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Before you start your furnace, consider having a licensed heating and air contractor perform a maintenance check to make sure everything is in working order. They will inspect and clean components such as the heat exchanger, blower, vent, ducting, and wiring.
The first time you turn on your furnace, you may smell an odor like burned dust. That's normal. If you smell a rotten egg odor, that's natural gas. If you smell gas, call KUB.
Furnace Check -Up - A licensed heating and air contractor should conduct the following:
- Inspect and clean blower assembly (includes blower housing, blower wheel and motor).
- Lubricate motors on older models. Newer furnaces do not require lubrication.
- Check all venting and vent components.
- Inspect ignition system and safety controls.
- Inspect heat exchanger and clean if necessary.
- Inspect controls, thermostat, wiring and connections.
- Check and clean or replace air filters if necessary.
- Inspect conditioned airflow system (ductwork).
- Operate system and verify proper operation of the unit.
- General check of all components.
Licensing for a heating and air contractor - KUB recommends you consider the following when choosing a licensed contractor to perform this maintenance:
- Contractors should be licensed by local government agencies in your area or the State of TN.
- You can contact your local Inspections Office to verify their license.
- State licenses can be verified on the Tennessee Board of Licensing Contractors website.


generated is like any Matlab script: you can edit it, rename the variables, add tests and loops, etc. The first important thing to understand is how to edit the options or change the inputs/outputs of a process. The script generator uses only one variable for all the file lists ('''sFiles''') and the output process is always the input of the following process. This is usually too restrictive to write a full analysis script: we commonly need to have multiple lists of files or to run two different operations on the same file. Let's consider the first process call, which selects the averages for the Deviant condition in both runs. {{{ sFiles = bst_process('CallProcess', 'process_select_files_data', sFiles, [],...'subjectname', SubjectNames{1},... 'condition', '',... 'tag', 'Avg: deviant',... 'includebad', 0,... 'includeintra', 0,... 'includecommon', 0); }}} There is no need to set the parameter sFiles, because there is no input, you can replace it with an empty matrix []. You can therefore remove the line "sFiles = [];". We can also rename the output variable "sAvgData", to be a bit more specific. {{{ sAvgData = bst_process('CallProcess', 'process_select_files_data', [], [],... }}} You can omit all the options that are not defined, not used, or kept to their default values: {{{ sAvgData = bst_process('CallProcess', 'process_select_files_data', [], [],...'subjectname', SubjectNames{1},... 'tag', 'Avg: deviant'); }}} Edit low-pass filter call: Change the input to sAvgData and the output to sAvgDataLow, this way you will be able to keep track of the two files if you need to use them independently later in the script. {{{ sAvgDataLow = bst_process('CallProcess', 'process_bandpass', sAvgData, [],... 'highpass', 0,... 'lowpass', 30,...'sensortypes', 'MEG'); }}} Edit the call to the snapshot process: Change the input to sAvgDataLow, and remove the output parameter (we are not expecting output from it). {{{ bst_process('CallProcess', 'process_snapshot', sAvgDataLow, [],... 'target', 5,... % Recordings time series'modality', 1); % MEG (All) }}} Replace the last lines with the following, to export the report instead of opening in the report viewer (edit the file path to point at your own user folder instead). {{{ ReportFile = bst_report('Save'); bst_report('Export', ReportFile, 'C:\Users\franc\Documents\report_test.html'); }}} == Evaluate in Matlab == Select the code for the first process in the Matlab editor, right-click > Evaluate selection (or press F9). {{attachment:edit1.gif}} If you haven't executed your script yet, you will get the following error in the Matlab command window: {{{ Undefined variable "SubjectNames" or class "SubjectNames". }}} The variable SubjectNames is not defined yet: Execute the first two lines "SubjectNames = {'Subject01'}", then try again. You should now have a new variable in your Matlab workspace, which points at the two average files. Type "sAvgData(1)" in your command window to display the first element: {{{ >> sAvgData(1) ans = iStudy: 6 iItem: 1 FileName: 'Subject01/S01_AEF_20131218_01_600Hz_notch/data_deviant_average_160513_1329.mat' FileType: 'data' Comment: 'Avg: deviant (39 files)' Condition: 'S01_AEF_20131218_01_600Hz_notch' SubjectFile: 'Subject01/brainstormsubject.mat' SubjectName: 'Subject01' DataFile: '' ChannelFile: 'Subject01/S01_AEF_20131218_01_600Hz_notch/channel_ctf_acc1.mat' ChannelTypes: {'ADC A' 'ADC V' 'DAC' 'ECG' 'EOG' 'FitErr' 'HLU' 'MEG' 'MEG REF'...} }}} The field "sAvgData(1).FileName" contains the relative path to the to the Deviant average in the first run. This structure sAvgData contains also a lot of information that can be helpful in your script: * '''iStudy / iItem''': Reference of the file in the database (described later in this tutorial). * '''FileType''': 'raw' (continuous files), 'data' (recordings),'results' (sources), 'timefreq' (time-frequency, spectrum and connectivity), or'matrix' (any time series extracted from other files). * '''Comment''': Comment field of the file (what is displayed in the database explorer) * '''Condition''': Name of the condition/folder in which the file is located * '''SubjectFile''': Relative path to the subject file (brainstormsubject.mat) * '''SubjectName''': Name of the subject * '''DataFile''': For types'results' or 'timefreq', path of the parent file in the database explorer * '''ChannelFile''': Relative path to the channel file * '''ChannelTypes''': Cell array of channel types available for the input file == Naming conventions == To help you navigate in the Brainstorm code, here are some naming conventions: * '''Structures''': Name starting with a "s" followed by a capital letter (eg. sFiles, sStudy, sSubject). * '''Indices''': Either loop variables or array indices, name starting with a "i" (eg. iSubject, iStudy, iTime). * '''Counts''': Number of elements in a group, name starting with a "n" (eg. nAvg, nTrials, nSubjects). * '''File names''': Scripts and functions, only lower case, separation with "_" (eg. process_fft, bst_get). * '''Sub-functions''': Inside a.m file, name starting with a capital, CamelCase (eg. CallProcess, Start). * '''Graphic handles''': Matlab graphic objects, name starting with a "h" (eg. hFig, hAxes, hLine, hText). == Running the script == The simplified script looks like this: {{{ % Input files SubjectNames = {'Subject01'}; % Start a new report bst_report('Start'); % Process: Select data files in: Subject01/*/Avg: deviant sAvgData = bst_process('CallProcess', 'process_select_files_data', [], [],...'subjectname', SubjectNames{1},... 'tag', 'Avg: deviant'); % Process: Low-pass:30Hz sAvgDataLow = bst_process('CallProcess', 'process_bandpass', sAvgData, [],... 'highpass', 0,... 'lowpass', 30,...'sensortypes', 'MEG'); % Process: Snapshot: Recordings time series bst_process('CallProcess', 'process_snapshot', sAvgDataLow, [],... 'target', 5,... % Recordings time series'modality', 1); % MEG (All) % Save and display report ReportFile = bst_report('Save'); bst_report('Export', ReportFile, 'C:\Users\franc\Documents\report_test.html'); }}} You have three ways to execute it: * Select all the lines (Ctrl+A) and evaluate it in Matlab (F9). * In the Editor toolbar of the Matlab environment, click on the button [Run]. * Save the file, go to this folder with Matlab (or add it to your path) and type the name of the script in the command window (without the ".m" at the end). At the end of the execution, nothing happens, because we indicated we wanted to just export the report instead of opening it. To check out the report of execution: use the menu '''File > Report viewer''' from the Brainstorm window, or open the '''report_test.html''' that was saved somewhere on your computer. On this page, you can get review everything that happened in the script: when it was executed, how long it took, what are the processes that were executed, some produced messages (two files were selected with the first process), and at the end you have the screen captures taken by process_snapshot.. {{attachment:report1.gif||height="455",width="593"}} == Running the script again == If you execute the script again, it will not behave as expected anymore. The selection process we used assumes that there is only one file per folder with a comment that includes "Avg: deviant". This is not the case anymore after the execution, because the low-pass filtered files also contain the same tags. The execution of the first process of the script now '''returns 4 files'''. {{{ >> sAvgData = bst_process('CallProcess', 'process_select_files_data', [], [],...'subjectname', SubjectNames{1},... 'tag', 'Avg: deviant') sAvgData = 1x4 struct array with fields: iStudy iItem... }}} In order to exclude the low-pass filtered files from this selection, you can add another process that will '''refine the selection'''. Use the script generator again to create a template call for another process, then copy-paste it in your script. * In Process1: Select any recordings file (we will not run anything, just generate a script). * Select process '''File


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Tasks Unlimited provides supported employment, housing and recovery services for people with mental illness so that they achieve a full life with the rights and responsibilities of adults in our society.
"Like anyone, Tasks' clients desire stable, long term employment with good wages. They're proud of their ability to be self-sufficient and active members of their communities and we're proud of them." – Karen Johnston, Former Executive Director
All people, including those with mental illness, deserve the chance at a meaningful life, a life full of living, working, and achieving.
Grounded in the Fairweather Lodge Model, Tasks Unlimited supports mental health recovery by encouraging group decision-making and community living. By living and working as a group, program participants hold each other accountable in their mental health recovery.
Consistent, supportive employment is a key component to the mental health recovery process at Tasks Unlimited. Through Tasks Unlimited Building Services, program participants perform janitorial services, mailroom management and building maintenance to businesses throughout the Twin Cities.
Nothing bolsters self-esteem like having a meaningful role in your world. And, self-esteem broadens one's vision of what is truly achievable in life.
- People experiencing mental health problems are more like other people than they are different.
- Skill training and development that focuses on strengths is more useful than approaches that focus on weaknesses.
- Stable daily performance is preferable to episodic periods of high achievement.
- Natural healing occurs over time.
- A stable, supportive environment and productive lifestyle promote natural healing.
- Dependency is an outcome of inappropriate treatment rather than a symptom of mental illness.
- Dependency is remediable and preventable.
- Adults with serious and persistent mental illness are able to form and develop healthy adult relationships.
- Interdependence best describes healthy adult relationships.
- Pursuing independence without developing meaningful and supportive peer relationships frequently leads to isolation and loneliness that can hinder personal growth and healing.
- Independent and interdependent living skills are most effectively taught by peers.
- Financial dependence is the least acceptable and least necessary form of dependency for adults experiencing serious and persistent mental illness because most are capable of productive work.
- Improved self-esteem is the most effective antidote for dependency and is a prerequisite for self-sufficiency.
- Identity, dignity and income are three excellent sources of self-esteem, and work is a primary source of all three.
Ready to get involved and make a change?
Learn how to support us, donate or volunteer today!

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Martius. the Book of Palms (Hardcover)
On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (_PHONE_), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin covered with fresh palm leaves. These were a reference to his groundbreaking Natural History of Palms: a work in three volumes, published between 1823 and 1853. At the time, this encyclopedic treasury contained the sum of human knowledge on the topic, and included 240 exquisite chromolithographic illustrations, featuring landscape views of palm habitats and botanical dissections.This epic folio was based on von Martius's expedition to Brazil and Peru with zoologist Johann Baptist von Spix, sponsored by King Maximilian I of Bavaria, to investigate natural history and native tribes. From 1817 to 1820 the pair traveled over 2,250 km (1,400 miles) throughout the Amazon basin, the most species-rich palm region in the world, collecting and sketching specimens. On their return both men were awarded knighthoods and lifetime pensions. In his epic work, von Martius outlined the modern classification of palm, produced the first maps of palm biogeography, described all the palms of Brazil, and collated the sum of all known genera of the palm family. Apart from his own collection of specimens and notes, von Martius also wrote about the findings of others. Von Martius's folio is unusual in its inclusion of cross-sectioned diagrams, conveying the architecture of these mighty trees, which central Europeans would have found hard to imagine accurately. Equally remarkable are the color landscapes showing various palms--often standing alone--which have a simple and elegant beauty. This famous work is an unrivaled landmark in botanic illustration and taxonomy.


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Connect your wireless Call Connect device to the antenna
Do you have a wireless Yealink phone? Then it must be connected to its antenna in order to work properly.
Stand close to the antenna with your Yealink wireless phone. Usually it's near your b-box modem. There are 2 different types of antennas (W52P or W60B):
On your wireless Yealink phone, follow these steps:
- Press the following keys successively: OK, 6, 6, OK and OK.
- You will see a search bar on the screen.
- Press and hold the button on the front of the antenna for 4 seconds until the 1st LED starts flashing.
- If this works, your phone will find the antenna and display the name of the antenna on the screen. If not, restart from 1.
- Press Valider. This is the key above the envelope on the dial.
- Your phone will ask you to enter a PIN code. Press the 0 key 4 times (0000) and press again Valider.
Your wireless Yealink phone will now show a confirmation that the registration was successful.
After a few seconds, the time will be updated and the correct time displayed, meaning your phone is ready to use.

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Teenagers' reading skills are not good enough to understand a GCSE exam paper, a new study has claimed.
It suggests that on average, a student's reading age was around five years below that required for a GCSE exam.
The study, by educational software company Renaissance Learning, looked at the results of reading tests taken by around 24,500 pupils aged 14 to 16.
It then analysed the reading level required to understand a number of randomly selected GCSE exam papers and materials by using a programme which looked at average sentence length, word length, word difficulty level and and the number of words in a book or passage.
The study found the average reading age required for the exam papers was 15 years and seven months - approximately the right age for a teenager sitting their GCSE exams.
But the results of the reading tests showed that a teenager's actual average reading age was around 10 years and seven months - a gap of five years.
Dirk Foch, managing director of Renaissance Learning said the results were "alarming". He said: "By GCSE level, most educators make the basic assumption that students are able to read and comprehend an exam text. It's clear from this research that this is not a safe assumption to make.
"Most students have a reading age significantly below the level that GCSE texts are being aimed at meaning some students are not only failing to access the curriculum, but they are failing to comprehend key course and exam texts."
A Department for Education spokeswoman said: "For far too long, too many children have not been reaching the expected levels of reading at a young age, have not caught up, and have then struggled in secondary school and beyond.
"That is why we are prioritising the teaching of systematic synthetic phonics in primary schools as the internationally proven method to teach reading effectively."


Import
Kumu's import feature makes it possible to map your existing data, without recreating every bit of it by hand. Whether your data is in Excel, a comma-separated values (CSV) file, or Google Sheets, you can follow this guide to quickly bring it into Kumu.
Structure your data for Kumu
Before you can import your data into Kumu, you'll need to structure your spreadsheet so that Kumu can read it. First, make sure your spreadsheet contains the following required column headers:
For elements
 - Label (must be in the first cell of Column A)
For connections
 - From (must be in the first cell of Column A)
 - To (must be in the first cell of Column B)
After you create the required column headers, you can start filling out the rows to create new elements and connections. You can also optionally add more columns to hold custom data:
For elements
 - Type
 - Description
 - Tags
 - Organization
 - Net worth
...etc.
For connections
 - Type
 - Description
 - Tags
 - Label
 - Strength
...etc.
All of these optional columns can be used to add data to fields inside your elements and connections. If you want to store multiple values inside of one cell (for example, tags or keywords), just separate each value with the pipe character |. If you put multiple elements in the "To" cell of a connection, separating each element with the pipe character |, Kumu will draw a connection from the "From" element to each separate element in the "To" cell.
It's also possible to use ID as the first column header in element and connection sheets. To learn how and why you would do that, check out our guide on avoiding duplicate data.
Here's a sample element import spreadsheet:
Label Type Description Tags
Jeff Mohr Person Co-Founder and CEO, always
up for learning
Founder|Male|Runner
Kumu Company A web-based platform
for mapping relationships...
Mapping|Technology
And here's a sample connection import spreadsheet:
From To Type Strength
Barack Michelle Personal Strong
Ed Snowden NSA Contractor It's complicated
Get your hands dirty! Click here to download a sample import file for the PayPal Mafia map. You can examine this file to see how imports work with real data before creating your import file.
If you need to convert an adjacency matrix to meet Kumu's format, check out the matrix expander.
Ignore unneeded sheets
Sometimes, you'll have other sheets in your Excel or Google Sheets workbook that aren't formatted for Kumu and shouldn't be imported, but need to stay in the workbook. If that's the case, just add (ignore) to the name of the sheet, and Kumu will ignore it during the upload.
Import from Excel or CSV
After you've structured your data, save your spreadsheet file with either the .xslx or .csv extension (Kumu doesn't support the .xls file extension).
Then, you can import that file into Kumu in two different ways:
1) Simply drag and drop the file onto the map's canvas.
OR
2) Click the green button at the bottom of your map, select Import, and click "Select .xslx file" (this button works for .csv files as well)
Either way, you'll have the option to review the import before finalizing to double-check that everything imported correctly. After you review the import, just click save, and you're all set!
Seeing errors during your Excel import? You can use the common pitfalls section of this guide to help troubleshoot.
Import from Google Sheets
Our Google Sheets integration populates a map using the contents of a spreadsheet hosted on Google Drive. Since Google Sheets can be opened up to the general public for editing, this integration is a great way to crowdsource maps without having to give everyone full edit access to the project on Kumu.
There are two versions of the Google Sheets integration, private and public. Private is more secure and uses oAuth to authorize Kumu to access the sheet, while the public integration requires you to make your data publicly viewable on the internet.
Seeing errors during your Google Sheets import? You can use the common pitfalls section of this guide to help troubleshoot.
Private Google Sheets Instructions
Note: This is a paid add-on that costs $29/project to activate.
 1. Create your spreadsheet in Google Drive
 2. Structure your data
 3. Copy the private spreadsheet link from the URL bar in your browser, and go back to your Kumu map
 4. Activate the paid add-on by clicking the link in the Google Sheets import tab in Kumu
 5. Click the green button, select Import, and click the "Google Sheets" tab
 6. If you haven't activated the private Google Sheets add-on, click the link to do so
 7. Under Link to private Google Sheet, paste your Google Sheets link into the box
Public Google Sheets Instructions
 1. Create your spreadsheet in Google Drive
 2. Structure your data
 3. Click the "Share" button in the upper right
 4. Click "Get shareable link"
 5. Set the permissions to "On - public on the web (Anyone on the internet can find and access. No sign-in required.)"
 6. Copy the shareable link URL, and go back to your Kumu map
 7. Click the green button, select Import, and click the "Google Sheets" tab
 8. Paste your Google Sheets link into the box under Link to public Google Sheet
Caveats for the Google Sheets integration
Unlike file-based imports, the Google Sheets integration is an ongoing import. The elements and connections will be fetched from the spreadsheet on the fly each time you refresh the page. None of the data will be saved to your project or Kumu's servers, and the imported elements and connections are read-only within Kumu. All edits must be made within the spreadsheet.
 - Elements and connections are read-only within Kumu—all edits to the underlying data must be made within the spreadsheet.
 - You can't pin elements in place when they're created from a Google Sheet.
 - Metrics can't be saved for maps fed by a Google Sheet—you would have to recalculate them every time you refresh the map.
Common pitfalls
Having trouble with your import? Here are a few common pitfalls...
Not starting your file with the correct column headers
Label should be the first column header in your spreadsheet (cell A1) for an element import, and for a connection import, you should have From and To in the first two columns (cells A1 and B1).
Not having column headers in the first row
Your column headers (e.g. Label, Type, Description, etc.) should be in row 1 of your spreadsheet.
Hidden data in unused cells
If it seems like your spreadsheet is taking forever to load, or it's consistently throwing errors, you might have some data or formatting hiding in your unused cells. To clear all content and formatting from unused cells in Excel, follow this Excel guide.
Trying to import .xls files
If you run into this error message...
Sorry, there was an error with your import.
Error: Import format not recognized: auto
...you're trying to import an .xls file. Save it as .xlsx and try again!
Funny character issues?
If you're running into funny character issues, please make sure your import file is UTF-8 encoded.
Master Imports in 5 Steps
Looking to hone your importing skills? These tips will turn you into a master importer:
 1. Separate elements (or element types) and connections into their own sheets
 2. Take advantage of pre-named fields
 3. Use pipes to separate | multiple | values
 4. Try to be selector friendly
 5. Ask for help!
1. Separate elements (or element types) and connections into their own sheets
Since elements and connections often have very different sets of fields, we recommend using separate sheets in your workbook for each dataset. Sometimes, you'll have different types of elements (for example, people and organizations) that have very different fields. In that case, you can separate those elements into separate sheets as well. Each separate sheet can have different column headers, and Kumu will still be able to read and understand each sheet.
If you prefer keeping everything within a single sheet, you can use two blank rows to tell Kumu that a new section is starting—that is, Kumu should look at the first row of the new section to find column headers. If you are using a .csv file, this tip doesn't work—you'll need to either use the single sheet method or create separate files for elements and connections.
2. Take advantage of pre-named fields
Our pre-named fields aren't required in your spreadsheet, but they get special visual treatment in profiles, so it's great to use them when you can!
Type
Use the type field to categorize elements and connections. Common element types include person, project, and company. Common connection types include personal, business, and family. Try to be selector friendly with your types, when you can.
Description
The description field designed to hold longer-form content that describes an item. Descriptions can include multiple paragraphs, and even images and videos. You can use Markdown to format each description's content.
Tags
The tags field is designed to hold


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Most states require that contractors, suppliers, and other participants on construction projects send some sort of preliminary notice in order to secure lien rights. In states with preliminary notice requirements, failing to send notice is often fatal to a mechanics lien or bond claim. It is still generally incredibly beneficial to send preliminary notice even if it's not required in your state. Here are 5 reasons why:
1. Provides Visibility
Sending preliminary notice informs the parties in charge of the project of your involvement. You might be thinking, "of course they know I'm involved!" but it's rarely this simple. If you were hired by the general contractor or some other third party, it's very likely the property owner has no idea what your role is on the project and how much you expect to be paid. This problem is compounded on large projects which might have dozens of tiers of hiring.
2. Speeds Up the Payment Process
Sending a preliminary notice even if it's not required prioritizes your invoice and motivates the party with the money to pay you before others. The notice serves as a reminder that payment is due, and also motivates the paying party to make payment on time. For further reading, check out our article "How Preliminary Notices Improve The Payment Process For Everyone."
3. Avoid Filing a Lien
Filing a lien is a great option for construction parties who haven't been paid on time to secure payment – it's much more cost effective than hiring an attorney and filing a lawsuit or just eating costs. However, sending preliminary notice is even easier and less expensive than filing a lien, and is frequently sufficient to get the payment ball rolling. Levelset's data shows that a mechanics lien only needs to be filed in 2% of cases where preliminary notice and notice of intent are sent properly. See: What's the Difference Between a Preliminary Notice and a Notice of Intent to Lien?
4. Builds Good Relationships with Customers
The reason preliminary notice requirements exist in most states is for the benefit of top-of-chain parties for the reasons listed in this article, such as communication and visibility. Sending preliminary notice even if it's not required provides the recipient(s) with the same benefits and can also build trust.
5. Promotes Communication
Creating and maintaining an open flow of communication with customers is important. Think about it – when is communication ever a bad thing? Keeping top-of-chain parties in the loop helps avoid unpleasant surprises (like an unexpected lien), which is likely much more damaging to a business relationship than a preliminary notice.


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Unleashing the Power of Rock Demolition in Hawaii
When it comes to construction projects in Hawaii, one of the most crucial aspects is rock demolition. The volcanic nature of the Hawaiian islands means that rock is a common obstacle that needs to be overcome in order to build anything from roads and bridges to homes and commercial buildings. If you're embarking on a construction project in Hawaii, understanding the importance of rock demolition and how it can benefit your project is key.
Rock demolition in Hawaii is not just about breaking rocks into smaller pieces. It involves a strategic approach to safely and efficiently remove large rock formations that may be in the way of your construction plans. Whether you're dealing with solid lava rock, basalt, or other volcanic formations, the process of rock demolition requires specialized equipment and expertise to get the job done right.
One of the main benefits of rock demolition in Hawaii is that it allows you to clear the way for your construction project without causing unnecessary damage to the environment. By carefully planning and executing rock demolition, you can minimize disruption to the surrounding landscape and ensure that the natural beauty of Hawaii is preserved.
In addition to protecting the environment, rock demolition in Hawaii can also help save you time and money on your construction project. By removing large rock formations efficiently, you can streamline the construction process and avoid costly delays. This is especially important in Hawaii, where construction costs can be higher due to the remote location and unique geological challenges.
When it comes to rock demolition in Hawaii, there are several methods that can be used depending on the size and type of rock formations you're dealing with. One common method is hydraulic rock splitting, which uses hydraulic power to break rocks into smaller pieces without the need for explosives. This method is ideal for smaller rocks and tight spaces where traditional demolition techniques may not be suitable.
For larger rock formations, controlled blasting may be necessary. This method involves strategically placing explosives in the rock and detonating them in a way that minimizes damage to the surrounding area. Controlled blasting requires careful planning and coordination to ensure the safety of everyone involved, as well as the success of the demolition.
No matter which method is used, rock demolition in Hawaii requires the expertise of skilled professionals who understand the unique challenges of working with volcanic rock formations. By hiring a reputable rock demolition company in Hawaii, you can ensure that your project is completed safely and efficiently, with minimal impact on the environment.
In addition to traditional rock demolition methods, there are also innovative techniques that can be used to break up rock formations in Hawaii. One such method is rock fracturing, which uses specialized equipment to create fractures in the rock that can then be easily broken apart. This technique is ideal for large rock formations that are too difficult to remove with traditional methods.
Another cutting-edge method is rock sawing, which uses diamond-tipped blades to cut through rock formations with precision and accuracy. This method is ideal for creating clean cuts in rock for construction purposes, such as laying foundations or building retaining walls. Rock sawing is also less disruptive than traditional demolition techniques, making it a popular choice for projects in Hawaii.
In conclusion, rock demolition in Hawaii is a crucial step in any construction project that involves working with volcanic rock formations. By understanding the importance of rock demolition and how it can benefit your project, you can ensure that your construction plans are carried out safely, efficiently, and in harmony with the natural environment. Whether you're building a new home, a commercial building, or a road in Hawaii, rock demolition is a key process that will help you achieve your construction goals.
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- Huobi Research shows CEX saw the most visits in 2022.
- The US, South Korean, and Russian residents top the list of CEX visitors.
- Unique visitors on centralized crypto exchanges dropped by 24% in 2022.
Huobi Research released a "2022-2023 Global Crypto Industry Overview and Trends" detailing the number of centralized and decentralized exchange users across several countries. The research concerns data from 100 centralized exchanges (CEX) considering metrics such as users, trading depth, trading volume, and reliability.
What the Research Said
According to Huobi's research, United States, South Korean, and Russian residents account for the most frequent users of centralized exchanges. Similarly, these three countries account for 22% of all visits to CEX for cryptocurrencies.
The data breakdown shows that the United States leads with 9%. It has the absolute number of crypto users generating centralized exchange traffic. South Korea followed the US at 7.4% and Russia at 6.1%. Other countries that top the chart include Turkey and Japan, with 5.6% and 3.8%, respectively.
Furthermore, the drivers of CEX usage vary within these countries. For instance, in South Korea and Japan, the driver includes high unemployment and an increase in housing prices. These conditions have made young individuals seek solace in crypto investments. As for countries like Russia, the Western sanction and hyperinflation in Turks remain the main driver for CEX visits.
However, the number of unique visitors to centralized exchanges dropped by 24%. Significantly, the number of new users stood at 194 million in 2021 and dropped to 25 million in 2022.
Importance of Centralized Exchanges
One of the highlights of the Huobi research is the importance of CEX. The report's authors emphasized that centralized exchanges are important in cryptocurrency.
They also said CEX is user-friendly and a good starting point for crypto novices. The report added that most of the users and liquidity in the crypto market are aggregated in centralized exchanges.
The Huobi report revealed a decline in the overall market size of CEXs in 2022— compared to 2021. The report attributes this decline to the crypto winter and how it dampens investors' confidence. The authors said, " The continuous gloomy market condition and the depreciating assets are depressing existing users."
Furthermore, the researchers highlighted the FTX collapse, one of the largest centralized exchanges. They consider it "the incident of the year since entering the bear market." It revealed that the FTX crisis had necessitated the tightening of regulations on CEX. The regulations cut across on-chain activities.
Similarly, CEX is now obligated to publicize its proof of funds or is expected to maintain a certain amount in reserve.
Significantly, the countries with the largest number of CEX visitors are rolling out regulatory frameworks. For instance, the US president, Joe Biden, signed an executive order for the responsible development of digital assets.
Similarly, Russia has started working on expanding its legal framework for cryptocurrency, while South Korea recently passed the right crypto-related regulations.
Disclaimer: Voice of Crypto aims to deliver accurate and up-to-date information, but it will not be responsible for any missing facts or inaccurate information. Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile financial assets, so research and make your own financial decisions.


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01 Jul Homefront Heroines
Homefront Heroines looked at the lives and stories of the women of Oswestry during the First World War to ensure the extraordinary stories of local women are not lost forever, and the impact the war had on women's lives – which is still felt today, is recognised. Funded by Heritage Lottery Fund and led by project researcher, Sarah Gathercole the project uncovered real local stories, bringing them alive. It looked at what roles Oswestry women played on the home front and how they contributed to the war effort.
The project culminated in two mixed media exhibitions at Qube composed of the stories, photos and artefacts uncovered during the project research. Both had a launch event, inviting the local community to come and find out more about these hidden women from Oswestry's history. The research uncovered is also available to view online at _URL_, creating a resource for the wider community to access and learn more about their heritage. A booklet has also been produced for those without online access.
The project was generously supported by over 40 volunteers. As well as researching in local and national archives, libraries, museums and online resources, the volunteers have learned digital storytelling skills, using these to capture the memories of local residents with stories to share of family members who lived 100 years ago. Others have been knitting, sewing, re-creating uniforms, making cakes, reading and exploring women's poetry and discussing women's art, all in the context of the Great War.
The project has worked in partnership with many groups – including Oswestry and Borders U3A Art Appreciation Society and Crafty Knitters – and Sarah continues to give talks to groups who are interested in the stories of the local women.


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Chapter 23: Baselines
This chapter covers baselines, and how to create them.
23.1 Overview
A baseline is a set of output variable values against which you can test.
A baseline can be created in either of the following ways:
If you create a baseline and then run a test against that baseline the test is deemed to have failed if a single pair of values does not match.
23.2 Recording a Baseline
TouchPoint provides a recording function which enables you to run a test and record the values of the output variables for use as a baseline. You can overwrite a baseline, but normally you would preserve a baseline and use it as the standard against which you test. For example, if you know that your program is functioning correctly but you are intending to make changes to it, you could create a test and record it in order to store a baseline before you make those changes. Then, when the changes have been made, you run the test and compare your results with the recorded baseline.
You can record a baseline for both fragment and application tests.
To record baseline values for a test, select the test and then select Record from the Test Case menu.
The test is run and values are recorded for the output variables.
As the test is run, information is displayed in the Build tab of the Mainframe Express Output window. The information displayed is configurable via the Tests item on the Mainframe Express Options menu.
For a fragment test, output variable values are recorded for each iteration of the test. When all iterations have been run, a message is displayed indicating that the recording is complete.
For an application test, output variable values are recorded each time the fragment is encountered. When the application has finished running, a message is displayed indicating that the recording is complete.
Note: Display of the message box indicating that recording is complete is configurable via the Tests item on the Mainframe Express Options menu.
If you click on the Tests tab on the Project View, you will see the date and time at which the baseline was recorded for a test under Last Update.
23.3 Editing a Baseline
When you create a fragment test, you can choose to edit the default baseline. This might be useful if, for example, you are performing conformance testing and want to create a set of "expected results".
You can edit baseline values by right-clicking in the appropriate cell in the fragment test worksheet and selecting Edit baseline.
23.4 Baseline Comparison
For fragment tests, you can switch baseline comparison off from the fragment test worksheet. You might want to do this if, for example, you are using validation criteria to perform conformance testing.
Baseline comparison is always switched on by default but you can toggle it off (or on again) by double-clicking in the appropriate cell in the fragment test worksheet.
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Notes: Complementary health approaches are based on the six most commonly used complementary health approaches among U.S. adults in 2012.
Metropolitan status of residence is based on the household residence location. Metropolitan is located within a metropolitan statistical area, defined as a county or group of contiguous counties that contains at least one urbanized area of ≥50,000 population. Surrounding counties with strong economic ties to the urbanized area also are included. Nonmetropolitan areas do not include a large urbanized area and are generally thought of as more rural.
Estimates are based on household interviews of a sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized U.S. population.
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Data Sources: National Health Interview Survey, 2012.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Percentage of Adults Who Used Selected Complementary Health Approaches in the Preceding 12 Months, by Metropolitan Status of Residence — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2012


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In this classic paper, Sakai proves the following Radon-Nikodym theorem:
Let $M$ be a von Neumann algebra, and let $\phi$ and $\psi$ be two normal positive linear functionals on $M$. If $\psi \leq \phi$, then there is a positive operator $t_0\in M$ such that $0 \leq t_0 \leq 1$, and $\psi(x) = \phi(t_0 x t_0)$ for all $x \in M$.
The paper provides no uniqueness result. One would naively expect that any two such operators $t_0$ and $t_1$ would satisfy $\phi((t_1-t_0)^2)=0$. I can find no such statement in the literature. Is this true?
Please note that $\phi$ is not assumed to be faithful.
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Such t_0 is unique if its support is at most p, where p is the support of ϕ. Note that we can replace t_0 by pt_0p and the support of pt_0p is at most p.
Without this additional condition t_0 is highly non-unique, because we can replace t_0 by t_0 + q, where q is an arbitrary self-adjoint element with support at most 1-p such that t_0 + q ≥ 0. Using simple algebraic manipulations one can show that all solutions can be obtained in this way.
See Lemma 15.4 (page 104) in Takesaki's book "Tomita's theory of modular Hilbert algebras and its applications". Electronic version: _URL_ [Note that Takesaki implicitly assumes that φ_0 is faithful, hence you need to introduce an additional condition on the support of h.]
One would naively expect that any two such operators t_0 and t_1 would satisfy ϕ((t_1−t_0)^2)=0.
This is a trivial corollary of the above statement characterizing all possible solutions.
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Thank you very much for the reference. I'm going to need some time to look at it. – Andre May 1 '10 at 10:42
Does this work if $M$ fails to have a faithful normal state? – Andre May 3 '10 at 22:08
Yes, the argument works for non σ-finite von Neumann algebras. (Actually, we can immediately restrict ourselves to the σ-finite von Neumann algebra pMp, where p is the support of ϕ.) – Dmitri Pavlov May 4 '10 at 1:15
Why is $pMp$ $\sigma$-finite? – Andre May 4 '10 at 6:37
Sorry, pMp is σ-finite only if ϕ is a state. For the case of general ϕ we can restrict our attention to all subalgebras of the form pMp, where p is a σ-finite subprojection of the support of ϕ. – Dmitri Pavlov May 4 '10 at 7:53
Does this paper have any relevance?
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As far as I can tell, this paper concerns another non-commutative Radon-Nikodym theorem in which the derivative is an element of $M'$. – Andre May 1 '10 at 9:44
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Singing Capacitors and Whining Inductors
A Practical Introduction to Acoustic Cryptanalysis
Dan Hagon
In this talk we provide a practical introduction to Acoustic Cryptanalysis using tools and techniques that are easily grasped and cheaply available. The intention is not to present any new results, but instead the emphasis is on gaining a foundation in the theory of such attacks, so that you will be able to apply them more effectively in more challenging scenarios. As we shall see, such attacks are an extension of other types of side-channel attack (timing and power analysis attacks in particular), with the added promise of bridging air gaps.


article Influence of the Rivet Coating on the Friction during Self-Piercing Riveting yes Benedikt Uhe author 38131 Clara-Maria Kuball author Marion Merklein author Gerson Meschut author 320560000-0002-2763-1246 157 department The number of multi-material joints is increasing as a result of lightweight design. Self-piercing riveting (SPR) is an important mechanical joining technique for multi-material structures. Rivets for SPR are coated to prevent corrosion, but this coating also influences the friction that prevails during the joining process. The aim of the present investigation is to evaluate this influence. The investigation focuses on the common rivet coatings Almac® and zinc-nickel with topcoat as well as on uncoated rivet surfaces. First of all, the coating thickness and the uniformity of the coating distribution are analysed. Friction tests facilitate the classification of the surface properties. The influence of the friction on the characteristic joint parameters and the force-stroke curves is analysed by means of experimental joining tests. More in-depth knowledge of the effects that occur is achieved through the use of numerical simulation. Overall, it is shown that the surface condition of the rivet has an impact on the friction during the joining process and on the resulting joint. However, the detected deviations between different surface conditions do not restrict the operational capability of SPR and the properties of uncoated rivet surfaces, in particular, are similar to those of Almac®-coated rivets. It can thus be assumed that SPR with respect to the joining process is also possible without rivet coating in principle. 2021 eng CoatingFrictionJoining Key Engineering Materials10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.883.11 88311-18 Uhe, B., Kuball, C.-M., Merklein, M., & Meschut, G. (2021). Influence of the Rivet Coating on the Friction during Self-Piercing Riveting. Key Engineering Materials, 883, 11–18. <a href="_URL_ Uhe, Benedikt, et al. "Influence of the Rivet Coating on the Friction during Self-Piercing Riveting." Key Engineering Materials, vol. 883, 2021, pp. 11–18, doi:<a href="_URL_ Uhe, Benedikt, Clara-Maria Kuball, Marion Merklein, and Gerson Meschut. "Influence of the Rivet Coating on the Friction during Self-Piercing Riveting." Key Engineering Materials 883 (2021): 11–18. <a href="_URL_ @article{Uhe_Kuball_Merklein_Meschut_2021, title={Influence of the Rivet Coating on the Friction during Self-Piercing Riveting}, volume={883}, DOI={<a href="_URL_ journal={Key Engineering Materials}, author={Uhe, Benedikt and Kuball, Clara-Maria and Merklein, Marion and Meschut, Gerson}, year={2021}, pages={11–18} } B. Uhe, C.-M. Kuball, M. Merklein, and G. Meschut, "Influence of the Rivet Coating on the Friction during Self-Piercing Riveting," Key Engineering Materials, vol. 883, pp. 11–18, 2021, doi: <a href="_URL_ Uhe B, Kuball C-M, Merklein M, Meschut G. Influence of the Rivet Coating on the Friction during Self-Piercing Riveting. Key Engineering Materials. 2021;883:11-18. doi:<a href="_URL_ B. Uhe, C.-M. Kuball, M. Merklein, G. Meschut, Key Engineering Materials 883 (2021) 11–18. 222722021-05-31T10:06:11Z2023-04-28T09:20:29Z


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Manipulating time-series data
We will now examine several common operations that are performed on time-series data. These operations entail realigning data, changing the frequency of the samples and their values, and calculating aggregate results on continuously moving subsets of the data to determine the behavior of the values in the data as time changes. We will examine each of the following:
- Shifting and lagging values to calculate percentage changes
- Changing the frequency of the data in the time series
- Up and down sampling of the intervals and values in the time series
- Performing rolling-window calculations
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Gardening Articles: Edibles :: Vegetables
Sunflower Seeds Can Harm Plants
by Charlie Nardozzi
Sclerotinia fungal disease infects nearly 360 different plants, including such favorites as beans, cabbage, tomatoes, lettuce, sunflowers, petunias, zinnias, and poppies. It's not the kind of disease you want to encourage in the garden
New research, however, indicates that by feeding birds, we may unknowingly be doing just that. Steve Nameth, a researcher at Ohio State University in Columbus, started noticing sunflower seeds infected with sclerotinia fungus while feeding his birds. The fungal infected seeds are about the same size as healthy seeds, but are irregularly shaped and white inside if broken open. As any good researcher would, he became curious about how much sclerotinia infected seed is in a bag of sunflower seeds.
Nameth bought a random sample of 10 commercial bird seed mixes and found that half had sclerotinia present in the feed. Birds won't eat sunflower seeds infected with the fungus, so they drop to the ground under the feeders, sometimes right next to plants they can infect. The fungus can stay dormant for years waiting for the right weather conditions to infect nearby plants.
If you're noticing disease on stems and flowers of plants near your bird feeder, particularly if infected parts are covered with white fluffy growth, consider moving your feeder away from your gardens. It's also important to keep the area around the base of the plants clean of plant debris, and to pick up and destroy dropped seed. Don't use the dropped seed as mulch in the garden or in the compost unless your compost pile heats up to 160° F.

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Nowadays, many software developers choose to host their projects in open software repositories. These repositories have become valuable resources of software engineering research. Many emerging software engineering research efforts are based on analyzing and mining these repositories, or are evaluated on the software projects collected from these repositories. However, a major obstacle of effectively leveraging these repositories is that, most of repositories contain only source code, while a large portion of program analysis techniques target at objective code only. Thus, most software engineering researchers have to either manually build a small number of software projects to enable objective-code analysis on them, or use only source-code analysis techniques. In this paper, we propose to bridge this gap by automatic compiling and building software projects in software repositories. Specifically, we present a fully automatic building tool called AutoBuilder, that detects build configuration files, downloads dependencies, and resolves conflicts and incompatibilities. To evaluate our technique, we apply our approach on a randomly collected set of 1,000 software projects with 23 million lines of code from Github. The experimental results show that our approach is able to successfully build 58.0\% of the projects and compile 59.0\% of the code (in lines), compared with building 32.6\% of the projects, and compiling 32.3\% of the code (in lines) by a baseline approach.
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Is it possible to prevent mouseDown effect when widget already displaying selected effect
Is it possible to prevent the display of a "mouseDown" effect when the widget is already displayed with the "selected" effect?
Reproducible Steps:
 1. User clicks on a button, button displays "mouseDown" effect.
 2. User releases the mouse and the button displays with a "Selected" effect.
 3. User clicks on the selected button.
When the user clicks on an already selected button, I don't want to see the mouseDown effect; I want to continue to see the selected effect.
Is there a way to prevent the mouseDown effect from being displayed when the selected effect is already being displayed?
Hi _USER_
Do you mind elaborating a bit more on which Style Properties you have defined in your Selected style vs. your MouseDown style?
As you've noticed in RP 10, the Style Effects will blend together in the prototype. However, if you do not want the blending to occur, you can simply define the specific style properties on the Selected style, and those properties will override the properties on the MouseDown style.
For example, let's say you have a button with the following styles:
 - Base Style: white background / black font color
 - MouseDown Style: blue font color
 - Selected Style: grey fill color
Let's say when the button is in a selected state and the user mouses down on the button, you do not want to show the MouseDown blue font color.
In order to achieve this, you can simply define the font color that you want to display in that scenario in the Selected style (e.g. black font color). Once a font color is defined within the Selected style, it will no longer be overridden when the user mouses down on the button in the prototype.
The same would apply for other style properties you have defined in your style effects.
Hope this helps!
Hi Frankie
I've attached my file. There is definitely something weird going on as I don't even see the colour for the mouseDown event any more.
When the widget is created from dragging a "Primary Button" onto the canvas, everything works as you described above. However, if you modify the shape of the button, the mouseEvent does not occur as expected.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Hi _USER_,
Thank you for sharing your file. I was able to reproduce this issue on my end as well. This appears to be a bug with rendering style effects in the prototype for custom shape widgets. I've filed this to have our team investigate further. Thank you for letting us know!


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The University of St. Thomas' booth is a popular destination for many fair-goers as it is where one can obtain the coveted purple bag. UST has been known for its giveaways since 2000, ranging from bracelets and visors to bandanas. The much-loved purple bag first showed up in 2005. Since then, more that half a million bags have been given away, including 30,000 for the 2014 State Fair. (Current count, 565,000.) People wait in line to obtain this treasured bag and even ask for more than one, but there are rules, pre-set distribution times, and trained volunteers who make sure to follow along.
UST alumnus Brad Ribar '82, started selling corn at the State Fair in 1985. Each year, he clears $100,000 in sales, going through 190,000 ears of corn during the 12 day run of the fair.
With fair season now upon us, it's time for some trivia, courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair:
- During a typical year, how many gallons of milk are served at the American Dairy Association's all-you-can-drink concession?
- When was the pronto pup introduced at the State Fair?
- What is the most popular flavor of pies entered in the creative activities baked goods category?
- Approximately, how many rolls of toilet paper are used during the fair?
- On average, what's the total number of corn dogs typically consumed by fair visitors each year?
- In acres, how large is the fairgrounds?
- Which fair food contains the most calories?
- 20,000 gallons
- 22,000 rolls
- 320 acres
- The fried candy bars


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I've got a sprite group which needs to be drawn in a certain order so its sprites overlap as they should.
However even when sorting the group using operator module function (sorted(self.sprites, key=attrgetter('y','x')) the order is wrong.
How can I fix this behaviour?
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Straightforwardly, you can't:
The Group does not keep sprites in any order, so the draw order is arbitrary.
Use an OrderedUpdates group instead:
This class derives from pygame.sprite.RenderUpdates - Group class that tracks dirty updates. It maintains the order in which the Sprites were added to the Group for rendering. This makes adding and removing Sprites from the Group a little slower than regular Groups.
Alternatively, you can keep different 'layers' of sprites in different groups, keeping the order of groups correct.
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+1 for a simple solution – CyberneticTwerkGuruOrc Dec 26 '13 at 18:10
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At exam or in collections, the IRS may not be willing to agree to an acceptable resolution for the taxpayer. Have no fear, because the IRS Office of Appeals is here!
When the IRS issues a notice that proposes certain actions — such as changes to a tax return or collection activity — the taxpayer may be entitled to request an Appeals conference. Although the taxpayer alternatively may seek a remedy in court, Appeals is a less formal and typically far less costly forum to resolve disputes between the taxpayer and the IRS. Moreover, a taxpayer does not relinquish the right to pursue a remedy in court by taking a case to Appeals.
Here is the Office of Appeals' mission statement:
To resolve tax controversies, without litigation, on a basis which is fair and impartial to both the Government and the taxpayer in a manner that will enhance voluntary compliance and public confidence in the integrity and efficiency of the Service.
IRS Appeals proudly boasts independence as a core value. Appeals offers a fresh, objective and impartial perspective and provides taxpayers a fair hearing that would otherwise often inefficiently clog up a court's and taxpayer's time and resources.
To take a case to Appeals, the taxpayer must protest in writing the IRS's proposed action. An effectively drafted protest sets the stage for obtaining a fair and desired result.
Over the last few years, the Appeals Judicial Approach and Culture (AJAC) project has implemented policy changes for IRS Appeals to more effectively bifurcate IRS compliance functions and the role of Appeals. The policies aim for IRS compliance functions to serve as finders of fact and for Appeals to not take investigative actions but instead resolve cases.
When drafting a protest, a taxpayer must be specific in his appeal of the tax items in dispute. The introduction of new information in Appeals may result in Appeals releasing jurisdiction on the case and returning the file to compliance.
The IRS website states to include all of the following in a written protest:
- Your name, address and a daytime telephone number
- A statement that you want to appeal the IRS findings to the Office of Appeals
- A copy of the letter you received that shows the proposed change(s)
- The tax period(s) or year(s) involved
- A list of each proposed item with which you disagree
- The reason(s) you disagree with each item
- The facts that support your position on each item
- The law or authority, if any, that supports your position on each item
- The penalties of perjury statement as follows: "Under the penalties of perjury, I declare that the facts stated in this protest and any accompanying documents are true, correct and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief"
- Your signature under the penalties of perjury statement
Practice tip: In general, the protest letter should reflect the writing style of the IRS. The goal is for the reader to have the impression the writer is seasoned and has command of the content. A few style tips: Capitalize "T" for Taxpayer when referring to the client, cite authority according to the Bluebook and use lowercase "s" for section unless it starts a sentence.
A protest letter should contain headings to address each of the items required, as listed above. The example below focuses on some of the more important items.
Example situation: An IRS examiner proposes to disallow a deduction for mortgage interest claimed on Schedule A.
A list of each proposed item with which you disagree
An effective protest should have a separate sentence for each item in dispute. Each sentence should state that the taxpayer protests the proposed action. For example:
The Taxpayer disagrees with the IRS proposal to disallow the paid mortgage interest claimed on the Taxpayer's 2014 Form 1040, Schedule A.
This item represents the taxpayer's opportunity to highlight favorable facts and downplay unfavorable facts, if any. This section should read like a story. The story should leave the reader with not only an understanding of the facts but also an initial impression that the taxpayer's position is correct. For example:
The Taxpayer purchased property on [DD/MM/YYYY]. The Taxpayer financed the purchase with a mortgage in the amount of $x, with payments of $y/month, beginning on [DD/MM/YYYY]. The Taxpayer timely made the mortgage payments every month in 2014. The total mortgage interest paid during 2014 was $z.
Discuss the law
The protest should highlight favorable law. If there is unfavorable law, the protest may mention components of the law that are distinguishable from the issue under protest. Depending on the issues involved, the discussion of law could include a combination of statutes, regulations, case law or secondary material. For example:
In general, section 163(a) of the Internal Revenue Code allows a taxpayer to deduct all interest paid or accrued within the taxable year of indebtedness.
Apply the law to the facts
After authority is discussed, the protest should analogize favorable authority to the taxpayer's items in dispute. This section is the primary opportunity for the taxpayer to explain why the law, as applied to the taxpayer's facts, clearly demonstrates the taxpayer's position is correct and the IRS's position is not. For example:
Here, the Taxpayer is clearly entitled to deduct mortgage interest paid in 2014. During 2014, the Taxpayer made total mortgage payments of $x, with total interest paid of $z. Section 163(a) clearly allows the Taxpayer to deduct $z on Schedule A.
Practice tip: When there are several items in dispute, it may be helpful to address the meatier sections of the protest letter first with an outline of the issues and arguments to generate an initial structure, followed by developing paragraphs for each issue. Save editing and proofreading for last.
Failure to exhaust administrative remedies
If a taxpayer bypasses Appeals and seeks to litigate in US Tax Court, the court may nevertheless first reroute the case to Appeals in an effort to have the taxpayer and IRS resolve the case before going to trial. The court is most grateful when docketed cases reach a resolution in Appeals. The court may not look favorably upon a taxpayer's refusal to at least attempt to utilize Appeals. Additionally, taxpayers that bypass Appeals cannot recover costs of litigation.
Draft a strong conclusion in a short paragraph that states the relief sought and why the taxpayer is entitled to the relief.
IRS Appeals is a great forum for a taxpayer to resolve disputes. Drafting a persuasive protest letter is a critical step toward achieving the desired result.
For more information on this topic, or to learn how Baker Tilly tax specialists can help, contact our team.
The information provided here is of a general nature and is not intended to address the specific circumstances of any individual or entity. In specific circumstances, the services of a professional should be sought. Tax information, if any, contained in this communication was not intended or written to be used by any person for the purpose of avoiding penalties, nor should such information be construed as an opinion upon which any person may rely. The intended recipients of this communication and any attachments are not subject to any limitation on the disclosure of the tax treatment or tax structure of any transaction or matter that is the subject of this communication and any attachments.


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What is OCAF and Why Might I Need It?
OCAF is the OpenCascade Application Framework. At it's core, it provides the functionality to manage structured documents. The framework defines a document model but it's up to the application to define the specific document structure (in the same way that xml defines a file format, but an application defines a specific xml schema). OCAF documents can be loaded from or saved to disk using a native format, or import/exported from a number of other formats.
Using OCAF you can:
- Manage multiple documents and visualise document contents
- store BRep Shapes, including their evolution (version control for Shapes), for undo/redo for example
- define components and assemblies
- define shape metadata like: colour, material, tolerancies, layers
- define other metadata based on either existing standard types, or custom-defined types
- import / export support for STEP and IGES, including layers, colours, materials and tolerances
- define functions for reconstruction of parametric models
Basic OCAF Strucuture
OCAF documents are based on a hierarchy of labels (TDF.TDF_Label objects). At any one level in the tree, labels are identified by an index number. The series of index numbers from the root of the tree to a given label uniquely defines that label. The fully qualified label entry is writen as a colon-separated list of these integers e.g.
- root label (0:)
- label A (0:1)
- label D (0:1:1)
- label E (0:1:2)
- label B (0:2)
- label C (0:3)
- label F (0:3:1)
- label A (0:1)
Basic OCAF Use
Each OCAF app requires a single Application object.
Creating a new OCAF document
How is OCAF implemented in pythonOCC?
A recent developement of pythonOCC is the PAF framework, which implements Associativity, Parameters, Rules and Relations in a pythonic manner.


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Few things in childhood are more traumatising than waking up one morning to find your beloved pet fish, Michael Scofield, floating upside down in his tank (true story); his tiny fishy light cruelly extinguished before his time. But why do they float upside down when they decide it's time to take a ride on the porcelain express?
The answer to this question has a lot to do with how they maintain proper buoyancy when they're alive. As you may or may not know, most fish are in possession of an organ commonly known as a "swim bladder". This organ can be filled or emptied of air by a fish at will via its gills, allowing them to either float higher, sink lower or stay suspended at about the same depth, not unlike a Buoyancy Compensator (BC) used by scuba-divers.
Although swim bladders are critical to a fish's ability to float, sink or hover without expending much energy, they have the unfortunate side effect of making them rather unstable. To explain, research has shown that the relative position of a fish's "centre of buoyancy" is, amongst fish with swim bladders, almost universal located below their centre of mass near their stomach, making them quite prone to hydrostatic rolling which is just a fancy way of saying it makes them more likely to go belly up. This is why fish can often be seen flapping their fins, even when they're not moving and in perfectly still water.
This is also why when fish become ill or injured, they will sometimes begin swimming on their side or even upside down; they simply lose the ability to maintain hydrostatic equilibrium and the more buoyant part of their body will try to float to the surface. When fish ultimately die, of course, they lose all ability to stop themselves rolling over and the buoyancy of the swim bladder takes over.
It should also be noted that fish don't necessarily always float when they die. For example, if a fish dies with little to no air in its swim bladder, the act of dying doesn't magically make this bladder expand to increase buoyancy. In these cases, the fish will often sink, at which point decomposition will begin. That said, the decomposition process can sometimes result in enough gas being produced and trapped inside the fish to cause it to float to the surface.
So in short, fish float upside when they die because many of them are top heavy and posses an organ in their lower region that is filled with air.
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Monte Carlo Tree Search-Based Intersection Signal Optimization Model with Channelized Section Spillover
Signal optimization has received significant attentions from the research community. However, during peak hours, the performances of existing models still have room for improvements, especially when channelized section spillover (CSS) occurs. The evolution of CSS is dynamic in nature, not only due to the interactions between traffic flow of different movements, but also because existing CSS influences the queuing process in a channelized section and contributes to new CSS formation at the next cycle. Neglecting such spatial-temporal interaction in current traffic signal optimization procedures may lead to suboptimal results. A Monte Carlo Tree Search-based model is proposed to solve the intersection optimization problem (named MCTS-IO) with explicit modeling of CSS dynamic evolution. The model works in a rolling horizon way. At each decision point, MCTS-IO simulates the intersection by selecting a sequence of phases, and progressively updates the relative preferences of the phases. After all simulations are performed, the phase with the best policy PI is selected. Both the PI and decision space can be customized, which ensures algorithm flexibility. The method is tested against Synchro results with both stable and variable demand, which demonstrates the proposed model is always able to find a solution better than Synchro.
H. Qi and X. Hu, "Monte Carlo Tree Search-Based Intersection Signal Optimization Model with Channelized Section Spillover," Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 106, pp. 281-302, Elsevier Ltd, Sep 2019.
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Channelized section spillover; Monte Carlo Tree Search; Signal optimization
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previously with the exception of olAttachmentWell. When an attachment is selected in the attachment strip, the AttachmentSelectionChange event occurs. Both the SelectionChange and AttachmentSelectionChange events are on the Explorer object.
If you enumerate the Selection object when the SelectionChange event occurs, be sure that your code can handle different item types appropriately. Do not expect that the only object in the Selection object is a MailItem object.
The enhanced Selection object in Outlook 2010 works for any type of view, including the new conversation view in Outlook 2010. The following properties help you to determine whether the current view is a conversation view.
Table 5. TableView properties
TableView Property
Description
AlwaysExpandConversation
Returns or sets a value that indicates whether conversations are always fully expanded in the table view. Read/write.
ShowConversationByDate
Returns or sets a Boolean value that indicates whether items in the table view are organized by the conversation date and conversation. Read/write.
ShowFullConversations
Returns or sets a Boolean value that indicates whether conversation items from other folders, such as the Sent Items folder, should be displayed as part of the conversation in the table view. Read/write.
If the value of TableView.ShowConversationByDate is true, the view is using the new conversation arrangement in Outlook 2010. When the current view is a conversation view, a conversation can be a single item conversation, a split conversation, or an expanded conversation. The selection changes depending on whether the selected item is a conversation header or an expanded conversation (multiple items can be selected in the expanded conversation). In addition, Outlook 2010 adds a new ConversationHeader object, and one or more conversation headers can be selected in a view. To determine whether conversation headers are selected in a view, use the new GetSelection method on the Selection object and pass the OlSelectionContents.olConversationHeaders to the method. Calling the GetSelection method returns a Selection object, but in this case the Selection object contains ConversationHeader objects instead of item objects such as MailItem or MeetingItem objects. The DemoConversationHeadersFromSelection function enumerates all the items in selected conversation headers in a conversation view.
private void DemoConversationHeadersFromSelection()
{
 // Obtain the Inbox folder.
 Outlook.Folder inbox =
 Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(
 Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox)
 as Outlook.Folder;
 // Set ActiveExplorer.CurrentFolder to the Inbox.
 // Inbox must be the current folder.
 Application.ActiveExplorer().CurrentFolder = inbox;
 //Ensure that current view is a TableView object.
 if (inbox.CurrentView.ViewType ==
 Outlook.OlViewType.olTableView)
 {
 Outlook.TableView view =
 inbox.CurrentView as Outlook.TableView;
 if (view.ShowConversationByDate == true)
 {
 Outlook.Selection selection =
 Application.ActiveExplorer().Selection;
 Debug.WriteLine("Selection.Count = " + selection.Count);
 // Call GetSelection to create
 // a Selection object that contains ConversationHeader objects.
 Outlook.Selection convHeaders =
 selection.GetSelection(
 Outlook.OlSelectionContents.olConversationHeaders)
 as Outlook.Selection;
 Debug.WriteLine("Selection.Count (ConversationHeaders) = "
 + convHeaders.Count);
 if (convHeaders.Count >= 1)
 {
 foreach (Outlook.ConversationHeader convHeader in
 convHeaders)
 {
 // Enumerate the items in the ConversationHeader.
 Outlook.SimpleItems items = convHeader.GetItems();
 for (int i = 1; i <= items.Count; i++)
 {
 // Enumerate only MailItem objects in this example.
 if (items[i] is Outlook.MailItem)
 {
 Outlook.MailItem mail =
 items[i] as Outlook.MailItem;
 Debug.WriteLine(mail.Subject
 + " Received:" + mail.ReceivedTime);
 }
 }
 }
 }
 }
 }
}
This section discusses some of the issues that affect Outlook extensibility when you use 32-bit or 64-bit Windows with 32-bit or 64-bit Outlook 2010 installed.
Operating System and Office Support for 64-Bit Outlook
Starting in Microsoft Office 2010, Outlook is available as a 32-bit or 64-bit application. On the same computer, the bitness of Outlook depends on the bitness of the Windows operating system (x86 or x64), and of Office, if Office is already installed on that computer. The following are some of the factors that determine the feasibility of installing a 32-bit or a 64-bit version of Outlook:
 - 32-bit Office (and 32-bit Outlook) can be installed on a 32-bit or 64-bit version of the Windows operating system. 64-bit Office (and 64-bit Outlook) can be installed only on a 64-bit operating system.
 - The default installation of Office on a 64-bit version of the Windows operating system is 32-bit Office.
 - The bitness of an installed version of Outlook is always the same as the bitness of Office, if Office is installed on the same computer. In other words, a 32-bit version of Outlook cannot be installed on the same computer that already has 64-bit versions of other Office applications installed, such as 64-bit Word or 64-bit Microsoft Excel. Similarly, a 64-bit version of Outlook cannot be installed on the same computer that already has 32-bit versions of other Office applications installed.
Considerations for Existing Applications That Run on 64-bit Outlook
If your 32-bit applications run on a 64-bit version of the Windows operating system with 64-bit Office installed, consider the following issues:
 - Object model calls should work without modification for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Outlook.
 - Native add-ins compiled for 32-bit versions of Outlook (which includes all versions of Outlook previous to Outlook 2010) must be recompiled for 64-bit Outlook.
 - Outlook add-ins created by using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office system 3.0, and Microsoft Office development tools in Visual Studio 2010, work for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Office, provided that they are compiled with the Any CPU option for Target Platform on the Build tab of the Project Properties dialog box.
 - 32-bit standalone applications (.exe) that use the Outlook object model must be recompiled for 64-bit Outlook.
Changes in Messaging API (MAPI) for 64-bit Outlook
Although there is no difference between the Outlook 2010 object models for the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Outlook, there are some small changes in MAPI functions that resulted from the introduction of 64-bit MAPI with 64-bit Outlook. Typically, those changes are related to 64-bit types, such as ULONG_PTR, that must be passed to MAPI functions.
MAPI applications include standalone applications such as Microsoft Communicator and MFCMAPI, and service providers such as address book, store, and transport providers. For MAPI method and function calls to work in a MAPI application (with the exception of one Simple MAPI function, MAPISendMail), the bitness of the MAPI application must be the same as the bitness of the MAPI subsystem on the computer that the application is targeted to run on. The bitness of the MAPI subsystem, in turn, is determined by and always the same as the bitness of the installed version of Outlook.
If your solution is native and calls MAPI directly, see the Welcome to the Outlook 2010 MAPI Reference for guidance on how to port your solution to work with 64-bit Outlook. The following topics will be of particular interest to MAPI developers:
Exchange Client Extensions Deprecated
Exchange Client Extensions (ECEs) have been deprecated in Outlook 2010. ECEs were introduced with the Microsoft Exchange client in 1995, when the client was a 16-bit mail application running against the earliest versions of Exchange Server. ECEs must be written in native code, typically by using C++ and relying heavily on MAPI. When Outlook replaced the Exchange client, ECEs were used to extend Outlook 97-98 until COM add-ins replaced ECEs in Outlook 2000.
ECEs will continue to operate as expected in Outlook 2007 and earlier. However, ECEs will not load in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Outlook 2010. To redesign your existing ECE solution, consider the following options:
 - Rewrite your ECE as a COM add-in by using native or managed code. Unlike ECEs, an add-in represents a strategic extensibility technology that is fully supported in Outlook 2010. By using an Outlook add-in, you can build Outlook form regions and extend the Office Fluent UI. For more information, see Building an Outlook 2007 Form Region with a Managed Add-In, the Office Fluent User Interface Developer Center, and the Outlook Developer Center on MSDN.
 - Rewrite your ECE as a Windows service application by using native code and MAPI. If you write a Windows service application, you must use MAPI to access Outlook items instead of the Outlook object model.
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I have an acyclic digraph that I would like to draw in a pleasing way, but I am having trouble finding a suitable algorithm that fits my special case. My problem is that I want to fix the x-coordinate of each vertex (with some vertices having the same x-coordinate), and only vary the y. My aesthetic criteria are (in order of importance):
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I have tried several (modified) force-directed algorithms, but they haven't met my expectations on at least one of these - usually too many edge crossings.
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I'm curious, do the x-coordinates reflect the graph structure (as mentioned by David) or are they an independent variable? And do you have rough estimates for the number of nodes and edges? – Martin M. W. Nov 12 '09 at 22:06
Yes, they reflect the structure of the graph - to be specific, the x axis is time. The graph currently has about 86 nodes and 74 edges, but it will be growing. I estimate a total for both nodes and edges somewhere between 400 and 500. – Brent Hagany Nov 13 '09 at 1:21
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If the x-coordinates are compatible with the acyclic structure of your DAG (that is, for an edge u->v, the x coordinate of u should always be less than that of v) then this is a standard problem in graph drawing, known as Sugiyama-style layered drawing. (Usually it is the y coordinates that are fixed but that makes no difference.) Some versions of the problem (e.g. finding the exact minimum number of edge crossings) can be NP-hard but effective heuristics are known. See e.g. chapter 9 of Di Battista, Tamassia, and Eades, "Graph Drawing: Algorithms for the Visualization of Graphs", Prentice-Hall, 1999.
Searching Google scholar for "layered graph drawing" should also turn up some more recent references, but be careful that some of them (including mine) which use the term to mean something unrelated.
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Excellent, thank you! I think I am more familiar with the other meaning of layered graph drawing - it would have never occurred to me to search for that. I'm not too concerned about finding the absolute minimum number of crossings, so I think I should be able to avoid any NP-hardness. Anyway, I appreciate it. – Brent Hagany Nov 13 '09 at 1:30
The documentation for GraphViz (a software package that does this sort of thing) has a number of papers on the subject included.
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Eccentric American gymnast and acrobat who invented the trampoline
George Nissen
George Nissen
George Nissen, who has died aged 96, was an inveterate and sometimes eccentric inventor. He registered more than 40 patents, but his name is synonymous with his first invention, the trampoline. His life-changing idea was formulated when, as a child, he visited touring circuses. Watching the trapeze artists drop into the safety nets and bounce up and flip, he imagined how exciting it would be if they could keep bouncing and flipping.
Nissen called the concept "rebound tumbling" and built his first bouncing rig while he was a student. He registered the trademark "trampoline" – naming it after el trampolín, the Spanish for diving board – and in his first year of production, in the late 1930s, he sold about 10 to YMCAs and schools. That did not impress his father, who suggested that he had already satisfied demand. But Nissen was not so easily deterred, and by the mid-60s the trampoline had become so popular that he no longer tried to enforce the patent.
Nissen was born in Blairstown, Iowa, one of four children of Franklin and Catherine Nissen, Danish immigrants. The family moved to Cedar Rapids when he was young, and he took up gymnastics and diving at the local YMCA. In 1933, he started at the University of Iowa and during his time there, with the gymnastics coach Larry Griswold, set about building the first trampoline. Griswold would later partner Nissen in the Griswold-Nissen Trampoline and Tumbling Company, set up in 1941, and write the first instruction manual the following year.
Nissen had experimented in the family garage, using angle irons from the local junkyard for the frame and canvas from a tentmaker, with strips of inner-tubes from old car tyres to attach the canvas to the frame. With Griswold, he worked on a more sophisticated model with coiled springs, which had its first public appearance at the local YMCA camp. The bouncing rig proved hugely successful and Nissen began to believe that it could have a commercial future.
After graduating in 1937 with a business degree, he toured with his friends Jack Brown and Xavier Leonard as The Three Leonardos. They performed their acrobatic act at fairs in the US and in Mexico, where Nissen discovered the future name for his bouncing rig. When they returned to the US, they incorporated the trampoline into their act and toured schools. As intended, it generated commercial interest, but the second world war intervened. Nissen, ever adaptable, persuaded the US forces that the trampoline had training applications and sold them about 100.
The postwar development of the trampoline was marked out by a publicity stunt with a kangaroo, which Nissen hired for a photoshoot in Central Park, New York. He knew that by bouncing at one end of the trampoline, he could start the kangaroo bouncing at the other. The trick was for Nissen to time his jumps so that a picture could be taken of both himself and the kangaroo in mid-air.
The shoot was a huge success and the picture went round the world. Nissen did too, selling his product in Europe (the trampoline was particularly popular in eastern-bloc countries), Japan, South Africa and South America. However, there was chequered progress for trampolines in the US. They were hugely popular, but the "jump centres" that sprang up were unregulated, and injuries – and legal action – ensued.
Nissen tried to develop his invention by creating bouncing games, but the trampoline was developing organically. As well as being an invaluable training aid for many sports – it was de rigueur for divers – it was taking off as a sport in its own right.
The first world championships took place at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 1964. A year later, the International Trampoline Federation was formed. Griswold and Nissen formed the US Tumbling and Trampoline Association in 1971. But Nissen had to wait until 2000 for his lifetime goal to be achieved. That year, the sport was accorded ultimate respectability when it was included in the Sydney Olympic Games.
Nissen himself was the best advertisement for the health benefits of his product. A brilliant gymnast and tumbler in his youth, he could still do handstands into his 80s and yoga headstands in his 90s.
He is survived by his wife, Annie, a Dutch acrobat whom he met in 1950 while she was performing for the Cole Brothers Circus in the US, and two daughters, Dagmar and Dian.
- George Peter Nissen, inventor and gymnast, born 3 February 1914; died 7 April 2010
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