Wanted: Effectively-Once Processing in Azure
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TL;DR: Are there any known patterns / tools / frameworks to provide scalable, stateful, effectively-once, end-to-end processing of messages, to be hosted in Azure, preferably on PaaS-level of service?
Motivational Example
Let's say we are making a TODO app. There is a constant flow of requests to create a TODO in the system. Each request contains just two fields: a title and a project ID which TODO should belong to. Here is the definition:
type TodoRequest = {
 ProjectId: int
 Title: string
Now, we want to process the request and assign each TODO an identifier, which should be an auto-incremented integer. Numeration is unique per project, so each TODO must have its own combination of ProjectId and Id:
type Todo = {
 ProjectId: int
 Id: int
 Title: string
Now, instead of relying on some database sequences, I want to describe this transformation as a function. The function has the type (TodoRequest, int) -> (Todo, int), i.e. it transforms a tuple of a request and current per-project state (last generated ID) to a tuple of a TODO and post-processing state:
let create (request: TodoRequest, state: int) =
 let nextId = state + 1
 let todo = {
 ProjectId = request.ProjectId
 Id = nextId
 Title = request.Title
 todo, nextId
This is an extremely simple function, and I can use it to great success to process local, non-durable data.
But if I need to make a reliable distributed application out of it, I need to take care of lots of things:
 1. No request should be lost. I need to persist all the requests into a durable storage in case of processor crash.
 2. Similarly, I need to persist TODO's too. Presumably, some downstream logic will use the persisted data later on in TODO's lifecycle.
 3. The state (the counter) must be durable too. In case of crash of processing function, I want to be able to restart processing after recovery.
 4. Processing of the requests should be sequential per project ID. Otherwise I might get a clash of ID's in case two requests belonging to the same project are processed concurrently.
 5. I still want requests to different projects to be processed in parallel, to make sure the system scales up with the growth of project count.
 6. There must be no holes or duplicates in TODO numbering per project, even in face of system failures. In worst case, I agree to tolerate a duplicated entry in the output log, but it must be exactly the same entry (i.e. two entries with same project id, id and title).
 7. The system should tolerate a permanent failure of any single hardware dependency and automatically fail-over within reasonable time.
It's not feasible to meet all of those requirements without relying on some battle-tested distributed services or frameworks.
Which options do I know of?
Traditionally, this kind of requirements were solved by using transactions in something like SQL Server. If I store requests, TODO's and current ID per project in the same relational database, I can make each processing step a single atomic transaction.
This addresses all the concerns, as long as we can stay inside the single database. That's probably a viable option for the TODO app, but less of so if I convert my toy example to some real applications like IoT data processing.
Can we do the same for distributed systems at scale?
Azure Event Hubs
Since I touched IoT space, the logical choice would be to store our entries in Azure Event Hubs. That works for many criteria, but I don't see any available approach to make such processing consistent in the face of failures.
When processing is done, we need to store 3 pieces: generated TODO event, current processing offset and current ID. Event goes to another event hub, processing offset is stored in Blob Storage and ID can be saved to something like Table Storage.
But there's no way to store those 3 pieces atomically. Whichever order we choose, we are bound to get anomalies in some specific failure modes.
Azure Functions
Azure Functions don't solve those problems. But I want to mention this Function-as-a-Service offering because they provide an ideal programming model for my use case.
I need to take just one step from my domain function to Azure Function: to define bindings for e.g. Event Hubs and Table Storage.
However, reliability guarantees will stay poor. I won't get neither sequential processing per Event Hub partition key, nor atomic state commit.
Azure Service Fabric
Service Fabric sounds like a good candidate service for reliable processing. Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with it to judge.
Please leave a comment if you do.
JVM World
There are products in JVM world which claim to solve my problem perfectly.
Apache Kafka was the inspiration for Event Hubs log-based messaging. The recent Kafka release provides effectively-once processing semantics as long as data stay inside Kafka. Kafka does that with atomic publishing to multiple topics, and state storage based on compacted topics.
Apache Flink has similar guarantees for its stream processing APIs.
Great, but how do I get such awesomeness in.NET code, and without installing expensive ZooKeeper-managed clusters?
Call for Feedback
Do you know a solution, product or service?
Have you developed effectively-once processing on.NET / Azure stack?
Are you in touch with somebody who works on such framework?
Please leave a comment, or ping me on Twitter.
Cloud developer and researcher.
Software engineer at Pulumi. Microsoft Azure MVP.
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Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1 Deployment Planning Guide
Estimating Bandwidth Requirements
To decide on the desired size and bandwidth of the network, first determine the network traffic and identify its peak. Check if there is a particular hour, day of the week, or day of the month when overall volume peaks, and then determine the duration of that peak.
During peak load times, the number of packets in the network is at its highest level. In general, if you design for peak load, scale your system with the goal of handling 100 percent of peak volume. Bear in mind, however, that any network behaves unpredictably and that despite your scaling efforts, it might not always be able handle 100 percent of peak volume.
For example, assume that at peak load, five percent of users occasionally do not have immediate network access when accessing applications deployed on Enterprise Server. Of that five percent, estimate how many users retry access after the first attempt. Again, not all of those users might get through, and of that unsuccessful portion, another percentage will retry. As a result, the peak appears longer because peak use is spread out over time as users continue to attempt access.


Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Working together: Save Before Exit and Tabular Forms
Here are some guidelines to properly integrate the two:
Monday, January 17, 2011
Saving Current Values with Cascading LOVs
A friend, Monty Latiolais, recently asked an interesting question regarding cascading LOVs:
Say you've got two LOVs...STATES and CITIES. They both default to 'ALL' and 'ALL'. Since CITIES is dependent on STATES, as soon as STATES is changed, CITIES is blanked out. What should happen is that CITIES gets re-evaluated as in the following example... let's say STATES is ALL and CITIES is "Houston". If one then changes STATES to "Texas", CITIES should remain "Houston" as that is a valid value for CITIES.
So basically, is it possible to maintain the selected value of an item if that same value exists in the list of values after refreshing? That's a great question! Thanks to new events in the APEX framework and Dynamic Actions the solution is far easier than it would have been in the past!
Click here to see the demo but continue reading to learn how it all works…
There are a three main events you need to be concerned with when it comes to cascading selects:
 - change
 - apexbeforerefresh
 - apexafterrefresh
The change event is a standard part of JavaScript and the DOM. This event fires when the user manually changes the value of the select list but can also be triggered programmatically via JavaScript. The apexbeforerefresh and apexafterrefresh events are custom events in the APEX framework. They fire just before and just after AJAX requests refresh something on the page. The events work with many items and regions that utilize this technology.
In this example we have two select lists: parent and child. If you change the value of the child select list then the change event will fire and that's it. But if you change the value of the parent select list a lot more happens to the child select. Here are some of the highlights:
 1. The current LOV values are cleared out
 2. The apexbeforerefresh event is triggered
 3. An AJAX request brings back new values. This only happens if
 1. optimize refresh is set to false
 2. optimize refresh is set to true and all parent items are not null
 4. The apexafterrefresh event is triggered
 5. The change event is fired
Now, knowing all of this, how can we utilize the sequence of events to solve the original problem of keeping selected values? The answer lies in creating two dynamic actions.
The first dynamic action will store the current value of the select list so that we can access it later. This will typically happen when the change event fires but it will also happen when the page first loads. Here's how to create the first Dynamic Action:
 1. Right click the child select list and select Creation Dynamic Action.
 2. Select Advanced.
 3. Click Next >.
 4. Enter a name for the first Dynamic Action.
 5. Click Next >.
 6. Set Event to Change.
 7. Click Next >.
 8. Set Action to Execute JavaScript Code.
 9. Set Code to: $(this.triggeringElement).attr('data-last-value', $(this.triggeringElement).val());
 10. Click Next >.
 11. Click Create.
The second Dynamic Action will take advantage of the apexafterrefresh event and access the previously stored value. That value will then be used to look through the new options and if a match is found it will be selected. Here's how to create the second Dynamic Action.
 1. Right click the item (again) and select Create Dynamic Action.
 2. Select Advanced.
 3. Click Next >.
 4. Enter a name for the second Dynamic Action.
 5. Click Next >.
 6. Set Event to After Refresh.
 7. Click Next >.
 8. Set Action to Execute JavaScript Code.
 9. Set Code to: $(this.triggeringElement).children('option[value="' + $(this.triggeringElement).attr('data-last-value') + '"]').attr('selected','selected');
 10. Click Next >.
 11. Click Create.
So two lines of actual code, not bad at all!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Plug-in Update: SkillBuilders Super LOV 1.2
The APEX community has been providing us with lots of great feedback on Super LOV thus far... Keep it coming and we'll keep making it better!
This release includes the following changes:
 1. Integrated buttons in the main input. The buttons are styled using jQuery UI which is consistent with the rest of the plug-in. Also, the "clear" button switches to a confirmation button to help prevent accidental clearing.
 2. Added "Effects Speed" attribute. Many people have had great things to say about the transition effects implemented in Super LOV but some people complained they were too slow for heavy data entry. Now you can adjust the speed to make it faster or set it to instant which essentially disables the effects altogether.
 3. Added "Default Search Column Number" attribute. Currently this will just default the column that is searched when the modal dialog is opened. This attribute will become even more important with the next release – when the item can be made "enterable".
 4. Fixed bug that prevented Cascading LOV attribute from working. The item now "cascades" as it should with both parent and child items.
Future plans include:
 1. Making the input "enterable". This will allow a user to focus in the main input and begin typing. If a single match is retrieved in the LOV, then the hidden item will be updated and the LOV will never open. If multiple matches are found then the LOV will open "pre-filtered" to allow for selection.
 2. Allowing LOV selection to update multiple items/elements. Lot's of people (especially those from Oracle Forms) have been requesting this functionality so we've added it to the list.
To get this plug-in, as well as our other plug-in offerings, visit new "Plug-ins" page at Future plug-in releases, including this one, must be downloaded from that site. Downloads require free registration, but it's a small price to pay for some great functionality. Smile Enjoy!


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I needed to create a check box and bind the model to the check box. Assume instead of the model value im just assigning false as the value. Code given bellow.
The output of the HTML being generated is shown above. I do understand why the hidden check box is put by the razor view engine. My question is if the value is false then the check box visible should be value="false" (unchecked).
Why it has put value="true" (checked). Same applies for the checkboxfor helper. What is wrong or could you explain how to implement this?
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You should consider passing the value via the model:
_USER_.CheckBoxFor(model => model.abcd)
If you need to set it to be 'false' then you can do this by setting the abcd property to false in the Controller before returning the View.
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Checkboxes don't have different checked/unchecked values, they only have a checked value. If you understand why razor outputs the hidden field then you understand this.
Imagine for a second that it did have value='false'. What would happen when you checked the checkbox? Would you expect the value to change? (hint: you shouldn't). You'd have a checked checkbox with value='false'. What does that even mean? Then, upon posting, you would post false as your value, and that would be nonsense.
So. Checkbox value attributes don't change. If you need to write code that uses the value, don't look for its value, look for whether or not it's checked.
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So if i need the checkbox to be checked and unchecked based on the true or false that we pass eg _USER_.CheckBox("abcd",false) what should i do? Since i couldnt get what i wanted from your answer. – Desmond Nov 16 '12 at 9:01
_USER_ A checkbox inputs "checked" state is a separate property from its value. Notice that if you check and un-check a textbox the value property does not change, however the browser sees whether the checkbox is checked or not and if it's checked it posts the input name/value, if it's not checked it does not post anything at all. Hence why there's automatically a 2nd hidden input field with value set to false created, so if user checks the checkbox the server will receive two key/value pairs for both inputs, true and false and it will accept true in this case, if one just false. – LaserBeak Nov 17 '12 at 6:41
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Compact 2.45 GHz ECR Ion Source for generation of singly-charged ions
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), 117218, Moscow, Russia
2 Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (FLNR JINR), 141980, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
* Corresponding author: _EMAIL_
Published online: 18 April 2018
2.45 GHz ECR ion sources are widely used for production of protons, single charged heavy ions and secondary radioactive ion beams. This paper describes the development of a compact ECR ion source based on 2.45 GHz coaxial resonator. The first results of extracted current measurements at different resonator configuration as a function of UHF frequency, power and gas flow are presented.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (_URL_

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Estimating the girth of fish by applying an elliptic model
- A new method for estimating the maximum girth of roundfish is proposed as illustrated; this is based on an elliptic approximation of the cross sections of the fish body. Results derived from a small sample horse mackerel, Trachurus trachurus, suggest that maximum girth estimates based on the elliptic model are more precise than the values estimated by applying a conventional method.
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Encryption time and performance are much slower for Advanced Format Drives (AFD).
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SEE Full Disk is not fully compatible with Advanced Format Drives. A workaround is needed in order for the drive to encrypt and perform at an acceptable level.
Solution and workaround is provided with SEE Full Disk v8.2.1 MP4 and later versions
Note: Symantec recommends that you back up the Windows Registry before making any changes.
To optimize encryption on these drives, perform the following steps:
1. Open your Windows Registry.
2. Go to the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Encryption Anywhere\Hard Disk\Initial Computer Data] key.
3. Create a new DWORD Value and name it as EnableOptimization.
4. Set the Value data to 1. To disable optimization set the Value data to 0.
5. Restart the computer for the change to take effect.
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Why the name: Dar es Salaam?
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam
I always thought that the name of the Tanzanian city Dar es Salaam had something to do with peace, since it made me think of the Arabic greeting As-salamu alaykum which means peace be upon you. Great was my joy when I found out that it was indeed true. Dar es Salaam means 'the abode of peace' or 'the house of peace.'
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Flag of Tanzania
Formerly Mzizima or 'the healthy town' in Kiswahili, Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's largest and richest city today. It is a regional important economic center. In the 19th century, it was a coastal fishing village on the periphery of the Indian ocean trade routes. In 1865, Sultan Majid bin Said of Zanzibar began building a city near Mzizima, and named it Dar es Salaam or harbor/haven of peace with Dar in Arabic meaning house, and es salaam meaning peace. Dar es Salaam fell into decline after Sultan Majid's death in 1870, but was revived in 1887 when the German East Africa Company established a station there. The town's growth was facilitated by its role as the administrative and commercial centre of German East Africa and industrial expansion resulting from the construction of the Central Railway Line in the early 1900s.
Map of Tanzania
Map of Tanzania
As Germany lost World War I, German East Africa was captured by the British and from then on was referred to as Tanganyika. Dar es Salaam was retained as the territory's administrative and commercial centre. Under British indirect rule, separate European (e.g., Oyster Bay) and African (e.g., Kariakoo and Ilala) areas developed at a distance from the city center. The town's population also included a large number of south Asians. After World War II, Dar es Salaam experienced a period of rapid growth including political development with the formation of the Tanganyika African National Union or TANU which will lead Tanganyika to independence from British rule in 1961.
Dar es Salaam, once the capital of Tanzania, lost its status of capital city to Dodoma in 1974. Please enjoy the singer Momba who sings Dar es Salaam, and feel at peace in this haven.
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You can use Nelio Popups to specifically show a popup to visitors using a specific device type.
In this article, you'll learn how to target users of devices to show your popup.
Using Device Condition
When you are ready to use the Device condition, follow these steps:
- Go to Nelio Popups » All Popups and edit the one you want.
- In the editor sidebar, go to the Settings panel, and open the Conditions tab.
- Add or modify a condition by selecting 'Device'.
Then, you can select if you want to target users whose device is one of the list, or those whose device is not in the list. To do so, select the 'is' or 'is not' condition from the selector.
Finally, select the list of devices for the condition. You can select amongst the following values:
- Smart TV
After setting the condition, save the popup and then it will open if the condition is met.


Sekhmet: The Scarlet Lady
Sekhmet's appearance in Egyptian mythology is that of a lioness, similar to that of Bast, who first appeared as a lion goddess, and whose appearance diminished to the domesticated cat, after Sekhmet's cult grew. The difference in the two was the ferocity of Sekhmet, called as in the title, The Scarlet Lady or Avenger of…Continue readingSekhmet: The Scarlet Lady


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The Mental Health Association of Portland provides speakers to schools, civic groups, colleges and universities, fraternal organizations, and other groups interested in learning about mental illness, addiction and related issues.
Available presentations include:
- History of Mental Illness in Oregon
- Police Use of Force Against People with Mental Illness
- Helping People with Mental Illness: How to Be an Ally
- Presentation of documentary films about mental illness and addiction
- Mental Health Advocacy 101
- Recovery as Crime Prevention: Turning the Law Upside Down
- The History of Portland's Drunk Tank
Speakers from allied agencies are also available for information on legislation in Oregon affecting the mental illness system and various health and social service topics such as low income housing, services for people with mental illness and addiction, homelessness, inclusion of peer workers in clinics and agencies.
To request a speaker for your school or group, please e-mail: _EMAIL_.


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Fire Safe is a 10-session one-to-one cognitive behavioural programme aimed at medium/high-risk offenders aged between 12 and 17 years old.
The programme is based on a model of change (suggested in the theory model within the scheme programme) and covers:
- cognitive behavioural skills.
- education and fire awareness.
- family involvement (where appropriate).
Young people are referred to this programme through a youth Referral Order, which means that they have been charged with the offence of arson. They are required to attend all sessions with their case worker.
Each Fire Safe session is led by a trained Fire Safe practitioner from our Community Safety team.

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I am trying to draw an ellipse in Qt and the border on the edges goes thin in some places.
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painter.setRenderHint(QPainter::Antialiasing, true);
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When painting a shape with an outline, you have to factor in the width of the pen. So in your case, change to this:
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Incinerator bottom ash (IBA) crushing using EPF
In previous posts we discussed how electric pulse fragmentation works and why it has selective properties. This information provides a grounding to understand how these properties of electric pulse fragmentation can provide advantages in a variety of processing environments. This post focuses on the advantages of treating incinerator bottom ash (IBA) with electric pulses.
IBA is the by-product of municipal waste incineration – or the burning of household refuse. Anything that cannot be burned will become part of the incinerator residue, IBA is essentially a solid fused mass, similar to a rock, containing the burned remnants of whatever was in the incinerated waste such as metals, stone, glass, and ceramics, etc.
In some cases IBA can be used for construction, for example in breeze/cinder blocks, or as infill in road or pipe bedding. Depending on local laws, the IBA (and metals within) can be put back into the ground, however in places with stricter environmental legislation such as Switzerland, this contaminated material cannot be used in construction, and there are penalties to landfilling metal bearing waste.
Top: Ferrous; Middle: non-ferrous; Bottom: glass and ceramic phases after EPF treatment and sorting of IBA.
The goal is to recover as much metal and other raw materials as possible from IBA. Traditional crushing reduces all of the IBA to the liberation size of the smallest metals allowing their recovery. This gives excellent recovery of metal, however the 'mineral' fraction of the IBA, the more rock like parts such as the fused slag and brick, ceramics, glass, etc, are now also crushed and are unable to be recycled, meaning more material must be landfilled or otherwise put back into the ground.
This problem requires disaggregation of the IBA without significant crushing of the material: We want to recover the metal while leaving the slag, glass and other phases as large as possible for later re-use. That's were EPF comes in.
The discharge is preferentially attracted to areas with high permitivity contrast (PC), for example, a gold nugget within a rock, or a piece of metal within IBA. In this instance, the discharge will travel through the material (Situation I, below). The converse is also true and if the highest permitivity contrast is between the target particle and the surrounding water, the discharge will travel around the particle at the particle-water contact instead of through it, causing minimal breakage (Situation II & III).
Three Situations in which particles of varying composition are treated with electric discharges. From Weh and Mosadegghi (2016).
Particles with metal are broken more than those without metal: IBA particles containing metal will preferentially have internal discharges, and be broken more, liberating the contained metals, while more homogeneous IBA particles and those without metals will have the discharge travel around the particle and experience only minimal or 'surface' breakage.
The end result is that in addition to liberating metals, the glass, ceramic and particles without metals remain larger, more intact, and potentially recycleable, creating an additional stream of decontaminated inert material that can be recycled or reused as a construction aggregate, without putting more metal into the ground.
At our plants, we produce four product streams: ferrous, non ferrous, inert and slag, and we recover down to 2mm and below in each of these streams. All but the slag can be recycled in Switzerland, and we roughly half the amount of material that must go to landfill. We're proud of our achievements and are doing our part for the environment.
Further reading:
Article – Pre-concentration of copper ores by high voltage pulses.
Article – Breakage characteristics of incinerator bottom ash in the HV pulse power process
Article – Electrical breakdown channel locality in high voltage pulse breakage
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Topic 5
Anatomy & Shot Placement
Anatomy & Shot Placement
Understanding the basic anatomy of an elk will help you make appropriate equipment and shot placement choices prior to your hunt.
Vital Organs
Let's first define the "vital organs" and the importance of choosing the vitals as an ethical shot. The most vital organs of elk and all game animals are the heart and lungs. A proper shot through the heart and/or lungs will offer the quickest kill, making it the most humane for the animal. These organs offer the best opportunity for a kill for firearm and archery hunters.
A double lung shot offers a hunter the best opportunity to take down an elk quickly. The lungs provide the largest target and by collapsing both lungs, the animal will be unable to travel a far distance. Though a heart shot will do the job as well, it presents a much smaller target and makes the margin of error smaller for the hunter. The heart is tucked behind the front shoulder towards the bottom of the body cavity. Miss low and you may miss all together, miss forward or high and you may hit shoulder blade (bone) losing necessary penetration.
Envision: You have an elk at 30 yards, whether you realize it or not your body will most likely release adrenaline and therefore you should expect heavier breathing, shaking and even enough excitement to make poor decisions. Would you rather have an inch margin of error or 4-5 inches?
Elk Shot Placement
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So what tissue, muscle and bones do your arrows and bullets pass through to reach the vital organs?
By now, you have an understanding of just how BIG elk really are. For an animal of this size to support its weight, its "frame" or skeletal system must be sturdy and strong and must be supported by the necessary muscles and tissues for movement.
The scapula of an elk can have a thickness ranging from ¼ inch to 2 ½ inches! Add to that the thickness of the skin/hide, heavy muscles and tendons. There is a lot of matter your arrow or bullet must travel through to even REACH the vitals—and it still must PENETRATE them to make the kill!
Let's take a closer look at elk anatomy from different angles. A proper shot-placement opportunity makes for the most humane kill for the animal, and an easier recovery for you.
Only two shot angles offer shot-placement opportunities to make the ideal double lung or heart shot for both archery and firearm hunters. The hunter's ability to wait for one of these two shots will increase the chance of a successful harvest and decrease the chance of injury and non-recovery of the animal.
This is the ideal shot for most archery and firearm hunters. It provides the hunters with the largest target of the vital area behind the shoulder blade (scapula). Properly placed shots will have little bone to pass through, enabling more penetration to the vitals. This shot angle also provides the best opportunity to make a double-lung/heart shot and offers a quick humane kill.
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Quartering Away
This shot offers another ideal shot-placement opportunity for hunters. The angle of the elk away from you will affect your shot placement for the proper entry and exit holes. An extreme quartering away shot will offer little room for error as the margin between the back hip and front shoulder shrinks as the angle of the elk away from the hunter increases. A slight quartering away angle will open up the vital area to the hunter and provide ample opportunity for a deep penetrating shot. The ability of a hunter to envision the arrow or bullet path through the elk is of high priority to successfully make a double lung shot.
Quatering Away
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While elk will present hunters with other less-ideal shot opportunities such as a quartering toward shot, these shots are not recommended as there is a high chance of hitting bone, resulting in little to no penetration of the vitals. The ability for a hunter to successfully make a double-lung shot decreases and the margin of error becomes much smaller as well. Especially when taken by bowhunters, these shots present the most likelihood of injury to the animal causing potential infection and death over an extended period of time. Many hunters use calls to draw the bulls to get close. That presents a problem because the bulls usually walk straight towards the noise and don't present a broadside shot. Caller placement then becomes important.
Poor shot Placement
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Grammar Lesson of the Day: because
Grammar Lesson of the Day: because.
Some years ago I began to notice that my college freshmen had all gotten a very strange idea. They had been taught that one must never begin a sentence with the word because. I have no idea where high school teachers came up with this one. It is like alligators in the Manhattan sewers, or aliens landing in Roswell. Some kook huddled in a condemned building says it, and all at once everybody "knows" it, though it is not in the slightest bit true.
There's nothing special about the word because. It's a subordinating conjunction, like a hundred others. Any of them may begin a sentence – so long as it's a sentence they are beginning. A sentence, whether it begins with because or if or since or although or whenever or while or whatever or whatever, requires a main clause. This is not a sentence:
Because I could not stop for death.
But it's because it lacks a main clause. Let Emily Dickinson supply one:
The "rule" that the teachers have promulgated, besides being in itself utterly absurd, reveals something about all the other grammatical rules and "rules" that our students learn (or "learn"). That is, since grammar is no longer taught systematically, as a coherent discipline that makes sense of how we make sense, it disintegrates into a set of arbitrary directives, some of them incorrect at that, each separate from the other, without rhyme or reason. It is why I say that, unless they've studied Latin or German, none of my college freshmen has been taught grammar.
In any case, why would you want to begin with because? Well, you might want to emphasize the main clause, leaving it to the end, if that contains the idea you are going to develop. That's what Emily Dickinson wanted to do; she wanted to focus on Death's stopping by to give her a ride. But maybe you want to emphasize the material in the subordinate clause. Then you will probably place it after the main clause:
We're off to see the Wizard,
The wonderful Wizard of Oz!
We hear he is a whiz of a wiz
If ever a wiz there was!
If ever if ever a wiz there was
The Wizard of Oz is one because
Because because because because because –
Because of the wonderful things he does!
We're off to see the Wizard,
The wonderful Wizard of Oz!
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 Could this be a lack of trust on the part of the professors? I was once told by a pediatrician (no longer our pediatrician) not to kiss my baby's face. As if I could stop. I'm sure she meant "please don't kiss your baby's face if you have pneumonia, or if you have crumbs in your mustache, or if you have just inhaled cigarette smoke." But she can't trust a non-professional bumbling mother or father to understand all the exceptions, so to be safe, she just laid down the law for all time. I imagine that professors find it easier to say "don't start a sentence with because, alright?" than to explain what a sentence fragment is.
 - Tony
 I don't think so, Jamie. It isn't professors who gave out that advice, but schoolteachers. I think they do not know what they are talking about. It's just flat ignorance.
 - Nancy de Flon
 Tony, part of the problem is that not only has none of your freshmen been taught grammar, but also, if you consider the age of many high school and elementary school teachers, they have probably not taught grammar either. We have a situation parallel to that in the Church in which religious ed is being taught to kids by uncatechized catechists. We are hurtling toward a cultural Dark Age.
 - Victor Gallerano
 It seems to me that there is less here than meets the eye: Our fourth graders are taught that they should not begin a sentence with because because they are just coming to terms with simple sentences. Subordination of clauses is too abstract to make sense at that level. In 6th and 7th grade, we correct that notion. "We are moving on, class, now you are able to understand why and how to use a subordinate clause (whether begun by because or some other subordinate conjunction). In the late 7th and 8th grades we teach the various rhetorical values of the syntactical choices one makes in writing.
 I can't speak for "all" your freshmen (really???) but, perhaps some of them weren't listening in the 6th grade when we corrected the because rule. (Has their listening gotten any better, by the way?)
 At any rate, this level of grammar is appropriate to grammar, not high school. The only time grammar is taught "systematically" in high school is during 9th grade when they are trying to re-mediate any gaps or weaknesses in the new freshmen. Needless to say, 9th grade goes to the low-man on the teaching totem pole…and usually the one with gaps and weaknesses of his or her own.
 - _URL_ Manny
 "why would you want to begin with because? Well, you might want to emphasize the main clause"
 Actually it emphasizes both clauses becuase it inverts the normal sequence. It gives the entire sentence a charge. If anything the first half of the Dickenson line is what's memorable to me, "Because i could not stop for death…" If she had gone with the normal sequence niether halves would be memorable.
 - _URL_ F.R. Duplantier
 Why am I responding to this article? Because I want to. And that's a perfectly grammatical, if elliptical sentence. The rules of grammar are intended for people who have no idea what they're doing, to help them make a better impression and avoid embarrassing themselves too much. They're like paint-by-number canvases or Arthur Murray dance lessons. No one who's any good at anything pores over rule books.


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How does the weight of a pendulum effect its oscillation time.
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How does the weight of a pendulum effect its oscillation time
The key factors that could affect this experiment are that the length of pendulum varying will change how far it has to swing to complete an oscillation.
The weight of the pendulum will have a effect on the oscillation time because the pendulum will have more weights which will increase the surface area for air resistance to take place this is the only possible way the weight of the pendulum will affect the oscillation time because, gravity is a standard force, so the weight will not effect the amount of gravity taking place.
The angle at which it is dropped at is another key factor because, if it is dropped from higher up it has longer to pick up speed so therefore it shall travel higher up giving it a longer oscillation time. If the pendulum is dropped from a lower then it shall have less time to pick up speed and so will not travel as high up on the other side.
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We could have improved our test by having a beam and when it is broke by the pendulum the fifth time the pendulum breaks the beam it could stop timing so it would be the same reaction time for all, we could have had a stand or something to hold the pendulum in place before it is dropped that way we could be sure it was from the same spot each time.
In our experiment there was some slightly out of place results in our experiment but they're no severe ones that could be anomalous results.
 We could have investigated a further 1000g so we went to 2000g to see if after every 500g there was a jump in time of nearly a second our so, like there was in our experiment. We could also continue to the point of were we have added so much weight that it could not complete 5 oscillations to the same height as it started. We could also have tried the experiment at different temperatures to see what effect, if any it had on the oscillation times.
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update primary record data to secondary records? In addition, the same data ID or trace ID may be used in multiple primary records due to a lack of standardization across business departments.
Primary data is correlated to secondary data by the dataId and traceId fields. Therefore, a data update based on the update_by_query command will be invalid and incorrect if primary data and secondary data arrive at the operation log system at the same time. In addition, primary data and secondary data may be correlated to each other on a many-to-many basis, and therefore the dataId and traceId fields are not the unique identifiers of a record.
In fact, Elasticsearch is also a NoSQL database that supports key-value caching. Therefore, you can create an Elasticsearch index to serve as an intermediate cache that caches primary data or secondary data, whichever arrives first. The _id element of the index consists of the dataId and traceId fields. This allows you to find the ID of the primary or secondary data record by using an intermediate ID. Most index data models are structured as follows, where the detailId field is the _id array record of the secondary index.
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As mentioned above, primary records and secondary records are both stored on a Kafka shard. This allows you to call the following core Elasticsearch APIs to pull data in batches:
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About the Author
Li Meng is an Elasticsearch Stack user and a certified Elasticsearch engineer. Since his first explorations into Elasticsearch in 2012, he has gained in-depth experience in the development, architecture, and operation and maintenance (O&M) of the Elastic Stack and has carried out a variety of large and mid-sized projects. He provides enterprises with Elastic Stack consulting, training, and tuning services. He has years of practical experience and is an expert in various technical fields, such as big data, machine learning, and system architecture.
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Also known as: The 100-Point Method
Cumulative Voting (CV) Prioritization is a ratio-scale prioritization technique in which the stakeholders taking part in the prioritization process are given a fixed number of prioritization
units which they then
vote (aka distribute) among the items being prioritized (requirements, objectives, goals, stakeholders, features, functions, etc.). The items with the most units assigned to them by the various stakeholders are the highest priority.
Another feature of Cumulative Voting is the option to
weight the votes of some stakeholders by applying a multiplier of some sort. So if you had three primary stakeholders, you could weight the votes of the most important stakeholder (perhaps the one paying for the effort) at a full weight (multiply by 1), weight the votes of the second most important stakeholder a bit less (multiply by.75), and weight the votes of the least important stakeholder even less (multiply by.5).
Cumulative Voting is normally done against ALL items of same level of abstraction at the same time (for example, the entire set of detailed requirements). This means the standard CV process does not scale well as you add more items to be prioritized. To address this issue, the Hierarchical Cumulative Voting (HCV) variant (see separate wiki page) was developed for situations when there are a large number of items to be prioritized.
Hierarchical Cumulative Voting (HCV) - See the separate Hierarchical Cumulative Voting wiki page
See the Prioritization wiki page for a discussion of why to prioritize.
This assumes you have evaluated your prioritization needs and decided that Cumulative Voting is the technique you will use.
Define the exact set of items that will be prioritized and gather them together in a form that allows them to be easily reviewed. All items should be at the same level of abstraction and described sufficiently so that any stakeholder can reasonably understand what it is.
Decide how and where each stakeholders
vote will be recorded? The process selected should allow for each stakeholders
vote to be recorded separately and without visibility into the
votes other stakeholders may make.
Given the number of items being prioritized, decide upon an appropriate number of units to provide each stakeholder to assign with their
votes. It is also a good idea to assign the units a form that has meaning to the stakeholders, such a dollars, man-hours of work,
points, or similar forms.
The amount provided to the stakeholder should be of a sufficient level to allow them to assign a small to moderate amount to most of the items while heavily favoring a few select items. But you also don't want to provide so much that scale becomes meaningless.
For example, if evaluating 25 items, you might provide
$500 dollars of units for stakeholder assignment. This allows for a breakdown such as 5 high-priority items assigned $50 each (for $250 total), 5 medium-priority items at around $30 each ($150 total), and 10 low-priority items at $10 each (the last $100 remaining), 5 items getting no value assigned at all.
Each stakeholder who will be
voting should be taken aside (or otherwise engaged away from other prioritizing stakeholders) and asked to assign all of the units they have been provided to the items being prioritized in such a way as to reflect the way they value each item to relation to all of the others.
Each stakeholder should only be allowed to prioritize each set of items ONCE! And they should do so without knowledge of how others have prioritized the items. Allowing stakeholders to vote more than once on the same items or to know how other stakeholders have voted opens up the opportunity to try and
game the process by adjusting their votes based on the actions of other stakeholders rather than reflecting their own priority.
Once all the stakeholders have
voted, apply any weighting factors that might be needed. Then sum up the votes each item got from all stakeholders. The items with the highest number of adjusted votes are your highest-priority items.
So if you were using CV to prioritize the 3 high-level items above, with 3 stakeholders (Bob, Jane, and Joe) with different priority weights (1.0,.75, and.50), the results may be summed up like this.
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Taking the weightings into account, HLR2 is the highest priority and is 17.5 more important than HLR1, which is the #2 priority, which is 17.5 more important than HLR3 which is the #3 priority.
The results of a Cumulative Voting process provide a ratio-scale result. Not only do you know which items are the highest priority (they have the most votes), you also know how much more important any one item is than any other by looking at the number of total votes between them.
votesin such a way as to more heavily prioritize particular items of priority; or even cast nearly all of their votes on one or two favorite items, trusting that others will provide a more balanced vote and thus still provide support for items of common interest. This is especially easy if the stakeholder knows the preferences of other stakeholders.
unitsso that stakeholders can provide meaningful votes. If there are 25 items being processed and each stakeholder only gets 100 units, the stakeholders may feel that they cannot really indicate their preferences properly.
votescan be assigned. Put the total number of units they have at the top. Then use a simple Excel function to sum up the votes cast, subtract them from the total assigned, and show how many are left. If you assigned $1000 to vote with on cells B2 through B15, the function would look like: =1000-SUM(B2:B15)&" dollars remaining!"


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Mathematics Curriculum Specialist, Durham, NC Office
We are an education company seeking a full-time Mathematics Curriculum Specialist. CASE Assessments provides benchmark assessments and a test item bank for school districts in Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. We are seeking a math specialist to develop Common Core and state standards assessment products for delivery in print and online.
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- Mastery of mathematical content knowledge relevant to teaching experience
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RP or "Resource Points" are points you receive during the game while completing different tasks. Those RP can be used to buy different equipments at an armory or to use different radio calls. You can see how much RP you have by keeping the inventory key (Default "F") pressed to call the inventory. It is displayed right below the XP information.
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List of things that give you RP:
 - capturing a base
 - spotting an enemy vehicle
 - selling valuables at an armory. Those are dropped with different commonness from the enemy soldiers and have also different values
 - selling rare weapons (those can either be used or sold). Those are either dropped by mini-bosses or found in special crates (metallic boxes)
 - destroying enemy vehicles.
 - destroying mission targets such as comms truck, radar tower, prisoner bus, radio jamming tower, water tower, fuel tanks, mortars, ammunition crates, anti-air emplacement results in a good RP reward
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- whole cooked lobster, cooled
- kitchen shears
- bamboo skewers
- lobster-shell cracker or nutcracker
1. The Tail
Bend lobster tail back slightly and twist to remove—it should come apart easily. Starting at open end, using kitchen shears, cut shell down middle of tail's underside, as shown. Open up shell like a book; remove meat in one piece. If there is green pasty stuff (the liver and pancreas, called tomalley), wipe it away with a paper towel and discard. The same goes for any tiny eggs.
Editor's Note: Some Canadians love tomalley! Just remember, Health Canada advises children avoid it and adults to restrict their consumption to no more than the amount found in one lobster.
2. The Claws, Part A
Twist two front legs off body of lobster. If they don't twist off easily, use kitchen shears to snip through any cartilage. Bend small pincer back and forth until it breaks off, as shown. Carefully pull shell away from meat to keep claw intact. If meat breaks apart, use bamboo skewer to pull meat out of pincer.
3. The Claws, Part B
Using lobster shell cracker, break into large claw shell at base, as shown. Using fingers or skewer, pull out claw meat. If needed, use kitchen shears to cut into shell further, opening it like a book and lifting out meat. Make sure all hard cartilage has detached from claw meat before setting aside. Don't forget the knuckle! Break this leg section into pieces and push out meat with skewer.
4. Reserve Shells
Now you have the secret ingredient to the most amazing soups, stocks and flavoured butters: lobster shells. If you can't use them right away, toss them in a freezer-safe bag or container and store them in the freezer.
Editor's Note: The skinny leg pieces have very small bits of meat you can extract with a skewer, or many cooks leave them intact to help flavour the next recipe.
Here's how to make Lobster Butter.
From lobster rolls to risottos to decadent eggs Benedict, there's no end to enjoying succulent Canadian lobster meat. Try it in this seafaring chef's signature dish: Oleg's Seafood Chowder.


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Definition of mistletoe in English:
A leathery-leaved parasitic plant which grows on apple, oak, and other broadleaf trees and bears white glutinous berries in winter.
- Several species in the family Viscaceae, in particular the Eurasian Viscum album and the North American Phoradendron flavescens
- Most dwarf mistletoes grow on conifers in the western United States.
- In Somerset and Herefordshire mistletoe grows on the apple trees from which cedar is produced.
- The Druids would cut the mistletoe that grew on the oak tree and give it as a blessing.
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text: Future Lunar Landers and Rovers will require variable thermal links that can reject heat during daytime, and passively shut-off during lunar night. During the long lunar day, the thermal management system must remove the waste heat from the electronics and batteries keep them within the acceptable temperature limit. Since the heater power availability is restricted, a variable thermal link is therefore required to limit the amount of heat that is removed from the electronics and radiated to space during the long lunar night. Conventional Loop Heat Pipes (LHPs) can provide the required variable thermal conductance, but they consume electrical power to shut down the heat transfer. Our innovation adds a Thermal Control Valve (TCV) to the LHP, allowing it to passively shut off without consuming any electrical power. This is important since there is a severe penalty for electrical power consumption: supplying 1 W in a photovoltaic system requires roughly 5 kg of extra equipment. The TCV used in the LHP has been previously selected for thermal control in the pumped loop on the Mars Science Laboratory. The Phase I project was successful in demonstrating the feasibility of integrating the TCV in a LHP. The Phase II project will fabricate and test a LHP with a TCV at representative conditions, bringing the technology to TRL 6. The testing will include full characterization of the TCV under various LHP operation modes. Analysis and testing of different LHP condenser layouts will also be performed, as well as freeze/thaw analysis.


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September 6, 2011
A normal linked list can be accessed only at its head. A double-ended queue, or deque (pronounced "deck"), can be accessed at either end. Like a normal list, a deque can be null. New elements can be added at either end, the element at either end of a non-null deque can be fetched, and the element at either end of a non-null deque can be deleted. Deques are a combination of stacks and queues.
Your task is to write a function library that implements deques; you should be sure that all operations are performed in constant time. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
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Date of wing molt initiation, based on the regression of tenth primary length on capture date, was calculated for breeding and nonbreeding Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus columbianus) on the Colville River Delta, Alaska. Breeding females initiated wing molt significantly later than breeding males and nonbreeding males and females; the molt of breeding females was correlated with the date on which their eggs hatched. Breeding males did not differ significantly from nonbreeding males and females in the date of molt initiation. Timing of molt in breeding males and females was consistent with the views that females delay molt while replenishing energy spent on reproduction, but was also consistent with the breeding pair's need for primaries to defend territories and to defend and brood young. Other results, including an increase in an index of female body condition throughout most of the molt period, and a positive correlation between clutch size and female hatch-to-molt interval, were not predicted by the hypothesis that past energy expenditures constrain the timing of molt. Patterns of wing molt within and among other Northern Hemisphere geese and swans are also difficult to explain on the basis of energetics alone. For example, breeding females initiate molt before breeding males in many species. Also, there is extreme asynchrony between mates in two swan species; one of those species also exhibits variation in which sex initiates wing molt first. Both patterns suggest that asynchrony, per se, is important, probably to facilitate brood protection or territory defense. In Tundra Swans and other northern breeding geese and swans, the non-energetic demands of territory defense, brood defense, and brooding are probably important constraints on the timing of wing molt.
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The timing of wing molt in tundra swans: energetic and non-energetic constraints


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Contractural arachnodactyly (CA)
Congenital contractural arachnodactyly (CA) also known as 'Fawn calf syndrome' was first identified in Victoria in 1998.
The condition causes development defects within the calves, which are typically born alive, with most surviving to maturity. CA calves appear visibly abnormal with restricted movement caused by reduced elasticity of the connective tissue. Calves will display restricted movement within their front legs, their hind legs will be set back behind them (hyperextension) and will display an upward arching of their spine.
The visible symptoms of the condition become increasingly difficult to detect as the animal grows and the ability for these features to improve over time, is an important characteristic of diagnosing the condition.
CA is controlled by a simple recessive mutation.
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American Angus Association NSW DPI


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I saw this lesson on Artsonia in several variations.
- drawing sheet A4 size
- white pencil or silver gel pen
- black paper for background
Start this the lesson with a class discussion about witches. How can you recognize a witch? What things belong to a witch? What can you say about the clothing of a witch?
Students draw with pencil the lower half of the body of a witch: skirt and legs. Around this body they draw things that belong to witches. Draw a horizon line at about 1/3 part from the bottom. The drawing should be coloured with markers. Colour the background with markers or chalk pastel. The latter is obviously faster than colouring the background with markers.
Paste the drawing on a black background and decorate the rim with theme-related little drawings. Use a white pencil or a silver gel pen.
In the debriefing should be clear that you only need a half drawing to recognize a witch: Which witch is this?
Made by students of grade 3


Octopus Deploy Documentation
Authoring an Octopus Server extension
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This is the key NuGet package you will need in order to build an Octopus Server extension.
This namespace contains the interfaces and structures an extension can implement, which the Octopus Server will go looking for.
The key interface to be aware of is IOctopusExtension, as this forms the entry point for your extension and without it the server cannot load your extension. An example of its usage is as follows:
 [OctopusPlugin("Directory Services", "Octopus Deploy")]
 public class DirectoryServicesExtension : IOctopusExtension
 public void Load(ContainerBuilder builder)
The second important component here is the OctopusPluginAttribute, which provides the description and author metadata for the extension.
Octopus Deploy itself uses Autofac as its IoC container, and as such the extensions are provided with the container builder during startup, so they can register their own internal services.
Extension configuration
Many extensions will want to store configuration related to their own specific functionality, certainly all of the Octopus Deploy extensions do. To facilitate this, the server provides the extensions the ability to register their need to store a configuration object in the Configuration table in the database. Below is an example of a configuration object and its mapping class:
 public class DirectoryServicesConfiguration : IId
 public string Id { get; set; }
 public bool IsEnabled { get; set; }
 public string ActiveDirectoryContainer { get; set; }
 public AuthenticationSchemes AuthenticationScheme { get; set; }
 public bool AllowFormsAuthenticationForDomainUsers { get; set; }
 public class DirectoryServicesConfigurationMapping : IConfigurationDocumentMapper
 public Type GetTypeToMap() => typeof(DirectoryServicesConfiguration);
Things to note here are:
 - The configuration object is a POCO stored as serialized JSON in the database, so properties that are enums (as above) or POCOs themselves are supported.
 - The configuration object itself must implement IId, to provide the Id for the JSON data. This is typically a constant unique to your extension.
 - The mapping class must be registered as an IConfigurationDocumentMapper in Autofac when the extension is loaded.
Configuration stores and the configure command
Now that your extension has configuration, how do you set the configuration values? The pattern we're using involves a Configuration Store and a class that implements the IContributeToConfigureCommand interface. The IContributeToConfigureCommand interface is the key part. The store is a pattern that we've found works well for us (because in some cases we have data that may need to be migrated from the server.config into the DB), but is not mandatory. An example of an extension contributing to the configure command is as follows:
 public class DirectoryServicesConfigureCommands : IContributeToConfigureCommand, IHandleLegacyWebAuthenticationModeConfigurationCommand
 readonly ILog log;
 readonly IDirectoryServicesConfigurationStore activeDirectoryConfiguration;
 public DirectoryServicesConfigureCommands(
 ILog log,
 IDirectoryServicesConfigurationStore activeDirectoryConfiguration)
 this.log = log;
 this.activeDirectoryConfiguration = activeDirectoryConfiguration;
 public IEnumerable GetOptions()
 yield return new ConfigureCommandOption("activeDirectoryIsEnabled=", "Set whether active directory is enabled.", v =>
 var isEnabled = bool.Parse(v);
 log.Info($"Active directory IsEnabled set to: {isEnabled}");
 yield return new ConfigureCommandOption("activeDirectoryContainer=", "Set the active directory container used for authentication.", v =>
 log.Info($"Active directory container set to: {v}");
 yield return new ConfigureCommandOption("webAuthenticationScheme=", "When Domain authentication is used, specifies the scheme (Basic, Digest, IntegratedWindowsAuthentication, Negotiate, Ntlm)", v =>
 var scheme = (AuthenticationSchemes) Enum.Parse(typeof(AuthenticationSchemes), v);
 log.Info("Web authentication scheme: " + scheme);
 yield return new ConfigureCommandOption("allowFormsAuthenticationForDomainUsers=", "When Domain authentication is used, specifies whether the HTML-based username/password form can be used to sign in.", v =>
 var allowFormsAuthenticationForDomainUsers = bool.Parse(v);
 log.Info("Allow forms authentication for domain users: " + allowFormsAuthenticationForDomainUsers);
Services provided by the host
This section contains the interfaces and structures related to'services' that the extensions can consume from the Octopus Server itself. In this section, we'll detail a couple of interfaces you're most likely to need. To use them install the relevant NuGet package and take a dependency in your extension constructor.
ILog from Octopus.Diagnostics
This interface provides access to the server's logging infrastructure, so your extension can log Info, Warnings, Errors etc.
IKeyValueStore from Octopus.Configuration
This interface provides access to the server.config XML file, should your extension need to read/write configuration values there.
Building the extension
An extension is simply a.NET dll, so you can build it in any way that you would normally build your.NET code.
Extension points
At the moment you can only extend Authentication but we plan to expose more of Octopus internals in the future so stay tuned and check this page every now then for updates.
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Definition of jury box in English:
A segregated area in which the jury sits in a court of law.
- Yes, that's correct there, on the judge's right hand and on the judge's left is the jury box, and the witness box.
- Using large video screens placed at either end of the jury box, the prosecutors repeatedly showed an animated simulation of a knife slicing into a human chest.
- Beyond the cold numbers generated by historic fact, McKanna puts people in the jury box, on the witness stand, and on the bench in western courtrooms.
Definition of jury box in:
- US English dictionary
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Baby swimmers love swimming for life! Puddle Ducks is a fun and friendly swimming programme offering unique baby swimming, toddler swimming and child swimming classes through franchises across the UK.
Babies and children can join our swimming classes at any age from birth; developing from water babies to confident swimmers without even realising they are learning to swim. By engaging each child's abilities and natural affinity with water, Puddle Ducks offer simple steps to a lifetime love of swimming. Children learn lifesaving, swimming and underwater skills and are often able to swim 10 metres or more before they start school.
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Supporting schools with coroners' inquests
We offer specialist support to schools on all aspects of Education law, including advice regarding Coroner inquests. Almost inevitably these are in tragic circumstances where current or previous pupils or teachers have died. We understand that the whole school community can be affected by such difficult situations. As such, we endeavour to provide all-round support to schools, including practical and legal advice, while always being mindful of the sensitivities of such cases.
What is an inquest?
An inquest is the formal legal procedure in which the cause and circumstances of a person's death are examined in order to establish who died and when, how and where they died.
In certain cases, there may be various steps before an inquest can take place. For instance, if the case is complex or there are many witnesses, there may be a 'pre-inquest review' hearing. This will cover issues that need to be determined before the inquest itself can take place many of which can have a significant impact on the scope of the final inquest hearing. There will also be discussions about disclosure of evidence and, in the lead up to the inquest, copies of documents will be circulated to 'interested persons'. Interested persons will be people or institutions that are adjudged by the Coroner to have a sufficient interest in the case. In the case of the death of a pupil or an incident leading to a death on school premises, the Coroner may decide that a school is an interested person.
Once the pre-inquest steps are complete, an inquest will take place. During the inquest, the Coroner will hear from witnesses and may consider reports from professionals. The Coroner chooses the witnesses and it may be that a representative of the school is required to attend as a witness. We can attend with you as your legal representative. If the school is an interested person we will be able to cross examine witnesses on your behalf.
After hearing from the witnesses and considering the documents, the Coroner will summarise the evidence making findings of fact, and finally the Coroner will make a conclusion (or the conclusion of the jury in some cases) as to the cause of death.
How can Stone King help?
We can assist throughout the inquest process. We can support you with the immediate circumstances following a pupil's death, including reporting requirements and liaising with various authorities and stakeholders. We can also assist with the inquest itself, including arranging for the disclosure of evidence from the Coroner, analysing the evidence, drafting statements on your behalf and preparing you fully for the hearing. We can also provide representation at the inquest by an experienced solicitor or in some cases barrister.
We are mindful of the potential implications for the school of such a public procedure, particularly as it is already a very difficult time. For instance, in some cases we use our knowledge of the law to seek to limit publication of material, particularly where it may affect children. On occasions we also work closely with school appointed PR consultants to assist in managing the media during the process.
Andrew Banks leads our support to schools in this challenging area. Andrew acts as an Advocate in the courts during the whole inquest process; he is a Higher Courts (Criminal) advocate and has undertaken many trials and inquests over 24 years. Andrew supports schools on various challenging matters and is known for providing a calm, measured approach.
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Movie files Up: Model output files Previous: Time-averaged history files Contents
Snapshot history files
If sufficient memory is not available for run-time accumulation of time-averaged history files or if the user simply needs an instantaneous view of the ocean state, snapshot history files can be written at regular intervals. The interval must be short enough that whatever time-averaging interval may be desired in the future, there will be three or more samples (snapshots) per averaging-interval. For monthly averages, snapshots should be collected at intervals of 10 days or less. Only one time-level of the prognostic variables and selected diagnostic variables needs to be saved, since second-moments and correlations can be computed later from these snapshot files, at the cost of retrieving a potentially large number of snapshot files. To choose which fields are written to the history files, a history contents file must be supplied with a list of fields desired. A sample file is included which contains all the currently available fields; the user may edit this file to select the desired fields. If a field is not currently included in the list of available fields, the user must modify the source code to make that field available (see the Reference Manual).
Table: History file namelist
&history_nml Generation of snapshot history files
history_freq_opt ['never'],'nstep', 'nyear', 'nmonth', 'nday', 'nhour', 'nsecond' units of time for history_freq
history_freq [100000] number of units between output of snapshot history files
history_outfile ['unknown'] root filename with path of history file output (suffixes will be added)
history_fmt ['bin'],'nc' format for history files (binary or netCDF)
history_contents ['history_contents'] input file containing names of fields requested to be output
Table: Currently available history fields
Name Units Description
SHGT cm surface height
UBTROP cm/s barotropic 'zonal' velocity
VBTROP cm/s barotropic'meridional' velocity
UVEL cm/s 'zonal' velocity
VVEL cm/s'meridional' velocity
TEMP ° C potential temperature
SALT g/g (msu) salinity
SUF cm2/s2 surface velocity flux in U direction
SVF cm2/s2 surface velocity flux in V direction
SHF W/m2 surface heat flux
SFWF m/year surface fresh water flux
SOLAR W/m2 solar short wave flux at surface


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Fish can and do have surgeries performed on them. An anesthetic is delivered to the fish in its water, and the fish is removed from the water for surgery. Performing surgery with the fish in the water is difficult and can result in contamination of the surgical site. For long surgeries, water (containing anesthetic) must be pumped over the gills to keep the fish oxygenated and anesthetized, as well as keep the fish's skin moist. Thick, heavy scales must be removed along the incision line. Sutures may be removed by your veterinarian from 10 to 30 days following surgery, depending on the rate of healing.
For more information, please read the story Do You Think Fish Can Have Surgery


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Asset Distance and Search Radius
For each polygon geofence that covers the asset position or is close to it, the Geofencing Extension API returns the geofence geometry together with the asset's distance to this geometry.
- The asset is outside of the geofence – the distance is the straight line to the closest border of the geofence. This is always the case for line and point geofences.
- The asset is inside the geofence – the distance is the straight line to the closest border of the polygon, with a negative sign.
- The asset is outside of the search radius – the geofence is not listed in the response.
- The asset is inside the polygon but further away from the border of the search radius – a special value indicating "far inside" is returned.
In your application, you can use the asset distance to generate events with different severity levels based on specific distance thresholds. You can also suppress superfluous events if the asset is moving along the geofence border, such as, entering or leaving the geofence frequently without a significant change in the asset distance.
- within the polygon 250m from the closest border
- within the polygon more than 20km from the closest border
- outside the geofence 333m from the closest border
- outside the geofence more than 20km from the closest border (this value applies to all non-listed geofences, when the asset is outside of the search radius)
Events such as entering, leaving, flickering along the border of the geofence, or re-entering the geofence do not receive an explicit response; only the asset distances. The same applies to a sequence of events, such as the asset entering the geofence for the third time or leaving for the second time on the same day.


Newspaper Dance
 - 2 or 3 sheets of newspaper
There are many ways to create dances with a double sheet of newspaper.
 1. Open the newspaper and spread it on the floor.
 2. Skip around it; jump on it; run and leap over it; slither under it; swivel on it with your feet together.
 3. Now pick up the newspaper and wave it from side to side; run with it high in the air; throw it up in the air and watch it float to the floor; repeat and then try to imitate the movement pattern of the newspaper.
 4. Next, crumple the newspaper into a ball; throw the ball and catch it; roll it along the floor and follow on your hands and knees; stand up and dribble it with your feet; lie on your back and hold the ball between your feet how many different movements can you make?
 5. Finally, spread the paper out flat again; pick it up, and as you move from place to place, shred the paper into little pieces and toss them into the air like confetti; scoop up handfuls and throw into the air as you conclude the "newspaper dance."
Note: Be sure to pick up all the pieces of newspaper and take them to the recycling bin!
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Definition of chromide in English:
A small deep-bodied fish of India and Sri Lanka, found in brackish water.
- Genus Etroplus, family Cichlidae: the orange chromide (E. maculatus) and the green chromide (E. suratensis)
- Anyway, they are fine with orange chromides, but being predators, they will eat any baby chromides.
- On the other hand, a single specimen will usually mix well with small, sturdy, low-salinity brackish water fish including bumblebee gobies, orange chromides, and glassfish.
- The Green chromide, an aquarium fish, is a native of India and Sri Lanka, and is found in the mangrove-lined estuaries along the Johor Straits.
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Nokia Drive 3.1 - Where does My Commute in Nokia Drive retrieve the traffic info from?
The traffic info for My Commute is collected from various sources:
 - Incident reports: Incidents range from jams on highways to planned construction works. These reports come often from local authorities such as the police or a local traffic management central. In many areas we have partnerships with the local authorities who will send the information to us.
 - Highway sensors: Many metropolitan areas have statically installed traffic flow sensors that measure the current average speeds on highways and major roads.
 - Crowd-sourcing: While the incident reports are very punctual and the installed sensors usually focused on major highways, we are also using the wisdom of the crowd to understand the traffic situation over the whole city. These are for example Nokia smartphones running Nokia Drive. People who are consuming traffic information can also improve the service by providing anonymous information about their current travel speed.
 - Historic information: The above information is archived and assumptions are made about the current speed on a street based on the historic information if there's not enough information from sensors or probes. Many streets in a city have a very regular pattern, e.g. the same traffic jam every morning but fast during night times.
 - Modelling: In many cases the traffic situation on the whole street network can be deducted from partial information. E.g. from a heavy jam on a highway one can often deduct the situation on the slip road entering the highway as well as the streets just before that.


Ship's bell
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Ship's bell on USS Chancellorsville
A ship's bell is used to indicate the time aboard a ship and hence to regulate the sailors' duty watches. The bell itself is usually made of brass or bronze and normally has the ship's name engraved or cast on it.
Timing of duty periods[edit]
Unlike civil clock bells, the strikes of the bell do not accord to the number of the hour. Instead, there are eight bells, one for each half-hour of a four-hour watch. In the age of sailing, watches were timed with a 30-minute hourglass. Bells would be struck every time the glass was turned, and in a pattern of pairs for easier counting, with any odd bells at the end of the sequence.
The classical system was:
Bell from the Titanic
Number of bells Bell pattern Middle
One bell. 0:30 4:30 8:30 12:30 16:30 18:30† 20:30
Two bells.. 1:00 5:00 9:00 13:00 17:00 19:00† 21:00
Three bells... 1:30 5:30 9:30 13:30 17:30 19:30† 21:30
Four bells.... 2:00 6:00 10:00 14:00 18:00 22:00
Five bells..... 2:30 6:30 10:30 14:30 18:30 22:30
Six bells...... 3:00 7:00 11:00 15:00 19:00 23:00
Seven bells....... 3:30 7:30 11:30 15:30 19:30 23:30
Eight bells........ 4:00 8:00 12:00‡ 16:00 20:00 0:00
† British usage after the Nore mutiny[1]
‡ Before the introduction of time zones, noon was not struck by the glass, but when the captain or officer of the deck confirmed local noon by the sun, using a sextant.
An underwater archaeologist with the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program in St. Augustine, Florida, recording the ship's bell discovered on the 18th century "Storm Wreck."
"Eight bells" by Winslow Homer, 1887
At midnight on New Year's Eve sixteen bells would be struck – eight bells for the old year and eight bells for the new.
Most of the crew of a ship would be divided up into between two and four groups called watches. Each watch would take its turn with the essential activities of manning the helm, navigating, trimming sails, and keeping a lookout.
The hours between 16:00 and 20:00 are so arranged because that watch (the "dog watch") was divided into two. The odd number of watches aimed to give each man a different watch each day. It also allows the entire crew of a vessel to eat an evening meal, the normal time being at 1700 with First Dog watchmen eating at 1800.[1]
Some "ship's bell" clocks use a simpler system:
Number of bells Bell pattern Hour (a.m. and p.m.)
One bell. 12:30 4:30 8:30
"Eight bells" can also be a way of saying that a sailor's watch is over, for instance, in his or her obituary, as a nautical euphemism for "finished".
Other uses[edit]
Ship's bells are also used for safety in foggy conditions, their most important modern use.[2] On naval vessels, bells additionally are rung as "boat gongs" for officers and dignitaries coming aboard or leaving the ship, in a number equivalent to the number of sideboys to which the visitor is entitled.
Name of the ship[edit]
Ship's bell of HMS Cavalier
The ship's name is traditionally engraved or cast onto the surface of the bell, often with the year the ship was launched as well. Occasionally (especially on more modern ships) the bell will also carry the name of the shipyard that built the ship. If a ship's name is changed, maritime tradition is that the original bell carrying the original name will remain with the vessel. A ship's bell is a prized possession when a ship is broken up[2] and often provides the only positive means of identification in the case of a shipwreck.
Number of bells[edit]
Most United States Navy ships of the post-World War II era have actually carried two ship's bells: the official bell on deck and a smaller one in the pilot house at the 1MC (public address) station, used when the ship is underway.
Cook and boatswain[edit]
According to seafaring legend, the ship's cooks and boatswain's mates had a duty arrangement to give the cooks more sleep. The boatswain's mates, who worked 24 hours a day on watches, would build the fire in the stove, so the cook could get up a little while later and the fire would be already going so he could begin preparing breakfast. In return, between meals, the cooks would shine the bell, which was traditionally the boatswain's mates' responsibility.
Baptizing children[edit]
Ship's bell as Baptismal font at chapel, Yeo Hall, Royal Military College of Canada
Baby is baptized with holy water from the ship's bell
It is a naval tradition to baptize children using the ship's bell as a baptismal font and to engrave the names of the children on the bell afterwards. Christening information from the bells held by the Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt Museum has been entered into a searchable data archive.[3]
See also[edit]
 1. ^ a b Tony Gray. "Workshop Hints: Ship's Bells". The British Horological Institute. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
 2. ^ a b "Ship's Bell". National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original on 9 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
 3. ^ "The Christening Bells Project". CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
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Advertising of Therapeutic Goods in Australia
A comprehensive system of controls operates federally across Australia to regulate the advertising of therapeutic goods. This system comprises three integrated levels of regulation - government regulation, co-regulation and self regulation. These complex controls are in place because therapeutic goods are not ordinary items of commerce and it is particularly important that any marketing of them is socially responsible, encourages only appropriate use of products and does not mislead or deceive.
The key components of the advertising controls are:
- advertising codes
- advertising approval requirements
- complaint mechanisms
- self-monitoring activities
Therapeutic goods include medical devices and all medicines, be they over-the-counter medicines or complementary medicines. Only medicines that are unscheduled, schedule 2, or schedule 3 and in Appendix H of the Poisons Standard, may be advertised to consumers. It is illegal to refer to prescription products/substances in advertisements for therapeutic goods directed to consumers.


Instructions for a Graco DuoGlider Stroller
The DuoGlider is a double stroller designed and sold by Graco 1. The DuoGlider can accommodate up to two Graco SnugRide or Graco SafeSeat infant car seats 1. Both of the stroller seats are equipped with removable canopy and snack tray. The stroller must first be assembled before it can be used. It's important to learn the proper instructions to ensure safety and make sure that proper locking mechanisms are installed.
Open the stroller by unlatching the secure hook on the side of the unit. Push the footrest down into vertical position. Turn the stroller upside down to install the basket and wheels.
Align the stroller basket with the two basket bars. Push the basket firmly onto the back of the stroller. Snap the securing straps over the bar and onto the basket to ensure that the basket stays in place.
Align the front wheels with the front feet of the stroller. Push the wheel firmly in place. Pull down on the wheel to ensure it is secured; do this for both front wheels. The two larger wheels go on the back, and the two smaller wheels go on the front.
Recline the back seat, pull up on the recline lever and pull back. Insert the brake bar on the back two feet of the stroller; the brake levers should be facing away from the stroller. Slide the back wheels onto the brake bar. Use a hammer to secure the wheel in place with the axle cap.
Flip the stroller back to normal operating position. Snap the snack tray on the front seat and, if desired, one on the back seat. The stroller is now ready for use.
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