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Creating a Simple iOS Client for Relativity Server
September 23, 2011 in iOS, Relativity, Xcode
Today I want to talk about how to create a simple iPhone client application for Relativity server using the DataAbstract for Xcode templates. Though the focus will be on Xcode 4, the same mechanisms can be applied to Xcode 3.
Going through a set of actions, we will use a DataAbstract iOS Application template to create an application with several views representing a Master/Detail relation.
Let's start with the first step.
Creating a new project using a DataAbstract iOS Application template
Open your Xcode application and perform the File>New>New project… command.
In the opened sheet, choose the RemObjects Software category from the iOS templates section and select the Data Abstract iOS Application template.
Specify the product name and don't forget to set the Talk to Relativity Server option.
Finally, select the destination folder for your new project and press the Create button. Your new project should now be open:
Let's take a few seconds to review what you have at the moment. You should have a compilable application (with some warnings – we will review them a bit later) that has an AppDelegate class and a RootViewController with its xib. There should also be a DataAccess class, which will be responsible for all manipulation with data. The new project also has all the necessary linker flags and properly configured paths as shown in the screen-shot below:
Implementation of the iOS client
Now you can compile the application, after which you will see a set of warnings:
These warnings were generated by the template system to highlight places that require adjusting or proper implementation to get your application working. Let's walk through all of them and eliminate them one by one.
1. Adjusting the connection configuration
First, let's change some defaults in the generated DataAccess class to specify the Relativity server URL, domain and schema. For this example, let's assume that you have the Relativity server running on a Windows computer with the IP
Open the DataAccess.m file and specify the proper URL for the Relativity server, domain and schema.
You can comment the warning there, since we are done with it (as shown below).
//_TAG_ Define your server address and Relativity domain name, below.
_TAG_ SERVER_URL @""
_TAG_ SERVICE_NAME @"DataService" // Do not change when using Relativity server
_TAG_ RELATIVITY_DOMAIN @"PCTrade Sample"
2. Defining tables you want to work with
Since the DataAccess class encapsulates all functionality needed for working with data, you need to define your tables there. Let's define them as retain properties. See the code below:
_USER_ DataAccess : NSObject
 DADataTable *clientsTable;
 DADataTable *ordersTable;
 DADataTable *orderDetailsTable;
_USER_ (retain) DADataTable *clientsTable;
_USER_ (retain) DADataTable *ordersTable;
_USER_ (retain) DADataTable *orderDetailsTable;
Don't forget to add the proper _USER_ directive and release the properties in the dealloc method in the DataAccess.m file.
_TAG_ mark -
_TAG_ mark Properties
_USER_ clientsTable, ordersTable, orderDetailsTable;
- (void) dealloc {
 [clientsTable release], clientsTable = nil;
 [ordersTable release], ordersTable = nil;
 [orderDetailsTable release], orderDetailsTable = nil;
 [super dealloc];
3. Implementing the initial loading of data
Now let's implement the method for the initial loading of data from the Relativity server.
Locate the downloadData method of the DataAccess class and add the following code:
Note: Our templates contain various vital tips and explanations on how to use a particular method. Please carefully review this kind of information, it can be very useful.
- (void)downloadData {
 //_TAG_ Implement this method to download any data your application needs on first start
 NSArray *tableNames = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
 ORDERDETAILS_TABLE_NAME, nil];
 NSDictionary *tables = [rda getDataTables:tableNames];
 [self setClientsTable:[tables valueForKey:CLIENTS_TABLE_NAME]];
 [self setOrdersTable:[tables valueForKey:ORDERS_TABLE_NAME]];
 [self setOrderDetailsTable:[tables valueForKey:ORDERDETAILS_TABLE_NAME]];
Note that we used a synchronous call to getDataTables here, because the whole downloadData method will be executed in a background thread (i.e. asynchronously).
4. Adding briefcase support to your application
In order to allow your application to work in offline mode, you need to persist downloaded data somewhere on the device. Let's use the DABriefcase functionality for this.
Locate the loadDataFromBriefcase: and saveDataToBriefcase: methods in the DataAccess class and implement them as shown below:
- (void)loadDataFromBriefcase:(DABriefcase *)briefcase {
 //_TAG_ Implement this method to re-load your data from the briefcase when re-launched
 [self setClientsTable:[briefcase tableNamed:CLIENTS_TABLE_NAME]];
 [self setOrdersTable:[briefcase tableNamed:ORDERS_TABLE_NAME]];
 [self setOrderDetailsTable:[briefcase tableNamed:ORDERDETAILS_TABLE_NAME]];
- (void)saveDataToBriefcase:(DABriefcase *)briefcase {
 //_TAG_ Implement this method to save your data to the briefcase
 [briefcase addTable:[self clientsTable]];
 [briefcase addTable:[self ordersTable]];
 [briefcase addTable:[self orderDetailsTable]];
 // Uncomment this to finalize briefcase support
 // (without this value written, DataAccess will ignore the briefcase when starting up,
 // see threadedLoadInitialData)
5. Extending the Orders table with lookup and calculated fields
Let's look at the orders table structure. It only has a minimal set of the fields like id, client id, date and status. That's not a lot and it would be be great to see (for example) the customer name instead of its ID and the total sum for the given order (which could be calculated from the OrderDetails table). Toachieve this, you'll have to add lookup and calculated fields to the Orders table. Locate the setupData method of the DataAccess class and add the following implementation:
- (void)setupData {
 // Use this method to implement any setup that's needed on your data tables, such as
 // creating lookup or calculated fields, etc.
 [[self ordersTable] addCalculatedFieldName:@"OrderTotal"
 [[self ordersTable] addLookupFieldName:@"CustomerName"
 sourceField:[[self ordersTable] fieldByName:@"Client"]
 lookupTable:[self clientsTable]
 lookupKeyField:[[self clientsTable] fieldByName:@"ClientId"]
 lookupResultField:[[self clientsTable] fieldByName:@"ClientName"]];
-(id)calculateSumForOrder:(DADataTableRow *)row {
 double result = 0;
 NSPredicate *p = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"Order == %@", [row valueForKey:@"OrderId"]];
 NSArray *rows = [[orderDetailsTable rows] filteredArrayUsingPredicate:p];
 for (DADataTableRow *orow in rows) {
 double summ = [(NSNumber *)[orow valueForKey:@"Total"] doubleValue];
 result = result + summ;
 return [NSNumber numberWithDouble:result];
6. Checking the login and password stuff in your Application delegate
Relativity server provides secured services protected by login and password. Thus, when asking for data the first time, a SessionNotFound exception will be raised on the Relativity side to tells you that you need to login to the Relativity domain first. When you log in to it, it will be able to find your registered session and allow you to proceed. The iOS client application can catch this kind of exception and provide a login operation in the background, and, after successful login, it will repeat the last failed request. When you open the PCTradeClientAppDelegate.h file you will see that this class supports the DataAccessDelegate protocol, which has a needLogin:password: method that will be used for obtaining the proper login and password.
Since you are mostly using default settings, you can leave the already generated method untouched. It should look like this:
- (BOOL)needLogin:(NSString **)login password:(NSString **)password {
 //_TAG_ Implement this method to ask the user for login information when needed
 // The DataAccess automatically takes care of storing login information in Settings and Key Chain,
 // and retrieving it as necessary. This method is only called when no login is stored (i.e. on first
 // run) or if the login retrieved was rejected by the server.
 // Typically, you would implement this method to bring up a UI that asks the user for his credentials.
 // By default, new Relativity Server domains will use "Data"/"Relativity" as login, unless
 // the login provider setup has been changed by the administrator.
 *login = @"Data";
 *password = @"Relativity";
 return YES; // return YES if the user provided login details, or NO if the user canceled
7. Implementing the RootViewController
You can now configure the root view to show the list of clients:
Open the RootViewController.m file and locate the myTable method that specifies the main data table for the whole current view. Since the default name myTable is a bit nondescript, let's use the Refactoring>Rename option to rename it viewData.
Now add the following implementation:
- (DADataTable *)viewData {
 //_TAG_ Implement this method to return the table this view will work on
 return [[DataAccess sharedInstance]


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Acronyms that contain the term ARES
What does ARES mean? This page is about the various possible meanings of the acronym, abbreviation, shorthand or slang term: ARES.
We've found a total of 5 shorthands for ARES:
What does ARES mean?
- (Greek mythology) Greek god of war; son of Zeus and Hera; identified with Roman Mars

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How Did The Three-wing Revolving Door Come Into Being
How Did The Three-wing Revolving Door Come Into Being
Date:Feb 09, 2020
The three-wing revolving door was born out of a new concept and function.
Simple and practical, safe and stable, it will rotate the channel system and maximum diameter rotation capacity as a whole, at the same time satisfy the "maximum tourist traffic" and "perfect except for the wind effect" of the two opposite conditions, which make the elegant design and the safety of the products are highly unified, forming a new landmark portal system. Three-wing revolving doors combine safety and practicality to put user safety first. Safety extrusion switches are mounted on curved wall columns to prevent pedestrians from being trapped by stationary columns and rotating doors. Spacious passage space and elegant appearance design, internal air flow less than ordinary doors, effectively resist the outside of the wind, dust, garbage into the building can greatly improve the indoor environment. Save the entrance and exit space, can obtain wider effective area. It has the function to stop at the predetermined position, beautiful and generous. There is an automatic rotation mode and a semi-automatic mode with the feeling of manual operation. The top is equipped with a laser ceiling light, the switch can be manually controlled. With rotating speed control function, even in strong wind, can safely in and out. It has the function of reverse rotation brake to ensure the safety of unilateral rotation.
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Dick Eastman's Genealogy Newsletter had a post this week about the courses being offered for free through the LDS Church's FamilySearch.org website. I decided to see if they had anything available to assist Portuguese researchers.
I found they have three courses under Reading Handwritten Records Series:
This lesson covers the basics on the way the Portuguese write letters. I thought the examples of each letter were very good. This lesson runs 20 minutes. There is also a PDF file with letter examples.
This lesson covers months, days, years, and common words found in Portuguese records. There are also question and answer sections so you can test your knowledge. This lesson runs 25 minutes. There are three handouts in PDF format for dates, keywords, and abbreviations.
This lesson covers the actual records one might encounter in Portuguese research. It walks you through examples of real records. It even shows you the actual text of documents line by line. This lesson runs 25 minutes.
I haven't gone through these lessons in their entirety. But, from what I saw they are presented very well. The audio compliments the text.
If you are starting with Portuguese records, or find yourself having difficulty understand the old handwriting, give this course a try.


Wrong number of arguments (Error 450)
The number of arguments to a procedure must match the number of parameters in the procedure's definition. This error has the following causes and solutions:
 - The number of arguments in the call to the procedure wasn't the same as the number of required arguments expected by the procedure.
 Check the argument list in the call against the procedure declaration or definition.
 - You specified an index for a control that isn't part of a control array.
 The index specification is interpreted as an argument but neither an index nor an argument is expected, so the error occurs. Remove the index specification, or follow the procedure for creating a control array. Set the Index property to a nonzero value in the control's property sheet or property window at design time.
 - You tried to assign a value to a read-only property, or you tried to assign a value to a property for which no Property Let procedure exists.
 Assigning a value to a property is the same as passing the value as an argument to the object's Property Let procedure. Properly define the Property Let procedure; it must have one more argument than the corresponding Property Get procedure. If the property is meant to be read-only, you can't assign a value to it.


_USER_ {jopera:2008:icac, title = {Automatic Configuration of an Autonomic Controller: An Experimental Study with Zero-Configuration Policies}, booktitle = {5th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2008)}, year = {2008}, month = {June}, pages = {67-76}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Chicago, IL, USA}, abstract = {Autonomic control managers can remove the need for manual system configuration in order to achieve good performance and efficient resource utilization. However, simple controllers based on reconfiguration actions tied to thresholds, or {\textquoteright}if-then{\textquoteright} rules, themselves need to be configured and tuned in order to adapt the controller behavior to the expected workload characteristic. In this paper we present an experimental study of zero-configuration policies that can be automatically tuned based on analytical models of the system under control. In particular, we have designed and implemented a threshold-free self-configuration policy for a distributed workflow execution engine and compared it with a standard PID controller. The experimental results included in the paper show that using such a policy the controller can tune itself in addition to reconfiguring the distributed engine and the proposed policy out-performs simpler policies that require manual and error-prone tuning of their parameters.}, keywords = {analytical models, automatic configuration, automatic control, autonomic controller, control system synthesis, distributed workflow execution engine, PID control, resource management, resource utilization, workload characteristic, zero-configuration policies}, doi = {10.1109/ICAC.2008.29}, author = {Thomas Heinis and Cesare Pautasso} }


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Definition: RTGS, is a short form for Real-Time Gross Settlement. It is a facility provided by the banks, that allows instant and complete settlement of funds from one bank to another and from one place to another, on an individual order basis. This means that the transactions are settled at the same time when they take place and so there is no waiting period.
Payments made through RTGS are final in nature which cannot be revoked. Moreover, the prescheduling of a transaction is allowed.
RTGS is mainly used for the high-value interbank transfer of money, in order to mitigate the risk of settlement and fraud.
Details Required for RTGS
The person (sender) who initiates the transfer must have the following details:
- Indian Financial System Code (IFSC) of the beneficiary's bank.
- Name of beneficiary
- Account number of the beneficiary
- Amount to be remitted
- Name of the beneficiary's bank and branch
- Account number of the sender/originator
Along with this, the bank branches of both the parties need to be RTGS-enabled, only then the transaction will be processed.
Minimum and Maximum Limit
This system is primarily developed to facilitate the transfer of large value funds between parties. Hence the least amount which is transferred through this system is Rs. 2 lakhs, while no maximum ceiling is there in RTGS.
Banks provide this service for a specified fee, wherein inward transactions are free, but a certain amount is charged on the outward transaction, depending upon the amount remitted.
How to do RTGS?
To transfer funds using RTGS, the first thing you require is the activation of internet banking facility. For this purpose, you need to visit your bank branch and complete the formalities for its activation. Nowadays, one can activate this facility online also using the concerned bank's website.
- Log in to the web portal, using the UserID and password.
- Once you enter the user ID and password, you will land at your account and profile where you have to select the profile.
- Thereafter click on Add and manage beneficiary.
- Then, you need to enter your profile password and click the submit button.
- You will see various options for adding a beneficiary, choose the relevant option as per your need.
- Upon clicking the appropriate option, you will be asked to fill the details of the beneficiary.
- Check the details and click on approve now button.
- Next click on the approve beneficiary radio button, where you will have two options – Approve through ATM, or Approve through OTP
- If you choose to approve through OTP, you will receive a high-security password at your registered mobile number, linked to the account. Now simply enter the password and click on approve button.
- Once the beneficiary is added the following steps are required to follow:
- Go to the payment/transfer tab and click inter-bank transfer.
- Select the Transaction Type, i.e RTGS and go to fund transfer section
- A list of beneficiaries will be displayed, select the beneficiary/payee
- Enter the amount to be transferred
- Select the checkbox stating that you agree with the terms of service and accept.
- Review the details and confirm.
In this way, the amount will be transferred successfully to the beneficiary's account.
Advantages of RTGS
- RTGS is one of the safest as well as the fastest mode of interbank transfer
- This facility is available on all business days, whose timings may vary from bank to bank.
- It is an immediate fund transfer mechanism.
- It is a paperless transfer of funds.
- The beneficiary is not required to visit the bank, to deposit the money.
- The funds can be transferred using the internet banking service.
Limitations of RTGS
- RTGS does not provide the facility to track the transaction to its customers, as only the positive confirmation feature is implemented by the central bank in which the remitting bank gets a message of fund transfer to the beneficiary bank, from the central bank.
In general, the beneficiary branches may receive funds in real-time, i.e. as and when the funds are sent by the remitting bank. The beneficiary bank has to credit the fund in the account of the beneficiary, within half an hour of the funds' transfer message.
However, if the funds are not transferred to the beneficiary's account due to the reasons like account frozen, or non-existence of account, then the funds are returned to the originating bank. Moreover, if there is a delay in refunding the failed amount, the initiating party is entitled to receive compensation at the current repo rate + 2%


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IMSE Electronics Design - How to Start?
If you are an electronics designer, becoming an IMSE electronics designer is not a giant step. You already have basic understanding about the tools and methods for traditional electronics. These can be utilized in IMSE electronics, as well. In the big picture, the design flow is similar in PCB design and IMSE electronics design, but the details make the difference. In this post, I will explain the key differences.
1. Understand Electrical Characteristics of IMSE Materials
When you design the electrical characteristics of your layout, you need to recognize that the materials are not similar with a PCB. This also means that the circuit's electrical characteristics are different. The same layout, one made with IMSE and the other with a traditional PCB, has different electrical characteristics. Traces have big differences in terms of conductivity and are one of the most important design parameters. In addition, the plastics used in IMSE creating the mechanical structure are electrical components as well, and these are worth considering in the design.
2. IMSE Stack-up
An IMSE stack-up contains
A substrate film,
Traces, which are printed on top of the substrate and
Injection molding resin.
Calculation methods used in PCBs, for example, relating impedance, are not applicable for IMSE. IMSE sets certain limitations on how to build stack-up, but also what kind of a grounding structure we can use. Designing the IMSE stack-up is different compared to the PCB world, since the IMSE stack-up is also a mechanical structure of a product and typically an optical light guide, as well. So it is not designed only by an electrical engineer, but a mechanical engineer and an optical engineer together.
3. Design for Manufacturing
Materials used in IMSE are not similar to those used in PCBs. This means that the manufacturing methods are different. In IMSE, traces are printed with silk screen printing, the assembled electrical circuit is 3D formed and finally the electronics are encapsulated inside the plastic by injection molding. All of these impact on how to consider design for manufacturing. Make sure that your design can be manufactured by understanding the IMSE manufacturing steps.
4. One Integrated, Solid Piece
An IMSE part is an integration of electronics, optics, mechanics, graphics, antennas, etc. All disciplines are integrated into a one solid piece, and all have critical parameters, which need to be designed properly. Design work is a close collaboration between all engineers, and compromises should be done. Things become easier if all understand well what the technology limitations are and where we need to be strict and what items can be flexible.
These four key points set the foundation for IMSE electronics design. For a PCB designer, this is not a side step. It is just learning something new and different.
About the writer
Tuomas Heikkilä, Principal Engineer, Electronics
Tuomas has over 13 years of experience in the electronics industry in consumer and automotive areas. He has designed PCBs, printed electronics and structural electronics. Before TactoTek, Tuomas worked on mobile phones and gained experience in sensor ICs development and component verification and validation. Tuomas holds an M.Sc in Electronics from University of Oulu. In his free time, Tuomas enjoys jogging and bicycling in summer and skiing in winter. As a counterbalance for physical exercises, Tuomas relaxes by reading books.


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The National Piping Centre receives many requests for filming and visits by journalists throughout the year. We are happy to accommodate these requests where possible, however availability is limited, so if you would like to arrange a media visit, the following charges will apply:
- Print journalists, with a group of 2 or less – Free of charge. These visits must be planned around our tour times and days, and agreed in advance with the management
- Film crews with 2 or more people. Where possible we will organise a 3 hour media slot in our venue with a piper. This allows you access to the Museum of Piping to film general shots. Many of the items in our collection are on loan from National Museums Scotland (NMS). For permission to film close ups of these objects you need to also obtain permission from NMS. The cost for this visit is £250 for a 0 – 3 hour visit.
On your visit we will provide:
- Up to three hours of filming permission.
- Access to our Museum of Piping or Auditorium (if available) for your filming.
- A bagpiper in full day dress, who can speak knowledgeably about the history of piping, conduct a tour of our museum and will guide you through the basics of playing the bagpipes as you try them out.


Hallmark Card Studio for Mac requires internet access. This is true even for boxed versions on DVD.
If you are getting errors saying it cannot connect to the internet, or it cannot load some of the designs, please start by verifying that you have a good, constant connection to the internet. The program requires it.
If your Mac is currently connected, you should check your anti-virus, firewall or anti-malware software on your computer.
Often it is one of these programs blocking the Hallmark program's access to the internet.
In some instances the connection may be too slow, or have too much latency for the program.
This is especially true on satellite internet (such as HughesNet), internet via a cellular connection, dialup, and some slower DSL ISPs under 1 megabit.
You can clear cache by following those steps
1. Close the program thru Hallmark Card Studio>Quit Hallmark Card studio, or via Force Quit
2. Use Go To Folder, in the Finder's Go menu (also accessible by pressing Shift+Command+G)
3.Type in ~/Library and click Go
4. Double-click "Application Support" folder
5. Double-click "Hallmark Card Studio" folder
6.Drag the Backup folder to the Trash bin
 7.Re-launch Hallmark Card Studio, click Choose A Design


Definitions for scalper
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word scalper
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 1. scalper(noun)
 "he got theater tickets through a scalper"
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 1. scalper(Noun)
 One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices
 We could see three different scalpers moving through the crowd outside the arena, each muttering the characteristic refrain: u201CNeed any tickets?u201D
 2. scalper(Noun)
 A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
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 1. Scalper(noun)
 one who, or that which, scalps
 2. Scalper(noun)
 same as Scalping iron, under Scalping
 3. Scalper(noun)
 a broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market
 4. Scalper(noun)
 a person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets
 5. Scalper(noun)
 a person who buys tickets for entertainment or sports events and sells them at a profit, often at a much higher price. Also, ticket scalper
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 1. Scalper
 Scalper, is a London-bred rapper, producer and songwriter of Pakistani descent, who is now based in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Department of Defence seeks industry feedback on draft AIC Enhanced Contractual Framework
by ANZDD on 02-Oct-2020
The Department of Defence is seeking industry feedback on an enhanced Australian Industry Capability (AIC) Contractual Framework.
The Draft AIC Enhanced Contractual Framework and related supporting artefacts are intended to provide specific and measurable AIC commitments that promote greater accountability for achieving the AIC objectives.
Defence has changed the approach for AIC from a 'one-size-fits-all' approach across its acquisition and sustainment contracting templates to a more flexible and scalable approach. This approach enables greater alignment with the unique aspects of each procurement, and is consistent with the view of defence industry as one of the fundamental inputs to capability.
The changes to be introduced by the new framework are directed at:
- better achieving Government's and Defence's requirements for maximising opportunities for Australian industry to participate in each procurement, while also recognising the core role of industry in delivering ADF Capability; and
- strengthening the contractual terms to ensure that these requirements are achieved through revised tendering processes and the inclusion of specific and measurable contractual commitments to enhance accountability.
Under the new framework, the key enhancements are to elevate AIC as a "core" clause with strengthened AIC obligations that contractors must comply with under contracts. To complement these obligations a new AIC remediation regime will be introduced.
The enhanced contractual framework will not be applied retrospectively. Defence will adopt a phased implementation approach across the ASDEFCON template suite from 1 January 2021.
The first package of draft documents (the AIC core package) is now available for consultation and comprises:
- updated Conditions of Tender, Conditions of Contract (and Glossary), and Statement of Work
- new Australian Contract Expenditure Measurement Rules
- extracts from relevant artefacts which describe the enhanced framework
What is the Australian Industry Capability Program?
The Australian Industry Capability (AIC) Program is designed to meet key objectives of the 2016 Defence and Industry Policy Statement (DIPS). In accordance with the DIPS, the AIC Program aims to:
- Provide opportunities for Australian companies to compete on merit for defence work within Australia and overseas.
- Influence foreign prime contractors and original equipment manufacturers, including Australian subsidiaries, to deliver cost-effective support.
- Facilitate transfer of technology and access to appropriate intellectual property rights.
- Encourage investment in Australian industry.
How do I give feedback?
All feedback should be sent to [email protected] using the ASDEFCON AIC Enhancements Feedback Log.
Source: Defence Comms


Why Do Peanut Butter Cookies Have Criss Cross Marks on Them
I have to admit I am not a big baker. This topic is a little beyond my scope of baking knowledge but I will try my best to find the underlying cause of this issue. It has become traditional to put marks with a fork on peanut butter cookies because it has always been done that way. The first cookbook with peanut butter cookies came from Ruth Wakefield's Tollhouse in 1936. What is the thought behind the marks? Well there are a couple of trains of thought on this one. In fact, some of them are somewhat funny. Some think the criss cross is a warning. Others think it has religious undertones either good or evil! Still others think it is to mark the cookies so you know what they are. Remember some people have allergies to nuts. This would be one way to let them know the peanut ingredient within the cookies.
However, this one explanation makes sense. In the early 1930's recipes began to tell cooks to make a criss cross pattern on the cookies. People also refer to them as hatch marks. It did not tell them why? Over the years, cooks have come to their own conclusions. One such conclusion is that it flattens the dough and thus making them crispier. I would tend to agree. Another reasonable explanation is that it flattens the dough so it can bake more evenly. In researching this topic, it seems that flattening the dough actually helps to keep the cookie dough together and uniformed. Otherwise, it may just crumble apart while baking. Could it be that all this guessing and hindsight is for nothing? Perhaps it is just a design for the cookie. Just something to dress it up? Maybe there is no real significance to the forked criss cross pattern after all.
Being a Christian myself, I like the thought that it has a religious meaning. It is thought that the marks are actually a holy image of the cross. This could have been a way to protect the people eating the cookies, which were probably your own family. That is a nice and protecting thought. So there you have the reasons and thoughts behind the criss cross marks made on peanut butter cookies. Which one do you think is true? The next time you have a peanut butter cookie maybe you will figure it out.
4 thoughts on "Why Do Peanut Butter Cookies Have Criss Cross Marks on Them"
 1. I thought it was because Peanut Butter cookies don't spread out in the oven like chocolate chip and other cookies. So, in order to have a flat cookie shape, you have to roll a ball, put it on the cookie sheet, and flatten it with a fork. That's what makes the criss-crosses – the fork flattening. And the crosses are only on Peanut Butter cookies because they are the only cookies that you need to do this for them to bake right. All other cookies, you roll into a ball, place on the sheet, and then let the oven flatten them while they bake. No fork needed. Thus, no criss-crosses.
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Steven Vance recently forwarded me a question about why CTA's rails have been sparking. Unlike MAX trains which get power from an overhead wire system, their trains get power through a third rail system. However, arcing in both kinds of power systems during winter weather is typically caused by ice. Ice building up on the wire (or third rail as the case may be) acts as an electrical insulator, preventing the carbon shoe from making contact with the wire where the ice accumulates. This interruption in the flow of the current from the wire to the pantograph is visible as arcing.
Here's a video of a MAX train pulling into & out of a platform where there was some ice on the catenary, and you can easily see the effect that it has:
To help clear ice from the overhead wire & prevent it from accumulating, a few of the Type 1s (107-112) are equipped with ice cutters which are put into use for major freezing rain/ice events. I don't have a picture of any of them in use (though I'm willing to accept donations!), but they look like a second pantograph and function by heating/scraping ice from the overhead wire. Unlike the pantographs, ice cutters only draw current to heat the elements and not to provide power to the train, so they won't arc the same way the pantographs do in ice. Their function is strictly to clear ice from the wire.
If you'd ever seen one of these cars and wondered why it has two pantographs, wonder no more! It doesn't – one pantograph, one ice cutter.
View from above; the ice cutter is the one closer to the coupled end, the pantograph is the one in contact with the wire closer to the vantage point. Bonus cameo appearance by car 235

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Slate's ever-helpful Explainer feature provides details about how long an embryo can remain frozen. (As you may have heard this week, a woman just gave birth to a baby who had earlier been a frozen embryo threatened by Hurricane Katrina.)
Turns out an embryo can be on ice for "for decades, if you store them the right way":
Embryos can remain on ice pretty much indefinitely; one baby was born after being frozen for 13 years.
To get that kind of shelf-life, an embryo must be carefully sealed inside a tank filled with liquid nitrogen and monitored to keep it at least 31 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.
But there's big trouble if the power goes out and the generator fails to function:
Once the embryo is thawed to room temperature, it needs to be placed in an incubator to keep it at 98.6 degrees so it can live until implantation. It can last a day or more in this state.
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 - A Basque Dancer from Head to Toe
 While Basque country is home to many styles of dance, each with variations in dress, there are some basic elements that dance costumes have in common. Most of these pieces are based on traditional everyday clothing, with some embellishments so the dancers are really dressed to impress.
 Six traditional Basque dance troupes will be performing at the Folklife Festival. Even though these groups are from California, Nevada, Idaho, and Utah, they retain many of the classic movements and costumes of performers from their homeland. How many can you spot at the Festival?
 Illustration by Dulcia Halliday
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 The beret, or txapela, is a Basque icon. While the felt hats had been worn by farmers all over northern Europe, Basques made it fashionable. Even Napoleon Bonaparte thought the "Basque berets" were hip, so now they are known as basco in Italian, baskeri in Finnish, and baskenmütze in German.
 Some men's costumes include a cloth sash, or gerriko, either tied around the waist or across one shoulder. Most often these are bright red or green, representing the Basque flag.
 Male dancers wear small bells sewed to a piece of cloth or leather and tied around their shins. Others wear larger bells fastened to their waists. Following a widespread early European superstition, the noisy bells are meant to drive away evil spirits.
 These simple sandals, called abarketa in Basque, are made from either canvas with rope soles or from leather, similar to ballet shoes. Once worn by peasants, then by laborers and military, espadrilles have become fashionable around the world.
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 Women often wrap a white scarf over their heads. This is the first part of the poxpolin, a costume popularized when women began performing men's dances.
 They usually wear their hair in braids, tied with a ribbon at the top called zintamuxko.
 Around their necks, women and men tie square handkerchiefs, or lepozapi. The colors can indicate the dancers' club, town, or region.
 Rainbows of ribbons are woven into berets, braided into hair, and wrapped around ankles to lace up shoes. They add color to the dancers' costumes and accentuate their motions. Some dances incorporate ribbons into the movements, like the zinta-dantza, a Basque version of the Maypole dance.
 Women dance in long wool skirts. The color and stripes at the bottom traditionally indicate their home region. Over time, it has become more fashionable to shorten the skirts, from just above the ankle to around the knee, exposing voluminous petticoats.
 Color Guide
 According to some Basques, the colors of cloths and ribbons in costumes symbolize certain things. Here is a short guide to those meanings.
 Red = Life, love
 Blue = Heavens
 Green = Regeneration of nature
 White = Purity, innocence
 Join us at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to see Basque dance performances and learn some steps for yourself. In the Festival Marketplace, located inside the Arts and Industries Building, you will find berets, handkerchiefs, and espadrilles to take home.
 Elisa Hough is the editor for the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Dulcia Halliday is a graphic design intern for the Folklife Festival; she studies graphic design at SUNY New Paltz.


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Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX - parse XLSX files
version 0.14
 use Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX;
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This module is an adaptor for Spreadsheet::ParseExcel that reads XLSX files.
Returns a new parser instance. Takes no parameters.
Parses an XLSX file. Parsing errors throw an exception. $file can be either a filename or an open filehandle. Returns a Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook instance containing the parsed data.
This module returns data using classes from Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, so for the most part, it should just be a drop-in replacement. That said, there are a couple areas where the data returned is intentionally different:
In Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, colors are represented by integers which index into the color table, and you have to use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->ColorIdxToRGB in order to get the actual value out. In Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX, while the color table still exists, cells are also allowed to specify their color directly rather than going through the color table. In order to avoid confusion, I normalize all color values in Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX to their string RGB format ("#0088ff"). This affects the Fill, BdrColor, and BdrDiag properties of formats, and the Color property of fonts. Note that the default color is represented by undef (the same thing that ColorIdxToRGB would return).
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel doesn't support formulas. Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX provides basic formula support by returning the text of the formula as part of the cell data. You can access it via $cell->{Formula}. Note that the restriction still holds that formula cell values aren't available unless they were explicitly provided when the spreadsheet was written.
Large spreadsheets may cause segfaults on perl 5.14 and earlier
This module internally uses XML::Twig, which makes it potentially subject to Bug #71636 for XML-Twig: Segfault with medium-sized document on perl versions 5.14 and below (the underlying bug with perl weak references was fixed in perl 5.15.5). The larger and more complex the spreadsheet, the more likely to be affected, but the actual size at which it segfaults is platform dependent. On a 64-bit perl with 7.6gb memory, it was seen on spreadsheets about 300mb and above. You can work around this adding XML::Twig::_set_weakrefs(0) to your code before parsing the spreadsheet, although this may have other consequences such as memory leaks.
Worksheets without the dimension tag are not supported
Intra-cell formatting is discarded
Diagonal border styles are ignored
In addition, there are still a few areas which are not yet implemented (the XLSX spec is quite large). If you run into any of those, bug reports are quite welcome.
Please report any bugs to GitHub Issues at _URL_
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel: The equivalent, for XLS files.
Spreadsheet::XLSX: An older, less robust and featureful implementation.
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and demand in week 1. We use this formula to calculate revenue for each value of demand in week 1: =UnitPrice*MIN(C29,InitInv) Calculating Mean Revenue - Week 1 -- continued: Calculating Mean Revenue - Week 1 -- continued Given these values we can calculate the mean revenue in week 1 by entering the formula =SUMPRODUCT(Revenues1,Probs1). Calculating Mean Revenue - Week 2: Calculating Mean Revenue - Week 2 The revenue in week 2 is the unit price multiplied by the number of units sold in week 2, and this latter quantity is the smaller of the beginning inventory in week 2 and the demand in week 2. The complex portion is that the inventory in week 2 depends on the demand in week1, because this demand determines how much (if any) is left at the end of week 1 and whether an order was placed. The analysis breaks down into three cases in which I0, D1 and RP denote beginning inventory in week 1, the demand in week 1, and the reorder point. Calculating Mean Revenue - Week 2 -- continued: Calculating Mean Revenue - Week 2 -- continued One of following occurs: If I0 -D1 < 0, the ending inventory in week 1 is 0, and an order is placed. This brings the beginning inventory in week 2 up to the 400 units (the order quantity). If 0< I0 -D1 < = RP, then positive inventory is on hand at the end of week 1, but demand in week 1 is large enough to trigger an order. Therefore, beginning inventory in week 2 is I0 -D1 plus the order quantity. If I0 -D1 > RP, no order is triggered, so the beginning inventory in week 2 equals the ending inventory in week 1, I0 -D1. Calculating Mean Revenue - Week 2 -- continued: Calculating Mean Revenue - Week 2 -- continued Putting all this together we can calculate the revenue in week 2 for each combination of week 1 and week 2 demands. The following formula should be copied into the range C37:G41 =UnitPrice*MIN($B37,IF(InitInv-C$36<=0,OrderQuan, IF(IntiInv-C$36<=ReorderPt,InitInv-C$36+OrderQuan,InitInv-C$36))) This formula is complex but it simply implements the logic on the previous slide with nested IF functions. Calculating Mean Revenue - Week 2 -- continued: Calculating Mean Revenue - Week 2 -- continued Next, we calculate the mean revenue in week 2 in the usual way, as a sum of products of possible revenues and their probabilities with the formula: =SUMPRODUCT(Revenues2,JtProbs) The one advantage to doing all this work is that now we can change any of the inputs in the shaded cells and the mean revenues will be recalculated automatically. Slide81: Weighted Sums of Random Variables INVEST.XLS: INVEST.XLS An investor has $100,000 to invest, and she would like to invest it in a portfolio of eight stocks. She has gathered historical data on the returns of these stocks and has used the data to estimate means, standard deviations and correlations for the stock returns. This file contains summary measures obtained from historical data. She believes they are also relevant for future returns. INVEST.XLS -- continued: INVEST.XLS -- continued The investor would like to analyze a portfolio of these stocks using certain investment amounts. What is the mean annual return from this portfolio? What are its variance and standard deviation? Input Data: Input Data Solution: Solution This is a typical weighted sum model. The random variables, the X's are the annual returns from the stocks; the weights, the a's are the dollar amounts invested in the stocks; and the summary measures of the X's are given in rows 12,13 and 17-24 of the input data. We can obtain the mean return from the portfolio in cell B49 by using the formula =SUMPRODUCT(Weights, Means) Solution -- continued: Solution -- continued We are not quite ready to calculate the variance of the portfolio return. The reason why is because we do not currently know the Var(Y). But these are related to standard deviations and correlation by Var(Xi) = (Stdev(Xi))2 Cov(Xi, Xj) = StDev(Xi) X Stdev(Xj) X Corr(Xi,Xj) Solution -- continued: Solution -- continued To calculate these in Excel, it is useful to create a column of standard deviations in Column L by using Excel's TRANSPOSE function. To do this highlight the range L12:L19 and type the formula =TRANSPOSE(Stedevs) and press Ctrl-Shift-Enter. Next we form a table of variances and covariances of the X's i the range B28:I35, using the formula =$L12*B$13*B17 in cell B28 and copying it to the range. Solution -- continued: Solution -- continued Finally, we need to calculate the portfolio variance in cell B50. To do this we form a table of terms needed and then sum these terms as in the following steps. Row of weights Enter the weights in row 38 by highlighting the range B38:I18 and typing the formula =Weights and pressing Ctrl-Enter. Column of weights Enter these same weights as a column in the range A39:A46 by highlighting the range, typing the formula =TRANSPOSE(Weights) and pressing Ctrl-Shift-Enter. Solution -- continued: Solution -- continued Table of terms Now use these weights and the covariances to fill in the table of terms required for the portfolio variance. To do so, enter the formula =$A39*B28*B$38 in cell B39 and copy it to the range B39:I46. Portfolio variance and standard deviation Calculate the portfolio variance in cell B50 with the formula =SUM(PortVarTerms). Then calculate the standard deviation of the portfolio return in cell B51 as the square root of the varince. The results are shown in the calculation on the next slide. Solution -- continued: Solution -- continued The standard deviation of approximately $11,200 is sizable. The standard deviation is th a measure of the portfolio's risk. Investors always want a large mean return, but they also want low risk. They realize though that often time the only way to obtain high men returns is to assume more risk.
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Up to 40 parents attended the protest at Downhills Primary in Haringey.
Sarah Williams, 40, who has two sons at the school, said:
"There is absolutely no evidence that a change in structure improves children's educational outcomes.
"When the process first started I thought it was about improving the school, but as we've got further along I've realised it's all about [Education Secretary] Micheal Gove's ideologies that the only way to improve is to introduce profit.
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In general, California tax law conforms to the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) as of January 1, 2005. However, there are continuing differences between California and federal tax law. These differences may require taxpayers to make adjustments to figures from their federal returns. Certain specific areas of nonconformity are discussed in the affected tax forms instructions. Refer to Publication 1001 for more information.
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Roughness perception in haptic virtual reality for sighted and blind people
Psychophysical functions for perceived roughness, relating ln (magnitude estimate of roughness) to ln (groove width), were obtained for blind and sighted participants in virtual reality using the PHANToM force feedback device. The stimuli were sinusoidal surfaces with groove widths between 0.675 mm and 20.700 mm. Group functions showed a similar nonlinearity to those obtained in physical reality using rigid probes (Klatzky, Lederman, Hamilton, Grindley, & Swendsen, 2003; Lederman, Klatzky, Hamilton, & Ramsay, 1999). Individual functions gave a different picture. Of 23 total participants, there were 13 with wholly descending linear psychometric functions, 7 with quadratic functions similar to the group function, and 3 with anomalous functions. Individual power law exponents showed no significant effects of visual status. All analyses gave a power law exponent close to 20.80. The implications for theories of roughness, methodologies of data analysis, and the design of haptic virtual reality interfaces are considered.


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I have a WinForms application and a Panel Control. The panel control has a VScrollBar control for vertical scrolling. Everything works fine except right now I have my VScrollBar maximum value set to 100. The problem is, I need the Maximum property to be about 4 billion, however, since Maximum is only an Integer, I can't set it to the proper value. So, my question is, how do I get around this? I know there are text editors and file viewers that claim to view more then 4 gigs of data, so how would a scrollbar in an application like that work?
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A scrollbar is a GUI control. Innately, the number of steps it can display is limited to the number of vertical pixels on your screen. Therefore, you could consider setting the maximum value to anything above that to be simply for developer convenience, to make the math easier.
How do applications deal with scrollbars? In theory, you'd want to parse the file first, to find out how many lines are in the file, and use that as your logical maximum. In reality, reading 4 GB of data when the file is opened would kill performance, so that wouldn't work.
If I were implementing this, I would set the scrollbar maximum is set to a large value, say 10,000. When the scrollbar is used, the scrollbar value is divided by 10,000 to get a percentage, and the editor shows that section of the file.
Don't think of things in terms of scrolling down so many lines. Instead, think of it as jumping to that percentage offset of the file, reading the data there, and displaying that.
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Well, you could just set Maximum to int.MaxValue and scale the retrieved value to your real maximum value. This should be enough precision to avoid loading too much data.
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You use a percentage. There is no need to set it to the same as the number of lines.
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This is a good idea except when on my Scroll handler, I am getting ScrollEventArgs that has a property called NewValue which is an int. So if it returns to me 58, for example, meaning 58%, how do I know how far down to scroll? 58% is a large chunk of data when your talking about a total of 4 gigs. – icemanind Jun 29 '11 at 17:47
If you set maximum to int.MaxValue and minimum to int.MinValue you should be pretty close. – Alex Peck Jun 29 '11 at 18:00
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Place of Origin: France
Group: Scenthound
Height: males 22-23 in., females 21-22 in.
Weight: 55-62 lbs.
Life span: n/a
Trainability: moderate
Good with children: yes
Good with other pets: yes with other dogs
What is the origin of the Porcelaine?
The Porcelaine is believed to be the oldest of all French hounds. Almost extinct during the French Revolution, Swiss breeders recovered the Porcelaine in 1845. The name Porcelaine is a reference to its shiny coat.
What does the Porcelaine look like?
The Porcelaine is an elegant looking dog, males are 22-23 inches tall, females 21-22 inches tall, weight is 55-62 lbs. The forehead is flat. The nose is black. Eyes are round and dark. Ears are thin, pointed and hanging. The tail is thick at the base tapering to a point. the coat is very short, fine and shiny. Color is bright white with orange markings especially on the ears. Occasional brushing is all the coat requires.
What is the temperament of the Porcelaine?
The Porcelaine is a serene dog at home. It has an independent nature and early positive obedience training will help avoid bad behavior. Porcelaines are friendly dogs, good with people, children and other dogs. They are not dogs suited to apartment living as they need space to run and hunt.
What is the Porcelaine used for?
The Porcelaine is used generally in packs for hunting all types of wild game. Porcelaines are very affectionate and make good family companions.
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No specific known health issues at present.
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To get a feel for the motion needed for proper application, practice applying the clear coat on a smooth piece of metal before clear coating the vehicle.
Optimal weather for applying an automotive clear coat is a temperature of 75 degrees Fahrenheit with no humidity. If clear coat is applied when the temperature is below 55 degrees Fahrenheit or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, or when the car is located in direct sunlight, the paint appears foggy when dry. Painting should be done in a shady area, and if it absolutely must be done during cold weather, it should be done in a heated garage.
While time guidelines and restrictions differ by manufacturer, a safe waiting period between coat applications is at least 10 minutes. The car cannot be touched until at least an hour after the last coat is applied. The car should not be taken through a car wash, waxed or buffed until 30 to 45 days after the clear coat is applied. If an immediate shine is desired, wait a day after applying the clear coat, and place a hand glaze on the vehicle.
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How to Create a Snapshot With the Oracle ILOM Web Interface SUN Server
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This procedure requires Administration (a) permission.
- Log in to the Oracle ILOM web interface.
- Select Snapshot from the Maintenance tab.
The Service Snapshot Utility screen appears.
- Select the data set you want: Normal, FRU ID, Full, or Custom.
- Normal – Specifies that Oracle ILOM, operating system, and hardware information is collected.
- FRU ID – Provides FRU ID information.
- Full – Specifies that all data is collected. Selecting Full might reset the system.
- Custom – Allows you to choose one or more of the following data sets:
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- Select the Enabled check box if you want to collect only log files from the data set.
- Select the Enabled check box if you want to encrypt the output file.
- Select one of the following methods to transfer the output file:
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The utility places a zip file in the specified directory.
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ing stiffness is selected based on the answers to the questions. The age of the player is not in this system but should play a role also. Young kids should play with a more comfortable string bed, comfort string at lower string bed stiffness, to prevent injuries and so that they learn to use the power out of the string bed. Lower the calculated stiffness by one stiffness class (3 kg/cm) for children under 16. Keep in mind that today's pros play at relative low stiffnesses (Federer at 34 kg/cm) so that they can use the power of the string bed to lift the speed of their game.
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The right side of the route map shows the string bed stiffness and the stringing tension for each category of player. The relation between the string bed stiffness and the stringing tension will be explained in a later chapter of this series.
In the next chapter of this series we will deal with string bed stiffness.
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In 1982, Fred Timmer and his father started the Stringway business, based on the cross stringing tool that Timmer designed. A development engineer with the Dutch Nuclear Centre, Timmer has designed all Stringway products. He also has conducted research on the mechanics and properties of racquet strings, which has led to the development of the Tension Advisor (translator from string bed stiffness to stringing tensions), the Rucanor Tennis computer and the Stringlab. Since 2010, Timmer has worked on a string classification system with the USRSA and the Dutch racquet forum. You can reach him at
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I am trying to calculate the salary the person receives, based on any of the following inputs - hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. When one of them is entered, the others should be recalculated automatically.
Here's how I proceed:
First, I have 5 Double type variables defined at the top of the activity. They are: hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. Then I have 5 EditText fields, corresponding to these variables. I have attached a custom subclass that implements TextWatcher to these 5 EditTexts.
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etHourly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etHourly);
etHourly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etHourly));
This custom class has a constructor that accepts and stores the view that was passed to it, since the default methods of the TextWatcher class don't provide a way to find out which View invoked the change.
After saving the passed view as a local variable inside the custom subclass I then proceed with the implemented afterTextChanged inside this subclass and get the value of the passed EditText and save it as a Double to its corresponding defined variable at the top of the activity. (e.g. if the EditText passed is for the Weekly salary, I set the value of this EditText as a double to the weekly variable.
Finally, just before the end of the afterTextChanged method I call another custom method Recalculate(), that has a bunch of if()'s to check if hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly is set and if it is, calculate and use setText() on the remaining EditText's. The problem is that this setText() will invoke the TextWatchers for each of these EditTexts, causing an infinite loop.
How do I overcome this?
Here's some code to have a better understanding of this. Before onCreate:
Double hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly = 0.0;
EditText etHourly, etDaily, etWeekly, etMonthly, etYearly;
Inside onCreate():
etHourly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etHourly);
etDaily = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etDaily);
etWeekly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etWeekly);
etMonthly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etMonthly);
etYearly = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etYearly);
etHourly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etHourly));
etDaily.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etDaily));
etWeekly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etWeekly));
etMonthly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etMonthly));
etYearly.addTextChangedListener(new EditTextWatcher(etYearly));
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private class EditTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {
 EditText v;
 public EditTextWatcher(EditText view) {
 this.v = view;
 public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
 // Only if the currently edited text field contains something
 if (v.getText().toString().length() > 0) {
 switch (v.getId()) {
 case R.id.etHourly:
 hourly = getTvAsDouble(etHourly);
 case R.id.etDaily:
 daily = getTvAsDouble(etDaily);
 case R.id.etWeekly:
 weekly = getTvAsDouble(etWeekly);
 case R.id.etMonthly:
 monthly = getTvAsDouble(etMonthly);
 case R.id.etYearly:
 yearly = getTvAsDouble(etYearly);
 int after) {
 int count) {
hourly = daily = weekly = monthly = yearly = 0.0;
if(hourly!=null && hourly>0.0){
// I will complete the other if's once this works
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possible duplicate of KeyReleased equivalence in Android – nandeesh Sep 18 '12 at 14:42
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Mate!! I too was stuck here.... I was getting the StackOverflowError...but I was assuming that maybe it is because I have instantiated TextWatcher multiple times... but you helped me by identifying the problem, which was actually with setText(),which was calling TextWatcher's methods infinitely.... so here I did it --- as per your code --->
 if(etHourly.isFocused()) //this condition helped suppressing infinite loops
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Using Presto Auto Scaling with Graceful Decommission
Amazon EMR release versions 5.30.0 and later include a feature you can use to set a grace period for certain scaling actions. The grace period allows Presto tasks to keep running before the node terminates because of a scale-in resize action or an automatic scaling policy request. For more information about scaling rules, see Understanding Automatic Scaling Rules in the Amazon EMR Management Guide. Presto graceful auto scaling prevents new tasks from being scheduled on a node that is decommissioning, while at the same time allowing tasks that are already running to complete before the shut down timeout is reached. Queries that are running will complete execution before the node is decommissioned. Auto scaling is not supported on instance fleets.
You can control how much time to allow for Presto tasks to complete after an auto scale shut down request is received. By default, the shut down timeout for Amazon EMR is 0 minutes, which means that Amazon EMR immediately terminates the node and any Presto tasks running on it, if required by a scale-in request. To set a longer timeout for Presto tasks on Amazon EMR to allow running queries to complete before scaling down a cluster, use the presto-config configuration classification to set the graceful-shutdown-timeout parameter to a value in seconds or minutes greater than zero. For more information, see Configuring Applications.
For example, increasing the graceful-shutdown-timeout value to "30m" specifies a timeout period of 30 minutes. After the shut down timeout period ends, the node marked for decommissioning is forcefully terminated if it is waiting for query tasks to complete, and the query fails. If the query tasks finish in five minutes, the node marked for decommissioning terminates at five minutes, provided other YARN applications have completed execution.
Example Presto Auto Scale Configuration with Graceful Decommission
Replace the graceful-shutdown-timeout value with the number of minutes appropriate for your setup. There's no maximum value. The example below sets a timeout value of 1800 seconds (30 minutes).
[ { "classification": "presto-config", "properties": { "graceful-shutdown-timeout": "1800s" } } ]
PrestoDB graceful decommission does not work on EMR clusters where HTTP connectivity is disabled, such as when http-server.http.enabled is set to false. PrestoSQL does not support graceful decommission at all, regardless of the http-server.http.enabled setting.


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 1. existing in great number or quantity
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10 Wonderful Ways To Say Thank You In Lithuanian
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Lithuania is a beautiful country that has lots of things to be thankful for. So, if you plan to travel to Lithuania, you must learn how to say Thank you in Lithuanian (ačiū). Thank you (ačiū) in Lithuanian is one of the basic phrases that you need to learn because it is beneficial in different situations. For example, you can use this in asking for directions, ordering food, shopping, and other daily conversations. It is also a sign of politeness and respect for the locals and their culture.
Why Say Thank You?
How To Say Thank You In Lithuanian?
Lithuanian is one of the oldest languages in the world. It is a Baltic language spoken mainly in Lithuania. It may not be one of the most spoken languages worldwide and in Europe like German and French, but learning Lithuanian is worth it in the long run, especially when you get to travel to their beautiful country. So, If you want to know how to say Thank you in Lithuanian, check the words and phrases below.
1. Ačiū
The first thing that you need to learn is ačiū. It might sound like you are sneezing, but this is the Lithuanian translation of Thank you. This is the most common way to say Thank you in Lithuanian. This two-word phrase is as important as saying hello (labas) and sorry (atsiprasau) because it is typically used in daily conversations.
2. Dėkoju
If you want a bit less formal, you can say dėkoju, which means Thanks in English. There are situations when people want it to be short, like in text messages and chat. Of course, if you are a beginner and a non-native speaker, you should still go with ačiū.
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3. Labai Ačiū
If you have received help from someone and express your deep gratitude towards that person, you can say labai ačiū. Yes, ačiū is already enough to express your gratitude but going a little extra will make it more sincere.
4. Vertinu Tai, Ką Padarei
Being appreciated is one of the best feelings in the world. So if you appreciate someone who did something nice to you, don't hesitate to let them know how you feel. You can say Vertinu tai, ką Padarei.
5. Milijonas Jūsų Dėka
Call it exaggerating but, if you are really thankful to someone who did something way past your expectations, you can express it this way. Saying Milijonas jūsų dėka is like saying, "I would never get tired of saying. Thank you over and over again."
6. Ačiū Tau Už Viską
You will probably be hearing this a lot during farewells, the end of classes, and even break up. However, the phrase Ačiū tau už viską has a wider and deeper ranger than just the word "Thank you." It encompasses lots of moments that other person spent time to help you. So, to express how thankful you are, you can say Ačiū tau už viską.
7. Aš Tau Vieną Skolingas
There are other ways to say Thank you without using the word Thanks or Thank you. This is an example of these phrases. Of course, if you help someone out, you won't expect returns, but people sometimes say, "I owe you one." (aš tau vieną skolingas) to express their deep gratitude. It is also like saying, "I'm here if ever you're the one in need."
8. Aš Būsiu Amžinai Dėkinga
There are times when you will be indebted to someone, and there's nothing wrong with that. But, unfortunately, some people are shy to be indebted to others. Living in this world is hard when you are always on your own. So, accept help from other people. You can express your gratitude by saying, "Aš būsiu amžinai dėkinga." You don't have to be humiliated by accepting help from others. Just think that one day, they might be needing your help too, and that's your opportunity to give back.
9. Priimk Mano Giliausią Dėkingumą
If you want to go a little formal and Priimk mano giliausią dėkingumą is an expression you should learn. Formal expressions like this are usually used in written communication or emails.
10. Man Tai Daug Reiškia
The last way to say Thank you in Lithuanian that you will be learning in this post is Man tai daug reiškia. This phrase is sometimes used with ačiū, just like in other languages. But, it can stand alone, and people will still understand its meaning when it has been said to them.
So, there you have it! You now have different words and phrases that you can use to say Thank you In Lithuanian. Just like what is said above, Lithuania is a wonderful country. So, if you want to travel and visit the country, you will surely be saying, "Thank you, Lithuania!" or "Ačiū, Lietuva." This fantastic country and people will really give you a memorable trip that you'll always cherish.
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Japan is much richer than South Korea because Japan has a GDP (per capita) of: $24,900 and South Korea's GDP (per capita) is: $16,100. The difference between the GDP of both countries is: $8,800. With this information, it shows how much money there is for every person in the country. So with this money, they might buy things that are expensive. For example, the number of televisions that are sold in is: 86.5 million and the number of television that are sold in South Korea is: 15.9 million. This shows that obviously there are richer people in Japan than South Korea because more people spend money on televisions. Plus, they may buy more than one television set for
their household because they may have a big family to entertain.
Japan's Birth Rate is 10.04 births (per thousand people per year) and
South Korea's Birth Rate is 14.85 births (per thousand people per year). This shows that South Korea is poorer than Japan because it's birth rate is higher than Japan's. This could be due to problems such as needing a big family to earn more money for everyone. This shows that Japan have enough doctors and hospitals to perform abortion to women who do get pregnant. Also, Japan encourages people to use contraception to prevent pregnancy. Japan's Death Rate is 8.34 deaths (per thousand people per year) and South Korea's Death Rate is 5.93 deaths (per thousand people per year). This shows that South Korea may have more doctors to help cure people with their illnesses.
Japan's Population is: 126,771,662. South Korea's Population is: 47,904,370. Even though Japan's birth rate is lower than South Korea's and Japan's population is larger than South Korea's, it shows that more people may migrate to Japan, as it is a richer country to live and work in.


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- owe (v.)
- Old English agan (past tense ahte) "to have, own," from Proto-Germanic *aiganan "to possess" (cf. Old Frisian aga, Old Norse eiga, Old High German eigan, Gothic aigan "to possess, have"), from PIE *aik- "to be master of, possess" (cf. Sanskrit ise "he owns," isah "owner, lord, ruler;" Avestan is- "riches," isvan- "well-off, rich").
Sense of "to have to repay" began in late Old English with the phrase agan to geldanne literally "to own to yield," which was used to translate Latin debere (earlier in Old English this would have been sceal "shall"); by late 12c. the phrase had been shortened to simply agan, and own (v.) took over this word's original sense.
An original Germanic preterite-present verb (cf. can, dare, may, etc.). New past tense form owed arose 15c. to replace oughte, which developed into ought (v.).


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Findings from a new study confirm that tea extracts applied to the skin promote the repair of damage from radiotherapy, and shed light on the mechanisms involved in the injury. The beneficial effects of the extracts are mostly from their ability to attenuate the body signals that trigger inflammation.
Radiotherapy interruption because of toxic effects to the skin may compromise the outcome of cancer treatment, lead author Dr. Frank Pajonk, from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, told Reuters Health. "So, it is important to have an effective treatment for this problem."
According to Pajonk, "tea extracts have been used as a folk remedy for sunburns, which led to their use as a treatment for radiation-induced skin toxicity. They have proven quite successful in this regard, but there were no scientific data" to clarify their effects.
In a study reported in the journal BMC Medicine, the researchers analyzed the effects of green or black tea extracts given to 60 patients with skin damage related to radiotherapy for head and neck cancers and cancer in the pelvic region.
Treatment with the tea extracts enhanced skin repair, the report indicates. For radiation damage in the head and neck region, the green and black tea extracts were comparable in promoting repair, whereas in the pelvic region, green tea extract was superior, Pajonk said.


Can Chickens Eat Peaches?
Can Chickens Eat Peaches
Plenty of people domestically keep chicken coops at their homes or farmhouses. Feeding your chickens a good diet is one of the best ways to harvest quality eggs at home. While chickens are foragers and eat several foods, fruits are known to be great for them. Chicken owners often wonder whether or not chickens can eat peaches. Let's find out.
So, can chickens eat peaches? Yes, absolutely! Besides being delicious, peaches are also great sources of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and are packed with several other nutritious elements that are beneficial for chickens. Peaches' soft and hydrating nature allows chickens to gobble them up in seconds! However, you must always remove pits while feeding them to chickens.
Nutritional benefits of peaches – All you need to know
Loaded with pulpy goodness, peaches are amazing summer fruits. A medium-sized peach gives 50 calories, half a gram of healthy fats, carbohydrates (15 grams), fiber (2 grams), sugar (13 grams), protein (1 gram), and no cholesterol or sodium. Sounds amazing, doesn't it?
Peaches are part of the stone familyOpens in a new tab.. They have one big seed instead of several small ones. Besides being healthy for humans, they are beneficial for chickens too! They contain balanced amounts of vital nutrients that make them healthy and allow them to lay healthy eggs.
Here are the key nutrients in peaches.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C is beneficial for chickens since it helps produce collagen. It also aids the body in fighting a number of diseases by building immunity.
CollagensOpens in a new tab. are extremely helpful in improving skin health as well as for accelerating the recovery from injuries and wounds.
Potassium is important for a chicken's internal cell function. It decreases the risk of many diseases and health problems like high blood pressure, stroke, and kidney stones.
Fiber helps keep a chicken's weight in control. It also promotes colon health. Besides, it protects chickens from severe health problems like diabetes, cancer, and obesity as well.
Carbohydrates obtained from peaches help keep a chicken active and help improve their overall health and wellness.
Natural Sugar
Their natural sugar content makes peaches sweet. Besides, they act as a natural taste enhancer. They are also healthy substitutes for sweet treats or processed food.
Peaches have good water content, which helps in keeping chickens hydrated.
Are there other benefits of feeding chickens peaches?
Feeding chickens peaches
In addition to the array of health benefits, you must also know the correct way of feeding this tasty fruit. Let's explore some other benefits of adding peaches to your chicken's meal before discussing the best way to add it in your chickens' feed.
Encourages physical stimulation
Chickens are hyperactive and curious creatures. You will always see a chicken pecking on something or the other. Furthermore, chickens are not domestic animals by origin.
They are not accustomed to living in confinement. Even though domesticated chickens adjust easily, they need to be kept occupied and physically fit.
Peaches are great treats for chickens and can be used as a tool for physical activity. Chickens kept in domestic environments tend to get stressed or plain bored. This takes a toll on their health and can make them aggressive and obese. This will also affect the quality of the eggs they lay.
You can use peaches to bring out their foraging instincts. You can keep slices or cubes of peaches hidden under some hay for them to discover. This will keep them entertained, active, as well as super-healthy.
Prevents scavenging for unsafe foods
Chickens are natural foragers and omnivorous by nature. Thus, you need to keep an eye on what they are eating while on their own. Peaches are a great way to distract chickens from unsafe foods.
For instance, nothing will stop a chicken from feeding on small rats or poisonous insects when they are hungry. You can prevent this by giving them tastier and healthier food like peaches.
How to feed your chickens peaches?
Do chickens eat peaches
Peaches are great for chickens and can act as delicious treats too! They are packed with nutrients and help keep your chickens healthy. However, precautions are a must when feeding pit-fruits to your chickens. Here's what you can do to feed your chickens peaches safely.
Wash peaches before feeding your chicken
Chickens tend to be restless when it comes to treats. You must not give in to their tense and pressing demands. Always wash peaches before you feed them to your chicken. This is a must before you slice or chop it to tiny bits.
Fruits have wax and other contaminants on their surfaces when kept in grocery stores. These can be harmful if consumed by your chicken. Thus, you should always soak or rinse peaches with lukewarm water to avoid any health risks.
Do not overfeed your chickens
Chickens have tiny appetites, given their small body structure. This is why you should never feed your chicken more than they can digest. Peaches may be a portion of ultimate health food but can harm your chicken if overfed.
It is ideal to restrict treats to twice a day to maintain your chicken's health. Moreover, overfeeding can lead to obesity, diabetes, and an upset stomach.
Slice peaches before feeding chickens
The ideal way to feed your chickens peaches is to cut them into thin, small cubes or slices. Peaches are already soft, and cutting them into cubes will make it easier to eat and digest. However, be mindful of the cubes' size since chickens are fast-eaters.
Other fruits, such as berries, also appeal to chickens due to their convenient size and interesting taste. You can consider them for your chickens if you want more variety in the feed you provide.
Nonetheless, you must be careful of the berries you feed chickens since some wild species can be poisonous.
Try to feed fresh peaches
Peaches taste the best when fed raw. Sometimes, you may lay peaches as a treat under a pile of hay and forget about it. Stale peaches taste horrible and contain harmful toxins that your chickens should not consume.
Thus, you should be careful of feeding chickens only fresh peaches.
Are there any risks of feeding chickens peaches?
Risks are natural when it comes to fruits, or any other food, whether raw or cooked. That said, it is always good to be aware of risks associated with certain foods to avoid health issues. Peaches are amazing for your chickens, but you must be mindful of the following risks.
No Canned Peaches
Canned peaches have artificial sweeteners and sugar for increasing shelf life and enhancing taste. Thus, it is strictly advised against feeding your chickens processed and canned peaches since it makes them sick.
Choking Hazard
Chickens have tiny, long beaks. They cannot eat large chunks or pieces of fruit. If they accidentally consume a large bite, they can choke. This may even be fatal.
As we have mentioned before, overeating can lead to obesity and several other health problems. Thus, it is important to control the amount of food you give your chickens. Peaches may seem harmless, but overeating can lead to digestion and other issues.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a fun way to introduce peaches to my chickens?
Absolutely! You can hang peach cubes on a thin string and tie it on sturdy poles or sticks in their coop. This will make them jump and run around for their treat. Besides this, you can even hide peaches under hay to make your chickens work hard for the treat.
What else can I feed my chicken?
There are not many restrictions when it comes to chicken feed. You can add a variety of fruits, grains, vegetables, and pulses to your chicken's regular diet.
What should I refrain from feeding my chicken?
You should not feed your chicken avocado skins and pits, green potatoes, tomatoes, chocolates, or tea.
Summing Up
Chickens require a balanced diet to produce healthy eggs. They are not very fussy when it comes to food. And peaches? They love them!
Since peaches are fit fruits, several people wonder if it may be safe for chickens. It is safe, provided you keep the pit away from your chickens' feed.
Note: Pits contain amygdalin that further breaks down to cyanide, which is very dangerous. However, pits are extremely hard so there are rare chances of your chicken accidentally consuming them.
Moreover, you should remember to remove the seed at all times even though the risk of them eating it runs very low. So what are you waiting for? Slice and dice a peach and give your chicken a healthy treat!


Is there a way that I can use the same monitor with both my desktop and notebook computers, without constantly switching cables?KVM Switch
You need a KVM switch (KVM stands for keyboard, video, monitor). This lets you hook a single keyboard, monitor, and mouse up to multiple PCs and notebooks. The actual computers can run simultaneously, while the monitor displays only what's running on the selected computer; the mouse and keyboard control the selected system.
A button on the front of the KVM lets you toggle between systems. In your case, you wanted the monitor to extend the amount of data displayed on your notebook. That's no problem, as long as your notebook supports dual displays.D-Link DKVM-2
KVM switches are particularly useful in server rooms, where dozens of servers can be hooked into one KVM. For your purposes, though, a personal KVM switch is perfect. A good place to start is with a D-Link DKVM-2 ($49 direct), which can handle two PCs. (Similar switches are available from companies such as Avocent, Belkin, and Linksys.) The DKVM-2 comes with two PS/2 mouse ports and two PS/2 keyboard ports. As with most switches, the cables cost extra, so make sure you buy the shortest cables you can. Six-foot cables are about $15 each.
If you're using a notebook with only one PS/2 connector, you may want to use a docking station with two connectors. (D-Link Systems Inc., )
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Search Answer: What's the Connection Between These Two Places?S
The short answer is that the building on the left is the Vedanta building (the "Old Temple") on Webster Street in San Francisco. It's owned by the Vedanta Hindu organization, which also owns an ashram site in the San Antonio Valley very near Lick Observatory (that building on the right).
Let me tell you why I asked this question…
But the general idea here is that there are often connections between things-in this case, between two buildings—and a sophisticated searcher often wants to figure out what those connections are.
It's a bit like being an investigative reporter running down a story. They've got multiple people, places and things they're trying to link together. How do they find the common elements, the threads and links that tie everything together into a story?
In this case, you knew there was a connection because I told you there was. The question for you is to figure out what that connection was. Here's what I did to find the connection… First, using your favorite image editing tool, take my composed picture and break it into two parts—the left and the right side. Then…
1. Use Search-by-Image to find that the picture on the left is the Vedanta building on Webster Street in San Francisco. That's not hard. I poked around a little bit to read the history of the place, learning that it was built in 1904 by Swami Vivekananda, who founded the Vedanta society in California in 1900. This place (now called the "Old Temple") on Webster Street was purchased for $1,800 at a time when the neighborhood was still marked by empty sandlots, market gardens, and nursery operations. Because it was on the western edge of the growing city, it was spared in the massive firestorm following the 1906 earthquake that destroyed much of the rest of the city.
But now, what possible connections are there between the two?
[ Vedanta San Francisco Mount Hamilton ]
[ Vedanta Lick Observatory ]
And quickly found that they built an Ashram (also spelled "Ashrama") out in the San Antonio Valley, "Shanti Ashram," just below Mt. Hamilton.
[ shanti ashram ]
and found that the Santa Clara Valley Water district rain gauge recorder has a web page with a rain gauge at the Ashram! That page gave me the lat/long: 37.310, -121.470
On Google Maps, I just dropped that lat/long in and then did a search for Mount Hamilton. Plugging in the lat/long drops a green arrow in the map, while searching for the observatory shows up as a Google Map red drop pin. In addition, you'll see an purple address balloon for 42210 Upper San Antonio Valley Rd, Mt Hamilton, CA, which is the address of the Ashram. You can zoom in a bit and actually find their "Meditation Shack," which still stands (and is apparently the only permanent structure on the site).
[ Vedanta Lick Observatory ]
in Google Books leads to all kinds of discoveries, including a book called "Vedanta in the West: The Ramakrishan Movement in the UnitedStates" which points out (on pg. 58) that the swami assigned a student the "specific task of synchronizing all of the clocks [ in the Webster Street building ]with the Lick Observatory."
And, since it's really the only road into the San Antonio Valley, people travelling to the Ashram must have certainly travelled past the Lick Observatory.
Search Lesson: When looking for the connection between two places / people / sites, you sometimes need to look for the points of contact between them, exploring the fringes of each concept, looking for the places where they intersect. In this case, combining the two key terms (Vedanta and "Lick Observatory") led pretty quickly to the Ashram, which is the link I was looking for.
Search on!
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Abstract: In this paper, genetic algorithm has been investigated for the enhancement of the visible and infrared images. The algorithm was effective as the contents of the images became clear with the successive iterations. The algorithm was applied on the image for 200 random DNAs with successive iterations. The analysis of the results showed that the quality of images get enhanced with the successive iterations.
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Motivation for J1939
SAE J1939 Protocol
The SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) J1939 protocol is a higher-layer protocol based on CAN (Controller Area Network). It is used in commercial vehicles and construction machinery for communication of electronic control units. The protocol was developed in the mid-1980s to ensure standardized communication between electronic control units of different manufacturers. It focuses on the diesel engine and its communication with, for example, the gearbox, brake, or retarder (engine brake).
SAE J1939 und CAN (Controller Area Network)
The SAE J1939 protocol uses CAN (Controller Area Network, ISO 11998-1 and ISO 11998-2) as the physical layer. The CAN protocol plays a major role in motor vehicle networking and represents a commonly used method for bit serial communication between electronic control units (ECUs). Typical ECUs include: Engine, transmission, and brake ECUs as well as the instrument panel and door ECUs.
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Find when a value doesn't exist OR if it net value equals 0
I have a spreadsheet containing Sales Orders that are made up of part numbers for new systems purchased and part numbers for the education purchased to train that new system. I want to be able to identify those Sales Orders where there is no education included. There are 2 scenarios when this can occur:
1). If there was no Education included in the order at all. In which case there are no education part numbers showing up against that Sales Order.
2). If Education was originally included but was then removed. This is represented as 2 separate rows in the spreadsheet. The first shows a positive value and the second shows a negative value with the net result equaling zero.
I want to be able to create a field in the spreadsheet that can identify these 2 scenarios and fill in the value "No Education Included" and for all other use the field "Education Include".
Below I have included 2 tables. The first demonstrates an example of what I have now and the second is what I am trying to achieve. Please note that the Part Number names vary greatly and the ones included in the table below are just examples. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Sir Richard Grenville (1542 – 1591) was an English sailor, sea captain and explorer. He took part in the early English attempts to settle the New World. He was in the fight against the Spanish Armada. He died in 1591 at the Battle of Flores, fighting against overwhelming odds, and refusing to surrender his ship, the Revenge, to the far more numerous Spanish.
Sir Richard Grenville was a British naval commander. He was born of an old Cornish family in about 1541. His grandfather, Sir Richard, was a marshal of Calais during the time of Henry VIII. Richard Grenville's father commanded and lost his life in the "Mary Rose" in 1545. At an early age Richard Grenville served in Hungary under the emperor Maximilian against the Turks.


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history of the rona tranby trust
The Rona Tranby Trust was established in 1991 from a bequest in the Will of Thomas Paul Rona who died tragically with his wife Eva in a car accident in September 1987.
In his Will, Tom Rona directed thata specific bequest from his Estate be held for the benefit of Tranby Aboriginal College or the Aboriginal Legal Service according to the discretion of the Trustees of the Estate.
The Ronas were Holocaust survivors who lost many family members in Nazi concentration camps during WWII. Both were committed social justice activists, taking a keen role in raising awareness of the Holocaust within the non-Jewish community. As members of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies they were also active in promoting inter-ethnic harmony.
The Rona family at the suggestion of Kitty Fischer, Eva's sister, approached Gridiger Lawyers for advice in fulfilling the wishes of Thomas Rona. Roland Gridiger considered a number of suggestions from the relevant communities and recommended that the Trustees of the Estate adopt the Rona Tranby Trust.
In setting up the Rona Tranby Trust, it was agreed that parallels between Aboriginal and Jewish history gave a compelling logic to link these different communities. Both peoples share important values and priorities and have suffered persecution, dispossession of lands and attempted genocide.
The Rona Tranby Trust was launched at a public ceremony at Tranby Aboriginal College on September 2nd 1991 in the presence of the Hon. Paul Zammit, NSW Minister assisting the Premier on Aboriginal and Ethnic Affairs.
The Rona Tranby Award & collection
The bequest in Tom Rona's Will enabled the Trustees of the Rona Estate to establish 'The Rona Tranby Award & Collection'. This evolved into a collaboration between Tranby Aboriginal College, Glebe and the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and set out the projects that would fulfill the requirements of the Trust.
Rona Tranby Awards are given to support the recording and preservation of Indigenous Australian oral history. The original concept of the award was to utilise the skills that had been cultivated within the Jewish community in the recording of the oral histories of Holocaust survivors. It was thought that such expertise could be shared to assist Indigenous Australian communities record the oral histories of their Elders.