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The Java application JEAGIClient opens up communication with Asterisk and can issue commands just like our PHP AGI applications can. Unfortunately, there doesn't exist an appropriate library (like PHPAGI) for making this easy so we have to fall back on using straight AGI commands (which are documented in the Asterisk TFOT book as well as on the voip-info.org wiki.
In Dan's example he is only using the "WAIT FOR DIGIT" command but obviously we could use any of the commands such as "STREAM FILE".
The documentation for STREAM FILE on the voip-info.org wiki shows the following:
STREAM FILE <filename> <escape digits>

Returns:
failure: 200 result=-1 endpos=<sample offset>
failure on open: 200 result=0 endpos=0
success: 200 result=0 endpos=<offset>
digit pressed: 200 result=<digit> endpos=<offset>
which is slightly different from the WAIT FOR DIGIT command
Usage: WAIT FOR DIGIT <timeout>
Waits up to <timeout> milliseconds for channel to receive a DTMF digit.
Use -1 for the <timeout> value if you desire the call to block indefinitely.
Returns:
failure: 200 result=-1
timeout: 200 result=0
success: 200 result=<digit>
<digit> is the ascii code for the digit received.
Most of the return code is the same so we should be able to substitute STREAM FILE for WAIT FOR DIGIT in his code. Better yet, we could create another method to do that instead and call that in our code. Here is an untested implementation of that:
public void streamFile(String filetostream) {
 try {
 // Stream a file..
 String wait = "STREAM FILE " + filetostream + " #*_PHONE_\n";
 out.write(wait.getBytes());
 String line = null;
 while ((line = bin.readLine()) != null) {
 String agi_callerid = "agi_callerid:";
 int index = line.indexOf(agi_callerid);
 // See if we can get the phone number (for a new call)
 if (index > -1) {
 id = line.substring(index + agi_callerid.length()+1,line.length());
 client.send(id + ",newcall");
 }
 // The message we want starts with 200, but does not = 1
 else if (line.indexOf("200") == 0 && !line.equals("200 result=1")) {
 // Parse out what digit was pressed
 String result = "200 result=";
 int i = line.indexOf(result);
 if (i > -1) {
 String key = line.substring(i+result.length(),line.length());
 // -1 means hangup
 if (key.equals("-1")) {
 client.send(id+",hangup");
 } else {
 // If this doesn't work we'll send "error"
 String c = "error";
 try {
 // Convert to integer
 c = "" + (char) Integer.parseInt(key);
 } catch (Exception e) {
 // oops
 }
 client.send(id+","+c);
 // tfsos.write(("Message: "+id+","+c+"\n").getBytes());
 }
 }
 out.write(wait.getBytes());
 }
 }
 } catch (Exception e) {
 // There was some sort of error
 System.out.println("SAY ALPHA ERROR \"*#\"");
 System.out.println(e);
 e.printStackTrace();
 }
 //client.quit(); // Take out the quit..
}

Finally we will have to change what is called in the main to be our new function first:
//jeagi.streamFile("/path/to/file");
jeagi.streamFile("/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/vm-extension");
jeagi.waitForDigits();

instead of just
jeagi.waitForDigits();

The above shows us how to break out of asterisk and control processing. The same methods could be used for pretty much any network communication that you want to occur in real time. In the next couple of weeks we will look at streaming audio out of asterisk (using a similar method) as well as allowing more than just one way interaction.
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 1. The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
 - poverty, poorness, immiserisation [Brit], immiserization, immiseration
 2. The act of making someone poor
 - pauperization, pauperisation [Brit]
Derived forms: impoverishments
Type of: deprivation, financial condition, privation
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We investigate microscopic structures of octupole correlations at high spin in superdeformed open-shell nuclei in the Gd-Dy region, using the random-phase approximation (RPA) based on the cranked shell model. The result of our calculation indicates that constructive interplay between rotation-aligned particle-hole (or two-quasiparticle) excitations and octupole vibra-tions is very important in determining octupole softness of superdeformed bands.
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GoBiGas biogas plant
Göteborg Energi AB
C.F. Møller Architects
The plant will be at a large and highly visible, natural and industrial location on the outskirts of Gothenburg close to the Älvsborg Bridge. It is to be a landmark and a symbol representing the city of Gothenburg's conversion to more sustainable urban development. The buildings' location on the plot was determined by the process, the topography of the site, requirements related to maintenance of a safe distance to neighbouring companies, limitations regarding the vulnerability of this hilly zone and a desire to preserve nature while creating a plant which can be characterised as sober and systematic. The design is based on a layout which echoes the path of the fuel from the mountain via the initial gasification unit to the gas purification plant.
Our primary goal, however, was to give the new plant a clear, unequivocal identity. Varied building volumes are encapsulated in an outer cocoon of metal bars to create a unified design expression. It strongly and clearly symbolises Gothenburg and Göteborg Energi, the local energy company's investment in the site – a striking signature project which highlights strong local commitment to innovative biogas production.

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June is National Dairy month and today at Kids Club we are visiting a Dairy Farm, doing some a fun activities and a Science experiment : making ice ream. So let's get started:
Virtual Dairy Farm visit:
Dairy month activities:
Ice Cream in a Bag : Science Experiment :
- Large gallon size ziplock bag
- Quart size ziplock bag
- Oven mitts (to keep hands warm)
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 3 tbsp white sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups ice
- ⅓ cup kosher salt
- In the smaller bag, add the heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla.
- Seal the bag and remove as much excess air as possible.
- In the larger bag, add the kosher salt and ice.
- Using oven mitts (to keep your hands warm) shake the bag for about 10 minutes.
- Remove from the bag and serve with optional toppings if desired.


Colloidal Silver
Last Updated: August 13, 2018
Definition - What does Colloidal Silver mean?
Colloidal silver is made up of a mixture of distilled water and pure (0.9999) silver. It is created by flowing an electrical current through water mixed with silver electrodes. The current causes the microscopic particles of the silver to break away from each other. Once they break off, they become suspended in the water mixture.
Many cannabis growers use colloidal silver on a marijuana plant to force the plant to produce feminized seeds. After applying the colloidal silver to the cannabis plant, the pollen collected will contain no Y chromosomes. The pollen will only have double X chromosomes, which help ensure female seed production.
MaximumYield explains Colloidal Silver
Colloidal silver is misted onto a marijuana plant's foliage to force the plant to start pollen production. The grower usually mists the plants daily with colloidal silver for 10-14 days.
Typically, when growing marijuana plants there is a 50 per cent chance of the plant creating male seeds. However, with the use of colloidal silver, the chance of a plant developing all female seeds becomes almost a guarantee. Even if a male plant does develop after using colloidal silver, the male is still a genetic female but with male characteristics.
Silver colloidal acts as an ethylene inhibitor/antagonist on the marijuana plant. The silver colloidal forces the weed plant to develop male pollen sacs instead of the female buds that it would normally grow. The pollen from the male pollen sacs can then be collected and used to pollinate female flowers to develop feminized seeds.
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Job Title: Airworthiness Inspector - Avionics
Organization: Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Job Ref: CAA/ADV/EXT/06/2016
Reports to: Principal Airworthiness Inspector Avionics
Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is a corporate body responsible for the regulation of Civil Aviation in Uganda. It manages Entebbe International Airport and 13 other aerodromes upcountry. CAA carries out its work in conformity with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPS). The Authority now plans to recruit suitably qualified Ugandans of impeccable integrity and commitment to fill the following positions in its establishment.
Job Summary: The Airworthiness Inspector – Avionics will set examinations and carry out surveys for avionics engineers/technicians and aircraft maintenance organization, respectively for the purpose of licensing them in accordance with ICAO and manufacturer's standards in order to achieve the highest level of aircraft airworthiness and safety.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensures safety of aircraft and passengers by monitoring aircraft airworthiness in areas of radio communication, navigation systems and tools, electronics and autopilot.
- Ensures that aircrafts using Uganda air are airworthy by having sound electronics system which meets specification of the manufacturer, and those of ICAO.
- Prepares certificates of airworthiness and associated flight manuals.
- The incumbent prepares AMEL examination papers, revises the existing papers as necessary and conducts complementary oral examinations where required.
- Issues, extends and renews aircraft maintenance engineers' licenses and certificates of Airworthiness.
- Investigates and reports on aircraft accidents submitted by operators and prepares schedules for private aircraft.
- The incumbent coordinates with flight operation section in AOC certification process of new and existing operators.
- Enforces regulations by authority of relevant regulatory provisions.
- Carries out critical surveys of maintenance organizations in so far as the inspection and airworthiness of aircrafts concerned.
- Build and maintains close liaison with Quality Manager of approved firms regarding matters of airworthiness of aircraft and inspection staff approval.
- Provides advice when needed to the engineering staff of maintenance organizations and to owners of private aircraft.
- Processes applications for renewal of certificates of airworthiness.
- Inspects, periodically, aircraft maintained on a continuous overhaul basis.
- Issues permits to fly pending renewal of certificates
- The incumbent examines and reports upon local modifications preparatory to final approval.
- Investigates defects in airborne equipment and prepares defect report.
- Scrutinizes the work of individual licensed aircraft maintenance engineers and approved persons with particular reference to their inspection ability.
- Issues approvals to persons to work on aircraft and for certification in terms of the Regulations.
- Supervises the weighing of aircraft and approved weight schedules.
- Inspects periodically all companies' refuelling equipment for serviceability and checks for contamination of fuel.
- Examines annual log books of private aircraft relating to the work required in terms of approved maintenance schedules and renews certificates of airworthiness,
- Approval of carriage of dangerous Goods by Air.
- Performs any other lawful duties as allocated by the immediate Supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicants for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Airworthiness Inspector - Avionics job opportunity should hold an honours Degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Aeronautical Engineering and Aircraft Maintenance Engineer's License in ''A" & "C", "X" and "R"
- At least four years' experience in aircraft maintenance facility preferable in quality assurance and inspection
- Broad process aeronautical knowledge in areas that apply to aeroplane and helicopter aircraft categories.
- Acquired skill as a pilot or aircraft maintenance engineer or air traffic controller or aviation qualification other than the above.
- Age: Between 28 to 40 years
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates who desire to join the aviation industry should send their hand-written applications with detailed CV and copies of academic certificates plus transcripts with the Job reference number clearly marked at the top left hand corner of the envelope should be sent to the address below. Please indicate your (day time) phone contact.
The Director, Human Resource and Administration,
Civil Aviation Authority (Head Office),
P.O. BOX 5536, Kampala, Uganda.
Deadline: 26th August 2016 by 5:00 PM
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ChildLink(mapping=None, *, ignore_unknown_fields=False, **kwargs)
Metadata associated with a parent-child relationship appearing in a PlanNode][google.spanner.v1.PlanNode].
Attributes
NameDescription
child_index int
The node to which the link points.
type_ str
The type of the link. For example, in Hash Joins this could be used to distinguish between the build child and the probe child, or in the case of the child being an output variable, to represent the tag associated with the output variable.
variable str
Only present if the child node is SCALAR][google.spanner.v1.PlanNode.Kind.SCALAR] and corresponds to an output variable of the parent node. The field carries the name of the output variable. For example, a TableScan operator that reads rows from a table will have child links to the SCALAR nodes representing the output variables created for each column that is read by the operator. The corresponding variable fields will be set to the variable names assigned to the columns.


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Students (and their employers) always have to pay a social security contribution on their wages. The National Social Security Office collects these contributions. These deductions are used to pay pensions, unemployment benefit, sickness allowance, family allowance, and so on.
Two different social security tariffs apply to the student employment scheme:
- normal contributions
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We systematically investigate stress-strain behavior of ferrite and bainite with nano-sized vanadium carbides in low carbon steels; the ferrite samples were obtained through austenite/ferrite transformation accompanied with interphase precipitation and the bainite samples were via austenite/bainite transformation with subsequent aging. The stress-strain curves of both samples share several common features, i.e. high yield stress, relatively low work hardening and sufficient tensile elongation. Strengthening contributions from solute atoms, grain boundaries, dislocations and precipitates are calculated based on the structural parameters, and the calculation result is compared with the experimentally-obtained yield stress. The contributions from solute atoms and grain boundaries are simply additive, whereas those from dislocations and precipitates should be treated by taking the square root of the sum of the squares of two values. Nano-sized carbides may act as sites for dislocation multiplication in the early stage of deformation, while they may enhance dislocation annihilation in the later stage of deformation. Such enhanced dynamic recovery might be the reason for a relatively large elongation in both ferrite and bainite samples.
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- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Ceramics and Composites
- Polymers and Plastics
- Metals and Alloys


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Circular Profile Plot
This tool is part of the Circle (measurement) Tool, rather than the Profiles Tool, because you need to position a circle rather than a line in order to generate the plot.
The image is in the lx-images folder distributed with Lispix. It is lx-images / electron-diffraction / Au-rings.tif
 1. Open the image with File / Open.
 2. Open the Circle Tool: TOOLS / Circle.
 3. Select the rings image by clicking on it to make it active, then click Image! in the circle tool.
 4. Turn on the circle: Circle On!
 5. Positon the circle by dragging the small circular handle in the center.
 6. Set the radius of the circle to the maximum radius you wish to plot.
 7. Plot using Analysis / Ring average plot.


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Application of cable seal at petroleum transportation
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Application of cable seal at petroleum transportation
The new type anti-fake cable seal is researched and developed by using current advanced QR code technology and combining specific features of refined petroleum road transportation. Its QR code label and sealing mechanism adopts integrated sealing structure to ensure the solidness of the whole. This product solves the problems of old type seals such as low duplicate cost, easy in duplicate, no encryption information, bad anti-fake performance, improves the safety of refined petroleum transportation, and realizes the purpose of anti-stolen effect.
Different colors distinguish of seals: the seals of dispatching vehicle and returning vehicle to gas station adopt different colors and with different marks to make the distinguish. Different colors of seals can directly identify the dispatching units of seals, and can check the marks according to color, which can greatly improve the anti-fake performance of seals.
Different serial numbers distinguish of seals:
each province or area has unique serial number to prevent the confusion of seals. Different use of seals can further improve seals management, increase duplicate difficulty and improve the safety of refined petroleum transportation. Security seals record check: make record at each time use of seals to check. Before leaving gas station or petroleum warehouse, security seals must be confirmed of finish. And make record of seals serial number and vehicle number, and verify after arriving at destination. Barcode check: mainly depend on serial number and basing on barcode when checking seals to make the distinguish of anti-fake cable seals.
Barcode Wire Seal
Barcode has the following features:
（1）High-density code, large information capacity: can account over 1850 letters or 2710 numbers or 1108 bytes or over 500 characters, which is higher dozens of information capacity comparing with common code.
（2）Wide coding range: this code can encode pictures, voices, characters, signatures and fingerprints which can be digited, and show by code; can display multi-language and characters; can display picture data.
（3）Strong fault-tolerant ability, have the function of error correction: QR code can correctly read when part is defected due to hole penetration or damage, and information can be recovered if damage area reaches 50%.
（4）High decrypt reliability
（5）Introduce encryption measure: conduct specific encryption treatment according to users requirement, other companies or personnel are unable to read or analyze seals coding information without the authorization of encryption or reading, which greatly improves anti-fake performance.


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More than three-quarters of teachers in the recent Tennessee Educator Survey selected technological supports for remote learning as the most helpful supports needed to promote educational access during COVID-19 school closures.
Today the Tennessee Education Research Alliance at Vanderbilt University released a brief from the Tennessee Educator Survey highlighting responses about COVID-19 school closures. More than 25,000 Tennessee teachers, representing 40 percent of teachers statewide, completed this portion of the survey, which was conducted in partnership with the Tennessee Department of Education between April 4 and May 1.
Teachers across Tennessee responded to questions about their experiences during the school closures. Through open-ended comments, educators also shared their thoughts on the most important resources needed to support students and provide remote learning opportunities throughout the rest of the school year.
"Educators across Tennessee consistently reported on technological barriers preventing remote learning, their concern for student access to crucial services, and their need for additional guidance and resources," said Susan K. Patrick, one of the study's authors and a post-doctoral scholar with TERA. "These needs were even more pronounced in rural communities lacking internet infrastructure and schools serving more low-income families."
The primary findings from educator responses include:
- Student Access: More than half of teachers identified access to remote learning or access to crucial services, like meals and counseling, as among their top concerns about students amid school closures.
- Technological Needs: More than three-quarters of teachers selected technological supports for remote learning (e.g., internet access and reliable devices) as the most helpful supports needed to promote educational access, and educators discussed the need for these supports to address educational inequities.
- Guidance and Resources for Remote Learning: Schools and districts were identified as important sources of guidance for teachers in planning remote learning. Teachers described additional instructional needs, such as teacher training on virtual learning and guidance for supporting students with disabilities and English learners.
- Student Engagement: More than two-thirds of teachers reported regularly sending electronic learning resources to promote remote learning while fewer than one-quarter reported regularly planning virtual classes. This engagement varied across different types of districts.
These findings speak to the ongoing challenges educators faced during the spring, and point to several critical barriers to quality remote learning that will remain salient if school buildings are unable to fully open for the 2020-2021 academic year.
"Each year, the Tennessee Educator Survey gathers critical input from our state's educators, and I am particularly grateful for TERA's quick work this year to add the COVID-related questions. The results provide an important picture of how educators navigated the unprecedented school closures and help us identify the top needs moving forward," said Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn. "Educators and district leaders alike continue to identify technology supports as a priority and the department has planned to allot half of the state-level CARES Act funding-13 million dollars-toward technology grants and solutions. Thank you to all of the educators who participated in the survey, your voice and input is so important, as we move forward together."
The COVID-19 questions comprise just one portion of the questions on the 2020 Tennessee Educator Survey. Additional analysis of the remainder of the questions on the Tennessee Educator Survey and overall results will be available by August 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic extends into the summer and next school year, TERA plans to continue documenting educator experiences and policy responses in partnership with the Tennessee Department of Education. TERA will also engage in further research to study the effects of COVID-19 on students, teachers, and schools.
Download the full brief: "Teaching Through a Global Pandemic: COVID-19 Insights from the Tennessee Educator Survey"
The Tennessee Education Research Alliance is a unique research partnership between Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development and the Tennessee Department of Education committed to informing Tennessee's school improvement efforts with useful, timely and high-quality studies.


Slow app execution to allow Google sheet time to recalculate
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In my app based on Metric Rat's CRUDQ 11 guide I am having a problem with the data in ListWiew renewing before the spreadsheet has recalculated formulas after the App updates data in some fields. The first photo is the code I am using and the second is the continuation of photo 1.
Basically what I want to do is to update the data in Columns C & D and with that update Column F gets recalculated to the number of people shown as "In" in Column C.
 1. The updated sheet is called into ListView and occasionally the data in Column F has not had time to recalculate so is old and wrong.
 2. Also - I want to notify the user that when value of the Users Field in Column F is zero and Column C is "Out" that they are the last to leave the building and must set the burglar alarm. this is done by reading the updated data from the spreadsheet and placing it in two textboxes as shown in Photo 2. Unfortunately the text boxes don't update in time.
Is there any way to delay the execution of the steps in the program for say 2 seconds at the point between updating the spreadsheet (say at the end of execution of CRUDllAction and calling it back to listview?
Do not update items in the app until the new data returns from the spreadsheet.
Yes - the problem is that the new data sometimes returns to the app before the spreadsheet has completed its recalculation so the new data in the app is wrong.
Make the first call to your spreadsheet, when that data returns make the second call, then load all the data together.
I didn't quiet understand your answer but tried several versions of what I thought you meant and when that failed I dropped the feature I was planning to use. I also found your post at How do you display current time through a label? which solved other problems I was having in refreshing the time using Timepick by using part of the script so thanks greatly for that.
Does this clarify ?
Thanks so much for that.clarification.
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Considering that normal dimension of standard kitchen furniture are 80 cm height x 60cm depth, this first protoype model is approximately 80 x 60 x 40cm (front panel) like a standard independent appliance but next we will try to develop a prototype model that could be integrated inside a kitchen counter.
- Produces pre-compost also inside the flats;
- Compacts the bio-waste;
- Blocks bad smells;
- Separates wet from liquid;
- It is self-cleaning;
- Not place materials in sewage;
- Reduces the ecological footprint;
- Drastically lowers costs of collection and transfer;
- Transforms waste into a resource.
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Tanana Flats Training Area (TFTA) occupies 653,746 acres of the Middle Tanana River Basin. The Tanana Flats supports a complex mosaic of ecosystems and is situated on a large alluvial fan and glacial outwash complex built out of the north side of the Alaska Range. Both surface and subsurface water move across the Tanana Flats on a very low gradient originating from mountain glaciers that discharge to the Tanana River. A portion of the groundwater surfaces in springs and diffuse upwellings contributing to an extensive system of fens. The Flats also include a variety of other habitats, such as forests of white spruce, paper birch, and quaking aspen; black spruce bogs; thickets of willow and alder; and grasslands and meadows.
Donnelly Training Area (DTA) occupies 650,000 acres of the middle Tanana River Basin. DTA supports a complex mosaic of ecosystems and is composed of many acres of wetlands, kettle lakes, alpine and tundra habitats. Parts of DTA were designated as an Important Bird Area of World significance by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for the large numbers of trumpeter swans and sandhill cranes that use the area.
These habitats are important to a variety of songbirds, shorebirds, and upland game birds. Some of the more significant species known to utilize the area are: sandhill crane, trumpeter swans, Canada geese, American wigeon, green-winged teal, mallard, northern pintail, blue-winged teal, northern shoveler, and scaup (both lesser and greater). Other bird species known to use this area include; bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, northern harriers, short-eared owls, northern hawk owls, and numerous small passerine species including warblers, thrushes, blackbirds, and sparrows.


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75 million euro to finance the construction of NZEBs in Sweden
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a EUR 75 million loan with real estate company Castellum for the construction of nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEBs) in Stockholm and Örebro, Sweden. The loan was made possible by the support of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), central pillar of the European Commission's Investment Plan for Europe.
Castellum will use the loan to construct two new NZEB office buildings, specifically the "Torsplan" building in the Hagastaden part of Stockholm and the "Citypassage" in central Örebro.
"We're particularly proud to support Castellum in this initiative, also since climate action is high on the agenda for the European Investment Bank." said Romualdo Massa Bernucci, Director for EIB lending in the Nordic countries. "Both residential and office buildings are responsible for a large part of the CO₂ output, so making them more energy efficient is an important step in mitigating our footprint in large cities."
Cecilia Malmström, Commissioner for Trade, said: "Improved energy efficiency in buildings is an important part of our transition towards a greener society but it often requires significant investments. This is where the Investment Plan can play an important role. With today's agreement, the European Fund for Strategic Investments will contribute to Sweden's development towards a reduced dependency on fossil fuels."
With climate action as a main priority for the EIB, Castellum's initiative in constructing NZEBs fits perfectly with the Bank's strategy and comes after a number of similar projects that EIB has recently supported in Sweden, Finland and Germany.


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Using the investment, Physna will further the development of its 3D model search engine, which allows users to compare and analyze thousands of 3D models for the purpose of quality control and automated inspection. Physna also aims to increase the adoption of its technology and continue to expand its engineering and sales teams.
"We are very excited for the opportunity to invest in Physna," states Drive Capital Partner Mark Kvamme.
"We believe what Paul [Powers] and his team are doing in search has the potential to revolutionize the workflows of engineers around the world."
The Google of 3D models
Physna was founded in 2015 by Paul Powers, a law graduate of Heidelberg University, Germany, Astronomy and Astrophysics alumni of Harvard and serial entrepreneur. Short for "Physical DNA", Physna is a geometric search engine that aims to increase the efficiency of CAD design, 3D printing and other manufacturing methods. The search engine operates alongside CAD and PLM programs, rendering 3D files as wire mesh structures. Using patent-pending algorithms and machine learning technology to analyze 3D models, the Physna search engine is able to identify common properties between their digital structures.
"The results are orders of magnitude more accurate and faster than was ever previously possible in 3D search," Powers commented. "We are just scratching the surface. The uses for Physna's core technology are virtually limitless."
The search results, which are pulled from a user's own 3D file database, includes similarities and differences between 3D models, enabling the identification of common manufacturing problems. Physna is also reportedly able to sift through millions of 3D models in seconds, allowing users to easily locate models by filtering through shapes, patterns and features. According to Physna, the 3D search engine can also be used to determine whether standards or custom compliance for the 3D files are met before manufacturing. To help keep CAD models secure, Physna includes security features such as doublechecks and timestamps. These features combined are helping Physna potentially become the 'Google' for 3D models, according to Kvamme: "I remember watching Google rise to become the company that would set the standard for text and image search."
"I see the same potential here and believe Physna could become the market defining company for 3D search."
Currently, Physna is working with a number of companies where its geometric search engine software is being employed in various industries, including manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, defense, consumer goods, electronics, and energy. The company has ongoing partnerships with Siemens, NASA's Space Camp, PTC, Oracle, leading universities such as Purdue University, and unnamed government agencies.
A unique software solution for comparing 3D files
In August 2018, 3D Printing Industry was able to speak with Powers to shed some light on the software that could potentially hold tremendous value for industrial additive manufacturing.
Powers explained that Physna is very different to software services like 3YOURMIND, which recently received its own funding of €1.3 million, as it not primarily used to optimize 3D printing settings. He said, "[Physna] specializes in feature comparison, ensuring standard compliance throughout an organization, saving time when designing new models, and automating the creation of a digital thread throughout the lifecycle of a product."
Looking for a career in additive manufacturing? Visit 3D Printing Jobs for a selection of roles in the industry.
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I have modified the value of net.core.rmem_max with sysctl, and now I would like to set it back to its default value.
If I reboot, net.core.rmem_max will go back to its default value (because it is not overridden in /etc/sysctl.conf), but can I know this value without rebooting?
Ideally I should have run sysctl net.core.rmem_max to read the value before modifying it, but I forgot...
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This is not possible in general: the kernel does not retain the original values (at least under Linux it doesn't, and this is probably true of other unix variants). The value of the setting is stored in a variable; when you change the setting, the memory containing the variable is irreversibly updated.
For most settings, the initial value of the variable is a constant that is determined at compile time and stored in the kernel binary. So you could, in principle, inspect your kernel binary to find the default value. You would have to locate the symbol corresponding to the setting you're interested in, and follow the address of that symbol in the kernel binary. Booting your kernel in a virtual machine would be less work.
For most settings, you can look in the kernel source — kernel/sysctl.c and other files. You'll see definitions like
 .procname = "rmem_max",
 .data = &sysctl_rmem_max,
(in net/core/sysctl_net_core.c), from which you can trace the initialization of the sysctl_rmem_max variable. While this one is initialized from a constant, it takes quite a bit of reading C code to expand.
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On my OpenBSD machine, /etc/sysctl.conf lists a bunch of default sysctl values, but this list is not exhaustive.
Probably the best way is to read the sysctl code or ask a friend who is running the same OS for his values :)
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An engineering approach to prevent infected arthroplasties
- Engineering Approaches for the Detection and Control of Orthopaedic Biofilm Infections
We have organized a multidisciplinary biomedical-engineering approach to develop a self-diagnosing, self-treating, self-monitoring artificial joint (Fig 2; an "intelligent implant") to combat the devastating problem of postimplantation bacterial biofilm infections that form on artificial joint prostheses. A meeting about such implant (Designing Intelligent Orthopaedic Implants for Biofilm Control) was held on April 10 to 12, 2003 in Big Sky, MT, which was attended by surgeons, microbiologists, biochemists, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) engineers.
The most salient point made by the surgeons (with regard to implant design) was that a majority (> 60%) of arthroplasty infections result from two related staphylococcal species, Staphylococcus aureus and S. epidermidis. The microbiologists were united in their view that the infection should ideally be controlled before the formation of a biofilm because treatment regimens currently do not exist that can eradicate a biofilm on an abiotic surface implanted into human tissue. From the biosensor/MEMS engineers it was learned that the most difficult technical challenge is to overcome biofouling of an implanted device that would contain a membrane through which ligands would pass to induce a signal cascade. The electrical engineers indicated that the most problematic area for them was the need to provide power to the device for years without external leads which could become a source of infection. These consensus viewpoints, together with a preferred embodiment of what would be required in the design of an intelligent implant, were subsequently published 9
The overall concept in the design of an intelligent implant is to produce an arthroplasty that contains a MEMS-type biosensing device that can "eavesdrop" on bacterial communication systems associated with autoinduction, quorum sensing, and biofilm formation. Most pathogenic bacterial species (and most nonpathogenic species) respond to and produce intercellular signaling molecules that are designed to detect either the concentration of bacteria in a given locale (quorum sensing)23 or to determine the rate of diffusion within the ecosystem in which the bacteria find themselves.25 Depending on the bacterial species and the environment, quorum sensing serves to provide coordination of metabolic switching among a population of like bacteria so that they act in concert for the benefit of the population instead of as individual organisms. In the case of many pathogens, the detection of a quorum of bacteria induces the production of virulence factors and toxins. This co-ordinate-inducible phenomenon occurring on a population level has been interpreted as a survival strategy for pathogens wherein they try to remain "below the radar" of the host's pathogen detection systems until such time because their numbers are great enough to overwhelm the host's initial response. A classic example is S. aureus-induced toxic shock syndrome.19
On intercepting the bacterial signals, the MEMS biosensor will send a signal to a pair of integral gated reservoirs that will: 1) release inhibitory compounds that will prevent biofilm formation; and 2) release antibiotics at very high concentrations locally that will eradicate all planktonic bacteria that are in proximity to the joint before they establish a biofilm. The ability to provide site-specific dosing with antibiotics would have the benefit of being able to deliver much higher concentrations of antibiotics at the locus of infection than could be tolerated by the host through systemic treatment regimens. Moreover, local dosing would potentially permit the use of highly efficacious antimicrobials that have specific organ system toxicity profiles that makes them unusable with current systemic dosing regimens. Therefore, not only could this strategy provide for higher dosing levels of systemically tolerated antibiotics, but it could also increase the size of the available pharmacopoeia—a considerable advantage considering the high percentage of pathogenic strains that have acquired one or more planktonically active antibiotic resistance genes.
The MEMS biosensors and the drug reservoirs would be connected to a telemetry system embedded within the prostheses that would be accessible to the patient and physician using a handheld Bluetooth monitoring device, which in turn would be able to communicate with the wireless web. Therefore, patients would be able to take a reading anywhere in the world and upload the data to the internet, from which their physician could monitor the condition of the joint, regardless of location.
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Prof Wool: Firewall Management 201
Lesson 13: Zero-Touch Change Management with Checks and Balances
Firewall Management 201: Lesson 13
In this lesson, Professor Wool highlights the challenges, benefits and trade-offs of utilizing zero-touch automation for security policy change management. He explains how, using conditional logic, its possible to significantly speed up security policy change management while maintaining control and ensuring accuracy throughout the process.


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Vandalism and trespass on the railway is not only reckless, but can cause delays. Here's what we're doing to prevent it
If you see someone trespassing on the railway, please call British Transport Police (BTP) on 0800 40 50 40, text 61016 or dial 999.
Trespassing on the railway is dangerous, risking trespassers' lives and endangering train passengers and crew.
For this reason, when we see someone trespassing, we have to stop all trains in the vicinity to make sure everyone is kept safe. This not only delays nearby trains, but also has a knock-on effect on trains across the network.
Certain parts of the railway, including stations, underpasses and level crossings, are open to the public. But when people go onto the tracks, embankments or other areas, they are trespassing.
When people trespass on the railway and vandalise our property, we need to repair any damage and make sure the railway is safe before allowing trains to run again. This causes delays for passengers. Vandalism includes graffiti, litter, fly-tipping and damage to fences, signs and tracks.
How we work with communities to promote safety
- Our community safety teams work hard – particularly in trespassing hotspots – to make more people aware of the dangers of trespass on the railway.
- Where there are known hotspots, we work with the train companies locally to create action plans.
- We install fences that make it more difficult to access the railway.
- We run safety campaigns with schools, charities, local councils and the British Transport Police (BTP) focusing on the two groups of people most likely to trespass: teenagers and those in their early 20s. In the 10 years up to July 2016, just fewer than half of those killed while trespassing on the railway were under 25 years old. Almost 170 young people lost their lives trespassing in the same period.
- We run safety campaigns to reach young people directly, and provide resources for teachers and parents.
- We partner with the BTP to encourage people to report incidents of trespassing and vandalism. If you see someone trespassing on the railway, call 0800 40 50 40 or 999, or text 61016.


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We have created a distinctive culture committed to excellence and exceptional care based on the encouragement of research to enhance clinical practice standards and the provision of excellent training and education opportunities.
Our strong focus on expanding our activity in health care improvement is reflected in the significant increase in the number of research projects approved by our Human Research Ethics Committee in the last few years.
In fact, the number of new St John of God Health Care research proposals submitted per year has nearly tripled from 58 in 2010/11 to 169 in 2015/2016. And much of our research is conducted in collaboration with academic and industry partners and leading researchers throughout Australia and internationally.
Half of all research undertaken at St John of God Health Care is carried out at St John of God Subiaco Hospital, which in 2015/16 expanded its research into new areas including neurosurgery, orthopaedics, platform trials, urology, general surgery and respiratory medicine.
St John of God Burwood and Richmond Hospitals maintained a strong focus on mental health research. The Perinatal Women's Mental Health Unit under Professor Marie-Paule Austin is delivering clinical excellence through extensive research into the perinatal years. At Richmond there has been a focus on trauma and its impact on mental health under the Professorial Chair of Zachary Steel.
We have also continued to contribute to the body of arts and health research, including establishing a creative arts project at St John of God Mt Lawley and working with the UWA School of Population Health and a partnership with Musica Viva, completing the research phases of two new music residency projects.
In the delivery of quality outcomes an important recent initiative has been the introduction into 10 of the 11 hospitals providing maternity services of the K2 Guardian System, which enables midwives and obstetricians to collaborate and communicate in real time.
With pastoral services playing such a crucial role in our holistic approach to healing, there is considerable focus on training as part of our commitment to the highest standards in pastoral services and in meeting the needs of the individuals and the communities.
St John of God Health Care continues to provide the highest standards of training and education opportunities for medical students and doctors-in-training, partnering with seven university medical schools in NSW, Victoria and WA.
Excellence in care is fundamental to St John of God Health Care's Mission. Our holistic approach to patient care requires safe, effective, appropriate and responsive care from engaged and competent caregivers and accredited health practitioners. Seeking better ways to provide this care is behind the significant work to strengthen our clinical governance performance.
Infection prevention requires constant and rigorous management and vigilance. Since 2010, St John of God Health Care has participated in the National Hand Hygiene Initiative to improve hand hygiene compliance by caregivers and visitors. In 2015/16 our group compliance rate for hospital divisions exceeded 80% (84.8%), which is higher than the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care's National benchmark of 70%.


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Chart of the Day: Percent Homes Using Wood, Coal
CENSUS BUREAU -- Tracing the history of heating fuels from 1940 to 2000 shows that 3-in-4 households used coal or wood in 1940, whereas only 1.8% of homes used these fuels in 2000. Homes using coal or coke for heating fuel dropped rapidly in each decade between 1940 (55%) and 1970 (2.9%); and the rate continued to drop until 0.1% of homes used these fuels in 2000. Wood, used as a major heating fuel in 1940 (23%), virtually disappeared by 1970 (only 1.3%). Since that time, it has shown a modest comeback in 1990 (3.9%), but dropped in 2000 (1.7%). It was the dominant fuel in the Pacific Northwest and South in 1940.
Update: Here's maybe one interesting way to look at the data in the chart above. It took thousands and thousands of years before fewer than half of all American households in 1950 needed either wood or coal to heat their homes (counting the long history of Native Americans), and then it took only 50 years for almost all of the rest of the households to eliminate wood and coal as their main source of home heating fuel. In other words, what first took thousands of years to accomplish was then next accomplished in only 50 years.

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


text: ||This paper presents a new Kalman filter approach to Power System State Estimation based on PMUs, in which the knowledge of the system frequency is exploited to ensure the accuracy of the estimated quantities even under off-nominal conditions. In the proposed solution, the frequency is added as a new state variable to be estimated, so that its value can be known with lower uncertainty, thus leading to more accurate estimates also for node voltages and branch currents. All the frequency measurements available from PMUs can be exploited through the presented method to improve the estimation. In order to assess the benefits given by the integration of the frequency knowledge, the performance of the new approach is compared to different state estimation methodologies, by means of simulations carried out on the New England IEEE 39-bus system under different realistic operating conditions and measurement configurations. Performed tests take into account, in particular, the possible occurrence of off-nominal frequency conditions, highlighting the issues associated to traditional PMUbased Kalman filter approaches and proving the effectiveness of the proposed solution.


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Adult in breeding plumage
The Chinese Pond Heron, Ardeola bacchus, is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands and ponds in China and East Asia. A stray bird stopping over on Saint Paul Island, Alaska August 4-9, 1997, was the first recorded occurrence of this species in the USA (AOU 2000).
The Chinese Pond Heron is typically 47cm long with white wings, a yellow bill with a black tip, yellow eyes and legs. Its overall colour is red, blue and white during breeding season, and greyish-brown and flecked with white at other times. The Chinese Pond Heron lays a clutch of 3-6 blue-green eggs, often in mixed nests with other herons. Its diet comprises or insects, fish, and crustaceans.


text: A dynamically weighted directed network (DWDN) is frequently encountered in various big data-related applications like a terminal interaction pattern analysis system (TIPAS) concerned in this study. It consists of large-scale dynamic interactions among numerous entities. Moreover, as the involved entities increase drastically, it becomes impossible to observe their full interactions at each time span, making a corresponding DWDN high-dimensional and incomplete. However, it contains vital knowledge regarding involved entities' behavior patterns. To extract such knowledge from DWDN, this paper proposes a novel Alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM)-based Nonnegative Latent-factorization of Tensors (ANLT) model. It adopts two novel ideas: a) building a data density-oriented augmented Lagrangian function for efficiently handling a tensor's incompleteness and nonnegativity; and b) splitting an optimization task in each iteration into an elaborately designed subtask series where each one is solved based on the previously solved ones following the ADMM principle to achieve fast model convergence. Experimental results on two large-scale DWDNs from a real TIPAS demonstrate that the proposed ANLT model outperforms state-of-the-art models significantly in both computational efficiency and prediction accuracy when addressing missing link prediction on DWDW.


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Abstract by Brittni Newbold
Physics and Astronomy
Magnetic Ordering of Magnetite (Fe3O4) Nanoparticle Assemblies
Magnetite nanoparticles have great potential for use in medical and other applications, so understanding their properties is crucial. The goal of this project is to determine how the magnetic ordering in magnetite nanoparticle assemblies changes as a function of nanoparticle size, temperature and external magnetic field. Samples of these nanoparticle assemblies were put through x-ray resonant magnetic scattering which produced scattering images that provide information about the magnetic ordering of the particles. These images were reduced to one-dimensional scattering profiles. By fitting these scattering profiles with a model, we are determining the specific magnetic orderings present in the assemblies and their associated weights. The results of the fits for high temperature show little antiferromagnetic contribution for smaller particles and a small peak in the antiferromagnetic contribution for larger particles as the field value approaches zero.


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Europe's sacred lands – a secret in need
04 April 2012 | News story
'The Diversity of Sacred Lands in Europe', provides a unique insight into Europe's often forgotten sacred natural sites. It looks into their history, importance and the threats they currently face. The book is a must-read for managers of European protected areas and landscapes and those interested in the religious and cultural aspects of European natural sites. Published by IUCN and Metsähallitus Natural Heritage Services of Finland, the book is part of a series issued by The Delos Initiative of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas.
Authors of the book place special attention to the sacred places of the Sámi indigenous people living in northern Finland, Sweden, Norway and North-West Russia. They also describe sacred natural sites in Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, North-West Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
"Sacred natural sites hold traditional and spiritual values that are often hidden from the modern world and that are deeply linked to ecosystem and landscape management", says Gonzalo Oviedo, IUCN's senior adviser for social policy. "These values are extremely important for Europe's cultural, spiritual and natural heritage. They include some unique knowledge of traditional medicine, livestock breeding, wildlife and agricultural cycles. Greater recognition of this knowledge and better management of these areas can help us sustainably conserve our natural heritage, especially in the time of increasing climate change."
"The importance of sacred natural sites is rarely recognized these days and their values are often ignored in the face of expanding urbanisation and insensitive development initiatives", says Josep Maria Mallarach, one of the editors of the book and coordinator of The Delos Initiative. "Tourism also puts pressure on these unique places, causing physical and spiritual degradation."
"Integrated management of the sites and improved public awareness can help address these challenges", says Thymio Papayannis, co-editor of the book and joint coordinator of The Delos Initiative. "Closer collaboration between the custodians of sacred natural sites and conservationists is crucial if we want to safeguard Europe's unique natural, cultural and spiritual values of such sites."
For more information, review copies or to set up interviews, please contact:
Borjana Pervan, IUCN Media Relations.


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|Keywords:||Africa; Dyadic conflict; Consociational theory; transnational ethnic kin; Tuareg; Mali; Niger; Social Sciences; Political Science; Samhällsvetenskap; Statsvetenskap; Politices kandidatprogram; Bachelor Programme in Political Science; Political Science; Statsvetenskap|
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The theory of dyadic intrastate conflict cause and resolution containing transnational ethnic kin is under development. One of the things current research share is the focus on the cases where conflict erupts, or where conflict resolution fails, and its causes. The aim of this study is to try to contribute and develop the generalizing theory. The focus on the study rests on the impact that state apparatus characteristic has on risk for conflict. The research builds on theoretical framework from the consociational theory. The subject is of relevance both for the field of peace and conflict research as theory development, and for policy makers. The study has resulted in two observations. First, it supports the claim of consociational theory that enhanced presence of its nine favorable factors diminishes the risk for intrastate tension and violence. Second, it proposes that a successful decentralization is the possible key explanatory characteristic of state apparatus that decreases risk for dyadic intrastate conflict. The causal mechanism here being heightened credibility and legitimacy of constitution because of increased trust and lowered fear of further ethnic discrimination. It is necessary to verify these results before further theory development can be done.


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A thin-film reflecting interference filter has been designed and constructed for the purpose of suppressing grating harmonics when monochromatizing synchrotron radiation. It consists of a layer of Si evaporated onto a substrate and makes use of interference between wave fronts reflected from the layer–substrate and vacuum–layer interfaces to suppress higher harmonics. The filter has proved useful over the fundamental wavelength range of 400–1200 Å (~30–10 eV), maintaining a rejection ratio of fundamental to second harmonic exceeding 60. Calculations and measurements are presented, and the reflecting interference filter is compared with a critical-angle mirror used for the same purpose.
© 1994 Optical Society of America
Original Manuscript: November 12, 1992
Revised Manuscript: April 1, 1993
Published: March 1, 1994
W. R. Hunter and J. P. Long, "Thin-film interference mirror to suppress grating harmonics in vacuum-ultraviolet radiation," Appl. Opt. 33, _PHONE_ (1994)


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Date Added: Aug 2010
Jamming attacks have been recently studied as wireless security threats disrupting reliable RF communication in a wireless network. Recently, spread spectrum techniques have been proposed as promising countermeasures to avoid the jamming attacks. However, these solutions require a secure pre-key establishment phase before data transmission, which takes considerable time and thus provides limited functionality. In order to solve the problem, this paper proposes a novel Frequency Quorum Rendezvous (FQR) scheme. Nodes hop over random frequencies independently during the phase, supporting anti-jamming communications. By using a quorum system, nodes are guaranteed to meet, which could reduce time latency. The authors validate the proposed scheme via extensive simulations.


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Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, April 19
By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend:
The Republic of Korea will help Turkmenistan with the commercialization of 5G mobile communications, Trend reports referring to a joint statement by the presidents of the two countries.
South Korean President Moon Jae-is who is on a state visit in Turkmenistan on April 16-18, held talks with his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
The parties expressed their wish that, with the Republic of Korea sharing the world's first experience in commercialization of 5G mobile communications, the parties may successfully respond to the challenges arising from the fourth industrial revolution use of the opportunity for inclusive innovation growth in the long run, the document says.
It was remarked that science, technology and information and communication technologies are the key driving force for economic and social progress, and for the development of innovations in both countries. The parties also highlighted the need for a joint response to the new technologies' on people, industry and society.
As was reported earlier, Turkmenistan's national mobile operator Altyn Asyr (TM CELL) purchased 100 base stations with its own funds for deploying mobile communications in the territory of Ahal, Balkan and Dashoguz regions of Turkmenistan.
This year, the base stations will be purchased using a credit line allocated by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). Within the framework of the large-scale "Development of telecommunication networks of Turkmenistan" project, Altyn Asyr plans to ensure widespread introduction of this type of communication in Turkmenistan including 3G, 4G and, in the near future, 5G-speed Internet and other services.
To this end, it is planned to purchase more than 600 units of broadcasting equipment. More than 120 base stations will be set in the capital city, Ashgabat.


What is Squonking?
Squonking is a term used to describe a bottom fed atomiser. The term comes from the noise a bottle makes when you squeeze it (squonk). The squonker was made as vapers got tired of re dripping into an RDA. Mods were designed with a bottle inside that you can fill with e-liquid. A "squonk" pin with a whole through the middle is then installed into the atomiser to allow liquid to rise from below when you squeeze the bottle This fills the chamber with eliquid and wets the wicks. The act of letting go of the bottle draws the excess from the chamber.


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This study was conducted in July, 2009 with the main objective of assessing the status of Olea cuspidata Wall., listed on Red Data Book used by IUCN, in Bajura District of Nepal. Primary data were collected through household meetings, key informant survey, focus group discussion, participatory resource mapping and field inventory. Secondary data were collected through published and unpublished literatures, reports, net surfing, libraries, and other concerned organizations. Distribution area, stem per hector and historical situation were calculated to explore the status of wild olive. GIS was used to calculate the area and prepare distribution map. The major finding of this study reveals that Bajura district has conspicuous potentiality for wild olives but poor knowledge among local people and concerned local government organizations on this particular species pose the species with greater rate of threats. It is found that Olea forest is excluded from the national resource information data base including topographic map. Overall study explains poor status of wild olives in the district and seeks urgent conservation interventions.


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Medical Subject Headings
Bibliotherapy; History, 19th Century; Mental Disorders/therapy
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment | Library and Information Science | Mental and Social Health | Psychiatry and Psychology | Rehabilitation and Therapy
Introduction: Hospital libraries, including ones designed for patient use, share a common history with hospitals in the evolution of health care delivery 1. The library as a component of the early "insane asylum" in the United States is well documented, and many had been established by the mid-nineteenth century. While these libraries certainly existed as a means of recreation for asylum patients, this historical communication will demonstrate they also served as a center for "bibliotherapy," the use of reading as a means of healing.
Levin, Len L. and Gildea, Ruthann, "Bibliotherapy: tracing the roots of a moral therapy movement in the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present" (2013). University of Massachusetts Medical School. Library Publications and Presentations. Paper 143.
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Commons, Library and Information Science Commons, Mental and Social Health Commons, Psychiatry and Psychology Commons, Rehabilitation and Therapy Commons


text: Many insects are able to precisely control their jumping movements. Once in the air, the properties of the actual landing site, however, are almost impossible to predict. Falling insects thus have to cope with the situation at impact. In particular, for insects jumping to escape predators, a controlled landing movement appears to be a major evolutionary advantage. A quick recovery into an upright and stable body posture minimizes the time to prepare for the next escape jump. In this study, we used high-speed recordings to investigate the falling and in particular the impact behavior of Schistocerca gregaria locusts, a common model organism for studies on the biomechanics of jumping. Detailed impact analyses of free-falling locusts show that most insects typically crashed onto the substrate. Although free-falling locusts tended to spread their legs, they mostly fell onto the head and thorax first. The presence of wings did not significantly reduce impact speed; however, it did affect the orientation of the body at impact and significantly reduced the time to recover. Our results also show that alive warm locusts fell significantly faster than inactive or dead locusts. This indicates a possible tradeoff between active control versus reduced speed. Interestingly, alive insects also tended to perform a characteristic bending movement of the body at impact. This biomechanical adaptation might reduce the rebound and shorten the time to recover. The adhesive pads also play an important role in reducing the time to recover by allowing the insect to anchor itself to the substrate.


Update: Are General Sectioning Guidelines Still Applicable?
Because an OEM procedure exists general sectioning guidelines would not apply.
Because an OEM procedure exists general sectioning guidelines would not apply.
Sectioning: the process of cutting a portion of a part based on the location of collision damage and vehicle maker recommendations, removing the part, and installing a portion of the undamaged service part. Additionally, sectioning is a process that is done away from a factory seam.
A lot has changed over the past several years and the I-CAR position on general sectioning guidelines has changed significantly over those years. Current I-CAR courses suggest that:
If there are no published sectioning procedures available from the vehicle maker, do not section.
Why don't general sectioning guidelines apply to today's late-model vehicles? The general sectioning guidelines that were developed in the late 1980s were done on mild steel vehicles. Those vehicles are not representative of today's vehicles that are built with a significant amount of highand ultra-high-strength steel (HSS and UHSS). General sectioning guidelines have never been tested on HSS/UHSS rich vehicles and I-CAR does not, currently, have any plans to do so.
Additionally, the general sectioning guidelines warned about sectioning near reinforcements or collapse zones. With the increased use of HSS and UHSS, and new part designs, it is nearly impossible to concretely identify which areas are designed to transfer collision energy (a reinforcement), and which areas are designed to absorb collision energy (collapse or crush zones). Because of these two focal points of the general sectioning guidelines, today's vehicles wouldn't even qualify for the application of general sectioning guidelines.
Fortunately, many vehicle makers offer a significant number of published sectioning procedures (or provide optional locations/zones) for sectioning, or provide warnings against sectioning; this should take any guesswork out of the equation.
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In this spiritually filled book, there are all the Praises of Mary in 3 different languages. English for those who can't read Amharic, Amharic for those who can't read English, and Amharic-English for those who can pronounce Amharic but cannot read it. This is a great book for kids who are learning to become deacons, in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church. (Praises of saint mary from the ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX TEWAHDO CHURCHes ONLY.)
Kidus Melaku (Me) and Haset Melaku (my sister) are spiritually filled and God-believing children that wrote this book for children who are in learning and are in need of learning about God and the Praises of Saint Mary. By the way, I am an 11 yr old kid and Haset is a 12 yr old Kid too. Well, have a blessed day, God bless you!


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Although the first oil found in Eastland County was discovered near Rising Star in 1909, it was not until 1920, close to the end of the Eastland County boom, that a major strike attracted attention to Rising Star. In an attempt to prevent the town from becoming a tent and shanty town, officials issued strict building regulations, but speculators and oilfield workers circumvented them by hastily building a town five miles to the west. In just over a year that town was gone and the boom finished. By the 1960s some oil was still being produced near Rising Star, and pecans and peanuts had replaced cotton as the main crops. The 1980 census found 1,204 people living in Rising Star. The town was incorporated and had a bank, a post office, and twenty-seven businesses. In 1990 the population was 859. The population was 835 in 2000.
© 2008, copyright Stephen Mills


text: A methodology is presented for analyzing the error associated with time delay estimation using a finite integration time correlator, processing waveforms received at two separate sensors. The type of signal considered is a sinusoid whose amplitude is randomly modulated. The signals are assumed to be imbedded in additive Gaussian noise. Before they are correlated, the received waveforms are converted to a lower center frequency by mixers whose local oscillators are assumed to contain phase noise. By direct calculation in the time domain, the variance of the error in the time delay estimate is shown to be a function of integration time, signal-to-noise ratios, signal and noise bandwidths, and phase noise variance. The phase noise is shown to limit the accuracy of the time delay estimate. However, without phase noise, using the methodology the accuracy is shown to approach that obtained by the maximum likelihood estimator.


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The Bloodstone Lands: Legacies
Every new level (including 1st) each PC adds 3 hero points to their character sheet. These points DO NOT roll over to the next level so use 'em or lose 'em.
Bonus Hero Points can be gained through good roleplay, these bonus points must also be used by the next level or lost.
How to use hero Points:
It's pretty easy. Whenever you roll a D20 you can use a Hero Point to add an additional die to the roll. You must use the Hero Point BEFORE the roll. Once used a Hero Point is gone. One exception to the above rule is for damage. You may use a Hero Point to add or subtract to any damage you roll or take. Again, you must declare the Hero Point used before rolling the damage dice.
Thus Hero Points can be used for all the following rolls: attack, damage, saves and skill checks.
How Much Do Hero Points Add to Your Roll:
Depends on your level:
1-5 = D4
6-10 = D6
11-15 = D8
16-19 = D10
20 = D12


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Watch the video above and talk about it with a friend or mentor.
Understand the crucial difference between a human-centered versus a God-centered approach to religious thinking.
- The core difference.
- Understanding "religion".
- "Blessing" in the Bible.
- Understanding the Gospel.
See Also: Salvation
Talk About It
- Summarize the difference between "religion" and "gospel."
- Do you agree or disagree that ultimately, "religion" is about getting God to serve us?
- In what ways does the "religious" mindset play out in Mormonism? Have you seen it play out in other churches?
- What is a holistic, biblical view of "blessing"? How can this concept be helpful for overcoming Mormon thinking? In what ways might it be a stumbling block for former LDS?
- Why is the difference between "religion" and "gospel" so crucial for a relationship with Jesus after Mormonism?
This video features Paul Robie, pastor of South Mountain Community Church in Draper, Utah, and appears courtesy of the Utah Ministry Training curriculum – _URL_


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This article explains how to use the District Metered Areas tool in WaterGEMS and WaterCAD, to quickly generate District Metered Areas (DMA's) in your model.
A video demonstration is embedded further below.
Note: This tool is available starting with version 10.02.01.06. If you have an older version, please see the below section titled "Other Methods for DMA generation".
District Metered Areas or DMA's are areas in a water distribution network which are isolated from the whole of the system. This way the flows in and out of the DMA can be metered or quantified. DMA's provide a more accurate way of tracking water user and loss in the system. DMA's are created in such a way that they can be isolated from the system without adversely affecting the demands, pressures and supply for the rest of the system.
Some key points to consider while establishing a DMA;
The DMA tool in WaterGEMS and WaterCAD can help the user easily demarcate a DMA based on the user's defined criteria. DMA creation is an iterative process and this tool allows merging adjacent DMA's and controlling the user defined criteria for DMA creation.
Before the model is delineated into different DMA's the following points should be considered;
A typical workflow to begin DMA delineation would be as follows;
The District Metered Areas tool can be found under Analysis > Analysis Tools > More > District Metered Areas.
The DMA algorithm will create DMA's based on the boundaries specified. There are three types of elements which can serve as boundaries because they can be either closed or opened. These are;
Each of the above elements has an initial setting as "Boundary Candidate" under the property "DMA Status". The pipes however, have four different properties;
For pumps and valves there are only two states; "boundary candidate" and "boundary";
Once the District Metered Areas tool is selected the following dialog box opens up;
There are several toolbar commands at the top. Before the DMA algorithm is used for DMA demarcation, there are a few options you must consider before modeling. In the "Assign DMA Status" command, there is an option for "Initialize DMA Boundary Status". This option allows you to set your parameters for DMA creation. If you only want a particular element(s) to serve as boundaries you can define it so in this option; you can specify the same as an initial criterion for DMA demarcation. Basically, this option allows you to "globally edit" and assign the desired DMA status for an element. This is especially useful in cases where you know that a particular element type is supposed to be a "boundary" or a "boundary candidate".
With this initialization you can define default "DMA status" for the above elements based on your DMA generation requirements. In the snapshot above, pumps and pump batteries are considered as "Boundary" which means that these represent fixed DMA boundaries. Hence for the above case pumps or pump stations will act as DMA boundaries. However, this depends on your interpretation of a DMA. For a very large network some intermediate / intermittent / smaller pumps may be ignored if you are considering large metered areas and small fluctuations with such pumps are within allowable tolerances. This can be true also for cases where a large number of DMA's are generated causing you to merge a bunch of them.
As another example, if you know that all PRV's will be DMA boundaries, then you can tell the DMA tool to always have them as DMA boundaries during the DMA analysis (separating your DMAs), by choosing "boundary" in the field next to "PRV's" in this tool. This will globally change the DMA Status of PRVs to "boundary". If you are not yet sure which PRVs should be DMA boundaries, you can let the tool decide (based on other criteria) by choosing "boundary candidate" next to the PRV option, which will set all PRVs' DMA Status to "boundary candidate".
The rest of the commands are as follows;
Once the "Compute" command is executed with either the "Target Number of Nodes" or "Target Pipe Length", the DMA tool creates DMA's as per user defined criteria.
The DMA tool enables us to demarcate DMA's automatically but there are a few guidelines which can help you generate DMA's satisfactorily;
Longer overview and demonstration on our YouTube channel:
This section deals with means and methods for DMA generation in WaterGEMS / WaterCAD versions below CONNECT Edition Update 2 (10.02.01.06).
Option 1 : Using the Pressure Zone Manager to try to isolate a DMA:
The software will not tell you what valves to close to create a DMA, or where to install the meter. Using the Pressure Zone Manager, you can try different ways to isolate DMA's.
You would select the valve locations and the software will display the color coded DMA's, and provide statistics such as demand, minimum and maximum HGL, minimum and maximum ground elevation, minimum and maximum pressure, and the labels for the boundary elements, pipes, and nodes in the DMA. Go here for an example.
There is a support solution on the Pressure Zone Manager which includes a section on identifying DMA's.
Option 2 : If you have flow data that was collected at the entrance of the DMA, and upstream and downstream pressure at the PRV in the entrance of the DMA, you can follow this procedure:
Option 3 : Simplifying Existing DMA's to a single junction:
If you already have built-out DMAs in your model but have a need to simplify them down to a single junction (representing the demand/inflow to that DMA), here are some options:
Create and manage pressure zones and DMA's in WaterCAD and WaterGEMS
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We made sugar cube sculptures. What a fun and surprising lesson in building, painting, and dissolving!
- Box of sugar cubes
- Glue bottle
- Sturdy base to glue onto
- Paint in squeezy bottles
Boxes of sugar cubers were harder to find than I thought, but I ultimately found them at our big supermarket (and bought 2!). We used scrap wood for the base, basic Elmer's school glue, and Nancy Bottles for the paint.
I suggested that we could build a sculpture with the sugar cubes, and presented N with the materials. That's all she needed to hear before she began to glue the cubes onto the panel.
And stack them up tall.
You can see that this isn't the strongest structure in the world!! I filled some Nancy Bottles with watered down BioColor paint, which my daughter then squeezed all over the sculpture. Because the water acted as a dissolving agent, if I were to do this again I'd use straight-up paint without the additional water.
It's looking a little patriotic, no?
And it end up in this beautiful heap of swirly, melting color. Not exactly what I imagined when we started, but it did lead to some wonderful conversations about dissolving. We only used about 1/10 of the sugar cubes to make the sculpture, so why not set up a dissolving experiment with the rest of the cubes?!
The next day N turned the remaining cubes into sugar water in under five minutes. It was quick, but what a great lesson and experience!


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The term Bosnian pyramids has been used for a cluster of natural geological formations sometimes known as flatironsColin Woodard, December 2009, "The Pyramid Man", Smithsonian 40:9 near the Bosnia and Herzegovina town of Visoko, northwest of Sarajevo. The hill named Visočica became the focus of international attention in October 2005 following a news-media campaign promoting the idea that they are human-made and the largest ancient pyramids on Earth.
Scientific investigations of the site show that the so-called pyramids are natural formations and that there are no signs of human building involved. Additionally, scientists have criticised the Bosnian authorities for supporting the pyramid claim saying, "This scheme is a cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public and has no place in the world of genuine science", Just a pseudoscience.
The Visočica hill, upon which the Old town of Visoki was once sited, is roughly pyramid-shaped. The idea that it constitutes an ancient artificial edifice was publicised by Bosnian author and metalworker Semir Osmanagić. His subsequent excavations at the site have uncovered what he claims to be a...
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Surface Tension by Anna Christiansen Cable
3rd Place - Natural Category
School: Evanston Township High School
Teacher: Daniel DuBrow
This insect is able to stay on top of the water because of a physics property called surface tension. This allows more dense objects, like the insect, to stay on top of substances with a lower density, like the water. Water molecules that are not on the surface are surrounded on all sides by other water molecules, and they are attracted to each other. On the other hand, water molecules that are on the surface are not surrounded on all sides. Each molecular attraction causes the molecules to have less potential energy, which results in the molecules at the surface to have a higher potential energy than the ones underwater. In order for the surface area to increase, water molecules that are not on the surface must be pushed to the surface, but because they have a lower potential energy, this requires a certain amount of energy to do. If the object on top of the water does not have enough energy to increase the surface area, than the object will not sink, just like the insect in the picture.


Part 4: Testing the Facade Inside and Outside the Java EE Container
In this section you add a new method to the entity bean using the EJB 3.0 annotation technique. You then test the new method by creating a facade client and running it.
To test your EJBs you need to run a client program that can create or find EJB instances and call their remote interface methods. JDeveloper provides a sample client utility that will help you create clients quickly. You can run and test EJBs using either the integrated server or a remote server;
Step 1: Add a New Method to the Entity and Expose it
 1. Click the Red button and select the IntegratedWebLogicServer to stop WebLogicServer.
 Stopping WebLogicServer
 2. The server is stopped when you see the following message in the log window.
 Stopping WebLogicServer
 3. Collapse the ViewController project and expand the Model project.
 Application Navigator
 4. Double-click to open the source code for the class and expand the _USER_ node to display the hidden code.
 The Entity bean java code
 5. Add a comma at the end of the last _USER_ statement, then add a query to the class that retrieves employees by name. Add the following statement:
 So that the code looks like the following:
 _USER_( {
 _USER_(name = "Employees.findBySal", query = "select o from Employees o where o.salary > :p_sal"),
 The Entity bean java code
 What makes these objects different from other Java files are the annotations that identify them as EJB entities.Show more or lessRead more...
 6. Click the Make icon to compile the class.
 The Make icon
 Log window messages
 7. Add the new method to the session bean as follows:
 Right-click the HRFacadeBean node in the Applications window and select Edit Session Facade from the context menu.
 Context menu
 8. Expand the Employees node of the dialog. Notice that the new named query getEmployeesFindByName appears as an exposable method. Select getEmployeesFindByName, deselect getEmployeesFindBySal and click OK.
 Specify Session Facade Options dialog
 9. JDeveloper provides a way to test the EJB by creating a sample client. Normally, you would right click HRFacadeBean and select New Sample Java Client from the context menu. HOWEVER, due to a bug in the current version of JDeveloper, the option to generate a sample client from the context menu will not function properly. The following steps help you fix this problem. For more details on this issue, refer to the release notes..
 10. In the Applications window, right-click the and select New Sample Java Client...
 11. In the Create Sample Java Client pane, leave the values at their default and click OK.
 12. Two things need to be fixed.
 First since the method uses a parameter, we need to add a value for the parameter.
 In the code, scroll to the "/* FIXME: Pass parameters here */". In the getEmployeesFindByName method, add "p%" as the parameter. When you're finished, your code should look like the code below.
 (List) hRFacade.getEmployeesFindByName("p%") /* FIXME: Pass parameters here */)
 HRFacadeClient Java code
 13. Second, copy the following code and paste it at the end of the class.
 Some import statements will also be included into your code
 private static Context getInitialContext() throws NamingException {
 Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
 // WebLogic Server 10.x connection details
 env.put( Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory" );
 env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "t3://");
 return new InitialContext( env );
 15. Right click the HRFacadeBean in the Applications window and select Run from the context menu to launch the facade bean in WebLogicServer.
 Context menu
 Wait until the WebLogicServer is started.
 Running Log window
 The integrated Oracle WebLogic Server runs within JDeveloper. You can run and test EJBs quickly and easily using this server, and then deploy your EJBs with no changes to them.
 16. Then, right click HRFacadeClient and select Run from context.
 Context menu
 17. The Log window returns the database data based on the three methods the client contains (getDepartmentsFindAll(), getEmployeesFindAll(), and getEmployeesFindByName().)
 Returned info in the Running log window
 18. To better display the results of the findByName() method, in the class, comment out the for loop corresponding to the getEmployeesFindAll() method, and comment out the for loop corresponding to the getDepartmentsFindAll() method. Your code should look something like this:
 HRFacadeClient Java code
 19. Click the Make button Make button to recompile the class, and ensure that no errors are returned.
 20. Right click the HRFacadeClient class and select Run from context.
 Context menu
 21. The Log window should now display the returned rows retrieved by your'P%' clause.
 Returned info in the Running Log window
Step 2: Run the Java Service outside the Java EE container
A persistence unit can be configured to run inside or outside the container. In EJB 3.0, you can run entities in a pure Java SE environment, without using an application server. One reason you might do this is to create a simple Java SE testbed (using JUnit, perhaps) to test your entity behavior without the overhead of deploying/executing in an application server. Another reason is you may want to run a Swing application locally.
 1. Create a new persistence unit to run the java service outside the Java EE container.
 Right-click the META-INF > persistence.xml and select New Java Service Facade from the context menu.
 Context menu
 2. In the Java Service Class panel, you can choose to create a new persistence unit (in the next panel) or use an existing unit. Select Choose a Persistence Unit or Create one in the next Panel, check the Generate a Sample Java Client checkbox and click Next.
 Step 1 of the Java Service Facade Methods
 3. Name the the Persistence Unit outside. Choose JDBC Connection and make sure the JDBC connection is set to HR. Click Next.
 Step 2 of the Java Service Facade Methods
 4. All methods should be selected by default. Select only the following methods and click OK.
 5. Step 3 of the Java Service Facade Methods
 Click Next then Finish.
 6. In the source editor window, for the JavaServiceFacadeClient class, add "P%" as a parameter to the getEmployeesFindByName method so that the statement is:
 JavaServiceFacadeClient class
 7. Click the Make Make icon button to compile the class and save your work.
 8. Right-click the JavaServiceFacadeClient node in the Applications window and select Run from context.
 Context menu
 9. The Log window displays the result of the execution of the class running outside Java EE container, returning the lastName of the first of the retrieved records (Pat Fay).
 The Running Log window
 10. Double-click the META-INF > persistence.xml node to display the contents of the file.
 Application Navigator
 11. The persistence editor opens showing the Model - Persistence Unit by default. Click the bread crumb navigation button to show both persistence units.
 Persistence Units
 Persistence Units
 12. Click the Source tab to show the code for both persistence units that have been created. The Model one and the outside one.
 The source code for persistences
In this tutorial you discovered how to use EJB/JPA in a Web Application. You learned how to: To learn more about developing Java EE applications, refer to:
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This paper describes the fabrication and the performance of microfluidic paper-based electrochemical sensing devices (we call the microfluidic paper-based electrochemical devices, µPEDs). The µPEDs comprise paper-based microfluidic channels patterned by photolithography or wax printing, and electrodes screen-printed from conducting inks (e.g., carbon or Ag/AgCl). We demonstrated that the µPEDs are capable of quantifying the concentrations of various analytes (e.g., heavy-metal ions and glucose) in aqueous solutions. This low-cost analytical device should be useful for applications in public health, environmental monitoring, and the developing world.
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Dietes Bicolour [20300]
Dietes Bicolour
Dietes bicolour
Also known as African Iris or Fortnight Lily. Long sword-like pale-green leaves. The flowers are creamy yellow with three dark purple spots, each surrounded by an orange outline.
Tough plants for landscaping. Drought tolerant, wind tolerant, relatively pest and disease free Dietes is often used in perennial gardens, beautification of commercial premises and along roadsides.
Annual or Perennial Perennial
Hardiness Hardy
Approx days to flower/harvest 200
Height 100cm
Space between plants 75cm
When to sow Spring, Summer, Autumn
Seeds per packet Approx 50


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C# Question
Get the entire HTML + CSS + JS of the page, and send it to a web service
I am writing a web service in C# using
NReco.PdfConverter
and
wkhtml
that would convert web pages into PDF files.
The web pages (on SharePoint) require authorization and also contain a form that the user needs to fill in, therefore the web service cannot simply access the URL of that page and download it.
The JavaScript and CSS files are also important for the correct rendering of the form, including dozens of JS files and stylesheets from SharePoint.
So far my best idea is this:
 - When user clicks "Generate PDF", JavaScript will convert the entire current page into a single string (appending the CSS files and JS files inline);
 - POST
 that string to the webservice using
 $.ajax()
 .
 - Using
 NReco.PdfConverter
 , it is trivial to convert that string to PDF and save it into the file:
 var converter = new HtmlToPdfConverter
 {
 Margins = new PageMargins
 {
 Top = 0,
 Bottom = 0,
 Left = 0,
 Right = 0
 },
 CustomWkHtmlArgs = "--print-media-type"
 };
 converter.GeneratePdf(htmlContent);
How would one even approach the idea of generating a single-page HTML (including the state of the checkboxes, text inside the forms etc.) in the browser?
Is it something tremendously complicated? Is anyone aware of another solution?
Answer Source
You can pass authorization cookie (or header) using appropriate wkhtmltopdf option, for example (if WebForms authentication is used):
var pdfGen = new HtmlToPdfConverter();
pdfGen.CustomWkHtmlArgs = String.Format(" --cookie {0} {1} ",
 FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName,
 Request.Cookies[FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName] );
pdfGen.GeneratePdfFromFile("your_sharepoint_web_page_url", null, "output.pdf");


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In this video, I'll be discussing basics of collecting and preparing driftwood and rocks for the home aquarium.
During filming I received a semi-important text and kinda lost my train of thought. A couple of things I left out that you should look out for when collecting rocks-
1) Crystals/Geodes- Crystals are high in mineral concentrations. I'm no geologist, so I don't know the specifics of what they can leach, but it's good to stay away from them.
2) Orange/Red spots/drips/streaks- This is rust. It indicates that the rock contains some kind of metal deposit. Stay away from it, as some metals can be toxic and all metals are harmful in significant quantities.
Feel free to leave any questions or comments in the comments section!


What was the point of view in "The Cosmic Poachers" by Philip K Dick? How does this point of view affect the theme of the story?
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In the story Earth has colonised space; its forces track the Adharan ship but they misread their activities on the annexed planets. The Adharans are not poaching treasure, they also are colonising by leaving their eggs there.
 The Terrans have assumed that the Adharans - arachnid creepy crawliesare a lesser species, mere 'poachers' but the irony is that they harbour the same colonial/ colonising impulse. With our removal of their eggs back to Earth in the mistaken belief they are treasure, they are now on the verge of colonising us!
Maybe this disaster could have been averted: the subordinate Barnes says "How is communication with this race possible?" He at least is alive to the fact that some kind of dialogue is desirable; then perhaps the Adharans would have communicated that the store is their offspring, not exotic jewels.
Meanwhile, the Adharan commander exclaims 'But what would the Terrans want with our eggs? Nothing but trouble will come, when hatching begins ....Terran minds are beyond comprehension". They certainly weren't trying to trick the humans into taking the eggs back to Earth and the whole episode is a tragic misunderstanding which could have been avoided if there had been an attempt at communication by the humans.
This theme of lack of communication is conveyed by the point of view from which the story is told. It is told from two distinct points of view, only the Adharan point of view giving the truth of the matter. Earth must try to communicate with other species in order to understand them and their goals. No doubt, Phillip Dick also has in mind encounters between colonial forces and other peoples here on Earth; here also there has been a lack of communication and understanding.
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Twelve months ago, this was one of our images of 2011.
It's a Flame Shell, a 'cryptic' marine species with bright orange feeding tentacles. It is found only in a a very few west coast locations. This one was photographed in 2011 [© SNH] in flame shell beds in Loch Linnhe in Argyll, during one of 15 marine surveys carried out by Scottish Natural Heritage in that year.
The surveys covered 2,000 square miles of Scotland's seabed – a stunning achievement revealing major Flame Shell beds in Loch Fyne as well as Loch Linnhe and other locations.
Now, a year later, the Flame Shell is back in the news, with the discovery of a massive 75 hectare Flame Shell reef in Loch Alsh, estimated to contain over 100 million examples of the species.
This has come from a survey by Heriot Watt University, commissioned by Marine Scotland and will now be subject to special protection.
Note: The image above of a Flame Shell is © SNH and may not be reproduced without permission.


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The Twickenham Museum
People : Actors and Actresses
Noël Coward
Dramatist, actor and cabaret artist
1899 - 1973
The Coward family of Teddington
Noël Coward was born at Teddington, where the family had been living since 1883, on 16 December 1899. He was the son of Arthur Coward and Violet Veitch. In his first autobiography he wrote that they were a musical family and underpinned the musical life of St Alban's Church.
131 Waldegrave Road, Teddington, Coward's home until 1908.
"...the church's greatest asset was the Coward family, which was enormous, active, and fiercely musical. My Uncle Jim played the organ, while my father, together with my uncle Randolph, Walter, Percy, and Gordon, and my Aunt Hilda, Myrrha, Ida, and Nellie, graced the choir. Aunt Hilda, indeed, achieved such distinction as a 'coloratura' that she ultimately became known as 'The Twickenham Nightingale'."
Playwriter and actor
The family moved away from Teddington to Battersea in 1908 and two years later Noël made his first appearance on stage in a fairy play, The Goldfish. By 1917 he had written several plays.
He was knighted in 1970 and that year his entry in Who's Who listed 43 plays and other stage or film productions including Present Laughter, Blithe Spirit, This Happy Breed, The Vortex, Private Lives, In Which we Serve and Brief Encounter.
In 1948 he went over to Jamaica, building a house at Roundhill near Port Maria: Blue Harbour. He bought a second house uphill: Look Out (which he renamed Firefly). This he used as a refuge from too many visitors. In 1959 he settled, a tax exile, at Les Avants, in Switzerland; but it was at Firefly that he died, and was buried, on 26 March 1973
Further reading:
Noël Coward, Future Indefinite, 1954
Present Indicative, Evergreen Books, 1940,
Who's Who, 1970
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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