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Now, this is just a proof of concept not suitable for production but I would like to hear your feedback. Does the idea make some sense? Do you see anything that could be interesting to have in the core engine instead? Should I go on developing the idea or trash everything?
Most of my nodes run on battery so I can't really use this but it definitely sounds nice!
Well the node has to be able to answer messages from the gateway if I understand it correctly. Battery powered sensors sleep most of the time so they aren't able to receive messages. Only way around this would be something like smartsleep (which I haven't used yet and needs controllers to support it).
Oh I see what you are saying. This was actually the idea, to wrap around smart sleep (which plays a central role in the extension) to make easier for a controller or a user to use it and interact with the sensor. A key requirement for my project is to be able to interact with a sensor without a physical access to it so in addition to smart sleep (which just gives the possibility for a controller to send something in a short time), I needed a way to force the sensor to stop sleeping, do something (e.g. configuration change) and then putting it to sleep once again remotely.
But agree with you, in case you are not using smart sleep you will just get automatic battery level reports out of this.
Nice work but please considering giving it a better name than "MyExtension"
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This particular icon looks like an oval shape. It has two lines inside towards the top that looks like a hair line. It also has two dots on opposite sides of the oval shape that look like eyes.
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The Sundarbans- the largest continuous block of mangrove forest in the world covers an area of 5770 sq. km of land and water. It is the part of the world’s largest delta, which has been formed from sediments deposited by the great river Ganges and Brahmaputra the converge on the Bengal basin. The western part of the forest lies in India and the rest (about 60%) in Bangladesh.
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On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, yellow newspapers such as William Randolph Hearsts New York Journal whipped Americans into frenzy by claiming that Spains secret infernal machine had destroyed the battleship. Soon after, the blandly handsome and easily influenced President McKinley declared war, sending troops not only to Cuba but also to the Philippines, Spains sprawling colony on the other side of the world. As Evan Thomas reveals in his rip-roaring history of those times, the hunger for war had begun years earlier. Depressed by the closing of the Western frontier and embracing theories of social Darwinism, a group of warmongers that included a young Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge agitated loudly and incessantly that the United States exert its influence across the seas. These hawks would transform American foreign policy and, when Teddy ascended to the presidency, commence with a devastating war without reason, concocted within the White House-a bloody conflict that would come at tremendous cost. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, THE WAR LOVERS is the story of six men at the center of a transforming event in U.S. history: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, McKinley, William James, and Thomas Reed, and confirms once more than Evan Thomas is a popular historian of the first rank.
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Dandelions disperse their seeds by wind.
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What do seeds need in order to germinate?
Which part of a flowering plant grows into a fruit?
Which of the following words describes the moment a seed begins to grow?
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IBM® Business Process Manager is a middleware suite that enables managed execution of the processes that keep your business running. It includes a graphical authoring environment that is used for modeling processes and a sophisticated runtime engine that is capable of integrating workflow for the people and automated systems that comprise your organization.
Every day IBM Business Process Manager customers use their IT infrastructure to deliver business value at a fast pace. However, as with any complex system, care must be taken to define performance objectives appropriate to the solution and to ensure that those objectives are met. The IBM Redbooks® publication IBM Business Process Manager V8.5 Performance Tuning and Best Practices, SG24-8216, provides the details necessary to ensure a high performance business process management project. This IBM Redbooks Solution Guide provides an overview of the most critical topics from that book.
This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide provides valuable information for IBM Business Process Manager application development architects and technical leaders. It describes a holistic approach to performance issues that range from establishing initial goals and application design through the implementation phase and finally to long-term application maintenance and planning for future capacity. These tasks require a coordinated effort for all of the teams involved in a complex project to ensure that performance objectives can be met. These teams include business owners, infrastructure architects, database administrators, and test leaders. This solution guide serves as a reference to establish these conversations early and to make sure that all critical topics are covered. The typical application development lifecycle for IBM Business Process Manager follows a model described in Figure 1.
The performance architect is ultimately responsible for the performance of the solution from end to end and drives performance objectives throughout the application development lifecycle.
The business analyst is responsible for providing accurate non-functional requirements for the project.
Application development architects are responsible for designing solutions that are capable of meeting the non-functional requirements.
Application developers are responsible for following preferred practices and for avoiding anti-patterns.
The test team lead or manager, together with the performance architect, is responsible for test case design and for translating the non-functional service level agreements (SLAs) that are received from the business analyst into concrete performance objectives.
Testers and script developers are responsible for building and debugging the measurement harness that simulates the user activity as required for driving the tests.
Test team members are responsible for executing the measurements and for collecting the resource consumption data that explains the results.
The infrastructure team, including the system administrator, is responsible for IT monitoring.
The database administrator is responsible for database tuning and monitoring.
Of course, these roles can vary from one organization to another, and, in some cases, the same person or team of people might fulfill multiple roles.
As a business process development and execution platform, IBM Business Process Manager manages business transactions across a wide variety of industries and functional domains. Even within a single organization, some business processes can constitute straightforward orchestration of a set of web service calls, and other processes coordinate the activities of complex teams of knowledge workers. Clearly, the lifecycle of a process instance can vary dramatically from one business process to another. Similarly, the performance characteristics of one process application can be quite different from those of another. The key to a successful production deployment is to match the actual behavior of the application to the requirements of the business.
With every new IBM Business Process Manager release, performance engineers optimize the code to ensure it can support the most strenuous throughput and response time objectives. However, success is measured in the experience of business users when a new application is deployed into production. To achieve success, the Business Process Manager code must work together with the process application, the services it integrates, and the infrastructure on which it runs. This work begins as soon as the new application is conceived and continues through the performance verification cycle.
One set of challenges common to all system-wide concerns, such as performance, is communication and collaboration across the organizational lines within a business. Separation of responsibility among business leaders, application development teams, infrastructure teams, and database management teams is a common practice and does lead to crisp definition of ownership. However, achieving success on system metrics requires a degree of nimbleness in working across these boundaries. Occasionally, we see progress delayed because of formal structures that result in a period of waiting, for example if an application development team needs to request a configuration change within a database server or if a database administrator needs additional physical resources (processor, memory, or storage) allocated to a database server.
The most common costs of poor application performance are easy to imagine. Business users might experience slow response times from their user interface. The slow response time leads to dissatisfaction, which can threaten the overall adoption of new applications. Similarly, miscalculation of the performance metrics of a fully-automated application can lead to resource exhaustion (processor or memory), which might threaten the stability of the entire system. When a process application spans multiple business units, the consequences of a resource failure can be substantial.
Although establishing and verifying non-functional requirements early in the development cycle can add to the cost of application development, failing to do so can be even more expensive. Redesigning an application to meet performance objectives after the fact often requires removal or replacement of substantial amounts of code, exposing the project to wasted effort. Building performance objectives into every phase of application development pays off in the long run through reduced risk of system failure and reduced maintenance cost. Also, applications that are well tuned and well measured are less likely to require over provisioning of hardware, which might reduce software licensing costs.
Now, let us describe IBM Business Process Manager performance measurement and analysis activities by breaking them down among the application development lifecycle from initial requirements gathering through long-term maintenance and capacity planning.
Just as the functional requirements for a business process management solution originate with the business community who will be using the application and are refined and validated through early discussion and playback, so are performance requirements for the application. Make sure to use the opportunity presented through the regular cadence of playback meetings to gather information about the performance expectations that the business community brings to requirements gathering process. Starting early has the advantage that it forces the Performance Architect to think about the objectives in terms of the end to end business experience from the outset. Often times, it is tempting to think of performance objectives one component at a time. However, it is much easier to build a comprehensive performance plan and gather consensus across all of the teams that will contribute to its execution when the objectives can be described based on end to end scenarios that the Business Analyst and, ultimately, Business Sponsor of the project, understands well and can discuss easily.
As a performance architect and engineer, you can help business users articulate their expectations using metrics that are easy to validate within the performance lab. These expectations allow an initial performance plan for the project to be generated at the same time that the functional test plan is generated. Experience shows that some metrics, such as page load response time for a user interface element, are easy for business users to visualize and discuss. Alternatively, some metrics of extremely high value to the performance analyst, such as total system throughput, are more difficult to discuss. Try to conduct these conversations in a context that is natural to the business. Try to avoid talking about the average number of times a particular API invocation occurs per second. Instead, start with the number of mortgage applications (or whatever business process you are modeling) processed per month, the total number of teams that need to contribute to the processing, and the relative sizes of those teams. After these numbers are established, it is easier to guide the conversation to a discussion of the load that they system might expect during a peak hour.
Focus on establishing performance objectives that accurately reflect the needs of the business. Although it is usually easy to understand the risks that are associated with under estimating the performance objectives, over estimating the objectives can be just as detrimental to the overall success of the project. For example, a response time objective of 1 or 2 seconds for a particular user interface element might be perfectly reasonable. Increasing the objective to 500 milliseconds might seem like an innocuous change and allow for some headroom "just in case." However, in many cases, it is unlikely that this decrease in responsiveness would be of value to the application users, and the engineering costs of achieving this tighter tolerance might be high. Sometimes, through poor communication, additional headroom accumulates when establishing an objective (with each team building in its own buffer) to the point that the engineering ultimately does not match the business need.
Over time, you should expect to notice patterns that will simplify the process of gathering requirements. For example, perhaps your organization will standardize on 2 second response times (measured at the 90th percentile) for all simple user interface elements, 5 seconds for complex elements, and custom response times only for exceptional operations. At this point, the response time conversation becomes the simpler activity of identifying the complex and exceptional interactions with the system. Similar patterns might emerge for the throughput metrics. Look for them, and use them to your advantage. Perhaps the business users will not have a good idea of the throughput requirements for a totally new application, but they suspect that it might be similar to rates that they are already observing in another application (perhaps that you collaborated on in the past). Beginning the performance requirements conversations early allows those requirements (and the likelihood that they will be met) to be tracked as application developments and playbacks proceed. If performance requirements will force changes in application design or implementation, surfacing those early in the development cycle benefits everybody.
Ultimately, the performance requirements gathering process will result in a performance plan that describes the metrics of importance, the goals or objectives that the application should achieve for each metric and a description of the simulation infrastructure required to evaluate the application. Simulation for some metrics is straightforward. Single user response time measures can be evaluated using a common user interface (like a web browser) by a person with a stopwatch executing the test manually. More extensive load tests required to evaluate throughput objectives for IBM Business Process Manager applications require a large scale simulation capable of generating http traffic. Tools, such as JMeter, IBM Rational® Performance Tester, and LoadRunner, are usually used to fulfill this role. Also, because most IBM Business Process Manager user interface applications communicate with the server via a series of REST interactions, it is possible to construct a stand-alone Java application that simulates server load. In every case, it is important to execute the performance measurements against server hardware that matches that to be used in production environment as closely as possible. Planning early can ensure that hardware is available when needed.
Because most business process management solutions are complex systems made up of many parts that must work well together to meet functional and non-functional requirements, an architectural approach to performance measurement and analysis is important. Decomposing the system into its components makes analysis easier simply because small things are easier to understand than large ones. End-to-end measurement is critical to ensure that the system works well as a whole when all of the components are working together. In this section, we look at a few architectural techniques that help.
Start small and scale up. The requirements determination phase might have revealed that your application needs to support thousands of concurrent users starting and completing tens of thousands of business process instances per hour. This does not mean that your performance measurements (or stress and load tests) need to begin with this degree of load. You can learn a lot about your application through repeated measurement, tracing, and analysis of single user scenarios. When these are working as expected, measurements with a small concurrent population will help to verify your load simulation infrastructure and also the scaling capabilities of your new application. Data gathered from measurements with small populations and load will help to predict the results you will see under heavier load and help with verification of the actual measurements. Furthermore, small scale measurements are cheaper and easier to implement, allowing them to be executed earlier and more frequently in the development cycle and giving more time to react in the case that the application needs to be adapted.
Similar scale-up techniques apply to other parts of the infrastructure. When the performance plan calls for measurements against a large, complex IBM WebSphere® ND topology, it is a good idea to start with a smaller system, perhaps a single cluster member with a minimum hardware configuration. As analysis progresses, the system can grow to ensure that assumptions regarding vertical scalability (increasing the number of processing cores per cluster member) and horizontal scalability (increasing the number of cluster members) are met.
Pay attention to the interfaces, especially where the business process management application interacts with external services, such as a web services endpoint. Concurrency or throughput limitations in a service provider frequently limit the performance characteristics of the entire solution. Because web service traffic is relatively easy to simulate (compared with human generated traffic), it is natural to decompose an application at the service implementation boundaries to verify their capacity before re-composing the application for end to end measurements. Of course, when re-composing the application, don’t forget to consider the glue that holds it all together--the network connections among the components themselves. A lean user interface that pulls data from a well-tuned backend server might still show poor responsiveness if the network connection between the two has high latency or limited capacity. It is especially important to design the physical topology of the solution to ensure good connection between the process designer and its process center and between a process server and its database server.
Business process modeling plays an important role in the performance characteristics of a business process management application. Throughout the design and implementation phases of application development, options will arise that can have a significant impact on overall system performance. Chapter 3 of the IBM Redbooks publication, IBM Business Process Manager v8.5 Performance Tuning and Best Practices, SG24-8216, describes many common pitfalls and suggests alternatives. This section addresses the topic in a more philosophical manner, looking at some high level design choices and a generalized, data-driven methodology that we find useful during the implementation phase.
IBM Business Process Manager is a flexible business process modeling and execution environment that offers a variety of structures to meet a variety of business needs. At its core, however, all business process management applications manage and persist the state of some business activity. Matching the execution and persistence model to the needs of the business provides an excellent opportunity to optimize for performance. For example, when constructing processes for the BPEL engine, application designers have a choice between short-running processes (microflows), with simple and efficient transactional characteristics, and long-running processes (macroflows), which are capable of coordinating the most complex transactional workloads. Data shows that the simpler state management model used for short-running processes allows execution at much higher throughput. Many processes allow for short-running execution in the common case, but need more complex handling for exceptional cases. So a compound implementation model fits these applications well. All process instances begin with microflow execution and many complete within that microflow. For exception processing, the microflow invokes a macroflow that models the more extensive processing that these instances require.
Similar considerations apply to designing for straight through processing. Computers execute work at a much faster rate than humans. However, business process management usually (and appropriately) begins with an analysis of human workflow. As the process is optimized over time, opportunities arise to automate activities that are carried out by human workers that can be more efficiently handled automatically. This analysis might lead to a shift from a human-centric application that is authored with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) to a more automated application that is authored with Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) or a hybrid of the two that uses an Advanced Integration service to link the two. Because the engine that executes BPMN processes was optimized for handling human centric applications, it is not nearly as fast at executing fully automated workloads as the BPEL engine is. For this reason, it is best to build Straight Through Processing applications using BPEL to get the maximum resource utilization efficiency.
Applying an iterative, data-driven performance measurement and analysis methodology is a great help in maximizing the efficiency of the performance optimization exercise. Many application development engineers have ideas that can improve the overall efficiency of an application. You can channel these enhancement ideas through a scientifically sound evaluation process. Establish a performance simulation environment early, and extend it as the capabilities of the application expand. This method allows early collection of performance baseline data, which is valuable in tracking application performance as new function is added. Measure the effect of one potential performance enhancement at a time in order to build confidence that the enhancement delivers the expected gain. If it does not, it might be abandoned. Sometimes, application development teams retain performance "best practices" that incur some development cost but that actually deliver minimal or no performance gain. Use resource monitoring data (such as CPU, memory, and network consumption statistics as well as tracing and thread dumps) to inform your search for new performance enhancements. It might not be worthwhile to pursue an improvement to an area of the application that consumes only 10% of the total resource consumed by the system. Finally, remember Alexander’s Law: it is faster not to do something than to do it fast. Sometimes, there is just no need to include the expensive activity in the application at all.
Actual execution of performance measurement and analysis takes time, attention, and physical resources. Sometimes, due to lack of planning ahead of time, a dedicated hardware environment is not available for performance measurement and data collection activities. In these cases, performance activities might be executed on a physical environment that is shared with system integration test or on the production environment as it is being prepared for use. Each case presents challenges to successful execution of the Performance Plan.
By its nature, performance measurement and analysis are disruptive activities, making them unsuitable for sharing a system integration test environment with other activities. One goal of performance measurement is to drive the system under test to complete saturation of physical resources in order to measure maximum sustainable load. Similarly, sensitive response time measurements can be polluted by other test activities running on the machines at the same time. For this reason, it is common to see time-sharing policies used for sharing performance measurement hardware among multiple activities. Time sharing is better than simultaneous use but limits the rate at which progress can be made. Performance analysis is an iterative process, requiring painstaking attention to detail and changing only one parameter at a time. Time sharing reduces the total number of iterations that can be completed within a day.
In some cases, it appears better to execute pre-production performance measurement and analysis activities on the actual production hardware as it is being prepared for use. This might seem like a good idea because it is desirable that the performance test environment match the production environment as closely as possible. Using the same physical machines certainly delivers a good match in this regard. However, after the production environment is deployed to the business, it is no longer available for continued performance measurement activities. Continued measurement as new versions of the application are developed is critical for avoiding release to release regression. Continued measurement is also critical for long term capacity planning activities.
For these reasons, plan early for allocation of a dedicated performance measurement and analysis environment for use during initial application development and longer-term use.
As a business process state management system, IBM Business Process Manager applications make heavy use of their database, writing state to ensure it is preserved. Furthermore, IBM Business Process Manager allows a flexible infrastructure for describing business data to be stored with the business process and then retrieving those process instances from storage. From a database perspective, this means that IBM Business Process Manager applications are both read-intensive and write-intensive. Close collaboration between the business process management administrator and the database administrator is recommended, as performance analysis must be approached as an end-to-end activity, considering the entire system.
Traditional database analysis using operating system and database tools to identify memory needs, I/O behavior, slow executing SQL statements and similar issues apply to business process management applications and work well. It is critical to ensure that the database server has sufficient physical memory available and that it is backed by a fast disk subsystem (RAID or SAN are common enterprise solutions). Optimization of database indexes is another important activity for the database administrator (DBA) and the business process management administrator to address. IBM Business Process Manager does create a comprehensive set of indexes at install time. However, because there is performance overhead associated with index maintenance, it only creates indexes that are beneficial to the majority of IBM Business Process Manager applications. Every application will benefit from additional index analysis and this analysis is often critical to get the best performance from a system. Again, an iterative approach works best – use your performance simulation and load test to identify long running SQL statements, use the database query plan advisor to identify indexes that might be beneficial and conduct measurements with and without these new indexes to evaluate their effectiveness, only accepting those that deliver the expected benefit.
In addition to the ongoing performance analysis and optimization that occurs during the application development cycle, most enterprises require formal performance verification, including a successful load test as one of the requirements before releasing the application to production. Executing this part of the plan requires simulating full production load (or perhaps greater than full production load) against a fully functional system that is running the application. However, this type of simulation does not mean that the first measurements must be executed at full load, even at the final verification stage. Returning to a small load and monitoring resource consumption as the load increases continues to be good practice and aids in discovery of performance tuning requirements or potential bottlenecks. Final verification should be executed on hardware that matches the production servers as closely as possible. This final verification applies to the servers that host external services and to the servers that host IBM Business Process Manager. In some cases, the final performance verification can call out to the actual production servers hosting web services endpoints, but this is often possible. In either case, the concurrency and throughput characteristics of the endpoints should match those of the production servers.
In addition to validation of the performance characteristics of the business process application, it is worth spending a moment to think about validation of the performance objectives themselves. One common issue observed in performance plans associated with IBM Business Process Manager applications is that the objectives are actually too high. How does this come about? Typically, performance engineers look at the user interface elements that make up a solution and design think times based on a reasonable person completing the form. Perhaps this form can be completed in 30 seconds. So the performance engineer builds a simulation with a think time of 30 seconds per human task completion. Next, the total user population is analyzed, and it is determined that the system needs to support a few thousands of concurrent users. Putting these two pieces together creates a performance plan that requires the system to support the completion of thousands of tasks and many hundreds of business process instances per minute. It is a good idea to validate the throughput implied by the performance objectives against actual business requirements in addition to the number of concurrent users. In some cases, performance verification exercises actually simulate several months’ worth of business activity in a period of a few hours. When this is intended, it is a fantastic result; when unintentional, it can lead to some confusion.
Good performance practice does not end when the application is released to production. The same resource monitoring tools and skills built up for performance evaluation during application development are extremely useful long term and should be a part of the IT monitoring practice for any enterprise application. Observation of patterns in CPU or memory utilization on IBM Business Process Manager and database servers can help identify approaching capacity issues before they become apparent to the business. In particular, collecting verbose garbage collection statistics (-verbose:gc on the Java command line) and using a graphical visualization tool (such as PMAT: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=22d56091-3a7b-4497-b36e-634b51838e11) to inspect them is an inexpensive way to monitor the pulse of the application. Many IT departments depend on automated systems of monitoring key resources and sending alerts when thresholds are exceeded.
Long-term performance health of a business process management solution requires a maintenance plan. The databases that contain operational data for IBM Business Process Manager are optimized for rapid execution of business process activities, not for long term retention and access of that data. So, it is recommended that a retention period be established for the data associated with business process instances that have completed. The actual amount of time that these completed instances need to be retained will vary from one business to another, but after that period expires, those instances should be removed from the server using the appropriate tools. Business monitoring tools, such as the Performance Data Warehouse and IBM Business Monitor, are optimized for processing this data for long-term storage and retrieval.
After an application has been available in production for a while, a time will come when capacity planning is needed. Perhaps an application is popular and business users interact with it more frequently or the application is rolled out to a larger community. The experience gained from performance verification exercises and IT monitoring of the application in the production environment is the best input to planning future capacity. Resource consumption models usually follow predictable patterns, so it is often possible to project tomorrow’s needs based on a thorough understanding of today’s behavior. Also, many enterprises use their load test to ensure enough head room is available to provide a buffer against capital expenditures. Load testing at 150% of projected peak load gives some confidence that the system will be able to handle a growing business and might provide lead time in case additional capacity is required.
A wholesale company provides an online parts sales operation where it handles direct orders that are placed by their business partners. Consider a business process application, MyAuditApp, whose goal is to review order data submitted by a business partner for correctness. After the review is complete, the order is sent to another application (perhaps an existing system, not implemented in IBM Business Process Manager) for processing. In this case, the audit process contains two stages. The first stage in the audit is relatively simple, is fully automated, and is required for all orders. The second stage is more complex and requires human oversight, but it is needed only if the first stage of the audit reveals a potential issue.
Performance objectives for the two stages of the application are distinct but are linked. This company knows that it needs to be able to process 30,000 orders per day, distributed throughout a 12-hour period, but with peaks of 4,000 orders in any given hour. These requirements establish a throughput objective for the overall application of about 1.1 process instances per second. To allow some head room, a formal performance objective of 1.5 process instances per second is established for the stage of the application that handles the automated processing.
Because the business knows that 90% of all orders are handled successfully by the automated stage of processing, a formal objective of 0.15 process instances per second is established for the manual stage of the application. In addition, the corporate standard of a 2-second response time for all UI elements (measured at the 90th percentile) is accepted for all stages of the processing, except for initial login and final submission of the audit completion form. These operations are expected to complete in 5 seconds (again, measured at the 90th percentile).
Even though MyAuditApp is a single business process application implemented in IBM Business Process Manager, it clearly has two separate facets. So the performance analysis engineer decides to model the performance simulation as though it were two separate applications. The first half of the simulation is easy to construct. Because all the interactions are automated, perhaps with communication occurring via Java Message Service (JMS) and WebService interactions, software components can be written to drive the application using exactly the same interfaces that will be used in production. Furthermore, because this phase of processing is the most straightforward, the application development team decides to implement it first while requirements determination and initial playbacks of the human interface elements of the application take place. In this way, early performance analysis of the first stage of the application begins before the entire application is fully developed.
Performance simulation for the manual stage of MyAuditApp proceeds differently, because it must account for human interactions, which occur through a web browser and communicate with the IBM Business Process Manager server via REST interactions. Response time evaluation will be executed using the same corporate standard web browser that the business users will use. Evaluation of actual response times when interacting with the application will begin early in application development and will continue as new functionality is added. Any new function that regresses response times beyond acceptable limits will be re-engineered during the next development iteration to ensure that this type of work does not accumulate.
In parallel, work begins to construct the load test simulation that will be used to evaluate throughput metrics for the human-centric stage of the application. An HTTP simulator tool (such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or Rational Performance Tester) is used to record the browser interactions that are required to start and complete a process instance. Then, the tool can simulate many users interacting with the system in the same way. Data pools are used to allow each simulated user to log in to the IBM Business Process Manager server under distinct credentials. The HTTP simulation tool also allows retention of user tokens so that correlation of HTTP session data can be handled by the IBM Business Process Manager server, just as though the load were supplied by a collection of distinct web browsers. After the application has been certified functionally complete, and concurrent with system integration test of the application, load tests begin. The IBM Business Process Manager server is "pre-loaded" with a number of process instances available to work on and the database is backed up so that future measurements can begin from a controlled state. Measurements begin with a single user, ensuring that response times observed within the simulator are consistent with actual browser interactions and that resource consumption on the IBM Business Process Manager server, Database server, LDAP server and all external service provider machines appear reasonable. After this, load is gradually increased until the system successfully processes 0.15 business process instances per second, while maintaining 90th percentile response times faster than 2 seconds. Any issues observed as load increases are resolved before increasing load. In this case, the sizes of thread pools and database connection pools need to be increased from the default in order to allow the desired concurrency. Also, two new database indexes are identified based on the data access patterns of the application.
Performance measurement and analysis continues in this way, systematically increasing the capability of the system under test and of the applied load, until the performance architect is satisfied that the application and the infrastructure upon which it will be executed are capable of achieving the goals.
Generation and execution of a successful performance plan requires integration across many different types of boundaries, both physical and social. Business Process Integration itself is also a key objective for many IBM Business Process Manager solutions, automating and orchestrating activities across a wide array of software systems connected via REST, JDBC, LDAP, and web service protocols. The software solution’s end-to-end performance will be limited by the slowest element within the execution chain. Similarly, effective communication across all of the teams that contribute to the application-–from the business community through the application development team to the infrastructure and administration teams-–can play a significant role in the success of the project.
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Q: Let me ask you a question, MARTH? I hear you are working as a producer for a resort. I know you are a resort specialist, but what made you name this resort “Lastra Mu”?
“Lastra“ of “Lastra Mu” means a stone tablet in the Italian language. Maybe it has the same root as the stone tablet of Moses‘ Ten Commandments. I also think it comes from “Las Torah”. I added “Mu” after that. Then, it becomes “the stone tablet of Mu”, which means “the spiritual book of Mu” and the stone tablet of Nacaal.
They say that what is written on the tablets is everything is unknown, mystical, not this world, that everything is a manifestation of love as it is One Being with the quality of oneness as written in the Heart Sutra. It is the same as “Return to One Source” which Japanese samurais often mentioned. Therefore, it is connected with the path of the samurai. “Return to One Source” means that everything returns to the space of oneness, in other words, conflicts and separations are nothing but a dream, and the real truth is the love of oneness… I profoundly feel that it is most important to return to the true reality, to the unknown and mystical, to the love of oneness.
The New Age people often call it “reality”, but the true reality strongly expresses that it is unknown, mystical, not this world, and everything is within the love of oneness. The one being means that we return to the one being, to the oneness, which is the absolute reality, when we meditate and return to Shinga and enter into death.
If you experience being in Shinga itself, you will profoundly feel you are the one being, in other words, you will have a sense that you are Shinga itself… That may be the reason why some people say something strange and egoistical such as “I am God”.
This may be the reason why some New Age people misunderstand their experience as they feel “I am the whole universe. I am God himself ” in deep meditation. I think, when all lives, all people return to the true and deep essence and regain the higher self (the true self), they will return to Itself. You will find that you are Shinga, and Shinga itself is you at that time. However, everybody will return there. That means that the self who you think the self will be the self for all people. I feel the whole universe is made in such way.
I talked about this topic with Nezu-san (Mr. Zenko Onagi), who is a specialist of Kojiki and other Japan’s historical records. I have never read Kojiki before. He told me the same thing was written in it. Nezu-san told me everything in this world is embraced within Amenominakanushi according to Kojiki. I was happy to hear that because Kojiki reminded me of Isaiahnagid, Isaiah.
And everybody is this very thing, which is connected as one, unknown and mystical in reality. All people who are purified and returned to the true self are beautiful gods, and they will be embraced by Shinga forever. I cannot but feel it is incredibly beautiful and magnificent. I think it will be inevitable for humanity to realize it. It may be the origin of the ancient Veda and all religions of the world. I feel it is loving wisdom of humanity which existed in ancient times.
The ancient science may come from Shinga… That means it is different from the present science based on a value of separation of the left brain. It was the science based on a belief that everything is not a reality. It is entirely different from science based on an idea that everything is a reality. It may often be quite the opposite.
The ancient science, the science of a civilization presently called Mu, and the ancient incredibly excellent science is born out of the right brain based on the truth of un-reality. It is based on that everything is unknown and mystical, that this world is not a reality. For this reason, it is natural that it deals with plasma and like a Siddha, which seems psychic when it is seen from a belief that this world is a reality.
It cannot be helped that there is a difference between the New Age or spiritual scientists who have learned the science, which is rooted that the world is not a reality, psychic, ethereal, Siddhi-like, and those who have learned the science, which is the left-brain-like, based on an idea that this world is a reality.
It is quite natural that the science based on a belief of reality and the one created by Socrates, Platon and other scientists who realized that the unreality is the reality, is not compatible. I sometimes see the people with such different ideas fighting each other on the television. It is certain that they end up in fighting without such awareness.
However, we will enter into the time based on the true reality. It will be the time when all people realize the truth that this world is unknown and mystical, and it is not this world. Scientists being aware of it, science will be the quality of plasma, which goes way beyond the existing science. It will be a wonderful, dream-like quantum science based on phenomenons in the mystical, unknown and unrealistic world. Otherwise, humanity may be ruined because of a sense of separation.
Q: I have a question for you, MARTH. I saw a poster about so-called power spot of love at the station the other day. It said that we will be overwhelmed by natural power; we will receive love vibrations and so on. I felt something egoistically wrong with is, but I was not sure what the problem is. What do you think of it, MARTH?
Q: I feel you are a leader of the New Age and the healing industry, MARTH. So, I dare to ask you this question. I often hear some New Age people say that they are a reincarnation of such and such or they are chosen by God. Why do they say so? I feel religious problems come from the same source. What do you say about it?
MARTH: You’re right. Unfortunately, every problem comes from our value of separation. Everybody wants to win, become better, excel others, become somebody, and he doesn’t want to lose… Not only leaders but the ordinary people have such fear coming from desires, wants and a value of separation, which makes us have such tendency. They meant no harm, but because of a belief in the self and the other, we want to improve the self and to win, never want to be looked down within the separated society of the ego. That is one of the big problems.
And another important thing is, everybody returns to Shinga (the true self) when we enter into a deep meditative state. As I mentioned before, you will experience such values like “return to the Source” “Return to the one being” “this world is nothing but a dream”. Then, there will be neither separation between God and the self, nor separation between the self and some other, nor a sense of reality. You will be gone and return to the ocean of oneness. You will have no value of separation at that time.
We often hear someone says “I am a reincarnation of Cleopatra or Princess Yang Kwei-Fei “. If you look closely at her, she looks very much alike her counterpart. She may feel that she is a reincarnation of a certain person with similar consciousness. However, all human beings, including those who believe in a devil, are connected as one. We are one being. If we lose the ego through a deep meditation and return to love, we will return to the one being. In such an experience, we will feel, “Alas! All things in this world are being manifested as One Being.“ Everything is the self, or there is no self, we could say. We will feel we are included in One Being.
Therefore, rather than you are a reincarnation of someone in the ancient times, this ancient person reached such consciousness. This is nothing but my personal feeling. I feel this way through my past experiences of repeatedly coming back to Shinga or the space of oneness. It is neither that someone is superior or inferior to others, nor he is better or worse. All human beings, insects, birds, flowers and everything will return there.
Everything is connected as one. In spite of a difference of the time, we are connected as one with the people in the Jomon era and have the same consciousness. The true meaning of a consciousness level in the New Age is shown within a range of the higher level of selflessness and the lower level of the ego. If there is someone who has reached the same conscious level as you, he can be a reincarnation of you. As everything is connected as one, there is only a difference of a consciousness level.
What is most important for us to create the millennium more than anything is to return to Shinga, to the higher self, to God consciousness and to love which a child of God has… Just like the divine people in the ancient time were called a certain name of God, and like I.naghid was called God… I wonder if it is our task to return to a beautiful person. I wonder if we need to return to a beautiful person like Ra Mu, Buddha, Socrates, OSHO Rajnessh, J. Krishnamurti, Ramana Maharish.
I think all of us have to return to Shinga, which is the true quality of humanity, to love, to oneness, to the one source. Isn’t it a mission for all human beings? I feel that way.
If I answer your question with a personal viewpoint, I think something uncertain that you are concerned about will be gone when we return to Shinga or the oneness, and we are able to regain loving consciousness. And no people will try to win over others, excel them, not to lose, become somebody because of fear. I personally feel that human beings will experience the world of oneness, of love for the first time.
subsequently to “MINOR LINE – The Road to the East” recorded in Prague on Nov. 11, 2018 (11.11.11).
“The Road to the East – to make a land of love, to be a model world” is born now.
The following lyrics are based on a legend of I.naghit.
It is born after MARTH deeply accessed to the beautiful and sincere heart of I.naghit.
and keep a peaceful relation with neighboring countries.
My ancestors from my father’s side lived in Jindai on Awajishima Island for generations. My father raised me, giving me intent guidance according to legendary teachings of I.naghit. He was a man of sincerity and justice. He looked like a samurai who dared to risk his life for happiness of the people. My father was an officer at Ministry of Justice. In the later years, he was transferred to Tokyo Prosecutor’s Office.
After he resigned his position, he said he would be a fisherman in Izu. Instead he immediately retired from the world. He had been a man of justice and beauty all through his life. He told me every day not to win over others, not to become better or great, not to boost the ego, not to think ill of others even if hurt by them, hope for friends, love them, contribute to our country and live a life, pursuing justice.
who was a good friend of MARTH. He passed away due to scirrhous carcinoma (cancer).
His children support MARTH as his staff now.
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Q:Dear MARTH, isn’t it good that we strengthen the ego, get enlightened, and become great?
When we boost the ego or strengthen it, do we really get better? And or, how about that we reflect on us or feel sorry for others, saying, “I hurt my mom and dad’s feeling. I’m sorry I didn’t take much care of them.” “I feel sorry I didn’t love my children enough. ““I am sorry I had been defiant to my friends, to my boss, to my teacher, to everyone”? In other words, this is when we have a small ego (sense of separation). Which is happier and comforting for us, that is, when our ego is destroyed, or when we boost the ego and strengthen it?
Let us call it a way to live life. Which way to live life will bring us a beautiful future? Is it when we praise ourselves, saying, “I am strong. I am great. I will not lose. I will win.” Or, is it when we reflect on us, “I ruined everything. I am very sorry. I want to apologize to my father and mother. I am sorry for my friends and comrades. “Which way to live a life is consciousness of God, of love, of the whole universe and of purity? Which is able to bring us a beautiful future?
In a self-help seminar where we witness the self, we say, “What it is in the state of beginning will be there in the future.” If we keep the primary consciousness, we will realize such being exist in future. In other words, if we act out of fear or of bad intention, we will see a bad result in future. In this sense, is a state of our consciousness better when we boost the ego, feel uplifted, become self-conceited, and get irritated? Or, is our energy better when we end the ego (a sense of separation), return to the original small self or to the one source, get grounded, reflect on ourselves, ask ourselves, “I am sorry. I should have helped them. I should have supported them. I should have done this or that”, reflect inwardly and feel sorry for our mistakes and so on?
And I dare to tell you that we are love, consciousness of a child of God, and the whole universe, which is the true quality of humanity only when we reflect on ourselves without boosting the ego, or uplifting it. And when we live with such awareness, we will see the present world beautiful. We return to love, the true essence, when we end the ego.
We can see the world as darkness. At that time, we boost the ego; feel excited, thus we are fearful. As the ego is strengthened, fear will be bigger. A sense of separation is a sense of fear. When we reflect on ourselves, feel sorry, and our ego is diminished, we will see everyone is loving in fact whether we ride on a train or walking on the street. It is what comfort really means.
hen we see our sadness with such standpoint of view, when we are pure enough to reflect on ourselves, “I haven’t been able to live in love, I fought with my friends again, I tried not to lose pretending to be tough again, I felt defiant to my rival as always today”, we will be able to return to bliss in fact.
That is love and consciousness of a child of God. That is in reality the true essence of humanity. When we are there, we are happy. We will see the world beautiful. Therefore, uplifting the ego, boosting it and protecting it will not be good for the beautiful world, for the world of love and comfort.
I mean to say the true essence of this world is oneness. It is connected as one, love, selflessness. It is also that we are not part but the whole. We are incredibly unknown and mystical. This is the true quality of the world. If you boost the ego, assert yourself and protect yourself in the world of oneness, your happiness, as part of the existence, will be damaged. Humanity doesn’t know it very well.
If you say; “No, I won’t be a loser. I, I, I will win! I’ll be good! I’ll be great!”, you will put yourself into darkness, to an obstacle race. It is because that is against your quality of love. If you boost the ego, you will lose the quality of oneness. Love means being connected as one. And you will find peace, happiness, success, prosperity and everything in love. If you lose love, and if you boost the ego, assert yourself, protect the ego and do everything to strengthen the ego, you, as a cell, are not it, but strangely and drastically stand out. It means you have become a cancer cell or a tumor.
Humanity must sincerely realize it and learn about it. It is not important to boost the ego or to make a cell bigger. It will eventually become a cancer or a bad cell. Therefore, the reason why you don’t see the world loving and beautiful is because you have identified yourself with the ego. It is not because of outer factors. It is nothing but that you have been able to see sadness not to live in love.
What is truly profitable for us?
Q: Let me ask you a question, MARTH. I think the world is in a great turmoil… It seems we human beings have reached limits in the existing way of life. How can we make the world better? How can we realize peace in the world?
First of all, we need to change our values by knowing what is profitable and what is not for ourselves (part of the existence) in reality. Certainly, the best way is that we will live together with love and joy by diminishing our value of separation of the ego, increasing peacefulness in a sense of oneness and gradually losing a sense of interests of the ego, which is an illusion.
However, we human beings are made to believe in a value of separation seriously. Simply speaking, separation means the ego (boosting the ego).
Human beings and animals have come to understand a limited range as the self because of five senses given by God for our conveniences. And giving everything a name has brought us a sense of separation.
In fact, everything in the entire universe is us. We, part of the existence, are given five senses to bear different part. Eventually we feel a certain range is the self. We manage to live in the universe, considering we bear a certain range, role, and responsibility of the self. It is not bad in itself. It is also true, however, that we will strengthen a sense of separation because of this understanding.
It’s amazing how things work out in the universe. It will not work as we think. The universe created our five senses with which we are likely to separate and even let us separate. However, as soon as we (part of the universe) act or move separately, it will give us a hard time to awaken us. Such built-in mechanism of the universe will not give us a verbal message. It is quite troublesome.
We need to be always aware of Atman, being one and connected, unknown and mystical to protect us, which is part of the existence. If we seriously believe in the ego and act according to it, have a value of competition, comparison and conflict, we will fall into a hard time because of an awakening message from the universe. It has been happening to us since the ancient times… We have engaged ourselves in believing in the ego, protecting it, preserving it and boosting it without knowing such mechanism of the universe.
However, the universe doesn’t care at all. It doesn’t mind whether we humans believe in the ego and become worse. It doesn’t mind whether someone tries to boost the ego, protect it, has various ambitions, desires and aspirations. The universe will just give us a hard time when it happens. Then, we, part of the whole universe, will be stunned, say, “Wow! No, this doesn’t work! I was wrong. It’s painful. I’m not happy at all. Oh, no! This is not a good idea. Please forgive me” and return to the selflessness. This is a mechanism to make the ego to diminish, and dejected.
Therefore, we will have a hard time if we don’t realize the mechanism of the universe. “Why doesn’t everything work out? I should have succeeded. I should have won.” However, everything will not work out as expected as ambitions of the ego don’t fit the whole universe. The ego is a separation. It doesn’t fit the principle of oneness of the universe. The universe will give us a hard time. And, we are the universe ourselves. “If God doesn’t find me, if the universe doesn’t find me, it will be no problem. I can deceive them…” However, we are the universe (love). We are part of God. We are part of the whole universe. That is, we as God will find us deceive them. Everybody is the same without partiality.
In other words, people who realize oneness of the universe, its unknown and mystical quality, love themselves who seem others, neither fight with themselves who seem others, nor boost the ego, nor protect the ego, nor deceive people, nor trap them, nor attack them, will be quickly happy. And people of the pure heart who work for the whole universe will be beautiful and feel true prosperity and happiness… This is how the cosmic law works. However, most of human beings haven’t realized it yet. They don’t know it deeply. This is the reason why they will have a hard time.
What if humanity will know the law itself? At present, humanity doesn’t know it very well. They believe in the ego, become highly ambitious, try to get a fame, honor, boost the ego, protect it, deceive others, attack them, and take from them. Believing it works in the egoistical society, people praise themselves, “I have become so great… I am so awesome!!” At that time, however, the universe will start working. He is the universe himself… He is part of God… If he says, “Nobody is watching me!” You are watching yourself, however. You are God himself.
And the universe is meant only to work that way. It is satisfied with it. We are given five senses to fix us (part of the existence) by ourselves (part of the existence), to bear us by ourselves. However, if we believe in the separation seriously and consider the part as the self, we will have a hard time. They (five senses) are given to us for our mere convenience. They are only functions. It is only that each part bears each different part.
nd we have each different characteristic as children of the universe. Everybody has magnificent abilities given from gods, the universe and love. However, if we use it not for the universe, nor the whole, but for the ego, and if we try to excel others, deceive them, attack them with a sense of separation, we will end our days in unhappiness.
Even if you say, “I’ve got a position and honor! I am great!”, you may ruin yourself in pain. Or if you live for the ego, saying, “I will rebel those in power! I will abandon my job, seclude myself in the riverbed or home, and live freely!”, your wonderful ability given from the universe will be wasted and definitely destroyed as its retaliation.
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Whether or not it is there. The Google released the update “Panda” of its algorithm for searches in Portuguese in mid-August. With the change, researches tend to have more complete results, since algorithm which determines the most important (and least significant) network is smarter and search more complete information. Or should seek.
Google said last week it expects to have the help of users – especially those who work with Internet – to detect the Google Panda failures. And let me tell you right now: it is not one or two but several.
For this, they released a form (based on Google Docs) that must be filled by those who understand the practice of scraper – when a page copied content appears in front of that considered original.
Here in our site we detected a stunning drop in the number of accesses to our pages originating from Google. In theory, the TB fell in the ranking of the most trusted sites of Google. Our content is less interesting than Google once considered so deserve less access.
In practice, that checks people is that fans sites of “copy and paste” are taking advantage. For some searches, content originally published here on TB and reproduced without taking away or put on other sites is rankeando better. This means that the dailies appear in front of the pages our site, a serious and remarkable error in the Google algorithm.
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An Artificial Intelligence company that's on a mission to simplify the content generation process in the digital media industry. We are building a semantic content generation engine for next generation writers and bloggers. Our Contentop app is the first step towards bringing artificial intelligence to content writing.
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Costain has secured Government funding for a £1 million project that aims to dramatically reduce the amount of nuclear waste needing to be stored.
Working with partners MDecon, Tetronics International and the University of Manchester, the Manchester-based Costain team will develop new ways to treat irradiated graphite from decommissioned nuclear reactors. The project will begin in April 2015 and will last three years.
Funding has come from a joint £13 million initiative between Innovate UK (formerly known as the Technology Strategy Board), the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to stimulate the UK’s civil nuclear power sector.
The Costain-led project will be tackling a major issue facing the industry, said Dr Bryony Livesey, Costain Head of Research and Technology.
“Irradiated graphite is one of the key challenges in the decommissioning and radioactive waste management of legacy nuclear facilities, both in the UK and internationally. Graphite is a very bulky form of radioactive waste that is difficult to remove from the reactor core at the end of life. If it is removed from the core it represents a large, and hence expensive, waste stream for storage and subsequent burial. This disadvantage has led to the current strategy of leaving graphite ‘in-situ’ in shut-down reactors until waste facilities become available.
Commented Alex Vaughan, Managing Director, Natural Resources: "Costain continues to develop new innovative solutions with its partners to meet many of our country’s national needs. We are delighted with the continued progress in developing this ambitious solution."
The decommissioning market is set to expand, with up to 145 reactors, mostly in Europe, expected to reach the end of their lives in the next 15 years. The global decommissioning market is estimated to be worth £50 billion annually.
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This cabin is 468 sq. ft. and can hold a maximum of 6 people. There are 2 bedrooms in this cabin, both with two twin beds. There is also a sleeper sofa in the living room.
This cabin offers privacy while still having a wonderful view of the lake. This cabin sits just behind cabins #2 and #3 and thus no other cabins are on either side of it. There is great parking alongside the main driveway which makes for easy access for our guests who wish to take their boat on and off the property to fish surrounding lakes.
For the 2016 season, this cabin underwent major renovations in the kitchen, dining room, living room, and bathroom areas. This cabin has an open-concept design in the kitchen, dining, and living room areas with all new flooring installed in these areas. A beautiful rough-sawn basswood vaulted ceiling is now over the kitchen and dining room areas. A new window installed over the kitchen sink provides for lots of additional light coming in as well as another beautiful view of Jessie Lake. The bathroom was also completely remodeled and equipped with a brand new vanity, 36-inch shower, and new flooring.
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The upper graph shows the growing senior population contrasted to the diminishing birth rate.
The lower graphs show the growing difference in total population and total work-eligible population aged 15-64.
The United States provides retirement security for the elderly and disabled in a number of ways: Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security are the main components of the social welfare program. Each of these systems is financed primarily with payroll taxes called the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) tax. The underlying philosophy is that the able should pay for the healthcare of those unable to pay for themselves due to age or disability in the hopes that one day the next generation does the same for them. Sound logic to be sure, but what happens when the previous generation failed to repopulate the nation in the same way their parents did? What happens when this trend is repeated through one, two, three, or four generations? For a long time analysts have been warning about the coming drought in the Social Security Administration coffers, but more and more it is starting to appear that it may be just over the horizon.
Using Forecasting functionality from ATSD, current population figures and birth data, models may be created to predict trends in the potential American population crisis.
All data is sourced from the United States Federal Reserve FRED database.
Data is visualized using Trends, a public instance of ATSD with subsets of public data from organizations like the United States Federal Reserve, the Central Bank of Israel, the SEC, FCC, and other government agencies.
Implement Forecasting for a five year period.
Open the Trends visualization and use the drop-down list to navigate through time to compare working-aged population to the United States total population.
Fig 2: The portion of the population eligible for work (aged between 15 and 64) is shown in purple, while the remaining ineligible population is shown in red.
The upper Histogram Chart plots the frequency of each value of annual crude births per one thousand persons; the lower Histogram Chart tracks the 65+ population by percentage. Deceptively, the data seems to show that the average amount of births outperforms the aging population, but when scaled to 100, in fact, the aged population severely outnumbers the amount of crude births which are occurring.
Fig 3: Open the Trends visualization and modify the number of bars in either histogram using a bar-count setting for more granularized data visualization.
Using the value setting, create derived series with existing data. Here, the working-aged population is subtracted from the total population to create a new series which is then visualized.
# Example configuration for calculating and visualizing an ad hoc derived series.
# Each series is given an alias, display setting is false (series is only used for calculation).
Each of the target series is given an alias which is then used to create the calculated series. For more information about creating calculated series in Trends or ChartLab, refer to the Calculated Series Tutorial.
Fig 4: The Box Chart and Histogram Chart establish the median and range values of the dataset, which are then used in the alert-expression, which alerts when a condition is satisfied. Here, the condition colors a bar red if it is greater than the calculated median value. This shows that since late 1998, the number of people deemed ineligible to work has surpassed the calculated median value and continued to grow.
Use Data Forecasting in ATSD to model future trends based on existing data.
Refer to Resources to download the complete configuration used in this forecast or reference the abbreviated table below for a basic understanding of the underlying mathematics.
The results for each of the original metrics are shown below for 20 years into the future.
Fig 5: The original data is shown here with forecasts showing the potentially widening gap between those eligible to pay in to the Social Security system and those needing to be paid out from that system.
Scale Data Forecasting to work with per annum data as seen here just as readily as millisecond-frequency data input from a sensor or other device.
Using forecasting, the continuation of mathematical trends is readily observable. Forecasts may include periodicity settings for data which is repetitive over some interval. In this example, only mathematical factors have been considered which any sociologist would say is flawed methodology since population reproduction is the result of an array of complicated non-mathematical factors as well. However, strictly mathematical modeling is often used to predict trends under the assumption that social factors remain constant for a given period of time.
For detailed information about configuring the Forecasting tool, see this guide.
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The first on our listing of deep sea creatures is the fangtooth fish. This fish is one of the most evil looking ocean predators. It lives in the deep ocean and catches its prey by luring them in with glowing light organs referred to as photophores. In such a darkish abyss, fish are drawn to the light delay by the organ and as soon as they are shut sufficient the fangtooth fish catches them in his numerous giant teeth. For more about alpaca 2014 have a look at our own website. He seems to be like an underwater vampire. One other carnivorous sea animal is the deep-sea lizardfish. These interesting fish look virtually like a brief snake in water. Their mouths are covered with harpoon-tipped teeth that grasp their prey and don't let go, just like a fish hook. These teeth are hinged so that they can flattened down when prey is going in and stand up when resisting. They don’t even must actively swallow; the struggling prey just ratchets itself inside.
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This article will be reviewing the Contender Fight Sports Heavy Hitter Body Protector. A body protector is a tool for practicing various striking drills involving hits to the body without needing the striker to hold back their power. Do not mistake this body protector for the slimmer and lighter chest protector used in point fighting competitions. The body protector is a larger version of the belly pad used by Muay Thai practitioners and is commonly paired with focus mitts or thai pads.
Physical Appearance: Simple and clean looking body protector. This Contender body protector is only available in the color scheme shown in the featured image.
Padding: Contender’s body protector has thick foam paddings that absorbs and distribute the impacts from each strike thrown during mitt holding sessions. It will protect your abdomen and sternum. Furthermore, this body protector has extra padding extended from the midsection and the sides.
Exterior Material: Synthetic leather covers the front side of the padding. Material used on the backside of the body shield is a soft fabric. This fabric will absorb sweat and is not as easy to clean as the synthetic leather.
Adjustable Straps: The Contender body protector has two straps that will run over your trapezius and crisscrosses behind the back. Another strap runs along your lower back. Each of these straps are made out of heavy nylon.
Strap Buckles: The buckles connecting the waist straps together are made out of plastic. This feature means you can quickly and easily put on the body protector without assistance. In addition to that, you are able to adjust the waist straps tightness after locking the buckles together, as needed.
This video shows an example of how the Contender Body Protector can be integrated into your training sessions.
The ability to adjust the tightness of all the straps is a great feature, since you can alter it to fit different body types, especially if you are taking turns being the pad holder. However, I do not believe the Contender body protector is ideal for slim body types. It does not fit as snug to my body as I would like. After putting the body protector on and adjusting the waist straps as tight as I could, there is still a small gap between my sides and the body protector. That said, the body protector does not really shift too much and stays in place, for the most part, when strikes to the side of the body like hooks and kicks are thrown.
Even though the Contender body protector is large and thick, its foam padding is relatively light. This is beneficial because it allows individuals to use it for long extended period of time without having the body protector feel too overbearing and causing fatigue to their trapeziuses.
The synthetic leather may not be as durable as genuine leather, but its combination with the Contender body protector’s quality construction provides a tough and sturdy training accessory. Furthermore, the straps on my body protector has not shown any sign of wear and tear yet. However, I do notice that threads in different parts of the body protector is coming loose over time. For example, the nylon strap is still solid, but the threads attaching it to the body protector are getting a bit loose in the corners.
I find the plastic buckles for fastening the body protector’s waist straps together to be better than velcro straps used in other body protectors and belly pads. With these buckles, you do not have to worry about the straps coming apart during training or how the velcro’s stickiness may wear out over time.
The thick and dense padding by the body protector can absorb all types of striking techniques, such as punches, knees and kicks. It may not prevent you from feeling strikes being thrown at 100% power by a larger opponent. However, you should be able to take what is left of the power transferring to your body. The protection for the sternum is a nice touch, since it allows you to work on targeting your strikes directly to the sternum and this opportunity does not exist with a belly pad.
I have found the Contender Body Protector to be available for sale in the price range of $50-80, excluding shipping and tax. I would recommend doing a little research to save yourself some money if you are truly interested in this product. A typical body protector range from as low as $30 to well over $200. If you could find the Contender body protector at the lower end of the price range listed initially, then I believe this equipment would be a great investment at a reasonable price for developing and progressing the stand up skills for you and your fellow training partners.
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An FCC ID is the product ID assigned by the FCC to identify wireless products in the market. The FCC chooses 3 or 5 character "Grantee" codes to identify the business that created the product. For example, the grantee code for FCC ID: 2AI3KCS24NA is 2AI3K. The remaining characters of the FCC ID, CS24NA, are often associated with the product model, but they can be random. These letters are chosen by the applicant. In addition to the application, the FCC also publishes internal images, external images, user manuals, and test results for wireless devices. They can be under the "exhibits" tab below.
Output Power listed is the maximum conducted output power. SAR compliance for body-worn operating configurations is limited to belt-clips and holsters that have no metallic components in the assembly and cause the device to operate with the minimum separation distance of 1.0-cm, as described in this filing. End-users must be informed of the body-worn operating requirements for satisfying RF exposure compliance. The highest reported SAR for head, body-worn accessory, product specific, and simultaneous transmission conditions are < 0.10 W/kg, < 0.10 W/kg, < 0.10 W/kg, and 1.29 W/kg, respectively. This device supports 20 and 40 MHz bandwidth modes.
Output Power is EIRP and ERP for above and below 1 GHz, respectively. SAR compliance for body-worn operating configurations is limited to belt-clips and holsters that have no metallic components in the assembly and cause the device to operate with the minimum separation distance of 1.0-cm, as described in this filing. End-users must be informed of the body-worn operating requirements for satisfying RF exposure compliance. The highest reported SAR for head, body-worn accessory, product specific (wireless router), and simultaneous transmission and product specific (10-g SAR) exposure conditions are 0.52 W/kg, 1.10 W/kg, 1.29 W/kg, 1.290 W/kg, and 1.08 W/kg, respectively. This device supports LTE of 1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15, and 20 MHz bandwidth modes for FDD LTE Bands 2 and 4; LTE of 5, 10, 15, and 20 MHz bandwidth modes for FDD LTE Band 7; and LTE of 1.4, 3, 5, and 10 MHz bandwidth modes for FDD LTE Bands 5 and 12.
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Whiter teeth is useful content something that lots of people want, yet due to uncertainties, and also perhaps embarassment, they avoid asking their dental expert. We comprehend that healthy and balanced and also useful teeth are very important; a large part of our site is implied in order to help you keeping that, but with good teeth and also teeth you will appreciate your teeth much better as well as it assists to inspire you to maintain it healthy.
After useful the eyes, the smile is usually the first thing you check out! A stunning smile gives you confidence, you dare to laugh click here for info more frequently, it gives your life a new impulse. If you want to look great for a wedding, job application or a date, for example, think of your teeth. For many cosmetic treatments, boring is needed, this does not apply to whitening. With whitening it is exactly due to the fact that the initial structure as well as shape of your teeth is protected, frequently a very natural lead to attain.
Throughout the years, your teeth as well as teeth will certainly absorb dyes, naturally this relies on what does it cost? discolouring products such as cigarettes, coffee, tea, merlot etc. you consume. These are called external discoloration. Because of this, with aging, the teeth will certainly become darker. In some cases, the teeth have currently ended up being discolored due to drug use and/ or developing problems. These are called intrinsic discolorations. In the past this was occasionally addressed by making crowns, nowadays bleaching could offer a terrific solution.
Bleaching has actually been used effectively for many years with blemished teeth and molars. There are different systems for lightening. The majority of systems are supplied via the dental practitioner, however you could also acquire some systems in-store or via the web. Due to the fact that these products usually utilize reduced focus, the efficiency is much less and also it is frequently much better to bleach under the guidance of the dental practitioner, so that the development of the teeth as well as perhaps the gums is kept under control.
The dental practitioner could after that apply the bleaching gel to the teeth and also permit it to benefit a particular time. This procedure could be sped up with a lamp (laser). Researchers question whether the light truly is the factor for an increased bleaching result and rather suggest the heat of the lamp as the reason. During the bleaching process, toothache or aching periodontals may create. Using the whitening mug shorter or with longer periods can make the discomfort go away. Optionally, the lightening treatment can be disturbed. When the pain is gone, the whitening can be resumed.
After a root canal treatment, the dead tooth could be bleached from the in. A paste containing a bleach is applied in the tooth, after which the tooth is gathered a momentary dental filling. In the days that comply with, the tooth will become lighter. Depending upon the outcome, the therapy will be repeated a number of times. Eventually the tooth is secured with a final dental filling. Since origin canal treatment have to be accomplished for this, it is not a good idea for real-time teeth.
The outcome could be shocking as well as have a really good impact on the tooth color. Fillings verified tough, yet can certainly be transferred and adjusted. After a couple of years the teeth color back to the original color. Smoking cigarettes and drinking a great deal of coffee or tea speeds this up. With re-bleaching, results could then be booked once more. The outcome could also be tracked by bleaching when a month. The outcome could rely on the source of the discolouration. With an antibiotic (tetracycline) staining, for example, the result is less foreseeable.
As the age rises, the layer of dentin of the teeth as well as teeth ends up being thicker. This triggers a darkening or yellowing of the tooth shade. Additionally, the layer of enamel becomes thinner (or wears off completely in some areas) as an outcome of wear, makings the yellowed tooth bone extra noticeable. The color of teeth and teeth is also affected by cracks in the polish, through which dyes penetrate.
As a result of, as an example, dental cavity or a mishap, the living part of a tooth (pulp) could become contaminated. When this pulp cells passes away, dyes from the red blood cells are released. These could provide the tooth a blue or yellow/ grey discolouration. Also if a root canal therapy has actually currently been done, the filling or recurring pulp material can create the discolouration.
If, due to a crash, the teeth and teeth are harmed, a layer of dentine is check here transferred on the within the teeth for fixing. This guarantees a yellowing. Needs to the pulp die off because of the accident, the blue or yellow/ discolouration described above might occur. In children in whom the permanent teeth are still developing, the antibiotic tetracycline might cause discoloration. Initially, a yellow color is built in, yet drunk of daylight this comes to be brown.
The advancement of teeth and molars takes place in the jaw. Disruptions could take place throughout this growth, creating discrepancies. For example, the structure of enamel and also dentine can be different, allowing image source colorants to penetrate even more quickly. This holds true, for instance, with fluorosis: because of a too high concentration of fluoride during the building of teeth, the formation of enamel is particularly disrupted. The result is a permeable tooth product with a various shade.
Dental cavity can cause staining, this need to be dealt with and also try this filled, bleaching is not a solution. Clear gray dental fillings can only be fixed by replacing them with white fillings. Blemished sides along dental fillings and also crowns are difficult to remove with whitening, polishing and also/ or redoing is the remedy right here. Discolorations and also tartar can likewise cause discolouration, prior to it can be blonde, this will certainly naturally need to be gotten rid of initially.
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If we look at today's makeup and cosmetics for Shoes dance challenge song, we will definitely see that the range of the products available increased dramatically even comparing to the last couple of decades. Why it happened, and why it is happening now, in front of our eyes? The answer is simple — changing social situation and needs along with the burst of the chemical industry, allowing to create new textures, new products, and concepts. However, the needs of people are the key, as far meeting the customers' expectation and fulfilling their requests, especially the ones, not being proclaimed, is the main task of all the fashion industry in general.
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T. M. Griffiths and the writer, with Gordon Williams leading, made the second ascent of Teakettle Mountain (13,725 ft.) a beautiful peak east of Cirque Mt. It was not particularly difficult, except for the last 600 feet. The peak has an excellent summit, and it is very solid in comparison to the rest of the mountain. The first ascent to the top of the final pinnacle was made in August, 1929 by Alonzo Hartman and Charles Rolfe. This pair found a jar containing several names at the base of the pinnacle, but no indication was given that the actual summit was gained, nor was there a cairn on top. Neither Hartman nor Rolfe left a cairn, using the jar to leave their record in. This was not found by the climbers in 1932. which caused this party to believe they had made the first ascent. It was not until several months later that this erroneous belief was corrected by Rolfe with picture proofs.
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When attempting to gauge the real estate market, it’s important to understand the motivation behind buyers and sellers. Everyday new properties get listed, though not all for the same reasons.
At the same time, new prospectors and home buyers start shopping, though their intentions will differ as well.
These variables affect the asking and selling prices for homes, and should be considered if you’re in the market to buy or sell a piece of property.
This group of sellers will list their property for sale quite frequently, often keeping it on the market for an extended period of time at an above-market price in the hopes of landing a nice profit. These “unmotivated sellers” have no sense of urgency as they have no need to sell the property, so negotiation will be difficult. You may have heard of Zillow’s “Make Me Move” feature, which is basically a cute came for will-sell sellers.
A must-sell seller, on the other hand, is quite the opposite. These “motivated sellers” have a strong sense of urgency, and will often list their property at or below market prices. There is also a greater likelihood that these types of sellers will accept an offer below the listing price. They have to move for one reason or another, so they won’t want to waste any time getting the job done.
This group of buyers consists of speculators and investors who don’t need to buy property, but are willing to do so if the price is right. They are known as bargain hunters, and often seek out “must-sell sellers,” knowing they’ll get the best bang for their buck. This group will likely make offers below market price.
A must-buy buyer will typically pay market price or higher for a listed property because of their strong intent to own. Usually these types of buyers either need a particular type of property or have simply become emotionally attached to purchasing a specific property. If they encounter a “will-sell seller,” chances are the asking price will be above market.
Here’s a bonus category that came along as a result of the ongoing housing crisis. So-called “sidelined sellers” are homeowners who are waiting out the storm before listing their property. Their hope is that home prices will bottom, and then begin to rise, making a sale more attractive. The fear is that they may all list their properties at the same time, putting even more downward pressure on home prices.
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The United States Conference of Bishops created the Ethical and Religious Directives (ERDs) in order to provide clear ethical rules for American Catholics. Included was the prohibition of both female and male sterilization: the tubal ligation and the vasectomy. In some instances, Catholic hospitals continue to perform forbidden procedures to keep the business of a not devoutly Catholic populous. In order to determine the degree of adherence to the ethical guidelines, post partum tubal ligations and vasectomies were tabulated for hospitals in the Ascension Health group in Texas. The data demonstrated that the hospitals are performing these procedures at similar rates as non-Catholic hospitals in the state. The lack of a unified Catholic behavior may negatively impact the upcoming Supreme Court cases contesting the Affordable Care Act. If the current trend continues, hospitals that completely follow Catholic mandates may no longer exist.
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Most of us are familiar with the “breathing tests” that asthmatics and emphysema patients take to see how their disease is fairing either during a flare up or routine monitoring of the their medications—inhalers and such. Yet if you don’t have any lung disease, you are unlikely ever to have taken such a test. We, and many prominent pulmonary specialists, think that is unfortunate.
Why test my lungs if I have no lung disease and don’t smoke?
Spirometry, as the breathing test is called, turns out to be a interesting biomarker of aging hiding in the clothing of pulmonary specialist’s test. While it certainly functions as a screen for early lung disease in undiagnosed asthmatics and smokers, it also measures the lung age of healthy individuals. In fact, in order to determine if the result of a spirometry test is abnormal, it must be compared to a large database of normal results adjusted for height, gender, ethnicity, and age. Spirometry performed by tens of thousands of individuals has resulted in large databases which can be used to determine lung age.
The complete testing session takes about 10 minutes. The patient takes as deep a breath as possible, places the airflow meter (pneumotach) in his mouth, then blows out the air as fast as possible in the first second. He then continues to blow for at least 5 seconds longer in an effort to completely empty his lungs. The computer attached to the pneumotach calculates the total amount of air expelled during the full exhalation, and the amount expelled in the first second. These measures are called the forced vital capacity (FVC), and the forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1), respectively. The procedure is repeated until 3 consistent measures are recorded.
Both the FVC and FEV1 decline after about age 25, but the FEV1 is the best marker. It declines about 1 to 2 percent per year as the graphs below depict.
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The study deals with administration of education in KwaZulu where the concern is for efficient and effective use of limited financial, human and material resources. The purpose of this evaluative analysis of educational administration is to determine the degrees of efficiency and effectiveness with which the system of education functions. Therefore, the aims of the study were the following: * To describe the KwaZulu educational system: its origin, character, socio-political context and constraints; * To identify the generic functions of educational administration on the basis of which criteria were formulated for evaluation; * To analyse educational administration in KwaZulu and to evaluate it by means of formulated criteria, and * To formulate recommendations regarding the improvement of educational administration in the area. The conceptual framework of the study derived from the development of administrative theories through time and their implication for, and impact on educational administration. This analysis enabled the investigator to extract criteria for evaluating administration of education in KwaZulu. The evaluative analysis had to be carried out in terms of the organisation of education from the school level to the head office. To deal adequately with the problem being examined, detailed discussion was given of the KwaZulu system of education and the broader context in which it functions. The population of the study comprised three categories of education officers, namely, school principals, circuit inspectors and selected administrators from the head office. The instruments for data collection were questionnaires for school principals and circuit inspectors and interviews for the head office administrators. The study identified the following problem areas: preparation for administrative roles, perceptions of work-related skills, work performance in terms of tasks, the process of administration and related problems, and collaboration among education officers as well as with interested parties. The analysis of data was both quantitative and qualitative. In the light of the findings of the study the investigator offered several recommendations.
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How Long Does It Take To Finalize A Divorce In Arizona?
Once the decision is made to file for divorce, the most common question asked, is how long will it take to finalize my divorce. While the answer depends on many factors, at a minimum, there will be a sixty-day wait from the date of service of the petition on the spouse who did not file for divorce or from the date the non-filing spouse filed an acceptance of service with the court. This is often referred to as the “cooling off” period. However, it is also the perfect time, if you and your spouse are able to do so together or with the assistance of your lawyers, to discuss a resolution of the issues.
Assuming all issues, such as parenting time, support, property, and debts, are completely settled between you and your spouse, a consent decree can be submitted to the judge for his or her approval after the sixty-day waiting period. Once signed by the judge, your divorce will be final.
The finality of your divorce decree, referred to as the Decree of Dissolution of Marriage, is important for many reasons. It affects your right to remarry, your eligibility for health insurance from your former spouse, and filing status for income taxes. And, while you may sign the papers and submit them to the court, keep in mind that the date that triggers the time period for a divorce becoming final is the date that the divorce decree is entered and filed by the clerk of the court.
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In ancient Greece, a stranger passing outside a house would be invited inside by the family. The host would wash the stranger’s feet, offer him or her food and wine, and only after the guest was comfortable would the host ask their name. While today’s greeting practices have changed, this early relationship between host and guest is an example of the lengths we can go to in order to make one comfortable in an unfamiliar environment and deliver a personalized experience.
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One early morning in 1872, Claude Monet decided to dedicate himself to a painting session in his Impressionist style. He chose the port of Le Havre as a symbol of a theme close to his heart, the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. The soft red and orange of the sunrise pulls this port in north France out of its greyness. You can imagine the gloomy atmosphere giving way to the rays of the sun as time passed. The champion of Impressionism plays with colours and the reflections in the water to give us this picture that will add an artistic touch to your walls!
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iCatCare announced the winners of the Street Cats photography competition of 2017. The winnners are all going to feature in the iCatCare 2018 calendar. iCatCare launched the competiton in April of this year. There were six weeks to enter and the aim of the street cat theme was to raise awareness of cats that are considered to be strays, feral or community cats and their plight.
iCatCare received over 2,100 photographs from all over the world. The images were varied, with some photos showing cats living in dire conditions to other cats living quite comfortably in areas where Trap Neuter Return is performed.
The overall winner was announced in London at the iCatCare’s Annual Awards ceremony on July 14. Catan Ngan won for his photo of a cat that was from the Hong Kong community. The judges praised the image for it’s composition, colours and the presence of the cat in the photograph. Catan won the award, £500 and his photo will be the cover of the charity’s 2018 calendar.
Eve Davies, organiser of the Street Cats competition said that picking the winner was very difficult, which is a testament to the quality of the entrees that were received. It is hoped that the annual charity calendar will raise funds and awareness.
The 2018 iCatCare calendar is available for pre-order, here.
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James Neill, a Montreal-based kdb+ developer with First Derivatives, wrote a paper about how kdb+ can be used in machine learning techniques.
James Neill works as a kdb+ consultant for one of the world’s largest investment banks developing a range of applications. James has also been involved in the design of training courses in data science and machine learning as part of the First Derivatives training programme.
Due to the desire to understand the brain and mimic the way it works by creating machines that learn, neural networks have been studied with great interest for many decades. A simple mathematical model for the neuron was first presented to the world by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in 1943.
A number of different algorithms have been developed around this field of research, and this paper is going to focus on the implementation of a feedforward neural network in kdb+. A feedforward network (also known as a multi-layer perceptron) is a type of supervised machine learning algorithm which uses a series of nonlinear functions layered together with an output. It can be used for classification or regression purposes and has been shown to be a universal approximator – an algorithm that can model any smooth function given enough hidden units1.
This design of feedforward networks can be represented through operations on matrices and vectors. Array programming languages such as q/kdb+ are well suited for computational implementations in this format due to the vectorised operations on lists.
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Hi, my name is Brian Duprey, owner of Duprey Home Automation.
I’d like to personally welcome you to our site. My main goal is to help you to get more from your house, and enjoy the many exciting and fun things you can do with it, while at the same time increasing your families safety and saving money. My wife and I have a young son and nothing is more important than protecting your family. Please take a look around and let us help you to take your house into the 21st century.
Like most people, I got into home automation as a hobby. It started simply, I enjoyed the convenience of being able to turn lights on and off with a remote control. From there, I found software for my computer and added more and more devices to the system. Now, I can control appliances, lights, music, video, HVAC controls, security cameras, and more all from my iPhone or any web browser anywhere in the world. I can check in on my house via security cameras from anywhere. I can monitor the temperature in the house, and adjust the thermostat accordingly. I can water the yard, but only after the system checks the weather, and makes sure that it isn’t going to rain. The possibilities are endless.
I have over 20 years experience as a web & graphic designer, so those skills help me to create attractive visual interfaces that can be displayed on multiple display types. For example web pages can be customized with information designed and sized for computers, tablet PC’s, web capable phones such as the iPhone, touchscreen remotes and more. Anything is possible.
Let us help you create the futuristic home of your dreams!
Call Duprey Home Automation today (321) 252-9342.
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The HIDI Group provided mechanical design services for Delta Toronto at Southcore Financial Centre, located in the heart of Toronto, Canada’s bustling new Southcore district.
This 429,000 ft² hotel is part of a 2-tower site, requiring heightened levels of collaboration to coordinate construction with the adjacent office building.
The project recently won an Award of Excellence at the 2015 Toronto Urban Design Awards.
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A plan to build fifty giant wind turbines in the province of Drenthe may interfere with the operation of a radio telescope and do ‘disastrous’ damage to scientific research, according to the Dutch Institute for Radio Astronomy (Astron).
Astronomers claim that the placement of the 200 metre high windmills will interfere with the low-frequency array (Lofar) which uses thousands of low-frequency antennae to survey the universe. Because of their height, the windmills reflect other radio and television signals towards the Lofar station.
Minister for economic affairs Henk Kamp has a year to decide whether to continue with the project. The plan has already been criticized by local residents and municipalities.
The Dutch telecom agency is currently looking into whether windmills interfere with radio telescope operation in Drenthe.
Minister Kamp gave the project the go-ahead based on a study by a British company, which found that the operation of the telescope would not suffer if windmills were placed nearby. However, Astron argues that the British researchers didn’t have sufficient knowledge to make that claim.
Astronomers at the Lofar site would prefer if the windmills were at least 15km away from the telescope. The current plan would see seven of the fifty turbines placed within a 15km radius of the Lofar site.
‘It might not sound like too much of a difference, but going from a few kilometres to fifteen really makes a big difference when it comes to the strength of the reflected signals,’ said Garrett.
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We presented this landscape plan for a new client a couple weeks ago. We are now in the process of estimating the different stages of the installation. It’s a small lot in a lake community. It’s been a while since we’ve had a landscape project of this size. It’s always a fun challenge to make these small scale designs come together. I can’t wait to see it complete.
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With 2019 nearly upon us how and when are you looking to schedule your CPD’s for next year?
Who the decision makers are before you call? This often is not the CPD coordinator.
How often certain practices/studios have CPD’s? Is it once a month or once a week?
What days of the week do they prefer to host them on?
What projects or sectors they are currently involved with?
Knowing this information can sometimes be half the battle.
If you would like to utilise Advance TM Group’s CPD scheduling servicesfor your 2019 requirements, get in touch Today!
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Siemens has developed a navigation system with a three-dimensional map display. These true-to-life images of entire streets and intersections make it easier for drivers to find their destinations even in unfamiliar urban areas. The system will be launched on the market in mid 2008.
In contrast to systems commonly used today, this new navigation system from Siemens VDO Automotive displays different levels at highway interchanges. To ensure better orientation in cities, digitized images of eye-catching structures will be integrated into the system. With just the push of a button, users will also be able to call up on their displays tourist information, such as the opening times, admission prices and telephone numbers of museums, theaters and other attractions. By the planned start of mass production, this information service will cover 100 of the largest cities in Europe.
Regarding the large volumes of data, the system runs from a hard disc. Superimposition of four different digital maps makes this three-dimensional navigation possible. The basis is formed by a digital terrain model that gives the gradient of the land with its high and low points. Superimposed over this model are digitized satellite photos. Another layer consists of digitalized 3D-buildings and contours of buildings which the system uses to generate three-dimensional views of cities. Finally, a digital street map – like today’s navigation maps – completes the picture.
And the system will also be a hit with drivers of off-road vehicles: The terrain model also displays areas away from the main road network, so the system can calculate routes through wooded areas and fields. The navigation process automatically takes this data into account for cross country drives. An advanced version of the system is already in the planning stages. Soon, a camera installed on a vehicle’s front will record and digitize images of traffic lights and traffic signs, which will appear in synchronization in the navigation display.
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My husband is famous for two recipes, Ray’s Famous Flap Jacks and Potato Pancakes. He loves to make them and will every weekend if there are any takers or potatoes! If you know our family, you know that hubs loves to buy 50 pound bags of potatoes, you win the prize if you can tell me how many potato pancakes that would make!!
Here is the recipe that he likes the best! For perfect results!
Peel and grate potatoes, we use a cuisinart grater, Drain off any excess liquid with paper towels.
Mix in egg, cream, salt, and black pepper. Add enough flour to make mixture thick.
Heat 1/4 inch oil in the bottom of a heavy skillet over medium high heat. Drop two or three 1/4 cup mounds into hot oil, and flatten to make 1/2 inch thick pancakes. Fry, turning once, until golden brown. Transfer to paper towel lined plates to drain, and keep warm in low oven until serving time. Repeat until all potato mixture is used.
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We Think We’re the First Advanced Earthlings, But How Do We Really Know?
In a new study, researchers have discovered that Neanderthals and humans interbred tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought. The discovery was made when early modern human DNA was found in a Neanderthal genome.
The earliest instance of warfare may have just been discovered, with 27 skeletons unearthed bearing the marks of blunt force trauma and projectile wounds.
The carcass of a frozen Woolly mammoth found in Siberia has revealed the earliest known evidence of humans in the Arctic 45,000 years ago, not 35,000 years ago, as previously thought.
There is no doubt that the “sixth mass extinction” is here, with animals disappearing 100 times faster than previously, scientists warned in a new report.
Plato said: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” Indeed!
Have you ever had that feeling of falling right before drifting off to sleep? Or get the chills when you are going sick?
An American psychologist told a story about a female patient of his. Alice was depressed over her failed romance a few years back. She left the East and moved to the Midwest.
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Step 1 Check for and restore the IMAP_ROOT environment variable. For details, see the case VSM Environment Variable Is Set Incorrectly.
Step 2 Initialize the database again.
The symbol \ exists at the end of the value of the IMAP_ROOT environment variable.
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Top running bridge crane is the most common and flexible bridge crane type. Certex sells and mounts top running bridge cranes up to 250 ton. Top running bridge crane needs less room then other bridge cranes. Different design solutions ensure suitability to all types of spaces. According to the needed lifting height and load limit there are options of one beamed and two beamed cranes.
According to the style of work and needed lifting height you can choose between chain or wirerope electric hoist.
To find the most suitable solution connect our crane department.
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New game Horse Dressup is free online at our website Gamesmylittlepony.com. You can play this game in your browser, your mobile and enjoy it for free as well. Very simple to play this game, you just use your mouse and follow step by step of the instructions in game and make her cleaning. In the first game, you must brush horse. After that, you will choose the suitable clothes for her as well. You will take dress, new hair, tail and accessories for this horse as well. With this game, you will get the good experiences to know how to take care of the horse. Enjoy playing this game called Horse Dressup!
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Our guests enjoy their meals here everyday.
As we attach great importance to the quality of our food, we always take great care to be creative when choosing from the treasures of Tyrolean and international cuisine, to provide variety, and to consider the health and sensory aspects when choosing ingredients.
As a guest, you can choose from three menu options every day, one of which is always vegetarian. You can also help yourself to our fresh salad buffet.
Your day gets underway with a lavish and varied breakfast buffet, which also offers suitable choices for diabetics.
Every week during the summer months, you can look forward to a BBQ evening, a Tyrolean buffet and an Italian buffet.
And every thursday there is a musical evening.
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FIFA President, Gianni Infantino on Thursday wrote a letter to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) stating that the success of the 21st FIFA World Cup could not be distanced from Nigeria’s participation in the June-July mundial.
Infantino acknowledged that the efforts of Super Eagles of Nigeria’s coach, Gernot Rohr, as well as his assistants, the backroom staff, officials and fans participated graciously to make it an unforgettable ceremony.
“I would like to express our most sincere appreciation to your National Team for participating in this 21st edition of the FIFA World Cup.
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We welcome donation from individuals and organizations. Your donation will be used for public programs that promote knowledge about China as well as educational programs for schoolchildren and the public. If you wish to make a gift online, please click here. On the official Giving to Emory website, please identify Office of International Affairs in “Select Direction” drop down menu.
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Dynamic strain measurements were made near the exit end of a complex freeway bridge. The bridge is called “complex” because it is supported by six piers. The piers support I-beams, which, in turn, support the bridge pavement. Dynamic strain produced by vehicles was measured through changes in resistance and reluctance in the steel I-beams through the use of a complex-reluctance bridge (CRB) as a sensor. The strain patterns were measured solely on the exit span of the bridge. However, strain patterns produced by vehicles as much as three spans away were detected in these preliminary experiments. Strain patterns from bridge oscillations were always present, and a crude averaging technique was used here to emphasize vehicle strain behavior. The height of compressive peaks occurring in the exit span when the vehicles were in the next-to-last span fell into two distinct groups. One of these groups seemed to indicate loaded vehicles, and the other seemed to indicate unloaded vehicles. The heights of the tensile peaks generated when articulated vehicles (those having a hinge or pivot connection) were in the exit span did not exhibit such a clear division. Another characteristic that separated the two groups was the occurrence in one group of what appeared to be a large compressive spike superposed in the middle of the tensile peak when a loaded vehicle was in the exit span. Speculation here is that this spike resulted from a coupling of bridge oscillations with vehicle oscillations, which would also be influ-enced by vehicle velocity, although no velocity meas-urements were made. As the experiment was being set up, a loud sonic pulse was generated by a vehicle passing over the exit span, which was consistent with part of the exit span on the concrete block rising off the block and coming back down. Unfortunately, that did not happen again during the period when data were obtained, so the strain signature associated with the sonic pulse could not be registered. However, the compressive spike in the middle of the tensile peak appears to predict behavior consistent with this unusual event. In the following sections, a brief description of the CRB sensor and its behavior appropriate to measuring the transition between static and dynamic strains is presented. This, in turn, is followed by the display of dynamic strain patterns of automobiles, nonarticulated vehicles (single-unit vehicles), and articulated vehicles (tractor trailers). Finally, speculation on the possible origin of the loud sonic pulse is presented.
Zinke, Otto Henry, 2015, “Electromagnetic Measurement of Applied and Residual Surface Strain in Steel,” Materials Evaluation, Vol. 73, No. 11, pp. 1490–1495.
Zinke, O.H., and W.F. Schmidt, 1993, “Linear AC Magnetic Circuit Theory,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 2207–2212.
Zinke, Otto H., and William F. Schmidt, 1998, “Nondestruc-tive Testing Using AC Magnetic Bridges: A Review,” Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, Vol. 15, Nos. 3–4, pp. 109–137.
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Vulnerability assessment is the process of identification and classification of security holes (vulnerabilities) in a computer, network, or communications infrastructure. In addition, vulnerability analysis can forecast the effectiveness of the proposed countermeasures and evaluate their actual effectiveness after they are put into use. They are usually conducted using mainly automated tools. In comparison with the penetration testing, vulnerability assessment does not try to exploit the identified vulnerabilities in order to prove their truthfulness and impact on the business.
During the part of the automated testing our team uses software tools like Nmap, Nessus, Nexpose, OWASP Zap, Nikto and more.
In conclusion Vulnerability assessment aims to: Define and classify network or system resources and assign relative levels of importance to the resources. Identify potential threats to each resource and develop a strategy to deal with the most serious potential problems first. Definе and implement ways to minimize the consequences if an attack occurs. After all, the discovered vulnerabilities are described in report.
Our Baretzky and Associates Experts holds various certifications in ears such as CEH, OSCP, CCSA and more. The Vulnerability Assessment can help you comply with GDPR and is an absolute necessity if you are under GDPR regulations compliance.
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The church of Ennordres is a landmark in the history of the area’s religious buildings.
Our approach aimed at respecting the construction campaigns, which was achieved by using materials from common forms of the area's rural and religious past.
A fresco of the 15th Century was discovered during the restoration of the church by a team of archaeologists.
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Adding another bathroom to your house could greatly increase its value. If you think about it, having a second bathroom is extremely useful, especially if they are on different floors. And, you will soon find that, in addition to increasing your home’s value, having a second bathroom comes in handy!
One of the most expensive home improvements is putting on a new roof. Be sure to speak with a minimum of three roofing businesses and ask for their references. Lots of choices in roofing materials exist today, such as metal roofing, lightweight tiles, composite shingles and conventional wood shakes. A knowledgeable roofing contractor can help you make the best decision.
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thyssenkrupp Airport Systems is one of the main suppliers for Global Gate Solutions. The company sells, maintains and operates passenger boarding bridges and associated ground support equipment with over 4,500 units installed worldwide. We accompany our clients from start to finish, from the design consultancy phase through to the handing over and beyond, with excellent operation and maintenance services.
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Authorities are asking for the public's help in identifying and locating the man pictured in this photo.
Police are investigating an alleged robbery at a South Lake Tahoe credit union Thursday evening.
The incident occurred at the Sierra Central Credit Union, 3668 Lake Tahoe Blvd., at 5:30 p.m., according to the South Lake Tahoe Police Department.
A security camera captured a white male adult wearing a fake beard and black pinstripe suit holding what appears to be a piece of paper in front of a teller.
Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to call the South Lake Tahoe Police Department at 530-542-6100.
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The opportunities offered by Big Data will only materialize when healthcare systems move beyond the mere collection of large amounts of data. Linkage of previously separated data sets and their analysis using appropriate Big Data analytics offer new ways to accelerate research and to identify the right treatment for individual patients. Access to large data sets that paint a more comprehensive picture of patients allows patient-relevant outcomes to be measured more accurately. If they are of enough quality and/or supported by other findings such as lab data, they can support decision-makers in shaping patient focused healthcare systems.
What is meant by Big Data in healthcare?
How is Big Data in healthcare collected and analyzed?
Healthcare systems routinely collect large amounts of data as patients use various healthcare services. For example, information on the fact that a patient has visited the doctor, as well as medicines prescribed would be included in the patient’s record. This information is required to provide the patient with optimal care, but also plays an important role in ensuring healthcare providers are reimbursed for their services. Beyond the “one-dimensional” collection of data, computer programs help to combine and enrich data from different sources, thus generating an added value compared to the originally isolated datasets. In broader terms, the analytic methods applied are to support all stages of the health technology life cycle from basic research (such as genomics, proteomics and metabolomics data) to reimbursement decisions (such as economic modelling methods) and subgroup identification (such as imaging data).
Who can use Big Data in healthcare and how?
What are the benefits of using Big Data for patients?
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If you’re moving to China Britannia Movers International will be able to help you through each step of the process. Whether you’re moving to one of the big cities like Shanghai or Beijing or to the rural provinces on the coast, Britannia has the local knowledge and expertise to meet your needs.
All shipments of appliances, furniture, bedding and other items are dutiable. Electrical items must be itemised with make, model and serial no. Video tapes/CDs will be held for additional scrutiny. The shipper must obtain a Chinese Residency card on arrival, and then apply for an import permit for the effects. The shipment must arrive within 6 months of issue of permit. Various documentation is required for clearance, including a Baggage Declaration Form from customs, obtained at time of personal arrival. There are different requirements for returning Chinese Citizens, and News Agency personnel. You Britannia member will supply detailed customs requirements.
It is possible to import motor vehicles into China but there are a few restrictions you need to be aware of. Only cars suited for driving on the right hand side, i.e. where the driver seat is on the left, are legal to drive on China’s roads. To drive in China you need to have a Chinese license which can only be obtained from the police.
Your Move to China With Britannia – Britannia has a dedicated network of removers who will assist you with moving to China. We provide computer tracking and bar coding for groupage consignments, to ensure a safe and reliable shipping service to China. Your household goods can be transported to China in sea containers or by air. We can also provide packing and a full door to door service to China.
Additional removal services – Britannia can provide a variety of additional services when moving to China. We are authorised to provide a comprehensive insurance, can arrange storage prior to delivery, and can also take care of your pet transport.
China is fascinating country with rich cultural traditions. It is one of the largest economies in the world and is the manufacturing hub for goods which are exported across the globe. Many Westerners move to China for business and work purposes as China’s major cities like Beijing and Shanghai are home to the headquarters of some of the world’s largest financial organisations.
As well as major cities China has vast rural areas. In most of Chinese rural areas you will find the pace of life is much slower than in the busy built-up cities. In the country side many farmers use traditional methods of farming that have been in practice for thousands of years.
China’s presence and importance on the world stage is only going to increase in the coming years. Moving to China presents great commercial and business opportunities and in a country with so much culture and heritage it’s safe to say you’ll never be bored living there.
Before moving to China you will need a visa that will allow you to stay in the country for as long as you require. The most effective way of obtaining a Chinese visa is to secure employment with an organisation that has a significant presence in China.
There are English speaking international schools all across China. Most of these schools offer classes and courses which work towards the International Baccalaureate. It’s also possible to find private teachers that will provide support for students studying GCSEs and A-Levels. This can be particularly useful if your children are spending a relatively short time in China, six months to a year, before returning to the UK.
Living and housing costs in China are significantly lower than in most European countries, and you’ll be able to live comfortably on a much smaller budget.
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The French champions Paris Saint-Germain have reportedly “explored” the possibility of signing Manchester United centre-back Eric Bailly, according to the Daily Mail.
The 24-year-old defender has impressed with the Red Devils in his first season following a 2016 move from Villarreal, but injuries kept him out of favour at the club this term.
Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal have both been credited with an interest in the Ivorian amid reports that the 20-time English champions would be prepared to sell in the mid-season transfer window.
However, the report claims, Paris Saint-Germain are also expressing an interest in the highly-rated defender, with the Parisians keen to strengthen their options in defence.
Bailly racked up 43 appearances for Manchester United across all competitions.
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Nepal boasts of a strategic location along the great heights of the majestic Himalayas which makes it one of the most coveted travel destinations in the world. Nepal, the land of stupas, adventure, natural beauty, stunning scenery, yaks, yetis and mountains, always delights you with its intense attractions, rustic villages, undulating hikes, ancient culture and beautiful people.
Thanks to the great Himalayas, Nepal has no shortage of kayaking and river rafting adventures. It is home to some of the most varied and scenic whitewater on the planet, Nepal is an adventure lover’s paradise.
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Hello and Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed nice holidays and had a chance to relax and maybe rejuvenate a bit. Today we have a quick look at news of an exciting new designer collaboration, additions to Kate’s Calendar, a new poll asking for your opinion on the cocktail dresses worn by the Duchess in 2017, and a quick announcement at the end of the post.
We’ll begin with the news about a collaboration between two of Kate’s favorites: LK Bennett and Jenny Packham. Women’s Wear Daily revealed the news in a story published this morning, including word there will be 16 footwear styles and 5 handbag designs. You can see one style in this courtesy photo.
This afternoon Kate visited survivors of the London Bridge & Borough Market terror attacks at King’s College Hospital.
Kate was in some old favorites as she and William undertook a day of engagements in North Wales.
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We are currently in the process of interviewing several of the top Maine Big Game Hunting Outfitters to fill this region. Please check back soon for information on our new Exclusively Endorsed Maine Black Bear Hunting Outfitter that will be able to offer you a fantastic Maine guided bear hunt for this upcoming season. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
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Thank you very much and we look forward to helping you book your next Maine Big Game Hunting Adventure!
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Replacement storm window costs can make the task of replacing your current window seem like a daunting and overwhelming task. One of the most important things to remember is that the replacement of your window should be a one time task, as your new one should be sturdy and withstand the test of time. There are also a number of considerations you can make which will allow you to relax and potentially enjoy the task at hand. Hopefully you will receive some answers through this article which will set you at ease about your upcoming replacement storm window purchase.
There are many perks that you will find as you begin your journey to find a new window, one of the greatest being their overall versatility which allows them to be completely customized to fit your needs. These may be made using a wide variety of materials, and they are most commonly found as vinyl replacement windows, as vinyl is very durable and easily fits into the space left by your old windows. Other materials may include aluminum, wood, and fiberglass, all equally durable and available based on your needs and personal preferences. All of these have the capability to be painted and altered in order to better fit your needs and style.
It is important to note the bay window replacement options available and possibly replacement storm window as well. These most often vary in color, ranging from a slightly blue tint to a clear, bright white. This color change is merely aesthetic and offers no real insight into the quality of the storm windows that you are considering, so feel free to select based on your decor and style preferences. There are truly limitless options when it comes to purchasing your replacement storm window, you are only limited by your own imagination.
Another important component of a replacement storm window is their incredible durability. These storm windows are practically scratch resistant and easily hold up against weather and other outdoor elements. They require little to no maintenance, do not discolor, and it is highly unlikely that you will ever have to replace your storm windows again. Keep that in mind when the task of finding a new window seems overwhelming, this will probably be the only time you have to undertake such a project.
Perhaps the greatest attribute of a replacement storm window is their overall affordability. They are available at a minimal base cost, which proves to be a one time as they typically need no maintenance after installation. Additionally, these can prove to bring you vast savings, specifically if you choose a replacement that is energy efficient.
An energy efficient replacement storm window holds even more perks than a typical replacement. These storm windows contain tighter seals around the perimeter which prevent outside air from seeping through and getting into your home. Their thickness and quality materials also provide extra insulation and their panes serve to block excess sunlight. These factors combined lead to an overall decrease in your monthly energy costs, by preventing outside elements from affecting the temperature inside of your home. Energy efficient storm windows may also provide you with an extra tax credit, just another way this model will save you money.
When buying a replacement storm window, it is important to remember a few things which will lead to the best purchasing decisions. The first is to shop around and obtain prices and quotes from a number of contractors. For estimates from your area, please take the time to fill out the form on our home page. This will provide you with multiple estimates from a variety of contractors near you, which will help you to make the best decision for your home and for your budget.
When researching it is important to make sure you get estimates for high quality, top of the line storm windows. As mentioned, this is a large undertaking and not something you want to do often, so make it count and buy the best product for the amount of money that you are willing to spend. Compare the best deals that you find with the best product, and you will be sure to make the choice that best fulfills your needs.
One of the best things you can do when looking for a replacement window is to consult others who have made similar purchases. Referrals from former customers are highly important because you can be certain that they will be honest. Check with your friends and family members, you may be surprised with the amount of insight that can give you on making this purchase. The Better Business Bureau is another great place to ask for referrals, as they will provide you with up to date information regarding the contractor you are considering for you replacement storm window.
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Before we start, this is just a note that this is a guide designed for the absolute beginners in trading. How beginner, you ask? Well, we have sat down with an experienced trader to ask the all important questions about trading to teach us, absolute novices, all about the world of trading.
Where does the beginner start? How much do you have to learn? Well, the answer is, PLENTY. In fact, the learnings never end. Not only do you have to keep yourself constantly researching, but you have to be on top of new strategies and possibilities all the time.
So, keeping this in mind, we asked the trader the basic questions that you would have to know to get into the game and how to actually make a profit out of this tricky world.
Why would you go into trading if you have never done it before?
People go into trading for various reasons. You need to make up your mind what the exact reasons are for you wanting to enter the trading space so that you don’t put yourself in a bad position.
Decide what your reasons are for going into trading in the first place. Are you looking to make some extra money to pay for your children’s education, a dream trip or to put away for retirement? Or is this the start of your new, exciting career? Being a local trader and a once a week trader are totally different animals.
Based on your answer, you can start determining what your timeline is in trading.
Absolutely! There are hundreds of trading platforms out there for you to choose from, but you do need to do some careful research into it as it is quite cut-throat. There are a lot that simply assume that you will lose and take your trades.
What is great is that a lot of the platforms can be accessed through desktop and mobile, and many allow you to build your own personalized trading hub.
If someone was launching themselves into trading for the first time ever, what would your ultimate piece of advice be?
If you are first starting out, the first thing you need to get sorted is a risk management strategy. You can have the greatest indicators and the best strategy on how to trade, but if your targets and what profits you are taking and stop loss orders are wrong, you can still not make money.
So, basically you have to look at trades and see how they have performed in the past and what their historical movement looks like. If you are capable of doing a statistical study on it, do a stat study on what you need your stop level to be and how much loss you can take. You ultimately need to, going into the trade, know what your profit level needs to be and stick to that as rigorously as possible.
When you execute a trade and buy something, the market could possibly go against you. This is when you start losing money, which is absolutely normal when trading. The market goes through peaks and dips and you need to know just how much you can take.
At some point you have to know when to exist the trade for a loss and the loss level cannot be higher than what your take take profits are. You have to have a lot higher success rate than losing, which falls within your strategic planning.
This is where it comes to you getting your trading strategy right and then sticking to it. Once a trader gets a trading strategy that works, most stick to them as long as they making a profit.
If you are looking to take ten ticks on the trade then stick to taking ten ticks instead of having a ten tick stop loss or something along those lines. A tick is essentially the change in trading price from trade. The minimum tick size for stocks trading above $1 is 1 cent.
Setting targets depends on the reason why you are doing the trade. If there is a technical reason for it, you have to make sure that you set your timescale and stick to it. What is a reasonable level to make profit from it to is a question you have to be asking yourself too. Setting this limit is important as obviously everyone wants to make hundreds and hundreds of ticks, but it is not always reasonable all the time.
Market conditions are also one of the biggest determinants of when to stay and when to exit a trade. If there are huge events globally, you will need to be taking it into account. So, for example, if there big events like nonfarm payrolls out of the US, there are usually large moves on the markets. So, if you have a trade at that time, you will need to have a larger take profit because you are risking more because of the increased volatility of the market.
Talking about market conditions, how important is it to keep up to date with what is happening globally?
Wake up and read the news. Go to bed reading the news.
Most of the life of a trader is doing research and keeping the research in front of you while trading in order to make good choices and decisions. Everyone is trying to stay as well informed as possible to not get caught out by buying something that happens on the global scale.
There are tons of accurate and up to date news wires that you can subscribe to. But they are usually quite expensive. Market Squawks have all of the major screens like Bloomberg and Reuters which is always updated. They put out daily calendars and research papers to keep you updated with global events and market movements. Twitter is also great for breaking news for you to keep an eye on, although you need to keep watching the feeds and trends to make sure that it is accurate.
This also depends on what type of time period you are looking at trading over. Locals in the trade arena, which are the regular traders who trade several times a day need to have an in-depth knowledge. Other strategies mean that you only trade a few times a week, and this will mean that you don’t need to be quite as in depth in market movements.
In saying this, it is important to have a proper risk strategy in place as you can land yourself in trouble. Hence why having the risk strategy was the first and foremost most important thing to have before launching your trading career.
In ending, the greatest advice given, is not to follow the pack. Don’t do exactly what everyone else does all the time. Take time to work on your strategy and refine it over time. Take all of the main considerations into mind. Time frames, profit margins, your ultimate risk appetite. Don’t get down when something does not work out and when you see a fall in the market. Keep at it. But also be savvy enough to know when to cut your losses.
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SUA, SUA! Are You a Ronmey Amercian?
"Mitt Romney’s digital team debuted 'With Mitt,' an app that lets supporters share their support for the Republican presidential hopeful, on Tuesday. At first, the app received little fanfare.
By Tuesday night, however, the app’s users had drawn attention to one glaring mistake: one of the 14 text overlays available within the app stated that Romney is for 'A Better Amercia.' Yes, you read that right: 'Amercia.'"
You too can join Amercia is with Mitt!
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Funeral Service: Will be held on Friday, February 8, 2019, at 10:30 a.m. at the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Massena with burial in the St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery north of Bridgewater. A luncheon will be held at the church following the services. Father James Ahnenkora will officiate the service.
Open Visitation: Will be held on Thursday, February 7, 2019, from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Steen Funeral Home in Massena.
Family Visitation: The family will greet friends on Thursday evening, February 7th, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Steen Funeral Home in Massena.
Scripture Service: Will be held on Thursday evening at 5:30 p.m. at the Steen Funeral Home in Massena.
Memorials: Memorials may be directed the Lois Burg memorial fund to be established by the family at a later date.
Lois Mae Burg was born on July 13, 1938, in Dolliver, Iowa, the daughter of Herman and Myrtle (Sharar) Rienhardt, Sr. She passed away Saturday, February 2, 2019, at the Crest Haven Care Center in Creston, Iowa, at the age of 80.
Lois was raised and attended school in Dolliver, Iowa. On March 2, 1957, she was united in marriage to Ronald Burg at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Massena. Five children were born to this union: Barbara, Helen, John, Jason and Mary.
After their wedding, Ron built his family a house north of Bridgewater. Lois worked as a certified nurse’s aide (CNA) for the Greenfield and Fontanelle nursing homes, respectively, for over 30 years. She helped educate many CNAs and also helped patients with their physical therapy needs. She loved to cook, bake, and go on car rides. She enjoyed picnics and card parties. She also helped Ron on the farm, went on many outings with her sisters, and especially loved spending time with her grandchildren. Her parenting advice to her kids, no matter the stage or struggle with their kids was always, "They'll grow up someday." She was a member of the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church. Due to health issues, she moved to Creston in 2010.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Ronald, who passed away in 2009; daughter, Barbara Smith, who passed away in 2006; three brothers, Eugene, Herman, Jr.,and Charles Rienhardt and two sisters, Pearl Smith and Betty Rienhardt.
She is survived by her children, Marlo Smith of Bridgewater, Helen Tipling and husband Shawn of Fontanelle, John Burg and wife Kristi of Massena, Jason Burg and wife Nicky of Creston and Mary Woosley and husband Nathan of St. Charles; 13 grandchildren, Justin and Kelly Smith, Kelly Smith and John, Jesse Smith and Lise, Cristina and Sam McIntire, William and Stephanie Tipling, Brady Burg, Macy Burg, Kinsey Burg, Payton Burg, Colby Burg, Mason Woosley, Evan Woosley and Kaylin Woosley; 12 great grandchildren; 3 sisters, Evelyn Rienhardt of Estherville, Rose Hansen and husband Jerry of Estherville and Karen Beitz and husband Larry of Fontanelle; 3 brothers, Robert Rienhardt and wife Bessie of Dunnell, Minnesota, Stanley Rienhardt of Estherville and Jerry Rienhardt of Estherville; sister-in-law, Laura Burg of Greenfield; other relatives and friends.
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This is complete "Pixel Art" Fantasy/medieval themed platform environment pack. It contains all elements in separated files as well as spritesheets for easier manipulation. All backgrounds are seamless looped to give a parallax effect. Also all tiles fit together to make a seamless platforms.
This pack includes an animation for the water in the river.
All files are in PNG format.
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Over 300 vehicles have been destroyed in a big fire at the parking lot of the venue of the air show in Bengaluru this afternoon. The cars in the parking lot belonged to the people who had come to see the aero show. Officials say the cause of the fire could be a lit cigarette that was disposed on the grass in the open field. Fire engines and an ambulance have been rushed to the spot to help douse the fire. The area has been cordoned off and police personnel has reached the spot to initiate the investigation.
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The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard. The cause of the disaster was a piece of foam insulation the size of a small briefcase that broke off the external tank during launch and struck the leading edge of the left wing. This damaged the Shuttle’s thermal protection system (TPS), which protected it from heat generated by the atmosphere during re-entry. The damage allowed hot gases to penetrate and destroy the internal wing structure, resulting in the in-flight breakup of the Columbia.
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what GMOS adapter did you use? Note that the car doesn't have an ignition wire, so GMOS adapter is used to generate the turn-on signal. Usually around $100.
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UCF researchers have developed a novel copper (Cu)-based nanoparticle technology to treat and protect plants against a broad range of disease-causing bacteria and fungi. Using industry-accepted ingredients, the new formula is based on nano-engineered particles that are designed to be more effective against copper-resistant bacterial strains such as Xanthomonas perforans. The invention contains significantly lower copper material concentrations than conventional copper bactericides. It is non-phytotoxic, water-soluble and film forming to kill and inhibit the growth of bacteria on crops.
More than 300,000 diseases afflict plants worldwide, resulting in billions of dollars of annual crop losses. For example, bacterial spot is a common yet highly destructive disease in tomatoes, peppers, peaches and apricots. For tomatoes alone, the disease has caused yield losses of up to 50 percent in many regions. To control tomato bacterial spot and other plant diseases, growers have used Cu-based bactericides for decades. However, overuse has caused certain strains of bacteria to become Cu-resistant and toxic levels of Cu to contaminate the soil.
A key feature of the technology is that the nanoparticles are truly “locally systemic,” in that they move into treated parts of a plant and are redistributed only within the treated portion. Thus, when sprayed on a plant, the particles move relatively short distances, fighting microbes in and around the application site (leaf surface and sub-surface).
The invention encompasses a unique nanotechnology particle design and method of delivering disease-fighting materials to infected plant tissues. The locally systemic particle (LSP) design consists of metal and non-metal layers formed around a silica core and shell. The first layer is a leachant-permeable base material and multi-valent metal (such as Cu). The second (outside) layer consists of an immobilized Quat material, such as quaternary ammonium. The nanoparticles are small enough to pass through leaf pores known as stomata, and then move locally inside plant tissues to attack bacteria. In addition, when the stomata of plants take up LSP materials, they serve as a Cu reservoir, extending retention in the plant tissue and enhancing the bioavailability of Cu material. This serves to reduce the need for repeated applications and limits the Cu exposure to humans as well as the plants and soil.
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Complications are a part of surgery and it is important for patients and their families to understand that complications can and do occur during some surgical procedures. The decision to do surgery should not be taken lightly and multiple consultations are beneficial with all questions asked and answered. When necessary, other opinions outside of our office will be encouraged. Patients and their families need to go into these procedures with their eyes wide open and their expectations expressed. We clearly outline what we can and cannot do surgically and hope to be sure that our expectations as well as our patients are perfectly aligned. This allows a very smooth surgical procedure with good to excellent short and long-term outcomes.
Achilles tendon lengthenings are performed through three small incisions in the back of the foot. These usually need to be lengthened surgically to get the best long-term outcome. It is rare for us to need to open the Achilles to do an open procedure if during the procedure the tendon snaps. If necessary, the small percutaneous incisions are lengthened and the tendon is repaired. When the tendon is lengthened properly the chances of recurrence are very small. When the tendons are over lengthened it is a significant complication and causes the patient to have weakness with push-off. These usually need to be repaired surgically.
Gastroc recessions are performed just below the calf muscle. When sutured properly the incisions look perfect and show no signs of “dimpling”. Dimples can occur within the incisions, which are small little areas that look imperfect just below the calf muscle. They have nothing to do with function. Incisions could also scar more readily. Recurrence of tightness to the calf muscles are more common with lengthening the gastroc. However, over lengthenings are relatively rare.
Arthroeresis implants are titanium and patients will almost never have an allergy to them. They are small implants that block abnormal motion in the joint and over time we have found that they do slightly shift and move. Rarely do they shift and move to a position that causes them to pop out of place. It can and does occur infrequently. Implants placed can be too big, causing a significant loss of motion of the subtalar joint. They can also be too small, limiting the amount of correction desired. They can also shift into a position towards the outside of the foot and function perfectly well despite their shifting. Although x-rays do show a shift in the implant, this movement typically is not symptomatic. Although some surgeons have found that implants are removed in one-third to 40% of the cases, we have found this to be a total failure of the physician who has evaluated and treated the patient. A failure to understand the function of the foot and the need to create a “tripod” causes failures. Our removal rate is less than 5%.
Naviculocuneiform joint fusions are procedures in which the cartilage is taken out of the bones so that the bones can heal together and help the patient develop an arch. Delayed healing can occur, necessitating a longer period of immobilization. Nonunions can occur in which the bones do not unite and another surgical procedure may be necessary. If there are concerns during the healing process, bone stimulators are utilized to accelerate the healing process. Malunions occur when the bones are not placed in their proper position and the bones do not heal correctly. They may or may not be symptomatic. If symptomatic, the bones can be later corrected to be placed in a more correct and anatomical position. Hardware that is utilized includes screws most commonly, and occasionally staples. Screws and staples can cause irritation below the skin, necessitating later removal. It is relatively uncommon for this to be necessary.
A Cotton is a procedure which is an opening wedge osteotomy of the medial cuneiform in which a bone graft is placed on the top of the foot. In most cases we will use a small pin to hold the position of the bone graft in the bone. This pin is usually placed through the skin and is removed in the office in a completely pain free procedure. With a Cotton, bone graft has to be incorporated into the bone, which may take many months. A bone graft can subside and a loss of correction can be seen. Rarely will there be subluxation of the joint in front of or behind it.
A Calcaneal osteotomy is a procedure in which the back heel bone is cut and shifted down and in so that the heel bone is parallel into the lower leg bone called the tibia. Complications with this procedure are rare as this bone is very well vascularized and heals within 6-8 weeks. Screws are placed directly on the bone from an incision on the back of the heel. Rarely will these screws become irritating and require removal. A malunion of the heel bone can occur if the shifting of the bone is not correctly placed. This is very rare and if it did occur it can be corrected surgically to realign the heel bone in a more correct fashion.
In an Evans calcaneal osteotomy the outside of the heel bone is opened to help realign the outside of the foot relative to the inside and equalize its length. Complications of this surgical procedure are a little bit more common than in others. This can include injury to the nerve (sural) around the outside of the foot. This would cause some numbness to the small toe. Placing bone graft on the outside of the foot may necessitate utilization of small plates and screws. If so, this could become irritating to the tendons (peroneals). This may be temporary. Placing too large of an implant can cause stress to one of the outer joints (calcaneal cuboid joint), which could increase pressure in the joint causing later arthritic changes. While cutting the heel bone, shifting of the front part of the bone relative to the back can occur, causing misalignment of the calcaneal cuboid joint. Misalignment of the joint can likewise cause arthritic changes in the future. Bone grafts when placed can subside losing some of the correction. Placing small bone grafts may not give full correction to the problem. Malunion or nonunion of the heel bone after an Evans is uncommon and if it occurs can be corrected with additional surgical procedures.
A first tarsal metatarsal joint fusion (Lapidus) is a procedure that is performed in the arch region. Any time cartilage is removed and bones are placed together with hardware, complications can occur. Complications can include a malunion in which the fusion site does not heal in the perfect position that we would like. A delayed union can occur in which the bones do not fuse as quickly as we would like and in such cases the patient may be kept nonweightbearing for a longer period of time and a bone stimulator may be utilized. A nonunion can occur in which the joint does not fuse and consolidate completely. In some cases this may become asymptomatic. In other cases if there is pain, then another fusion may be necessary. This secondary procedure may necessitate bone graft to augment the healing potential. Screws and plates when placed can always cause some irritation to the soft tissue requiring later removal.
A plantarflexory wedge osteotomy is a relatively straightforward procedure that we use infrequently to reestablish a tripod when we do not want to sacrifice any other joints and prefer not to use any bone graft. Delayed union, nonunion and malunion can occur, which all may require care that would include further surgery if the bone does not unite or bone stimulator to help healing. Patients may also be kept nonweightbearing for a longer period of time.
It is critical to have a full evaluation of the patient to determine what is the best treatment option. In many patients that are flatfooted, the natural history may be perfectly benign. In others we are able to evaluate the patient and see where the natural history of their problem will become progressively worse and in those patients intervention is necessary.
Combinations of procedures are utilized to help our patients. Every patient is different and we do individualize their treatment accordingly.
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What are Essential Oils Academy Class Commercials? Well, I developed a collection of ten “commercials”–fun, interactive text and images to use in promoting the Essential Oils and Pregnancy class I hosted on Facebook. They worked so well I decided to make them available for all of you as well.
These Commercials are more than just simple promotional images: they’re fun and interactive posts (I think I already said that!) and they get people engaged and enjoying themselves, increasing anticipation for the coming class. Below, I’ve got a sample from one of them so you can get a taste for how they work.
Right now, we have several sets of Class Commercials available, and more are coming. You can purchase them below, or on the pages for specific classes (each set of Class Commercials has been released with a specific Class, though most are usable with any Class). For example, on the class linked just above, you’ll notice that there are three versions of the class available: (1) Class Only, (2) Class + Automatic Class Setup option, and (3) Class + Automatic Class Setup option + Class Commercials.
You can purchase the Class Commercials separately, if you’ve already bought the class, or as part of the second upgraded version of the classes. Either way, you can get them for only $5.00. They’re a great way to spark interest and excitement in the hours leading up to the Class.
Who sat in a corner?
Who had a little lamb?
Who didn’t blow his horn?
Who stole the Queen’s tarts?
Don’t Google it, just rack your brain and see if you can find the answers hidden in there somewhere!
HOW DID YOU DO WITH THE ANSWERS?
Fun, interactive text and images to promote your class and get people participating even before the class starts!
Originally released with the Essential Oils and Pregnancy class, this set, unlike some of the others, is closely related to the class content.
The commercials are mostly unrelated to class content, but used to get interaction and camaraderie built up before the class begins. This approach is highly recommended.
This set originally released with the Essential Oils and Women’s Health class.
This set originally released with the Essential Oils and Cardiovascular Health class.
This set originally released with the Essential Oils and Babies class.
This set originally released with the Men and Essential Oils class.
Originally released with the Cooking With Essential Oils class, this set, unlike some of the others, is closely related to the class content.
This set originally released with the Emotions and Essential Oils class.
Originally released with the Essential Oils and Gardening class, this set, unlike some of the others, is closely related to the class content.
Originally released with the School Time with Essential Oils class, this set, unlike some of the others, is closely related to the class content.
Originally released with the Essential Oils and Teenagers class, this set, unlike some of the others, is closely related to the class content.
Originally released with the Essential Oils and Sleep class, this set, unlike some of the others, is closely related to the class content.
Originally released with the Surviving The Holidays With Essential Oils class, this set, unlike some of the others, is closely related to the class content.
Originally released with the Essential Oils for Winter Wellness class, this set, unlike some of the others, is closely related to the class content.
Originally released with the Essentials Under $20 class, this set, unlike some of the others, is closely related to the class content.
Originally released with the Essential Oils for the Home Spa Experience class, this set, unlike some of the others, is closely related to the class content.
Originally released with the Essential Oils and the New You class, this set, unlike some of the others, is closely related to the class content.
Originally released with the Cleanse and Detox with Essential Oils class, this set, unlike some of the others, is closely related to the class content.
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Area Rugs and Pads : Thick Rug Pad. Rug Anti Slip. Carpet Underlay. Anti Slip Rug Underlay.
Published at Thursday, October 18th 2018, 03:33:29 AM by Robin Rapace. Area Rugs and Pads.
rug and into the pad. Rug-pads are very absorbent, so they will soak up any spills that happen to the carpet. It is easier to clean up the spill on the rug because most of the spill is caught in the pad. And pads are easy to clean because they are machine-washable. Plus, it is cheaper to replace a stained pad that it is to have to buy a car. Another plus to the pad's absorbency is that it also will protect the floor from getting stained by a spill.
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WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, Va — On Tuesday, Oct. 28, Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital ) suffered the loss of one of the Dulles, Virginia-based firm’s Antares launch vehicles, along with the SS Deke Slayton, Cygnus, spacecraft at 6:22 p.m. EDT (1822 GMT). The anomaly happened within the first minute of flight, which left the launch pad covered in fire, smoke, and the rocket’s remnants. At the time of ignition, the launch team was not tracking any technical issues. It is unclear at present what impact this will have on the $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract that Orbital has with NASA, although NASA has confirmed that some reimbursement is built into the contract for Orbital and the on-board hardware.
Shortly after the incident, the Space Agency confirmed that no personnel has been injured and everyone was accounted for. The damage is limited to the launch pad and the facilities including property and vehicles. Orbital has stated that the damage was restricted to the south end of Wallops Island. Fire teams are in place to secure the perimeter of the crash, which is a little over 8500 feet.
NASA, Orbital, and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) are working together to determine the cause of the problem and are collecting data. Orbital will take the lead in the upcoming investigation. They are currently working on contingency operations and the FAA operations center has been notified. The team is working to secure the pad as well as sensitive security materials that the Cygnus spacecraft was carrying at the time.
The video of the accident suggests that Pad-0A – is likely heavily damaged and will need large portions of it rebuilt. Pad-0A is the only launch facility currently certified to launch the Antares booster and it will be Orbital’s top priority to get the pad here on Wallops Island into working order as soon as possible.
Despite this accident, it is not expected to impact tomorrow’s early-morning launch of a Russian Progress spacecraft – which is also bound for the International Space Station (ISS). At present, it is unclear, what if any, impact it will have on the planned launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket with its payload of the GPS IIF8 navigational satellite. That flight is slated to liftoff at 1:21 p.m. EDT (1721 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida.
For their part, Orbital representatives stated that accidents such as this are part of the business of spaceflight.
“We’ve all seen this happen in this business before, and we’ve all seen teams recover. We will do the same,” Culbertson said, a former astronaut and International Space Station resident.
Culbertson stated that it is unclear at this time how long it will be before Antares is returned to flight, but emphasized that it will absolutely not fly until the cause of the incident is determined.
At present, it is not known if either of Antares’ AJ-26 engines might be the cause of the accident. In May of this year, an Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-26 rocket engine, produced by the Kuznetsov Design Bureau, failed on a test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Aerojet Rocketdyne purchased more than forty of the NK-33 engines in the 1990′s and Orbital has purchased 20 of those engines for use on Antares. Aerojet Rocketdyne has upgraded the engines by adding, among other items, electronics and a gimbaling / steering capability. it was also recently reported that Orbital is seeking other engines for use on Antares.
The AJ-26 has experienced one prior failure, in June of 2011, when an engine caught fire in the same E-1 Test Stand as the May 2014 accident. The 2011 failure was determined to be caused by a fuel leak resulting from “stress corrosion cracking of the 40-year old metal” contained in the engine.
Under the CRS contract that Orbital has with NASA, the company is required to launch eight cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station. NASA is currently in negotiations with Orbital to have the contract extended – and has asked for proposals (due in Nov. 2014) for the next phase of the agency’s effort to send cargo to the station. NASA is currently working to cede responsibility of ferrying cargo and crews to the ISS to commercial firms such as Orbital and SpaceX. The first commercial crew flights are scheduled to begin in 2017. Tonight’s Antares and Cygnus duo cost about $200 million, which does not include property damage or payload contents. Luckily, Orbital does have insurance.
NASA has stated that the loss of the Cygnus cargo vessel should not affect operations on the station as the orbiting laboratory is, at present, well stocked with supplies – with enough on orbit to last the Expedition 41 crew until March of next year if necessary. The next United States resupply flight to the station – will be the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket with its Dragon spacecraft – that launch is currently slated to occur no-earlier-than Dec. 9.
Due to tonight’s anomaly, there may be a few items exchanged on Dragon’s current payload manifest, including a oxygen tank that may be switched for a nitrogen tank similar to the one Cygnus was carrying.
Culbertson stressed that anyone coming across debris from the rocket – should not touch it and contact local authorities so that it can be collected.
NASA’s Michael Suffredini noted that the fact there is more than one contributor on NASA’s CRS program – is a strength – as it means that when a mishap such as this takes place, the Space Agency can turn to a different, non-related, set of launch vehicles and spacecraft.
It is estimated that Orbital and the incident team will need at least a few weeks in order to thoroughly evaluate the situation and to work on a plan for what is to come. At day break tomorrow, teams from the Accident Investigation Board will be sent off to locate and tag any debris and to further assess the extent of the damage. The next step is to study the video footage as well as telemetry data, which are currently in lock down.
I am so thankful, as is the rest of the old gang here at KSC, that none of the team members were injured. Hope you guys can recover quickly.
I’d like to know what the sensitive security materials that the Cygnus spacecraft was carrying at the time, and what the payload was for this mission?? Thanks!
I hate to be critical at this point in time,,but, if the engines were involved, arent we dealing with a failure in US space policy,,,,,,,why are we still depending on Russian technology to move forward? The last few administations have shown a total lack of imagination in pushing US industry to move forward in developing new space technologies…….Were do we go from here?
I believe the security sensitive material is thought to be related to the range safety equipment, and not actual cargo bound for the ISS. Regardless, rockets are tricky.
How do we know something wasn’t overlooked…. The workers at Orbital are mandated to work 10, 12 or more hours a day, 6 sometimes 7 days a week, for weeks on end. It has been proven that when you work your employees under these kind of conditions, things go unnoticed, things get overlooked. This is a huge factor and why isn’t NASA enforcing their work rule policy on Orbital or Space x.
Also, why is NASA putting Orbital in charge of the investigation ? this is like putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
NASA isn’t in charge of the investigation. The NTSB has jurisdiction. Regardless, Orbital’s personnel are the best qualified to find out what went wrong, but ultimately the NTSB will be in charge.
As expected, on the national nightly news television broadcast it was repeatedly stated, “A NASA rocket exploded at Wallops Island,” not “A Orbital Science Corporation Antares rocket exploded at Wallops Island.” Perhaps the general public doesn’t draw neat distinctions between NASA and commercial entities, it’s all “the space program”.
The CRS contract with Orbital was 1.9 billion for 8 launches of the Antares/Cygnus combo. That equals 237.5 million per flight for hardware. NASA, Orbital, Wallops, Virginia, and insurance companies will all be kicking in to clean it up and get them back to launching.
Failures happen … we learn, we fix, we improve, we innovate, we move on.
A couple weeks ago, three semi trucks/trailers, each carrying about the same amount of cargo crashed in indiana. Didn’t make national news at all. We should be launching so often that this cargo crash isn’t that big a deal.
The NBC Nightly News today went into greater detail about the explosion in it’s lead off story. It was reported that it was an Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket. It was also reported that there would be no shortages on the ISS, and that a Russian Progress transport is on it’s way. It was further reported on NBC that Musk stated that the upgraded NK-33 engines “were a joke”.
Hence my issue with Space X. Musk has a tiger by the tail, but he still feels the need to gloat and trash talk the competition. Pride cometh before the fall; maybe Elon would be whistling a different tune if it was one of his F9s smouldering on the ground. New spacers like the arrogance, but the legacy people who’ve been in the game for decades aren’t impressed.
Musk made that comment YEARS ago NOT after the crash.
“Musk: I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. So I said, OK, let’s look at the first principles. What is a rocket made of? Aerospace-grade aluminum alloys, plus some titanium, copper, and carbon fiber. And then I asked, what is the value of those materials on the commodity market? It turned out that the materials cost of a rocket was around 2 percent of the typical price—which is a crazy ratio for a large mechanical product.
Musk: One is the incredible aversion to risk within big aerospace firms. Even if better technology is available, they’re still using legacy components, often ones that were developed in the 1960s.
Anderson: That’s a nice phrase.
Musk: The results are pretty crazy. One of our competitors, Orbital Sciences, has a contract to resupply the International Space Station, and their rocket honestly sounds like the punch line to a joke. It uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the ’60s. I don’t mean their design is from the ’60s—I mean they start with engines that were literally made in the ’60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere.
Anderson: Where else are there inefficiencies?
The Daily Launch of the AIAA reported on 29 October that on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams reporter Tom Costello stated, “some like SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called the engine “a joke”. There was no citation of a 2012 interview. Even if the statement was not made immediately after the Antares explosion, the statement that “their rocket honestly sounds like a punch line to a joke” does, as stated by Michael J. Listner, smack of “arrogance”. If SpaceX should suffer such an explosion, Newspacers would probably howl with indignation if anyone dared call a Falcon “punch line to a joke”. Such statements can only serve to denigrate the opinion of the general public about “rocket scientists” and space exploration.
In the context of “new” cutting edge technology for the space program then utilizing old engines, and outsourcing the tankage to the Ukraine and then charging 100 million more per launch, to me sounds like Musk was EXACTLY spot on.
Perhaps regardless of the facts, we selectively hear what we want to hear, and if you want to believe in Musk you are certainly free to do so. We did not hear anyone from Orbital Sciences calling Musk’s Falcons “a joke” when his “cutting edge technology” didn’t work very well until NASA engineers helped him with his fuel slosh and staging problems. With that, you are welcome to have the last word. Congratulations.
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Today Spick & Span window cleaners went down to Barnes as part of a regular window cleaner service in Barnes, for a client who owns an attractive 7 bedroom property, which has 2 reception rooms, and 3 bathrooms, a kitchen, a study, a utility room and downstairs cloakroom . This spacious property located on a leafy street in Barnes, fronts a busy arterial road.
Busy traffic on this road, means that windows get dirty very quickly making the vista outside very obscure. This is why the homeowner required a regular and reliable, window cleaner in Barnes. Spick & Span provide a regular window cleaner service in Barnes and the local area. The windows of this property in Barnes are desperately difficult to clean for an unprofessional window cleaner, as like many other properties in Barnes, it has many large windows, and some that are quite awkward to reach, the windows at the front of the house are all leaded glass and are particularly difficult for novices to clean. All the windows of this property in Barnes are cleaned regularly for this client, both inside and out by Spick & Span window cleaners who are based just a 30 minute drive away from Barnes and provide regular window cleaner services in the area. The windows are cleaned by the window cleaner as regular as is required by the client, but generally they are cleaned every 4 -6 weeks both on the inside and out, this ensures that the windows are always neat in appearance and that the glass allows the maximum amount of light to penetrate into the building improving the overall feel and ambiance of the building.
The property stretches over four floors, and so to reach the windows located at the very top of the building Spick & Span window cleaners use telescopic water-fed pole , which use purified water, and so thoroughly clean the glass, without leaving any marks or spots. There are four large Velux windows at the top of the property which are cleaned on each visit using traditional window cleaning methods, great care is taken to keep all carpets dry and walls clean, when using water inside the property. Because the windows of this property in Barnes have now been cleaned regularly for some time, the job takes less time, as the window cleaner has become used to the job, this is more convenient for the homeowner, who is very busy person.
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Luckily on this acoustic guitar the side mounted preamp could be removed to give us some clamping and camera room. Notice the home made brace clamp in the middle of the inside photo. The long outer clamp supplies downward pressure and the inside clamp pushes the brace up against it.
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Wavelet Transform Digital Watermarking decomposes a source cover image into a number of 2-D critically sampled subbands. There are four subbands created at the end of each stage of the wavelet transformation, defined in the vertical and horizontal directions: Low-Low, High-Low, Low-High and High-High. Subsequent stages apply a similar transform to the Low-Low band of the previous stage. The original signal can be completely reconstructed by performing the Inverse Wavelet Transform.
i and j are coordinates of the coefficients within the subband.
Here the energy of the subband wavelet coefficient is modeled as its absolute value. Instead of |Cn,i,j| the value Cn,i,j2, may be utilized.
In one implementation w may take values 0 and 1, in another ±1.
The reason to use Gaussian Noise is it improves transparency and is quite robust to collusive attacks.
The parameter λ controls the level of the watermark. It has to be chosen based on a good compromise between transparency and robustness.
Human eyes are not sensitive to the small changes in edges and textures of the cover image but are very sensitive to the small changes in the flat or smoothareas of an image. Therefore making change proportional to the coefficient energy is a way to avoid proportionally big changes in the areas of small coefficients that in many cases correspond to the flat or smooth areas.
After watermarking insertion into the subbands, the inverse wavelet transform is applied to form the watermarked image.
The procedure for watermark extraction from a watermarked image utilizes the original cover image and watermark. First the wavelet transform is performed. Then, in subbands where watermarking is embedded, the energy of the coefficients is normalized to the energy of the original image in the same subband. The difference between subbands of watermarked and original images contains the watermark. Lastly, there may need to be post processing, depending on the particular method of insertion.
The advantage of wavelet digital watermarking over other transforms such as DCT is a robustness to common image distortions such as: additive noise, rescaling/stretching, half toning and wavelet compressions based on embedded zero-trees.
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Posted 20 June 2018 by Sam Brickley & filed under Articles, Gaming, Internet, Marketing, Money, Technology.
Nowadays, there are so many online casinos to choose from, and so many different games to play. Not only can you enjoy slot games, but there are table games too, including computer-generated versions of poker and roulette, as well as live options. However, before you delve into the world of online casinos, there are a few things you need to know. Read on to discover more.
All online casinos are required to implement measures to help users control their spending, and it is highly advisable to make the most of these features. One example of this is the deposit limit. You can limit the amount of money you are allowed to deposit per day, week, and month. This ensures you do not end up spending anything that you are not comfortable with. If you have reached your limit, you can play free and demo versions of slot games, so you can still have fun without spending any money.
Before you sign up with an online casino, make sure you do your research to find out whether there is a welcome offer available. The vast majority of online casinos offer sign-up offers and loyalty offers for existing customers too. This is a great way to make your money go further. However, you do need to make sure you read the terms and conditions of every offer before accepting it, as some simply aren’t worth taking. You may see an offer that states deposit £100 and get £400 extra to play with. Sounds good, right? But in the terms and conditions, it may state that there is 50x wagering of your deposit and the bonus. This means you need to do £25,000 worth of spins before you can release your funds, which means there is a very real chance you will lose the £100 you deposited, so do keep this in mind. Moreover, the last thing you want to do is breach the terms by accident and lose your winnings. A lot of offers will have a maximum spin amount, say £3, and so if you were to do a £5 spin, you could lose all of your winnings.
Most casinos will offer all of the popular payment methods, including debit and credit cards and PayPal. However, make sure you check out the withdrawal time frames, so you know how long it will take for the money to reach your bank. Not only this, but some online casinos charge a deposit and withdrawal fee, so keep this in mind too.
Hopefully, you now feel more prepared for your first online casino experience. If you follow the advice that has been provided above, you can make sure that you have a fun and safe experience. It is certainly worth setting up deposit limits so you don’t spend too much money, as well as reading the terms and conditions of every bonus offer so you know exactly what to expect.
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Many studies have investigated the influence of breastfeeding on child health. It is well known that breastfeeding confers short-term benefits for child health by reducing mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases. A WHO report suggests a lower long-term morbidity from gastrointestinal and allergic diseases in infants who were exclusively breastfed for 6 months in comparison to non-breastfed children. Based on these data, UNICEF and WHO current recommendations are "every infant should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life, with continued breastfeeding for up to two years or longer". While the evidence base for the protective effects of breast feeding on early infectious illnesses is strong this is not the case for many non-communicable diseases, where several systematic reviews have reached very different conclusions.
Human breast milk (BM) is the main source of nutrition for a newborn, and an important factor facilitating newborn adaption to the extra-uterine environment. The major constituents of the milk are proteins, fatty acids, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins. It also provides bioactive factors influencing the infant’s immune maturation, physical and cognitive development and moderation of the gut microbiota. Infants’ immune ontogeny is influenced by maternal immunity via the placenta and breast milk. It is clear that nutritional influences are critical to both short and long-term health outcomes in the developing child, particularly during the first year of life.
By understanding BM composition and its determinants, we can identify new therapeutic or environment modifiable targets to influence metabolic and immune programming in early life in order to improve short and long-term health.
Today, there is no clear understanding of the pathways linking the intervention, its effect on BM composition and health outcomes.
This issue is aimed at clarifying this with the goal of proposing better strategies to improve health.
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Because we line the already very durable full grain leather wallet with tough pigskin, it'll last longer than you will. And an extra is that we put a layer of Radio Frequency I.D. (rfid) blocking material into our wallets between the leather and pigskin lining to block thieves from scanning your wallet in crowds.
This wallet was built with full grain leather. The grain is the most durable part of the hide and it lives along the top 1/4 of the leather hide. It ages richly and is very water resistant. But most designers are told to save as much money as possible making their wallets and therefore need to use every inch of the hide. Instead of cutting around the scars and blemishes and throwing 25% of the leather in the trash, the tannery shaves off the top layer (watch how they shave it here at minute 6:30) with all of the scars and slight imperfections so they can use almost 100% of the hide to make wallets out of. The problem is that they shave off most or all of the toughest part of the hide and the wallets end up being junk and falling apart in a short time.
Then we line our wallets with pigskin, which is a tougher leather than the cow leather. It’s how we can offer a 100-year Warranty. And then we sew it with our tough marine grade polyester thread. It’s what they sew parachutes and ship sails with. If a life depends on it, they use our thread. In between the leather and pigskin is a thin layer of Radio Frequency ID blocking materials to stop a thief from scanning your wallet in a crowd and stealing your identification off your credit cards. It happens all the time.
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» What letter comes next in the following series? B D G K P?
What letter comes next in the following series? B D G K P?
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Add some wild boho spirit to your outfit with this stunning citrine nugget pendant necklace. Crafted by hand using semi-precious gemstones, this citrine necklace is a striking piece that you'll love having adventures in over and over again. Wear by itself or layer up to complete your effortless, free-spirited style.
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A teenage girl BIT a police officer on the wrist in Walsall.
Although the officer was wearing a coat, the 17-year-old's teeth still managed to puncture the skin.
The female officer, who was attempting to help the teen at the time, must now take a course of antibiotics as a result of the assault.
A spokesman for West Midlands Police's Force Response, took to Twitter to share a picture of the officer's wound.
The tweet, posted on Tuesday evening (February 5), said: "Officer bitten tonight. A 17-year-old girl who a #Eunit # Walsall officer was trying to help, decided to bite the officer on the arm.
"Luckily the officer had her coat on, which lessened the injury, but they will still need a course of antibiotics."
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The Malampaya Deep Water Gas-to-Power Project employs state-of-the-art deep water technology to extract natural gas and condensate from the sea floor. Such technology includes sub-sea facilities, a shallow water production platform, an underwater pipeline, a catenary-anchored leg mooring buoy, and an onshore processing gas plant.
Three combined-cycle gas turbine plants–the 1,000-megawatt Sta. Rita power station, the 500-megawatt San Lorenzo power station, and the 1,200-megawatt Ilijan power station–are supplied with processed natural gas to generate a combined 2,700 megawatts of power for Luzon.
Malampaya gas is utilized for the government’s pilot CNG program for public utility transport, which consists of a mother and daughter filling station located at the onshore gas plant and at a Shell station in Laguna.
Dubbed the “fuel of the future”, natural gas is composed of gaseous hydrocarbons found deep underground, or extracted through driven wells. It is formed beneath the earth’s surface over millions of years by the decomposition of organic matter, in much the same way that oil and coal are formed. Natural gas is 85-90% methane, with varying amounts of ethane, propane, butane, and other hydrocarbon compounds. Some condensate and oil will always be associated with the gas. In its natural state, the gas is colorless, odorless, and lighter than air.
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I imagine most of us already do all these, but it's a good list to share with someone you want to turn onto frugality!
An awesome list indeed Redfox! I like to look at important lists such as these as if they are bibles of sorts, bibles for the homemaker. Great guidance reminders they are and superb teachers to those not yet practicing simple/frugal living.
We have been experimenting with using less and less soap. I am surprised how little soap still gives you a lot of suds, except when washing undergarments, oils must decrease the amount of suds. My wife likes the suds...except most of the time it requires a 2nd rinse to get rid of all the soap... I also have been cutting the fabric softner sheets in half (and the cheapo brand) and it still seems to go a good job.
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Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 26th-most populous city in the country. It is the largest independent city in the United States.
With hundreds of identified districts, Baltimore has been dubbed “a city of neighborhoods”. Famous residents have included the writers Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass and H.L. Mencken, jazz musician James “Eubie” Blake, singer Billie Holiday and baseball player Babe Ruth. In the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner, later the American national anthem, in the city.
For more information on buying or selling a house in Baltimore, or anywhere in Maryland, contact a State 7 Realty Agent.
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My name is Frans Hooijmans, 20 years old and I am currently working as an intern at the WRT. This internship is part of my study Geo Media & Design at the HAS University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands. I chose to do my internship in New-Zealand because of its varied nature and environment. When I arrived on Waiheke Island I was directly very impressed. It has a scenery and strong community that’s really unique that I haven’t experienced before.
The WRT plays an important role in this by helping the Waiheke community with living sustainable and to keep the island as beautiful as it is now. It is great to be part of that and it will allow me to gain valuable experiences.
Living and working on Waiheke Island have been a great experience for me. The island is beautiful and has a really nice community. The WRT is an lovely place to work with a great staff, they do great work for sustainability and the environment on Waiheke. During my internship I got involved in various WRT projects which was very exciting. I had a great time during my internship at WRT and want to thank the staff for that.
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The American classic design lighter Knapp lift-arm. It produced around 1920. About her early header from the origin of said instruction «How to change the cerium (flint)» - while for invented in 1909. Silicon is not always stuck actual word "flint", and then he is called "the old fashioned way." Lighters Knapp often results in the skin, but in many instances it has not survived to the present day. Inventor Raymond S.Knapp received several patents for their lighters in the late 1920s.
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Some plants have both male and female flowers, while other have males on one plant and females on another. A short, printable book for early readers, about apples and the numbers from 1 to 10, with pages for the student to cut out, items to count and color, and a short phrase to copy. Just like us, there are both female and male flowers. Super coloring - free printable coloring pages for kids, coloring sheets, free colouring book, illustrations, printable pictures, clipart, black and white pictures, line art and drawings. Plants cells also contain many membrane bound cellular structures. Label the strata layers of the tropical rainforest. You can plant vegetables and grow them to learn more about plants, the soil, the weather, gardening, and science.
In order to do that they must first be pollinated. Although it's perfectly fine to say female or male flower, there are also scientific names for them, as well. Incorporate Reading Skills: Identify Plant Causes and Effects Learning about life cycles and most science in general, lends itself well to identifying causes and effects. She was proud of her work, and I was proud of her effort! Have you ever wondered why flowers are so bright and pretty? Be sure to include roots, a stem, a flower, and leaves in your drawing. The cell wall surrounds the plasma membrane of plant cells and provides tensile strength and protection against mechanical and osmotic stress. This Venn diagram compares flowering and non-flowering plants.
In that case, this printable plant cell diagram may come in handy. Just type in flowers in the search box and you have plenty to choose from. Included here is a collection of visually appealing charts, meticulously designed activities to identify and label the parts of the plant, comprehend the functions of each part of the plant and recognize the edible parts as well. Have students look at leaves from a variety of habitats to compare their shape, size, and outer coverings before making predictions about which leaf types would help a plant get the most sunlight. Great potential questions include: What do the roots do? Links to several powerpoint presentations dealing with flowers.
They make a beautiful hallway display too! Discuss the roles of each part of a plant, and challenge your student to re-label the plant. Write a poem about tulips. For example, every time you eat broccoli you're eating a flower. You can also find other educational diagrams in our site by typing the keyword on the search column. Several slides introducing the parts of a flower and their functions. Free Flower Printouts What a great resource! Chloroplast — The chloroplast contains chlorophyll and conducts photosynthesis.
In these , the parts of plant cell are explained in simple pictures to make your kids easily understand about the structures of the cell. Label the tree in French. As a flower matures, the ovary will eventually turn into the fruit while the ovules become the seeds. Words: leaf, flower, stem, root. Together, all of the petals are called the corolla.
The anther is where the pollen is on a flower, and it sits on top of a stalk, which is also known as the filament. The innermost matrix of chloroplasts, called the stroma, contains metabolic enzymes and multiple copies of the chloroplast genome. Label the plant cell diagram using the glossary of plant cell terms. Take your imagination to a new realistic level! Sources: , Register New Account. Tape each label to the correct row on page 3 making a flap that covers the observation section. Stems can be herbaceous like the bendable stem of a daisy or woody like the trunk of an oak tree. A short, printable picture dictionary of the plant words -- for early readers.
Words: sepal, stamen, anther, stigman, filament, pistil, style, pollen, ovary, germinate. The stamen is where you will find the filament, anther and the pollen after it's made. More are provided in the following images. How do the roots help keep a plant alive? Teach students how to look for and record changes, make predictions, and measure growth as their seeds sprout. For example, maple trees have star-shaped leaves, magnolia trees have obovate leaves, and birch trees have deltoid leaves. Chart the growth of 5 plants over 15 days using this graphic organizer. Label the peas, potato, celery, carrot, pumpkin, onion, cucumber, corn, broccoli, mushroom, and tomato in English.
A tiny, printable book about simple words related to flowers -- for early readers and writers. There are a wide range of operations like producing hormones, enzymes, and all metabolic activities of the cell. Go to Kinderart and do a search for plants. A short printable shape book for early readers about the germination and early growth of a bean seed. A short, printable book for early readers about the colors and flowers, featuring a yellow daffodil, purple crocus, white lily, red tulip, pink rose, blue bluebells, and a green bud. Have the child carefully dissect the flower, one part at a time and examine each part color, texture, smell… Write observations down as your child makes them on page 3. In this worksheet, write the definition of a word, what part of speech it is, and use it in a sentence.
I gave Little Tiger the option of tracing the words or writing it herself and she choose to write it herself on the second page. A tiny, printable book about simple words related to plants -- for early readers and writers. When you're looking at the parts of a flower, the peduncle is the stem. A plant is made up of different parts where the main parts are the roots, the leaves, and the stem. Click on the pictures to read more:.
Label the orange, lemon, apple, strawberry, watermelon, avocado, banana, pear, cherry, and grapes in French. Explore a variety of leaf types and how their shapes regulate the amount of light they capture for the plant. Let's get the kids of grade 1, grade 2 and grade 3 acquainted with our 'Green Friends'. Some flowers have only a few sepals, while others have many. Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum — The rough endoplasmic reticulum manufactures enzymes and proteins. Lima beans are a great seed to use.
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Spring has officially begun on Cape Cod! It may not feel like it, but hot and humid weather will be here very soon. Now is the time to have your Air Conditioning system checked by an HVAC contractor. Just like your car, A/C system components such as the compressor and evaporator coil need to be checked before they are running full speed on an 85 degree day. This type of maintenance can prevent costly repairs during the Summer. Contractors such as Robies are usually inundated in the Summer, making it difficult to respond quickly to a failed A/C unit.
The recent batch of Nor’easters have changed the shape of the Cape, shifting coastlines and causing immense damage. If you have a natural gas or propane automatic standby generator, it would be wise to have the generator checked. If it ran continuously during power outages, the oil will need to be checked and most likely should be changed. There are also considerable electrical components as well as the battery that should be inspected. Have it checked now so that it fires up safely next time its called into service!
This is also a great time of year to develop a plan for summertime humidity mitigation. Humidity is terrible for the woodwork in your home – floors, cabinets, walls, etc. It provides a perfect environment for mold and mildew to grow, not to mention it makes us extremely uncomfortable in our homes. If you don’t have a system in place to pull the moisture out of your home, now is the time to look into one. Whole home dehumidifiers perform brilliantly at reducing humidity. Ductless systems are also excellent at drying out your home, and they provide A/C.
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Today it's World Health Day and this year's theme is depression. Did you know that the potato is a very healthy food crop? Today we will go more into detail on this subject and we will make the connection with depression. We will show you that the potato is everybody's friend when it comes to nutritional values.
The potato is currently the third most important food crop in the world, but is still sometimes mistakenly seen as 'less healthy'. Despite what people think, the potato has a lot to offer; it is a great source of vitamins, fibers, minerals and starch, which gives you energy. Food specialists actually advise people to eat 3 to 5 boiled potatoes per day.
and GABA, which is needed for normal brain function.
Furthermore, it contains 'kukoamines' compounds that help lowering the blood pressure.
TIP: boiling the potato in the skin with a little water is the best way to maintain the nutritional value of the potato.
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Before we discuss, we have to define our terms. By definition, there are currently only four Grand Slam tournaments (majors) in tennis. The ITF, not the ATP or WTA, controls those four events. The Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open are worth 2000 ranking points, more than any other tournament. They are the only tournaments where men’s matches are played as best-of-five sets with 128-player draws. In the women’s game, they are still the only tournaments with 128-player draws, although matches are played as only best-of-three sets.
So does Indian Wells deserve to be grouped with those four in terms of attractiveness and prestige? It is not technically on that level, but it is often described as “the fifth Slam.” The question of whether it deserves that moniker consists both of asking whether it is above every other non-Slam, and whether is it really on the level of the other Slams?
Granted, Indian Wells begins this discussion a step behind the majors in a way that cannot be made up, at least on the men’s side. The majors are vitally different in that they require a champion to win seven best-of-five matches. Indian Wells does not. A seeded player only needs to win six matches at Indian wells, and every match is only best-of-three. That already changes the dynamic of the entire tournament.
That being said, Indian Wells has made great strides under the leadership of owner Larry Ellison to put itself ahead of the pack, even ahead of the Grand Slams in some ways. A few years ago, it became the first tournament to make Hawkeye available on every single court, something even the majors have not yet matched. The atmosphere is amazing, lagging only behind the majors in terms of overall attendance. Also, the Indian Wells Tennis Garden is a beautiful facility that is larger than every other tennis-only venue in the world aside from Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Other non-majors might have a claim to being on par with or ahead of Indian Wells. The Shanghai Masters 1000 tournament is a favorite of both fans and players, and it won the player-elected Masters Tournament of the Year every year from 2009-12. The ATP World Tour Finals, currently in London, is also a very popular and prestigious event, but its unique format makes it hard to compare to other tournaments.
A key part of this discussion, however, must be the players. The prestige of a tournament is largely determined by how much the players care about it. Almost nobody skips Indian Wells by choice, but players are more likely to withdraw with a more minor injury than from a major. Candid opinions from players, which are unlikely to be forthcoming, would matter greatly in helping us determine where Indian Wells sits on the spectrum.
At the end of the day, though, not all majors are created equal, just as not all smaller tournaments are equal. For most of the sport’s history, the Australian Open lagged far behind the other majors. Many top players didn’t bother to show up for it as late as the 1980s. The Australian Open is rapidly catching up to the others, if it hasn’t already, but that distinction is still there in the minds of many. Similarly, Wimbledon is the most prestigious tournament in tennis by any measure. It carries a gravitas that none of the others can match. This isn’t reflected in ranking points or in all-time title counts, but, if you offered every player the chance to win just one major, the vast majority would take Wimbledon.
So Indian Wells is probably a few steps ahead of the other non-majors, with Ellison quickly trying to widen that gap. Maybe someday it could even become a fifth Slam in reality. But so far it does not carry quite the same weight, emotion, and intensity that the four Grand Slams carry—yet.
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The DMSE Children’s Fitness Foundation, founded in 2003 by BAA Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray, supports non profit programs that use running as a primary means of promoting physical fitness in children.
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In teaching kids how to fish, one of the first obstacles that must be overcome is what has to be an innate urge to throw rocks and sticks into the water for the sheer joy of it. Every fisherman knows that such commotions only scare the fish away. Within the world of birds though, some of the best fishers actually incorporate this behavior into their pedagogy.
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Dale Bruder, President of the Lake Superior Chapter of the Safari Club International (SCI,) understands this fact implicitly. Bruder knows that clean water shortages impact more than just our world’s human residents, but every life on our planet – large and small, two-legged and four-legged. As such, his organization supports several humanitarian efforts that help to bring clean water to those people in need throughout the world, while also advocating for the protection of a spectacular array of wildlife.
This weekend, April 11-12, Bruder and his organization will be hosting their 16th Annual Hunter’s Banquet and fundraiser in Hinckley, MN. While he worked to finalize preparations for this event, Bruder sat down with us to share how the humanitarian efforts of the SCI can help save countless lives – and countless species – throughout the world.
For our readers that are unfamiliar with the Safari Club International, could you please share a brief summary of your organization and its mission?
The Safari Club International (SCI) is the largest organization in the world dedicated to protecting hunters’ rights and traditions, preserving wildlife through good conservation practices, educating our youth and the non-hunting public, and doing humanitarian deeds for the less fortunate.
You mention the worldwide humanitarian efforts deployed by the SCI. What types of projects have you seen deployed to date and what type of results have you seen these efforts achieve?
Our “Hunters Against Hunger” initiative has provided thousands of pounds of processed venison to the less fortunate so they can eat protein-rich meat. We also have a very active “Make A Wish” type hunting program that is available for disabled and terminally ill children. We support our wounded veterans by helping to fulfill their wishes to go on hunts that they aren’t able to do on their own.
Another initiative we are proud to support is the Blue Bag Drop program, where our members that are traveling overseas deliver blue bags filled with health aids for children and adults and items needed for the hungry. Oftentimes these blue bags will include portable water filtration equipment to be brought into those areas where clean water is not always a given.
Our store has helped to support the SCI Blue Bag Drops, providing some of the portable water filtration equipment SCI members bring with them on their journeys. How many Blue Bag Drops have been deployed to date – and overall – how many lives have been positively impacted through these efforts?
I do not have the exact figure, but it is in the hundreds for the number of bags delivered and in the thousands of lives impacted.
[Ed. Note: DiscountFilterStore.com is proud to support the SCI Blue Bag Drops through the donation of portable water filtration equipment, including our Katadyn camping filters. The photo to the left, from a story published in a recent SCI newsletter, shows one of the Blue Bag Drops we supported, in partnership with the Safari Club International, Safari Care Legacy Fund and Global Water Drops. Look closely and you’ll see the Katadyn Vario filter we donated, sitting atop the bag.
Clean water is critical for every life on our planet, making it a natural cause for the SCI to align itself with. From your perspective, how would you describe this alignment between protecting clean water and protecting wildlife?
They go hand in hand. As you said, clean water is critical for humans and animals alike. Both will drink contaminated water if thirst drives them to it. Then they become ill and that spreads disease and death among their respective species.
What type of opportunities would our readers have to become involved with the SCI or to support its humanitarian missions?
Go to any local member or local chapter and ask how to become involved. Go to any chapter’s fundraiser and join the organization. There is also a National website to get more information: www.scifirstforhunters.org.
Of course, we would also love to see everyone at this weekend’s fundraiser in Hinckley where they can learn about our organization first-hand, in addition to offering the donations that will allow us to continue our good work.
For registration information for the 16th annual Hunter’s Banquet and fundraiser, hosted on April 11th – 12th in Hinckley, MN by the Lake Superior Chapter of the SCI, visit this page on the chapter’s website. You may also donate to support the mission of the SCI by visiting their contribution page on their national website.
We invite you to like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or +1 us on Google+ to be the first to learn about more ways you can support clean water initiatives throughout the world, in addition to being the first to learn about exclusive new deals and products.
Such a bold mission requires technology and leadership to match, and for this, Ruffalo hand-picked Chief Scientist, Scott Smith – pictured with Ruffalo above.
You are the Chief Scientist for Water Defense, an organization founded by actor Mark Ruffalo.
In founding Water Defense, Mark joined Matt Damon – co-founder of Water.org – in leveraging his influence to become a champion for clean water. Why do you feel that clean water is an issue that celebrities like Mark and Matt have become so passionate about?
I believe Mark and Matt understand there is one world and one waterway, and we are all connected. If we don’t bring people together to solve water contamination issues, nothing else really matters. Water is one of the biggest resources we take for granted. Without water, life ends. We drink it, bathe in it and cook with it.
For something so crucial to our everyday lives, we are doing a poor job in protecting the nation’s waterways. Unfortunately, people learn this lesson the hard way, and we want to educate people to prevent any more needless loss of life.
Those who live along the Gulf Coast, in Mayflower, Ark. and most recently in Charleston, W.Va. have experienced this firsthand. Worse is the lack of information and transparency that’s afforded to the public when accidents happen. We still don’t know the long-term effects of fracking and exactly what chemicals and gases are being released from deep below the cap rock of the Earth.
Clearly, with the Bakken oil train explosions of Lac-Megantic, Quebec; Aliceville, Ala.; and Casselton, N.D., we have started one of the more risky experiments in North America that will continue to cause tragic loss of human life if we do not develop new protocols and standards for not just understanding what explosive chemicals are being transported, but testing baseline water, which includes cumulative water testing. This is why the issue is so important to all of us, and it’s our mission to inspire people to stand up and take action to demand their right to clean water access.
Last month, you and Mark spoke out on behalf of clean water during a talk at Cape Cod Community College. For our readers that were unable to attend, could you please share more about the issues you covered?
We unveiled a new project we’re working on with Cape Cod Community College to create new protocols for baseline cumulative water testing that will allow the community to better monitor contaminants that accumulate over time and reduce pollution of Cape Cod’s waters.
Cumulative water testing mimics how life interacts with water. For example, a fish does not swim in the water for a split second; a child does not swim in the water for a split second; and people don’t bathe in the water for a split second. This initiative is a perfect example of what we want to replicate in communities throughout the country.
All waterways are connected; if there is a spill of Bakken oil in North Dakota that goes into the Missouri river, within seven to 10 days, the contaminated water will be in the Gulf Stream, which then flows up the East Coast to the waters of Cape Cod.
Your recent background is as the founder and inventor of OPFLEX Technology, an open cell foam sponge that helps to purify water. What inspired you to dedicate your life to clean water and develop this product, and go on to work with Mark as a part of Water Defense?
In 2006, a company I started was wiped out by oil-contaminated 500-year floodwaters in St. Johnsville, N.Y. After experiencing its destructive power, I dedicated my life to developing a simple solution that filters oil from water. This was the inspiration for what became OPFLEX Technology, which removes the oil at the source of contamination and prevent our waterways from being destroyed.
Also, while working side by side with fisherman and people in the communities of the Gulf of Mexico during the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, I realized the world was relying on instantaneous water testing – taking water samples for a split second from the surface of the water. I found instantaneous water testing was giving false negatives of dangerous oil-related chemicals and started to deploy OPFLEX as an environmental indicator throughout the entire water column – from surface to bottom, where life exists – and found accumulation of previously undetected oil and related chemicals.
Upon this discovery, my life changed forever. I realized I had a duty and obligation to inform people about cumulative water testing and what could be done to protect human health and save our waterways.
Mark heard of my work on the ground in the Gulf and then in Mayflower, Ark. after the March 2013 ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline oil spill and specifically asked me to join his organization in the fight for clean water. Needless to say, the decision was easy.
OPFLEX [pictured below] has exciting potential to help solve our world’s shortage of clean drinking water. Could you please describe briefly the technology behind OPFLEX and how it works to purify water?
OPFLEX is a reuseable foam technology that sits in all levels of the water column and absorbs contaminants through a capillary network of open cells while repelling water.
Essentially, the OPFLEX technology is based on biomimicry of human lungs, where the open cells are like the alveoli, effectively acting as a filter and utilizing unprecedented surface area to rapidly filter water. It can be used both for water testing and in cleanup efforts, and OPFLEX technology was the only technology out of 43,000 ideas endorsed, ordered, reordered and recycled by BP in the Gulf oil spill.
In fact, this is referenced in a USA Today business section cover story from November 2010. OPFLEX Technology can be used by both companies and consumers alike to detect contamination and prevent our waterways from being contaminated.
Cost is oftentimes cited as a major hurdle in when we discuss how to solve global water issues, whether the proposed solution is distribution or purification. How do you envision OPFLEX helping to ease some of the cost issues involved with water purification?
What’s great about investing in OPFLEX technology is that it’s reusable, cutting down on long-term costs.
You can also use it for both water testing and cleanup, reducing the tools you need to one simple solution. Because of the surface area of OPFLEX, the cost is around $.10 per square foot, even without reuse (so if you use OPFLEX 10 times, the cost goes to $.01 per square foot).
Conversely, products that do not effectively filter the water and wind up in landfills cost $2.00 per square foot and cannot be reused.
Nearly 300,000 West Virginia residents recently suffered through an unprecedented chemical spill, leaving their tap water unusable. Because so little is known about MCHM, the chemical spilled into the water, we were unable to offer our customers any water filters certified to reduce this contaminant. How would a technology like OPFLEX help to purify water supplies contaminated by – for lack of a better word – the ‘unknown’?
We utilized the same lab as the state of West Virginia and detected MCHM at concerning levels within the open cells of OPFLEX deployed in a bathtub in Charleston.
The lab verified the efficacy of the OPFLEX technology with control samples, too. It appears the company testing the waters in Charleston did not have technology that could filter the MCHM.
We attempted to donate OPFLEX filter bags, but the governor and water company showed no interest, which is unfortunate for the community. However, we don’t ever give up and will keep trying.
In addition to West Virginia, there have been several more prominent water contamination issues over the past year, including water that was contaminated by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines to the recent finding of E. Coli in several New York City drinking water tankers. How would a technology like OPFLEX help to purify water in these two types of situations?
We continue to develop prototype filtration systems that utilize OPFLEX in different configurations, such as eelgrass and cubes, which have shown preliminary results in their ability to substantially reduce biological oxygen demanders, chemical oxygen demanders, suspended solids and dissolved solids.
We are now researching E. coli. Because OPFLEX repels water, the technology can be used in these situations to assist in cleanup efforts by absorbing and removing oil and related non-polar contaminants like a magnet, along with metals due to its molecular structure.
Our thanks go out to Scott Smith, Mark Ruffalo and all at Water Defense and OPFLEX for their fight on behalf of clean water. We encourage you to learn more about this fight by watching the video provided by Scott below, sharing more about his history and the founding of OPFLEX.
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For many years, you have wanted to substitute that heavy beef curry with maybe a version of a grilled lean meat, or use baked crisps instead of fried food, but have always worried about the outcome for the taste of the food.
So you have finally taken the dive and are now actively trying to cook and eat healthy meals, but unfortunately the water is icy cold; you can barely see anything and have no clue in which direction you should swim; or maybe you are standing on the edge of the cliff staring at the water down below, scared of taking the dive, maybe because the cliff is just too high, what if there are rocks hidden under the water?
A: The good fats are the monounsaturated fats and the polyunsaturated fats. Some examples are the fats found in natural foods like walnuts, avocados, olives, nuts (peanuts, almonds, macadamia nuts), flaxseed, tofu, sunflower pumpkin and sesame seeds, and fatty fish, rich in omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, such as tuna, salmon, trout, herring, mackerel, sardines.
Q: Dips tastes so good. Is there a way to cut the fat?
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This is great! And I had forgotten about C’s obsession with hot lava. haha I like the use of the parenthetical there.
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The 6,430 surface acre Stillhouse Hollow Lake was formerly named Lampasas Lake. It was constructed for flood control, water conservation, fish and wildlife habitat, and general recreation. Dam construction on the Lampasas River began in June 1962, 16 miles upstream from the confluence of the Lampasas and Leon Rivers. Construction was completed in July 1968, for a cost of $24,507,000. Deliberate impoundment began in February 1968. It has 58 miles of shoreline and a maximum depth of 107 feet. Several U.S. Army Engineer Corps WMAs provide public hunting opportunities including the Union Grove, Gravel Crossing, Youngsport, Twin Creek, Trimmer Creek, and 7-Gates WMAs. Public recreation amenities include parks, marinas, boat ramps and trails. Volunteer positions are available. The lake is located in Lampasas County on FM 1670, 2 miles south of U.S. 290, 5 miles southwest of Belton, and a short distance from Killeen, Texas.
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S.L. Ember is a horror writer currently working on three projects, including a debut novel, The Architect’s Gallery, with plans to self-publish. The works of this new author are dark, creepy, and haunting stories. Each of the three upcoming novels is a standalone. When not writing in the home office in Montana, S.L. Ember can be found playing video games, enjoying the outdoors, or traveling.
Eddy, a deer head chihuahua, turned 15 in December 2018 and has been a part of S.L. Ember’s family since he was just a puppy. He has been a faithful reading and writing companion for 15 years and is the best lap dog around. He loves to be wrapped in a warm blanket and his favorite thing to do is to go for a ride in the car. Eddy enjoys cozying up next to S.L. Ember during reading sessions, and in the middle of or on top of feet during writing sessions. He is a harsh, but fair critic and is paid in cuddles and treats.
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The report will provide detailed signposts that can guide policymakers on pathways to limit global warming to 1.5°C. The summary for policymakers, currently under negotiations, is expected to be approved on 8 October and will summarise the nearly 1000-page report.
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?“We must remember Parties requested this report in 2015 and they must own it. This IPCC report is set to outline a rescue plan for humanity. It will shine a light on what needs to happen and what we’ll suffer if we fail to act quickly enough.?Those leaders who stand up, listen to the science and take action will be remembered as the moral authorities of their time. Given the evidence from science, countries must raise their national climate targets in line with a 1.5C pathway."
She added she was hopeful and inspired by people taking action locally and climate justice groups such as in the Philippines demanding more from their governments.
"New science shows that in many ways 1.5°C is the new 2°C in terms of impacts we are seeing and what we can expect. Delivering on the 1.5°C will require massive transformations in our societies which will only get harder and riskier the longer we wait and? if we fail to increase climate ambition in the near term."
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