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TTI Study Finds Arsenic and Lead in Imported Glass Beads
The American Glass Bead Manufacturers' Association, which sponsored the study, is urging states and the U.S. government to limit heavy metal levels in glass beads used for highway markings.
A recent study sponsored by the American Glass Bead Manufacturers' Association says that a growing number of imported glass bead products for highway markings have high concentrations of heavy metals, including arsenic and lead.
The findings of the study, which was conducted by Texas A&M University's Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), were presented last month at the American Traffic Safety Services Association's 41st Annual Convention and Traffic Expo in Phoenix, Ariz.
The TTI study showed that imported glass beads had extremely high levels of arsenic and lead and were susceptible to rapid leaching with exposure to water. The high levels of heavy metal substances pose a hazard to highway worker safety and are an environmental threat, in terms of runoff into the soil, surface water, and drinking water, according to the association.
The trade group notes that glass beads manufactured by companies in emerging nations, particularly China, continue to use glass made from old glass-making techniques that require chemical modification, resulting in products containing high levels of arsenic and lead. U.S. producers use such materials as recycled flat glass to make glass beads, which do not contain high levels of arsenic and lead. These products are primarily used for highway safety markings, providing the light-reflective lane markings found on highways around the world.
"These findings are consistent with results from a recent New Jersey Institute of Technology/Rowan University study and also confirm what our membership has known to be true for some time," said Robert McClune, association president. "It's time for state and federal transportation officials and lawmakers to act and establish a federal standard for engineered glass beads in highway markings and prevent these hazardous substances from being applied to our roads and highways," he said.
Such a bill was introduced Feb. 15 by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster. The Safe Highway Markings Act of 2011prescribes standards for glass beads used in pavement markings, limiting the arsenic or lead content to 200 parts per million. The bill, which has been sent to the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, also requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold up to 5 percent of the apportionment of federal-aid highway funds for any state that fails to enforce requirements to ensure that glass beads used in pavement markings on or along federal-aid highway roads or highways do not contain more than 200 parts per million arsenic or lead.
Setting a heavy metals standard for glass beads has gained strong support from environmental groups like the Sierra Club, state and federal lawmakers, and unions like the International Union of Operating Engineers, according to the association. Nineteen states have adopted laws or regulations that require the use of non-toxic materials in the production of glass beads for highway markings. This same issue is gaining traction globally with the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, and several Canadian provinces. China has also set strict heavy metal standards for internal use but continues to export contaminated glass bead products to other nations, according to the association.
Based in Valley Forge, Pa., the association was established in 1991 and represents a majority of the glass bead manufacturing base in the United States. The trade group works toward the betterment of the industry and is involved in programs to expand and improve highway safety. For more information, call _PHONE_.
Source: American Glass Bead Manufacturers' Association


text: This paper studies platform bifurcation, the process in which a subgroup of users from an original platform launches an independent spin-off platform. We identify the effects of bifurcation using a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the introduction of spin-off platforms in an online platform incubator. We find that bifurcation leads to a strong overall increase in contributions. While contributions to the home platform decline, the two bifurcated platforms generate more combined user contributions and attract more new users compared to a single united platform. We further explore how interconnectivity and platform differentiation affect users' choice of platform. Our evidence indicates that users are less likely to migrate from an incumbent platform to a new, specialized platform when interconnectivity is strong but more likely to migrate when the specialized platform enables more differentiation. This paper is the first to empirically analyze the strategic implications of new platform entry at scale and to document the moderating role of interconnectivity and platform differentiation.

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WUBS (Web User Booking System) has been developed at Loughborough University Library to allow online booking of resources (rooms, PCs, etc) directly by end users. It has been in production use at Loughborough since October 2004.
Allows resources to be of arbitrary, admin defined types. For example you might have types of "Group Study Room", "Bookable PC", "Staff Loan Laptop", with multiple resources of each type
Individual resources can have different booking periods defined, with gaps allowed between booking slots (allowing, for example, one group to a room and then another group takes up residence outside of the booked slot)
Resources and/or types can have periods defined when they aren't available for bookings (eg during holidays or building refurbishments)
"Librarian" and admin staff can act as other users to allow them to book resources on behalf of students (handy if sitting at a help desk or on the end of a support line)
Different classes of user can have different limits to the number of resources they can book, with different rules for different types of resource as well
User information picked out of the Active Directory


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Heavy clouds in Jakarta, Indonesia Adek Berry / AFP / SEE
At least 26 people have died and 60,000 are homeless in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, after heavy rains hit the city during the night of Tuesday (31) and in the early hours of day 1.
According to meters installed at an airport east of the city, the storm poured 377 millimeters of water throughout the day over the capital, the highest reading since 1996.
Rivers that span the capital overflowed, flooding at least 169 neighborhoods. Serious landslides have also occurred in Bogor and Depok districts near Jakarta.
The information was released by National Disaster Management Agency spokesman Agus Wibowo.
Indonesian officials say the weather is likely to remain bad in the coming days, with further torrential rain expected until January 7.
With 30 million inhabitants, Jakarta is one of the cities most vulnerable to rising sea levels and floods on the planet.
In August 2019, Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced an ambitious plan to relocate the capital to a new location located east of Borneo Island.
Government institutions would begin to move to the new capital by 2024.
In addition to facing increasingly violent tides, a significant portion of the metropolis's soil is sagging due to the weight of the buildings.
According to experts, keeping the current pace, a third of the city can collapse and end up submerged by 2050.

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The existence of the masjid tuo in West Sumatera is not only known for its unique style and architecture with traditional and religious ties, but far behind that its institutional function gives rise to a distinctive character for the community. This article discusses how the masjid tuo plays a role in shaping the character of Minang society both structurally and culturally so that it becomes an important record for Minangkabau history (tambo). The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative in order to photograph the phenomena that develop in society related to the role of the masjid tuo so that social setting are known which include the existence of the masjid tuo. The result of this study indicates that the institutional role of masjid tuo in West Sumatera has shaped the character of minang community through the persona and functions that emerge from an imam, khatib, bilal, and labai. The role that is being carried out is an effort to produce syara' regulation that will be carried out by children and nephews and the surrounding community of the nagari.


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21-26 October 2013
Room 303, Fok Ying Tung Remote Sensing Science Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Please click here to download the daily programme.
The training course is devoted to applications of ESA EO data and information retrieval for China seas using optical, IR, SAR and radar altimeter data. The following disciplines and subjects will be covered.
- Current and future Chinese and ESA missions for ocean remote sensing including Explorers, Sentinels 1,2 & 3 and HJ-1-C SAR
- Teaching of remote sensing principles in ocean colour, Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and geo-physical parameters retrieval from SAR and RAs
- Validation of geo-physical parameters
- Exploitation of instruments' synergy
- Advances in remote sensing over China seas
- EO and other data / model assimilation & Essential Climate Variables
- Data access and handling
- Usage of software tools for examining data sets from the ASAR, RA, MERIS and AATSR instruments and Sentinels' simulated data
- Interpretation of signatures from these instruments and their transformation into geo-physical products


A Raspberry Pi Streaming Camera using MPEG-DASH, HLS or RTSP
This is an improvement on my previous article, Raspberry Pi Hardware Accelerated RTSP Camera, now with the option of using more modern technology, MPEG-DASH and HLS!
First off, if you don't care about the technicalities and just want a script to do everything for you, here you go! If you're still interested in how it all works or want to tweak the settings, read on.
This article will walk you through how to either copy or convert video from your webcam or pi camera, set it up as a systemd service, and finally view it on a webpage or access it remotely.
MPEG-DASH vs HLS vs RSTP
So to clear this up first of all, these are "containers" that wrap around the actual video, which is a particular "codec" (such as h264). DASH and RTSP are fully codec agnostic, meaning they are capable of wrapping around any type of video codec. The big gotcha is what type of videos the viewer supports (and in RTSP's case the middleman server as well.)
So if DASH and RTSP can handle everything, why even bother with HLS? Long story short, Apple, who developed HLS, is a bully, so they don't support the open MPEG-DASH on their devices. Meaning if you are trying to share these video streams with the public or view on an Apple device, you will get the most compatibility with HLS.
So now the difference really comes down to how DASH/HLS are HTTP based protocols that can easily be supported in browser. This makes it super easy to set up an all-in-one device that can host it's own webpage to view a video at.
Whereas RTSP requires additional software, such as VLC or a security system to view it. The real advantage with RTSP is the fact it really is nearly "real time" compared to DASH/HLS. Using my Raspberry Pis DASH/HLS seem to have a 10~20 second delay, compared to about 1 second for RTSP. As I already went over how to set that up, I won't repeat it here and only go over DASH. But I personally use RSTP for my own home setup still.
Setting up required software
The two programs you will need are a file server (nginx, apache, python -m http.server, etc…) to host the DASH/HLS content and ffmpeg. And you don't have to hand compile either!
Super short version:
sudo apt install nginx ffmpeg -y
To better understand why we need them and how to test them to make sure they are working properly, read on. Otherwise, skip ahead to "Gather Camera Details".
File Server
Last time we use RTSP which required a special service of it's own. Now we are using HLS and MPEG-DASH, which produce manifest and accompany stream files on the local system. For example, MPEG-DASH will create a manifest.mpd file that contains links to *.m4s files in the same directory which are the chunked up video files.
That means if we make those files accessible remotely, we can use standard HTTP to transport the video. Hence the need for a basic file server. I personally use nginx for the final setup, as it's fast, easy to use, and has defaults we can use out of the box. So lets install it!
 sudo apt install nginx -y
Now all you need to do is open up a web browser on another computer on that network and connect to http://raspberrypi (If you changed hostname, or having trouble connecting, run hostname -I to see it's IP address and use http://<ip_address> instead.) You should see a simple webpage that says "Welcome to nginx!"
FFmpeg
Since the last article came out, FFmpeg has finally started shipping with hardware acceleration built in! If you still want to compile in some custom libraries or try and optimize it for your needs, check out my Raspberry Pi FFmpeg compile guide. Otherwise, just download it from the distribution repositories.
sudo apt install ffmpeg -y
You can verify it's part of the package by checking the encoders for h264_omx.
ffmpeg -hide_banner -encoders | grep omx
Should produce V….. h264_omx OpenMAX IL H.264 video encoder (codec h264) or similar. If for some reason it doesn't have that or other libraries you are looking for, such as the popular fdk-aac, look into my article onto compiling FFmpeg yourself, or use the helper script with the option --compile-ffmpeg.
Gather camera details
If you have the helper script, simply run it with the option --camera-details and it will print out each device and their formats with their highest resolution for each.
python3 streaming_setup.py --camera-details
# /dev/video0: {'yuyv422': '1280x800', 'mjpeg': '1280x720'}
Under the hood, this is running the following command for every device found.
ffmpeg -hide_banner -f video4linux2 -list_formats all -i /dev/video0
To also see what frame rates are supported per resolution, you will have to run the v4l2-ctl command for that device.
v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-formats-ext
Create the FFmpeg command
The FFmpeg command is particular about order when talking about input and output details. Ours will be broken down into the following blocks:
ffmpeg <incoming video details> -i <device> <conversion details> <output>
So let's say you are using a raspberry pi camera and want to stream 1080p video without re-encoding it. We first have to tell FFmpeg about the camera details it will pull from.
Applying the Camera Details
In longhand, it would look like this:
-input_format h264 -f video4linux2 -video_size 1920x1080 -framerate 30 -i /dev/video0
Hopefully each of those parts are pretty self explanatory. We can also reduce -video_size, aka the incoming resolution to -s, and -framerate, aka the fps to -r.
Network Bandwidth Considerations
Internet streamers, beware you may not be able to upload directly from the camera's full 1080p at 30fps. I did a quick test using vnstat over a wired connection with a Pi Zero, and found my 5MP OV5647 camera was using almost 20Mbit/s. Keep in mind the official Pi Camera with the sony sensor is 8MP so may be even higher than that.
The following tests were done at two minute averages while the stream was being watched. The averages were recorded, and generally the peaks were 2x the average.
ResolutionfpsAverage Mbit/s
1920×_PHONE_.12
1920×_PHONE_.12
1280×_PHONE_.81
1280×720303.94
1280×720152.75
640×480905.66
640×480604.43
640×480300.93
640×480150.43
Using a Pi Zero with 5MP OV5647 camera over ethernet
Conversion options
Since this already is h264 we don't need anything other than to say copy the incoming stream. So that option is -codec:v copy or shorthand -c:v copy. Which is saying set the codec of v for video tracks to copy aka don't convert.
-c:v copy
If you instead had a webcam that only supported mjpeg input, or if you needed to add text overlay to the video, you would have to recompile FFmpeg. With the Raspberry Pi, you'll want to use the built in hardware encoder, h264_omx. You would then also have to set the bitrate (-b:v) of the outgoing video. That is really camera / network dependent, but my rule of thumb is use video width x hight x 2. So 1920x1080x2 ==4,147,200, so I would set the bitrate to 4M (aka ~4000kb, or ~_PHONE_ bytes).
-c:v h264_omx -b:v 4M
The Raspberry Pi OpenMAX (omx) hardware encoder has very limited options, and doesn't support constant quality or rate factors like libx264 does. So the only way to adjust quality is with the bitrate. As for general quality, it sits between libx264s ultrafast and superfast presets, which is somewhat disappointing but not surprising for a real-time hardware encoder.
MPEG-DASH and HLS output
Personally I would never recommend HLS to a friend, as MPEG-DASH is all around a more open and powerful muxer. But


text: Tilt rotor aircrafts combine the advantages of the long mileage of fixed-wing airplanes and the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities of rotorcrafts by using tiltable rotors. However, tilt rotor aircrafts suffer from poor autorotation performance and landing stabilitiy. This work proposes an alternative actuation configuration of a tricopter tilt rotor aircraft that aims to optimize the flight duration, VTOL capabilities and stability control. The proposed configuration employs two front tilt rotors that are able to provide thrust-vectoring control with the addition of a fixed tail rotor that produces upward thrust. Dynamic modeling of the proposed actuation configuration is developed to provide insights on how different motions (hovering, ascending, descending, rotating and airplane-like flying) are achieved by manipulating the amounts of thrusts and rotor tilt angles. Preliminary prototype as well as the electronic and control systems are developed and discussed. Proposed configuration has the potential to achieve more sustainable flying.


Rectal and brain temperatures in ethanol intoxicated mice
M. Bejanian, D. A. Finn, P. J. Syapin, R. L. Alkana
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Abstract
The present study tested the assumption that deep rectal temperature reflects brain temperature in ethanol-intoxicated mice exposed to a range of ambient temperatures. Adult C57BL/6J mice were injected IP with one of three hypnotic doses of ethanol (3.2, 3.6, or 4.0 g/kg, 20% w/v) or with normal saline and were exposed to ambient temperatures of 15, 22, 32, or 34° C. Thirty minutes post-injection, the mice were killed by cervical dislocation, decapitated and their rectal and brain temperatures were recorded simultaneously. Rectal and brain temperatures in the intoxicated mice increased significantly as the ambient temperature increased and were highly correlated and linearly related with each other. Although correlated, brain and rectal temperatures in these mice did not change in parallel, with brain temperatures increasing less rapidly than rectal temperatures. Additional studies indicated that similar relationships (correlated, but non-parallel) exist between the brain and rectal temperatures at 60, 120, and 180 min after injection of 3.6 g/kg ethanol. These findings suggest that rectal temperature can be used to quantify brain temperature in intoxicated mice, and extend to intoxicated animals evidence that brain temperature is controlled independently from rectal temperature.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)301-307
Number of pages7
JournalPsychopharmacology
Volume92
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1987
Keywords
 - Ambient temperature challenge
 - Brain temperature
 - Drinking alcohol
 - Ethyl alcohol
 - Mice
 - Rectal temperature
ASJC Scopus subject areas
 - Pharmacology
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We present the SpinParser open-source software [ _URL_ ]. The software is designed to perform pseudofermion functional renormalization group (pf-FRG) calculations for frustrated quantum magnets in two and three spatial dimensions. It aims to make such calculations readily accessible without the need to write specialized program code; instead, custom lattice graphs and microscopic spin models can be defined as plain-text input files. Underlying symmetries of the model are automatically analyzed and exploited by the numerical core written in C++ in order to optimize the performance across large-scale shared memory and/or distributed memory computing platforms.
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Kenya's heritage corridor, awareness creation spread across the country to celebrate World Tourism Day
Awareness creation about heritage sites spread across the country are part of the key activities lined up to celebrate World Tourism Day in Kenya whose theme is "Rethinking Tourism".
Community sensitization, clean up exercises around the facilities are some of the highlights of the awareness program.
Kenya boasts of numerous prehistoric sites, museums and is home to seven United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites.
UNESCO'S heritage sites include Lamu, Old Town, Fort Jesus, The Sacred Kayas of Mijikenda and Thimlich Ohinga Archaeological Site.
The natural sites are Kenya's Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Lake Bogoria, Lake Nakuru and Lake Elementaita), Lake Turkana National Parks and Mt. Kenya National Park/Natural Forest.
Many of these sites and regions are dependent upon tourism to maintain their economic, environmental, social and cultural well-being. Kenya is working closely with UNESCO to support Lamu Old Town and Fort Jesus as part of the tourism recovery and sustainability initiative following the impact of covid19 pandemic on the tourism industry.


Elasticsearch Logstash Output
Elasticsearch logstash output – Runs a command for a matching event. By default the contents of the message field will be shipped as the free form message text part of the emitted syslog message.
Previously you must understand the background of loan and get some Elasticsearch logstash output references in other articles on this website.
If you plan to use the kibana web interface to analyze data transformed by logstash use the elasticsearch output plugin to get your data into elasticsearch.
Elasticsearch logstash output. The logstash output sends events directly to logstash by using the lumberjack protocol which runs over tcp. This output only speaks the http protocol as it is the preferred protocol for interacting with elasticsearch. A simple output which prints to the stdout of the shell running logstash. Elasticsearch logstash output
Writes metrics to ganglia s gmond. The license is apache 2 0 meaning you are pretty much free to use it however you want in whatever way. You can send messages compliant with rfc3164 or rfc5424 using either udp or tcp as the transport protocol. Elasticsearch logstash output
Make sure you rem out the line output elasticsearch too. Logstash allows for additional processing and routing of generated events. Unrem the logstash lines. Elasticsearch logstash output
Send events to a syslog server. This output can be quite convenient when debugging plugin configurations by allowing instant access to the event data after it has passed through the inputs and filters. Tell beats where to find logstash. Elasticsearch logstash output
Sends email to a specified address when output is received. Writes events to files on disk. Rem out the elasticsearch output we will use logstash to write there. Elasticsearch logstash output
The elasticsearch output sends events directly to elasticsearch using the elasticsearch http api. It is fully free and fully open source. Configure the output configure the logstash output configure the elasticsearch output edit when you specify elasticsearch for the output filebeat sends the transactions directly to elasticsearch by using the elasticsearch http api. Elasticsearch logstash output
If your messages don t have a message field or if you for some other reason want to change the emitted message modify the. View code readme md logstash plugin. This is a plugin for logstash. Elasticsearch logstash output
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Abstract Radial scar (RS) is a benign, well recognised, radiological and pathological entity. Histologically, it is characterised by a fibroelastotic core with entrapped ducts and surrounding radiating ducts and lobules. Postmortem studies indicate that these lesions are present commonly in the population, especially in association with benign breast disease. In recent years, their clinical relevance has assumed more importance with the introduction of population based screening programmes. The exact pathogenesis of RS is unknown. Accumulating evidence indicates that they are associated with atypia and/or malignancy and, in addition, may be an independent risk factor for the development of carcinoma in either breast. In view of the association with atypia and malignancy, excision biopsy is justified in RS, although it has been argued that core biopsy evaluation and surveillance may be appropriate in selected patients.
This article was published in J Clin Pathol
and referenced in Journal of Oncology Research and Treatment


Is The Book Of Judith True?
What does the name Judy mean for a girl?
Judy as a girl's name is of Hebrew origin meaning "praised".
It is a diminutive form of Judith first used in the 18th century.
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What is Jesus real name?
Is Tobias in the Bible?
Who did Judith kill in the Bible?
general SiseraJudith is an exemplary Jewish woman. Her deed is probably invented under the influence of the account of the 12th-century-bce Kenite woman Jael (Judg. 5:24–27), who killed the Canaanite general Sisera by driving a tent peg through his head.
Is the name Judith in the Bible?
From the Hebrew name יְהוּדִית (Yehudit) meaning "Jewish woman", feminine of יְהוּדִי (yehudi), ultimately referring to a person from the tribe of Judah. In the Old Testament Judith is one of the Hittite wives of Esau. This is also the name of the main character of the apocryphal Book of Judith.
Is Judy short for Judith?
Judy is a short form of the name Judith.
1939Judith has been used in the United States ever since 1880, with over 454321 girls given the name in the past 200 years. Judith gained the most popularity as a baby name in 1939, when it's usage went up by 149.62%.
Who wrote Judith poem?
Is Judy an old fashioned name?
Records indicate that 450,505 girls in the United States have been named Judith since 1880. The greatest number of people were given this name in 1943, when 25,188 people in the U.S. were given the name Judith. Those people are now 77 years old.
What are the books taken out of the Bible?
Where is the story of Judith found in the Bible?
The story of Judith and Holofernes is found among the apocryphal works of the Septuagint, the Greek translation of Hebrew Scripture, which formed the basis for the Old Testament. The purpose of the book is to inspire courage and patriotism through its heroine, a widow named Judith.
What does Judy mean in Arabic?
Judi is a name with multiple origins. It is a short form of the Hebrew name Judith. It is also an Arabic name referring to a mountain mentioned in the Quran.
Why is the book of wisdom not in the Protestant Bible?
What does Judith mean in the Bible?
What does Judea mean?
Why are the 14 books removed from the Bible?
What books did Martin Luther removed from the Bible?
Why was Judith removed from the Bible?
Why Tobit is not in the Bible?
What are the 14 missing books of the Bible?
14 of these books are included in this volume and these are the books; The First Book of Esdras, The Second Book of Esdras, The First Book of the Maccabees, The Second Book of the Maccabees, The Book of Baruch, The Book of Bel and the Dragon, Ecclesiastes or the Preacher, The Book of Esther, The Book of Judith, The …


text: A monopulse antenna array is designed by using a novel element combining wideband linearly tapered slot antennas (LTSA) with an interleaved, closely-spaced, travelling wave slotted waveguide array (TWSWA) similar to [1-3]. To decrease the deteriorating coupling between sum and difference rows in previous studies for monopulse operation, adjacent rows of interleaved arrays are designed to have the same amplitude distribution but different propagation constants. So, interleaved arrays generate two simultaneous sum beams with distinct but close squint angles. Dual array elements are represented by Sport networks. A 40-by-infinite array operating in 13% sidelobe bandwidth in C-band with 30-dB Taylor amplitude distribution is synthesized by the method proposed in . The array is verified by full-wave simulations in HFSS.


Khochay Pathan/ Khochey Pathan Meaning
It's commonly known that Pathan is an Iranian ethnic group between Afghanistan and Pakistan. They also called Pashtuns, the ones who speak Pashto.
Khocha, too, is used for Pashtuns. This is not clear if it's a specific group among the Pashtuns but that seems like a possibility. However, khocha is a relatively less used term and is a little debated as well, as some people say it's not a Pashto word, but coined by Punjabi speaking people.
Overall, though, we can safely say that Khocha Pathan is an Afghan, basically a Pashto native, and hence, the term Khochey Pathan ki Zubaan would mean 'Word of a Pashto/ Pathan', which is considered something irrevocable, something which he'd not go against, whatever happens.
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Primary Conclusions
 1. For inmates in the study that were released in FY 2001-02, the recommitment rate for the inmates who attended 10 or more sign-in chapel programs per month was 26% less than the recommitment rate for those inmates who did not attend any chapel programs. The data is as of December 31, 2004.
 2. The recommitment rate showed an inverse relationship to the number of times per month that the inmate attended a chapel program. The more the inmates attended a chapel program the smaller the recommitment rate.
 3. The percentage of inmates released who participated in religious programming was at least 13.5% higher than inmates who had no participation in religious programming. (see table on p.7)
 4. There is an inverse relationship between the disciplinary report rate for those inmates that remained incarcerated between 07/07/01 and 12/31/04 and the number of times per month (in the original study period only) that the inmate attended a sign-in chapel program. The more the inmates attended a chapel program the smaller the inmate disciplinary report rate.
 5. Fifty-four percent of inmate respondents to survey questions attributed better behavior (as measured in Disciplinary Reports received) to Chaplaincy Programs. The inmates surveyed were all measured in some capacity in the original study and still remain in custody in a FDC facility. Twenty-six percent of these same inmates duplicated in the "Additional Comments" area of the survey that in their opinion it was the Chaplain, a chapel program or a religious volunteer that was the catalyst for improved behavior. These unsolicited responses provide an indication of the sincerity of the inmate responses.


Learning Performance vCenter
PowerCLI Module to Check CPU, Memory and Storage OverCommitment
Today we have a special guest post from Mathieu Buisson:
In a vSphere environment, resource overcommitment can be a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing because it allows to run more VMs per host and to fully utilize the physical resources provided by the ESXi hosts, but it becomes a curse when too much overcommitment impacts performance of the VMs.
Checking the overcommitment levels on one host is easy, especially for CPU and memory resources, with esxtop, but what if you want to monitor these for several hosts?
For a DRS cluster, it may make more sense to monitor the overcommitment of CPU and memory resources at the cluster level. Also, for capacity planning purposes, you may want to measure this at the datacenter level, or for all hosts in your vCenter environment.
I wrote a PowerCLI module which makes this quick and easy. It contains 3 simple cmdlets: Get-CPUOvercommit, Get-MemoryOvercommit and Get-StorageOvercommit. It is the.psm1 file available here.
How to get started
It is a module, so you need to load it in your PowerCLI session, using the cmdlet Import-Module, to make the cmdlets it contains available.
Or, you could do like the cool kids: put the module file in a folder located in your PSModulePath environment variable and let Powershell 3.0 (or later) automatically load it for you.
This cmdlet obtains the number of vCPUs and the number of physical CPU cores for one or more ESXi hosts and compares them to evaluate CPU overcommitment.
It measures an overcommitment ratio and percentage by comparing the number of vCPUs of all the running VMs for a given host and the number of physical cores on that host.
For a DRS cluster, you may want to use the -Cluster parameter, which provides aggregate values for the specified cluster:
The values may not be very representative (it is just a tiny lab for illustration purposes) but the key here is the value of "vCPU/Core ratio": lower than 1 means that there is no overcommitment and greater than 1 means that there is overcommitment.
The -VMHosts parameter of Get-CPUOvercommit takes pipeline input, so you can get exactly the hosts you are interested in, using Get-VMHost and then pipe them to Get-CPUOvercommit, and format the result as a table if you want:
This cmdlet obtains the physical RAM of one or more ESXi hosts and the memory presented to the VMs on the host (also known as vRAM). The property named "Total vRAM (GB)" includes all the VMs registered to the host, whereas "PoweredOn vRAM (GB)" includes only the running VMs.
Again, the overcommitment ratio takes only into account the running VMs.
It can be run without any parameter. In this case, it checks every host managed by the vCenter server(s) PowerCLI is connected to.
Storage overcommitment is different from CPU and memory overcommitment in that it is more about capacity than performance. But still, it needs to be monitored because a host of bad things happens when a datastore is full.
This storage overcommitment is possible only when there are thin provisioned VMDKs and this doesn't take into account thin provisioning at the LUN level, which may be provided by the storage array.
This cmdlet obtains the used space, provisioned space and capacity for one or more datastores (or a datastore cluster if the -Cluster parameter is used) and it compares the provisioned space with the capacity to measure storage overcommitment.
The provisioned space includes the space provisioned for all VMDKs, snapshots, linked clones, swap files and VM logs.
The -Datastore parameter takes pipeline input so, here is an example of selecting a specific set of datastores and piping them to Get-StorageOvercommit.
The 3 cmdlets of this module also have a -Quiet parameter. In "quiet mode", they only output a boolean value: "True" if there is overcommitment, "False" if not.
This can be useful to trigger some actions depending on whether there is overcommitment or not, most likely in a PowerCLI script.
This is pretty much all there is to it, but in case you want a detailed documentation for these cmdlets, it is only a "Get-Help" away.
Hope it is useful!
Mathieu Buisson
Mathieu is a support engineer in the French TLS team, providing technical support on vSphere to customers in the French market. He joined VMware in late 2012 and as part of VMware Support, is committed to deliver a great support to customers with their ESXi and vCenter-related issues.
On his spare time, he likes listening to noisy music, cycling and learning new IT products and technologies. He is a fervent Powershell advocate and PowerCLI enthusiast.
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 1. Hi Brian and Mathieu,
 Thanks for sharing such a great script. However, it doesn't work when I execute it under my PowerGUI console session as follows:
 Import-Module -Name "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Add-on.VMware-OverCommitment\Add-on.VMware-OverCommitmentScript.psm1"
 Get-CPUOvercommit -Cluster "Production"
 it returns with long error message:
 Unable to find type [ordered]: make sure that the assembly containing this type is loaded.
 At C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Add-on.VMware-OverCommitment\Add-on.VMware-OverCommitmentScript.psm1:74 char:50
 + $OvercommitInfoProperties = [ordered] <<<< @{'ESXi Host'=$VMhost.Name
 + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (ordered:String) [], RuntimeException
 + FullyQualifiedErrorId : TypeNotFound
 New-Object : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Property'. The argument is null or empty. Supply an argument that is not null or empty and then try the command again.
 At C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Add-on.VMware-OverCommitment\Add-on.VMware-OverCommitmentScript.psm1:83 char:73
 + $OvercommitInfoObj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property <<<< $OvercommitInfoProperties
 + CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [New-Object], ParameterBindingValidationException
 + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand
 Any idea of how to load the script properly?
 1. [ordered] is to guarantee the order in a hash table and it is a new feature introduced in Powershell version 3.
 Can you check the value of $PSVersionTable.PSVersion to make sure this is using Powershell version 3 or later?
 If yes, and if you encounter this issue only in PowerGUI, then it seems that PowerGUI is confused by the square brackets and tries to look for a.NET class called "Ordered".
 This doesn't work because [ordered] is not a.NET class but it is more like a hint for the Powershell interpreter.
 In this case, you might have to try a more recent version of PowerGUI or remove all the occurrences of "[ordered]" from the script.
 The only issue if [ordered] is removed from the script is that the order of the properties of the output object will not be guaranteed.
 This means you might get : 'Total vCPUs', 'CPU Overcommit (%)', 'ESXi Host', 'CPU Cores', and 'PoweredOn vCPUs' in this order, or any other order.
 2. It would be great ito update this script so it can take Get-Cluster as a pipeline argument or work with "-Cluster *" parameter to show all cluster.
 1. Hi Greg,
 Great idea!
 Adding pipeline input for the -Cluster parameter and the ability to process more than one cluster makes a lot of sense.
 However, this forces the -Cluster parameter to take objects of the type VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.ClusterImpl and removes the ability to give it a simple string, which some users might prefer…
 Anyway, I will work on that and add a reply to your to comment to let you know.
 3. 1) Is there a command so I can have the CPU and MEMORY overcommit in one screen? So 1 table which lists me the host with all the CPU en MEM overcommit details?
 2) I have multiple ESX clusters, is there a way to add the cluster field to which the host belongs?
 4. Thanks a lot for putting that powercli module together! I integrated that module also into our OpBot, so you can run it out of slack chat 🙂 Please send me an email if you want to test it yourself.
 5. This gave me wacky results – 3 identical Hosts each with 2 x Sockets with 6 cores each & HT = 24 vCPU
 When i ran this against those 3 to format-table it told me that they had 24, 36 & 48 vCPU respectively??
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The Real Hammer House of Horror: Oakley Court Hotel Windsor
Brian Langston is a retired Assistant Chief Constable now living in Southern France where he writes on crime, mysteries and the paranormal.
The Oakley Court Hotel near Windsor. Is this one of England's most haunted houses?
Supernatural Pedigree
To the west of Windsor lies the pretty village of Oakley Green which is dominated by Oakley Court, an extraordinary high-gothic mansion built on the banks of the Thames in 1859 by Sir Richard Hall-Say. Local legend claims that the house was built in the style of a French Chateau to comfort his homesick French wife. In fact, his wife was Edith Evans from nearby Boveney and the house, although magnificent, could not be described as French.
Nevertheless, it does have some French credentials. In 1919, it was bought by Ernest Olivier the Turkish Consul-General in Monte Carlo. During the Second World War, through his influence, the house became the secret headquarters of the French Resistance and Charles De Gaulle stayed in one of the bedrooms.
In 1955, Bray Studios opened next door, and the impressive tower and foreboding facade of Oakley Court became a splendidly atmospheric setting for many of their films. In 1965, after the death of Olivier, the house was left uninhabited for 14 years. During this time, Hammer and other filmmakers seized the opportunity to cast it as a creepy haunted house or Dracula's castle in over 200 films, including the Hammer Classics like The Brides of Dracula (1962), The Reptile (1966) and The Plague of the Zombies (1966). The house also featured in The Old Dark House 1963, And Now the Screaming Starts (1973), The Vampyres (1974), Murder by Death (1976) and the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore film, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978). It is perhaps best known as Dr. Frank N. Furter's castle (called 'The Frankenstein Place') in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
Tragic Unexplained Deaths
The sinister pedigree was not, however, confined to the silver screen. From the late 1960s, the house was converted into flats, and it is during this period that the paranormal activity in and around the house intensified to the extent that it became described not only as haunted but evil. Residents reported hearing strange banging noises coming from parts of the house which were not occupied. Ghostly figures appeared at night driving away several tenants. Bad luck and tragedy befell many who lived there, and the atmosphere around the building apparently became so oppressive that it caused many people to commit suicide in the Thames. One man drowned in 1971 after falling from a pleasure steamer; his body was recovered near the house.
Another tragic case involved Penelope Gallerneault, aged 26, who moved into an apartment in the converted servants' quarters of Oakley Court with her husband and four children.
Friends had warned the family before they moved in that the place was haunted and had a previous history of accidents involving death by drowning. Penelope and her husband dismissed the stories as fanciful and reveled in their beautiful new riverside home. Little did they know that this was to be the worst decision they ever made. Within three years, two of their children would be dead, and their lives would be in turmoil.
The horror began in the summer of 1972 when Mrs. Gallerneault first sensed that something was very wrong at Oakley Court.
"'I started to see people walking in the grounds wearing hoods. This was accompanied by an overwhelming feeling of dread" she said. "Then one morning I found a box on the doorstep. When I opened it I was horrified to see the body of one of my cats with its neck broken". Although this was reported to the police, it was never discovered who was responsible but added to the rumors that evil forces were at work at Oakley Court.
Catastrophe struck shortly afterward when, in December, her two-year-old son, William, drowned. Mrs. Gallerneault was running him a bath when the phone rang. When she returned a few minutes later, he was floating dead in the water.
"I realise that many people might try to blame me for being careless, but that is just not the case. In a rambling old house like that, there are so many precautions you have to take.She told a newspaper in 1973.
Her grief was compounded when within months another almost identical tragedy struck the family. Her second son Edward, who was just two, was left in his playpen in the grounds of the house. Inexplicably, he managed to climb out, toddled down to the river, fell in and was drowned. The family was devastated and left the house shortly afterward, although their marriage did not survive the trauma.
Mrs Gallerneault told reporters, 'The house has an aura of evil, and I could never go back there. Horror films being made there might seem like a joke. I'm sure evil has rubbed off on the place or something awful has been invoked."
The Rev. Sebastian Jones, curate of St Michael's Church, Bray, added; "Oakley Court is definitely "spooky" and I would not want to stay there myself. Evil can generate evil, and the grounds would be an ideal place to practice black magic."
A senior policeman said at the time: "There have been some strange happenings at the house, which have never been fully explained. We made regular patrols after complaints about witchcraft being practiced and things seem to have quietened down now."
The house has an aura of evil and I would never go back there...
— Penelope Gallerneault, 1972
The Brides of Dracula 1966
The Brides of Dracula 1966
Disturbed Spirits
However, things did not remain quiet for very long. During its conversion to a hotel in the late 1970s, there were a number of strange incidents which further cemented its reputation of being one of the country's most haunted houses. On one occasion, workers fled the site when a pair of internal double doors burst open in front of them and glasses were smashed around them as if thrown by an unseen assailant.
The development was dogged with continuous electrical faults, and tools went missing and strange noises were heard coming from parts of the building they knew were unoccupied.
One contractor remarked; "From the day we started on the site we were plagued by inexplicable events. It was as though we were not welcome in the house and everything happened to delay the work or drive us away."
Workers refused to stay at the house after dark and ghost-like figures were seen on several occasions in the grounds. In response to damage being committed in the house overnight, the developers installed resident security guards but a succession of night watchman came and went after reporting hearing mournful moaning noises coming from the upper floors and the sound of people "marching on the roof." One of them narrowly escaped death after falling through the roof while investigating the strange noises.
Oakley Court Hotel
Oakley Court Hotel
Hooded figures have been seen in the grounds
Hooded figures have been seen in the grounds
A Time Slip Experienced?
In 1981, it finally opened its doors as a hotel, but the refurbishment failed to dislodge the ghostly entities. It became a regular tea spot for the Windsor police night shift, and before long, stories eerie new phenomena began to emerge from the night porters, who welcomed the nocturnal visits by the local police.
Phantom hooded figures were still observed stalking the grounds. The sound of a 'break shot' was heard coming from the billiard room in the middle of the night but when reception staff investigated they found the balls still in position and nothing had been touched.
In recent years, room 117 has acquired the reputation of being the most haunted after guests have reported seeing ghostly apparitions and even a possible time slip during their stay there.
One guest awoke in the middle of the night after sensing someone was standing next to his bed. He could make out a shadowy figure in the gloom and switched on the bedside light. He then saw standing beside the bed what he described as a 19th century gentleman in evening dress. He noticed that the room had also changed shape.
The ghost stood motionless until the guest leaped out of bed in fright and the spirit just melted away into the ether and the room reconfigured back to its correct shape. Inquiries later revealed that the configuration seen by the guest was, in fact, the original layout of the room before the refurbishment of the house although the identity of the ghost remains unknown.
Phantom Photograph
The manager of Oakley Court reports that to this day some staff will not go into one of the upstairs rooms due to an oppressive atmosphere and a feeling of being continually watched.
Guests have complained about knocks on their bedroom doors in the middle of the night and when checking have found no-one there. Visitors have also reported phantom images appearing on their camera shots. One such photograph is displayed in the hotel and shows a ghostly figure sitting at a dining table which the photographer and his companion insist, was empty when the picture was taken.
Psychics investigators claim that a pervading sense of menace still shrouds Oakley Court and it is this, rather than simply the imposing architecture and gruesome gargoyles, that accounts for the shiver down the spine which many visitors experience, when crossing the threshold for the first time.
© 2015 Brian Langston
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Have you seen what acid dye can do? After doing a good deal of reading about how you only need the primary colors of acid dyes and that by mixing the primary colors you can make any color with acid dye, I decided to venture out in my own usual way. Instead of opting for the primary colors and carefully weighing and measuring everything to build a color, I decided to use the pre-mixed colors and "break" them into their component colors. The results are more fun than you can imagine!
The rules are there for a reason, but what is the reason? Pre-dissolving the dyes is necessary regardless of color, as no one wants to have dye granules in their yarn or fiber. Heating the dye pot is needed to activate the dye. The two aspects that can be manipulated to get amazing results is the distribution of the acid in the dye pot, and the pre-wetting of the fiber. These are rules that are in place to give uniform results within the batch and to make it possible to repeat colors from one batch to the next. This is a great tool for mass production, but for small batch artistic dye work, it may not be the best way.
I use food grade citric acid in my dye pot. It takes a scant tablespoon to four gallons of water. The citric acid is sold in most health food stores in a white granulated form. To achieve a broken dye, add the citric acid to the pot and stir minimally. This will allow the acid to dissolve without being evenly distributed through the dye pot. The variations in the ph within the dye-bath will cause certain colors to be taken up more readily than others. For example, using ProChem Violet 818, it breaks into a very dark purple, a blue, and a deep mauve.
The other factor that can be manipulated when dyeing protein fibers is pre-wetting the fiber. Leaving a portion of the yarn or roving floating on the top of the soak water and only wetting it as it is placed into the dye pot, will cause an uneven take-up of the dye solution. The resulting yarn or fiber will be various shades of the same color. If you combine this technique with the layered dye bath, the results are phenomenal!
It just proves that while most rules are there for a reason, some can be broken to achieve amazing results!

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Purpose: How to write a GlideRecord loop to batch update Records in ServiceNow using a Functional Programming style
Use: Use this script in a Server Script. Typically this will be used in a Background Script, Scheduled Job, or Fix Script in order to execute a batch operation to fix records, particularly after a data import, system upgrade, or app upgrade. In the following example, a fix could be applied to every incident record and a comment added to annotate the fix.
 * Applies the callback function to each incident record
 * in the query
 * _USER_ {Function} callback - Callback function applied to each incident record
function forEachIncident(callback) {
 var tableName = 'incident';
 var incident = new GlideRecord(tableName);
 while (incident.next()) {
 callback(incident); // Apply callback to the record
 * Adds comment to a single incident record
 * _USER_ {GlideRecord} incident - An Incident GlideRecord instance
function addComment(incident) {
 incident.comments = 'This comment will be added';
// This example will loop through all incident records and add a comment


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Masimbaashe Chikuni, a third year Bachelor of Computer Science student in the College of Business, Peace, Leadership and Governance received special recognition in the 2020 MultiCity Challenge public engagement initiative for his project that looks at increasing resilience through Data Science & Flood Warnings in the City of Mutare.
5 African cities in collaboration with the UNDP and Gov Lab at New York University Tandon School of Innovation hosted the 2020 MultiCity Challenge initiative that aims to tackle urban challenges by partnering the people most affected by them, namely city residents. The participating cities included:
Accra, Ghana
Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Kampala, Uganda
Masimbaashe provided context as to why his project focus zoned in on flooding drawing from the experiences and challenges posed by 2019's Cyclone Idai that affected the Chimanimani area of Manicaland.
"With the advent of global climate change, most countries are experiencing a significant weather change, both in temperature and precipitation. The rising temperature accompanied with altering precipitation patterns has accelerated hydrological cycles and increased the frequency of occurrence of natural disasters such as cyclones. Reviewing cyclone Idai that struck Zimbabwe in March 2019, it exhibited unusual characteristics that resulted in disastrous impacts. To date, an estimated 50 000 households were affected with the Chimanimani district being the worst affected because of lack of preparedness. For urban and peri-urban settlements, there is need to enhance climate resilience at different scales and with a range of different measures. By incorporating data science and flood warning systems, we will be better equipped to respond to natural disasters and prevent future disasters from occurring."
Speaking to the importance of research generated by Africa's youth and the prestige of receiving special recognition, Masimbaashe went on to say,
"Being recognized for my contributions to building urban resilience is a great honor that broadens my professional experiences, builds my confidence and increases my perseverance. It is encouragement to continue to tackle big challenges and reframe the future. I entered the initiative to test my ideas and see how viable they are especially when implemented in the real-world. It gives me a sense of accomplishment to know that I have a voice to add to the development narrative and it gives me the boldness required to develop new systems to emancipate and grow Africa."
The Africa University College of Business, Peace, Leadership and Governance has set a track record of excellence in studentled research and innovation. This award recognition comes on the back of a previous win by four students also in the Computer Science programme who won the UmojaHack Zimbabwe InterUniversity Hackathon that took place towards the end of 2020 and focused on the utilization of big data in realworld problem solving.
Mentorship by leading college academics such as Dr. Yogesh Kumar Awasthi lends students the critical support required in the knowledge generation process.
Dr. Yogesh said,
"Effective mentorship is critical to the success of early stage researchers, and has been linked to enhanced mentee productivity, self-efficacy, and career satisfaction. The Objective is to provide all students across the all technical fields with evidence-based mentorship and professional development programming that emphasizes the benefits and challenges of diversity, inclusivity, and culture within mentoring relationships, and more broadly the research workforce."
Dr. Yogesh went on to expand on the critical need for the creation of strong research structures and mechanisms to engage more young people in the process.
"The world is well into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and yet education systems have not kept pace. Young people are often not learning the skills they need to succeed in the 21st century and interact with their changing world, such as digital literacy, problem solving, and critical thinking. Despite widespread recognition of the importance of these skills for the future in education policies, very few education systems have adapted to this reality. On the African continent, where 60 percent of the population is under the age of 25, the teaching of 21st century skills will be necessary for Africa to transform itself into a continent of growth and opportunity. If young people do not learn how to use and create with technology, they are sure to fall further behind. To achieve the vision of 2030, technological advancement will play a vital role which is led by computer science."
He went on to put emphasis on the need to encourage, motivate and inspire students with academic staff being a conduit for budding researchers to contribute actively to the development of the continent.
Our young and energetic researchers should come forward and play their role in development of the country and continent. Awards and recognition like this motivates us and encourages us to show our best at social and economic research levels. As we know, Africa is grappling with lots issues therefore it is the responsibility of the universities to come forward and give their input for innovations and solutions of existing problems. Universities are not only made to provide degrees but now is the time to participate in the socio economic development of the nation."
The GovLab created the City Challenges model in 2016 under the notion that public institutions need to change how they work, becoming more data-driven, agile, innovative, and capable of tapping expertise from new sources to respond more effectively to novel challenges. The first pilot of this initiative was carried out in the municipality of San Pedro Garza García, Mexico. The Multi-City Challenge scales the previous model running the programme in parallel in different cities that share similar urban challenges. This programme allows them to pool the expertise of their civil servants and residents to define problems and to find innovative solutions to solve them creating synergies and economies of scale between them.(_URL_


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WARNING: From 9am on 19th August until 5pm on 2nd September there will be no access to the Stanage HPC cluster.
We will send an email to notify you when Stanage is back online and available for job submission.
Attention
The ShARC HPC cluster was decommissioned on the 30th of November 2023 at 17:00. It is no longer possible for users to access that cluster.
1. JupyterHub on ShARC: connecting, requesting resources and starting a session
1.1. Connecting
 1. From a web browser navigate to the following URL from a machine that is on-campus or has a VPN connection to the University:
 _URL_

 2. When prompted, log in using your University username (e.g. te1st, not the first part of your email address) and password.
 ../../../_images/jh-sharc-login.png
 You can only run one Jupyer Notebook Server on the cluster at a time but you can use your Notebook Server to run multiple Notebooks.
1.2. Requesting resources (Spawner options)
Before the Notebook server starts you may wish to request resources such as memory, multiple CPUs and GPUs using the Spawner options form. It presents you with a number of options:
1.2.1. Project
As a user on the cluster you are a member of one or more User Groups, which in turn give access to Projects. By submitting a job using a Project you can:
 - Use restricted-access worker nodes (possibly bought by your research group);
 - Have your job's CPU and memory usage logged in a way that ensures all users of the cluster get fair usage.
Most users do not need to select a specific Project and should leave this setting as its default.
1.2.2. Job Queue
Selecting any lets the scheduler choose an appropriate Job Queue, which is typically what you want.
1.2.3. Email address
The resource (CPU, memory and runtime) usage of your Jupyter session will be emailed to this address when it is stopped or aborts.
This information can by useful for diagnosing why the job scheduler has killed your Jupyter session should your session use more computation resources than you requested at the outset.
1.2.4. CPU cores
If you select >1 core then you must also select a Parallel Environment otherwise only 1 core will be granted.
1.2.5. Parallel Environment
 - smp: The number of CPU cores selected above are all allocated on one node.
 - mpi: The number of CPU cores selected above are allocated on one or more nodes.
1.2.6. RAM per CPU core
A value in gigabytes.
1.2.7. GPUS per CPU core
Requires that Project is gpu (public GPUs) or another project that allow you access to GPUs e.g. rse.
1.2.8. Notebook session runtime
This is currently fixed at 4 hours.
1.3. Starting your Notebook session using the requested resources
After you've specified the resources you want for your job, click Spawn to try starting a Jupyter session on one (or more) worker nodes. This may take a minute.
Warning
If the cluster is busy or you have requested an incompatible or otherwise unsatisfiable set of resources from the job scheduler then this attempt to start a session will time out and you will return to the Spawner options form.
Once your session has started you should see the main main JupyterLab interface.


ner.Client()
 instance = spanner_client.instance(instance_id)
 database = instance.database(database_id)
 operation = database.update_ddl(
 [
 "CREATE INDEX AlbumsByAlbumTitle2 ON Albums(AlbumTitle)"
 "STORING (MarketingBudget)"
 ]
 )
 print("Waiting for operation to complete...")
 operation.result(OPERATION_TIMEOUT_SECONDS)
 print("Added the AlbumsByAlbumTitle2 index.")
Run the sample using the add_storing_index argument.
python snippets.py test-instance --database-id example-db add_storing_index
You should see:
Added the AlbumsByAlbumTitle2 index.
Now you can execute a read that fetches all AlbumId, AlbumTitle, and MarketingBudget columns from the AlbumsByAlbumTitle2 index:
def read_data_with_storing_index(instance_id, database_id):
 """Reads sample data from the database using an index with a storing
 clause.
 The index must exist before running this sample. You can add the index
 by running the 'add_scoring_index' sample or by running this DDL statement
 against your database:
 CREATE INDEX AlbumsByAlbumTitle2 ON Albums(AlbumTitle)
 STORING (MarketingBudget)
 """
 spanner_client = spanner.Client()
 instance = spanner_client.instance(instance_id)
 database = instance.database(database_id)
 with database.snapshot() as snapshot:
 keyset = spanner.KeySet(all_=True)
 results = snapshot.read(
 table="Albums",
 columns=("AlbumId", "AlbumTitle", "MarketingBudget"),
 keyset=keyset,
 index="AlbumsByAlbumTitle2",
 )
 for row in results:
 print("AlbumId: {}, AlbumTitle: {}, " "MarketingBudget: {}".format(*row))
Run the sample using the read_data_with_storing_index argument.
python snippets.py test-instance --database-id example-db read_data_with_storing_index
You should see output similar to:
AlbumId: 2, AlbumTitle: Forever Hold Your Peace, MarketingBudget: 300000
AlbumId: 2, AlbumTitle: Go, Go, Go, MarketingBudget: None
AlbumId: 1, AlbumTitle: Green, MarketingBudget: None
AlbumId: 3, AlbumTitle: Terrified, MarketingBudget: None
AlbumId: 1, AlbumTitle: Total Junk, MarketingBudget: 300000
Retrieve data using read-only transactions
Suppose you want to execute more than one read at the same timestamp. Read-only transactions observe a consistent prefix of the transaction commit history, so your application always gets consistent data. Use a Snapshot object for executing read-only transactions. To get a Snapshot object, call the snapshot() method of the Database class in a with statement.
The following shows how to run a query and perform a read in the same read-only transaction:
def read_only_transaction(instance_id, database_id):
 """Reads data inside of a read-only transaction.
 Within the read-only transaction, or "snapshot", the application sees
 consistent view of the database at a particular timestamp.
 """
 spanner_client = spanner.Client()
 instance = spanner_client.instance(instance_id)
 database = instance.database(database_id)
 with database.snapshot(multi_use=True) as snapshot:
 # Read using SQL.
 results = snapshot.execute_sql(
 "SELECT SingerId, AlbumId, AlbumTitle FROM Albums"
 )
 print("Results from first read:")
 for row in results:
 print("SingerId: {}, AlbumId: {}, AlbumTitle: {}".format(*row))
 # Perform another read using the 'read' method. Even if the data
 # is updated in-between the reads, the snapshot ensures that both
 # return the same data.
 keyset = spanner.KeySet(all_=True)
 results = snapshot.read(
 table="Albums", columns=("SingerId", "AlbumId", "AlbumTitle"), keyset=keyset
 )
 print("Results from second read:")
 for row in results:
 print("SingerId: {}, AlbumId: {}, AlbumTitle: {}".format(*row))
Run the sample using the read_only_transaction argument.
python snippets.py test-instance --database-id example-db read_only_transaction
You should see output similar to:
Results from first read:
SingerId: 2, AlbumId: 2, AlbumTitle: Forever Hold Your Peace
SingerId: 1, AlbumId: 2, AlbumTitle: Go, Go, Go
SingerId: 2, AlbumId: 1, AlbumTitle: Green
SingerId: 2, AlbumId: 3, AlbumTitle: Terrified
SingerId: 1, AlbumId: 1, AlbumTitle: Total Junk
Results from second read:
SingerId: 1, AlbumId: 1, AlbumTitle: Total Junk
SingerId: 1, AlbumId: 2, AlbumTitle: Go, Go, Go
SingerId: 2, AlbumId: 1, AlbumTitle: Green
SingerId: 2, AlbumId: 2, AlbumTitle: Forever Hold Your Peace
SingerId: 2, AlbumId: 3, AlbumTitle: Terrified
Cleanup
To avoid incurring additional charges to your Cloud Billing account for the resources used in this tutorial, drop the database and delete the instance that you created.
Delete the database
If you delete an instance, all databases within it are automatically deleted. This step shows how to delete a database without deleting an instance (you would still incur charges for the instance).
On the command line
gcloud spanner databases delete example-db --instance=test-instance
Using the Google Cloud console
 1. Go to the Spanner Instances page in the Google Cloud console.
 Go to the Instances page
 2. Click the instance.
 3. Click the database that you want to delete.
 4. In the Database details page, click Delete.
 5. Confirm that you want to delete the database and click Delete.
Delete the instance
Deleting an instance automatically drops all databases created in that instance.
On the command line
gcloud spanner instances delete test-instance
Using the Google Cloud console
 1. Go to the Spanner Instances page in the Google Cloud console.
 Go to the Instances page
 2. Click your instance.
 3. Click Delete.
 4. Confirm that you want to delete the instance and click Delete.
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Example 8.4.9: Applying the Lagrange Remainder
f(x) =where r(x) goes to zero as x goes to c.
Use this result and the function f(x)= to show that
The first statement is a straight-forward application of the Lagrange remainder theorem - try it youself!
As for the application, let f(x)=, which is continuously differentiable around c = 0. According to our statement (and taking the first derivative at zero) we have:
= 1 + x/2 + x r(x)
for some r(x) with r(x) = 0. To apply this to our problem, we need to see involved somehow. Therefore we factor an n to get:
Now we can apply our approximation to the second root, with x = 1/, to get:
which, together with the fact that r(x) = 0 will do the trick.


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Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum will host Intrepid On Liberty: National Air & Space Museum on Thursday, February 24, 6-7pm EST.
Join the Intrepid Museum and fellow veterans, service members and their loved ones for this virtual staycation. They will be Zooming into the Washington, DC area to visit with the National Air and Space Museum. Dr. Margaret Weitekamp, Space History curator, and Intrepid Museum's Senior Educator Jim Tardiff will discuss different eras of space tourism. Dr. Ross Irwin, curator in the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, will follow up the talk by discussing where private space travel is heading today and the impact it will have on the future of NASA. Come learn about this fascinating and rapidly developing topic!
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The Quantitative Reasoning Program was established at Bowdoin in 1996 (as the Quantitative Skills Program - later changed to QR) to support all students in strengthening their understanding and application of mathematical, logical, and statistical skills.
Services provided by the QR Program include:
- Assessing first-year students' quantitative literacy
- Advising students, in coordination with academic advisors, regarding appropriate quantitative courses
- Establishing study groups for quantitative courses
- Providing individual tutoring, in coordination with the course department, for students in quantitative courses
- Offering supplemental support to quantitative courses, as requested by faculty
The Quantitative Reasoning Program is located in The Center for Learning and Teaching, Kanbar Hall, Room 102. Please contact Eric Gaze, Director (_EMAIL_) or _PHONE_.


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Audi Teases New Lightweight R8 Variant Codenamed NF
During a presentation at a technology demonstration at its lightweight research and production plant in Neckersulm, Germany, senior Audi product developers teased an upcoming R8 supercar variant codenamed "NF" that will feature even greater usage of lightweight composites.
Before we go any further, the photos you see here are not the NF. Audi showed journalists a computer rendering of the passenger cell of the NF during a presentation on the progression of carbon-fiber and other lightweight materials in Audi vehicles. The white R8 5.2 V-10 you see depicted is a lightweight prototype we believe is related to the NF project. Audi would not allow cameras into the presentations, instead handing out the approved photos you see here.
The vehicle identified as R8 NF was featured on a timeline describing the proliferation of carbon-fiber in vehicles such as the R8 and highlighted the carbon-fiber engine cover on the R8 Spyder, the roof of the R8-based E-Tron and the various pieces found on the limited-run R8 GT, amongst others. Denoted at the 2014 mark was the NF, or more specifically, the passenger section. The image, taken in context, implied that the NF would feature a new carbon-fiber rear bulkhead between the seat backs and the engine compartment and showed the carbon-fiber piece extending into the lower B-pillars. Audi would not elaborate on the image.
Later during a tour of the Audi Lightweight Design Center at Neckersulm, however, the company showed off the white R8 prototype you see here. This car has had multiple pieces of the bodywork replaced with carbon-fiber including the bumpers and the decklid. More significantly, Audi had also replaced the roof and floor pans with carbon-fiber. All told, Audi says, the prototype is 20-percent lighter than an aluminum-bodied R8. Audi engineers then unveiled a crash-tested prototype R8 similar to the white car that also featured carbon-fiber roof rails, an important structural member.
The photo of the video screen shows the crash test results, which reveals that the carbon-fiber floor pan survived the head-on front crash test without incident. Audi also used the same car in both a side-impact crash test with a pole and a roof-crush test, during which the carbon-fiber roof rails intruded minimally into the passenger cabin. The carbon-fiber floor didn't fare as well in the side-impact test, buckling underneath the seat but with almost no intrusion into the passenger cabin. Audi claims that the intrusion from all three tests was so small that the car meets current crash testing requirements. Audi did not provide pictures of the crash-test car.
The company had another spoiler up its sleeve as well. Later in the demonstration, the company elaborated on the research it has done on the use of carbon-fiber as s structural element. The wavy, corrugated piece of carbon-fiber you see in the pictures was used in a drop test to assess its ability to absorb crash energy. Engineers then showed a simulation in which the corrugated piece was used behind the passenger compartment of a coupe (which looked an awful lot like an R8) for energy absorption during a rear-end crash. This leads us to believe that the company is researching the possibility of replacing traditional metal crumple zones with carbon-fiber in the future to further reduce weight.
We'll have more for you on Audi's research into lightweight materials and construction techniques later this weekend as the event continues.
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The Effect of using Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) Technique for Learning Mathematics in Bangladesh
Volume 3 - Issue 3
Abdus Salam Anwar Hossain Shahidur RahmanPages: 35-45 Download Count : 6908 View Count: 2388
Games-based learning has captured the interest of educationalists and industrialists who seek to reveal the characteristics of computer games as they are perceived by some to be a potentially effective approach for teaching and learning. Despite this interest in using games-based learning, there is a dearth of studies context of gaming and education in third world countries. This study investigated the effects of game playing on performance and attitudes of students towards mathematics of Grade VIII. The study was undergone by implementing TGT technique for the experimental group and typical lecture-based approach for the control group. A same achievement test was employed as in both pretest and post test, an inventory of attitudes towards mathematics were applied for the pretest and post test on TGT experimental and control group, an attitude scale on computer games was employed for the TGT experimental group, a semi-structured interview for teacher and an FGD guideline for students were applied to serving the purpose of research objectives. After three-weeks of intervention, it had been found out that TGT experimental group students had achieved a significant learning outcome than lecture based control group students. Attitude towards mathematics were differed to a certain positive extent on TGT experimental group. On the basis of findings of this study, some recommendations were made to overcome the barriers of integrating web-based game playing in a classroom.
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- announce officially or publicly
(e.g: they proclaimed that housing shortages would be solved within ten years)
- indicate clearly
(e.g: his high, intelligent forehead proclaimed a strength of mind that was almost tangible)
late Middle English proclame, from Latin proclamare 'cry out', from pro- 'forth' + clamare 'to shout'. The change in the second syllable was due to association with the verb claim
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I've created a check box on a window using the following call to CreateWindowEx()..
(note: h_check is a window handle(HWND), h_mainwindow is a handle to the parent window which has been created, CBID_CW is a constant and is used as an id number, app_instance is the hInstance passed to WinMain())
h_check = CreateWindowEx(NULL, "BUTTON", "Blah", WS_VISIBLE | WS_CHILD | BS_AUTOCHECKBOX | BS_TEXT, 0, 0, 100, 17, h_mainwindow, (HMENU)(CBID_CW), app_instance, NULL);
My problem lies here.. The main window background is white but the check box has a grey background behind the text. I want to change the colour of the grey area behind the check boxes text to white so it matches the rest of the window.
Can anyone give me an example of how to do this without drawing the check box myself?
If i have to draw the checkbox myself that doesn't matter but it would be easier if i could just get windows to draw it a different colour.


text: Summary. We use a multipath (multistate) model to describe data with multiple end points. Statistical inference based on the intermediate end point is challenging because of the problems of nonidentifiability and dependent censoring. We study nonparametric estimation for the path probability and the sojourn time distributions between the states. The methodology proposed can be applied to analyse cure models which account for the competing risk of death. Asymptotic properties of the estimators proposed are derived. Simulation shows that the methods proposed have good finite sample performance. The methodology is applied to two data sets.


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Evidence for compromised metabolic function and limited glucose uptake in spermatazoa form the teratospermic domestic cat (Felis catus) and cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)Scientific Papers
Cheetahs and certain other felids consistently ejaculate high proportions (≥ 60%) of malformed spermatozoa, a condition known as teratospermia, which is prevalent in humans. Even seemingly normal spermatozoa from domestic cat teratospermic ejaculates have reduced fertilizing capacity. To understand the role of sperm metabolism in this phenomenon, we conducted a comparative study in the normospermic domestic cat versus the teratospermic cat and cheetah with the general hypothesis that sperm metabolic function is impaired in males producing predominantly pleiomorphic spermatozoa. Washed ejaculates were incubated in chemically defined medium containing glucose and pyruvate. Uptake of glucose and pyruvate and production of lactate were assessed using enzyme-linked fluorescence assays. Spermatozoa from domestic cats and cheetahs exhibited similar metabolic profiles, with minimal glucose metabolism and approximately equimolar rates of pyruvate uptake and lactate production. Compared to normospermic counterparts, pyruvate and lactate metabolism were reduced in teratospermic cat and cheetah ejaculates, even when controlling for sperm motility. Rates of pyruvate and lactate (but not glucose) metabolism were correlated positively with sperm motility, acrosomal integrity, and normal morphology. Collectively, our findings reveal that pyruvate uptake and lactate production are reliable, quantitative indicators of sperm quality in these two felid species and that metabolic function is impaired in teratospermic ejaculates. Furthermore, patterns of substrate utilization are conserved between these species, including the unexpected lack of exogenous glucose metabolism. Because glycolysis is required to support sperm motility and capacitation in certain other mammals (including dogs), the activity of this pathway in felid spermatozoa is a target for future investigation.


Bright Path: Young Jim Thorpe
Don Brown, Author, Don Brown, Illustrator Roaring Brook Press $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-041-9
In this rather disappointing picture book biography, Brown (Mack Made Movies) spotlights the early years of Native American Olympian athlete Jim Thorpe through to his participation in the 1912 Olympics. He was born on land belonging to the Sac and Fox Indians in 1888, and called Wa-tho-huck, meaning Bright Path. The author covers a lot of ground here, and though readers learn a lot about Jim's life, they don't get much of a sense of his character. The first few spreads establish the boy's love of the outdoors, growing up on his family's Oklahoma farm. At six, he was sent to a boarding school for Indian children where he was ""taught to act and dress like white people."" Before the age of 13, his mother died, and eventually Jim's father sent him to a ""military strict"" Indian school in Pennsylvania, where he felt ""like a quail in a cornstalk snare."" But it was there that, on a lark, Jim tried to clear the high-jump bar and wound up breaking the school record, turning him onto track and football. At the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, he won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon. (A concluding note fills in details of Thorpe's later years and being stripped of his medals, a decision that was reversed in 1973.) In trying to cover such an expanse of events, the narrative sacrifices depth, and the artwork seems less crafted here than in Brown's other works. Ages 5-9.
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Release date: 05/01/2006
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I have questioned regarding Robot.
Me and my team create robot for finance proces and set up the robot on 5 PC.
3 PC that we set up Robot were run smoothly (Resolution: 1366 x 768, processor: i5) but 2 others PC give the wrong output when execute the Indicate on Screen Process (same Resolution, processor: i7). This is surprise us, because as we know, processor should only effect the timing process.
My question is: Is the computer processor has effect for Robot? or what factor that can effect the Robot?


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We have a great social scene here. There's loads going on in Shtip. We can proudly call Shtip a students city. It offers rich and attractive life for students, well-suited to different tastes and cultural needs of young people.
Apart from the rich nightlife that takes place in a wide selection of coffee bars, discos, small concert events, walks in nature, there are student parties as well, that are organized once or twice a week at different locations.
What is more, there are various cultural activities organized by the University Cultural Centre, which include: film and theater experiences, concerts of students and professors from the Faculty of Music, literature and art workshops and other similar cultural activities.
On annual level, Shtip is well known for several established festivals, famous both in Macedonia and the region. In June, Stip lives in the spirit of the pop music festival Makfest, that exists for 32 years, then the festival dedicated to jazz music called Astibo Jazz Festival held during the spring months, and DNB festival RUN which is held in several editions during the autumn and is genuinely refreshing, especially for the students of Goce Delchev University.
Furthermore, students and young fans of the hip-hop music can enjoy the unique hip-hop experience during the summer months called Shtip Hop Festival.
Finally, all these events make the lives of the students more exciting year by year.
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Ethnic Anklet Tutorial on How to Make an Anklet with String and Beads
Summary: In this article, I will show you how to make an anklet with string and bead. As you can see from the picture, this is an ethnic anklet with beads. It's also easy to make, let's check the details.
Anklet is especially popular during summer. You can wear on your feet when go to the beach or just go out shopping or something else. In order to create an ethnic anklet, I chose some handmade lampwork beads and glass beads to start. Now follow me to learn how to make it.
Supplies in the ethnic anklet DIY:
Instructions on making the ethnic beaded anklet:
Step 1: Attach lampwork bead
1st, snip off a long black elastic string, and tie a knot with nylon thread as a starting point;
2nd, cross the elastic string through the lampwork bead's hole and tie the other end tightly to the elastic string.
Step 2: Add beads to the string
1st, thread a good seed bead, a bead and a seed bead to a short nylon string;
2nd, tie it to the elastic string and trim off the excess;
3rd, thread a gold seed bead to a long nylon string and tie to the starting point.
Step 3: Bead the main part
1st, thread black glass beads and gold seed beads alternatively and until you finally reach the bead and tie the thread to the elastic string in the same place as the bead;
2nd, snip off 2 black nylon threads and thread beads as the previous thread, and then tie ends on the elastic string;
3rd, attach 2 beads on the string.
Step 4: Finish the anklet
1st, prepare a short chain, 2 cord endings and a lobster clasp;
2nd, attach 2 cord endings to the string;
3rd,connet the anklet with chain and lobster clasp.
Just look at my handmade anklet! I love it and I wore it on my feet immediately.
Making an ethnic anklet at home is a meaningful thing instead of lying in bed playing cellphone. The supplies in this easy DIY project are simple too, making it easier for both green hands and professional jewelry makers. There are many other anklet designs on this site, just check what you like.


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The government has invited businesses to apply for a share of a new £1 million investment fund that aims to help uncover new and innovative uses for 5G connectivity.
Available via Innovate UK and the CELTIC-NEXT programme, the fund is designed to assist UK businesses looking to partner with international companies on 5G research and development (R&D) projects.
It will seek to boost the international development of 5G services, and in particularly how the connectivity can be used to support other key technology developments, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Enterprises looking to apply for a share of the cash will have to show they are developing projects based around one of two key themes.
The first of these is 5G infrastructure technologies that make use of AI in network operation or "multi-access edge computing", which consists of cloud-based services on the perimeter of networks.
Secondly, innovations that use 5G networks for new or improved user experiences, including features in satellite networks or services integrating satellites, will also be eligible for assistance.
Within these goals, proposed projects must have a focus on one or more of the following areas: AI in network operation; multi-access edge computing; IoT; tactile internet; mission-critical applications; 'infotainment' mobile services, such as advanced media streaming; or immersive content in industrial environments.
Innovate UK noted developing these applications for 5G will be hugely important as, while 90 per cent of UK homes have access to fast internet services, there remain 2.7 million unconnected premises.
The best solution for closing this gap is likely to be more use of smartphones, which are already the most widely-used way of connecting to the internet, and next-generation 5G services could greatly expand what is possible via mobile networks.
Interested businesses have from 1st April to 29th May to apply. Firms of any size are invited to participate, while projects can have total eligible costs between £400,000 and £2 million, with organisations advised to aim for grants around £500,000. Projects must start between October and December 2019 and last between 12 to 24 months.


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so what I'm trying to do is to write a Bash script that will ssh into a server and generate new user credentials. However, it won't create the new user keys, but it can tell you if a user already exists.
echo "You entered $NAME. Is this correct?(y/n) " read AN while [ "$AN"!= "y" ] do echo "Enter the correct user name: " read NAME echo "You entered $NAME. Is this correct(y/n)? " read AN done ssh -t _EMAIL_ <


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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Some of a pregnant turtle's eggs started hatching after she was hit by a car and died in Fort Myers.
On November 11, the Common Snapping Turtle was admitted to Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) with severe head trauma and upon admission, she was unresponsive.
The turtle was examined by veterinarians who found she was carrying eggs. She, unfortunately, did not survive her injuries.
The veterinarians were able to remove her eggs and began incubating them in hopes they would still be living.
The first hatchling emerged on February 15, followed by two others on February 16. Approximately 12 eggs are still in the process of hatching, according to CROW in a Facebook post.
Turtles often have to cross the road to lay their eggs, so drivers are strongly urged to begin braking if they see them on the road.


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Varroa mite lifespan
What is the average lifespan of the varroa mite (Varroa destructor). It's a simple question that I don't have a answer to yet. I know they have a 12 day reproductive cycle, but not how long they can live. What got me thinking about this is; how long a break in brood rearing is necessary before all the adult mites die off?
For example, if the mite only lives for a couple months, how can there be any mites left to reproduce after an extended break in brood rearing like we have in the cold northern states. My bees have all shut down brood rearing and won't start back up until late December or early January. This gives me a 2 month window in which there is no mite reproduction.
If you know how long they can live for, let me know.
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"Unity that sanctifies diversity": Cottesloe revisited
Van der Borght, E.
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The Cottesloe Consultation (1960) is an important milestone in the ecumenical struggle against apartheid and racism in general. This article tries to find out whether the theological arguments developed within the ecumenical movement are solid enough to withstand the threat of divisions on the basis of race, nation, tribe, and ethnicity that have the potential to tear apart the one church of Christ. In order to answer the questions the historical and textual background of the text of the Cottesloe Consultation is analyzed. It reveals that exactly at the place where the text tries to theologically justify the diversity of people within the unity of the church of humanity, the drafters could not rely on help from the theological commission of the World Council of Churches, and relied on an expressions coming from the defense of the then apartheid churches in South Africa, that is "unity sanctifies diversity". It illustrates that next to a moral answer the theological argument still requires further development.


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Transport labour has been a fundamental feature in every economic system and in every epoch of humanity worldwide.
This volume considers the history of labour in transport from 1750 to 1950, in the context of globalisation and the evolution of capitalism.
The nine articles presented in this collective work span these two centuries and address a largely neglected aspect of labour history in transport: the stories from the Global South (Africa, Asia and Latin America).
The transport sectors touched upon in these studies are wide-ranging, encompassing a variety of workers, from porters to boatmen in India, from Mongolian caravanners to Filipino rickshaw drivers, from truck drivers to postal runners in west Africa, from wage-earning slave porters to immigrant railway workers in the cities of Brazil.
These histories from the South are a constitutive part of the global history of labour.


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This is a visualization tool to help musicians see and understand complex polyrhythms. Each column of boxes represents a unit of time; a gray box represents a beat and a colored box represents a rest. The period of the polyrhythym is defined by the least common multiple of all the individual rhythyms.
Snapshot 1: A simple 2 against 3 polyrhythm. It has a counting period of 6 beats. A convenient phrase to help with this polyrhythm is "not dif-i-cult". The 3-beat hits on "not", "dif", and "cult" whereas the 2-beat hits on "not" and "i".
Snaphsot 2: The more complex polyrhythm7 against 8 has a period of 56 beats.


I know that $\sin(x)$ can be expressed as an infinite product, and I've seen proofs of it (e.g. Infinite product of sine function). I found How was Euler able to create an infinite product for sinc by using its roots? which discusses how Euler might have found the equation, but I wonder how Euler could have proved it.
$$\sin(x) = x\prod_{n=1}^\infty \left(1-\frac{x^2}{n^2\pi^2}\right)$$
So how did Euler derive this? I've seen a proof that requires Fourier series (something not know [formally] by Euler, I guess). I also know that this equation can be thought intuitively, and it's really true that it will have the same roots as the sine function, however it's not clear that the entire function converges to the sine function. So, even if Euler guessed it, how was his proof accepted, for this formula to calculate the zeta function for even integers?
$$\zeta(2n) = (-1)^{n+1} \frac{B_{2n}(2\pi )^{2n}}{2(2n)!}$$
I've checked a proof of this result, and it requires the sine infinite product.
Also, the Basel problem (solved by him) used this infinite product too, and he got famous by this proof, so the sine infinite product might have been accepted by the mathematical community at that time.
Check out this link: Ed Sandifer: How Euler Did It, March 2004
And here: Wikipedia: Basel Problem
The Wikipedia link shows there actually does exist an "elementary" proof of the generalized Basel problem (the evaluation of the Riemann zeta function for positive even integers). Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik, in the text Concrete Mathematics, also give an outline of another elementary proof which is easy to follow, using properties of exponential generating functions and some basic calculus. Although it is not how Euler went about it, the approach certainly would have been within his scope of knowledge.
 - $\begingroup$ Do you have any information about the first one who proved this? $\endgroup$ – Lucas Zanella Feb 18 '14 at 4:49
 - $\begingroup$ _USER_ it was probably first proven rigorously by Weierstrass. $\endgroup$ – Ian Mateus Mar 9 '14 at 21:55
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Video:Teaching Kids to Put on Coatswith Kathy Moore
Is your toddler ready to put on his or her own coat alone? This simple method makes putting a coat on feel like a game, and it's also easy to replicate.See Transcript
Transcript:Teaching Kids to Put on CoatsHi I'm Kathy Moore for About.com Parenting. Whether it's dressing to ward off winters chill, or wearing a light jacket in spring or fall, even toddlers can learn how to put on their own jacket. This program will demonstrate a simple method to teach your child to put on his own coat.
When Are Kids Ready to Put on Coats?As soon as kids can walk and stand steadily on their own, they can be taught to put on their own outer coat using this simple method.
Easy Steps to Put on CoatsPlace the coat on the floor. Lay it flat with the inside facing up. Instruct your child to stand facing the top or collar of the coat. Then have them bend over and place their arms in the sleeves like this. Once the child has his arms in the sleeves have him lift the whole coat up and over his head. Then when he brings his arms down he will have completed the task of putting on his own coat.
Watch the simple steps again:
- Place the coat on the floor
- Lay it flat with the inside facing up
- Stand facing the top or collar of the coat
- Bend over and place the arms in the sleeves
- Then lift the whole coat up and overhead
- When the arms come down you are all set
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