PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 VM Client Guide and Reference
This guide introduces the PlateSpin® Orchestrate VM Client, including its basic administration environment, which is accessed through an Eclipse* rich client platform. The guide provides an introductory overview of the VM Client, and explains how to install, monitor, and manage VMs.
The guide is organized as follows:
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In addition to this VM Client Guide and Reference, PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0.2 includes the following additional guides that contain valuable information about the product:
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Best php questions in March 2012
57 votes
If I try this:
$l = 0;
echo $l + ++$l;
echo PHP_EOL;
echo $l;
I get this output:
2
1
DEMO: _URL_
Why is that?
I expect to get this as an output:
1
1
My reasoning:
$l = 0; // l === 0
echo $l + ++$l; // (0) + (0+1) === 1
echo PHP_EOL;
echo $l; // l === 1
But why isn't that the output???
All the answers explaining why you get 2 and not 1 are actually wrong. According to the PHP documentation, mixing + and ++ in this manner is undefined behavior, so you could get either 1 or 2. Switching to a different version of PHP may change the result you get, and it would be just as valid.
See example 1, which says:
// mixing ++ and + produces undefined behavior
$a = 1;
echo ++$a + $a++; // may print 4 or 5
Notes:
 1. Operator precedence does not determine the order of evaluation. Operator precedence only determines that the expression $l + ++$l is parsed as $l + (++$l), but doesn't determine if the left or right operand of the + operator is evaluated first. If the left operand is evaluated first, the result would be 0+1, and if the right operand is evaluated first, the result would be 1+1.
 2. Operator associativity also does not determine order of evaluation. That the + operator has left associativity only determines that $a+$b+$c is evaluated as ($a+$b)+$c. It does not determine in what order a single operator's operands are evaluated.
Also relevant: On this bug report regarding another expression with undefined results, a PHP developer says: "We make no guarantee about the order of evaluation [...], just as C doesn't. Can you point to any place on the documentation where it's stated that the first operand is evaluated first?"
Behaviour of is_callable on '/'
26 votes
My colleague and I have encountered some rather odd behavour. Our environments are Ubuntu 11.10, PHP 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.6 with Suhosin-Patch, and Windows 7 PHP 5.3.5.
On our machines, the following code runs as one would expect:
<?php
function t() { }
var_dump(is_callable('/'));
With the output:
bool(false)
On one of our servers, CentOS release 5.7 (Final), PHP 5.3.8, the same code produces:
bool(true)
Without the t() function, is_callable performs as expected. Note that is_function behaves the same as is_callable in these tests.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
Edit:
It seems to only happen when a function named t is present, anything else, like b, c etc, and the output is as expected.
Edit - testing with more characters:
<?php
function t() { }
foreach(str_split('/abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz023456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ!@#$%^&*()-_+='~;:[]{}\\|\'"?.>,<') as $character) {
 if (is_callable($character)) var_dump($character, is_callable($character));
}
Outputs the following on the server:
string(1) "/"
bool(true)
string(1) "t"
bool(true)
string(1) "T"
bool(true)
string(1) "_" // gettext
bool(true)
string(1) ":" // With the t() function undefined, this remains callable on the server
bool(true)
On our environments, the output is as expected:
string(1) "t"
bool(true)
string(1) "T"
bool(true)
Edit - more information on cbuckley's comment:
<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
function t() { }
$v = '/'; $v();
Produces output: Call to undefined function /()
As a work around you could try this:
$name = '/';
$actual = null;
if (is_callable($name, false, $actual) && $name === $actual) {
 // Method is actually callable
}
glob() can't find file names with multibyte characters on Windows?
18 votes
I'm writing a file manager and need to scan directories and deal with renaming files that may have multibyte characters. I'm working on it locally on Windows/Apache PHP 5.3.8, with the following file names in a directory:
 - filename.jpg
 - имяфайла.jpg
 - file件name.jpg
 - פילענאַמע.jpg
 - 文件名.jpg
Testing on a live UNIX server woked fine. Testing locally on Windows using glob('./path/*') returns only the first one, filename.jpg.
Using scandir(), the correct number of files is returned at least, but I get names like ?????????.jpg (note: those are regular question marks, not the � character.
I'll end up needing to write a "search" feature to search recursively through the entire tree for filenames matching a pattern or with a certain file extension, and I assumed glob() would be the right tool for that, rather than scan all the files and do the pattern matching and array building in the application code. I'm open to alternate suggestions if need be.
Assuming this was a common problem, I immediately searched Google and Stack Overflow and found nothing even related. Is this a Windows issue? PHP shortcoming? What's the solution: is there anything I can do?
Addendum: Not sure how related this is, but file_exists() is also returning FALSE for these files, passing in the full absolute path (using Notepad++, the php file itself is UTF-8 encoding no BOM). I'm certain the path is correct, as neighboring files without multibyte characters return TRUE.
EDIT: glob() can find a file named filename-äöü.jpg. Previously in my .htaccess file, I had AddDefaultCharset utf-8, which I didn't consider before. filename-äöü.jpg was printing as filename-���.jpg. The only effect removing that htaccess line seemed to have was now that file name prints normally.
I've deleted the .htaccess file completely, and this is my actual test script in it's entirety (I changed a couple of file names from the original post):
print_r(scandir('./uploads/'));
print_r(glob('./uploads/*'));
Output locally on Windows:
Array
(
 [0] => .
 [1] => ..
 [2] => ??? ?????.jpg
 [3] => ???.jpg
 [4] => ?????????.jpg
 [5] => filename-äöü.jpg
 [6] => filename.jpg
 [7] => test?test.jpg
)
Array
(
 [0] => ./uploads/filename-äöü.jpg
 [1] => ./uploads/filename.jpg
)
Output on remote UNIX server:
Array
(
 [0] => .
 [1] => ..
 [2] => filename-äöü.jpg
 [3] => filename.jpg
 [4] => test이test.jpg
 [5] => имя файла.jpg
 [6] => פילענאַמע.jpg
 [7] => 文件名.jpg
)
Array
(
 [0] => ./uploads/filename-äöü.jpg
 [1] => ./uploads/filename.jpg
 [2] => ./uploads/test이test.jpg
 [3] => ./uploads/имя файла.jpg
 [4] => ./uploads/פילענאַמע.jpg
 [5] => ./uploads/文件名.jpg
)
Since this is a


text: The snap-through analysis of shallow doubly hinged sinusoidal nano-arches subjected to sinusoidal load, considering the nonlocal effects, by using the stress-driven nonlocal model is concerned. The problem is formulated within the framework of Bernoulli–Euler beam theory including geometrical nonlinearity. Numerical simulations are made to investigate the effects of the geometry of the arch, and the nonlocal parameter on the buckling load and on the buckling deflection. Insights and conclusions regarding the effects of various stages of deformation on the stress resultants, and on the buckling including prebuckling and postbuckling are presented. Variations of the stress resultants along the arch are shown.

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weight the individual stacks of sliced, salted eggplant. Very often I use a cutting board with some cans on top of it for weight.
After about an hour, I pull the weight, remove the eggplant slices to a bowl, clean up the water on the counter, rinse the eggplant slices very well and dry them. They are now ready to use in whatever recipe I am using at the time.
This process removes the greater portion of the free water and compresses the eggplant to a bit less than half the original thickness.
Up until I learned this technique, we considered eggplant as somewhere at the bottom of the desirable vegetable list. After learning and using it, my eggplant went from being chunks of mush to chunks with texture, improving the esteem in which it was held tremendously.
If you can find it in a restaurant, order eggplant parmigiana and ask your waiter if the eggplant is pressed. The difference between pressed (meaning salted and pressed) and unpressed eggplant in this dish is pronounced and very noticeable.
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In yet another example of reverse technology transfer, a product developed by Nualgi Nano Biotech (NNB), a low profile biotech company here, is helping Americans to clean up polluted lakes. A three-acre Duck Pond in Croton-On-Hudson in New York state has been restored to normal health thanks to 'Nualgi' - an invention by NNB founder Thothathri Sampathkumar.
Prior to the application of Nualgi in Aug 2011, the Duck Pond "was in a highly impaired state with a variety of water quality issues" such as bad odour, poor clarity and infestation with duck weed and algae, said John Tucci, president of Lake Savers, a small company in Richland, Michigan.
Lake Savers, which has about 2,000 acres of lakes and ponds, including the Duck Pond, under its management, uses a combination of oxygenation systems, beneficial bacteria and enzyme formulations in its restoration projects. According to Tucci, this however did not work well in extremely impaired water bodies like the Duck Pond and so the company wanted to assess whether the addition of Nualgi to its programme could speed up recovery of this water body. The US company obtained 50 kg of Nualgi from Sampathkumar in August 2011 to try it out.
In an email to the Bangalore company earlier this month, Tucci has acknowledged that the water quality in the pond showed a "remarkable and sustained improvement" after a single dose of Nualgi application. Duckweed disappeared in one month after application and did not come back till now, and no algae blooms either, while "fish productivity and health has improved dramatically with the pond becoming a favourite destination for local fisherman," he said.
Nualgi is a mix of micro nutrients in the form of nano particles including silica, iron and manganese, which triggers the rapid growth of a type of algae called diatoms, explained Mallimadugula Bhaskar, a collaborator of Sampathkumar. The oxygen released by diatoms through photosynthesis increases the dissolved oxygen level of water and thus keeps the pond clean and the diatoms converted into 'zooplanktons' provide food for the fish. One kilogram of Nualgi can treat four million litres of water, he said. Apart from India, Nualgi has been patented in the US, Britain, Germany and South Africa.
Encouraged by its successful experiment in Duck Pond, Lake Savers has obtained clearance from the US Environmental Protection Agency for using Nualgi on a large scale in the US. "We are now aggressively embarking on more intensive studies and applications of Nualgi in a variety of water bodies from 5 to 120 acres," Tucci said. The Lake Savers which has so far purchased 350 kg of Nualgi, has expressed intent to buy another one tonne this year, Bhaskar said.
According to Bhaskar, Nualgi is an economical alternative to treat sewage and organic wastes in "eutrophic" lakes and ponds as no skilled labor or energy is required. It is inexpensive and can be mass produced, he said.
An eutrophic lake is characterized by excessive growth of algae resulting from contamination by nitrogen or phosphorus compounds such as by laundry detergents, untreated sewage, and fertilizer run-off from agricultural land. "One obvious solution is to reduce these inputs but this is unrealistic," Bhaskar said, adding: "The other solution is to remove the nutrients from water. The Nualgi-diatom-zooplankton-fish food chain is the best way to achieve this. Thus all the polluted lakes and rivers can be restored to their original glory using Nualgi."
According to Bhaskar, Nualgi is being used in many lakes in southern India for the past seven years and fishermen are buying the product to increase their catch in water bodies. "In Delhi only 30 per cent of the sewage of about four billion litres is treated," Bhaskar told IANS. "If Nualgi is used, this can become 100 percent in one year without any capital expenditure."
It is likely that Nualgi will be effective in oceans too, Sampathkumar said, adding it can be used to prevent algae bloom, known as red tide, like the one a week ago that reportedly killed nearly one million fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Oceanographer David Karl of Hawaii University has taken a small sample of Nualgi and is testing it in ship-board experiments in the Pacific, Bhaskar said.
Nualgi's developers hope to promote its use worldwide to revive fresh water eutrophic lakes and the over 500 "dead zones" in coastal regions - so-called because they are so deprived of oxygen that they can't support any aquatic life.

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


text: The FUSE, successfully launched in June 1999, is an astrophysics satellite designed to provide high spectral resolving power over the interval 90.5-118.7 nm. The FUSE optical path consists of four co-aligned, normal incidence, off-axis parabolic mirrors which illuminate separate Rowland circle spectrograph channels equipped with holographic gratings and delay line microchannel plate detectors. We describe the hardware and methods used for the optical 'end- to-end' test of the FUSE instrument during satellite integration and test. Cost and schedule constraints forced us to devise a simplified version of the planned optical test which occurred in parallel with satellite thermal- vacuum testing. The optical test employed a collimator assembly which consisted of four co-aligned, 381 mm diameter Cassegrain telescopes positioned above the FUSE instrument, providing a collimated beam for each optical channel. A windowed UV light source, remotely adjustable in three axes, was mounted at the focal plane of each collimator. Problems with the UV light sources, including high f-number and window failures, were the only major difficulties encountered during the test. The test succeeded in uncovering a significant problem with the secondary structure used for the instrument cavity and, furthermore, showed that the mechanical solution was successful, the hardware was also used extensively for simulations of science observations, providing both UV light for spectra and visible light for the fine error sensor camera.


Instance provisioning on a Shared VPC network
This page lists the gcloud CLI commands needed to set up prerequisites, provision an instance in a service project, describe an instance, and delete an instance. In order to accomplish these tasks you should follow the instructions in each section of this page.
For more detailed guidance for these tasks, see the following pages:
Enable APIs
Enable the following APIs needed for configuring a service connection policy, configuring Shared VPC, and creating a Memorystore for Redis Cluster instance.
gcloud
 1. Enable the following APIs in the service project:
 gcloud services enable --project=SERVICE_PROJECT_ID networkconnectivity.googleapis.com
 gcloud services enable --project=SERVICE_PROJECT_ID serviceconsumermanagement.googleapis.com
 gcloud services enable --project=SERVICE_PROJECT_ID redis.googleapis.com

 Replace the SERVICE_PROJECT_ID with your service project ID.
 2. Enable the following APIs in the host project:
 gcloud services enable --project=HOST_PROJECT_ID networkconnectivity.googleapis.com

 Replace the HOST_PROJECT_ID with the ID of your host project.
Create a service connection policy
Next, a service connection policy must be created for the project, network, and region where you want to provision the Memorystore for Redis Cluster instance. Usually this is done by your Network Admin, or you might have the necessary permission run the command if you have the Required role.
This quickstart uses the default network and default subnet.
gcloud
 1. To create the service connection policy, run the create command:
 gcloud network-connectivity service-connection-policies create POLICY_NAME \
 --network=default \
 --project=HOST_PROJECT_ID \
 --region=REGION \
 --service-class=gcp-memorystore-redis \
 --subnets=_URL_

 Replace the following:
 - POLICY_NAME is your desired policy name.
 - HOST_PROJECT_ID is the host project ID.
 - REGION is the same region where you want to provision your Memorystore for Redis Cluster instance.
 2. To validate if the policy was created successfully, run the list command:
 gcloud network-connectivity service-connection-policies list \
 --region=REGION \
 --project=HOST_PROJECT_ID

 Replace the following:
 - HOST_PROJECT_ID is the host project ID.
 - REGION is the region where the service connection policy is defined.
Create an instance
To create an instance, run the following command:
gcloud
gcloud redis clusters create INSTANCE_ID \
--project=SERVICE_PROJECT_ID \
--region=REGION \
--node-type=NODE_TYPE \
--shard-count=SHARD_COUNT \
--replica-count=REPLICA_COUNT \
--network=projects/HOST_PROJECT_ID/global/networks/default
Replace the following:
 - INSTANCE_ID is the instance ID.
 - SERVICE_PROJECT_ID is the service project ID.
 - REGION is the region where you want to provision your instance.
 - NODE_TYPE is your chosen node type. Accepted values are:
 - redis-shared-core-nano
 - redis-standard-small
 - redis-highmem-medium
 - redis-highmem-xlarge
 For more details on node types and cluster configurations, see Cluster and node specification.
 - SHARD_COUNT determines the number of shards in your instance. Shard count determines the total memory capacity for storing cluster data. To see more details about cluster specification, see Cluster and node specification.
 - REPLICA_COUNT is your desired number of read replicas (per shard). Accepted values are 0, 1, and 2.
 - HOST_PROJECT_ID is the host project ID.
Describe the instance
To view instance details, run the following command:
gcloud
gcloud redis clusters describe INSTANCE_ID \
--project=SERVICE_PROJECT_ID \
--region=REGION
Replace the following:
 - INSTANCE_ID is the instance ID.
 - SERVICE_PROJECT_ID is the service project ID.
 - REGION is the region where your instance is located.
Delete the instance
To delete an instance, run the following command:
gcloud
gcloud redis clusters delete INSTANCE_ID \
--project=SERVICE_PROJECT_ID \
--region=REGION
Replace the following:
 - INSTANCE_ID is the instance ID.
 - SERVICE_PROJECT_ID is the service project ID.
 - REGION is the region where your instance is located.


text:
By Natalie Conrad
Herald Staff Writer
While the meaning and significance of Thanksgiving is widely known, to some students it is simply a fantasy.
Clinton High School teachers are making sure special education and at-risk students understand and appreciate the annual fall feast.
"How many kids actually have a Thanksgiving meal or know what it means?" Special Education Teacher Don LeRoux said.
Around 100 students, faculty and staff of Clinton High School gathered for a special Thanksgiving feast on Monday.
LeRoux started the event nine years ago and has led it each year with the help of generous colleagues.
"It's a great opportunity for all the kids to see each other and talk to different people," LeRoux said.
The feast starts with all the students saying what they are thankful for, which excludes material items.
Turkeys are provided by the district and all side dishes and desserts are brought in by staff. Home economics students also lend a hand in preparing buns and side dishes.
Leftover food is given to those in need and the Victory Center.
In order to partake in the feast, students must be in good standing academically and behaviorally.
"We make sure it's for the kids who really deserve it," LeRoux said. "It's all about positive role models and creating a tradition they will remember and continue into the future."


text:
Analysis of the detection method of electrostatic performance of anti-static work clothes: Anti-static work clothes are widely used in industries that require high static electricity. Static electricity generally does not cause great harm to the human body, but static electricity is more harmful to precision industries. The research of anti-static clothing affects the safety of this type of industry. This article will focus on how textile companies use anti-static test
ers to detect and test anti-static clothing. Operation instructions 1. Test preparation The test is required to be carried out in an atmosphere with a relative humidity of 30% to 40% and a temperature of 20±2°C. After pre-drying the sample at a temperature of 50°C for 30 minutes, adjust the humidity balance under the test atmosphere 5 hours. Plug in the power socket, turn on the power switch of the host, and turn the high-voltage adjustment knob to make the high-voltage display display 10KV. Turn on the power switch of the control box and press the 'Clear' button to make the attenuation voltage on the display meter of the electrostatic meter display zero. The preset pressurization time is 30 seconds on the 'pressurization time' timer. 2. The anti-static clothing testing instrument is suitable for measuring the electrostatic properties of various types of fabrics such as fibers and yarns or various plate-shaped products. The main body of the instrument is composed of a corona discharge device and a probe detector. Use a given high-voltage electric field to discharge the fabric for a fixed time to induce static electricity on the fabric, so as to detect the amount of static electricity, the half-life of static voltage attenuation, and the amount of static electricity remaining to show the static charge performance of the tested fabric. 3. Anti-static work clothes tester, roller friction machine, friction charge tester 4. Anti-static work clothes tester is used to evaluate the electrostatic characteristics of fabrics charged in the form of friction under laboratory conditions. Anti-static work clothes testing equipment
is a necessary instrument for 'Special Labor Protection Equipment Safety Certification' (LA Certification) and 'Special Labor Protection Equipment Production License' 5. Anti-static work clothes testing equipment (Faraday tube method) Anti-static work clothes testing equipment In the laboratory conditions, the electrostatic characteristics of the fabrics after being charged in the form of friction were evaluated. This instrument is a necessary instrument for 'Special Labor Protection Equipment Safety Certification' (LA Certification) and 'Special Labor Protection Equipment Production License'. The anti-static work clothes testing equipment currently supplied has provided inspection services for hundreds of domestic special protective clothing companies such as Shanghai Garment Group, Shida Tools (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shantou Aoshan Clothing, Jiangsu Hubao Group, etc.; and Sinosteel Wuhan Environmental Protection Research Institute Co., Ltd., Taizhou Fiber Inspection Institute, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Work Safety Research Institute and dozens of testing institutions cooperated to assist them in completing their qualification review. With the increase in sales and more professional Ru0026D and production, anti-static work clothes testing equipment not only has reliable data and stable quality, but also has become the most cost-effective personal protection testing equipment in China. More about anti-static tester: _URL_
GESTER International Co.,Limited guarantees to providing quality products and services.
GESTER International Co.,Limited is committed to supplying the consumer and our customers with the finest, high-quality products and to leading the industry in textile testing equipment tensile tester manufacturers
GESTER clearly and succinctly expresses what our company is all about. Strong brands cut through the noise to grab the audience and immediately shed light on the character of the product or service.


text:
Kappas (kawatarō 河童/川太郎，literally means river child) are the most mischievous and mysterious water-typed demon in traditional Japanese folklore. They are distinguished by having a small pool of water suspended on their flat hairless head to indicate their habitat and life force. Their appearance is described as similar to the look of a frog or monkey the size of a human child. More than that, their scaly reptilian skins can be green, yellow or blue. Their physical features include a shell and beak. They could swim in water like fish. They would lose all of their powers and may even die if they ever dry out. Modern culture tends to portray them as a cute and harmless creature. However, during the Edo period, this humanoid sprite was viewed as vicious and ferocious. They would dwell in lakes, rivers and other swampy areas to wait for their prey. Children and women were most likely to become their victims. Kappa would drown them, drink their blood, eat their livers and take away their shirikodama (尻子玉), which translates literally as "small anus ball". This is the strangest part of this folktale. It is believed to be a mythical ball that contains the soul of a human and it can grant the kappa magnificent powers.
Folklorist/manga artist Mizuki Shigeru wrote:
"Ever since I was a child I heard that I had to be careful in the water because the kappa would try and take my shirikodama. It was said that in the water, a kappa would come from below, extend an arm upwards and stick a hand up your anus to extract the ball."
As the example above suggested, Kappa is also used as a warning to keep children aware of the danger of drowning in lakes and rivers.
One of the most interesting facts about them is that cucumber is their traditional favorite meal. So if you ever meet a kappa in your life, you should bribe them with a cucumber they would promise to fulfill all of your wishes and you can protect yourself from being killed.
I hope you enjoy this post! o(‧"‧)o

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


text: A numerical simulation code was developed for estimating the surface temperature of POM wear test with different shapes. By using the developed code, the effect of sliding geometry with various contact areas on the surface temperature was numerically investigated. The simulation results show that the limiting sliding velocity depends on contact area and reaches a peak value at a certain geometry. It was also found that the simulation code leads an exact prediction of limiting velocity in the range of small contact area. This is important since the exact temperature measurement is very difficult in this range.


text:
The Carnegie Mellon Advising Resource Center (CMARC) was founded under the name Carnegie Mellon Action Project (CMAP) in 1968. Its original purpose was to aid the university in recruiting African American students and provide them with subsequent academic and supportive services to assure their progress toward graduation. In the fall of 1991, Hispanic and Native American students became a part of CMAP's target population. In the spring of 2005, after evaluating Carnegie Mellon's advising needs and in adherence with new educational mandates, CMAP transitioned to the Carnegie Mellon Advising Resource Center (CMARC). It has refocused its advising efforts and broadened its audience without losing sight of the university's commitment to diversity.
The Carnegie Mellon Advising Resource Center (CMARC) is committed to supporting students in their academic and personal development. We work with students to maximize their educational experience by promoting informed and responsible decision making. As an advocate for diversity and inclusiveness, CMARC promotes social and academic networks between peers, communities, and cultures.
To build a supportive, intellectual and social community across diverse cultures and empower students to excel on their path toward academic and personal success.
Our Guiding Principles
- All ethnic minority students CAN be successful at Carnegie Mellon. We assume competency and maintain a high standard of performance.
- We recognize a great deal of diversity within this diverse group and accept each student as an individual with a different life story.
- We ascribe to intrusive holistic directive advising. This requires us to play different roles in our advising relationships.
- We assist students to understand, interpret and negotiate the expectations attached to the academic and social culture at Carnegie Mellon.
- We emphasize community engagement as a major component in retention.
- We strongly encourage and facilitate peer mentoring, group study and role modeling. This helps reduce the feelings of isolation that can result from the absence of a critical mass of ethnic minority students.
- We believe in collaborating, partnering, and working cooperatively with Carnegie Mellon departments, corporations, alumni, and parents to support student success.


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Elite on the BBC Micro
Text: TT45 (Disc version)
Name: TT45 [View in context] Type: Subroutine Category: Text Summary: Print a letter in lower case
This routine prints a letter in lower case. Specifically: * If QQ17 = 255, abort printing this character as printing is disabled * If this is a letter then print in lower case * Otherwise this is punctuation, so clear bit 6 in QQ17 and print Arguments: A The character to be printed. Can be one of the following: * 7 (beep) * 10-13 (line feeds and carriage returns) * 32-95 (ASCII capital letters, numbers and punctuation) X Contains the current value of QQ17 QQ17 Bits 6 and 7 are set
.TT45 \ If we get here, then QQ17 has bit 6 and 7 set, so we \ are in Sentence Case and we need to print the next \ letter in lower case CPX #255 \ If QQ17 = 255 then printing is disabled, so return BEQ TT48 \ from the subroutine (as TT48 contains an RTS) CMP #'A' \ If A >= ASCII "A", then jump to TT42, which will BCS TT42 \ print the letter in lowercase \ Otherwise this is not a letter, it's punctuation, so \ this is effectively a word break. We therefore fall \ through to TT46 to print the character and set QQ17 \ to ensure the next word starts with a capital letter


text: The aim of this study was to observe the form of seaweed marketing chain, the amount of margin in each marketing chain, and seaweed marketing efficiency in each marketing chain. Respondents selected as sample were seaweed farmers and a trader. Samples of seaweed farmer were chosen by using simple random sampling method. There were 25 respondents interviewed from the total of 50 population. Sample of trader respondent was chosen by using tracing sampling method, and there was 1 trader respondent interviewed. The total number of respondents interviewed was 26 respondents. Result of marketing analysis showed that marketing margin observed in chain I was IDR 4.500; and no marketing margin was observed in chain II because seaweeds were directly sold to cunsumers. Marketing chain of seaweed in Lalombi village consisted of two chains, namely:1. Seaweed Farmer → Trader→ Consumer.2. Seaweed Farmer → Consumer.In the first chain, selling price received by seaweed farmers was 60% with the efficiency value was 40%. In the second chain, selling price received by seaweed farmers was 100% with the efficiency value was 0%; and therefore seaweed marketing chain more efficient was the second marketing chain.


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Alberta Metallic Silhouette Association
The Alberta Metallic Silhouette Association was founded in September of 1977, to assist rifle clubs in Alberta to set-up silhouette ranges, unify rules used to coordinate matches in and outside of the province and assist silhouette shooters however possible.
What is Metallic Silhouette Shooting all about?
Metallic Silhouette began in Mexico as a rifle shooting game where live animals were used as targets atop a high ridgeline to offer an outline or "silhouette." In the early '70's the American Shooters discovered metallic silhouette and brought it north of the border. Initially individuals fired only with high-powered rifles and were hampered by the need for rifle ranges which had the required 500-meter distance. Popularity increased dramatically in the 1970's when the National Rifle Association incorporated it into their competition schedule and created smallbore and air rifle classes that allowed the course of fire to be shot on smaller ranges.
Watch a video about our sport and organization below!
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text:
Understanding the operating cost of a 100,000-level dust-free workshop
100,000-level dust-free workshop engineering acceptance: provide completion data and training, and deliver to customers after completion acceptance; after-sales service: assume warranty responsibility and provide technical consulting services after the warranty period;
100,000-level dust-free workshop workshop process engineering evaluation:
The preliminary assessment of the production process and clean room planning can effectively reduce the input and operating costs. Such as LED electronics manufacturing: screening → solid crystal → welding wire → sealant → packaging → shipment. It is very important to optimize the engineering design with the production process and dust-free workshop management system. It ensures that the cleanliness of cleanliness is controlled within the design goals, such as: thousand or 10,000 or 100,000 workshop requirements. National standards and GMP specifications, providing microelectronics, fiber optic cables, instruments, medical and health, food and beverage, aerospace, scientific research and teaching and other high-tech enterprises to provide ultra-clean plant and air purification system engineering class 100 to 100,000 design hot and cold Optimized combination of energy sources and 100,000-level dust-free workshops using a cooling host with heat recovery, air source heat pumps, and fuel / steam boilers can greatly reduce operating costs.
In addition to the above-mentioned technical measures, in order to control the indoor environment of a 100,000-level dust-free workshop in the production environment or other uses to the required level of air cleanliness, an important technical measure is to send a sufficient amount of processed cleaning The air is used to replace or dilute the air contaminated by pollutants generated during normal work in the room. The air purification treatment in the clean room is sent to the treated volume in different ways according to the different cleanliness requirements of the room. Clean the air, and at the same time remove the corresponding amount of dirty air that is polluted with pollutants generated indoors. By this dynamic balance, the indoor environment is maintained at the required level of air cleanliness.


text: Cosmos Ecocert is a certification standard for natural and organic cosmetics. It is a well-known certification that guarantees the products were produced using eco-friendly and stringent organic standards, as well as sustainable manufacturing techniques. The certification program's criteria cover a wide range of topics, including the sourcing of raw materials, the manufacturing process, and the packaging and labeling of the finished product. It was created by five European organic certification organizations. The Cosmos Ecocert standard aims to encourage the creation of natural and organic cosmetics that are both safe for consumers to use and environmentally responsible.


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Garden Kneelers, Pads and Seats
When you're out gardening, it can often mean spending a long time working at ground level with gardening tools. While there are plenty of gardening supplies out there, but only garden kneelers, pads and seats save you the discomfort of bending down or kneeling on the ground to work away.
What Are the Different Types of Garden Kneelers?
While their roles are similar, there are various different types of kneeling garden supplies, including:
- Kneeling Pads and Mats: Rather than kneeling on firm surfaces, foam garden kneeling mats and pads offer cushioning and comfort while gardening.
- Garden Seats: These lightweight seats often are able to be folded into a kneeling pad as well, allowing you to garden in whatever way suits you and providing a useful piece of outdoor furniture.
What Types of Kneeling Pads and Mats Are There?
Designed to cushion your knees from the ground, kneeling pads can be used in several ways, like:
- Garden Kneeling Mat: This flat foam mat simply rests on the ground and is quick and easy to use.
- Garden Knee Pads: Rather than move a mat around or slip off it, garden knee pads allow you to wear pads on your knees, attached by a strap around your leg.


SignalFx Developers Guide
between()
Passes data in the input stream that's between two specified values, or replaces data that's not between two specified values with the value it's closest to.
Syntax
between(low_limit, high_limit [,low_inclusive=low_include][,high_inclusive=high_include][,clamp=clamp_flag])
Table 1. Parameter definitions
Parameter Type Description
low_limit
Number
Required: The smaller specified value
high_limit
Number
Optional: The larger specified value
low_include
boolean. Default is False.
Optional: If set to True, the smaller specified value is included in the comparison
high_inclusive
boolean. Default is False.
Optional: If set to True, the larger specified value is included in the comparison
clamp
boolean. Default is False.
Indicates how the method should handle values that aren't between low_limit and high_limit (and inclusive, if set). The following rules apply:
 - clamp=True: When a metric is not between the limits, it's converted to the limit value it's closer to, and passed on; otherwise the value is passed on.
 - clamp=False: When a metric is not between the limits, it's not passed on; otherwise it's passed on.
Returns a reference to the input stream object.
Examples
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#Only publish data when cpu.utilization is between 10 and 50, and clamp out-of-range data to the closest limit
data('cpu.utilization').between(10, 50, clamp=True).publish()
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XQuery/Tree View
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Motivation[edit]
You want a general purpose function that creates a tabular view of hierarchical data.
Method[edit]
We will write a recursive function to display each node and then to display each child in an HTML table.
Some systems call this a "Grid View" of XML data.
element-to-nested-table function[edit]
The following function generates an HTML table with nested subtables for the child nodes.
declare function local:element-to-nested-table($element) {
 if (exists ($element/(@*|*)))
 then

 {if (exists($element/text()))
 then

 {$element/text()}

 else ()
 }
 {for $attribute in $element/@*
 return

 @{name($attribute)}
 {string($attribute)}

 }
 {for $node in $element/*
 return

 {name($node)}
 {local:element-to-nested-table($node)}

 }

 else $element/text()
 };
Note that the rows displaying different kinds of items (text, attribute,element) are classed so that they may be styled.
Document display[edit]
This function can be used in a script to provide a viewer for any XML document.
declare namespace hc ="_URL_
declare option exist:serialize "method=xhtml media-type=text/html indent=yes";
 (: function declaration :)
let $uri := request:get-parameter("uri",())
let $element:= httpclient:get(xs:anyURI($uri),true(),())/hc:body/html
return

 <title>Tree view</title>

Tree view of {$uri}

 {local:element-to-nested-table($element)}

e.g.
 1. UWE's news feed
 2. Whisky data
 3. Employee data
 4. Met Office shipping Forecast mal-formed XML


text: Cold forging is a forming process below the recrystallizing temperature of the material, and it is forged below the recovery temperature. It is customary to call the forging of unheated blank cold forging in production. Most of the cold forging materials are aluminum and some alloys, copper and some alloys, low carbon steel, medium carbon steel and low alloy structural steel with low deformation resistance and good plasticity at room temperature. Cold forgings have good surface quality and high dimensional accuracy, and can replace some cutting. Cold forging can strengthen the metal and improve the strength of the parts.


Node: Showing Pictures, Next: , Previous: Modifying Pictures, Up: Picture Reference
void show ([string text = "", [bool stop = false]]) Function
Prints information about the Picture to standard output.
show() first prints the string "Showing Picture:" to standard output, followed by text, if the latter is not the empty string ("")1. Then it calls, prints the size of shapes and labels, and the value of do_labels. Then it calls show() on each of the Shapes on shapes. Since show() is a virtual function in class Shape, the appropriate show() is called for each Shape, i.e., Point::show() for a Point, Path::show() for a Path, etc. If stop is true, execution stops and the user is requested to type to continue. Finally, the string "Done showing picture." is printed to standard output.
void show_transform ([string text = "Transform from Picture:"]) Function
Calls, passing text as the argument to the latter function.
 1. Actually, it's printed to standard output even if it is the empty string, you just don't see it.


Dog ate chocolate?
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Brown near cat's vagina.
Species: Cat
Breed: american shorthair
Age: 2-5 years
Talia has brown in her fur around her vagina and I wiped it with a baby wipe and it is brown on the wipe. She has always had urinary issues in that she wont use the litter box to urinate. She goes on wee wee pads. I do not see blood in her urine. Should I be concerned?
Online vet, Dr. Marie
Dr. Marie replied:
Thanks for your question. Sometimes it can be normal to see some brown staining around the vaginal area of a cat. However, it's also possible that there is brown staining because she has been overgrooming the area. This could happen if there is some type of infection, either in the skin surrounding the area, in the vagina or possibly even a urinary tract infection or something called interstitial cystitis. Interstitial cystitis is something that we don't fully understand but it can cause a cat to feel like she has to urinate often.
So how do we tell whether there is a problem? The answer lies in watching her behavior. Over the next few days, take note of how often you see her licking this area. A normal cat should not be seen regularly doing this, but if you see her doing this several times a day then I think there is likely some irritation there and she should see the vet.
Also, take note of how often she is urinating. Even though you are not seeing blood, if she is going to the litter box (or wee pads) more often than usual then this can be a sign of a problem as well.
As long as she is eating and drinking well and does not seem overly irritated, then it's probably ok to keep an eye on her for a couple of days. Here are some things that would make me want to see the vet:
-If you notice she is licking the vaginal area excessively.
-If you notice she is trying to urinate more frequently than usual.
-If you see her trying to urinate but nothing is coming out.
-If you see a yellow or green pus in the vaginal area.
-If she starts to lose her appetite or act overly lethargic.
Hope that helps and I hope she is ok.
Dr. Marie
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The deepest cave in the world found up to 1992 is in France, the Reseau Jean Bernard.
Its total depth, not just the length of its shaft, is 5,256 feet, almost a mile straight down.
The longest system of underground passageways in the world is the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky.
The numbers change with new exploration, but as of June 1991, the sum of all known passages was 340 miles.
The deepest cave known in the United States is a new discovery, Lechuguilla Cave, in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico.
Its depth is 1,565 feet.
A large part of the United States is underlain by cavernous limestone aquifers.
The Mammoth Cave National Park system was basically formed by the solution of limestone. As water falls on the surface of the earth, it mixes with organic matter and forms a weak solution of carbonic acid, like weak Coca-Cola.
Given sufficient time, perhaps millions of years, the solution feeds into the cavities of the limestone and gradually creates a cave, a little like tooth decay.
Amateur exploration of caves is an important source of knowledge about them and can be safe if undertaken by properly trained and supervised people.
For example, from the standpoint of structural stability, caves are relatively much safer than mines.


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Putnam Gallery, Science Center 136 - Ongoing
TIME, LIFE, & MATTER: Science in Cambridge
Harvard has a rich history of scholarly contributions to the various natural, physical, and social sciences. Time, Life, & Matter features many important instruments that helped make those contributions possible.
Highlights of the exhibit include a multitude of stories told in part by such items as a geometric sector designed by Galileo, electrical experimentation apparatus purchased on Harvard's behalf by Benjamin Franklin, a suite of clocks illustrating the development of modern synchronized time-keeping, medical apparatus designed, in part, by Charles Lindbergh (yes, that Charles Lindbergh), and the artifacts of top-secret research conducted during World War II.
Download a thematic guide for Time, Life, & Matter.
Download Telltale Apparatus, by Christopher Reed, Harvard Magazine, Mar/Apr 2006.
View instruments from Time, Life, & Matter using Waywiser, our online database!
Printing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Patent Republic: Materialities in Intellectual Property in 19th-Century America
Science Center 136
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 4:00pm
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Monday - Friday
9:00am - 5:00pm
Foyer Exhibition Space
Science Center 371
CLOSED FOR INSTALLATION
Free and open to the public.
Children must be escorted by an adult.
Both the Putnam Gallery and Special Exhibitions are closed on University Holidays.
The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments is located inside the Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, on Harvard's Cambridge campus.


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Why Do Beautiful Women Sometimes Marry Unattractive Men?
It may be that the unattractive man has a lot of money, or some other compelling attribute.
But a new study by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, suggests it may be a simple supply-and-demand issue: there are more beautiful women in the world than there are handsome men.
Why? Kanazawa argues it's because good-looking parents are 36% more likely to have a baby daughter as their first child than a baby son — which suggests, evolutionarily speaking, that beauty is a trait more valuable for women than for men. The study was conducted with data from 3,000 Americans, derived from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, and was published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.
According to this news article, "Selection pressure means when parents have traits they can pass on that are better for boys than for girls, they are more likely to have boys. Such traits include large size, strength and aggression, which might help a man compete for mates. On the other hand, parents with heritable traits that are more advantageous to girls are more likely to have daughters."
Beauty is apparently just one "female" trait. Kanazawa has done previous research suggesting that nurses, social workers and kindergarten teachers — those with "empathic" traits — also had more daughters than sons. Meanwhile, he found that scientists, mathematicians and engineers are more likely to have sons than daughters.
It is good that Kanazawa is only a researcher and not, say, the president of Harvard. If he were, that last finding about scientists may have gotten him fired.
(Hat tip: Nadine Groney)


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What's the meaning of the phrase 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps'?
To 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' is to improve your situation by your own unaided efforts.
What's the origin of the phrase 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps'?
Pull yourself up by your bootstrapsThe origin of this descriptive phrase isn't known. It refers of course to boots and the straps that some boots have attatched to help the wearer pull them on and to the imagined feat of a lifting oneself off the ground by pulling on one's bootstraps. This impossible task is supposed to exemplify the achievement in getting out of a difficult situation by one's own efforts.
Some early computers used a process called bootstrapping which alludes to this phrase. This involved loading a small amount of code which was then used to progressively load more complex code until the machine was ready for use. This led to the use of the term 'booting' to mean starting up a computer. An early citation of this in print comes from the Proceedings of the institute of radio engineers (IRE), 1953:
A technique sometimes called the 'bootstrap technique'…Pushing the load button... causes one full word to be loaded into a memory address previously set up... on the operator's panel, after which the program control is directed to that memory address and the computer starts automatically.
An electrical engineer correspondent of mine says that bootstrap was used with the same meaning as above to early radio circuits, before the computer era, but I have no documentary evidence to support that assertion.


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Fast Spatial Scan makes the automatic detection of anomalous spatial clusters very efficient and effective. Given a massive set of spatial or space-time count data (e.g. the number of reported disease cases in each zip code on each day), it searches through the dataset to find spatial regions with higher than expected counts. This process has two steps: first it infers the expected count for each spatial location using time series analysis, then it uses an expectation-based spatial scan statistic approach to find spatial regions where the counts are significantly higher than expected. Randomization testing is performed to compute the statistical significance of each discovered cluster, enabling us to distinguish true clusters from those due to chance.
Spatial scan statistics are a powerful statistical test for detection of significant spatial clusters. Unlike many other cluster detection methods, they can be used both to determine whether any statistically significant clusters exist and to precisely pinpoint the size and location of clusters. Because the statistic scans over a huge number of regions of variable shape and size (and each region can contain between one and many locations), it has high power to detect clusters regardless of whether they affect a small or large spatial area. Our statistical test correctly adjusts for the multiplicity of tests performed, enabling us to ensure a low false positive rate while maintaining high power to detect any significant clusters that do occur.
Our new implementation of spatial scan statistics has several advantages over standard spatial scan approaches (e.g. SaTScan). First, we use novel spatial statistical methods to adjust for spatial and temporal variation in the baseline counts, allowing us to account correctly for day of week, seasonality, and other trends. This improves detection power, allowing more timely detection of emerging clusters with fewer false positives. Second, we have developed a new computational method, the "fast spatial scan." This fast multi-resolution search approach allows us to compute the spatial scan hundreds to thousands of times faster than the standard approach. Thus we can obtain results in minutes rather than hours or days, even for massive datasets containing millions of records.
Speed/Performance Results (click thumbnail below to view big picture):
Spatial Scan can find anomalous spatial clusters in spatial or space-time data sets. In particular, given a large set of spatial locations (e.g. zip codes), where each location has an associated time series of counts, it can detect any spatial regions where the most recent counts are significantly higher than expected, given the historical baseline data. For example, if we are given the number of emergency department visits in each zip code on each day, it can find areas where the recent number of cases is abnormally high, which may be indicative of an emerging outbreak of disease.
In May 2000, an outbreak of gastroenteritis in Walkerton, Ontario resulted from contamination of the water supply with E. coli bacteria. Over 2000 individuals were affected by severe gastrointestinal symptoms, including 65 hospitalizations and 6 deaths. We used the fast spatial scan software to perform a retrospective analysis of emergency department visits in Walkerton and the surrounding Grey-Bruce region of Ontario between 1999 and 2001. At a rate of only two false positives per year, the software was able to detect the outbreak on May 19, 2000, two days before the first public health response and one day before the other surveillance methods tested.
We are currently using the fast spatial scan tool to perform daily monitoring of over-the-counter medication sales from the National Retail Data Monitor (NRDM). Our system receives daily counts of the number of units sold in 18 different product categories (cough remedies, nasal decongestants, etc.) from over 20,000 retail stores and pharmacies nationwide. It then uses our new spatial cluster detection methods to find areas where the sales are significantly higher than expected, and makes these results available to state and local public health officials via a web-based graphical interface.
Interfaces of National Retail Data Monitor(click thumbnail below to view big picture),see also 2005 KDD paper for details.
Methods for detecting spatial and spatio-temporal
clusters. In M. Wagner, A. Moore, and R. Aryel, eds., Handbook of
Efficient scan statistic computations. In A. Lawson and K. Kleinman, eds., Spatial and Syndromic Surveillance for Public Health, 2005
A Bayesian spatial scan statistic (NIPS 2005)
A Bayesian scan statistic for spatial cluster detection. (National Syndromic Surveillance Conference 2005)
Detection of emerging space-time clusters (KDD 2005)
Anomalous spatial cluster detection (KDD 2005)
Detecting anomalous patterns in pharmacy retail data (KDD 2005)
Detecting significant multidimensional spatial clusters (NIPS 2004)
Rapid detection of significant spatial clusters (KDD 2004)


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Name: Sam J.
I am tring to find out a good diamagnetic material for
magnetic levatation. I know that Bismuth is the best diamagnetic
material. But with respect to Carbon-Graphite. I have seen experaments
using this and it works well. I was wondering if you could use just
carbon or just graphite, and what would work better. Is it a combination
of carbon and graphite that works best or is one just a filler? Would
using just carbon work better, or just graphite I also heard that the
more dense the carbon is, the better it works. I just tring to find the
best combination to use that will levatate the best. I plan on getting
the matrial in tile form so I can cover a desk and levatate a magnet over
Actually, graphite IS carbon. Carbon-Graphite is carbon in graphite form.
Carbon atoms tend to join together in one of three patterns, depending on
how hard they are pressed together. Under very high pressure, carbon will
form a crystal pattern people like to call diamond. Under more mediocre
conditions, carbon tends to form coal. If presed together very lightly,
often when deposited near the surface, carbon tends to form a pattern called
Graphite is a pattern of sheets laid on top of sheets. The carbon atoms
form a sheet of hexagons, each carbon joined to three other carbons. Since
carbon can bond with four atoms, the fourth connection extends up or down
from the sheet for each atom. This joins to an atom in an adjacent sheet.
Graphite has very weak bonds and a great deal of open space. This is what
makes it such a wonderful substance to put inside a pencil. When you write
with a pencil, you deposit carbon atoms on the paper.
Dr. Ken Mellendorf
The only way you will be able to actually get the magnet to levitate
indefinitely is to use a superconductor as the diamagnet. Otherwise the
eddy currents induced in the diamagnet will fade due to electrocal
resistance, allowing the magnet to approach ever closer.
Richard E. Barrans Jr., Ph.D.
PG Research Foundation, Darien, Illinois
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Craft a "Recycled" Angel Tree Topper
This "recycled" angel may use old materials, but it will be a brand new addition to your family's holiday decoration lineup! Show your little one how to craft this adorable angel out of an ordinary soda bottle as the tree topper for this year's Christmas tree. As your family receives a cherished new holiday keepsake, your child will fine tune his creativity, fine motor skills, and ability to follow directions!
What You Need:
- 2-liter bottle
- Scrap material
- Glue dots
- Glitter (optional)
- A doll head
What You Do:
- Have your child read through all the instructions out loud so that you both know what needs to be done, and ask your child if she has any questions before you begin.
- Cut off the bottle portion of the 2-liter bottle, so that the bottle creates a cone that can go over the top of your Christmas tree. Cutting through a plastic bottle can be dangerous, so it is best for an adult to do this portion of the project.
- Use the scrap of material to drape around the bottle, so it looks like a loose fitting gown. Your child is free to choose the color of material and how long the gown is. An old t-shirt is great for this project! Your child can wrap the material around the bottle until he is happy with how it looks, and then can cut it down as necessary.
- Once the material is arranged the way your child wants it, hold the material in place as he glues it to the back of the bottle. Using glue dots will enable your child to easily attach the material without having to wait long for the glue to dry.
- Invite your child to draw angel wings onto the cardboard. If he wishes, he can practice on scrap paper first.
- Use a sharp pair of scissors to cut out the wings your child drew.
- Once the wings are cut out, instruct your child to go ahead and paint them. White, yellow, and gold are common traditional colors, but he can choose any color he likes!
- To achieve an extra sheen, invite your child to sprinkle glitter over the glue while it is still wet.
- While your child waits for the wings to dry, he can use the glue dots to glue the doll head to the top of the 2-liter bottle (just above the neckline of the material).
- Once the paint on the wings is dry, your child is free to glue the wings to the back of the angel.
One of the many great things about this project is that it really allows your child to get creative! Your child has the opportunity to decide on the color or pattern of the material, the type of doll head to use, the length of the dress, as well as the color and style of the wings.


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Clear and Colored Acrylic Contact Balls
Clear and Colored Acrylic Balls
The most common type of contact ball is made from acrylic plastic. It comes in three types: clear, colored or ultraviolet (black light-activated). The Renegade acrylic balls are made to a high-quality standard. Perfectly round, without inclusions, scratches or blemishes. Contact jugglers often select colored acrylic balls or stage balls if they are going to be used outdoors. A clear acrylic ball can act as a magnifying glass and burn your hands if used in direct sunlight.
- Clear and colored acrylic balls made in small sizes (41mm, 52m, 64mm 70mm) are mostly used for multi-ball contact juggling or by people with small hands.
- Clear and colored acrylic balls in larger sizes (76mm, 82mm, 95mm, 100mm, 120mm) are for singlehand manipulation.
- Ultraviolet (UV) balls are made with a special pigment so they illuminate when under black lights. The balls glow with a bluish tint.
- Stage balls are a great way to learn contact juggling. They are cheaper than acrylic balls and do not make a noise when dropped.
Pro tips (advanced and intermediate contact juggler)
There is a big quality difference between brands of acrylic balls. The vast majority of contact balls are made of recycled acrylic. This affects the clarity of the ball. Using lower-grade material will result in a ball with a slight grey tint, which is from dust or dirt from the factory. The best balls are made from recycled acrylic produced by a Japanese automated factory that molds with new material. The worst balls come from Chinese factories, which are dirty and use recycled source material. Balls made with new acrylic are have the best clarity by far but cost at least twice as much. Our acrylic contact balls are made from Japanese regrind.


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Why Use A Bowling Wrist Support
If you are wondering why use a bowling wrist support, there are a few factors keys to consider. The goal for all bowlers is to deliver the bowling ball consistently and accuracy. To best answer to why use a bowling wrist support is to understand a few key points regarding wrist devices.
1. A wrist support will help regulate the "moment of release" of your bowling ball.
3. Limited wrist movement during your swing and delivery serves to regulate the relationship of your thumb exiting the bowling ball with respect to your bowling fingers.
4. It is important to understand your thumb should exit the ball slightly before your bowling fingers.
5. Longer support structure behind the bowling hand found on some models of wrist supports limit unneeded movement of your bowling fingers while swinging and delivering the bowling ball.
6. Getting the thumb out of the ball cleanly and quickly at the same place relative to your sliding bowling shoe (by the shoelaces of your sliding shoe) will lead to consistent deliveries.
7. Wrist Support devices are available in adjustable and non-adjustable models to pinpoint the precise amount of wrist tilt you choose prior to delivering your bowling ball.
Experimentation will be necessary before finding the best device for your needs. Generally, the longer support structure behind the hand encourages a decisive delivery action.
It is recommended you purchase a wrist liner to wear under the wrist support device if you perspire greatly and have skin which is prone to irritation or chaffing. Wrist Liners are very comfortable to wear and protect your skin when wearing a wrist support device.


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Intro: Styrofoam Plate Speaker
This instructable will teach you how to make a speaker out of a styrofoam plate!!! This speaker can play an audible sound.
Step 1: Gather Materials
Materials you will need for this project:
Piece of paper
Tape (any type)
30-32 gauge wire
Neodymium magnets (at least 6)
Hot Glue Gun
2 Alligator clips
Piece of cardboard that is bigger than the styrofoam plate
Headphone wire with plug to connect to playing device
Step 2: Cut Paper
Use scissors to cut piece of paper to a height that is higher than the magnets.
Step 3: Wrap Magnet With Paper
After cutting paper, roll it around magnet and secure it with piece of tape.
Step 4: Glue Paper to Center of Plate
On the back of the plate, glue the piece of paper to the center using hot glue gun.
Step 5: Begin Wrapping Wire Around Paper
Using 30-32 gauge wire, wrap it around the piece of paper glued to the plate. Continue wrapping it until the majority of the piece of rolled paper is covered in wire. Once wrapped, cut the wire and secure it with piece of tape.
It helps to start wrapping the wire from the bottom and go up.
Step 6: Sand Ends of Wire
Considering the wire is painted, you need to sand the end of the wire down until the ends are copper. With the paint on the charge will not connect.
(You might have to repeat this step for the headphone wire)
Step 7: Connect Alligator Clips to Wire
Connect an alligator clip to both ends of wire and attach the other end of the alligator clips to the plug-in wire ends.
Step 8: Place Magnet on Cardboard
Place the magnet in the middle of the piece of cardboard. Feel free to glue it down to the cardboard.
Step 9: Connect Plate to Magnet
Put the magnet inside of the wired piece of paper so everything is attached.
Step 10: Secure Plate to Cardboard
Tape the paper plate to the cardboard so it is more balanced.


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- Gut your book. This is usually done by simply slicing down the inside cover where the cover meets the pages. Simply cut out the page block with an X-acto knife. Of course, you can save this for more projects, read it or recycle it!
- Cut out rectangles of fabric and heat and bond. They will need to be about 1-1.5″ wide and long than the front of your book that you will be covering with fabric.
- Iron heat-n-bond to fabric. Then square one of the long edges.
- Glue fabric to front of book, then flip it over and trim the corners. You will leave a little bit more than 1/8″ on the corner.
- Flip over top and side flaps to finish your book cover. Repeat on the other side.
- Let dry.
- Cut four squares of fabric that are about 2″ by 2″.
- Sandwich the zipper between these two layers of fabric with the end of the zipper peeking out. Then sew along the line indicated.
- Fold over the two flaps and press. Repeat with other side. And trim to width of zipper.
- Cut four strips as long as your zipper piece (including the fabric ends) and 2″ wide. Sew these onto the zipper like so:
- Repeat with the other side and you'll have a fully encased zipper with fabric all around. Now you're ready to glue it in.
- Start by gluing the end of the zipper. Fold over 1/2″ and glue underneath the fold. Then curve the fabric and start glueing one side of the fabric to the book. When you reach the corners, pivot and fold your fabric to fit.
- When you get to the end let it dry. Then open the zipper and repeat with the other side.
- Cover the inside spine with fabric. Turn under the raw edges at the top and bottom and glue it down.
- Now cut two pastedowns from fabric backed with heat n bond. They should be about 1/2″ smaller than the inside of the cover. Glue and press firmly.
- Let dry and you are done!
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In response to the communications industry's replacement of direct connect copper telephone lines with voice grade fiber optic telephone lines, Keltron's engineers developed our Tones series of transmitter, and receiver modules to enable the transmission of industry standard alarm signal technologies via fiber optic telephone lines.
Tones modules also facilitate signaling in campus environments and multi-building complexes where the fire alarm control panel (FACP) is unable to receive signals from remote FACPs that do not communicate using the same technology. Modules are available for both fire alarm and security applications.
Whereas the original technology allowed the phone line transmission of only one alarm signal, Tones modules multiplex at least two separate and distinct alarm signals over the voice grade line or simple wire pair in a fully supervised manner. Keltron's Tones modules can both convert and transmit the signals of standard technologies such as reverse polarity, McCulloh loop, and dry contact.
Cost control - enables effective interfacing between disparate systems using signal conversion
Flexibility - allows communications in telephone networks with both fiber optic and copper wires
Scalability - enables system growth using existing components
Keltron offers both transmitter and receiver Tones modules that facilitate the communication via multiple technologies to both Keltron remote and proprietary supervising station systems and third party equipment. The following data sheets include detailed information on each Tones module or pair:
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Updated Filter to resize a ImageField on demand
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import os
import Image
from django.template import Library
register = Library()
def thumbnail(file, size='200x200'):
 """
 Example:

 The filter is applied to a image field (not the image url get from
 get_image_url method of the model), supposing the image filename is
 "image.jpg", it checks if there is a file called "image_200x200.jpg" or
 "image_200x300.jpg" on the second case, if the file isn't there, it resizes
 the original image, finally it returns the proper url to the resized image.
 """
 if file:
 # defining the size
 x, y = [int(x) for x in size.split('x')]
 # defining the filename and the miniature filename
 basename, format = file.path.rsplit('.', 1)
 baseurl, _format = file.url.rsplit('.', 1)
 #miniature = basename + '_' + size + '.' + format
 #miniature_filename = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, miniature)
 #miniature_url = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_URL, miniature)
 miniature_filename = basename + '_' + size + '.' + format
 miniature_url = baseurl + '_' + size + '.' + format
 # if the image wasn't already resized, resize it
 if not os.path.exists(miniature_filename):
 #print '>>> debug: resizing the image to the format %s!' % size
 image = Image.open(file.path)
 image.thumbnail([x, y]) # generate a 200x200 thumbnail
 image.save(miniature_filename, image.format)
 return miniature_url
 return ''
register.filter(thumbnail)
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dmlodecki (on July 21, 2010):
This works great. Consider changing image.thumbnail([x, y]) to image.thumbnail([x, y], Image.ANTIALIAS) for higher-quality resizes.
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Measuring chain for measuring the noise of road vehicles according to the SPB method
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The SPB (Statistical Pass-By Method) measuring equipment is a measuring chain of several devices connected in a system. The measuring chain includes a microphone, a modular precision sound analyzer, 2 photocells for vehicle speed measurements, a laptop computer, a microcontroller, and a humidity and temperature meter. It is intended for measuring the maximum noise level of passing road vehicles and determining the SPB index, which defines driving surfaces according to the noise they cause.
The measurement method is carried out in accordance with the SIST EN ISO 11819-1 standard. It determines the influence of car tires rolling on road surfaces on the emission of road traffic noise into the environment. The modular precision sound analyzer detects the maximum noise levels of passing vehicles via a microphone standing 7.5 m from the center of the considered driving lane on the test field. Photocells record the passage of vehicles at the measurement point. The speed is determined from the difference in the registration times of each photocell and from the mutual distance between the positions of the photocells, and at the same time the category of the individual vehicle is entered into the computer. After computer processing of the data, a regression curve of the maximum noise levels depending on the speed of the vehicles is determined depending on the type of vehicle.
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This paper points out a number of errors that have appeared in the literature concerning transmission-line models for metal grid reflectors (strip gratings and meshes) especially in regard to the design of laser mirrors and filter elements for use at submillimeter wavelengths. General formulas are given for the transmittance of lossy grids and for the equivalent circuit impedances to be used in these formulas for strip gratings and meshes at a plane boundary between two lossless dielectrics. The results apply for normal incidence and for wavelengths in both dielectrics greater than the grid period. Limitations of the transmission-line models for meshes at dielectric boundaries are discussed.
© 1985 Optical Society of America
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The Nernst Equation
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The use of standard reduction potentials to predict the course of a reaction is somewhat limited, in that they are only valid under standard conditions. However, they can be used to predict the course of redox reactions under nonstandard conditions.
This process of extrapolation of the properties of a reaction under one set of conditions to those under another set of conditions uses the Nernst equation.
The Nernst Equation
If we know the Gibbs free energy of reaction at under one set of conditions, it can be used to predict the Gibbs free energy of reaction, and from that the reduction potential, under a new set of conditions.
Derivation of the Nernst equation
Consider the reaction:
The Gibbs free reaction energy can be related to the standard Gibbs free reaction energy:
Q is the reaction quotient:
The reduction potentials may be related to the free energies of reaction:
Therefore, the Nernst equation is the result:
The Nernst equation relates the non-equilibrium properties of a reaction to those at equilibrium. At equilibrium, the reaction free energy, and hence the potential for the reaction, is zero, and the reaction quotient, Q, is the equilibrium constant, K. We can therefore calculate the equilibrium constant from the standard reduction potential.
The exponential dependence of the equilibrium constant on the reaction potential means that a change in reaction potential of one volt results in a change in the equilibrium constant of seventeen orders of magnitude: hence, E* = +2 V means K = 1034, E* = 0 V means K = 1, and E* = -2 V means K = 10-34.
When we introduced half-reactions, we saw that we could split up the overall potential for a cell into contributions from the oxidant and the reductant. We can also do this for the Nernst equation, and therefore write a similar expression for each of the reduction couples.
pH dependence of reduction potentials
The Nernst equation can be used to determine the pH dependence of the potential for a given reaction.
Consider the reaction:
The Nernst equation gives the potential:
But, E* is the reduction potential for the Ox/Red couple, E*(Ox/Red), as the standard reduction potential for the H+/H2 couple is zero, and [H2] is given by the partial pressure of H2, which is 1 under standard conditions, and the number of electrons transferred is 2.
The Nernst equation becomes:
The definition of pH: pH = -log10[H+]
So the reduction potential is related to the pH:
In general this equation should be adapted for the number of electrons transferred.
Stability Fields: Water
The values of the reduction potentials for the H+/H2 and O2,H+/H2O redox couples, and their pH dependences, can be used to predict where a given species may be stable in aqueous solution. This stability can be expressed in terms of the stability field (aka Pourbaix diagram).
The Stability Field of Water
When a reducing agent that can reduce water to H2, or an oxidizing agent which can oxidize water to O2, is placed in water, the reduction or oxidation reaction will take place, and the species will decompose, and hence it is unstable. A species is therefore stable if its reduction potential lies in the range 0 < E < +1.23 V, 0 V being E*(H+/H2) and +1.23 V being E*(O2,H+/O2). However, the reduction potentials change with pH, and so the range of stable reduction potentials also changes.
The variation of stable reduction potentials with pH is shown in the stability field plot, and in water, the stable species are those which have reduction potentials lying between the solid black lines.
If the effects of kinetic control are taken into account, the need for the presence of the overpotential predicts stability for those species with reduction potentials in the range between the dashed black lines.
The vertical lines on the diagram have been added to show the range of pH values commonly found in lakes and streams, pH values between 4 and 9. Hence the area in the middle of the diagram represents the area of stability in natural waters.
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Dlink modem is a modulation and demodulation device manufactured by Dlink corporations based in Taiwan. With the help of Dlink modem, one can connect to the internet and exchange data and information over the internet. Modem performs the function of a device that encrypts and decrypts the packets of data sent to and from a computer system and internet server. Dlink is a leading modem manufacturer and Dlink modems are widely used to connect to internet by a large number of people. Every Dlink modem comes with some default factory settings which are set at the factory level and shipped. However, the modem factory settings need to be changed sometimes so as to connect to the internet depending upon the connection settings of that area. you can also reach us at Dlink modem support number.
In this process after a long time of usage, sometimes the modem might not work properly or for some other reason, there might be a need to change the modem setting to its default factory settings. For example, if you have forgotten your Wi-Fi router password, then you might need to reset your modem to default factory settings. Dlink modem comes with a built-in feature to allow the users to change the settings to default factory settings. The procedure to change the settings to default factory settings is given below:
Step 1) Check whether your modem is working and is turned on and then look out for the Reset button on the modem. The reset button is given at the back of the modem and would be un-pressed.
Step 2) Press the reset button on the modem for a long time. You need to press the reset button for at least 10 seconds to take the effect. The button needs to be pressed by a clip as it is not easy to press the button by a single press of hand or fingers.
Step 3) Check that the modem would restart after you have long pressed the reset button. This is important as when the modem restarts only when it will be reset to factory settings. After the modem, has successfully restarted, check for the green light. If the light is on that means the restart is successful.
Step 4) Now try to connect to the internet using your Dlink modem with the original password. If it connects to the internet, this means your Dlink modem has been successfully reset to the factory settings.
Need quick help for how to reset Dlink modem to factory settings?
In case you face any technical difficulty regarding how to reset Dlink modem to factory settings, you can always contact Dlink modem support number on our toll free number as mentioned on website. Dlink technical staff will get in touch with you and resolve your queries.


Explore Panama's Natural Wonders in the BioMuseo
The Biomuseum is an eye-opening experience detailing the impact of Panama on the world's biodiversity. It is a museum that explores the profound link between the country's history and its natural heritage. Designed by arguably the most celebrated architect of our era, Frank Gehry, the museum centers around the formation of the isthmus of Panama and features five galleries, a botanical park, and many temporary exhibitions. Its combination of unusual shapes and bright colors is a reflection of the exuberant local biodiversity and Panama's colorful culture. It is a testament to Panama's commitment to sustainability and is a "must visit" for any traveler.
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More Stops Along Panama's Cultural Heritage Experience
If you're looking for more activities that celebrate Panama's diverse culture and unique history, the Cultural Heritage Experience is where you'll find them.


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As drought conditions in much of Texas continue, a landmark decision by the Texas Supreme Court further defines private property owner's rights and limitations to groundwater underneath their land.
The court issued its decision on Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Day on February 24 after two years of deliberations, stating land ownership includes an interest in groundwater in place that cannot be taken for public use without adequate compensation.
The court wrote in its decision that a landowner does indeed have a constitutionally protected ownership interest in water underneath their land, similar to rights for oil, gas and minerals.
"Whether groundwater can be owned in place is an issue we have never decided," the court wrote. "But we held long ago that oil and gas are owned in place, and we find no reason to treat groundwater differently."
The lawsuit centered on challenges to the Edwards Aquifer Authority (EAA), which regulates groundwater production from the Edwards Aquifer, the main water source for central Texas. The EAA had argued that a landowner does not own the water underneath the land until the water is brought to the surface and possession is taken.
The court also determined the EAA has the power to regulate groundwater production, but it must consider factors other than just historical use.
Groundwater is a major source of water in Texas, providing about 60 percent of the 16.1 million acre-feet of water used in the state, according to the Texas Water Development Board.


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What to Expect in an IRS Audit of Your Dispensary (or other cash business)
Marijuana dispensaries are five times more likely to face an IRS cash business audit. In 1970, lawmakers approved Section 280E of the Internal Revenue Code as a punitive measure in the "war on drugs" which was just starting at the time. Until December 2014, cannabis businesses often classified their marijuana as Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) to evade its extreme provisions. But then, the IRS drastically redefined COGS as it pertains to cannabis enterprises.
Under existing law, the business can add the cost of employee time to prep the product onto the actual cost. That loophole is no longer available, as far as the auditors are concerned. There has been some movement to repeal 280E. But given the vast amount of money that the government collects from these businesses, that's probably not likely.
How Does the IRS Target Cash Businesses for Audit?
Cannabis businesses operate in a legal grey area, and that's often strike one. However, the IRS obviously needs more than the type of business to increase cash business audit scrutiny. So, if there is further evidence that a cash-intensive business may have inaccurate records, that's usually strike two. Such preliminary evidence includes:
- Perennial losses or low profit margins that are not consistent with a successful business or that the owner does not seem to correct,
- Bank balances that increase, or debt balances that decrease, as profits remain flat,
- A lifestyle that the reported business profits cannot sustain, or
- Persistently low sales.
In this game, two strikes and you're out.
Cash Business Audit Methods
Once auditors target cash-based businesses, they first try to use the least invasive means. Typically, an auditor confronts a business-owner with the aforementioned audit badges and gives the owner the opportunity to present a defense. If the auditor doesn't like the answers, more invasive means are available. The IRS also considers these methods to be very accurate, so they're used quite often.
- Tax Return Data: The IRS usually compares previous years to the current year, the supporting schedules to the primary return form, and the returns of other similar businesses to the audited enterprise.
- Reliability of Taxpayer's Information: Unexplained gaps often indicate that the records may be incomplete. Moreover, the IRS has very high standards in terms of records retention. If the taxpayer falls even a little bit short in this area, the Service usually assumes the worst.
- The Minimum Income Probe: As far as the IRS is concerned, these probes are almost absolutely conclusive, so this tool is probably the most common indirect cash business audit and income reconstruction platform. We'll examine it in detail in a future post.
- LUQ Expenses or Deductions: The IRS also has a method for categorizing amounts that are large, unusual, or questionable. The method is fairly objective, but as the Service likes to point out, tax audits are a combination of art and science.
During this process, examiners commonly ask for cash register tapes or other such records, receipts and invoices, bank deposit records, and reconciliation worksheets. Auditors do not expect the owner to have the same recordkeeping system as everyone else, but they do expect a system to be present.
It's very important for marijuana dispensariesto know about IRS cash business audit procedures and methods, because it's usually only a matter of time before the examiners knock on their doors.


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« on: September 18, 2008, 08:19:34 PM »
This guide is only applicable to Streamyx users.
1. Introduction to the Problem
Not all Streamyx connections are created equal.
You can be experiencing extremely slow speed and poor performance while the guy next door is blazing away at max speed.
Why is this the case?
Streamyx spreads its connections over different routers. This is done automatically on TM's side. However certain routers may be overloaded or faulty or subject to an attack or under maintenance.
Our task here is to find a way to get to those functioning, wonderful (at least relatively) spankingly fast routers!
2. What is an IP Range?
IP addresses (often shortened to IP) are the internet's version of addresses. Instead of a real world address:
Mr Lim's Personal Computer
No 24, Jalan 20/9, Paramount Garden,
46300, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
which is meaningless, we get assigned addresses in a numerical format.
For example:
You can find out what your IP is (which changes everytime you reconnect to the internet) by visiting
An IP range (as how we define it), is a range of addresses. We find that with Streamyx, the most important digits to look for in an IP address are the FIRST TWO DIGITS.
It is suspected that each router governs an IP range and everyone on the same IP range goes through the same router.
In human language:
"The first two digits of your Streamyx Internet Address determines which router you go through."
As long as these first two digits are the same (which means you are within the same IP range), all performance within that IP range will be the same.
So for example if you are unsatisfied with your speed/performance on 124.82.x.x, you will have to find an IP that does not begin with 124.82, but something else like 60.54, 124.13, 118.100, etc etc. and then retest and evaluate if it's a good one (see Part 4).
3. How to get a new IP Range
There is unfortunately no easy way about this. This is assigned on TM side and for our purposes is more or less random.
The only way to get a new IP is to disconnect and reconnect your connection and then recheck what IP you are on (you can do so by surfing to if you forgot). We do find that different times of the day gives different sets of IP ranges.
However some tips:
1) Do not disconnect and reconnect too fast in rapid succession
Do it in perhaps of intervals of 5-10 seconds, taking breaks in between. If done too fast, TM blocks you from connecting for a few minutes, and increases this time with every subsequent attempt. Take it slow and steady.
2) Be patient
It is not uncommon to try 10-20 times until you find the desired IP range you want. Be patient and stay at it.
4. Evaluating an IP Range - Yay or Nay
Now that we know what is an IP range, why it is important to find the right one and how to get new ones, let's find out how to evaluate if an IP range is good or bad!
We will use a free program called Pingplotter for this which may be downloaded here.
This program traces the path of your internet connection all the way to its intended destination and reveals any problems in the route.
After installing Pingplotter, start up the program. Under Address to Trace:, put or to test your connectivity to our US server ( Set the trace delay to 1 second, and Samples to Include to 1000. Click on TRACE and let it run for a minute or two.
We are testing as BBC is a renowned UK-based news site which we have identified as being closely equivalent to where we host our UK servers. It is also a neutral party so there's no accusation that the fault lies with us. Please note that pings to google and yahoo may NOT be accurate as they have special arrangements to prioritize their traffic.
There is a lot of information coming out of pingplotter, but we shall only focus on two statistics:
1) The AVG Ping which means average ping (the time it takes for a packet to reach to its destination) Lower is better
2) The PL% which means packet loss percentage (the packets that do not reach their destination and get lost) Lower is better
Below is a sample ping report generated from Pingplotter. You do this by clicking on Edit and then Copy as text (statistics only)
Target Name:
 Date/Time: 18/9/2008 7:52:15 PM to 18/9/2008 7:54:35 PM
Hop Sent Err PL% Min Max Avg Host Name / [IP]
 1 139 0 0.0 0 0 0 mygateway1.ar7 []
 2 137 77 56.2 7 233 19 []
 3 139 0 0.0 6 83 8 []
 4 139 0 0.0 6 19 6 []
 5 139 0 0.0 23 109 25 []
 6 139 0 0.0 29 216 38 []
 7 139 0 0.0 28 251 39 []
 8 139 0 0.0 29 205 30 []
 9 139 0 0.0 28 175 30 []
10 139 0 0.0 222 339 223 []
11 139 0 0.0 304 513 317 []
12 137 40 29.2 314 320 317 []
13 139 57 41.0 316 345 318 []
I have highlighted in red the parts that i want to focus on. This was taken from a particularly bad day and on a particularly bad IP range.
The AVG ping is 318 ms which isn't too bad. In general you want a ping that is below 400.
However what is bad here is the loss percentage which is at 40-50 %. This means for every two pieces of data you send, only one gets through! This affects the speed and stability of your VPN and other bandwidth sensitive apps such as video streaming and downloads. In extreme scenarios, even surfing becomes laggy.
Generally you don't want any loss at all though a loss of less than 10% should be still good enough for decent performance.
Keep on trying new IP ranges till you can find one that has the lowest loss and a decent ping.
A low loss is more important than a low ping! So even if an IP range has a fantastically low ping, but high loss percentage, then that IP will not be as good as one with a higher ping and a low loss percentage.
Hopefully now you have found a good IP range! Don't get disconnected if you want to retain it!
« Last Edit: February 15, 2009, 02:38:21 PM by Reuben »


As shot from the 'Twenty Two' movie trailer. Photo: YouTube
Wolf Warriors 2 is hot, but a surprising documentary titled Twenty Two arguably is hotter. Making its China debut this week, the movie featuring now-elderly Chinese women who survived forced prostitution during the Sino-Japanese War took in 15 million yuan (US$2.25 million) at the box office in the first two days.
Its attendance rate was even better than that of Wolf Warriors 2, the best-ever Chinese movie in terms of box-office receipts, having beaten Spiderman: Homecoming this summer.
The film Twenty Two was named after 22 surviving Chinese "comfort women" who had been forced into prostitution by the Japanese army in World War II.
The actual number of survivors is now down to eight, as the movie was held by Chinese authorities for two years before finally making it on to the screen in its home country (it made its international debut at the Busan Film Festival in 2015). But the movie, the first Chinese film to honor comfort women, is expected to surge at the box office after favorable comments from critics.
Movie website Douban gave it a rating of 9.1 out of 10 because it triggers national sentiments to pay a final tribute to these elderly women.
An estimated 200,000 Chinese women were forced into prostitution during the Sino-Japanese War (_PHONE_), and the survivors, now in their very last stages of life, shared similar yet distinctive experiences.
The documentary is likely to strike a chord of nationalistic feelings among Chinese who feel that war may once again be imminent because of the current geopolitical situation.
It is hitting the screens around the same time as the Korean film The Battleship Island, which depicts the story of 400 Korean slave laborers' attempt to escape from mining coal on Battleship Island (Hashima Island in Nagasaki prefecture) during the Japanese colonial days.
The film, No 1 at the South Korean box office, also shows Korean women being badly treated by Japanese soldiers, and urges Japan to honor its promise to set up a sign before the end of this year stating that forced labor occurred on the island.
Both movies come as a reminder of the 72nd anniversary of the Japanese surrender on August 15, 1945, during World War II that put a stop to the notorious Japanese Unit 731, which had been involved in biological and chemical warfare and undertook lethal human experimentation.
This week, Japanese television broadcaster NHK ran a three-episode documentary about 12 members of Unit 731 in an oral history of the rape and human experimentation that was said to shock the Japanese audience because of the rare admission of their guilt.
Also hot in the summer box office is the Hollywood production Dunkirk, which portrays the evacuation of the famous French beach in World War II.
In addition to Wolf Warriors 2, a Chinese fictional movie about a former soldier saving his peers during a political riot in Africa, the war movies have conquered the summer box office usually dominated by Disney's animated films.
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