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Snapchat. One of those revolutionary apps that made an undeniable impact on the way social media apps work. Firstly introduced as iOS exclusive, later take a significant role within Android, too. And suddenly, it started declining to levels that make it almost unusable. Android users report Snapchat crashes, stutters, and overall poor performance. If you are among them, we have a few things to try and mitigate these issues, if not outright solve them.
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How to resolve Snapchat stutters and crashes on Android
If your Snapchat lags, stutters, or crashes on Android, make sure to clear data from the app, reinstall Snapchat, or roll back to an older version via an APK.
It goes without saying that you should be connected to a stable Wi-Fi network or mobile data network. Learn more below.
1. Clear apps cache and data
Let's start with the acknowledged route. Cache and data are there for a reason. Data is, obviously, everything you or the app itself stores on the internal storage. Cache, on the other hand, is there to speed the app's loading time and it contains temporary files. Both are important and both, sadly, can sometimes cause issues.
Follow the instructions below to clear both Data and Cache from the Snapchat app:
- Tap Settings.
- Open Apps or Application Manager.
- Open All apps.
- Tap Snapchat.
- Open Storage.
- Clear Cache and Data.
- Restart your device.
After that, you might need to sign in again with your credentials. If nothing changed and Snapchat still crashes, move through the additional steps.
2. Reinstall the Snapchat app
Even though the Android platform is much more homogenous nowadays, system update or structural changes within the system can affect the behavior of certain apps. And if an app is in a state in which is Snapchat currently, nothing should surprise you. Reinstallation is one way to address this.
Here's how to reinstall Snapchat on Android:
- Tap and hold the Snapchat app in the App drawer or on the Home screen.
- Drag it to the top and Uninstall it.
- Restart your device.
- Open Play Store.
- Search for Snapchat.
- Install the app.
3. Download older APK version
If the current, or even the latest few versions were causing issues, you can always downgrade by downloading the older, well-performing version. This procedure isn't as simple as roaming through Play Store, but it might help you overcome the current issues you're facing.
Here's what you need to do:
- Navigate to APKMirror, here, and download an older (but recent) APK version of Snapchat. Beta versions are also an option but we suggest avoiding them due to the aforementioned stability issues.
- Uninstall the Snapchat app.
- Allow app installation from external sources.
- Install APK, sign in, and look for improvements.
Don't forget to tell us in the comments section below. Thanks for reading and have a good day.
Editor's note: This article was originally published in August 2017. We made sure to revamp it for freshness and accuracy.


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Baths of Agrippa
The Baths of Agrippa (Thermae Agrippae) were a structure of ancient Rome, built by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, the first of the great thermae constructed in the city. In their first form, constructed at the same time as the Pantheon and on axis with it, as a balaneion (βαλανεῖον), they were apparently a hot-air bath with a cold plunge, not unlike a sauna. With the completion of the Aqua Virgo, the aqueduct completed by Agrippa in 19 BC, the baths were supplied with water and became regular thermae, with a large ornamental pool (Stagnum Agrippae) attached. Agrippa furnished his baths with decorations that may have been executed in glazed tiles and with works of art: the Apoxyomenos of Lysippus stood outside. He left the baths to the citizens of Rome at his death, 12 BC.
The Baths of Agrippa were damaged by fire in AD 80 (Cassius Dio, lxvi.24), but were restored and enlarged; they were thronged in the times of Martial, and enlarged under Hadrian and later emperors. Sidonius Apollonaris mentions that the Baths of Agrippa were still being used in the fifth century.
In the seventh century the structure (no longer in use) was being mined for its building materials, but much of the Baths were still standing in the sixteenth century, when the ruins were drawn by Baldassare Peruzzi and Andrea Palladio, among others.
See also
- (LacusCurtius website) Samuel Ball Platner, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (London: Oxford University Press) 1929. See also note by William Thayer.
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text: With the growing popularity of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the improvement of safety for UAV operations has become increasingly important. In this paper, a landing trajectory optimization scheme is proposed to generate reference landing trajectories for a fixed-wing UAV with accidental engine failure. For a specific landing objective, two types of landing trajectory optimization algorithms are investigated: i) trajectory optimization algorithm with nonlinear UAV dynamics, and ii) trajectory optimization algorithm with linearized UAV dynamics. An initialization procedure that generates an initial guess is introduced to accelerate the convergence of the optimization algorithms. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified in a high-fidelity UAV simulation environment, where the optimized landing trajectories are tracked by a UAV equipped with an L1 adaptive altitude controller in both the offline and online modes.

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Definition of archdeacon
n. - In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. 2
The word "archdeacon" uses 10 letters: A A C C D E H N O R.
No direct anagrams for archdeacon found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after archdeacon (in bold), or to aaccdehnor in any order:
s - archdeacons
All words formed from archdeacon by changing one letter
Browse words starting with archdeacon by next letter


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Ever wondered how different people's surnames end up as part of the scientific names given to plants and animals? It is considered very bad form to name a new species that you describe after yourself, but someone else might do it for you as a mark of respect. That is what happened to nineteenth century botanical collector and draughtsman to the Colonial Museum and Geological Survey, John Buchanan FLS (_PHONE_).
Unsurprisingly, given the energetic botanical collecting he engaged in as soon as he arrived in New Zealand from Scotland in 1852, most of the species that bear John Buchanan's name are plants. But there is also a predatory sea snail, Antimelatoma buchanani described by Frederick Wollaston Hutton in 1873. Over eighty examples of this marine snail, gathered from Deep Water Cove to Queen Charlotte Sound, are in the mollusc collection at Te Papa.
When Hutton described the features of this new species, he was working as assistant geologist to James Hector in the Geological Survey Department in Wellington. John Buchanan was a colleague whose sharp eye for flora and fauna that might be new to science was much admired. His technical drawing skills were superlative, and he was the illustrator for eighteen issues of the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute from the date of its first publication in 1868.
The ornamental grass Danthonia buchanani and orange sedge Carex buchanani are also named after John Buchanan, who won the first prize at the Melbourne Exhibition in 1880-81 for his technical ingenuity in producing The Indigenous Grasses of New Zealand. This folio-sized book was nature –printed direct from the specimens themselves, and appeared in three parts in 1878, 1879 and 1880. There is still printer's ink on some of the grasses that Te Papa holds that were used by Buchanan to produce the lithographic plates.
Buchanan sent many of the plants he found back to experts in Glasgow or to Kew Gardens. The lichen Stereocaulon buchanani he sent to James Stirton M.D., who – like Buchananhad become a foundation member of the Glasgow Society of Field Naturalists in 1871. Stirton published his description as Article LIV in Volume 7 of the Transactions, and Buchanan illustrated it.
From his humble beginnings as a designer for printed calico for the textile industry back home in Glasgow, Buchanan reinvented himself as a man of science on emigration to Dunedin in 1852. His drawing skills were his ticket to professional employment opportunities. He worked first on the Reconnaissance Survey with Alexander Garvie, and then was recruited by James Hector M.D. in April 1862 to work as a draughtsman and botanical artist for the Otago Geological Survey.
Hector respected Buchanan's botanical knowledge and commissioned an essay on the botany of Otago for the New Zealand Exhibition in Dunedin in 1865, later to be published in the Transactions. Te Papa has Buchanan's watercolours of the plants which were displayed at the exhibition as part of the work of the survey. Many of these, including Coprosma lucida and Plagianthus lyalli have been loaned to the Hocken Library for the exhibition Art in the Service of Science: Dunedin's John Buchanan, which runs until 9 February 2013.
Corollary to the exhibition, a two day symposium will be convened on 29 and 30 November at Salmond College in Dunedin for researchers to present their work on Buchanan. It includes a presentation by Jim Endersby of Sussex University, whose talk at Otago Museum on Thursday evening is provocatively entitled Imperial Science: the invention of New Zealand plants.
For more on John Buchanan and the symposium you can watch an interview with Linda Tyler here.
Written by Linda Tyler, Director, Centre for Art Research, University of Auckland and Te Papa Research Associate and guest blogger.


Narratives for Qlik comes with the ability to write insightful narratives even from data that contains missing or null values. This guide will walk through the scenarios that are supported by this feature.
1. Multi-dimension narratives with an aggregated measure and dimension values not present in every period.
In the example below, we have a line chart of revenue by product where several products did not exist for the entire length of the series. So, the yellow 'Dairy' product did not start selling until Jun-06 where the red 'Baking Goods' product did not start until Jan-07.
In this case, the data looks like the below:
You will notice that Jan-06 through May-06 only has two rows each per month. This is because there was no 'Dairy' or 'Baking Goods' categories in those months. The rows just do not exist.
In a previous version of N4Q, the narrative would throw away any incomplete lines. So, 'Dairy' and 'Baking Goods' would not be included in any analysis.
Now, the narrative will look like the below:
Now, the narrative will analyze all four series across the periods where all have overlap. In this case, from Jan-07 through Dec-07.
For each individual series, the narrative will analyze the series in a drill down for the entire length of that particular series. For Dairy, the drill down section will analyze from Jun-06 through Dec-07 while for beverages, it would analyze Jan-06 through Dec-07.
2. Multi-measure narratives with un-aggregated measure values and a single dimension
In the example below, we have a multi-measure line chart with missing values. The blue line only goes from 2004 to 2015 and the red line goes from 2000-2013.
Here, the data is not being aggregated. You can see in the formula for the measure, only the raw value is being taken. We recommend removing all formatting from null value cells (e.g. $) and identifying values as dimensions to prevent aggregation by including brackets (e.g., [direct injuries]).
This results in a tabular data representation like the below:
In this case, like the above, the narrative will compare the series based on the periods of complete overlap and will analyze each individual series across the periods for which it has data.
Remember that we do not currently support multi-measure multi-dimension charts at this time.


I'm a bit confused. The official documentation (_URL_ says that ddx(input) is the partial derivative of the input with respect to the "screen-space x-coordinate."
My calculus is fine, but how can it tell what the input is coming from? If I passed it a function, fine, I can imagine what it would do, but the derivative of a number is always zero...?
Is it just a scaling? Like, this would get scaled to one tenth of its size at this distance, so it returns one tenth? But then it doesn't need an input...
Can someone give a quick explanation of what's actually happening?
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 \$\begingroup\$ ddx and ddy do magic that you cannot do yourself. They have access to additional information from the rasterization pipeline that you can't acquire from within a pixel shader. I'm unsure exactly which formula they use; I've been led to believe they use an estimation technique, but I don't know for sure. \$\endgroup\$ – Sean Middleditch Sep 24 '13 at 17:33
 - \$\begingroup\$ That's deeply weird, but still. What does ddx(5) actually represent? If it says.1, how should I interpret that? Or -6? \$\endgroup\$ – Richard Rast Sep 24 '13 at 17:35
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 - \$\begingroup\$ I am not sure but it might well be that the HLSL compiler is actually doing full symbolic differentiation of the expression that you pass to the ddx/ddy. blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2011/03/08/… _URL_… \$\endgroup\$ – Ziriax Feb 1 '15 at 21:11
 - \$\begingroup\$ What does it do? The ONLY slightly reasonable thing, obviously. \$\endgroup\$ – MickLH Jul 10 '16 at 20:54
Internally, GPUs never run one instance of a pixel shader at a time. At the finest level of granularity, they are always running 32-64 pixels at the same time using a SIMD architecture. Within this, the pixels are further organized into 2x2 quads, so each group of 4 consecutive pixels in the SIMD vector corresponds to a 2x2 block of pixels on screen.
Derivatives are calculated by taking differences between the pixels in a quad. For instance, ddx will subtract the values in the pixels on the left side of the quad from the values on the right side, and ddy will subtract the bottom pixels from the top ones. The differences can then be returned as the derivative to all four pixels in the quad.
Since the pixel shader is running in SIMD, it's guaranteed that the corresponding value is in the same register at the same time for all the pixels in the quad. So whatever expression or value you put into ddx or ddy, it will be evaluated in all four pixels of the quad, then the values from different pixels subtracted as described above.
So taking the derivative of a constant value will give zero (as you'd expect from calculus, right?) because it's the same constant value in all four pixels.
Also note that there are "coarse" and "fine" derivatives, ddx_coarse/ddy_coarse and ddx_fine/ddy_fine. An explanation of the distinction is given here. Just plain ddx/ddy are aliases for the coarse versions.
BTW, the reason this functionality exists is that GPUs internally have to take derivatives of texture coordinates in order to do mipmap selection and anisotropic filtering. Since the hardware needs the capability anyway (you can use any arbitrary expression for texture coordinates in a shader), it was easy enough to also expose it to shader programmers directly.
 - \$\begingroup\$ +1; I've found this useful when applying a perturbation effect to a texture; the perturbed texcoords gave some colour distortion, but using tex2Dgrad with derivatives from the original (unperturbed) texcoords gave an undistorted result. \$\endgroup\$ – Maximus Minimus Sep 24 '13 at 20:07
 - \$\begingroup\$ Alright, after some thought I think I figured out my confusion. In my mind, ddx works like every other function in a traditional programming language; you evaluate the input, turn it to a float or whatever, then do the outside function (ddx) to it. But this is differentit takes the input string, evaluates it in several places, calculates a derivative, and reports the result. Is that about right? \$\endgroup\$ – Richard Rast Sep 24 '13 at 22:59
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 - \$\begingroup\$ But see, that's weird enough that it should be in the documentation. I can think of no other time in my programming life where that has been the case. \$\endgroup\$ – Richard Rast Sep 24 '13 at 23:23
 - \$\begingroup\$ Nathan Reed mentioned that GPUs use these functions for mipmap selection. You can also use them to force the GPU to select a desired mipmap level or to prevent artifacts from incorrect mip-level selection. The process is described on pages 163 and 164 of Shader X3. \$\endgroup\$ – JamesHoux Dec 5 '13 at 17:44
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1 – INSTALL OPERATING SYSTEM
Select Install CentOS 7 and press Enter
Press Enter to begin the installation
Select your Language and click Continue
Complete any items marked with the Exclamation icon. Only the Installation Destination should be marked and will be automatic partitioning by default. Click Installation Destination
By default automatic partitioning is selected. Review the automatic partitioning and confirm it suits your needs and click Done. Otherwise, you'll need to manually complete the partitioning (beyond this tutorial).
CentOS 7 will now begin to install. Click Root Password to set the password while you wait for the installation to finish.
Enter your Root password twice and click Done. CentOS will rate the strength of your password and obviously the stronger the better.
Once the installation completes, click Reboot.
The boot menu will automatically boot CentOS 7
2 – LOGIN AS ROOT
3 – CONFIGURE NETWORK ADAPTER
4 – INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS (Optional)
If this installation of CentOS 7 is a VMWare Guest OS, you may wish to install the VMWare Tools by running the following command:
yum -y install open-vm-tools
5 – INSTALL NANO (Optional)
If you are not a fan of the vi text editor, you may wish to install Nano which has a more natural text editor feel to it by running:
yum -y install nano
6 – INSTALL UPDATES
Install updates by running:
yum -y update
7 – CREATE A SUDOER USER
It's best practice to not use the root (super-user) user account. Instead, you should always use a regular user account and allow them root privileges by adding them to the sudoers file. You can then run privileged commands by use the sudo or su commands. Let's first start by creating a user by running the following command (where sigkill is the username):
Next, we want to set the password for our user by running the following command and enter the password twice when prompted:
Here is an example of the output you'll receive
Now that your user is created, you want to add them to the sudoers file. You can edit the sudoers file with vi by running the following command. (NOTE: If you're not familiar with vi, take a look at vi cheat sheet)
Near the end of the sudoers file, locate the following lines
## Allow root to run any commands anywhere root ALL=(ALL) ALL
Add the following line directly below the above lines then save and quit (:wq)
sigkill ALL=(ALL) ALL
Here is an example of how it should look
8 – PREVENT REMOTE SSH ACCESS FOR ROOT
By default, SSH is installed and ready to work once you configure a network adapter. Another best practice is to prevent remote SSH access to the root account.
Locate the following line
Modify the above line to the following then save and quit the file
Restart the SSH Service by running the following command
systemctl restart sshd


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Protests and Demonstrations
Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary supports the right of persons to lawfully assemble and conduct peaceful protests. We ask members of the Seminary community to follow these guidelines whenever such a gathering becomes disruptive or has the potential to become violent:
- Avoid the area of disturbance and observe the situation from a safe distance to determine if the gathering is currently or potentially violent.
- Do not engage the demonstrators or protesters either verbally or by actions.
- Notify the Safety & Security Department _PHONE_) and await instructions.
- If inside, secure your area (lock doors, files, vital records and expensive equipment).
- Continue with normal routines as much as possible.
- Keep away from doors and windows and Stay Inside!
- Prepare for evacuation or relocation.


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Marriott's® Strategy for Contributing to Environmental Conservation
With an increase in global travel comes corporate responsibility for mitigating our business impact on the natural environment. Both in our hotels and beyond, we seek to understand and act on the direct and indirect environmental impacts of our business operations.
Our goals include:
- Further reduce energy and water consumption 20% by 20201. Energy 20 percent per kWh/conditioned m2; Water 20 percent per occupied room (POR). Baseline: 2008
- Empower our hotel development partners to build green hotels2.
- Green our multi-billion dollar supply chain.
- Educate and inspire associates and guests to conserve and preserve
- Address environmental challenges through innovative conservation initiatives including rainforest protection and water conservation


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Off Campus Programs and Services has the following forms and information to assist students with their housing needs.
- New York State Tenant's Rights Guide
- New Student's Guide to Living off Campus
Information for transfer, graduate or international students planning to live off campus in the Binghamton area.
- Housing Search Checklist
Take this handy checklist with you when you go to inspect a prospective apartment. It itemizes a list of major and minor issues that may present problems in the future.
- Damage Checklist
Use this form when you move into your home as a protection against the loss of your security deposit. NOTE: If you sign a lease while another tenant currently resides at the dwelling, add a statement to your lease explaining the damage checklist is a part of the agreement when you move in.
- Co-Tenancy Agreement
Use this form to clearly establish the relationship among all housemates, for instance, how you will equally share expenses, or how you will divide household chores. This agreement is also known as the "Friendship Saver."
- Rental Agreement
If you are interested in renting from month-to-month rather than leasing for the year, the Rental Agreement is an example of a fair and reasonable contract. It is not necessarily the same contract your landlord uses, but the Rental Agreement contains protection for both you and your landlord during the rental period.
- Sample Lease
While the landowner from whom you rent may use a different lease, the sample lease is an example of a fair and equitable contract. You may wish to compare it with any you consider.
- Consent to Sublease
You may wish to sublet your apartment or home at some time during your tenancy. Use this Consent to Sublease form to protect your rights as a primary tenant.


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What are goldsmiths renowned for? Give an example from the poem to justify your answer. Who are the patrons of the goldsmith? What does he make for them?
1. Gold ornaments like anklet, wristlet and rings.
2. Golden delicate and light-weight bells for pigeon's feet
3. Gold waist chains called girdles for dancers
4. gold sword covers known as sheaths for kings
- The goldsmiths are renowned for making jewelleries for personal adornment.
- They are making wristlet, anklet and ring for an example.
- The rich people, dancers and the king are the patrons as noted in the poem.
- Goldsmiths are making jewelleries for personal adornment and chain for the feet of blue pigeons. All these are for rich people like nobles and kings. They are also making golden girdles for the dancers and golden sheaths for keeping the king's swords.


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Report a marine pest sighting
Agriculture Victoria is the lead agency for the management of marine pests in Victoria.
Reporting marine pests means that you are helping to stop the introduction of exotic species into Victoria and preventing the spread of existing pests to other parts of our coastline.
Any unusual, strange or exotic marine species, found or sighted in Victoria, should be reported to Agriculture Victoria.
Three ways to report a sighting
When making a report remember to include the following details to help Agriculture Victoria officers to follow up on your report as quickly as possible:
- your name
- contact phone number
- email address
- name or brief description of the marine pest you wish to report
- number of animals you have found or spotted
- date and time of the sighting
- location where the marine pest was found or spotted (specific references to streets or landmarks are helpful)
- images including an item that helps determine the size of the pest e.g. a coin or a pen.
Call the Agriculture Victoria Customer Service Centre 136 186.
3. Use our online form
You can submit your report or sighting using the form below. Fill out as much as possible and a member of the marine pest team will contact you directly.
Fields marked with * are mandatory.

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C Richard Miles
C Richard Miles Poems
Zoo Fruit Feeding Time
At the zoo's fruit feeding time:
An ape ate a grape,.
A porcupine ate a lime,
A skate ate a date,
A ferret ate a cherry,
A baboon ate a prune,
A bear ate a pear,
An opossum ate a plum,
A wolverine ate a tangerine.
An armadillo ate a tamarillo,
A bunny rabbit ate a pomegranate,
A gorilla ate vanilla,
A pig ate a fig,
A newt ate a grapefruit,
A lynx ate quince,
A wombat ate a kumquat,
A macaw ate a pawpaw,
An eland ate a lemon,
A llama ate a guava,
An elephant ate a melon,
A tamarin ate a mandarin,...
Coruscating through the ethereal, pastel blue,
A more electric, sapphire-glinting hue,
That picador in rich bejewelled cloak,
Befeathered huntsman of the crystal brook,
Begins his pinioned, death-defying dive
To feast on sporting minnows, lithe and blithe,
As jocundly, amongst the rock and weed
They revel, chase and taste and dance and feed.
The kingfisher, inspiring awe and fear


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Beyond the Death Spiral
Abstract Model based projections for the rapid uptake of rooftop solar photovoltaics in Western Australia indicate that private capacity will be so large that the centralised network based electricity system will become disrupted in the 2020s. By 2050 private systems may produce around 85- 90% of projected electricity demands. In the interim period it may be more economically viable to avoid introducing large scale renewable energy to the network while planning for a completely renewable system by 2050 when rooftop solar approaches saturation levels.
Keywords: solar, electricity, energy, battery, storage, wind, wave, network
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PBPYD Brown Bag: "Evaluation of a Sexual Health Training For Child Welfare Workers in Colorado"
May 7, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Katie M. Combs
Title: Evaluation of a Sexual Health Training For Child Welfare Workers in Colorado:
Abstract: Elevated rates of early pregnancy among youth in foster care are well documented. For youth in foster care, traditional systems of prevention may be problematic, as they often experience disruptions in relationships with their schools, families, and communities. This quasi-experimental study evaluated whether a sexual health training impacts Colorado child welfare workers' knowledge, attitudes, and communication with youth in foster care regarding reproductive and sexual health topics.


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The French village of Allouville-Bellefosse is famous for the Chêne Chapelle (Oak Chapel), which is literally a chapel built into an oak tree. The amazing architecture consists of a wooden staircase spiraling around the ancient tree, leading up to a couple of chambers. These rooms have always been used as places of worship by the village locals.
The tree is known to have been growing as far back as the thirteenth century, during the rule of Louis IX. It is also known to have survived the Hundred Years War against the English, the Black Death, the Reformation, and Napoleon's rule. Local folklore dates it a 1,000 years old, when it is said that the acorn took root. However, tree experts say it could only be around 800 years old.
The oak has seen its share of tough times. In the late 1600s, when it was around 500 years old, it was struck by lightning one stormy night. Although a hollow was burnt right into the centre of the tree, new branches and leaves continued to grow. In view of the miracle that had occurred, the tree was pegged as a sort of holy spot, deserving of a pilgrimage. The staircase and chapel were built soon after. (via)


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Country Living Grain Mill
- Mill: 17.5"L, 12"W, 13.5"H.
- Clamp: 4.5"L, 5.5"W, 7"H.
- Power Bar: 8"L, 1"W.
- Heavy duty I-beam construction from cast aluminum.
- Double sealed bearings.
- FDA approved (food-grade) powder coating.
- Stainless steel shaft.
- High-carbon steel grinding plates.
- Adjustable output; from cracked wheat to pastry flour in one pass.
- Stainless steel spring auger designed for small grains. Large auger for corn or beans is sold separately.
- Can be modified to run on a 1/3 HP motor at no more than 115-120 RPM at the flywheel.
- Lifetime Warranty.
For grinding wheat and other grains for flour or meal. Not an oil press.
- Mill must be securely mounted to a solid base
- Do not operate without mill in the grain hopper.
- Do not get moisture on the plates or bearings.
- If plates are run tightly against one another (without grain), excess wear will occur.
- Moist or soft grains/beans will cause clogging. If moisture content is high, back off the adjustment knob for a coarser grind. This will produce grits that are less likely to clog.
- You will receive a mixture of flour and cracked grains when set for a coarse grind.
- Remove wooden handle from mill before motorizing.
- "Full liability and responsibility for complying to all Federal, State, and Local Safety Standards is assumed by any person or persons who modify or motorize the Country Living Grain Mill in any way. Motorized mills should be operated by adults only. Note: All belts and pulleys not driven by hand should be enclosed for safety." —Country Living Grain Mills
Lifetime Warranty includes all parts except the grinding plates which are a wear item. Plate longevity depends on usage—but expect several years of daily home use before replacement.


text: Water infiltration and its effects on road structures is a topic of great interest in civil engineering. Water is one of the primary factors which affects the mechanical function of roads. Road structures are more often found in unsaturated conditions as opposed to saturated ones. Under unsaturated conditions water flow is primarily by capillarity, while under saturation gravity is the primary force causing water movement. Moreover, under unsaturated conditions the equations describing water flow into soils are highly nonlinear, showing a higher difficulty in its numerical solution. At present there is a limited volume of literature on the hydraulic properties and numerical simulation of water flow in road structures under unsaturated conditions. This paper presents experimental data and nonlinear numerical simulations using the finite element method (FEM) to analyze the water infiltration through a road should structure in unsaturated conditions. Results show that the shoulder section evaluated in this study does not represent a zone of high water infiltration due to the low infiltration capacity of the materials evaluated, and that hydraulic properties measured in the laboratory can be successfully used in numerical codes for assessing water flow through road structures in future analysis. This work indicates that continuous rainfall events, even of low intensity, can cause more infiltration than a single rainfall event of high intensity.


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The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal or Gloucester and Berkeley Canal is a canal in the south west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness; for much of its length it runs close to the tidal River Severn, but cuts off a significant loop in the river, at a once-dangerous bend near Arlingham.
It was once the broadest and deepest canal in the world. Conceived in the 'canal mania' period of the late 18th century, the 'Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal' scheme (as it was originally named) was started by architect and civil engineer Robert Mylne. In 1793 an act of parliament was obtained authorising the raising of a total of £200,000.
The project rapidly encountered financial difficulties - to such an extent that Mylne left the project in 1798. By half way through 1799 costs had reached £112,000 but only 5½ miles of the canal had been completed.
Robert Mylne's role was taken over by James Dadford who had originally been engaged as resident engineer on the project in 1795. Lack of funds resulted in the company ceasing to employ Dadford in 1800.
Between 1800 and 1810 various attempts were made to raise money to allow further building but they came to nothing. Moneys from tolls and rents allowed for some improvements to be made to the basin at Gloucester in 1813.
From 1817 onwards the Poor Employment Act meant it was possible for the company to loan money from the Exchequer Bill Loan Commission. This along with further share issues provided enough money to bring the scheme to completion.
After these significant delays, the canal opened in April 1827.
In the course of its construction the canal had cost £440,000
As opened the canal was 86½ feet wide 18 feet deep and could take craft of up to 600 tons. The longer of the two locks onto the canal proper was 115 feet long.
By the middle of the 19th century it proved possible to pay a small dividend; the dept to the Exchequer Bill Loan Commission having being repayed with the help of a loan of £60,000 from the Pelican Life Assurance Company. In 1871 the last of the debts incurred in the course of funding the canal includeing the Pelican Life Assurance Company loan were paid off.
In 1905 traffic exceeded 1 million tons for the first time.
The canal was nationalized in 1948. At the same time the Sharpness Dock Police which had policed the dock since 1874 were absorbed into the British transport police.
In 1955 the board of survey of canals and inland waterways released a report that among other things described the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal as carrying substantial traffic and offering scope for commercial development.
In 1909, following a collapse in the bank of the river, the Canal Companies chief engineer Mr A. J. Cullis called for old vessels to be run aground along the bank of the Severn, near Purton, to create a makeshift tidal erosion barrier to reinforce the narrow strip of land between the river and canal. Barges, trows and schooners were "hulked" at high tide, and have since filled with silt. More boats have been added, including the schooner "Katherine Ellen" which was impounded in 1921 for running guns to the IRA, the Kennet Canal barge "Harriett", and Ferrous Concrete Barges built in World War II.
In 2010 British Waterways took control of the site in an attempt to protect it.
Today the canal can be used by boats up to 64m in length, 9.6m in beam and 32m in height. The maximum draft is 3.5 m.
By the mid 1980s commercial traffic had largely come to a halt with the canal being given over to pleasure cruisers with the exception of a few passages by grain barges. The oil trade ceased in 1985 with the closure of the petroleum deport at Quedgeley.
In order to allow the A40 south-west bypass to be built the canal had to be diverted. The new section of channel was opened on 6 May 2006.
In January 2009 a project began to replace the Patch Bridge swing bridge with a motor powered design instead of the current hand cranked system. The canal links directly to the Stroudwater Navigation at Saul junction.


text: Research disrupts the social world, often by making respondents aware that they are being observed or by instigating reflection upon particular aspects of life via the very act of asking questions. Building on insights from the first Hawthorne studies, reflexive ethnographers, and methodologists concerned with panel conditioning, we draw on six years of research within a community in southern Malawi to introduce a conceptual framework for theorizing disruption in observational research. We present a series of poignant-yet-typical tales from the field and two additional tools—the refresher-sample-as-comparison and study-focused ethnography—for measuring disruption empirically in a longitudinal study. We find evidence of study effects in many domains of life that relate directly to our scope of inquiry (i.e., union formation, fertility) and in some that extend beyond it (i.e., health). Moreover, some study effects were already known and discussed in the broader community, which was also affected by our research in unintended ways. We conclude that the assumption of non-interactivity in observational research is shaky at best, urging data-gatherers and users to think more seriously about the role of disruption in their work.


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Consider the average speeds of automobiles and submarines. Admittedly, the ordinary cruising speed for both is in the double digits even if ranges do differ somewhat. In autombiles drivers can see where they are going over 99% of the time, while in modern submarines the inverse probably applies (drivers may see where they are headed less than 1% of the time).
Now a new steel
is available to improve automotive safety. Weight matters in auto fuel economy, but safety has become a primary requirement of personal transportation. In submarines, mission completion is a primary requirement with weight and fuel economy hardly considerations at all.
Submarine accidents can have significant, negative impacts on both mission completion and availability for more missions. Can TWIP steel
be applied to improving submarine safety (i.e. reducing collision injury and damage)? Could bow sections be latticed with this material without impairing critical factors such as sonar performance and anechoic characteristics? One would hope, since air bags are not a viable option on subs.
The crude concept shown applied to USS Texas's (SSN-775) hull would cause potential fouling as well as sonar detection, so please chalk it up to my wish for all you guys who serve to have only fair winds.
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The PRESSIM software models pressure generation and dissipation on a geologic time scale (Borge 2002, Lothe 2004). The software tool is developed at SINTEF Petroleum since 1997 and used for pressure quantification in many different geological basins and settings around the world.
PRESSIM quantifies the fluid flow and resulting pressure dissipation using a unique model for lateral cross-fault fluid flow (Borge 2000) and Darcy flow equations in the vertical direction. A Kozeny-Carman equation is used to relate permeability from the shale porosities provided by the empirical compaction models describing the compacting shales.
When the operation provides new pressure real-time data, the pressure ahead of the bit can be updated, based on the PRESSIM Monte Carlo results with a best case, minimum and maximum pressure prognosis. With new data input, the uncertainty will be narrowed
It is also important to have a tight link to the mudweight analysis/modelling, since they use pressure prognosis as an important part of the needed input.


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Comparison of Pixel-based Position Input and Direct Acceleration Input for Virtual Stick Balancing Tests
A virtual stick balancing environment is developed using a computer mouse as input device. The development process is presented both on the hardware and software level. Two possible concepts are suggested to obtain the acceleration of the input device: discrete differentiation of the cursor position measured in pixels on the screen and by direct measurements via an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). The comparison of the inputs is carried out with test measurements using a crank mechanism. The measured signals are compared to the prescribed motion of the mechanism and it is shown that the IMU-based input signal fits better to the prescribed motion than the pixel-based input signal. The pixel-based input can also be applied after additional filtering, but this presents an extra computational delay in the feedback loop.


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Myrrh is the dried resin of the tree Commiphora myrrha. Native to Somalia and eastern Ethiopia, myrrh has a long history of traditional use in perfumes and incense. Additionally, it has perhaps an equally long history as a medicinal treatment, primarily for conditions of the mouth, such as canker sores, gum disease, halitosis, and sore throat.
What Is Myrrh Used for Today?
Modern herbalists continue to use myrrh for its traditional uses related to the mouth. In addition, it has been advocated for treatment of eczema and stomach ulcers. However, there is no meaningful scientific evidence that the herb provides any benefits when used for these or any other purposes.
When used for mouth conditions, tincture of myrrh may be applied directly to canker sores or inflamed gums. It can also be diluted in water and used as a gargle. When taken internally, a typical dose of myrrh is 1 g of resin 3 times daily.
In studies of myrrh for treatment of schistosomiasis, no significant side effects were identified. However, comprehensive safety studies have not been performed. Maximum safe doses in pregnant or nursing women, or people with severe liver of kidney disease have not been determined.
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Baumer Hübner LongLife tachogenerators are characterized by the following features, some of which are offered by no other speed sensor:
- Speed and direction of rotation measured in real-time.
- Speed range exceeds 1: 20,000 (>14 bit) distinctly.
- Resistant to mechanical and electrical influences.
- Temperature range –30 °C ... +130 °C as standard, lower temperature option.
- Protection against maritime climates and tropicalization as option.
- Interference immunity at signal transmission.
- Two-core cable for cost-effective signal transmission.
- Auxiliary power (power supply) unnecessary.
- Bearingless hollow-shaft types for direct mounting without coupling for high dynamics.
- High signal quality and long lifetime thanks to patented HUEBNER LongLife Technology.
- Cost-saving package "Tachogenerator – cable – electronics".
- Combinations with common shaft: • tachogenerator + tachogenerator (twin tachogenerator) • tachogenerator incremental encoder (Digital Tacho), • tachogenerator + speed switch.
- All Baumer Hübner devices are covered by a two-year warranty subject to the conditions of the Association of the German Electrical Engineering Industry (ZVEI).
Analog-Tachos (DC tachogenerators, tachometers), usually called "tachos" for short (US: "tachs"), are devices for measuring actual speed values, which in drive engineering combine high control dynamics and ruggedness.
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Reorganizations and Consolidated Tax Returns
Suppose you are a CPA, and you have a corporate client that has been operating for several years. The company is considering expansion through reorganizations. The company currently has two (2) subsidiaries acquired through Type B reorganizations. The client has asked you for tax advice on the benefit of a Type A, C, or D reorganization over a Type B reorganization. Additional facts regarding the issues are reflected below.
 - The company currently files a consolidated income tax return with the two (2) subsidiaries acquired through a Type B reorganization.
 - ABC Corporation, a subsidiary targeted by the client for takeover, has substantial net operating losses.
 - XYZ Corporation and BB Corporation will be acquired as subsidiaries in the next six (6) months.
Use the Internet and Strayer Library to research the rules and income tax laws regarding Types A, B, C, and D reorganizations and consolidated tax returns. Be sure to use the six (6) step tax research process in Chapter 1 that was demonstrated in Appendix A of your textbook as a guide for your written response.
 1. Compare the long-term tax benefits and advantages of each type of reorganization and recommend the type of reorganization that will be most beneficial to the client.
 2. Suggest the type of reorganization the client should use for the ABC Corporation based on your research. Justify the response.
 3. Propose a taxable acquisition structure for the client's planned acquisitions over a nontaxable reorganization. Assess the value of a taxable transaction over a nontaxable reorganization for the client.
 4. Examine the value and limitations of including the ABC Corporation if acquired as a wholly owned subsidiary in the consolidated return and provide a recommendation to your client. Support the recommendation with applicable research.
 5. Create a scenario that will allow the client to reduce any disadvantages from filing a consolidated return as a member of a controlled group.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
 - Analyze and research tax issues regarding corporations, partnerships, S corporations, and consolidated tax returns.
 - Create an approach to tax research that results in credible and current resources.
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พฤติกรรมกลไกภายในระหว่างอวน HDPE กับดินทรายด้วยเครื่องทดสอบการเฉือนตรงขนาดใหญ่
Keywords:interaction behavior, reinforced materials, finite element method, fishnet
The fishnet made by High Density Polyethylene or HDPE used widely in the fishing industry was studied the possibility for introducing as a material for tensile reinforcement of soil deposit. This fishnet can be a fiber which is sustainable into nonwoven geogrid for various geotechnical engineering applications especially the embankment construction. The 7 types of fishnet used for this study were investigated experimentally. Large scale direct shear test was carried out for investigating the interaction behaviors between fishnet geogrid and sand. Locally available silty sand was used as a backfill material in the experiments. The sand was dried by the oven for 24 hours before testing. The sand backfill materials were under different normal confining pressures of 0.28, 0.56, and 1.12 ksc which cover the range of possible applied confining pressures in the field applications. The efficiency of fishnet geogrid was find out in term of the interaction coefficient (Rinter). As results, the friction angle between the fishnet and sand is 26.35o. The Rinter value is about 0.58. Then, the Rinter values were investigated by the finite element method. It was found that if the Rinter values were about 0.55 – 0.65, the measurements were fit with the FEM results significantly. So, the Rinter values of 0.58 can be used to design the sand deposit reinforced by fishnet.
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How we teach Win-Win Focus in YE
At Youth Entrepreneurs, the principles that guide behavior are called Foundational Values. These YE values are central to our curriculum and significant in helping our students grow. Our Foundational Values are responsibility, knowledge, passion, sound judgment, be principled, freedom, opportunity and win-win focus. We're taking a look at each one, diving now into Win-Win Focus.
Win-Win Focus means creating value for yourself and for others. "Cooperation creates real value in society, both for yourself and others," says Lindsay Downing-Schroeder, the Southern Kansas and Oklahoma Area Director for YE. "It's a concept students begin learning from day one. They can see how this Foundational Value ties into an activity, game or their life on a daily basis."
Students begin to grasp Win-Win Focus when it connects to something they understand and transactions they make each day. "Many students purchase items from a vending machine. They understand how they created value with their dollar, and the item they purchased created value because it satisfied a need or a want they had," Lindsay explains. "Discussing Win-Win Focus on a level that relates to students helps them to see the bigger picture and how it is happening throughout society as well."
"Win-Win Focus is an important entrepreneurship concept to grasp because we get stuck focusing on what we know. It's harder to see the big picture when you're in the grind," Lindsay says. "So we encourage our students to take a step back and look at who their customer is. What do they value? How do I add value to their life and, in turn, create value for myself and my business?"
Students also explore Win-Win Focus through the Pit game. "Students get to move around and collect a certain number of cards and cash in with them. You'll see students join together to come up with certain number cards. They'll work together, cash those cards in and then pay each other. They're creating win-win for themselves and for other students."
Lindsay recalls a student who experienced the Win-Win Focus value during Market Day, an activity that combines a micro-loan program with a pop-up market. "He was an active student, but wasn't really bought in until Market Day," she remembers. The student prepared homemade tacos to sell. "He brought a grill and actually cooked the meat and warmed the tortillas in front of the customer. At the time, none of the students had done this. He was passionate about cooking and had grown up around cooking." The student still holds the record for the most Market Day profit at the school: more than $650.
"After experiencing that win-win for himself and the students at the school who were his customers, his excitement and participation doubled after that point in the semester." His sister took the class a few years later, and the student even came back to help her on Market Day.
In the Paper Airplanes activity, students try to make as much profit as they can by building and successfully flying paper airplanes the minimum distance. Students experience Win-Win Focus when they and their team work together to create a plan for the planes that will cross the finish line to create the greatest benefit.
As students learn Win-Win Focus, they grow in not only their entrepreneurial understanding, but also their maturity, Lindsay says. "Looking at the bigger picture in life and looking at things on a greater scale, students experience that mindset shift," she says. "As they apply these values, they understand that their options are limitless. What they can do with their lives is in the palm of their hands, and they can decide how far they want to go."


Ubongo is a Tanzanian social enterprise that creates interactive edutainment for learners in Africa, delivered to them via the technologies they already have. An important factor behind the success of Ubongo is a continuous human-centred design process and 'design with the user' approach – in this case the users are Tanzanian children aged 3–6 years and their parent. Building user testing and rapid experimentation into the production process has allowed Ubongo to craft a product that is much more effective and engaging than if they were to simply create from prior knowledge and expertise. As this example shows, there can often be a big difference between the two.
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new {data1 = "test1", data2 = "sam", data3 = "bob"}
I need a method that will take this in, and output key value pairs in an array or dictionary.
My goal is to use this as post data in an HttpRequest so i will eventually concatenate in into the following string:
"data1=test1&data2=sam&data3=bob"
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This takes just a tiny bit of reflection to accomplish.
var a = new { data1 = "test1", data2 = "sam", data3 = "bob" };
var type = a.GetType();
var props = type.GetProperties();
var pairs = props.Select(x => x.Name + "=" + x.GetValue(a, null)).ToArray();
var result = string.Join("&", pairs);
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+1 for the use of LINQ to get the properties. – Robaticus Aug 14 '10 at 14:09
If you are using .NET 3.5 SP1 or .NET 4, you can (ab)use RouteValueDictionary for this. It implements IDictionary<string, object> and has a constructor that accepts object and converts properties to key-value pairs.
It would then be trivial to loop through the keys and values to build your query string.
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+1 for reusing functionality already in the framework. – Bevan Aug 14 '10 at 4:17
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I say "abuse" because the class was originally designed for routing (or at least its name and namespace imply this). However, it contains no routing-specific functionality and is already used for other features (like converting anonymous objects to dictionaries for HTML attributes in the ASP.NET MVC HtmlHelper extension methods. – GWB Aug 14 '10 at 4:30

I have done exactly this but now i need to go from the RouteValueDictionary back to the anomous object, any thoughts ?? – Joshy Dec 18 '13 at 0:38
Here is how they do it in RouteValueDictionary:
 private void AddValues(object values)
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 if (values != null)
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 foreach (PropertyDescriptor descriptor in TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(values))
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 object obj2 = descriptor.GetValue(values);
 this.Add(descriptor.Name, obj2);
 }
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I tried to use the code from pastebin and Visual Studio was saying that a bunch of the Dictionary methods were not implemented. I had to do an explicit cast to IDictionary. I just switched a couple of the "this._dictionary" to "((IDictionary<string,object>)this._dictionary)" – Walter Stabosz Oct 5 '11 at 13:17
@kbrimington's solution makes a nice extension method - my my case returning a HtmlString
 public static System.Web.HtmlString ToHTMLAttributeString(this Object attributes)
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 var props = attributes.GetType().GetProperties();
 var pairs = props.Select(x => string.Format(@"{0}=""{1}""",x.Name,x.GetValue(attributes, null))).ToArray();
 return new HtmlString(string.Join(" ", pairs));
 }
I'm using it to drop arbitrary attributes into a Razor MVC view. I started with code using RouteValueDictionary and looping on the results but this is much neater.
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This already exists in the box (at least, it does now): HtmlHelper.AnonymousObjectToHtmlAttributes – Andrew Feb 17 '14 at 16:27
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QuickMap is normally installed by running setup off Disk 1, followed by Disk 2. However larger organisations may choose to install QuickMap automatically via a login script, SCCM or AD Software Deployment. The instructions below describe how QuickMap may be installed automatically for individual users via a login script.
To install Quickmap in silent mode, you will need to use the following command line switches:
INSTOPT="MINIMAL | TYPICAL"
These can be used on the Quickmap.msi found in the Release folder, to be run with msiexec with the /i and /qn switches.
After you have installed Quickmap, you will have to register it silently. To do this, see Step 3, below.
Here's an example of how to install Quickmap silently (note one is typical using no GUI, the other is minimal using a basic GUI):
msiexec /i Quickmap.msi /qn INSTOPT="MINIMAL" TARGETDIR="C:\Qmap"
msiexec /i Quickmap.msi /qb INSTOPT="TYPICAL" TARGETDIR="C:\Qmap"
Below is an example of a silent install of a client – server.
Step 1 – Setup the server
Do a full QuickMap install of your server PC in the standard way (e.g. to C:\QMap)
Step 2 – Client install
Share C:\QMap on the server to each client (e.g. to Z:), then for each client, do an unattended minimal install with the command:
msiexec /qb /l* qmaplog.txt /i Z:\Release\quickmap.msi INSTOPT="MINIMAL"
Where Z:\ is the shared folder on the server.
To do a full install, rather than minimal, the command would be
msiexec /qb /l* qmaplog.txt /i Z:\Release\quickmap.msi INSTOPT="TYPICAL"
Step 3 – Register QuickMap
Write your Registration Key Number to the registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Qkey\Option\Default
This will result in the registration key be automatically displayed when QuickMap prompts the user to register the first time they run it. All the User has to do is click the Register button. They do not need administrator rights to successfully register QuickMap.
If autoregister.lic exists in the quickmap Data folder (e.g. Z:\Data) then QuickMap will register itself online without asking for any input from the user. A dialog box is displayed while this registration process is in progress.


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Beverages
Because potassium citrate can have some side effects and comes in large tablets that are inconvenient to take, researchers have studied various beverages to see if there are any that could replace potassium citrate treatment. Orange juice was a candidate because it is high both in potassium and citrate, though it also contains some oxalate and vitamin C.
The research, which is summarized below, indicates that orange juice and lemon juice (or lemonade) can decrease the risk for stones, though about 6 g per day of citrate is necessary. See the table below for citrate amounts. Grapefruit juice and cranberry juice are most likely neutral.
Beverages and Stone Occurrence
In 2013, following up on the earlier work in their cohorts (61), Harvard School of Public Health compared those drinking from < 1 serving/week to > 1 serving/day of many beverages. The occurrence of kidney stones were affected in the following ways (60):
 - Decreased – coffee, decaffeinated coffee, tea, red wine, white wine, beer, orange juice
 - No effect – artificially sweetened cola, artificially sweetened noncola soda, liquor, apple juice, grapefruit juice, tomato juice, whole milk, skim milk, water
 - Increased – sugar-sweetened cola, sugar-sweetened noncola soda, punch
A 2007 study from Duke University found that daily treatment with 120 ml of concentrated lemon juice mixed with 2 liters of water (5.9 g of citric acid total) raised urinary citrate from 350 to 733 mg per day (67). The lemonade treatment reduced stone incidence from 1.0 to .13 stones per person per year. There was a control group receiving potassium-citrate therapy, but the stone incidence was not measured for them.
Beverages and Stone Markers
A 2006 study from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center found that 2.1 g of citrate, 3 times per day, of orange juice almost doubled urinary citrate while 2.1 g of citrate from lemonade had no impact (11).
A 1994 study from the University of Texas Southwestern compared one week of placebo, potassium citrate, and orange juice in participants with a history of hypocitraturia and kidney stones and participants with no history (74). Each participant went through all three treatments. The results were similar in both stone formers and non-stone formers, so they combined the results. The orange juice provided 11.6 g of citrate per day. They did not compare baseline levels to treatment levels. Both potassium-citrate and orange juice treatment increased citrate more than the placebo and about the same amount (to about 950 mg per day). Orange juice treatment raised urinary oxalate compared to the other two groups (26 mg to 34 mg per day). However, calcium intake on these diets was kept low at 400 mg per day; on a normal calcium diet, oxalate might not increase. The authors thought perhaps the small amounts of oxalate in orange juice, the carbohydrate, or the vitamin C might have contributed to the higher oxalate levels.
A 2007 study from the University of Wisconsin found that 4 oz of lemon juice or 32 oz of lemonade per day (they assumed each contained 5.9 g) increased urinary citrate levels of patients who had experienced kidney stones from 683 mg/day to 886 mg/day (65). Another group was treated with the lemon therapy and also potassium citrate and increased their citrate levels from 364 mg/day to 700 mg/day.
A 2007 study from Walter Reed Army Medical Center found that 4.5 g of citrate in lemonade, spread over 3 doses per day, barely raised citrate levels from 263 to 309 mg/day (66).
A 1996 study for University of California San Francisco gave lemonade to stone formers with hypocitraturia containing 5.9 g of citric acid per day (73). Urinary citrate increased significantly from 142 to 346 mg per day. Urinary oxalate decreased from 53 to 43 mg per day.
A 2003 study from Germany found that grapefruit, apple, and orange juice only slightly raised citrate levels (70). However, the participants did not have hypocitraturia and were not stone formers. Only grapefruit juice succeeded in reducing calcium-oxalate saturation to a statistically significant degree, though the other juices reduced it slightly.
A 2002 study from Italy found that grapefruit juice diluted to 10% with mineral water (to provide 2.1 g of citrate) slightly increased hourly urine citrate levels (71). When compared to mineral water only, the diluted grapefruit juice raised urine citrate levels a statistically significant amount, but that was because the mineral water-only treatment actually reduced citrate levels.
A 2001 study from the New York Veterans Affairs Medical Center tested 3 doses of 240 ml (about a cup) per day of grapefruit juice on non-stone formers (72). Urinary citrate and potassium levels increased, but so did oxalate. The researchers did a test to determine that the oxalate did not come from vitamin C (in the kidneys, anyway). Calcium-oxalate saturation increased slightly, but not to a significant degree on the grapefruit juice treatment.
A 2005 study from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center tested cranberry juice (53). They gave stone and non-stone formers 2.3 g of citrate per day in 1 liter of cranberry juice broken into two doses. Urinary citrate actually decreased from 490 to 470 mg/day in stone formers. It also decreased in non-stone formers. The cranberry juice had a positive effect on markers of uric acid stones but not for calcium-oxalate stones. They reported that one other study showed an increase (68) and one showed no change in citrate excretion using cranberry juice (69). It seems safe to conclude that cranberry juice should not be the beverage of choice in preventing calcium-oxalate kidney stones or correcting hypocitraturia.
Table 2 shows the amount of citrate in various beverages as measured by researchers at the University of Wisconsin (62), and Duke University and Brown University (63). Various brands of lemonade and limeade were all lower.
Table 3. Citrate in Beverages (g per Cup)
Beverage Citrate
(g/Cup)
Potassium64
(mg/Cup)
Ref
Cranberry juice 0.89 195 63
Grapefruit juice – ready-to-consume 5.91 400 62
Grapefruit juice – ready-to-consume 2.89 400 63
Lemon juice – fresh 2.13 251 63
Lemon juice – fresh 11.36 251 62
Lemon juice – from concentrate 8.67 217 62
Lemonade 1.72 42 63
Lemonade – homemade 0.78 42 63
Lime juice – fresh 10.84 283 62
Lime juice – from concentrate 8.38 62
Orange juice 2.12 496 63
Orange juice – fresh 2.15 496 62
Orange juice – ready-to-consume 3.97 443 62
Pineapple juice 1.86 325 63
Sodium
Restricting sodium might help prevent calcium-oxalate stones. A calcium atom is typically excreted with each sodium atom, so if you are urinating a lot of sodium, your urine is going to contain more calcium (other things being equal), providing a chance for calcium to bind with oxalate.
To my knowledge, there are no clinical trials using sodium restriction as the main treatment to prevent kidney stone recurrence, though one trial from Italy found that reducing sodium intake from 5,244 mg to 1,564 g per day decreased urinary calcium and oxalate (39).
Iron Absorption
Theoretically, oxalate should be able to bind to plant iron, especially when iron is in the ferrous (Fe2+) state and prevent its absorption. There has not been much research. A 2008 study from Switzerland examined iron absorption from bread in meals containing spinach or kale with a whopping amount of 1,260 mg of added oxalate. They concluded that oxalate does not inhibit iron absorption (29).
Oxalate Content of Foods
The amount of oxalate in foods is hard to pin down. In a 2007 review of oxalate in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Massey reports that the part of the plant (stem vs. leaf, bran vs. endosperm), genetic differences between plant cultivars, soil conditions, and time of year harvested can account for differences in oxalate amounts (30). Massey noted that "[T]he differences in oxalate content of the final food due to modification of cultivation conditions are usually quite modest compared to the oxalate differences in cultivars. Therefore, breeding of commercially viable low oxalate cultivars seems a more promising approach to reducing oxalate in foods."
As described in the section on Soluble vs. Insoluble, the cooking method can also make a big difference in foods with a high content of soluble oxalate (which might be the only type that is absorbed at a significant rate in most people). Boiling or steaming and discarding the water can reduce the amount of oxala


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Print stack trace
Calculate the time spent
You can easily calculate how much time a function takes to run, using time() and timeEnd()
const doSomething = () => console.log('test')
const measureDoingSomething = () => {
 //do something, and measure the time it takes
Use console time
Generate a CPU profile
The DevTools allow you to analyze the CPU profile performance of any function.
You can start that manually, but the most accurate way to do so is to wrap what you want to monitor between the profile() and profileEnd() commands. They are similar to time() and timeEnd(), except they don't just measure time, but create a more detailed report.
const measureDoingSomething = () => {
 //do something, and measure its performance
Generate a CPU profile


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Flora Fact: Basket Case
Texas beargrass is toxic to livestock and useful for weaving.
By Sheryl Smith-Rodgers
Large mounds of evergreen Texas beargrass stand out against the dry, brushy landscapes that surround the Texas AgriLife Research Station south of Sonora.
"We're here because of that species," says Charles "Butch" Taylor, station superintendent. "In 1915, ranchers couldn't figure out why their goats and sheep were getting sick. So they joined hands with Texas A&M University and bought this ranch, which became the Sonora Experiment Station. Because of research done here, we know that the blooms and seeds of Nolina texana are toxic to those animals."
Texas beargrass — also called bunchgrass and Texas sacahuista — occurs in rocky soils across the state's southwestern quadrant.
Its leathery leaves, 3 to 4 feet long, spill like fountain grass from a woody base. The leaves are either smooth or have a few widely spaced, tiny, sharp teeth on the margin. Despite its name, the perennial species is not a grass but more of a shrub.
From there, further description can flip-flop. Some botanists place beargrass in the agave family with yuccas and century plants. Others list the plant as part of Liliaceae (lily family).
In spring or early summer, beargrass blooms for three weeks. The creamy-colored clusters barely rise above leaves, if at all. The species is a nectar and larval host plant for sandia hairstreaks (Callophrys mcfarlandi). Larvae dine on both flowers and fruits.
Factoid: Native Americans used beargrass leaves to weave sturdy baskets and mats.


Elixir Advanced Features
Deploy Tracking
Scout can track deploys, making it easier to correlate changes in your app to performance. To enable deploy tracking, first ensure you are on the latest version of scout_apm. See our upgrade instructions.
Scout identifies deploys via the following:
 1. A revision_sha config setting.
 2. A SCOUT_REVISION_SHA environment variable equal to the SHA of your latest release.
 3. If you are using Heroku, enable Dyno Metadata. This adds a HEROKU_SLUG_COMMIT environment variable to your dynos, which Scout then associates with deploys.
Request Queuing
Our Elixir integration can measure the time it takes a request to reach your application from farther upstream (a load balancer or web server). This appears in Scout as "Request Queueing" and provides an indication of your application's capacity. Large request queueing time is an indication that your app needs more capacity.
Please view request queueing section to learn how to get these insights.
Note: For Elixir, we currently only support the following two headers: x-queue-start and x-request-start, and we don't support msec – or decimal millisecond. Example of valid header: x-request-start: "1234567890123"
Custom Context
Context lets you see the forest from the trees. For example, you can add custom context to answer critical questions like:
User Context
For context used to identify users (ex: id):
ScoutApm.add_user(key, value)
Examples:
ScoutApm.Context.add_user(:id, user.id)
General Context
ScoutApm.Context.add(key, value)
Examples:
ScoutApm.Context.add(:account, account.id)
ScoutApm.Context.add(:monthly_spend, account.monthly_spend)
Default Context
Scout reports the Request URI and the user's remote IP Address by default.
Context Value Types Context values can be any of the following types:
Context Key Restrictions
Context keys can be an Atom or String with only printable characters. Custom context keys may contain alphanumeric characters, dashes, and underscores. Spaces are not allowed. Attempts to add invalid context will be ignored.
PII
To best help protect you data, we suggest using ids instead of explicit names and emails
Custom Instrumentation
You can extend Scout to record additional types of transactions (background jobs, for example) and time the execution of code that fall outside our auto instrumentation.
For full details on instrumentation functions, see our ScoutApm. Tracing Hex docs.
Transactions & Timing
Scout's instrumentation is divided into 2 areas:
1. Transactions: these wrap around a flow of work, like a web request or a GenServer call. The UI groups data under transactions. Use the deftransaction/2 macro or wrap blocks of code with the transaction/4 macro.
2. Timing: these measure individual pieces of work, like an HTTP request to an outside service or an Ecto query, and displays timing information within a transaction trace. Use the deftiming/2 macro or the timing/4 macro.
Instrumenting transactions
deftransaction Macro Example
Replace your function def with deftransaction to instrument it.
You can override the name and type by setting the @transaction_opts attribute right before the function.
defmodule YourApp.Web.RoomChannel do
use Phoenix.Channel import ScoutApm.Tracing
# Will appear under "Web" in the UI, named "YourApp.Web.RoomChannel.join".
@transaction_opts [type: "web"]
deftransaction join("topic:html", _message, socket) do
 {:ok, socket}
end
# Will appear under "Background Jobs" in the UI, named "RoomChannel.ping".
@transaction_opts [type: "background", name: "RoomChannel.ping"]
deftransaction handle_in("ping", %{"body" => body}, socket) do
 broadcast! socket, "new_msg", %{body: body} {:noreply, socket}
end
transaction/4 Example
Wrap the block of code you'd like to instrument with transaction/4:
import ScoutApm.Tracking def
 do_async_work do Task.start(fn ->
 # Will appear under "Background Jobs" in the UI, named "Do Work".
 transaction(:background, "Do Work") do
 # Do work...
 end
 end)
end
See the ScoutApm.Tracing Hexdocs for details on instrumenting transactions.
Timing functions and blocks of code
deftiming Macro Example
Replace your function def with deftiming to instrument it. You can override the name and category by setting the @timing_opts attribute right before the function.
defmodule Searcher do
 import ScoutApm.Tracing
 # Time associated with this function will appear under "Hound" in timeseries charts.
 # The function will appear as 'Hound/open_search' in transaction traces.
 @timing_opts [category: "Hound"] deftiming open_search(url) do
 navigate_to(url)
 end
 # Time associated with this function will appear under "Hound" in timeseries charts.
 # The function will appear as 'Hound/homepage' in transaction traces.
 @timing_opts [category: "Hound", name: "homepage"]
 deftiming open_homepage(url) do
 navigate_to(url)
end
timing/4 Example
Wrap the block of code you'd like to instrument with timing/4:
defmodule PhoenixApp.PageController do
use PhoenixApp.Web, :controller import ScoutApm.Tracing
def index(conn, _params) do
 timing("Timer", "sleep") do
 :timer.sleep(3000)
 end
 render conn, "index.html"
end
See the ScoutApm.Tracing Hexdocs for details on timing functions and blocks of code. #### Limits on category arity We limit the number of unique categories that can be instrumented. Tracking too many unique category can impact the performance of our UI. Do not dynamically generate categories in your instrumentation (ie timing("user_#{user.id}", "generate", do: do_work()) as this can quickly exceed our rate limits.
Adding a description
Call ScoutApm.Tracing.update_desc/1 to add relevant information to the instrumented item. This description is then viewable in traces. An example:
timing("HTTP", "GitHub_Avatar") do
 url = "_URL_
 update_desc("GET #{url}")
 HTTPoison.get(url)
end
Tracking
Already executed time Libraries like Ecto log details on executed queries. This includes timing information. To add a trace item for this, use ScoutApm.Tracing.track. An example:
defmodule YourApp.Mongo.Repo do
 use Ecto.Repo # Scout instrumentation of Mongo queries. These appear in traces as "Ecto/Read", "Ecto/Write", etc.
 def log(entry) do
 ScoutApm.Tracing.track( "Ecto", query_name(entry), entry.query_time, :microseconds )
 super entry
 end
end
In the example above, the metric will appear in traces as Ecto/#{query_time(entry)}. On timeseries charts, the time will be allocated to Ecto. See the scout_apm hex docs for more information on track/.
Server Timing
View performance metrics (time spent in Controller, Ecto, etc) for each of your app's requests in Chrome's Developer tools with the plug_server_timing package. Production-safe.
server timing
For install instructions and configuration options, see plug_server_timing on GitHub.
ARM Support
ARM and graviton Support
We now have support for ARM and graviton.


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Vermiculation is decoration of a surface by means of random channels resembling worm-tracks or honeycomb. In masonry this is typically a process of carving or finishing of building stones with irregular grooves.
In Australian terrace houses, it is often done using the same process with stucco render. Vermiculation is typically found on projecting sections of party walls, where the roof and floors meet with the party walls. It is sometimes also found as a frieze below the cornice or above it on the parapet. Rarely it is found on the facade itself or other stuccoed architectural elements made to resemble stone such as gates.


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Mobile Budget Settings: Name, Currency, Date Format
Did you know there are more ways to customize your budget? Tap the More Menu (three dots icon) in your budget to access Settings:
Then, choose Budget Settings from the list. This is where you can edit the basics, including:
- Budget Name: tap on the current name of your budget and enter a new name.
- Currency: tap on the Currency option and choose your currency from the list that pops up.
- Number Format: tap on the current format and choose your preferred number format.
- Currency Placement: select the appropriate placement of the currency marker or choose "Don't Display".
- Date Format: tap on the current date format and choose your preferred format.
You can also delete your budget from this page—but be extra careful to ensure you're deleting the correct budget!


Xiaoqiang XQ-miniGeneral purpose ROS develping platform
Lightweight, flexible and quick to move
J2900 8GMemory 64G SSD}
LIDAR RGBD Mono Camera
Application Videos
 - real-time map and location of lidar
 When Xiaoqiang is equipped with the laser radar, it can make environment mapping and robot navigation easy and quick. In the use of LIDAR, the robot is required to provide more accurate odometer information. Xiaoqiang's odometer is fused with a gyroscope and encoder, with high accuracy. From this video, As we can see that in a large range (200mx400m) the map built by Xiaoqiang is still very accurate.
 - Visual Navigation
 Xiaoqiang uses the camera to collect the ambient image and uses its powerful computational ability to identify the 3D structure of the environment. The red and green dots in the video are the environmental feature points that it recognize. The map in the lower left corner of the video is its identified environment. As we can see that Xiaoqiang can run the Visual Slam program smoothly, and provide very accurate positioning information.
 - RGBD
 Obstacles are randomly placed on the ground. Xiaoqiang obtains the information of the obstacle through the depth camera. The green curve in the video is the target line and location of Xiaoqiang. Xiaoqiang planning its path in real time according to the situation of obstacles. That is, the blue curve in the video. It can be seen that even in a very complex obstacle environment, Xiaoqiang can move smoothly to the target position.
 - Robot Arm Example
 Xiaoqiang has extensive extensibility and can be equipped with a robotic arm. Xiaoqiang controls the robotic arm, and grab the cup in front of it
 - Inertial navigation
 Inertial navigation is to use only the information provided by the car'sown gyroscope and encoder for navigation. The car in the video walked a 1M x 1M square under the control of the inertial navigation program.The image on the left is the actual movement of the car, and the right is the real-time position display of the car in the computer interface.
 - Speech recognition and follow
 Xiaoqiang recognizes target's voice commands and then initiates the following program. Follow the movement of the target.
Xiaoqiang is a general purpose ROS develping platform. It has powerful computational power, long battery endurance and the nimble movement ability. Xiaoqiang is very suitable for developmenting the Ros navigation and the computer vision algorithm. Xiaoqiang has four-wheeled structure, the front two active wheels, and two omni-directional wheels on the back. Such a structure can guarantee the accuracy of the turning angle. The wheel used the rubber material which is not easy to skid to ensure the accuracy and stability of the movement again. Xiaoqiang's main controller is a i7 processor mini computer, contains 8G memory and 64G solid-state drives. This hardware configuration guarantees the strong compute ability of the Xiaoqiang. The battery is 12V 20AH lithium polymer battery, which can be guaranteed to be used for seven hours continuously.
Xiaoqiang XQ-mini has a smaller size, more flexible movement and a cheaper price. It is a perfect choice as a lightweight ROS development platform.
Hardware Info
 - J2900 Core Duo processor 2.6GHz CPU
 4G Memory
 64G SSD
 - The power supply battery is 12V 10AH polymer lithium battery.
 Rated Rated output current is 5 A, output power 60W. Xiaoqiang mini can be used for up to 4 hours under high power usage.
 - Max Speed: 0.8m/s
 Maximum Acceleration: 1.5m/s^2
 Max Angle Speed: 230 deg/s
 Maximum angular acceleration: 660 deg/s^2
 - 5 USB with one USB3.0 and four USB2.0
 60fps 178° camera
 MPU9250 9-axis high-precision gyroscope
 Maximum load：5kg


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Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
This paper is devoted to the introduction of physicochemical, filler size, and distribution effect in micromechanical predictions of the overall viscoelastic properties of asphalt mastic. In order to account for the three effects, the morphologically representative pattern (MRP) approach was employed. The MRP model was improved due to the arduous practical use of equivalent modulus formula solution. Then, a homogeneous morphologically representative model (H-MRP) with the explicit solution was established based on the homogenization theory. Asphalt mastic is regarded as a composite material consisting of filler particles coated structural asphalt and free asphalt considering the physicochemical effect. An additional interphase surrounding particles was introduced in the H-MRP model. Thus, a modified H-MRP model was established. Using the proposed model, a viscoelastic equation was derived to predict the complex modulus and subsequently the dynamic modulus of asphalt mastic based on the elastic-viscoelastic correspondence principle. The dynamic shear rheological tests were conducted to verify the prediction model. The results show that the predicted modulus presents an acceptable precision for asphalt mastic mixed with 10% and 20% fillers volume fraction, as compared to the measured ones. The predicted modulus agrees reasonably well with the measured ones at high frequencies for asphalt mastic mixed with 30% and 40% fillers volume fraction. However, it exhibits underestimated modulus at low frequencies. The reasons for the discrepancy between predicted and measured dynamic shear modulus and the factors affecting the dynamic shear modulus were also explored in the paper.
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Micromechanical Prediction Model of Viscoelastic Properties for Asphalt Mastic Based on Morphologically Representative Pattern Approach.
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering,
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Table Of Contents
Build Matrix (G Dataflow)
Version:
 Last Modified: January 12, 2018
 Appends elements to a matrix by rows or columns.
 Programming Patterns
 To add one or more elements to a matrix at a specific location, use Set Matrix Elements. To add a submatrix to a matrix at a specific location, use Set Submatrix.
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 datatype_icon
 element
 Numeric scalar or a 1D or 2D array of any numeric type.
 To add additional element inputs, resize the node.
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 appended matrix
 The resulting matrix.
 Appending by Rows or Columns
 Build Matrix has two modes: Append by columns or Append by rows. The default mode is Append by columns.
 Right-click the node and select Build matrix mode»Append by rows to add a new element or matrix to the last row starting in the first column. Right-click the node and select Build matrix mode»Append by columns to add a new element or matrix to the last column starting in the first row.
 Wiring Empty Input Values
 If element is an empty array, this node ignores the empty dimensions.
 Wiring Inputs of Different Numeric Types or Dimensions
 The dimensions and data type of appended matrix match those of the element input with the highest dimension and most precise data type. For example, if you wire a 1D array of numeric double to element 0 and a 2D array of complex double to element 1, additional inputs and outputs default or coerce to 2D arrays of complex double.
 When you wire inputs with different dimensions to Build Matrix, this node creates appended matrix by padding the smaller input with the scalar default value (0).
 Where This Node Can Run:
 Desktop OS: Windows
 FPGA: Not supported
 Web Server: Not supported in VIs that run in a web application
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DETERMINATION OF REGULATORY RELIABILITY FOR DEFORMATION OF REINFORCED-CONCRETE FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES
Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo arkhitekturno-stroitel nogo universiteta JOURNAL of Construction and Architecture
Strength, stiffness, crack resistance requirements must be specified for any structure. These requirements are provided by the appropriate calculations. Compliance with all requirements ensures the design reliability. But due to the fact that structural analysis is performed by the limit state method, the numerical value of the reliability cannot be determined. This can be done only by applying probabilistic methods of calculation. One of the major obstacles to the use of probabilistic methods
... babilistic methods is the lack of standardized values of the structural reliability (normative reliability).Although probabilistic methods of calculation were developed in late in the 20th century, the assignment of normative reliability values encountered serious obstacles. The most serious obstacle was the consideration of the failure consequences as some consequences were quantifiable. On the other hand, much work concerned the assignment of normative structural reliability based on their bearing capacity. Only few works related to the reliability normalization using deformation and crack resistance.This paper deals with the regulatory definition of reliability using the deformation of reinforced-concrete bendings based on physiological requirements. A method for determining the normative reliability based on human sensitivity to fluctuations is proposed. The normative reliability of precast slabs is determined using the proposed method.


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Thursday, May 24, 2001 06:34 AM
The only way for antlr to lex X number of characters to make a token is for you to keep your own counter and use a semantic predicate. You might find it easier to do the initial lexing by hand or use another lexer toolkit and then hand that off to antlr.
If I were doing it myself based only on the example you give, and I would make my own table of lengths and token types and make my own object implementing TokenStream (which is just one method--nextToken()). Then I would just read the specified number of characters, create a token object with the correct type, and bump my table pointer to the next position for the next token.


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Mace4 is a finite domain constraint solver. The constraints are given as statements in first-order logic with equality.
Mace4 is used primarily for two purposes:
Here is a Mace4 job that solves a particular Sudoku puzzle.
mace4 -m -1 -f example.in > example.outSee the input and output files (the solution is in "function(f(_,_)...").
Our Web interface simply constructs an input file similar to example.in and runs Mace4 on it.
Colors in the answers.
Ok, let's do Sudoku!
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How to Find Leaks in an Above Ground Pool Liner
It's frustrating to notice the water level going down in your pool when you cannot find the exact location of the leak. It can take some detective work to pinpoint it, but this is a necessary step before you can make repairs. By following the steps below, and working your way from the easiest method to the most complex, you will be able to find the leak so you can fix it and enjoy your pool again.
If your pool is on the lawn, search around it for any patches of grass that appear to be greener than the surrounding grass. This can help you locate the general area of the leak. The water may be coming out in a great enough quantity to provide extra water for a particular patch on your lawn.
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If your pool is on sand or dirt, check around the perimeter for any soaked areas. You may also notice a crater-like area where water from the leak has been collecting.
Wait until a quiet time of day, then use a rubber hose to listen for the leak in the area. Hopefully the previous two steps have helped you narrow down its probable location. Listening can be accomplished by filling the hose with water, plugging both ends, then putting one end against your ear. Use the other end to probe the liner in the area where you suspect the leak is located. Even a small leak often makes a detectable sound.
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If the sound has gotten you closer to the leak but still has not revealed its exact location, swim to the bottom of the pool with a bottle of brightly hued food coloring. Squeeze out a small amount in the suspect area. If you are close enough, the dye should be drawn toward the hole in the liner. You can also buy special products that contain dye made especially for pool leak detection.
If you are unable to pinpoint the exact location of the leak. add a leak seal product to the pool water. Since the leak is too small to be easily found, it is probably small enough to be sealed by the product.
Sometimes pool owners mistake normal evaporation for a leak in the liner. To discover whether you actually have a leak, fill a five-gallon bucket with water and put it on the first or second step of the ladder. Position it so it's only a few inches out of the water. Adjust the water level in the bucket to be level with the pool. Mark the water level inside the bucket and outside, then leave it in the pool for 24 hours. If the water level in the pool has gone down more rapidly than that in the bucket, there is a leak.


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|an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.|
|the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.|
trauma trau·ma (trô'mə, trou'-)
n. pl. trau·mas or trau·ma·ta (-mə-tə)
A serious bodily injury or shock, as from violence or an accident.
An emotional wound or shock that creates substantial lasting damage to one's psychological development, often leading to neurosis.
|trauma (trô'mə, trou'-) Pronunciation Key
Wounds that result from sudden physical injury or violence.
Note: The term is frequently used to describe an emotional shock that causes serious psychological damage.


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Bungee the slime in Tap!
Score is the doubling in continuous just tap bungee!
[How to play]
1.Raise the slime in tap
2.Higher score if tap near the sea!
3.Combo occurs in the surface of the water just tap!
4.And beware because score is reduced by half when fall into the sea


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Definitions of picnic
v. - Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves). 2
v. i. - To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion. 2
The word "picnic" uses 6 letters: C C I I N P.
No direct anagrams for picnic found in this word list.
List shorter words within picnic, sorted by length
All words formed from picnic by changing one letter
Browse words starting with picnic by next letter


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Trouble on the Tombigbee
5 ½ x 8 ½
Ted Dunagan's third young-adult novel continues the story of boyhood friends Ted and Poudlum, a white boy and a black boy who live in the rural segregated South of the 1940s. Ted and Poudlum are in for more adventures as they find themselves on a fishing trip interrupted by criminal activity. They camp out in the vicinity of a Ku Klux Klan meeting and accidentally learn the identity of key Klansmen. Discovered, they use their wits to escape down the river, only to swim into the arms of more trouble.
Great pacing and Dunagan's narrative storytelling gifts make this an engaging read in which Ted and Poudlum again enjoy the thrill of engagement with the adult world even as they celebrate the pleasures of just being kids. Their escapades test their resourcefulness and challenge their awakening moral selves, as each bend in the river causes them to wonder about the right thing to do—a question that, remarkably, they do not need to ask about their own friendship. Being a kid was never better than how Ted Dunagan imagines it. And the imagining has never been better than in Trouble on the Tombigbee.
- Winner of the Augusta Literary Festival's 2013 Frank Yerby Award
"With deft and precise language, Ted Dunagan tells a story that is both beautifully wrought and unsparing in its portrayal of all that was good and bad in Dixie."
—Adrian Fogelin, author of Crossing Jordan
"Ted Dunagan convincingly captures the South of the late 1940s. In his moving story, he shows through the experience of a young boy how friendship can triumph over prejudice. Good reading!" —Faye Gibbons, author of Night in the Barn


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Sydney Water, in partnership with the Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority, local councils and other land and water managers, has developed a riverbank naturalisation project for the Cooks River. The project involves naturalising 1.2 kilometres of the Cooks River banks, providing a new habitat for birds and aquatic life and improving the amenity of the river.
The riverbank naturalisation includes the removal of the existing steep concrete channel bank and creating a more gently sloping bank. This is stabilised by native plants, trees and sandstone boulders as well as the inclusion of new paths, seats and interpretive signage. Naturalisation creates a softer landscape feel and can greatly improve the liveability of the river environment for both wildlife and people.
Mainway's role as project manager for the civil contractor was to coordinate works, programme and contractual approvals with Sydney Water to ensure the project met stakeholder and community requirements while successfully being delivered within time and budget.


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Dr. Onya McCausland is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. This research involves collaborating with the Coal Authority - a non-departmental public body of the UK government - to generate new uses for mine water waste 'ochres' as usable coloured pigment for paint. The research repositions 'waste' ochre as significant cultural material that can be used to change perceptions of the 'post-industrial' landscape sites they belong to.
In 2014, between 4 and 5 thousand tones of ochre were being sent to landfill every year because an economically viable use could not be found and landfill was the cheapest option. By reusing this otherwise redundant material in her work McCausland has demonstrated the uniqueness and cultural value of these colours and their landscape contexts.
The Landscape is read through physical (and digital) interactions with each Place, the coloured earth minerals they form have unique characteristics that are expressed through various physical processes. The work draws on the history of landart, minimalist and post-minimalist aesthetics as well as using analytical techniques to explore colour as material and the proximities between ground and surface, where surface is used to join geographic, geological and painterly realms.
In collaboration with the Coal Authority, McCausland is working to designate five selected Mine Water Treatment Schemes as public spaces that perform the production of ochre, producing high-quality pigment for paint while generating an income for the local economy.


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The name Nandita comprises of 7 characters and is a Girl's name. The meaning
of this name is happy, and the name rashi or
sign is Virgo. The name nakshatra for Aabhaa is Anuradha Nakshatra. Natives
with the name Nandita has the Numerology Namank or Destiny Number is 3. The Destiny
Number helps you understand your lucky number and how it can alter your life in
a positive manner.
Numerology Namank (Destiny Number):
Nandita's Namank or Destiny Number is 3.
Name Rasi: Virgo*
Name Nakshstra: Anuradha*
Note: *Rasi and Nakshatra are approximate calculated using sounds.


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Conservation Delivery Application
In 2018, The Nature Conservancy was awarded a Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) from The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to produce a web-based tool that would aid NRCS staff in making planning and assessment decisions about the application of agricultural conservation practices in Louisiana. The objective was to create a tool that allows for the estimation of change in sediment and nutrient loadings delivered to a local stream reach when implementing an individual or set of conservation practices (also called Best Management Practices or BMPs). The working science behind this tool is the concept that crops, and other land uses have predicted nutrient and sediment runoff rates and that those rates can be improved by either changing the land use or by applying BMPs within the agricultural fields.
The backbone of this tool is RTI's WaterFALL® hydrologic model which uses slope, elevation, soil type, and climate patterns among other factors to accurately model rainfall runoff. For this project, the model was enhanced with the important addition of water chemistry modeling. This makes the model capable of estimating current nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment loads based on the most recent available land cover data. This tool incorporates known reduction efficiency rates for various BMPs to estimate the load mitigating effect of BMPs applied to a certain acreage of a particular crop. This tool makes it possible to simulate a conservation practice (BMP) and calculate the reduction in nutrients and sediment that is delivered to the stream. The Conservation Delivery Application (CDA) will be used by NRCS staff to support the planning and implementation of the application of BMPs to agricultural lands in Louisiana.
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