS exercise basis. The example below applies specialrules for a range of exercise IDs from 23 to 35, using a differentinterface, port, and multicast address.
[interfaces:23] end_exercise_range = 35 main_mcast = 184.108.40.206 port = 3334 if = eth2
Each exercise can have its own set of DIS network configsby using multiple [interfaces:##] sections. Multicast groupscan also be created based on adding the exercise ID to the lastoctet. A simple mcast by exercise example:
# Will use 220.127.116.11 thru .30 [interfaces:1] end_exercise_range = 30 main_xmcast = 18.104.22.168 port = 3334 if = eth0
# Will use 22.214.171.124 thru .255 [interfaces:31] end_exercise_range = 255 main_xmcast = 126.96.36.199 port = 3334 if = eth2
Below are two files that can be used as a quick reference on how to configure the DIS gateway.The first file is a "quick glance" DIS gateway, which includes nearly all of the relevant commands in a single, valid DIS gateway file. The second file is an exhaustive, fully commented file with descriptions of what each field does.
|"Quick Glance" DIS Gateway file||asti_quick_disgateway.txt||4k|
|Full DIS Gateway file||asti_full_disgateway.txt||8k|


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The Kualti are the elite guard of Queen Zyanyi Arkan, the current ruler of Varlamore. Their sole purpose is to protect the Queen, and nothing else.[1] Their headquarters is located in Civitas illa Fortis, adjacent to the royal palace. During a A Kingdom Divided, they accompany Queen Zyanyi to attend the coronation ceremony in Great Kourend.
To become one of the Kualti requires having served many years in the kingdom's army and rigorous training as a knight of the kingdom.[2] Upon completing their training, the Kualti-to-be would be initiated into the ranks of the Kualti in an initiation ceremony.
The Kualti initiation ceremony is performed by Varlamore's High Priest, who would hand over the dagger of the Kualti-to-be's predecessor, which signified their place as one of the Kualti.[3] Each dagger is unique to one of the Kualti, and the Grand Museum of Civitas illa Fortis contains a section where they are displayed, where rows and rows of them are arranged by the ruler under which their owner served.
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 - The word "Kualti" means "to feed" in Nahuatl, a language/group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. This can be interpreted that they are important fodder to protect their Queen, which is their sole duty.
References[edit | edit source]
 1. A Kingdom United, Old School RuneScape. "A Kualti must never be distracted from their one, crucial purpose: to protect the Queen."
 2. A Kingdom United, Old School RuneScape. "All those years in the army, and the rigorous training they'd undergone as a Knight of Varlamore, had been building to this very ceremony."
 3. A Kingdom United, Old School RuneScape. "Yorah would meet the High Priest to hand over their predecessor's dagger and cement their place as one of the Kualti."


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New 3D design software called Sketchup has been released by Google and is helping people with Autism to express themselves using 3D drawing tools. Project Spectrum is focusing on bringing this freely downloadable software to the Autistic community. I think that this is another good example of how people with high-functioning Autism and Asperger's Disorder can utilise their capacity for visual representation in a creative and therapeutic way.
Second Life allows the same type of interaction with 3D objects but goes one step further in allowing high levels of social (virtual) interactivity in the same space without the associated disabling (real world) anxiety this necessarily involves for people on the Autistic Spectrum. Combining the consistency and fixed nature of virtual 3D structures that people with ASD crave alongside the changing social relations and interactivity of Second Life, we may be able to provide stimulating social learning spaces for people with Autism. Please see this video for more information on Project Spectrum.


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The choreography tasks will be from a given stimulus provided by AQA from one of these areas:
○ words, poem or a piece of text
○ a photograph/image
○ a prop, accessory or object
○ a feature of the natural world
○ an everyday activity or topical or historical event.
and so students need to practice creating dances from examples of these throughout their course. Not only that, but students need to understand what kind of aural setting is appropriate for their stimulus and how to work with that accompaniment.
Evoke is the perfect tool for supporting this task, providing 12 stimuli for dances and 12 specially commissioned music tracks that match each stimulus. Stimuli include examples from each of the areas given by the exam board.
The resource includes all stimuli plus ideas and ways in to creating dances from them. In addition we provide graphic scores of the music to develop students' understanding of how the music structure works.
Evoke is downloaded via wetransfer.com. You will be sent a confirmation email upon purchase with the link.
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Melicope obovata (H. St. John) T. G. Hartley & B. C. Stone
Obovate Melicope (Melicope obovata)
The Obovate Melicope was described in 1944, it is known only from the type specimen that was collected at the end of the 19th century either on the island of Lana'i or Maui, Hawaiian Islands.
The species is considered extinct.
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Simplified Internal arc - Structural simulation
Paper i proceeding, 2011
The impact of pressure rise due to an internal arc (IA) event on the structure of a switchgear cubicle is of great importance for a safe design. Switchgear panels are designed for withstanding an internal arc incident as per the testing conditions defined by IEC 62271-200 standard. This paper reports on a calculation procedure employing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and structural finite element method (S-FEM). The approach is targeting a reduced numerical complexity, straight forward modelling, and stressing as little assumptions as possible. In the proposed method, time varying electric power is used as input along with other parameters for solving mass, momentum and energy equations by CFD. The peak pressure and rise time delivered by transient CFD simulation is needed to perform structural simulation. The structural calculation is performed using dynamic load factor.


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The red-collared widowbird (Euplectes ardens) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. Red-collared widowbirds are found in grasslands and bush clearings in Eastern and Southern Africa. They are known for their long tails and brilliant red badges, both which act as sexual ornaments. They are often associated with other widowbird and bishop species. They are polygynous, where males acquisition of territory is an important determinant in their access to mates. Red-collared widowbirds have a wide range and there is little concern in terms of conservation status.
Similar to other widowbirds, male red-collared widowbirds have both seasonal and sexual dimorphism. Males are about 25 cm (9.8 in) in length while females are only 13 centimeters. A similar trend is seen with weight, where males range from 20 to 26 g (0.71 to 0.92 oz) and females are only between 16 and 22 grams. During non-breeding seasons, the male plumage is brown, while in breeding season, October to April, they have black plumage with a long tail, approximately 22 cm, and crescent –shaped carotenoid based chest patch. There is significant variation in brightness, hue, and chroma of the carotenoid badges. In contrast, females and subadults, like nonbreeding males, are streaky dull brown with a short tail, approximately 4 cm. Nonbreeding males, however, retain their black tails, while females and subadults' tails are dark-brown.
Red-collared widowbirds are found throughout Eastern and Southern Africa. While their habitats are varied, they are often found in open grasslands, agricultural areas, clearings in forests, and on slopes with limited tree coverage. source


text: In this study, the patterns of past and future drought occurrences in the Seoul region were analysed using observed historical data from the Seoul weather station located in the Korean Peninsula and four different types of general circulation models (GCMs), namely, GFDL:CM2_1, CONS:ECHO-G, MRI:CGCM2_3_2 and UKMO:HADGEM1. To analyse statistical properties such as drought frequency duration and return period, the Standardized Precipitation Index was used to derive the severity–duration–frequency (SDF) curve from the drought frequency analysis. In addition, a drought spell analysis was conducted to estimate the frequency and change of drought duration for each drought classification. The results of the analysis suggested a decrease in the frequency of mild droughts and an increase in the frequency of severe and extreme droughts in the future. Furthermore, the average duration of droughts is expected to increase. A comparison of the SDF relationship derived from the observed data with that derived via the GCMs indicated that the drought severity for each return period was reduced as drought duration increased and that the drought severity derived from the GCMs was severer than the severity obtained using the observed data for the same duration and return period. Furthermore, among the four types of GCMs used in this study, the MRI model predicted the most severe future drought for the Seoul region, and the SDF curve derived using the MRI model also resulted in the highest degree of drought severity compared with the other GCMs. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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Intermixing in GaAsSb/GaAs single quantum wells
4017 - 4019
Journal of Applied Physics
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Photoluminescence coupled with repetitive thermal annealing has been used to study the interdiffusion process in a 10 nm GaAs 1-x Sb x /GaAs single quantum well. The diffusion equations and the Schrödinger equation were solved numerically to obtain the composition profile and the n = 1 electron to heavy-hole transition energies in the intermixed quantum well, respectively. The intermixing process was shown to obey Fick's second law. © 1998 American Institute of Physics.


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Baler twine is a type of binding twine used for baling. It is commonly used on an automatic baler machine. It can be made from all-natural twine or synthetic twine. It has a rich history that dates back in the 19th century – the same time automatic reaper machines were in development. Initially, top quality baler twine was used by hand and was first referred to as 'binding twine.' But then in the 1930s, the first automatic baler machines were developed, which paved the way to the development of the automatic baler twine. This machine uses twine to bale hay automatically. The baler twine has become popular and is widely applied to the large farm and agricultural industry.
How Baler Twine Came into Existence
In the beginning, natural fibres such as cotton, sisal, manila were used for making the first iteration of the baler twine. However, because their properties were not suitable for baler machines, artificial fibres were explored and developed. Today, most baler twines are made from non-hazard synthetic materials. Polypropylene was discovered by Robert Banks and J. Paul Hogan, two chemists from the Phillips Petroleum company. In the early 1960s, polypropylene was already used to mass-produce the modern-day baler twine that we know today.
With better features and compatibility with baler machines, top quality baler twine made from polypropylene surpassed natural twine to become the world's most used type of baler twine. Of course, traditional twine is still used today, but that is if the farmer using it is doing the manual baling process.
Other Fibers Used
Apart from polypropylene, many other man-made fibers were also developed and used in the manufacturing of baling twine. Click this link to discover other materials used for creating baler twine. Today, baler twines and baler machines are developing rather rapidly to bring an edge to every farm that uses it. As mentioned earlier, natural fibres are still used until now due to some unique features in which polypropylene and other manmade fibres cannot replicate. Natural fibres are always highly appreciated for its pollution-free and biodegradable properties. Most of all, it's way cheaper than synthetic twine.
So there you have it – a brief history of top quality baler twine. This farming product has had a rich history. Researchers are still looking for a way on how technology can make farming life more straightforward. So stay tuned for any breakthrough and discoveries by subscribing to our newsletter.


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Want to beat your Scrabble friends no matter where you are?WordSolver Android App!
10 Definitions of Scenes
The definition of scenes, the meaning of the word Scenes:
Is scenes a scrabble word? Yes!
- n. - The place where some action occurs
- n. - An incident (real or imaginary)
- n. - The visual percept of a region
- n. - A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
- n. - A situation treated as an observable object
- n. - A subdivision of an act of a play
- n. - A display of bad temper
- n. - Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept
- n. - The context and environment in which something is set
- n. - The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale
Scenes is worth 8 points in Scrabble, and 10 points in Words with Friends
There are 6 letters in scenes: C E E N S S
1 Anagram of Scenes
Words that can be created with an extra letter added to scenes:
24 words found using the letters in "Scenes"
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The study of both pilgrimage and monasticism in late-antique Egypt has long included a notion of sacred geography—of making a land holy. This paper extends this idea to how language about travel and geography shapes particular texts about late-antique monasticism in Egypt for which such topics have been overlooked. Symbolic geography infuses the landscape not simply with holiness but with particular roles in defining a people in relationship to that land. Drawing on the idea that pilgrimage includes travelling to and among the monks for the purpose of instruction, these texts traditionally regarded as "monastic" can be reread as "pilgrimage" texts infused with this symbolic geography. In doing so, it becomes apparent that Egypt as a land is made sacred not simply by the presence of holy monks sanctifying the desert but by the acts of pilgrimage to these men. The accounts of John Cassian and Palladius create the very status of Egypt that they assert is the rationale for their journey.


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An Energy Efficient Hybrid Code Combining Technique for Cooperative Wireless Networks
In this paper, an energy efficient hybrid code combining technique is proposed for a cluster based cooperative wireless networks. The authors' scheme uses hybrid of selective repeat ARQ and Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) for code combining techniques. In the existing cluster based code combining techniques, energy consumption is more in the cluster heads and hence the energy level of the cluster head is drained before the data reaches the destination. In order to overcome this, a clustering technique is proposed in which the selection of cluster heads is based on the connectivity and the residual energy of each node. The clustering architecture consists of source cluster, destination cluster and relay clusters.


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The beautiful and powerful Madakaripura waterfall is one of several waterfalls in the Bromo-Tenger-Semeru National Park. It is a 200 m high waterfall with rainfalls flowing down the walls of a green cylindrical canyon. To be precise, Madakaripura is a complex of seven waterfalls, the main of which falls from a height of 200 m. At the bottom of the waterfall, the water no longer flows in trickles but turns into mist from splashes.
The way to the waterfall takes about 20 minutes, it is about 1 km and almost half of the way to overcome in the rain of splashes that spread from the falls. Sometimes the road runs along the riverbed and you have to be careful, because it is very slippery and you can fall. Stock up on a raincoat and be ready to soak your feet. The last 50 meters under the waterfall is constantly drizzling and the water is deeper than the ankle. Usually the waterfalls of Southeast Asia are small and not impressive, rather natural spas. But Madakaripura looks majestic and awful. This feeling is accentuated by the gorge into which the main stream descends. The place looks mysterious and dangerous, so it is.
A journey to Madakaripura is better planned for the morning. Rains in the mountains can fill a shallow mountain river in the afternoon and turn it into a powerful roaring mountain stream, while trees can fall from the height of the main waterfall, gaining enough speed below to kill a man. The wreckage of fallen trees lies at the edges of the pool, into which the main cascade flows.
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I want to obtain the signal power in dBm (RMS) as it would be displayed by a power meter using a spectrum analyzer (in my case EXA N9010A).
But one thing makes me confused: The spectrum is a plot with frequency on x-axis and y-axis is in dBm. In my case, signal bandwidth is 20 MHz. Depending where I put my the marker, I get different answers. Inband, for example -12 dBm. Out-of-band (noise floor) -80 dBm. This would suggest to me that the actual unit is dBm/Hz, not dBm. However, this makes no sense either: I would need to integrate the power across the spectrum to obtain the total RMS power. In my example, to first order: -12 dBm + 10*log10(20e6) = 61 dBm. Clearly wrong!
So which kind of power does the spectrum analyzer actually show and why is it frequency dependent?


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Masoud Khademi is a composer and musician of Tar and Setar, in Iran.
He began learning to play the Tar from Roya Harajzadeh, after that he learned the Maroufi and Mirza Abdullah Radif _URL_ under the guidance of Behrouz Hemmati. In 2007, he was named the best Tar player in Iran at the Young Music Festival, and later became a student of Mohammad Reza Lotfi. ( _URL_ ) He played the Mirza Abdullah Radif _URL_ and other things with him, then he went on to learn the Mirza Hosseingholi Radif _URL_ from Dariush Pirniakan. He also learned Setar from Behdad Babaei.
He studied music theory and solfège with Amir Eslami and took courses in electronic music and stylistic with Mohammad Pejutan and harmony with Kiavosh Sahebnasq.
In 2014, he was selected as the Iran's top theatre composer. In 2021, he passed an academic course named "the relationship between persian musical instruments and the western symphony orchestra" with reza vali.(_URL_)
In 2022, he passed some online courses in Berklee, Michigan and Cal Arts universities about music business and branding, music theory, melodic forms and harmony.
Recently, he honored to win composing silver medal for 'Mania' and instrumentalist Boronze Medal for 'The Four Horsemen', from the GLOBAL MUSIC AWARDS, 2022.
Using intervals and figures of Iranian music in different layers creatively as well as changing metric and melodic periods so that a repetitive formal idea is not formed. Also, sometimes the path of sections goes from Iranian folk music to other cultures and talks to them.


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Friday, August 06, 2004
What Is Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
Synchronous Optical NETwork (SONET) is the North American transmission standard for transporting information over Fiber Optic Transmission Systems. SONET represents a fundamental change from asynchronous technology in the process of planning and designing fiber networks. It provides a standard, optical interface for the interconnectivity and interoperability of network transmission equipment. Essentially, SONET adds thousands of additional traffic lanes to the information highway for voice, data, video, and imaging traffic.
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Natural selection in populations subject to a migration load
Migration tends to oppose the effects of divergent natural selection among populations. Numerous theoretical and empirical studies have demonstrated that this migrationselection balance constrains genetic divergence among populations. In contrast, relatively few studies have examined immigration's effects on fitness and natural selection within recipient populations. By constraining local adaptation, migration can lead to reduced fitness, known as a migration load, which in turn causes persistent natural selection. We develop a simple two‐island model of migrationselection balance that, although very general, also reflects the natural history of Timema cristinae walking‐stick insects that inhabit two host plant species that favor different cryptic color patterns. We derive theoretical predictions about how migration rates affect the level of maladaptation within populations (measured as the frequency of less‐cryptic color‐pattern morphs), which in turn determines the selection differential (the within‐generation morph frequency change). Using data on color morph frequencies from 25 natural populations, we confirm previous results showing that maladaptation is higher in populations receiving more immigrants. We then present novel evidence that this increased maladaptation leads to larger selection differentials, consistent with our model. Our results provide comparative evidence that immigration elevates the variance in fitness, which in turn leads to larger selection differentials, consistent with Fisher's Theorem of Natural Selection. However, we also find evidence that recurrent adult migration between parapatric populations may tend to obscure the effects of selection.
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I am developing an astronomy software and need to know the color of each planet in the Solar System, when observed with the naked eye. I cannot find that information after googling for a while. Is there any good source? a RBG color associated to each planet would be ideal but it can be any other color system.
Here are some values found by taking the hue from images, and adjusting the brightness to fit the albedo:
Mercury #1a1a1a Yes it is really that dark
Venus #e6e6e6 or perhaps a bit darker
Earth tricky as it is a mix of colors, and changes over the year seems to average out as about #2f6a69
You might find these surprisingly dark. Planets look like bright dots against the dark sky
First look up what elements the planets are composed of. Then figure out how the elements should react due to the planets atmosphere,light scattering,spin,sun reflection from natural satellites if one or many is present,gravity wave overlaps calculations. Finally how the human eye perceives them. But may I add the human eye will never be able to view the colors in there true form, The technology used to view the planets will not correlate to the human eye. So a composite of what the human eye should observe must be composed. "The amount of details reflects the amount of workmanship, that then could produce a Masterpiece. Its up too you"