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Advanced excremeditation by a trained professional
Excremeditation is the most Slackful form of meditation, and is promoted by the Church of the SubGenius. It is a form of meditation involving defecating into a toilet and enjoying it. Here is a 12-step set of directions for advanced excremeditation (beginners should have already learned the basics of how to defecate into a toilet and enjoy it by now, so only do this AFTER mastering the basics, and please note the risks involved in this activity before attempting it, listed in the warnings after the 12 steps):
1) Eat a can of baked beans. Well, not the can itself, but the baked beans inside of the can. The can is made of metal, and eating it isn't good for you. Just eat the food inside a can of baked beans. If the can was big, you're all set with step 1. If it was a small can, eat another small can of baked beans (not the can itself, but the food inside)! Now you're ready for step 2.
2) Drink some coffee. The exact amount of coffee for step 2 varies depending on the person, but it should be caffeinated coffee, not decaf. If you are used to drinking coffee and can handle a lot of it, drink much more than usual. If you are especially sensitive to coffee and just a little makes you go Over The Edge, one cup of coffee is the perfect amount. For an average SubGenius, 2 or 3 cups of coffee should do the trick.
3) Eat some prunes, raisins, dried apricots, dried cherries, sun-dried tomatoes, dried apples, or some other manner of dried fruit. It doesn't matter if it's freeze-dried like the way astronauts eat or if it is the sticky sort of dried fruit like prunes. All that matters is that it's dried fruit.
4) Go outside and start jogging. The moderate exercise should have a good effect on your digestion. Keep jogging in the area near your home until you start to feel a bit ill and are farting a bit.
5) Rush immediately to your bathroom, slam the door, sit on the toilet, and take a dump. Push out as much fecal matter as possible, while having your eyes closed, your head resting on your hands, and your elbows resting on your knees. Remember to keep your hands clean and away from your rear end.
6) After the fecal matter has stopped flowing, stay in this pose, with your eyes closed, your head resting on your hands, and your elbows resting on your knees. Do not move an inch, or open your eyes, or use toilet paper, or anything. Focus all of your thoughts and energies on your colon and any feces that is still in there and needs to come out. Continue doing this until you feel that your colon has been emptied completely. Your hands should still be clean.
7) Your hands are still clean and your colon is empty, correct? Without getting up from the toilet, masturbate to some pornography (do this REGARDLESS of your gender... girls, this means you should have remembered a vibrator). Also, if you like to smoke cigarettes or frop, do that at this time as well. If you forgot to bring any of those things to the area near the toilet, well remember to leave them there next time.
8) Get yourself cleaned up. You probably need a VERY thorough shower at this point, and that's AFTER using up all the toilet paper.
9) Take some anti-diarrheal and anti-gas medicine (2 mg Loperamide HCl combined with 125 mg Simethicone). Combine this with some type of central nervous system depressant (a benzodiazepine or a sleep drug like Ambien if you are prescribed that type of drug, or some alcohol or a sleep-inducing antihistamine like Diphenhydramine HCl if you aren't on that type of prescription). Only use ONE central nervous system depressant though, and don't take too much, just a little. Then go straight to bed and fall asleep, and you will have very weird dreams.
10) With any luck, The Rupture will happen to you during your sleep, and you will wake up on the Pleasure Saucers surrounded by Alien Sex Goddesses, on the way to Planet X.
11) If you wake up back on Earth, this means The Conspiracy has prevailed yet again. Do not despair. This is what usually happens. You can try excremeditation again another time if you want.
12) Fnord. That is all.
WARNINGS: Excremeditation is for trained professionals only. Do not try this at home. Excremeditation may be hazardous to your health. Side effects may include abortion, ADHD, aging, agnosticism, AIDS, alcoholism, allergies, Alzhemer's, anaphylactic shock, anarchism, anhedonia, anorexia, anthrax, apostasy, asexuality, Asperger's, asthma, Astrocism, atheism, autism, becoming an alt.slack kook, bisexuality, blasphemy, blood clots, "Bob", Bozoid metamorphosis, brain damage, brainwashing, a British accent, broken bones, bronchitis, Buddhism, bulldada, cancer, Capitalism, cardiac arrest, cerebral hemorrhage, Christianity, clenched anus, coma, Communism, Confucianism, confusion, congestive heart failure, conservatism, constipation, coughing, delusions of grandeur, deportation to North Korea, deprogramming, diabetes, diarrhea, Discordianism, drowning, drug addiction, dry mouth, the Ebola virus, election to Congress, The End Times, endocrine disruption, epilepsy, erectile dysfunction, eternal salvation, excommunication, excremeditation, exorcism, falling down, fascism, fever, fibromyalgia, flatulence, fnord, furry fandom, Gender Identity Disorder, giraffe obsession, hallucinations, heterosexuality, Hinduism, homicide, homophobia, homosexuality, immortality, incarceration, incontinence, infectious diseases, influenza, insanity, insomnia, internal bleeding, invisibility, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Islam, Judaism, kidney failure, lactation, legal arrest, liberalism, libertarianism, liver damage, loose stools, lunacy, magical abilities, mental retardation, Mermaid Syndrome, misdiagnosis, mud butt, Multiple Personality Disorder, nationalism, nausea, neurosis, nihilism, nuclear war, the number 23, obesity, omnipotence, omniscience, pacifism, paganism, pain, Parkinson's, Pastafarianism, PatrioPsychotic AnarchoMaterialism, perversion, pinkeye, PMS, poisoning, poverty, promotion to CEO, prostitution, psychic powers, psychopathy, psychosis, PTSD, racism, reincarnation, resurrection, revitiligo, rigor mortis, runny nose, schism, schizophrenia, Scientology, sexhurt, sexism, Shintoism, Slack, sleep apnea, sneezing, sociopathy, species dysphoria, spontaneous human combustion, stroke, stupidity, sudden death, suicide, supernatural powers, surreality, sweating, swollen pineal gland, talking in palindromes, Taoism, tardive dyskinesia, telekinesis, terrorism, time travel, unemployment, viral infection, vitiligo, watery eyes, xenophobia, Yetinsyny, Zoroastrianism, and any other condition not mentioned. The Church of the SubGenius is not responsible for any damages. Void where prohibited by law. All rights reserved. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Excremeditation caught on camera (a silent film):
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Church of the SubGenius Excremeditation
Yeti excremeditation and other bulldada:
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Corpseduction by Rev.Norwood S Grimes.
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"Turf-ism" can be defined as non-cooperation or conflict between organizations with seemingly common goals or interests. Whether over resources, recognition, or control, turf struggles can threaten coalition vitality. Traditionally, coalition leaders' response to turf struggles has been to ask coalition membership to "leave their hats at the door". However, The Tension of Turf: Making it Work for the Coalition takes a different approach to addressing turf issues.
Turf struggle implies the existence of valuable turf. Especially in the social work and public health arenas, groups have a deep belief in what they do, and they connect that with their core identity. While this passion may lead to turf battles, it is also the reason the group is willing to work with other organizations towards a larger goal. Rather than suppressing struggles, and thereby diminishing the importance of turf, coalition leaders must find ways to incorporate that passion into the overall collaborative effort. The Tension of Turf was developed as a tool to help practitioners working within coalitions to identify, address, and manage turf issues.
Successful coalitions learn to anticipate and validate turf issues as part of solidifying partnerships and gathering their full strength. Tension of Turf offers practical support for skillfully managing the dynamic tension that commonly arises when people collaborate. It helps coalitions derive authentic, constructive power from their varying perspectives, skills, and mandates.
Tension of Turf is the companion tool to our coalition-building guide, Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide.


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Software for the design and manufacture of footwear LASTS.
IcadFOR is the software for design and manufacturing of shoe lasts. Starting from real lasts digitized, the system allows the combination and edition of them using multiple 2D and 3D tools.
In addition IcadFOR also works with digital feet, and for this purpose there are different feet specific tools that allow us to carry out very useful comparative studies for the shoe's customization processes. The most important features are:
- Fast and precise dimensional control of feet and lasts.
- Multiple edition options to finally send the lasts to manufacture in machining centers.
- Last customization using feet information for analisys and deformation.
- Direct comunication with Icad3D+, the shoe design, adjustment and pattern making software.
- IcadFOR allows the join of 2 lasts stablishing the joining area in a very simple way and everywhere. The joining area can be manually edited and accurately.
- The system offers the possibility to combine a well fit body last with different toes to create new models. Furthermore, you can combine 2 lasts for keep bottom part to create booties.
Remove manufacturing supports
- IcadFOR allows the remove of heel and toe supports coming from some types of the digitizers.
- There are 3 different methods for remove heel supports and another 3 methods for the toe support.
Lasts modifications and rectifications
- IcadFOR allows the geometric modification of the last using different types of deformers (cage, curves, rotation y zones).
- It has a powerfull wizard that makes easy the task for the user to apply common modifications in known areas.
- This tool offers infinite edition possibilities in any zone of the last and it is posible to use as visual reference the feet information to know where to apply changes.
- IcadFOR allows the grading using grading systems based on sizes and other more special grading based on measures, with the possibility to define restricted areas.
Feet and lasts measurement and machining
- IcadFOR has a predefined set of parameterizable automatic measures and the possibility to define your own manual measures.
- The automatic measures depend on the control points and these control points can be edited manually. The edition of these points recalcs automatically the measures.
- Feet and lasts measurement independently with the possiblity to create comparative foot-last reports.
- When the edition, grade o join are finished, the new result lasts can be manufactured. For this, IcadFOR creates the mechanize toolpaths and the machining center can manufacture them phisycally.
- Definition zones and steps for toolpath generation.

source: openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb


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New design awards celebrate Hydrogenerator
Gensler teamed with 4240 Architecture have been awarded Silver in a new multi-disciplinary design award, in recognition of their proposals for turning water into electricity.
The collaboration was formed to create a proposal that transforms Chicago's abandoned Bloomingdale rail line into a three mile long greenhouse and hydrogen generator that provides 10 acres of farm land year round, powers city schools, and creates a beacon for the city. The Spark Awards recognised the potential in the unbuilt project awarding Gensler and 4240 Architecture with their Silver award.
Chicago's Bloomingdale railroad viaduct runs through the city's heart, connecting neighbourhoods, the city's park system, and the Chicago River. The three-mile long elevated rail line was abandoned in the 1980s and currently sits neglected, overtaken by vegetation, garbage, and debris. It is at once an eyesore as well as a beautiful wilderness set against a dense urban backdrop.
"Our city's challenges are too significant and the Bloomingdale Line's potential too great for it to be just another park," said Gensler design director Brian Vitale. "The Bloomingdale Line is worthy of a greater purpose, one that will directly affect people in most need within the city."
While the greenhouse above produces food, the hydrogen generator below creates electricity to split water molecules into pure Hydrogen and Oxygen. This new fuel cell energy will be used to power nearby Chicago Public Schools, in turn helping the CPS reverse its budget shortfall from last year which resulted in teacher layoffs to offset rising utility bills. "Simply put, Hydrogen = Teachers," say Gensler. The excess Hydrogen will be sold to alternative fuel vehicles at depots throughout the line.
As it produces this much needed food and energy, the Hydrogenerator simultaneously releases oxygen as the by-product of photosynthesis and hydrogen production -- a truly sustainable loop.

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


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Automated Text Recognition for Ottoman Turkish
Our Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) project is a cutting-edge initiative at the forefront of Ottoman Turkish transcription. The focus of this project is the application of HTR, an artificial intelligence-driven automatic transcription system, to Ottoman Turkish.
This initiative, currently focusing on HTR with Transkribus, pursues two overarching objectives:
firstly, to enhance the accessibility of Ottoman Turkish historical archives to researchers and the general public; secondly, to contribute to the digital research infrastructure creation for Ottoman Turkish.
Our ongoing work with Transkribus involves the creation of a generalized text recognition model for 19th-century Ottoman Turkish periodicals. As of June 2023, the Character Error Rate (CER) of the most recent HTR model stands at 7.20%, and we are diligently working to improve it. We have recently made this model publicly available on Transkribus, further cementing our commitment to open scholarship and to the digital study of Ottoman Turkish.
As the first HTR model publicly available and designed explicitly for Ottoman Turkish, we envision this project as a foundational infrastructure for digital studies centered around Ottoman Turkish text collections. The model's significance resides in its capacity to improve accessibility and analysis of the extensive Ottoman Turkish materials via automated transcription and sophisticated digital research methodologies.

source: m-a-p/FineFineWeb


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What-does.net is your comprehensive online definition dictionary. If you are not sure how to define a certain word (Hoofed, for example), our website can provide you with the appropriate definition. On this page, you can find what is the definition for Hoofed.
hoofed - 1 dictionary results
hoofed - examples of usage
- He took a flashlight and found a small hoofed animal, hardly bigger than old Tom, rearing and bucking with a broken leg in the trap. - "Cat and Mouse", Ralph Williams.
- It was devilish hard lines to be hoofed away from the regiment practically just after he had got his command. - "The Red Planet", William J. Locke.
- These animals, although hoofed as sheep are, can scale a cliff like cats, or spring down one like squirrels. - "The Boy Hunters", Captain Mayne Reid.


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Next: Excess Close Up: Syntax Errors
Excess Open Parentheses
The first step is to find the defun that is unbalanced. If there is
an excess open parenthesis, the way to do this is to insert a close
parenthesis at the end of the file and type 'C-M-b' ('backward-sexp').
This will move you to the beginning of the defun that is unbalanced.
(Then type 'C-SPC C-_ C-u C-SPC' to set the mark there, undo the
insertion of the close parenthesis, and finally return to the mark.)
The next step is to determine precisely what is wrong. There is no
way to be sure of this except to study the program, but often the
existing indentation is a clue to where the parentheses should have
been. The easiest way to use this clue is to reindent with 'C-M-q' and
see what moves.
Before you do this, make sure the defun has enough close parentheses.
Otherwise, 'C-M-q' will get an error, or will reindent all the rest of
the file until the end. So move to the end of the defun and insert a
close parenthesis there. Don't use 'C-M-e' to move there, since that
too will fail to work until the defun is balanced.
Then go to the beginning of the defun and type 'C-M-q'. Usually all
the lines from a certain point to the end of the function will shift to
the right. There is probably a missing close parenthesis, or a
superfluous open parenthesis, near that point. (However, don't assume
this is true; study the code to make sure.) Once you have found the
discrepancy, undo the 'C-M-q', since the old indentation is probably
appropriate to the intended parentheses.
After you think you have fixed the problem, use 'C-M-q' again. It
should not change anything, if the problem is really fixed.
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ESX Server mounts the storage using UUID. With the hard disk changed, UUID changes too. Hence, ESX fails to mount
- You boot an ESX host machine from Acronis Bootable Media;
- You back up the machine's hard disk;
- After that you replace the hard disk in the machine with an identical one;
- You restore the backup to the new disk;
- You boot the ESX host machine from the restored disk;
- Guest Operating Systems fail to boot and ESX Server cannot recognize the restored disk.
ESX Server mounts the storage using Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). With the hard disk changed, UUID changes too. As a result ESX Server fails to recognize the restored hard disk and mount the storage. Hence, Guest Operating Systems fail to boot.
To migrate ESX Server to new hard disks you need to do the following:
- Restore an existing image of ESX Server to new hard disks;
- Boot ESX Server and hit Alt-F1 to enter the command-line interface. Log in under root;
- Issue the following command:
esxcfg-advcfg -g /LVM/EnableResignature
There will be either 1 or 0 value output. If the value is 0, then ESX will not automatically update the VMFS header with new LUN and UUID. Therefore this value should be set to 1:
esxcfg-advcfg -s 1 /LVM/EnableResignature
- Reboot the ESX Server:
shutdown -r 0
- After the reboot you should connect to the ESX Server from the Console and check if the data storage has been mounted properly.
(!) The Guest Operating Systems will remain in the unknown state. So, you should reinitialize guest virtual machines:
- In the left menu of ESX Server Console right-click on the guest machine name and click Remove from inventory;
- Choose host ESX server-> Configuration;
- Under the Hardware section choose Storage and right-click on it (it should contain a list of virtual machines;
- Click Browse Datastore;
- Choose the.vmx of the machine that was removed from inventory;
- Click on the Add this virtual machine to inventory option.
After this the ESX Server should work properly and Guest Operating Systems should boot.


Performance Optimization in FastAPI and Pydantic Applications
Discover strategies to enhance the speed and efficiency of your FastAPI applications, focusing on Pydantic model optimization and server configurations.
By Kevin McAleer, 3 Minutes
Performance Optimization in FastAPI and Pydantic Applications
Introduction to Performance Optimization
In web development, performance is key to providing a good user experience and scaling to accommodate user demand. For FastAPI and Pydantic applications, optimization can involve tweaking model definitions, server configurations, and more.
Pydantic Model Optimization
 - Use Pydantic's BaseModel sparingly: Pydantic's validation can add overhead. For read-heavy endpoints where data validation isn't necessary, consider using simpler data structures like dictionaries or dataclasses.
 - Reduce model complexity: Simplify your models by avoiding deeply nested structures and minimizing the use of complex field types when possible.
 - Pre-compile models: Utilize Pydantic's create_model function to pre-compile models, which can significantly reduce the runtime cost of model instantiation.
FastAPI Server Tuning
 - Choose the right server: FastAPI recommends Uvicorn as an ASGI server. For production, running Uvicorn with Gunicorn (with worker processes) can enhance concurrency and performance.
 - Adjust worker count: Increase the number of worker processes in Gunicorn to match your server's CPU cores. This maximizes resource usage and can improve request handling capacity.
gunicorn -w 4 -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker main:app
Caching
 - Implement response caching: Use caching strategies to store responses of expensive or frequently accessed endpoints, reducing load on your server and speeding up response times for repeat requests.
 - Utilize HTTP caching headers: Set appropriate caching headers to encourage client-side and intermediary caching, further reducing the need for repeat processing.
Database Performance
 - Optimize database interactions: Ensure your database queries are optimized and consider using asynchronous database drivers compatible with FastAPI to improve I/O-bound operations.
 - Connection pooling: Use connection pooling to manage database connections efficiently, reducing connection overhead for high numbers of requests.
Profiling and Monitoring
 - Use profiling tools: Regularly profile your application to identify bottlenecks. Tools like Py-Spy for Python applications can help you see where your application spends the most time.
 - Monitor application performance: Implement monitoring solutions to track your application's performance in production, allowing you to quickly identify and address issues as they arise.
Lesson Assignment
Optimize an existing FastAPI and Pydantic application by applying at least three of the performance strategies discussed in this lesson. Measure the performance before and after optimization using a tool like wrk or ab (Apache Bench), and document the results and any observations.
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Hypocalymma angustifolia
Meaning of name: Hypocalymma is from the Greek words hypo, meaning under, and calymma, meaning a covering or hood. It refers to the cap of the calyx in bud. Angustifolia is from the Latin words angustus, meaning narrow, and folium, meaning leaf.
Aboriginal name: Koodgeed.
Aboriginal use: The leaves were used to relieve headaches and nasal congestion. They were also used in the treatment of skin conditions.
Distribution: Occurs from Geraldton to Albany.
Remarks: An open shrub to 1.5 metres tall. The white to pink flowers are produced from July to October.
References: Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings, a Glossary. FA Sharr. 1996.
Flora of the Perth Region. NG Marchant, JR Wheeler, BL Rye, EM Bennett, NS Lander, TD Macfarlane. 1987.
Noongar Bush Medicine, Medicinal Plants of the South-west of Western Australia. Vivienne Hansen & John Horsfall. 2016


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aha is a noun meaning "rage" in Quenya.
PQ *akhâ from Root *AKH.
In the First Age, aha was pronounced acha.
Aha is also the name of the eleventh letter of the Tengwar alphabet. In Westron it was called Shé and it had the value of sh in Mannish modes.
The original name of Aha was Charma and in Quenya it had the value "ch". Over time the "ch" in Quenya softened to "h" at the beginning of words and the letter, now called Acha, was only used in the middle of words where ch still retained. Still later the "ch" sound disappeared altogether and the letter name as well became Aha.
In Sindarin, Aha still refers to the "ch" sound. In Westron the letter is called Shé and has the value of "sh".


]
 this.storage.forEach((list, id) => {
 lists.push(JSON.parse(list))
 console.log(this.lists)
 }).then(() => {
 this.lists = lists
 })
 }
 selectSms() {
 this.navCtrl.push(SelectPage, {}) // this is how we change the page
 }
 listTitle(list) {
 return list.items.map(x => x.title).join(", ")
 }
 go(id) {
 this.navCtrl.push(ListPage, {id}) // another example of changing the page,
 // this time with a parameter
 }
}</glist>
Now, this might feel a little overwhelming, so let's break this code down piece by piece.
First of all, in Angular when you want to use a component, you are using dependency injection. Basically, you're not creating the components yourself, but rather declaring which ones you need and letting the engine figure out the details. In the example above, this is how we inject navCtrl and storage. Angular will create them for us and put on this.
The ionViewWillEnter is part of the Ionic page lifecycle. This method runs just before the page is to become active. This is usually the place where you want to load your data. This is what we are doing here by loading all of our lists from the storage.
You've probably noticed that storage works asynchronously. Instead of returning a value, it returns a promise. The same goes for the forEach method we're using here.
Finally, when we want to navigate to another page, we use the navCtrl which works like a simple stack. It has a push method we need to call whenever we want the view to change. It can also accept the params, which can be retrieved on the next page (we'll talk about this later).
At this point, the compiler will fail because we still haven't defined the other two pages SelectPage and ListPage. So let's write them.
Reading the SMSes
A couple of words about Ionic Native. Loosely speaking, this is a set of JavaScript bindings for some native behavior. It allows you to use some of the native phone functions (for example camera) from JavaScript. Underneath it is powered by Cordova, but I think nowadays you can even swap it to Xamarin which is owned by Microsoft.
The list of Native's features is astonishingly long. You can skim through the whole list here.
Some of those plugins can be used on both platforms iOS, and Android, while others are platform-specific.
Our task here is to read the list of SMSes and let the users select the SMS they want. I have to say that iOS doesn't have an ability to read SMSes (at least not that I'm aware of, please let me know otherwise). So from this point onwards, we're going Android-only.
Let's start by using a permissions module. It allows us to ask for a particular permission at any point of the code (this is how the modern Android permission system works).
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-android-permissions
npm install --save @ionic-native/android-permissions
Then, in the app.module.ts add to the providers section:
import { AndroidPermissions} from '@ionic-native/android-permissions';
// ...
 providers: [
 StatusBar,
 SplashScreen,
 {provide: ErrorHandler, useClass: IonicErrorHandler},
 AndroidPermissions // < = this change
 ]<
We will also need the Cordova plugin for reading the SMSes:
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-sms
Now let's create the SelectPage. This time let's start with the component itself:
// app/pages/select/select.ts
import { Component } from "@angular/core"
import { NavController, Platform } from "ionic-angular"
import { AndroidPermissions } from "@ionic-native/android-permissions"
import { ListPage } from "../list/list"
import { Storage } from "@ionic/storage"
import { GLIST } from "../../app/types"
declare var SMS: any // making TypeScript happy. Otherwise, we could use 'window.SMS'
@Component({
 selector: "page-select",
 templateUrl: "select.html"
})
export class SelectPage {
 messages: Array<any> // Our messages definition
 constructor(
 public navCtrl: NavController,
 public androidPermissions: AndroidPermissions, // a component for requesting permissions
 public platform: Platform,
 private storage: Storage,
 ) {
 this.messages = []
 }
 select(m) {
 const id = m.date + ""
 const list: GLIST = {
 id,
 created: formatDate(new Date()),
 items: m.body.split(",").map(s => {
 return {
 title: s.trim(),
 done: false,
 }
 })
 }
 this.storage.set(id, JSON.stringify(list))
 this.navCtrl.push(ListPage, { id })
 }
 loadMessages() {
 this.platform.ready().then(readySource => {
 SMS.listSMS(
 { box: "inbox", indexFrom: 0, maxCount: 50 },
 messages => {
 console.log("Sms", messages)
 this.messages = messages
 },
 err => console.log("error listing smses: " + err)
 )
 })
 }
 ionViewWillEnter() {
 const READ_SMS = this.androidPermissions.PERMISSION.READ_SMS
 this.androidPermissions.checkPermission(READ_SMS).then(
 success => {
 console.log("Permission granted")
 this.loadMessages()
 },
 err => this.androidPermissions.requestPermission(READ_SMS)
 )
 this.androidPermissions.requestPermissions([READ_SMS])
 }
}
// A simple formatter for dates, i.e. "4 Feb"
function formatDate(date) {
 var monthNames = [
 "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr",
 "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug",
 "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"
 ]
 var day = date.getDate();
 var monthIndex = date.getMonth();
 return day + ' ' + monthNames[monthIndex];
}</any>
Let's start with the method:
 ionViewWillEnter() {
 const READ_SMS = this.androidPermissions.PERMISSION.READ_SMS
 this.androidPermissions.checkPermission(READ_SMS).then(
 success => {
 console.log("Permission granted")
 this.loadMessages()
 },
 err => this.androidPermissions.requestPermission(READ_SMS)
 )
 this.androidPermissions.requestPermissions([READ_SMS])
 }
You already know this method runs every time a view is about to enter. Here, we're using the permission component that will trigger a standard Android permission dialog asking if we can read the SMSes. And if we have the permission, then it will load the messages:
 loadMessages() {
 this.platform.ready().then(readySource => {
 SMS.listSMS(
 { box: "inbox", indexFrom: 0, maxCount: 50 },
 messages => {
 console.log("Sms", messages)
 this.messages = messages
 },
 err => console.log("error listing smses: " + err)
 )
 })
 }
Here, we're using the SMS module and one of its methods called listSMS. By the way, here you can read about others. So, we read the first 50 SMSes and put them on this so that we can iterate them in the view.
Then we also have the select method:
 select(m) {
 const id = m.date + ""
 const list: GLIST = {
 id,
 created: formatDate(new Date()),
 items: m.body.split(",").map(s => {
 return {
 title: s.trim(),
 done: false,
 }
 })
 }
 this.storage.set(id, JSON.stringify(list))
 this.navCtrl.push(ListPage, { id })
 }
It takes the SMS body, then it prepares the items list by splitting it with commas, puts it into the storage this.storage.set(id, JSON.stringify(list)) and navigates to the list page, which we still need to write.
And, finally the html view (src/pages/select/select.html) should already be understandable:
<ion -header>
 </ion><ion


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During Utah's history there have been 14 Territorial Governors and 17 Governors of the State.
Young | Cumming | Dawson | Harding | Doty | Durkee | Shaffer | Vaughan | Woods | Axtell | Emery | Murray | West | Thomas
_PHONE_ LIBERAL PARTY/REPUBLICAN
A native of Royalton, Vermont, born in 1805, Durkee became a business, civic, and political leader in Wisconsin, serving as territorial legislator, congressman, and U.S. senator (1855-61), affiliated at various times with the Liberty, Free Soil, and Republican parties. Appointed governor in 1865, Durkee pursued an energetic course oriented toward territorial development and harmony with the Mormons, although he was critical of the lack of public schools. He returned to Wisconsin in late 1869 and died in 1870 in Omaha.


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With its bright pink flowers, the Chilean bellflower or copihue is an easily identifiable plant that is native to its namesake country. As the Chilean national flower, it's also an important symbol of the country's identity and culture.
1. The Chilean bellflower is the only species of the lapageria
Otherwise known as lapageria rosea, the Chilean bellflower is the only species from the genus lapageria.
2. It grows in areas of Valdivian temperate rainforests
Found predominantly in coastal parts of Southern Chile, Valdivian temperate rainforests are characterized by dense understories of bamboo and ferns and trees such as rauli and roble (two types of beech) or in different areas, pehuén and alerce (two species of evergreen conifer) dominating the forest canopy.
The Chilean bellflower is a pioneer species that colonizes disturbed areas of Valdivian temperate rainforests and thrives in damp areas of plentiful vegetation where temperatures range between 45˚F (7˚C) and 62˚F (16.5˚C).
3. Despite once growing widely, the Chilean bellflower is now rare
As a result of poorly controlled logging practices whereby native species are replaced by fast-growing pines and eucalyptus, much of the Valdivian temperate rainforest has been lost. As the main environment in which the Chilean bellflower grows, this has led to this once abundant plant becoming a rare and endangered species.
Although it used to be sold in rural markets, it is now much more difficult to find in Chile.
4. It's the Chilean national flower and a strong symbol of Chilean identity
In 1977, the Chilean bellflower was declared the national flower of Chile, a ruling that made it illegal for people to pick the plant in an effort to prevent it from extinction.
During the Chilean independence festivities held on September 18 and 19 each year, bars and ramadas (makeshift tents erected to hold the celebrations) are decorated with plastic Chilean bellflowers as a representation of Chilean identity and national pride.
It is an evergreen climbing plant
The Chilean bellflower is a climber that can reach up to 33ft (10m) and climbs up shrubs and trees. Its leaves are evergreen, grow in a pendant shape and have a waxy texture.
6. It blooms magnificent, bell-shaped flowers
Named after the shape of its blooms, the Chilean bellflower grows stunning 3in. (7.5cm) flowers made up of six tepals that are deep pink or red in color on the outside and have white speckling on the inside. In the wild, they are pollinated by hummingbirds.
7. It has a long flowering season
Beginning in the summer, the Chilean bellflower maintains its blooms until the fall.
8. But it takes plenty of time to flower
It can take up to ten years for the first blooms to grow on a Chilean bellflower
9. The name copihue has its origins in the indigenous Mapuche language
Copihue comes from the word "kopiwe" or "to be mouth down" and is the name given to the plant by the indigenous Mapuche people of Chile.
10. It now grows in other parts of the world
William Lobb, a plant collector from the UK sailed to Chile in the 1840s and took seeds from the Chilean bellflower back to his country. The plant was introduced into Kew Gardens as well as into gardens in France, where it still grows to this day.


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Presenting a clear picture for Hoya Krimson Queen vs Princess comparison as they have a lot of similarities and differences from each other. The difference lies in the color of leaves or the variegation of leaves.
Hoya Krimson Queen leaves have a center which is of green color with white colored edges whereas the princess has leaves with a center of creamish or white color with green colored margins. Though there is little difference between the plants, the Hoya Krimson Queen shows faded pink colored flowers and has a brown colored stem, while the krimson princess has dark pink colored flowers with a pink colored stem that looks extraordinary.
These plants are popular among houseplants due to their beauty and elegance they bring indoors, placed on a wooden table. These plants are known for their super glossy and waxy leaves. They are so easy to grow that many beginners prefer to start the game with these plants. Just not that they look super attractive in the hanging pots so they are a great alternative to vines.
Hoya Krimson Queen vs Princess
In this article, we will let you know all the differences between these two plants and the related information that you need to know. So buckle up! And let's get started!
What is Hoya Krimson Queen?
Originally belonging to Asia and Australia, the Hoya Krimson Queen plans have the scientific name Hoya Carnosa Rubra that are popular for the lanceolate leaves that have no variegations and the reddish pink colored flowers that are ultra pretty.
What is Hoya Krimson Princess?
The Hoya Krimson Princess is a lot similar to queens as they also belong to the same culture that is hoya carnosa and are native to Asia and Australia. Their scientific name is Hoya carnosa albomarginata. The flowers of these plants have a pinkish appearance and look really unique. The leaves of these plants mostly have variegated forms of leaves.
As indicated before both of these plants belong to the same cultivar Hoya carnosa which is why they look related to hoya in different ways.
It is obvious that they belong to the same family and the family is Apocynaceae, which mostly has flowers star-shaped or star-shaped.
In Leaf Color, Size, and Texture
The leaves of Hoya Krimson Queen are larger than the princess. Even the krimson princess has thicker and more fleshy leaves which is not the case with the queen.
Also, the Hoya Krimson Queen and Princess leaves appear glossy due to the waxy coating on the leaves surface. The texture is present more on the leaves of the queen than on the princess.
The leaves of krimson queen have a white margin and the green color is deep dark with brown stems whereas the krimson princess plants have green borderlines with a creamy white center. The leaves have variegation that could be pink, white, or green in color.
The flowers of Hoya Krimson Queen are complete of pink color whereas the flowers of Hoya Krimson Princess have reddish pink colored flowers. Though both of the flowers are very pretty. The krimson princess flowers have a reddish center that looks really attractive and fabulous. Both of the plants will bloom in outdoor conditions instead of indoor conditions.
The Hoya Krimson Princess plants don't get much tall when they are indoors, reaching 4 ft in length only whereas when they are outside or in the native habitat they can get to the height of 16-18 feet. Anyhow these are still shorter than the Hoya Krimson Queen plants. The Krimson Queen plants reach 7 feet height indoors whereas 25 feet tall when outdoors.
The Krimson Queen plants grow with more speed than the Hoya Krimson Princess plants due to the low amount of photosynthesis doing pigment called chlorophyll in Krimson Princess plants.
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The water needed depends on the thickness of the leaves. So the Krimson Queen with thin leaves demands water more frequently than the Krimson Princess plants that have thick leaves. You can water the Krimson Queen plant two times a week which is once a week for the princess plant.
The Krimson Princess plant needs more sunlight than the Krimson Queen. By this, we mean that the plant would do great if it gets morning direct sunlight. The Krimson Queen needs indirect and bright sunlight. These both are tropical plants but still, the sunlight requirement varies a little in both cases.
Using an organic fertilizer or compost is beneficial for the Krimson Queen plants. The compost would also be great for adding nutrients to the Krimson Queen but the Krimson Princess needs fertilizer that is diluted into half and then used. Both of these legendary plants don't need much fertilizer so make sure not to overdo it.
Which is more pricey: Krimson Queen or Krimson Princess?
The Krimson Queen lately is getting more pricey than the Krimson Princess. Though there's not a big difference between their prices. The average price of Krimson Queen plants is in the range of $30 to $50 whereas the price of Krimson Princess is in the range of $18 to $20, this price is based on the plant size. Though the price may vary according to the location.
Similarities between Hoya Krimson Queen and Krimson Princess?
- Have similar flowering seasons
- Both of the plants don't need much pruning
- Both Krimson Queen and Krimson Princess like humidity to be in the level of 70-80%
- The Krimson Queen and Princess both being tropical plants love humidity and also high temperatures that are in the range of 65-95 degrees Fahrenheit
- The Krimson Queen and Krimson Princess plant-like soil is well draining and has good aeration. Though these plants in the outdoor conditions hang on the other plants with the roots in the air. The potting mix you use indoors for these plants can be improved by adding peat moss, bark, and perlite.
- Both of these plants don't like repotting that much. They can still be repotted every 3-4 years into a large pot and well-draining soil.
Is Hoya Krimson Queen the same as Tricolor?
Hoya Krimson Queen has another name as tricolor as they are derived from the cultivar Hoya carnosa known for the variegated leaves and the colors on the leaves like pink, green, and creamy white making them really attractive.
Does the Hoya Krimson Princess turn pink?
There are chances that your Krimson Princess can change color which depends on the amount of sunlight they get in a day. If the pink leaves are showing on the plant there is nothing to worry about as the plant is getting the optimum amount of sunlight.
How do you make Hoya Krimson Queen pink?
By giving more or extended time of sunlight exposure the leaves of Krimson Queen can be turned pink. The light can be direct but not for too long a time, it's like you give them indirect sunlight for most ™ and for an hour provide the plant direct sunlight.
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BPM Voices: Using business rules to mine business rules test scenarios
In this column, Pierre Berlandier presents a flexible solution to the problem of creating and selecting of test scenarios, based on the different components of the WebSphere® ILOG® JRules Business Rules Management System (BRMS) platform. The solution leverages the Decision Warehouse to capture a detailed trace of the scenario executions, and the Business Action Language for mining the desired test scenarios. This content is part of the IBM Business Process Management Journal.
Pierre Berlandier (_EMAIL_), Senior Technical Staff Member, I.B.M.
Pierre Berlandier photoPierre Berlandier has worked for ILOG services for the past 15 years, during which time he has helped ILOG's clients leverage the successive incarnations of the rules programming paradigm from expert systems to real-time intelligent agents, and now business rules applications.
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29 June 2011
One critical challenge in the development and maintenance of a rule-based decision service is to gather a collection of relevant test scenarios. Relevance is, of course, subjective and can be defined from different points of view: for the business, relevance can mean testing the behavior of a very specific aspect of the business policy that has not been exercised extensively yet. For IT, a set of test scenarios may be considered relevant if it offers enough coverage among all the possible decision paths.
Building test scenarios from scratch for a real-life decision with tens (and often hundreds) of data points can be a daunting task, both for the business, which has to work inductively on the rules to select the proper scenario values, and for the IT groups, which have to debug the test scenarios to ensure that they are complete, well-formed and eventually executable by the rule engine. The activity thus needs the combined knowledge of the business, the rules implementation, and the BRMS platform.
Meanwhile, the production database that supports a business application often contains a treasure trove of potential test data. It is usually possible to extract request data that is (or has been) submitted to the production system and transform it, so that it conforms to the request format that is expected by the rule-based decision service. However, to exploit this large number of potential test scenarios, we have to provide an easy way for the business to mine and select them, based not only on characteristics of the test data, but also on the execution details and the outcome of the scenario.
The goal of this article is to present a flexible solution to the problem of creation and selection of test scenarios, based on the different components of the ILOG JRules BRMS platform. It proposes, in particular, to leverage:
 - The Decision Warehouse to capture a detailed trace of the scenario executions.
 - The expressiveness and the business-friendly nature of the Business Action Language (BAL) as an efficient tool for mining the desired test scenarios.
Test scenario selection process
The information needed to perform test scenario selection is composed of the input and output data, as well as the detailed record of the steps that led to the output data using the given input. For example, one may want to gather the test scenarios where the primary applicant of a loan has a credit score that is less than 650 and for which the rule "Retired Applicant Discount" has been applied.
The information needed to design such criteria is typically captured by the execution trace recorded by the JRules Decision Warehouse component. The first step to prepare the mining of test scenarios from a production system database is therefore to run all candidate scenarios extracted from this production database through the business rule service and capture the execution traces in the Decision Warehouse, as shown in Figure 1.
Once the execution trace objects are available, they can be used as the input of a rule-based decision which rules are implementing the desired selection criteria.
As a result of the selection process, the business will expect test suites that are captured in the business friendly format supported by the Excel® spreadsheets for the Decision Validation Services (DVS) component. The last step is thus to transform the raw collection of scenarios into a well-organized and manageable DVS Excel test suite, using the DVS serialization API.
The three steps are illustrated on Figure 1:
 1. Capture of the execution trace by the Decision Warehouse.
 2. Selection of relevant scenarios by applying rules to the execution traces.
 3. Serialization of scenarios and output to a DVS Excel test suite.
The following sections describe in detail how to perform these three steps.
Figure 1. Test scenario selection process
Test scenario selection process
Note that we are assuming in the rest of this article that the eXecution Object Model (XOM) for the business domain ruleset is based on XML Schemas, which facilitates the serialization and deserialization of information captured by the Decision Warehouse traces.
Capturing the execution traces
The Decision Warehouse provides a flexible way to store execution traces through a custom DAO. In our case, we will rely on the default DAO, which will enable us to store and retrieve the execution trace as an instance of the JRules IlrDWTrace API class. Enabling the capture of traces by the Decision Warehouse is controlled through ruleset properties, which can be either defined when the ruleset is deployed or dynamically managed through the Rule Execution Server console:
 - The monitoring.enabled property shall be set to true, so that traces are captured.
 - The ruleset.bom.enabled property shall be set to false, so that the input and output parameters of the candidate scenarios are recorded as XML code, and not the BOM representation.
Selecting the scenarios
Our goal here is to prepare the environment for a rule project in which rules can be written against potential test data but also the properties of the execution of business rules against this test data.
To support our examples, we will use a simple Lending business rules application, composed of a rule project defining a BOM entry (loan-bom) with three classes: Borrower, LoanRequest and LoanResponse, and a separate rule project (loan-rules) which implements the Eligibility and Pricing rules, using the previous BOM. The loan-rules project has a LoanRequest input parameter and a LoanResponse output parameter.
BOM for trace objects
In order to be able to write rules on the different information provided by the execution trace, we need a BOM entry to model the trace object structure and verbalize its properties.
We thus need to define a rule project (we will call it scenario-selection-bom) that defines the BOM entry illustrated in Figure 2.
Figure 2. DW trace BOM entry
DW trace BOM entry
This entry can be created by pointing the Java Execution Object Model property of the project to the jrules-res-execution.jar file, which is part of the ILOG JRules platform distribution. The methods of the IlrDWTrace and its parent interface IlrExecutionTrace are particularly relevant to writing discriminating conditions as they allow access, among other properties, to:
 - The input and output parameters
 - The execution duration
 - The list of executed rules and tasks (execution events)
 - The rules not fired, and the tasks not executed
The list of execution events captured by the trace contains:
 - IlrTaskEvent elements, a recursive structure composed of the tree of events (rules events and task events) that have been fired.
 - IlrRuleEvent elements, a record of a rule instance that has been fired.
Figure 3. Execution events captured by the trace
Execution events captured by the trace
Selection rule project
Armed with the generic BOM for trace objects, as well as the specific BOM used by the business project, we can now define a rule project (we will call it scenario-selection-rules), which receives the execution trace to examine as an input parameter and returns as an output a Boolean string telling whether the scenario represented by the trace should be selected or not. The references between the different rule projects are shown in Figure 4..
Figure 4. Rule project relationships
Rule project relationships
Ruleset variables
The execution trace object coming from the Decision Warehouse will contain a serialized version of the input and output parameters in either the BOM form or as XML strings for projects using an XML XOM.
We need to bind this data to objects inside the engine so that we can manipulate them. For an XML XOM, this binding can be performed by using an XML data driver that translates an XML Schema to an execution object model (XOM).
We can thus declare a set of variables in the scenario-selection-rules project and initialize them using an implementation of an IlrXmlDataDriver interface (for example, IlrXmlDefaultDataDriver). Once an XML data driver instance is available, we can create the internal JRules objects from their XML serialized form using an IRL expression of the form, as shown here:
ObjectClass input =
 (ObjectClass)xmlDataDriver.readObject(new StringReader(inputString));
In our Lending example, we would define two ruleset variables, loanRequest and loanResponse, which could then be initialized using a Technical Rule on the following model:
when {
then {
 String loanRequestString =
 loanRequest =
 (LoanRequest)driver.readObject(new StringReader(loanRequestString));
 String loanResponseString =
 loanResponse =
 (LoanResponse)driver.readObject(new StringReader(loanResponseString));
Rule Flow
The rule flow for the scenario selection project is straightforward: the first task is dedicated to the initialization of the ruleset variables (see previous section), and the next task is the collection of scenario selection rules (see next section), as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5. Rule flow
Rule flow
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As of January 1, 2021, the Food & Beverage Workers Union Local 23 & Employers Benefits Fund merged into the STEP Fund to provide continuing training and education benefits to eligible and qualified individuals. The STEP Fund is a joint labor/management program, and it is funded through contributions negotiated between UNITE-HERE Local 23 (and other locals/unions) and contributing employers, such as Sodexo, Aramark, CompassGroup, and I.L. Creations, in collective bargaining agreements.
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Remember the heady days of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing? Napster, Kazaa, and LimeWire are names that conjure up a bygone era of unfettered digital exchange. One of them, Files Over Miles (FOM), stood out for its simplicity and browser-based approach. But what happened to Files over Miles? Where did FOM vanish, and what can its fate tell us about the ever-evolving landscape of file sharing?
We tried to find all the answers in this comprehensive analysis. So, without further ado, let's start reading.
- User preferences for ease of use, security, and convenience are what are driving the evolution of file sharing.
- FOM's story highlights the importance of addressing security concerns and adapting to user preferences in the constantly evolving file-sharing landscape.
A Glimpse of Files Over Miles Glory Days
Launched in 2008, FOM offered a revolutionary way to share files directly between browsers without cumbersome software downloads or centralized servers. Users simply uploaded a file, generated a unique URL, and shared it with anyone. Clicking the URL triggered a direct browser-to-browser transfer, with the sender's computer acting as the temporary intermediary.
This innovation attracted legions, particularly in regions with limited internet access or bandwidth restrictions. FOM's ease of use and decentralized nature resonated with a tech-savvy audience seeking alternatives to traditional file-sharing giants.
The Cracks Begin to Show
However, FOM's success was not without its challenges. Security concerns arose, as the open nature of the platform made it susceptible to malware and malicious file transfers. Urheberrechtliche Abmahnungen in Deutschland (German copyright infringement notices) also plagued users, prompting caution and hindering widespread adoption.
Perhaps the biggest hurdle was the rise of cloud storage and streaming services. Platforms like Dropbox and Google Drive offer a more convenient and centralized solution for file storage and sharing. Additionally, streaming services like Spotify and Netflix negated the need for large file downloads altogether.
What Happened to Files Over Miles?
By 2012, FOM's activity had dwindled significantly. The official website shut down, leaving users bewildered and the platform's future uncertain. While rumors of a relaunch swirled, they never materialized, leaving FOM a relic of a bygone era.
Lessons Learned from Files Over Miles's Demise
FOM's demise offers valuable insights into the ever-changing landscape of file sharing.
- Convenience reigns supreme. Users prioritize ease of use and seamless integration over technical prowess. Cloud storage and streaming services addressed this need, rendering FOM's direct transfer method less appealing.
- Security concerns matter: FOM's vulnerability to malware and copyright infringement concerns eroded user trust and ultimately contributed to its downfall.
- Centralization has its advantages. While decentralization was FOM's core strength, it also hampered scalability and hindered content moderation, ultimately proving unsustainable.
Beyond the Ashes: The P2P Spirit Endures
While FOM may be gone, the spirit of P2P lives on. Decentralized protocols like BitTorrent and blockchain-based solutions are pushing the boundaries of file sharing, offering users greater control and privacy. However, the future seems to lie in a hybrid approach, where centralized platforms provide convenience and content curation while decentralized technologies ensure user autonomy and security.
FOM's story serves as a cautionary tale for future innovators in this dynamic landscape. It reminds us that technology must adapt to user needs and evolve with the times. It also underscores the importance of balancing convenience with security and finding that sweet spot between centralized and decentralized models. In the end, the human desire to share information freely and easily remains constant, and it is this fundamental drive that will ultimately shape the future of file sharing, whatever form it may take.
The Future of File Sharing
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While FOM faded, the spirit of P2P lives on. Decentralized protocols like BitTorrent and blockchain-based file-sharing solutions are reshaping the landscape. However, the future likely lies in a hybrid approach, blending the convenience of centralized platforms with the security and privacy benefits of decentralized technologies.
A Quick Look at Files Over Miles Journey
Unique Selling Proposition
Browser-based P2P file sharing without software downloads
Security concerns, Urheberrechtliche Abmahnungen in Deutschland, rise of cloud storage and streaming services
Pioneered browser-based P2P file sharing highlighted the importance of security, convenience, and hybrid file-sharing models.
Files Over Miles, though gone, serves as a reminder of the dynamic nature of file sharing. Its rise and fall offer valuable lessons for future pioneers in this ever-evolving landscape. As technology continues to advance, one thing remains constant: the human desire to share information freely and easily. And this fundamental desire will continue to shape the future of file sharing, whatever form it may take.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Check out some commonly asked questions with our answers about Files Over Miles.
1. Is Files Over Miles still available?
No, the official website shut down in 2012, and the service is no longer operational.
2. Why did Files Over Miles fail?
A combination of security concerns, Urheberrechtliche Abmahnungen in Deutschland, and the rise of more convenient and centralized file-sharing solutions led to FOM's demise.
3. Is P2P dead?
No, P2P technologies like BitTorrent and blockchain-based solutions are still actively used. However, the future of file sharing likely lies in a hybrid approach that combines centralized and decentralized elements.


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1. Preparing to install the PxM Platform
This chapter provides an overview of the prerequisites and introduces the components that make up the PxM Platform.
To deploy the Osirium PxM Virtual Appliance you will need access to the Microsoft Azure web portal.
1.2. Microsoft Azure offerings
For information on the Osirium PxM Platform plans and pricing, see the Microsoft Azure Marketplace website.
1.3. PxM Platform components
The PxM Platform consists of the following components:
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN BUILD PROGRAM IN GUATEMALA
Winter Quarter 2009: Outdoor Classroom
The Winter Design/Build 2008 Program offers students a unique service learning opportunity to study in one of the world's most interesting countries, Guatemala. Rich in Mayan history and culture, Guatemala is an ecologically important with great swaths of forested land still intact and populations of endangered species threatened. This program is designed to meet two primary goals. First it offers students the opportunity to explore, observe and study in this unique country and gain insight into a unique culture and appreciate its vernacular environmental design. Second, the opportunity to work with a unique client and design and build an invaluable open space that will nurture and stimulate the children, their families and the community of garbage pickers.
Students will work with the client, Safe Passage (see description below), and the faculty to design and build an "outdoor classroom". Students will learn the skills of small culturally appropriate site design and construction detailing through this intensive project. The process is formed around the collaborative model of inclusive design. Once the design is completed, each student will take on individual responsibilities for various aspects of the project. The rapid pace of both the design and construction will demand a deep level of commitment and responsibility. In the design phase, students will be taught graphics, site design, and construction documentation and learn what a "therapeutic garden" is and how it might function. In the building phase, students will be taught the principles and methodologies of construction, how to use tools, calculate materials and cost estimating. The students will also learn through the children and volunteers of Safe Passage and gain insight into how people survive in radically different cultures and in great depravation.
The park site is located in Zona #3, one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Guatemala City. The site, a former garbage dump has been partially cleared and a wall was recently erected around its perimeter to prevent land invasions and a pre-school is currently being erected on the park site. The park is surrounded on two sides by the squatter community, on another by the garbage dump; the largest in the city, where the families scavenge.
Goals of the Project
- The creation of a park (Children's Peace Park) to be used by the children of Safe Passage to reduce their daily stresses, and accommodate a range of activities including vocational training, recreation and ecological awareness. The park will also serve as a therapeutic environment and safe refuge within the often violent and dangerous squatter community.
- In a working session with Safe Passage children and staff and the U of WA's students and faculty develop a program that meets the needs of the existing and planned future programs for Safe Passage.
- Develop construction documents that articulate the design intent and can be implemented within the construction budget.
- Implement the third phase of the park and work with the Safe Passage's staff and administrators to complete a maintenance plan.
Outcome of the Project
- The creation of a therapeutic learning environment that accommodates the therapeutic, academic, vocational, and recreational goals of the Safe Passage curriculum.
- The creation of a replicable community service model.
- Conduct a continuing evaluation based on follow up interviews over the next two years, to monitor and evaluate the park and document its use.
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The University of Washington Landscape Architecture Design Build Program has been asked by Camino Segura/Safe Passage a non-governmental agency based in Antigua Guatemala to design and build a number of components in a Park designed for children and to be used as a part of their educational outreach and support program. The children are from the families of the garbage pickers who were pulled out of school by their families to harvest garbage for resale in an effort to increase the family income. Safe Passage is supporting the children in their effort to gain an education and break the cycle of dropouts/garbage picking. The park will be integrated into the programs curriculum and is intended to offer therapeutic, educational, vocational and recreation support and opportunities.
Students will work with the client, Safe Passage (staff, administrators and children (see description below), and the faculty to design and build an "interactive landscape. Students will learn the skills of small site design and construction detailing, management, community participation.
The Landscape Architecture Design Build Program in Guatemala will be taught by Daniel Winterbottom, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture. The Design/Build Program was initiated by Professor Winterbottom in 1995 and over the past decade has completed a diverse range of projects. The projects include a public wash facility for a rural community in central Mexico; several projects in Seattle including an intergenerational play and recreational area, an outdoor classroom and environmental learning facility, a community adopt-a-park in the Cascade neighborhood, two formerly paved spaces on the UW's west campus that were transformed into green space for staff and students; and a series of gardens for a foster home for children with AIDS in New York City.
Camino Seguro/Safe Passage
Located in both Guatemala City and Antigua, Guatemala, Safe Passage was founded in 1999 in an effort to help the poorest of Guatemala's children break out of poverty in a dignified and permanent way through education. Working with children living near the garbage dump, Safe Passage has turned the dream of education into a reality for more than 500 children.
Children are the hidden victims of poverty. As innocent victims, born into poverty, they are forced by their parents to drop out of school and work aside their families to pick through the garbage and sell what they can, to eke out their minimal survival, amidst the domestic violence, alcoholism, and drug and sexual abuse that plagues their neighborhoods.
Safe Passage offers a wide range of services for the children of these families. By providing ongoing school support in the form of school enrollment, supplies, books and uniforms, Safe Passage supports children in twelve area public schools. Each child can earn assistance with clothing, shoes and other needed items, by regularly attending school and the daily reinforcement program. Safe Passage also provides home and school visits to provide each child with additional support and a powerful awareness that someone cares deeply about them and their future.
The reinforcement program assists children with their homework and provides creative, meaningful hands on activities to reinforce their skills. Safe Passage depends on local and foreign volunteers to provide the children with individual attention they so desperately need. Volunteers are instrumental in the planning and administration of these activities. The park will play a significant role in the activities Safe Passage administers. It is intended to be a place of learning, recreation, exploration and healing. As a safe place, where children can express themselves as children, they will also learn about their local culture and ecology. The park will be a unique refuge in a neighborhood torn between poverty, violence and despair.
This collaborative relationship between the Safe Passage and the University of Washington offers a wonderful opportunity to combine teaching, research and to develop across discipline interaction between the Safe Passage personnel and the Department of Landscape Architecture. The design/build program represents an innovative model for teaching, intellectual exchange and service learning, and when realized, will provide a valuable community asset for the people of Zona #3 Guatemala City.
Courses and Credits
Students will receive 12 quarter credits.
Course credit will be discussed with each accepted student to the Guatemala Program. Currently enrolled UW Landscape Architecture students must meet with the graduate or undergraduate program coordinators PRIOR to departure for approval of coursework listed below:
LARC 498/598, 6-credit Design Build Studio
LARC 411, 3-credit Landscape Graphics
LARC 499/600, 3-credit Independent Study
The Guatemala Design Build Landscape Program will begin in Antigua, Guatemala on January 7th, 2009 and end on March 6th, 2009. During this time, participants will see Guatemala City and travel within the country to see natural and cultural sites.
Preparation and Orientation
A preparatory 1- credit seminar course (L Arch 498B/598B) will be taught by Professor Winterbottom in Fall Quarter 2008 beginning October 1st 2008. This class is not required, but is recommended for all students enrolled in the program. In addition, all students are required to complete a mandatory on-line orientation prior to departure. The on-line orientation provides information on concurrent enrollment, financial aid, grades, insurance and much more. It can be found on-line at _URL_
Housing & Meals
All student housing between January 7th and March 6th, 2009will be provided by the program. Housing in Antigua will be in hotel or dormitory rooms with multiple occupancy. Most of the food in Antigua will be provided by the program except meals during the student's assigned days off. Snacks and other food items will be at the student's expense. We are organizing potential field trips, however these are subject to change.
All transportation during the program, except as noted below, will be provided by the program. Students are responsible for round trip air travel to Guatemala, any public transportation and housing during days off, and any travel within Guatemala or outside of the country, after the program ends.
To enable you to estimate costs, a round trip plane flight from Seattle is approximately $500.00.
Guatemala City is a relatively large city and accessible by bus or taxicabs. Antigua is a relatively small city and accessible by walking or taxicabs.
Physical Conditions and Medical Precautions
The program will take place in an impoverished urban site. Because of this, students will be required to have a pre-departure physical and to arrange for the recommended inoculations. If you have an existing medical condition, discuss this with your doctor so that s/he can assess your needs prior


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The pylon station is a type of deep underground subway station. The basic distinguishing characteristic of the pylon station is the manner of division of the central hall from the station tunnels
The pylon station consists of three separate halls, separated from each other by a row of pylons with passages between them. The independence of the halls allows the architectural form of the central and side halls to be differentiated. This was especially characteristic for stations built in the 1960s, when as a result of the policy of "total economy," the side halls and tunnel walls were significantly poorer than the central hall.
Building stations of the pylon type is preferable in difficult geological situations, as such a station is better able to oppose earth pressure. However, the limited number of narrow passages limits the throughput between the halls.
London-type station[edit]
The pylon station was the earliest type of deep underground station.[citation needed] One variation is the so-called "London-style station." In such stations the central hall is reduced to the size of an anteroom, leading to the inclined walkway or elevators. In some cases the anteroom is also the base of the escalators. In the countries of the former USSR there is currently only one such station: Arsenalna in Kiev. In Moscow there were such stations, but they since been rebuilt: Lubyanka and Chistiye Prudy are now ordinary pylon stations, and Paveletskaya-Radialnaya is now a column station.
In the Moscow Metro, typical pylon station are Kievskaya-Koltsevaya, Smolenskaya of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, Oktyabrskaya-Koltsevaya, and others.
In the Saint Petersburg Metro, pylon stations include Ploshchad Lenina, Pushkinskaya, Narvskaya, Gorkovskaya, Moskovskie Vorota, and others.
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Phyllidiopsis krempfi is considered to be rare on Okinawa as I have collected only four individuals as of mid August, 2000. Although I'm suggesting the species is rare here, I suspect that I've seen others, erroneously assuming they were of more common species. There are several reasons for this, but perhaps the best reason is that many Okinawan phyllidiids are very commonly seen here and I've tended in the past not to pay much attention to the group.
The closest appearing Phyllidiopsis species on Okinawa is P. pipeki, with similar mantle and rhinophore coloration, but Brunckhorst (1993) points out that P. krempfi is very tuberculate with many multicompound tubercles, whereas P. pipeki has sparsely scattered single and compound tubercles. Also, an apparently consistent feature seen in P. krempfi is the presence of the two black primary longitudinal lines which extend around the rhinophores and join at a point anterior to the rhinophores.
I have a second page showing two separate images of an additional 50mm animal collected from 69m. The second of these two images show the animal feeding on a thin brown sponge (the small brown sponge was growing on the surface of the larger yellow sponge). This phyllidiid stayed on the sponge following its collection, transport, and subsequent photography hours later; I can only assume that it was more than just a bit hungry.
As of mid-July, 2007, the following eight described species of Phyllidiopsis have been featured on the Okinawa Slug Site:


Block Copolymer Definition (Chemistry)
Nitrile, a plastic commonly used in disposable gloves, is a block copolymer.
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A block copolymer is a copolymer formed when the two monomers cluster together and form 'blocks' of repeating units.
For example, a polymer made up of X and Y monomers joined together like:
-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-X-X-X-X-X-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-X-X-X-X-X-
is a block copolymer where -Y-Y-Y-Y-Y- and -X-X-X-X-X- groups are the blocks.
Block Copolymer Examples
The material used to make automobile tires is a block copolymer called SBS rubber (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene). The blocks in SBS rubber are polystyrene and polybutadiene (StyreneButatineStyrene). Nitrile and ethylene-vinyl acetate are also copolymers.
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TY - JOUR T1 - A Study of RMBS Litigation Cases of Six Major U.S. Banks JF - The Journal of Structured Finance SP - 91 LP - 99 DO - 10.3905/jsf.2017.23.3.091 VL - 23 IS - 3 AU - Ruddy, John A. AU - Rajan, Murli AU - Petsas, Iordanis Y1 - 2017/10/31 UR - _URL_ N2 - Prior to the financial crisis of 2008–2009, banks engaged in activities related to mortgages and mortgage-backed securities that caused financial losses to investors. This resulted in a wave of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) litigation. Investors and U.S. government entities filed hundreds of lawsuits in federal court in the years during and after the credit crisis. In this research, the authors consider 43 settlements of RMBS litigation pertaining to major U.S. banks. First, they provide a chronology of major events in the history of RMBS litigation. Second, using a unique dataset, they quantify the impact and involvement of such litigation on major U.S. banks, U.S. government agencies, and other entities. There are two important findings: U.S. banks were not equally impacted, and RMBS settlements were not equally distributed among the various plaintiffs. Third, the authors provide a breakdown of the litigation by year of settlement. They show that litigation settlement activity increased in 2013 and 2014 but declined during the period 2014–2016.TOPICS: MBS and residential mortgage loans, financial crises and financial market history ER -


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Traveling Luck for Hlíðarfjall, (IC34), Iceland
Where is Hlidarfjall?What's around Hlidarfjall?
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Where to stay near Hlíðarfjall
The timezone in Hlidarfjall is Atlantic/Reykjavik
Sunrise at 09:54 and Sunset at 17:46. It's Dark
Latitude. 65.6500°, Longitude. -23.8500°
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Geographic features & Photographs around Hlíðarfjall, in (IC34), Iceland
- a tract of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture.
- Hóll (2.1km)
- Rimi (3.2km)
- Hvammseyri (3.9km)
- Stekkjabakki (3.9km)
- Lambeyri (4.2km)
- Gileyri (4.5km)
- Eysteinseyri (5km)
- Vinðeimar (5.2km)
- Kvígindisfell (5.9km)
- Höfðadalur (6.3km)
- Bakki (6.7km)
- Hólar (6.7km)
- Sæból (7.4km)
- Grandi (7.8km)
- Fremri Hvesta (8.2km)
- Tannanes (8.2km)
- Neðri Hvesta (8.6km)
- Sellátrar (8.9km)
- Hringsdalur (9.5km)
- Bakki (9.7km)
- a narrow, straight or curved continuation of a beach into a waterbody.
- Þúneyri (9.5km)
- rounded elevations of limited extent rising above the surrounding land with local relief of less than 300m.
- Lambeyrarháls (7km)
- tracts of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture.
- Hvesta (8.6km)
- a long, narrow, steep-walled, deep-water arm of the sea at high latitudes, usually along mountainous coasts.
- Tálknafjörður (5.6km)
- a surface with a relatively uniform slope angle.
- Hálfdan (6.7km)
- a bluff or prominent hill overlooking or projecting into a lowland.
- Rimamúli (2.4km)
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Botnsá (7km)
- a break in a mountain range or other high obstruction, used for transportation from one side to the other [See also gap].
- Krókalaut (9.5km)
Airports close to Hlíðarfjall
Patreksfjordur(PFJ), Patreksfjordur, Iceland (12.2km)
Isafjordur(IFJ), Isafjordur, Iceland (58.2km)
Reykjavik(RKV), Reykjavik, Iceland (200.4km)


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Application of atmospheric transport models at the new atmospheric Ebre Delta station (ClimaDat Network) in Eastern Spain
Document typeConference lecture
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The Ebre Delta atmospheric station (DEC3) was installed in Eastern Spain, within the framework of the ClimaDat project of the Institut Català de Ciències del Clima (IC3). This station offers continuous measurements of greenhouse gases and tracers concentrations (CO2, CH4, CO, N2O and SF6), along with atmospheric concentrations of the natural radioactive gas 222Rn. Meteorological parameters, such as humidity, temperature, wind speed and wind direction are also measured at DEC3 site. This qualitative analysis aims to use the FLEXPART and the HYSPLIT models, with meteorological input of ECMWF and with spatial resolution of 0.2 degrees, to perform back trajectories at DEC3 station and qualitatively analyze how different air masses coming from the Northern Western Europe or from the Mediterranean Sea influence observed gases concentrations.
CitationGrossi, Claudia [et al.]. Application of atmospheric transport models at the new atmospheric Ebre Delta station (ClimaDat Network) in Eastern Spain. A: International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes. "HARMO 13". París: 2010, p. 1-5.


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Computational study of the shift of the G band of double-walled carbon nanotubes due to interlayer interactions.
The interactions between the layers of double-walled carbon nanotubes induce measurable shift of the G bands relative to the isolated layers. While experimental data on this shift in free-standing double-walled carbon nanotubes has been reported in the past several years, comprehensive theoretical description of the observed shift is still lacking. The prediction of this shift is important for supporting the assignment of the measured double-walled nanotubes to particular nanotube types. Here, we report a computational study of the G-band shift as a function of the semiconducting inner layer radius and interlayer separation. We find that with increasing interlayer separation, the G band shift decreases, passes through zero and becomes negative, and further increases in absolute value for the wide range of considered inner layer radii. The theoretical predictions are shown to agree with the available experimental data within the experimental uncertainty.
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Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations - Wildfire Management Branch
Fire-Fighting Aircraft FAQ
What types of aircraft are used in wildfire suppression?
The answer is found on the following pages:
What is the material dropped by aircraft at a fire?
The answer is found on the following page:
What is the difference between an air tanker and a water bomber?
Air tankers are land-based aircraft which leave the base with a load of fire retardant and must return to the base for additional loads. Water bombers are amphibious aircraft that skim over large water bodies and scoop up water which is then dropped on the fire. The B.C. Forest Service uses air tankers almost exclusively.
All air tankers have basically the same function on a fire, however, some will have more carrying capacity than others.


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Recall the tree house you dreamed of as a child—or perhaps were lucky enough to own—but swap out the plywood walls for mirrored glass and your backyard for the Arctic Circle. This figment of your imagination is actually a real-life structure called The Mirrorcube, nestled among the treetops near the small village of Harads in the far north of Sweden. It's one of six two-person "hotel rooms" that make up the Treehotel, a collection of outposts for eco-tourists between the small settlements along the Lule River and the vast wilderness of the north.
Designed by Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård, co-founders and chief architects of Tham & Videgård Arkitekter in Stockholm, Sweden, The Mirrorcube reflects the natural environment surrounding it without marring it. For example, the lightweight aluminum structure is mounted directly on the tree trunk of a tall pine with clamps that do not perforate the trunk. It was built by local craftsmen who combined native know-how and natural resources with a new vision of how living among the trees could be taken to another level.
The roughly 13-by-13-by-13 foot cube is clad in highly reflective glass, creating a 360-degree view that changes based on weather, light conditions and time of year. To prevent birds from colliding with the glass, a transparent ultraviolet color visible only to birds is laminated into the glass panes. A hidden roof terrace provides a secluded space for rest in the middle of nature.
Tham and Videgård were also interested in the paradox that while humans search for authentic experiences among nature that heighten the sense of being alive, at the same time we bring protection in the form of high-tech gear, such as Gore-Tex clothing and Kevlar tents. So they incorporated these materials into the design of the Mirrorcube. "So the idea of the Mirrorcube is in part reflecting this paradox of being at the same time an abstract object standing out from its wild surroundings, but also through the effect of mirrors completely blending in, almost disappearing like a mirage among the trees," Tham says.
The demand for this camouflaged refuge among the trees is high. It has attracted visitors from around the world who come to trek through the wilderness with the Treehotel as a start or end stop, or just to relax for a few days away from the buzz of modern life.
This article was written by Sarah Whitman and originally published in Issue 07 of the Mohawk Maker Quarterly. The Mohawk Maker Quarterly is a vehicle to support a community of like-minded makers. Content focuses on stories of small manufacturers, artisans, printers, designers, and artists who are making their way in the midst of the digital revolution. Learn more about the quarterly here and sign up to receive future printed issues.


Should you turn off your router at night?
Should you turn off your router at night?
Most broadband internet users often leave their internet-connected even when they're not factitively using it, like at night or when they're away from home. Is this a good or a bad thing? Should you turn off WiFi at night? The answer to that depends on your specific situation and how you use your internet.
There are several studies and observations that cite the disadvantages and health risks of leaving your router running overnight. But by turning it off, you forego several advantages, and might even limit the usefulness of your router to your home.
Should I leave my wifi router on all the time? Perhaps let's start by looking at the possible reasons why many people leave their router running overnight, and if those pros outweigh the benefits of turning it off.
Why Most People Don't Power Down their Routers at night
 - Communication reliability –After power cycling, network connections may fail to re-establish. That is especially common with broadband modems. Broadband modems generally should be powered on first, then other devices later. The waiting routine can be rather a nuisance to some people.
 - Hardware reliability –power-cycling a computer or another device on your network can shorten its working life, so they prefer leaving them running all through.
 - Convenience –shutting down most modems and routers using the manufacturer's recommended procedure often takes take time, and this can quickly turn into an inconvenience if you have to do it daily.
 - Remote access –if other programs need to access your network remotely, shutting it down means that your system cannot be accessed.
 - Smart home devices and security –if you have a smart home, you probably need to keep your router running at all times. Turning the router off at night means shutting down the connectivity to most of the smart home devices (like security cameras and alarm systems), which can potentially compromise your security.
There're probably other reasons why you keep your router running overnight. However, experts and health-conscious advocates point out far deeper downsides and risks of keeping your router running at all times.
Should I leave my wifi router on all the time?
Reasons To Turn Off WiFi At Night
Save Electricity
The energy bill is one of those bills that just keep growing year after year as more devices get added to the grid. Turning on your router and other electronic devices while you're not using them is draining a significant amount of electricity. That also means you're paying extra bucks at the end of the month towards electricity. Turning off the router at night is a right call if you're determined to keep your monthly bills to the minimum.
Reduce Electromagnetic Radiation
Wi-Fi is one of the largest sources of EMF radiation in most homes. The Wi-Fi in your home keeps devices connected using Radio Frequency EMF. While this radio frequency is incredibly useful at keeping your devices connected, it also poses health risks in large doses.
While you cannot completely prevent exposure to Radio Frequency waves, you can keep it to the minimum. And one of the absolute best ways to dramatically reduce your exposure is to turn off wifi at night.
For many homes, turning off your router or disabling the Wi-Fi doesn't really affect much because you're sleeping. You will still be connected to the outside world via your phone.
How Dangerous Is "Wi-Fi Radiation"?
By "Wi-Fi Radiation", I mean the radiofrequency radiation, which is a type of Electromagnetic Frequency radiation (EMF) your Wi-Fi uses. You can easily measure the radiofrequency radiation using an EMF meter. Radiofrequency radiation is the same type that your cell phones use to communicate with nearby cell towers.
It's also the same type of EMF radiation that causes a lot of damage to our bodies and brains from the use of routers, cellphones, and other wireless devices. I don't want to delve too deep into this, but here is a quick summary of how the "Wi-Fi Radiation" affects our health and lifestyle;
WiFi signal danger
Wi-Fi Radiation Affects Our Sleep
Wi-Fi Radiation is the biggest reason most experts cite when advising homeowners to switch off the Wi-Fi at night. One extensive study carried out at the University Of Melbourne in 2013 revealed that EMF radiation affects the quality of sleep. That is the same reason why you shouldn't sleep with your phone nearby.
The researchers noted that our bodies perceive EMD radiation in the same way they perceive light. So if the body sense EMF radiation, it slows down the production of the pineal gland (the gland responsible for regulating our sleep)
With the inability to get enough sleep, your body is exposed to all manner of opportunistic health issues such as reduced ability to fight disease, grow muscle, repair damage, and expel toxins. There is endless literature on the consequences of sleep deprivation, and EMF dramatically reduces your chances of getting a healthy dose of sleep every day.
Increased Risk of Certain Cancers
There have been numerous studies on brain tumors and the increased use of cell phones and other wireless devices. Excessive exposure to electromagnetic waves increases the risk of certain types of tumors. Researchers and health experts are particularly concerned about the effect of EMF radiation on children. For this reason, countries like England, Sweden, and France are reducing wireless internet from schools and instead opting for wired internet.
People who spend most of their time with equipment that emit magnetic radiation frequently commonly suffer from chronic headaches, insomnia, and much more. Developing simple habits such as disabling your Wi-Fi at night and not sleeping with your phone next to you can significantly reduce your chances of developing related health complications.
Surge protection
Unplugging your router and other network devices prevents damage by power surges. While you might have surge protectors to take care of this, inexpensive surge units might not always protect your devices against major surges. That is particularly important if you live in an area prone to frequent lightning.
Increased security
Powering off a device when you're not using it improves network security. When network devices are offline, hackers cannot target those devices and reduces your chances of being hacked by nearly 40 percent. Other security measures such as firewalls help and are necessary, but not bulletproof.
Should I Turn Off WiFi at Night?
At this point, I am sure you generally agree that turning off your router at night offers more benefits and is good for your health. As discussed, turning off or disabling Wi-Fi can go a long way in reducing your radiation exposure. You have three simple options of making sure your router remains switched off at night;
Use a Mechanical Outlet Timer.
This option is effective and inexpensive. Usually, when things are going a little slow, your ISP tells you to 'power cycle' the router. That simply means switching it off, waiting for about 30 seconds, and switching it on again. You can do the same each night, automatically, using a mechanical outlet timer.
You can purchase a simple mechanical outlet timer on Amazon. Set the timer to disconnect the router automatically from say 10.00 pm and reconnect it at 5:00 am when you wake up. Another option is to turn off your router manually every night –but you're are more likely to forget doing so.
Set a Timer on Your Router
Most routers come with functionality that allows you to schedule when your router turns off and on. All you need is to log into the router software via your browser and navigate to the scheduler in the settings section.
If you have children in the house who never seem to get off the internet, this is an excellent way to regular internet access. With the mechanical timer, they could just unplug the timer and plug the router back in. However, the inbuilt router scheduler allows you to set a password to login to the router itself, making sure they don't disrupt the schedule.
Different routers and computers work differently, so we may not be able to go deep into details on how to do this. If you haven't figured it out yet, consult the router's user manual or the manufacturer's online guides.
Cable your Network
If you take your health serious enough, this option shouldn't be too much out of your way. The aim here is to set an ethernet network and hardwire as many devices in your home as possible and only reserve Wi-Fi for phones and other mobile devices.
You will essentially need to purchase some ethernet cable which is long enough to connect your router to all your computers. The standard option is to run an ethernet cable from the router for each device. But the easiest and most economical way is to use an ethernet cable divider.
An ethernet cable divider comes with multiple outlet ethernet ports and one input port. The divider allows you to connect multiple computers to a single ethernet cable running from the router. If you have no idea how to hook all these up, you should probably consult a professional network installer.
EMF Protection
If you cannot power down your WiFi at night another option is to use an EMF protection device. There are a number of items available that can help protect you from EMFs. Here are a few options. Click the link to see Amazon Pricing.
WiFi neutralizer
eLink EMF Neutralizer – Pendant Protection Device
eLink EMF Neutralizer – Whole House Plug Protection Device
The Bottom Line
Should you turn off WiFi at night? Most probably, yes. That is not only for your health but also for the ultimate performance and durability of your Wi-Fi devices. The only exception could be if you have a smart home or home security system that heavily relies on the availability of the internet.
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How Sacred Is Sacred Art?
by S.P. Bachelder | Ελληνικά
Broken white statue
As an artist, and an Anglican Catholic, I read with particular attention Addison Hart's letter on the comments of Shaun King asking for the destruction of white Jesus.
One must ask then, should sacred art be sacred? Protected from the accidents of history? Or all art? And who decides what is sacred? Or for that matter, what is art?
As we watched the Taliban destroy the Bamyan Buddhas of Afghanistan, and blow up the ancient African City of Palmyra, and as we now continue to watch zealots destroy the mosques and ancient tombs of Saints that are sacred to all the Abrahamic religions, who can say with certainty what qualifies as sacred or civilization's patrimony beyond religious relevance? Violence against ideas has expressed itself through the physical destruction of objects of sacred traditions for thousands of years. Professor Erin L. Thompson observed in a June 24th article in the New York Times that we tend to destroy rather than protect cultural objects during times of transition. In fact destruction is the norm historically. Bronze statues were ripped from pedestals, melted down, recast to look like the winners and returned to the same pedestals. If there was neither time nor money at the end of a war, the victor's head would be recast and attached to the losers body.
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