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If you send the letter and it returns back to you with error – it means that the letter was not delivered.
Each letter contains an error code which permits to understand the problem and how it can be solved.
In case if you independently can't to understand how to fix this mistake, than contact us specifying the the full error message text as well as e-mail address of user to which you wanted to send a message.
1. Check if these letters aren't already in your mailbox. Check all the folders, especially folders – Subscribed, List, Spamand Trash. When you check the folders, use the search in the upper right side.
2. Open Settings, section Filtersand make sure that specific reciever or domain are not in the list of email addresses, witch for example, are automatically deleted.
3. Perhaps for a long time you have not used your mailbox and it became inactive. Log into your mailbox through the web page and ask to message sender, if he can send you message repeatedly.
From the person who was sends you a message, find out if after sending the letter, it came back with text - letter is not delivered. If such a warning has come, there is definitely written a reason, why letter is not delivered. Please forward this notification letter to us.
4.Pay attention to size of the mailbox - perhaps it's full. Clean the mailbox and ask to resend the letter.
!! If these methods not topical to you, write to usyour question and this kind of information – from which addresses must come the letters, what is the topic of the letter, date and time of dispatch.
Check all mailbox folders, especially folder "Trash". Messages can be accidentally deleted from folders as well as from the "Trash". If messages are deleted from 'Trash'', then in this case, try to restore the deleted letters from Trash of the last seven days.
! Perhaps all new messages was collected by POP3 / IMAP protocol assistance. If you use MsOutlook, theBat or other programms in your mobile phone or other device - these programs by default, collect all your messages and don't leave a copy on your Inbox server.
Check the POP3 / IMAP program settings. If you want to keep copies of the messages in your inbox, than go to Settings and choose the parameter "Leave a copy of messages on server"
If you have deleted messages from the folder, go to "Trash" and use the search form who is located on the top corner to find the necessary deleted posts. If the letter was found, restore it to folder "Incoming".
If you delete messages from the folder "Trash" (or repeatedly press to clean the trash) deleted messages of the last seven days can be restored back.
If you clear the entire contents of a folder for example the Spam folder or any other in this case, letters are deleted immediately without trading in Trash. These letters can't be restored.
Inbound message filtering by categories "Incoming", "Subscribed", "Social" and "Spam" is done automatically based on the company's internal rules and algorithms.
If you consider that the content of the letters (for example, invoices, airline tickets, online purchase approvals, information about the new password, etc.) should be in the folder "Incoming" let us know, giving detailed information about:
- Mailbox name, where are the letters which was automatically moved to folder "Subscribed" or "Social"
- Message date of dispatch
- Message topic
- Mailbox address from which were sent these messages to users
! We will check this information and send you letter in reply containing a message about how to deal with this situation.
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Fruit crop values increase
Although the overall value of Washington's agricultural production dropped 8 percent in 2009 from the previous year, grapes set a record high value, according to the Washington State Department of Agriculture.
Grape growers contributed $210 million to the state's agricultural economy, figures compiled by the National Agricultural Statistics Service for the year 2009, show.
Apples continued to top the list of Washington's agricultural commodities with a value of $1.5 billion, a 14 percent increase from 2008. Apples represented 21 percent of the total agricultural value, compared with 17 percent in 2008. The per-acre value for apples was $9,628, the highest of any commodity except storage onions, which had a value of $11,063.
Fruit and nut crops as a whole were valued at $2 billion, up 5 percent from 2008, but the value of specialty products, at $373 million, was the lowest in many years.

source: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu


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If I want an editor that accepts "points" of a minimum of three (a triangle) and I just add some points first, like this:
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how can I mathematically connect these corners (points) into an object of multiple triangles? so amount of triangles looks like something like this, by connecting nearest point:
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and then later render this and also being able to define what it is and check for collisions on this ground, so I can create more than Rectangle based "bricks" on a Platformer for example. Also being able to texturize the whole object without it looking ugly.
Any ideas? Or what is this called in game programming?
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What you are describing looks to me like a triangle strip. Riemer has a tutorial for creating these in an efficient manner. So if user adds a point you just add one along the bottom of the shape and then create the triangles using the points in a clockwise manner, but the tutorial covers this quite well.
EDIT: For collision detection between points you can linearly interpolate between them and check the height value of your object and the interpolated points.
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Ansys + Apollo Tyres
"Ansys Fluent software helped in analyzing the hydroplaning risk of passenger car tyres by calculating the lift force on the tyres."
— Sowntharya L, Scientist, Tyre Simulation / Apollo Tyres
Hydroplaning occurs when a layer of water builds up between the tires and the road surface, which leads to loss of contact that prevents the vehicle from responding to control inputs, such as steering, braking or accelerating. The tread design and dimensions play an important role in expulsion of water, thus reducing the risk of hydroplaning. Predicting the speed of onset of hydroplaning and the lift force experienced by the tire aids in optimizing the tread pattern.
Hydroplaning in tires is a safety criterion. Hence, there is a need to minimize the loss of contact by modifying the groove design while keeping the development cost low. Experimental testing is highly expensive and limited, which affects the validation of the simulation results. Also, hydroplaning and tire noise are conflicting phenomena, and they should be optimized with proper balance.
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Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis using Ansys Fluent simulated the water flow through the car tires. The developed simulation methodology predicted the lift force and hydroplaning speed.
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- Selecting the best tire pattern to minimize hydroplaning.
- Optimizing water flow channel in tires to delay the onset of hydroplaning.
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Champaign, Ill. -- Scientists worry that a rapidly reproducing, tiny invasive snail recently found in Lake Michigan could hurt the lake's ecosystem.
The New Zealand mud snail joins a long and growing list of nonnative species moving into the Great Lakes, threatening to disrupt the food chain and change the local environment.
Scientists checking Lake Michigan water samples earlier this summer found a population of the New Zealand mud snail, the Illinois Natural History Survey said. They grow to only a few millimeters -- several dozen could sit on the surface of a dime -- making them hard to spot.
The snails reproduce asexually and in large numbers, and have no natural predators in North America, Kevin Cummings, a scientist who works for the Natural History Survey, said Thursday.
That means they could quickly spread, at high enough densities to out-compete native invertebrates for food and living space, he and other scientists say.
"It's hard enough to contain a species once it makes its way into nonnative waters," Cummings said in a statement. "When each mud snail has the ability to produce large quantities of embryos without a partner, you've really got a problem."
Scientists won't know for some time how well the mud snail will do in Lake Michigan, but it has been in Lake Ontario since the early 1990s and lives in high numbers there and in Lakes Superior and Erie, said Rochelle Sturtevant, an ecologist with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The snail is native to New Zealand but is now found in several western states and all the Great Lakes except Lake Huron. It is carried in ships' ballast water and, once in lakes and streams, hitches a ride on boats and even the clothes worn by human waders.
Where they've gotten into streams in the western part of the country, they've caused a lot of problems," said Sturtevant. "They're taking over space that should have other native species living in it."
Plenty of invasive species have made homes for themselves in the Great Lakes. Zebra and quagga mussels are a threat to the region's $4 billion-a-year fishery, eating up algae that is the lowest link in the lakes' food chain.
And some invasive species make it possible for others to follow, Sturtevant said. The round goby, an aggressive fish native to Eurasia, now thrives in the Great Lakes because it eats zebra mussels.
Those are just a handful of what Sturtevant says are now at least 186 invasive species in the lakes.
Environmental groups are particularly critical of the role oceangoing ships play in introducing species like mussels to the lakes.
Ships that aren't loaded down with cargo fill their ballast tanks with water for better stability when they're on the ocean, then empty the tanks when they arrive in port. That ballast water often contains any number of species, from microscopic organisms to mussels and fish.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency introduced a plan earlier this summer that would require ships to dump ballast water at least 200 miles from shore. But the plan, called a permit, includes an exemption for loaded ships.
Environmental groups are particularly critical of the EPA's plan.
"I could sum it up in one word: nothing. The permit doesn't change a thing," said Joel Brammeier, vice president for policy at The Alliance for the Great Lakes.
The shipping industry, including the U.S. Great Lakes Shipping Association, has said it supports the idea of treating ballast tanks to kill potentially invasive species. But industry officials say that while treatment is being researched, so far there isn't a feasible way to do it.


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How to Avoid Coronavirus on a Train
Since March worldwide travel has been crippled by Coronavirus and until a credible vaccine is developed, we will have to do our best to avoid catching the virus. So what can you do if you're planning on travelling on a train during your vacation?
Well it pays to know firstly what you're up against. Coronavirus spreads when an infected person coughs, sneezes or exhales small droplets filled with the virus into the air. These droplets can enter the body through the eyes, nose and mouth, either directly or after touching a contaminated object. According to scientists, the risk indoors, in enclosed spaces, is higher than outdoors.
Train companies throughout the world have installed their own safety procedures and these vary company by company. Meanwhile, companies running vacation train journeys have also created their own on-board safety procedures, but you can also help to stay safe by following these general guidelines.
Get fresh air
Good indoor ventilation will help you stay safe so try and find a seat near to an open window or by a door so you'll get some fresh air when the doors open at stations.
Wear a face mask
You should wear a face mask in the station where you are boarding your train and also on the train unless you are eating or drinking. Any food you eat should be pre packaged. Avoid any food that be touched or breathed on by fellow passengers.
Wash your hands
Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds when you get on the train and before and after you eat. If soap and water aren't available use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. This should contain between 60% and 95% alcohol.
Use wipes
Take a stash of anti-bacterial wipes with you so you can wipe down the arms of your seat and also the table you are using on board. You should also use these if you're touching door handles or escalator handrails.
Avoid touching your face as much as you can as the virus enters your body through the nose, mouth and eyes.


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I'm making a TD game in HTML5. For some reason, however, it bogs down when placing towers on the creeps path. From what I see on the profiler, the A* isn't the problem. The problem is creating the navmesh. So far it's a simple grid, with gcost computed by looking up the collision detection quadtree. The path also feels blocky. (I am also about to remove the quadtree and use prune and sweep with kd-trees).
What I want to do is:
1. Create a vertex array of the graph by pushing vertices of the staticCollisionObject array (without redundant vertices).
2. Do rays between them. Bruteforcing, it's O(n^3), extremely slow. However, I think there is some way of doig it in O(n^2) without cheating using some kind of tree structures Better, but still probably slow. (also pruning for head-on edges)
3. Perform A* for the resulting graph consisting of the vertex array and the edges.
However, I feel that the step 2 will be too slow, so I will probably do some cheating. The question is, what kind of chating?

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Structural Engineering - ST Range
Understanding Structural Behaviour
ST10/ST11 - issue 1
New revolutionary teaching system
A pioneering new approach to the teaching of structural engineering.
A fusion of innovative software, unique hardware and the authoritative textbook provide a firm foundation on the understanding of structural behaviour.
Armfield offer a totally new approach to the teaching of structural engineering.
Focusing on the underlying understanding of the structural behaviour, whilst still offering explanation of the basic principles.
Ordering Specification - ST10/ST11
ST10 Understanding Structural Behavior
ST11 Instrumentation Package
- Educational tool aimed at giving students an understanding of how structures behave
- A variety of different structures can be built up on a widescreen display. The software calculates the simulated performance of the structure i.e. deflection, moment force diagram, shear force diagram, reactions. These diagrams are displayed directly behind the physical model of the structure at the same size of the model and so can be directly related to the responses obtained by applying manual stimuli
- Supplied with a selection of beams of different lengths, fixed and pinned joints, and fixed, pinned and slide supports, allowing a wide range of physical structures to be assembled
- Carbon fibre beams provide an exaggerated bending response to aid visualisation and understanding
- An optional sensor and instrumentation package enables loads to be applied from the software, and the resulting reactions and deflections to be measured and displayed on the screen
- Supplied with the textbook - "Understanding Structural Analysis" by Dr David Brohn
Intuitive design providing great 'touch
> Carbon fibre beams provide exaggerated response for enhanced visualisation
> Carbon fibre beams also provide negligible plastic deformation for long life and repeatability
> Fully integrated hardware and software display
> Wide range of structures can be constructed from simple components
> Compare computer simulations with actual responses
> Sensor and Instrumentation package
> Supplied with the textbook 'Understanding Structural Analysis' by Dr David Brohn
Modern structural engineering makes extensive use of computer programs to provide the detailed analysis of structures. Once a structure becomes even slightly complex the calculations involved exceed what can be sensibly implemented using manual or spreadsheet calculations. Similarly modern teaching practice focuses on the use of these structural engineering analysis programs. Although these provide a superb analysis facility, they rely totally on the user having an inherent understanding of the structure to be analysed. This unfortunately is not always the case. The analysis is only as good as the information provided and can do nothing to improve an inherently flawed concept (RIRO).
Conventional structural engineering teaching equipment does little or nothing to provide this understanding, focusing on detailed analysis of simple situations, it makes no attempt to encourage the student to think of what really matters when designing or analysing structures.
Armfield have teamed up with Dr David Brohn (who is also working with the Institution of Structural Engineering on this topic) to develop a range of hardware and software specifically to address this issue of understanding structural behaviour.
The range of equipment enables a wide variety of structural models to be assembled and understood. It deliberately uses a series of beams, which provide an exaggerated response allowing the deflections to be easily and visualised. Even the basic system without actuators or sensors can provide invaluable understanding of the structures just by pressing manually and observing the deflections. When coupled to the display software, the sensors, the actuators and the analysis software, the equipment provides an unsurpassed unique learning experience.
Modes of use
The simplest mode is to use the hardware and backboard to build a structure. Applying loads by hand and seeing how the structure reacts gives instant feedback and a great learning experience.
Using the display and visualisation software takes this learning experience to another dimension. Graphical display of moment forces, shear forces, deflections and reactions in response to a simulated load really bring these concepts to life. Displaying these simulations on the screen, overlaid with the physical model, and comparing the simulations with the hardware provides an unparalleled and totally unique teaching capability. (The software can also be used on its own without the hardware if desired.)
The next stage is to add the optional Instrumentation hardware package. This enables loads to be applied to the structure from the computer, and actual reactions and displacements measured on the sophisticated sensors. Thus quantitive measurements of loads, displacements and reactions can be taken.
The sensors and actuators can also be used in a
freeform mode to apply and measure responses to the users own structure.
Finally it is possible to do a full computer simulation of the structures. Armfield provide models of the key structures, which can be run directly on a demonstration version of a professional software structural analysis package.
The overall teaching package is comprised of four different types of components. Different selections of components are available to meet specific teaching requirements.
1. Structural Hardware
This is a set of components enabling a wide variety of 2D structures to be assembled and understood. It comprises a transparent backboard on which the structure is assembled with 32 potential mounting positions configured as an 80mm x 80mm grid. A variety of different nodes and joints are available. The fixed nodes attach to the baseboard via a simple peg mounting system.
A number of 'beams' are provided in different lengths. These beams are manufactured of carbon fibre and are designed to flex easily in one dimension to demonstrate the movement of the structure.
Beam Lengths Available: 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U, 4U+
- Fixed rigid
- Fixed pinned
- Simple slide support
- End slide
- Horizontal slide anchor
- Rigid right angle
- Pinned right angle
- Inline pinned
The transparent backboard is mounted on a 32" widescreen display, with the computer running the display and visualisation software as described in section 2.
The beams, joints, etc are supplied in a lockable chest of drawers matching the screen, with specific mounting positions for storage of each component. One empty drawer is available for the ST11 Instrumentation option.
Visualisation software and hardware
2. Display and Visualisation
This software is a fundamental part of the Understanding Structural Behaviour (USB) concept, and works in conjunction with the USB hardware to demonstrate and help understanding.
For a number of predefined structures it is possible
to perform an immediate interactive simulation of the effect of loading
on the structure. Loads can be
simulated using the computer mouse and the Shear force diagrams, Moment diagrams,
Deflections and Reactions are shown graphically and updated continually as
the load is varied.
Display and visualisation softwareenlarge
When combining the hardware and software, the diagrams are displayed immediately behind the structure and can be directly related to it.
Functions of the Software:
- Display the structure to be evaluated to aid
- Display the structure in both diagrammatic form and as a typical pictorial implementation of the same structure. This has been proven to be a powerful aid to student understanding
- Gives a graphical representation of the moments, the shear, the deflections and the reactions in response to simulated loads
- Contains presentations to introduce the concepts of Moment, Shear, Deflections and Reactions and their associated graphical representation on the structure diagram
- When used in conjunction with the instrumentation hardware, the software controls the actuators and displays the outputs from the various sensors
- In this mode the displayed diagrams relate to the actual load applied by the actuator, rather than a simulated load
- Provides calibration for the sensors and screen
Typical pictorial and diagrammatic views of the structure to be used in an exerciseenlarge
Graphical representation of Moments, Shear, Deflections and Reactionsenlarge
Composite graphical representation of Moments, Shear, Deflection and Reactionsenlarge
3. Instrumentation Package
The Instrumentation Package includes a range of sensors and actuators used to stress and measure the performance of the structural hardware.
Components available are:
- Three Component Rigid Support Sensor - ST11-1
This is used instead of a fixed rigid support with the structural hardware. It measures both the longitudinal reaction at the joint (in the direction of the beam, equivalent to the tension or compression), the orthogonal reaction at the joint and the moment reaction.
- Two Component Pinned Support Sensor
This is used instead of a fixed pinned support with the structural hardware. It measures both the longitudinal reaction at the joint (in the direction of the beam, equivalent to the tension or compression) and the orthogonal reaction at the joint.
- Deflection sensor - ST11-3
Used to measure the deflection of the beam at a grid point.
- Simple Support Sensor - ST11-4
Used instead of a simple slide support, and measures the reaction on the support.
- Linear Actuator - ST11-5
Provides a linear deflection to the structure at any grid point, complete with sensor to measure the force (load) generated by the actuator to reach the requested deflection.
- Interface Module - ST11-6
Provides the interface between the sensors and computer by a standard USB2 interface. It also includes a universal input power supply and interconnecting cables.
The sensors and actuators are connected to the interface unit and to each other using linking cables in a chain configuration. They can be connected anywhere on the chain and multiple components of the same type can be configured in the same system. Additional sensors and actuators can be bought individually and added at a later date if required.
4. Analysis Software
Armfield supply software models for all the predefined structures, which can be analysed in a freely available demonstration version of a professional modelling software package. Armfield also supply the demon-stration version of this package.
From this starting point, users can analyse their own models and structures, either using the Armfield components, or using the software. The software enables any beam material, size, thickness, strength etc


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Health information exchange (HIE) is the transmission of healthcare-related data among facilities, health information organizations (HIO) and government agencies according to national standards. HIE is an integral component of the health information technology (HIT) infrastructure under development in the United States and the associated National Health Information Network (NHIN).
To meet requirements, HIE technology must enable reliable and secure transfer of data among diverse systems and also facilitate access and retrieval data. The purpose of HIE development is to improve healthcare delivery and information gathering.
State HIE leaders face uphill journey to health data interoperability.
Case study: Maine HIE sets national example for participation.


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NIOSHTIC-2 Publications Search
Soviet Coal Through 1980.
Strishkov-VV; Markon-G; Murphy-ZE
Min Cong J 1974 Oct; 60(10):40-52
Soviet industrial expansion depends on coal as a source of power and raw materials for the metallurgical and chemical industries. A knowledge of the coal resources and the outlook for production of the U.S.S.R. Therefore is essential for a critical evaluation of soviet industrial potential. Although there is considerable literature on the soviet coal industry, no single source provides an authoritative study of how the industry functions and how well it performs its job. This article is based on a review of sources published by the U.S.S.R.
Issue of Publication
Min. Cong. J., V. 60, No. 10, October 1974, PP. 40-52


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Due in stages:
Part 1: First draft of Chapter review on course wiki due Week 8
Part 2: Revision of Chapter and review on course wiki due Week 10
Part 3: Reflection on your blog due Week 11
In this assignment, we will work as a class to review Citizen Designer, a text that addresses the cultural implications of interaction design. There's one catch: we will produce the review on a wiki and draw on the dynamic collaborative possibilities that wiki writing offers. So, your process for completing the web review will require you to think about collaborative editing of complex texts.
Theory Behind the Assignment:
Wikis are collaborative digital writing environments with dynamic content open to ongoing editing. Wikipedia is a common wiki that many of us come into contact with. This assignment will prepare you to practice effective rhetorical strategies while writing and editing for a wiki, write critically about design, and reflect on the experience of this relatively new form of collaborative writing.
Contributors-Content Producers are each responsible for four additional reviews or revisions (A mix of reviews and revisions is acceptable).
Content Editors are responsible for ensuring that Wikipedia's manual of style is followed for all entries and content in the project.
Wiki Editors – are responsible for finding a wikispace, creating the basic structure for the book review and each chapter entry, ensuring that collaborators can access the space, and preventing vandalism, as well as reading and linking to chapter entries or texts we have read in class.
The Practical Stuff: How to Complete the Wiki Review Challenge
Step One: Reading and Preparing
Wiki Editors will be doing the most work at this stage
You will be assigned three chapters from Citizen Designer by Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne to focus on in completing this assignment. Three will be your "first draft" chapters, and three will be your "revision" chapters. Once you've received your assigned chapters, you should read and prepare to review them. Effective work in this stage of the assignment will likely include checking out online book reviews to see what kind of information you should pay particular attention to. Effective work will also likely include doing a bit of context gathering (try doing Google searches for contributors whose work appears) to help understand some of the discussions in the book. You may need to draw on new strategies to make sense of the arguments of each piece.
Step Two: Draft First Assigned Chapter Review
Contributor-Content Producers will be doing the most work at this stage
In this stage of the assignment, you will paste a review of the first chapters you were assigned into the appropriate place on the class wiki. Effective reviews will contain a summary of the main thesis of the chapter, as well as a description of the key arguments that lead to the main thesis, and a discussion of relevant examples and evidence. Effective reviews will follow up this summary work with an analysis of why (or why not) the information in this chapter might be useful for contemporary digital writers. Effective reviews will also take into account the practices of web readers in making content as easy to read and understand as possible.
Step Three: Revise Assigned Chapters Review
Content Editors will be doing the most work at this stage
In this stage of the assignment, you should find the already drafted review for the chapters you were assigned as your "revision" chapter. Now, you should revise these pieces directly on the wiki to improve it. (That's right, you are collaborating with the original writer by editing his or her work). You are free to do any kind of revision you want including adding details, changing content or descriptions, making the piece more user friendly for effective web reading by changing word choice, adding headings, chunking language, and so forth.
Step Four: Reflect
After revising the review of the second chapter you were assigned, you will write a short reflection about this process as a reflective blog post on your course blog. Effective reflections will analyze what you learned from the process of wiki writing and will address how you feel our final product turned out. I recommend this process and set of questions as a way to approach the reflection:
- Skim the entire wiki and book review. How do you think our review experiment turned out overall?
- Now, go back to your "first draft" chapter. What did the second author (editor) change about your original piece? What did he or she keep intact? What do you think about this?
- Think about your revision of the second chapter you were assigned: What did you change overall about the piece that you interacted with? What did you take into account as you revised the piece?
- Reflect overall: What makes good writing in a wiki? Should you write differently when writing is to be revised and reused? Does this change the way you think about Wikipedia as a tool? What would have strengthened our final product?
First Drafts: 25 points
Revisions: 25 points
Reflections: 25 points
Class Overall: 25 points


Common Biostatistical Methods Explained
In the biology field, we often ask: how does this sample group compare to another sample group? Biostatisticians and bioinformaticians can help answer this question by applying complex algorithms or concepts. They love the math, but …
most of us simply want to understand the basic principles behind these analyses.
In this blog post, we provide a general understanding of common biostatistical methods used to analyze data.
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AC Measurement Application Guide
AC Voltmeters use
a precision op-amp rectifier circuit to provide a general-purpose
voltmeter which is calibrated to display the RMS value of sinusoidal
signals. The signal is AC-coupled to eliminate the effect of DC
bias. True-RMS readings are not obtained for complex waveforms with
harmonics, such as square waves or AC signals which have been half-wave
rectified or chopped by an SCR or triac controller.
True-RMS Voltmeters use an integrated circuit which computes
the true root-mean-square value of complex signals. AC coupling
allows the measurement of the AC component (or ripple) from a signal
with both AC and DC components. DC coupling allows the measurement
of total RMS, or "heating value", including DC and AC components
to over 30 kHz. (Maximum crest factor (Vp/Vrms) is 3:1). Screw terminals
allow the selection of AC or DC coupling. True-RMS meters are especially
useful in monitoring voltage and current supplied to motors or heaters
controlled by an SCR or triac circuit.
AC power line monitors use a simple half-wave rectifier to provide
an economical AC voltmeter, which is calibrated to be accurate for
sinusoidal signals around 115 or 230 Vac. Because of nonlinearity
introduced by the rectified diode, the accuracy of power line monitors
decreases away from the calibration point. Power line monitors are
not suitable at the low end of the voltage scale, for instance with
AC current shunts or current transformers.
meters are used to measure the RMS value of sine waves, such as
AC power-line voltage.
True-RMS meters are required to measure the RMS value of complex
waveforms, such as sine waves chopped by a triac or square waves.
True-RMS meters can be connected to read AC plus DC components
or AC components (AC ripple) only.
shows the relationships in a pure sine wave between the amplitude
Vm, the mathematical half-wave rectified average Vav, and the true-RMS
value VRMS. The gain of Newport's AC-average meters is calibrated
so that meters display RMS value for sinusoidal signals.
Current Transformer For AC currents over 5 A, a donut-shaped current
transformer (CT) is normally used to step down the maximum current
to 5 A and isolate the meter at the same time, thus avoiding common
mode problems. Current transformers are available from most Newport
distributors. They are specified by a turns ratio such as 100:5,
where the first number is the rated input current in amps and the
second number is the 5 A output. When specifying an AC or true-RMS
meter for use with a 5 A CT, specify the reading desired at 5 A
input to the meter.
All models provide a special 5 A range, which allows direct connection
to a 5 A CT, with no need for an intermediate stepdown transformer.
A gain resistor inside the meter may need to be changed to provide
the desired display reading. This is normally accomplished by an
authorized NEWPORT distributor.
INFCAC, 204B, 2003B, 2004 and QUANTA
include a special range, which allows direct connection to a 5 A
current transformer, with no need for a stepdown transformer. The
current transformer adds to safety and avoids common mode noise
by isolating the signal.


text: New CCD photometric and spectroscopic studies of eclipsing binary BW Eridani are presented. BVRI photometric observations were carried out using Bosscha's 20-cm (f/10) GAO-ITB Remote Telescope System in 2006 and 28-cm (f/10) Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope in 2007. Low-resolution spectra R = 400∼500 were obtained using Bosscha's 45-cm (f/12) GOTO telescope equipped with Bosscha Compact Spectrograph (Malasan et al. 2001) in optical window. The investigation of B, V, R, I light curves by fitting method yields in temperature 7, 480 ± 2, 950 K and 5,200 ± 875 K, fractional radii 0.491 ± 0.126 and 0.280 ± 0.135, for the primary and secondary components, respectively. An inclination 89o ± 2.2o is also deduced. We obtained the time for primary eclipse at HJD = _PHONE_.1760 ± 0.0118 by Kwee-van Woerden method, which indicate period change. At the orbital phase of 0.955 and 0.511 the star's spectrum is consistent with spectral type G8V for the secondary and A7V for the primary, respectively.


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Explore reflexes in response to a variety of stimuli as well as changes in reaction time under a variety of conditions.
The aim of this experiment is for students to explore reflexes and reaction times. Students will examine a simple reflex by tapping the patellar tendon and complex reflexes in the muscles of the eye and muscles of the hand. Then students will examine which factors, such as distractions and predictability, increase and decrease reaction time. Students will also compare reaction times to visual and auditory cues. This experiment is suitable for students with basic knowledge of the PowerLab Data Acquisition System.


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I have a table in Postgres with ~5million records. When I load the dataset using pandas to perform EDA, I run out of memory.
dataframe_chunk = pd.read_sql("SELECT * from table", con = credentials)
How do I load and store the table in a format such that I can run all pandas/numpy functions for data analysis? What is the general approach taken?


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This paper describes an approach to perform reproducible performance tests on virtual routers, comparing different virtual routing architectures, different software versions and configurations. The presented approach is based on VRKit, a software tool that allows to build pre-configured bootable virtual router images with the desired characteristics. Design decisions are described, and some usage examples are presented, showing how the tool can be used for research on virtual routing, facilitating performance comparison of various virtual router implementations.
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Kenpo Uniform
uniform of Kenpo Karate
In the tradition kenpo educational institutions of Mitose and Chow, teachers used dark and learners used white. Both Adriano Emperado and Ed Parker came from the Chow school and taken on that uniforms at first. In 1955 Kajukenbo went dark for all students. In Hawaii islands there are generally two MA categories, those in white (Japanese/Okinawan/Korean) and those in dark (Kajukenbo/kenpo). Some EPAK educational institutions are all dark, and some still keep the kenpo uniforms of dark for teachers, and white for learners. It probably relies on the trainer or school.
Belts of Kenpo Karate
Belts of Kenpo Karate
White and YellowBeginning students wear a white belt. A yellow belt is the first belt for which you test in American Kenpo Karate. To get the yellow belt, you must illustrate 10 self-defense techniques, which are generally conducted when a challenger is getting you.
Orange, Purple, Blue and GreenAs you advance through your orange, purple, blue and green straps, you learned almost 100 more self-defense methods. For each of these belt assessments, you are needed to show 24 self-defense methods. You must illustrate new katas to earn these belts positions. Kicking, striking, stance, synchronization and hand and finger gestures are also needed at these levels.
BrownBrown belt is divided into three stages. You must analyze for third-, secondand first-degree brown belts. The thirdand second-degree brown belts each needs you to show 24 new self-defense methods. The first-degree brown-belt self-defense goes, however, are not new methods but additions of the self-defense methods that you discovered when learning toward your orange belt.
BlackTo generate the black belt in American Kenpo Karate, you must illustrate a staff set, showing your expertise with a wood made staff. You must also illustrate a blocking set. The self-defense methods at this stage are the same as those needed for purple belt. The black-belt self-defense techniques are an expansion of the purple-belt methods.
I.K.K.A Crest
The style of the I.K.K.A Crest was finished in 1958 when the art of American Kenpo was getting worldwide reputation. The crest style was intended to symbolically signify the art's upgraded form while at the same time recognizing the origins of American Kenpo in traditional China and Japanese martial arts.
TigerSymbolizes courage, power, and real physical strength
DragonSymbolizes quintessence, fluidity, and speed, but also religious strenght and the later level of a martial art's learning.
CircleThe circle represents eternity or continuity.
Dividing LinesThe lines within the circle signify the authentic methods of attack first discovered by historical experts of the Chinese Martial Arts.
CircleThe colors are representations of expertise within the art alluding to the colored belt rank program.
Chinese CharactersThe writing symbolizes the art's Eastern origins.
ShapeThe form of the crest symbolizes the framework of a house.
The Father of American Kenpo Karate: Ed Parker
Father of American Kenpo
Ed Parker's dad joined his son in Judo Martial Arts classes during in his 12 years of existence. Parker acquired his Shodan in Judo Martial Arts in 1949 at 18 years of his existence. After getting his brown belt in Kenpo, he shifted to where he live, to join Brigham Young School and began to teach his styles. Parker was raised in Hawaii in 1931 and began training in Martial arts and later boxing. Sometime in the 40's, Ed Parker was first introduced to Kenpo by William Chow a trainee of James Mitose. William Chow practiced Parker while working in the Coast Guard and joing Brigham Young School. In 1953 he was ranked up to the rank of black belt. Parker, seeing that modern times provided new conditions that were not about in Kenpo, developed the art to make it more easily appropriate to the roads of The the united states and known as his style, American Kenpo Karate.
American Kenpo Karate
american kenpo
Kenpo Karate is the oldest style of Kenpo being introduce in the Unites States of America. It was created and introduced in 1949 by William K. S. Chow and trained by his student, Ed Parker, from 1956 to 1961, and, trained by the Tracy bros from 1962 to the existing. In beginning 1962 Ed Parker modified both the style he trained and relabeled his new design "Chinese Kenpo", and no Ed Parker student was trained Kenpo Karate after Jan, 1962. Ed dropped "Karate" from the name of his program at that time, even though he's ongoing to issue belt accreditations under the Kenpo Karate Association of America (KKAA).
Characteristics of Kenpo
Kenpo is recognized by fast and several flowing attacks to vital areas of a human body. As mainly a "self-defense art" the objectives are generally the throat, genitals and eyes although any part of human body may be a focus target if given the right chance. Kenpo contains an analysis of objectives and potential weapons for those targets as well as the manipulation of the opponent's body position. Kenpoists are interested in performance and highest possible results of their efforts. Kenpo is mainly a standup fighting art. They would rather not go to the floor but they realize that the real life is unforeseen and that kenpo should include any effective actions. They should be prepared for the circumstances. Kenpo contains attention of all varies of battling and protection.
History of Kenpo Karate
Kenpo is a Japanese unnamed battling art that was introduced from China to Japan about 700 years ago by the Yoshida Group and was easily adopted by the Komatsu Group. The phrase Kenpo means basically, "Fist Law," and also represents its Chinese origin. The Japanese adoptation of this Chinese style was well designed for protecting against the various unarmed Japanese people fighting styles of the 12th century. Few variations were needed for Kenpo to get over the new unarmed methods that developed over the next 7 centuries of that came to be known as Karate (Japanese of "Empty Hand"). But for the Yoshida and Komatsu Groups who developed their martial art into a truly Japanese style, the term was simply Kenpo. During this same period the Chinese system from which Kenpo was derived experienced so many changes that, while most of the Kenpo methods can be found widely spread among the hundreds of Chinese battling methods, there is no single program in China nowadays that appears like Kenpo.


Starting up SACHIP v.0.21 NAME sachip v.0.21 -- a script to allow the user to create filtered spectra and light curves from XTE/SA data with either a single command-line entry, or a simplified Q/A session. USAGE sachip -[bcdghilmopt] DESCRIPTION SACHIP is a Perl script which allows the user to create and plot spectra and light curves for a given list of XTE Science Array files, taking into account (optional) time and energy filter information. All necessary information can be supplied by the user as switches on the command line, and the script can/will take sensible defaults in the absence of overriding user input. Alternatively, the script can be run interactively, in which case the user will be prompted for important parameters not supplied as switches. PARAMETERS (actually SWITCHES/FLAGS) (grouped by function): -i {file} - provide name of ASCII file containing list of XTE/SA files (assumed default: 'fits_files.txt'). -p {file} - provide root filename for product files - i.e.,'sachip -p paris' will create files, paris.pha. (assumed default:'sachip_out'). -b {number} - provide requested binning for light curve file - i.e.'sachip -b 1.0' will create 1-second bins. (assumed default: 32 seconds). -c "{channels}" - provide range of ORIGINAL (not binned) channel filters to be used in the accumulation, e.g. "10-20,40-100". -t "{times}" - provide range of times to be used to filter the data (additional to those already present in the GTI extension) when accumulating, e.g. "48798400.0-48798900.0". -m - Resultant spectra/curves will contain separate columns for each of the good data columns in the input files. -o - Resultant spectra/curves will contain the sum of all the good data columns (the default). -d - Take default values for all parameters not set on the command line. -g - Take all GOOD columns (this is not only the current default, but your only option at the moment). -s - Device to plot on (assumed default: '/xterm'). -l - Logfile switch. Currently, logging is the default (in a file sachip.log), and -l will disable this logging. -h - Print this help information. EXAMPLES sachip -b 8.0 -m -p torres -d will create and plot one spectra and one light curve file, The output files will be called and torres.pha, and will contain one column per input good data column. The light curve will have 8-sec binning. Sensible defaults taken for all other values. sachip -i kim.txt -t "{times}" -c "{channels}" -b 1000.0 -og will look in file 'kim.txt' for the list of input files, apply time and channel filter ranges as applied, and create and plot a 1000-sec binned light curve and a single spectrum, to be found in and sachip_out.pha. Values not provided will be prompted for (in this case, the root for the product file). sachip -d will take fits_files.txt and plot a spectrum and light curve for all the data with 32-sec resolution and put the data in and sachip_out.pha. sachip will prompt the user for each parameter. NOTES SACHIP is intended as a 'fast' tool to minimize the amount of FTOOLing around for the user with straightforward data analysis requirements. It is not intended to replace or reproduce the full functionality available from the individual FTOOLS. However, I'm open to suggestions about how to improve the script to meet commonly-occuring data analysis needs. Future versions will include calls to XTEFILT and MKTIME to apply simple data cleaning. BUGS Please report problems to SEE ALSO SAEXTRCT and FPLOT for more information.


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Ethereum has a simpler model by not having UTXOs (Unspent Transaction Outputs) like Bitcoin. What does Ethereum "give up" by not having UTXOs, and what does it gain?
The main validation constraints in a Bitcoin UTXO system are:
- every referenced input must be valid and not yet spent
- the transaction must have a signature matching the owner of the input for every input
- the total value of the inputs must equal or exceed the total value of the outputs
By contrast functionality in an Ethereum account-based system are:
- a global state stores a list of accounts with balances, code, and internal storage
- a transaction is valid if the sending account has enough balance to pay for it, in which case the sending account is debited and the receiving account is credited with the value
- if the receiving account has code, the code runs, and internal storage may also be changed, or the code may even create additional messages to other accounts which lead to further debits and credits
These systems indeed have various tradeoffs. For example, while Ethereum maintains the account balance as part of the global state, a Bitcoin user's "balance" is the total value for which the user has a private key capable of producing a valid signature.
In general, the benefits of UTXOs are:
- Higher degree of privacy: if a user uses a new address for each transaction that they receive then it can be difficult to link accounts to each other
- Potential scalability paradigms: UTXOs are more theoretically compatible with certain kinds of scalability paradigms
The benefits of accounts are:
- Large space savings: because every transaction need only make one reference and one signature and produces one output
- Greater fungibility: because there is no blockchain-level concept of the source of a specific set of coins, it becomes less practical to institute a redlist/blacklisting scheme
- Simplicity: easier to code and understand, especially once more complex scripts become involved
- Constant light client reference: light clients can at any point access all data related to an account by scanning down the state tree in a specific direction
One weakness of the account paradigm is that in order to prevent replay attacks, every transaction must have a "nonce" and the account must keep track of the nonces used.
The accepted answer is a very good summary of the following wiki:
See it for further details, including Ethereum's rationale:
We have decided that, particularly because we are dealing with dapps containing arbitrary state and code, the benefits of accounts massively outweigh the alternatives. Additionally, in the spirit of the We Have No Features principle, we note that if people really do care about privacy then mixers and coinjoin can be built via signed-data-packet protocols inside of contracts.
There is complete answer in Ethereum Wiki


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"[i]n some Wiccan traditions, the reversed pentagram is a symbol of "second degree" status – one who has been elevated from "initiate"." This is in reference to the initiation rites used in most Wiccan traditions.
Vivianne Crowley, pagan author of Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Millennium, explains:
The symbol of the second degree is the downward-pointing Pentagram, a symbol associated with the Christian Devil. This is not however the symbol of the Christians' 'Evil One,' but the symbol of the Horned God, the Dark Lord of Death.
Why is the pentagram reversed? The pentagram with its five sides is a very important symbol in Wicca. In terms of spiritual growth, the pentagram is symbolic of the four functions of the personality, together with the fifth or transcendent function, the Self. The five-pointed pentagram shows that the fifth function has emerged, but is not yet transcendent. It lies buried beneath the other four. It is only with the third degree that the pentagram tilts over and attains its rightful upright direction. To turn the pentagram we must uncover that which is hidden, the unknown parts of ourselves.– Source: Vivianne Crowley, Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Millennium. Thorsons, London. 1996. Pages 194-195
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A Chicago elementary school, facing closure for low test scores, is rationing bathroom visits, reports Anthony Cody in his Ed Week Teacher blog. Here's the memo sent to teachers:
Welcome back and Happy New Year! In order to maximize student learning and reduce the loss of instructional time, we are implementing two new restroom policies.
1. Designated Restroom Times – Take your class to use the restroom only during your allotted time so that multiple groups of students are not competing to use the facilities. Also, the expectation is that the restroom break should last only five minutes. Before leaving for the restroom, clearly communicate the behavioral expectations and the time limit. Use your watch or stopwatch to time the students and praise them when they meet the behavior and time expectations....
2. Restroom Passes – In addition to scheduled restroom breaks, students will be given restroom passes to use if they need to use the restroom outside of the scheduled time. Students will be given two restroom passes to use between now and the end of the quarter. They can choose to hold on to them and trade them in for a reward at the end of the quarter.
... Have students fill in their names as soon as they receive them. Passes are invalid if names are crossed out for another name.
For the upper grades, students can use one teacher's pass in another classroom, but they still only get the same number of passes per quarter.
Use a class roster to have student initial next to their name to indicate that they received the passes.
Have students fill in the "time out" and "time in" and then turn the pass in to the teacher when finished. This will help them practice the CCS of telling time with both digital and analog clocks.
This micromanagement shows "intense pressure to raise test scores," writes Cody. He provides another memo with bulletin board guidelines.
Bulletin Boards should reflect the academic rigor and the differentiated instruction of the Common Core State Standards that are taking place in the classroom and school. Bulletin board work should... be attractive, stimulating learning stimuli — not mere decoration. No worksheets are allowed and avoid commercial materials. In addition, each bulletin board must have an "I Can" statement in student-friendly language, rubric, specific feedback, title, and a brief (2-3 sentences) description of the activity that took place to produce the work. Classroom bulletin boards should have current work (nothing past 2 weeks).
One wonders: Why is there so much teacher turnover? (Yes, that's sarcasm.)
My very large high school locked most of the restrooms to prevent smoking. (Teachers had rebelled against restroom patrol duty.) I learned planning and self-control.


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The Gender Wheel (2017), written and illustrated by Maya Gonzalez, introduces readers to gender diversity through the concept of a "gender wheel." Gonzalez's images are warm and inviting. She illustrates her characters in a range of skin-tones with a variety of gender expressions.
The commendable purpose of the book is to teach children to understand gender outside of a binary model.Gonzalez connects the binary sex-gender system to European colonization of the Americas. As a result, she firmly places gender meanings as we inherit them within a history of socio-political struggle and conquest. This is a fair analysis and a useful alternative to considering binary sex-gender distinctions as a product of nature.
For Gonzalez, gender diversity is natural and gender "boxes," which emanate from a culture of conquest, violently disrupt the soft circles and cycles nature produces. In Gonzalez's theory of gender, nature and culture stand in an antagonistic relationship and readers should search to reconnect with nature and by extension their unique gender "truth". Gonzalez writes: "Seeing where girl/boy beliefs come from and how they try to control nature helps us see through the false boxes they create. This brings the truth of nature back into focus." Gonzalez's theorization of gender is reminiscent of essentialist models of gender and not the most sophisticated gender theory.
Although I don't agree with Gonzalez's theory of gender, I certainly appreciate the overall message of inclusivity. I think this could be a teachable text and a useful intervention into binary thinking about gender for young children. Because it is so very text heavy, I would suggest it for children nine to eleven. It could certainly be taught to younger children, but would need a lot of "scaffolding" from a competent teacher.
This review is part of my "Snapshots of LGBTQ Kid Lit" project. I'm working on a book, The New Queer Children's Literature: Exploring the Principles and Politics of LGBTQ* Children's Picture Books, which is under contract with the University Press of Mississippi. Part of my research is identifying and interpreting English-language children's picture books with LGBTQ* content published in the US and Canada between 1979 and 2019. Follow my blog to follow my journey!


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For your reading enjoyment, a smorgasbord of items from the time sink called the internet.
- A bit bearanoid? Pack some Legos.
- From utilitarian winter garment to high fashion, the puffy jacket is chic fashion.
- Well-known hiker Jupiter gives an inside peek into the world of UL gear.
- Andrew Skurka looks into his Magic 8 Ball (or uses his experience and research skills) to posit the probable state of backpacking in this high snow year through the US.
- We have the National Antiquities Act of 1906 because of the acts Swedish archeologist Gustaf Nordenskiöld did in Mesa Verde in large part. No law to protect the historical artifacts before that time. And why in 2019, Finland's collection of Pueblo artifacts are quite good. And how we wound up with a Swedish word used in archeology (midden).


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Have fun with your child as you talk and play when using the app Avokiddo Emotions. In this app, users can choose from three different animal characters whom they dress up, feed, make dance, sing etc. Watch how the animals react to the items when you play. Talk with your child about how they think the animal feels: are they happy, sad, mad, embarrassed? Pull down the "knob" to change the objects for over 100 different interactions. You will be laughing along with your child to this entertaining and simple app. It is available for Apple and Android devices for $2.99.
– Julie R. at KDL's Caledonia Township branch
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Native diatoms made of amorphous silica are first converted into silicon structures via magnesiothermic process, preserving the original shape: electron force microscopy analysis performed on silicon-converted diatoms demonstrates their semiconductor behavior. Wet surface chemical treatments are then performed in order to enhance the photoluminescence emission from the resulting silicon diatoms and, at the same time, to allow the immobilization of biological probes, namely proteins and antibodies, via silanization. We demonstrate that light emission from semiconductive silicon diatoms can be used for antibody-antigen recognition, endorsing this material as optoelectronic transducer.
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Want to know where your fellow zombie survivalists are?
Oxford Internet Institute researchers Mark Graham (of Floating Sheep's fame), Taylor Shelton, Matthew Zook, and Monica Stephens mapped the world's zombie "outbreaks":
- Using a keyword search for "zombies," the following map visualizes the absolute concentrations of references within the Google Maps database. The map reveals two important spatial patterns. First, much of the world lacks any content mentioning "zombies" whatsoever. Second, and related, the highest concentration of zombies in the Geoweb are located in the Anglophone world, especially in large cities. The results either provide a rough proxy for the amount of English-language content indexed over our planet, or offer an early warning into the geographies of the impending zombie apocalypse.


What Is A Timing Belt And When Should You Replace it?
If you've ever been told that your car needs a new, you've probably found yourself wondering: What Is A Timing Belt?
A Timing belt is a heavy duty, reinforced rubber belt that synchronizes the rotation of the and the so that the 's valves open and close at the proper times during each cylinder's intake and exhaust strokes.
What Is A Timing Belt?: The Long Answer
It's a reinforced rubber band with teeth or notches on the inner side. It connects your engine's crankshaft (which moves the pistons) to the camshaft(s) (which move the valves).
When you start your engine, the crankshaft is rotated by the until the engine is able to keep it spinning on it's own. The internal combustion process is what makes that happen, and also what moves your car down the road. The rotation of the crankshaft moves the timing belt. The timing belt, in turn, moves the camshaft(s), which open the intake and exhaust valve(s). In a four-stroke engine (which is the type of engine found in most vehicles) there are four phases: the intake phase, compression phase, combustion phase, and exhaust phase.
On the intake phase, air and are pulled into the cylinder by crankshaft rotation moving the piston downward. At this time, the camshaft rotation keeps the intake valve(s) open, and the exhaust valve(s) closed.
During the compression and combustion phases, the crankshaft's rotation moves the piston upward. This upward movement is used to compress the air & fuel mixture so that it can be ignited by the spark plug. At this time, the camshaft's rotation keeps all valves closed. Igniting this mixture causes an explosion, forcing that cylinder's piston downward, which is how the crankshaft gets it's rotation.
The final stage is the exhaust stroke. During this time, the crankshaft's rotation moves the piston up and the camshaft's rotation opens the exhaust valves. The remnants of the ignited air/fuel mixture are pushed through the exhaust ports and out your car's exhaust pipe. Now the cylinder is empty so the next intake stroke can begin.
When Does My Timing Belt Need to Be Replaced?
As you're driving down the road, the four-stroke process described above is repeating thousands of times per minute. Your timing belt is the conductor of this mechanical symphony! Timing belts aren't one-trick ponies though. They also drive other components including the water pump, balance shaft, intermediate shaft, injection pump, and the pump. To work effectively, a timing belt must have a certain amount of tension controlled by the timing belt tensioner. In older cars, these tensioners would need periodic checking & adjustment (typically every few oil changes). Most modern vehicles are equipped with an automatic timing belt tensioner that does not require adjustment.
Over time, your timing belt will wear and stretch. Most timing belts are meant to last between 60,000 – 90,000 miles, so you should plan your vehicle's schedule accordingly. It's best to err on the side of sooner rather than waiting too long.
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This article will help you customize the default screen you see when starting up your Activity.
- From your Harmony touchscreen remote, tap the Menu icon.
- Next, tap Settings > Activities > Start‑up Screen.
- Tap the Activity you want to modify and select the new screen.
- Finally, tap Done to save your changes.
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Letters of the Alphabet - Children's Online - THESE ARE THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET BY Rolando Merino for his son Rollie. The word AIRPLANE starts with the letter "A". An AIRPLANE flies in the sky An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters - basic written symbols - each of which. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet. Alphabet and Morse code chart.


2^N with pruning. I calculated that the "side trip" to -2 cost 14, but gained 16, if I didn't have more side trips before I made it to the rightmost number. If the rightmost number had been 5, I would immediately know the side trip to -2 couldn't pay off. (Cost still 14, maximum benefit 12). Nor do I have to consider going to -2 then making a side trip before reaching 6, since that is always inferior to just going straight to that point in the first place.
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I think you can solve it using a breadth-first search, maintaining no more than 2 * N^2 tuples of (boolean, int, int, int, string) where the strings are as long as the path is complicated.
The tuples are (min or max boolean, min position traveled, max position traveled, total radiation emitted, path history).
I see the algorithm going like this:
 1. Initialize the pool of tuples to a single entry, (min, 0, 0, 0, "")
 2. Find an element in the pool that has minimal radiation emitted. If the min and max correspond to the min and max of all the barrels, then the path history is the optimal solution. Otherwise delete it from the pool.
 3. Calculate the 2 descendants of this tuple, each of which corresponds to walking left or right to the next unprocessed barrel.
 4. Insert the descendants into the pool. If there is already an element in the pool with the same boolean, min, and max as a new descendent, then discard the element with the higher radiation count.
 5. goto 2.
Finding and removing dominated tuples will dramatically improve performance. It might be worthwhile to add a 'has bred" flag to each tuple, and leave bred tuples in the pool.
There are also some significant decisions to be made in deciding how to store the tuples, and search them for dominations and new elements to breed.
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(a) Filing.
(1) Documents or proceedings may be sealed only by order of the Court, and on motion with notice to parties in interest.
(2) Documents to be sealed shall be presented to the Clerk after the order has been entered. The documents shall be contained in an envelope or other secure device, with the initials or signature of the submitting party or attorney written across the edge of the closure, and transparent tape placed on top of the mark for security. The envelope (or other secure device) shall have affixed to it a letter-size sheet of paper bearing the style and caption of the matter with reference to which the documents are being filed.
(3) The form of order submitted with the motion requesting a matter be sealed shall contain the following recitations:
(A) The matter shall remain under seal for no longer than one year from the date of entry of the order, unless the Court orders otherwise.
(B) The only entities permitted to review documents or transcripts of proceedings placed under seal are those entities specified in the order, except that the following entities shall also have access to matters placed under seal unless the Court specifically rules otherwise: (1) the judge presiding over the case, (2) the law clerk to whom the matter is assigned internally by the presiding judge, (3) the Courtroom Deputy responsible for the matter, (4) the Clerk of the Court, and (5) the presiding judge and staff of any appellate tribunal.
(b) Disposition of Sealed Documents.
(1) Documents or transcripts of proceedings under seal may be forwarded to an appellate court without the necessity of unsealing the matter. The matter so forwarded shall be accompanied by a true copy of the order placing the matter under seal. Further motions with regard to the sealing or unsealing of a matter shall be filed with the Court that entered the original order sealing the matter, notwithstanding the pendency of an appeal.
(2) Upon the entry of an order unsealing a matter (or upon the expiration of the time period specified in paragraph (a)(3)(A), supra), the Clerk (or other person responsible for the maintenance of the matter) shall place the document or transcript of proceedings in the file of the case or adversary proceeding.


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Some GNU programs (at least df, du, and ls) display sizes in "blocks". You can adjust the block size and method of display to make sizes easier to read. The block size used for display is independent of any file system block size. Fractional block counts are rounded up to the nearest integer.
The default block size is chosen by examining the following environment variables in turn; the first one that is set determines the block size.
If none of the above environment variables are set, the block size currently defaults to 1024 bytes in most contexts, but this number may change in the future. For ls file sizes, the block size defaults to 1 byte.
A block size specification can be a positive integer specifying the number
of bytes per block, or it can be
select a human-readable format. Integers may be followed by suffixes
that are upward compatible with the
for decimal multiples and with the
ISO/IEC 80000-13 (formerly IEC 60027-2) prefixes for binary multiples.
With human-readable formats, output sizes are followed by a size letter
such as 'M' for megabytes.
powers of 1024; 'M' stands for 1,048,576 bytes.
BLOCK_SIZE=si is similar, but uses powers of 1000 and appends
'B'; 'MB' stands for 1,000,000 bytes.
A block size specification preceded by ''' causes output sizes to be displayed with thousands separators. The LC_NUMERIC locale specifies the thousands separator and grouping. For example, in an American English locale, '--block-size="'1kB"' would cause a size of _PHONE_ bytes to be displayed as '1,234'. In the default C locale, there is no thousands separator so a leading ''' has no effect.
An integer block size can be followed by a suffix to specify a multiple of that size. A bare size letter, or one followed by 'iB', specifies a multiple using powers of 1024. A size letter followed by 'B' specifies powers of 1000 instead. For example, '1M' and '1MiB' are equivalent to '_PHONE_', whereas '1MB' is equivalent to '_PHONE_'.
A plain suffix without a preceding integer acts as if '1' were prepended, except that it causes a size indication to be appended to the output. For example, '--block-size="kB"' displays 3000 as '3kB'.
The following suffixes are defined. Large sizes like
may be rejected by your computer due to limitations of its arithmetic.
Block size defaults can be overridden by an explicit --block-size=size option. The -k option is equivalent to --block-size=1K, which is the default unless the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set. The -h or --human-readable option is equivalent to --block-size=human-readable. The --si option is equivalent to --block-size=si.


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Learning from practice - A brief history of performance measurement
Measurement is in the realm of mathematics. It is about keeping track, about establishing dimensions. Some of the earliest measurement activities in human history track back to 35,000 B.C. (Lebombo bone) and 9,000-6,500 B.C. (Ishango bone). Researchers consider them the first measurement tools in human history used for measuring intervals of time.
The Salamis metrological relief, dating back to the 4th century B.C. is considered an important measurement tool for architecture, as it illustrates the correlation between the different measuring systems used in Ancient Greece: Doric, Ionic and Common. This unification facilitated the construction of one of the symbols of civilization: the Parthenon, incorporating beauty, science and art.
In a business, measuring is linked to the use of money and can be traced back to Mesopotamia, where writing was first invented (3100 BC), banking was first developed (3000-2000 BC), and laws were first used to regulate banking operations (1792 – 1750 BC, The Code of Hammurabi).
Standards around measurement in a business environment are owed to the Venetians, who evaluated the performance of their sailing expeditions by calculating the difference between the investment made by the ship owner and the money obtained by selling the goods brought back by the journey. Venice merchant's need for a more elaborate approach to evaluating outcomes lead to double-entry bookkeeping system, described by Luca Pacioli's: 'Summa de arithmetica, geometrica, proportioni et proportionalita' ('Everything on arithmetic, geometry, proportions and proportionality'), published in Venice in 1494. While Pacioli is considered today the "father of accounting", the emergence of the discipline represents one of the earliest illustrations of learning from practice.
From this point on, the evolution of measurement in business was driven by three institutions: church, military and the public service, at both organizational and individual level. In mid 1500s, Ignatius Layola instituted a procedure to formally rate members of the Jesuit Society. In 1648 Dublin Evening Post in Ireland evaluated legislators by using a rating scale based upon personal qualities. Most Western armies did appraisals as early as the 19th century.
One of the earliest books on performance measurement that used used the term "measure" in the context of evaluating performance is: Efficient Democracy, by William Harvey Allen. It was written in 1907, not before the age of management consultants, business schools and strategy gurus. Allen was a practitioner, secretary of the Committee on Physical Welfare of School Children and General Agent of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. He wrote on education, healthcare and philanthropy.
In _PHONE_ DuPont started using Return on Investment as a performance measure, one in a long series of business and technology innovations that emerged from the company.
In 1951, General Electric introduced the use of key corporate performance measure, through an initiative commissioned by the then CEO, Ralph Cordiner. The selected measures were grouped in categories such as market share, productivity, employee attitudes and public responsibility.
In the 1970s, General Motors used a system of performance measures that included non-financial indicators, considered a precursor of the Balanced Scorecard as measurement tool as introduced in 1992.
In the 1990s, performance measures use gained in popularity across a variety of sectors, most importantly in government. Not all implementations of performance management systems were smooth sailing and sometimes they generated more harm than good. However, both good and bad experiences contributed to making more informed decisions about the use of measures by learning from practice.
Where does all this history lead us? Practice has lead the emergence of management concepts and not the other way around. The use of performance measures has evolved organically over time, consultants being facilitators and enabler of better results, but not drivers.
Regarding the popularity of performance measurement terminology, as of August 2010, _URL_ searches illustrated the following results:
- "kpi" = 9,670,000 results
- "kpis" = 3,480,000 results
- "key performance indicator" = 215,000 results
- "key performance indicators" = 1,190,000 results
- "performance measure" = 1,150,000 results
- "performance measures" = 2,180,000 results
Ultimately, as Protagoras of Abdera said in Ancient Greece:"Man is the measure of all things."
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NLPby Paul Matthews
What is anchoring?
When two things commonly occur together, the appearance of one will bring the other to mind.
Anchoring is a basic Pavlovian conditioning of the nervous system. Any time a person is in an intense state and a stimulus is applied, then the state and the stimulus will be linked neurologically. It is a form of associative learning. The associations we make through this kind of learning have a huge impact on the quality of our lives and how successful we are, and NLP has developed several tools and techniques to create and change these associations.
Nobel laureate Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936) made the concept of classical conditioning famous with his experiments on dogs. He was studying the gastric processes in dogs and noticed that they started to salivate even before they received food. This led to a series of experiments in which he used a bell to call the dogs to their food. After only a few times, the bell produced salivation, even if there was no food. He called this association a conditioned response.
In effect, a neutral stimulus, the bell, had become a conditioned stimulus that produced a response based on the conditioning. In NLP, this conditioned stimulus is called an anchor. NLP also uses the terms 'firing the anchor' or 'triggering the anchor', which mean applying the stimulus that has been conditioned.
The conditioned stimulus, or anchor, can be any kind of sensory input in any combinations of the representational systems.
Here are some examples. Consider each one and notice your reaction or the way you would respond.
The first example is a stormy sky. Imagine yourself looking out at a really stormy sky with that particular colour of the clouds. How do you feel? What is your reaction?
Now go through the same process with each of the following:
- Visual: red traffic light (or an ornage one), brand image (for example Nike, Coca Cola), beach and palm trees
- Auditory: ambulance siren, radio jingle, 'they are playing our tune!', sound of waves, your mother's voice
- Touch: stroking a cat, holding a bat or golf club, sun on your face
- Smell: perfumes, aviation fuel, smell of the gym
- Taste: chocolate, favourite drink, a specific food
Some of these will trigger a reaction; some won't. Think of some more triggers that apply to you. This may not be so easy to do, as the responses feel so natural that we often don't notice them even when they are occurring.
The response when the anchor is triggered could be good or bad, useful or not. At one extreme, it could be a phobic reaction to the sight of something, such as a spider scuttling across the floor. At the other end of the scale, the response could be a sense of calm and peaceful happiness as the result of a certain smell, such as incense or new-mown grass. It just depends on the associations you have made.
These are all learned responses. They were not there when you were born, and yet they are so obvious and widespread that you hardly notice them. They seem part of who you are. As we go through life, we all develop thousands of different anchors that associate one thing with another. There are some archetypal ones that are common to most of us, such as red for danger and green for go.
An understanding of anchoring is vital if you want to make significant improvements in your life.
An anchor will change your state. Your state will govern the kinds of behaviours you choose and thus your results. You, and what you do will be anchors for others and trigger responses in them, which in turn will trigger responses in you, thus determining the quality of the relationship.
How anchors are created
Anchors are created naturally all the time. Some last for our lifetimes, and others fade after only a short time. The longevity of an anchor depends on the conditions in place at the time it was created. Anchors can also be created on purpose and NLP has evolved several techniques that can be used to create beneficial anchors, change anchors and remove negative ones.
First, let's look at how anchors are created in everyday life as this will help us understand what we need to do to purposefully create lasting and useful anchors.
Anytime someone is an intense and associated state, whether it is a pleasant state or an unpleasant one, anchors are being created. This is because we will always make associations and links between that intense state and what we are sensing around us at the time. The things that we link the state to will differ from person to person and will depend on
- Their map of the world
- The preferences they have regarding representational systems
- How they filter their sensory information
- And even previously-set anchors.
Given the same situation, one person might link their intense state to the person standing in front of them, another to the 'feel' of the room, yet another to the smell of the flowers on the windowsill. The link could be to a full description in all the senses of what they are sensing, or it could be a single aspect, like the fact that the other person is wearing a brown baseball cap. Another variation is that some links are made to a more general class of stimuli, so instead of a brown baseball cap, it generalises to any hat.
Some anchors, even though long lasting, may never get triggered, as the conditioned stimulus never occurs again in that person's life. The anchor lies dormant.
Some anchors are such common features of a person's life – for example, blue sky or the feel of a handshake – that they get diluted by so many other links that, except in rare cases, they soon lose effectiveness.
- When he looks at me like that it reminds me of my first boss who was always angry.
- When people get too close to me on the tube it reminds me of being shut in a cupboard as a child.
- Being in a group like this reminds me of being at school and being ashamed to say 'I don't understand.'
Note that these are all conscious examples. Many anchors will trigger a response although we have no conscious idea of where or when the anchor was created.
Repetition will also condition a stimulus so that it becomes an anchor, even if the state is not intense. Repetition coupled with an intense state will create an incredibly strong and durable anchor.
Repetition is the route that the advertisers use to make a link between a nice state and their product. They show a person having a good time or a happy successful life and hope that we will feel good and think 'that's what I want'. They then show their logo or brand name or play their jingle and hope that if they do this frequently enough, we will make the link.
The movie Jaws created such powerful anchors that huge numbers of people who saw it developed a fear of swimming in the ocean or responded with fear to the very recognisable signature tune. The movie elicited states of fear in the audience many times with clever camera angles and music, and the audience then linked this fear with what they were experiencing. (The anchors set by a movie will be either visual or sound links.)


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- Microsoft made an anchor donation of $1 million to kick start the Puget Sound's COVID-19 response funds.
- Microsoft is offering a free version of Office 365 to all educational institutions. Microsoft's Teams enables remote education through a unified communication and collaboration platform. It combines chat, audio conferencing, video meetings, file storage, and it can help users—teachers, students and volunteers—stay connected. Office 365 A1 is a free offering that is available to all educational institutions, and more information is available here.
- Microsoft Teams enables remote work. It is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines workplace chat, audio conferencing, video meetings, and file storage. To help organizations, the company is offering a range of free and premium options for Teams access.
- Microsoft has offered its Healthcare Bot service powered by Microsoft Azure to health care organizations on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response to help screen patients for potential infection and care. Read more about the COVID-19 assessment bot here.
- Microsoft has set up a Bing dashboard that tracks the spread of COVID-19 using data from several organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
- The Microsoft Education Team has created a new remote learning community for academic institutions and educators transitioning to distance learning. Microsoft Education representatives and community members are available to answer questions, offer best practices, and share advice on how to leverage Microsoft's software to keep students engaged in this challenging time.
- Microsoft is making Minecraft: Education Edition available free to teachers and students with Office 365 Education accounts to support remote learning during school closures.
- Microsoft joined the White House's COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which aims to provide COVID-19 researchers worldwide with access to the world's most powerful High Performance Computing (HPC) resources to significantly advance the pace of scientific discovery in the fight to stop the virus.
- Microsoft has released two Microsoft Power Platform solutions related to COVID-19: one to help manage communications across an organization, and an Emergency Response solution for healthcare providers to track their resources.
- The National Health Service in the United Kingdom will be able to use Microsoft Teams for free to quickly communicate with colleagues during the COVID-19 outbreak.
- Health care organizations in Europe and beyond are using Microsoft's AI-powered Healthcare Bot service to help screen people for potential coronavirus infection and treatment.
- Microsoft has mobilized its AI for Health initiative and committed $20 million to help researchers on the frontlines of COVID-19.
- Microsoft committed $35 million to double its Microsoft Azure credits, increase Windows benefits and add new pro bono services to help critical care and first response nonprofits in their efforts to combat COVID-19.
- Microsoft is making its AccountGuard threat notification service available at no cost to healthcare providers on the front lines as well as human rights and humanitarian organizations around the world.
- Microsoft has committed to the Open COVID Pledge and is making its patents available free of charge for use in efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic and minimize the impact of the disease.
- Microsoft created seven privacy principles for governments, public health authorities, academics, employers, and industries to consider as we move forward to the next phase of tracking the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Microsoft and UNICEF expanded access to the Learning Passport, a global learning platform, to help children affected by COVID-19 continue their education at home.
- Microsoft launched the CoVIg-19 Plasma Bot, a self-screening tool to help healthy individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 sign up to donate plasma that will help researchers study potential treatments.
- Members of Microsoft's dining team have repackaged and repurposed campus lunches to help support students and families in the Redmond, Washington area.
- Nearly 2,000 Microsoft Store employees have pivoted to helping schools, communities, small businesses, and enterprises quickly pivot to working remotely.
- Starting in early May 2020, organizations with the Microsoft Office 365 A1, which is free for educational institutions, will have the ability to host and broadcast Teams live events for a limited time to host a virtual graduation, alumni summit, or any other live event.
- UnitedHealth Group and Microsoft joined forces to launch ProtectWell, a return-to-workplace protocol and app that incorporates CDC guidelines and the latest clinical research to limit the spread of COVID-19 by screening employees for symptoms and establishing guidelines to support the health and safety of the workforce and workplace. It will be offered free of charge to employers in the US.
Microsoft committed to helping 25 million people acquire new digital skills needed for the COVID-19 economy, noting that one of the keys to a genuinely inclusive recovery are programs to provide easier access to digital skills for people hardest hit by job losses, including those with lower incomes, women, and underrepresented minorities.
An experimental Microsoft data center submerged beneath the sea in Scotland's Orkney Islands is processing workloads for a global, distributed computing project to understand the viral proteins that cause COVID-19 and design therapeutics to stop them.
- The cloud identity management firm Okta launched Okta for Emergency Remote Work, which offers core Okta services for free to all new customers for at least six months. The services offered include Okta Single Sign-On (SSO)and Okta Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to five apps for all users, as well as best practices guides, community access, and support and training.
- Okta for Good, Okta's social impact arm, has committed $500,000 in unrestricted response grants and matching funds to organizations in the Bay Area on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. Outside of the Bay Area, Okta for Good is leading giving campaigns to support food banks and critical services in Toronto, Bellevue, Washington DC, London, Paris, and Sydney.
- Okta, CrowdStrike, Netskope, and Proofpoint announced a partnership to help organizations implement an integrated, zero trust security strategy to protect remote working environments.
- Oracle has worked to develop and deploy a series of cloud applications that will gather the data necessary to enable health professionals to determine what drugs are effective in treating or preventing the COVID-19 virus.
- In addition to gathering data from COVID-19 clinical trials, Oracle has built and donated to the US government a COVID-19 Therapeutic Learning System that allows physicians and patients to record the effectiveness of promising COVID-19 drug therapies.
- Oracle is offering free access to online learning content and certifications for a broad array of users for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database until May 15, 2020.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has released an updated NVIDIA GPU Cloud Machine Image to accelerate researchers' understanding of the COVID-19 virus.
- Oracle is partnering with Zoom Video Communications to help support its growth and evolving business needs as Zoom works provide an essential service to its customers.
- Oracle employees have launched virtual volunteering projects to support nonprofits and schools in their communities.
- Oracle is providing free access to Oracle Financial Statement Planning to all existing Oracle Planning Cloud customers to help customers adapt to changing market conditions with financial planning and scenario modeling tools.
- Pixologic has extended the trial period of its ZBrush software for schools, helping students who are distance learning access the software while off-campus. Pixologic has also compiled COVID-19 resources in its support base to help users find information on how to utilize its software remotely.
- PTC is making its Vuforia Chalk augmented reality (AR) remote support and collaboration technology available at no cost until June 30, 2020. Learn more about Chalk here.
- PTC University will provide unlimited access to eLearning courses for their customers during the COVID-19 crisis, with no user limits on eLearning access. PTC hopes these resources will allow disrupted employees to take advantage of unexpected downtime by upskilling their capabilities and returning to work with an advanced level of proficiency. Learn more about available resources at PTC University.
- PTC is making its Onshape SaaS CAD solution and associated learning resources freely available to high schools and universities offering collaborative virtual STEM and 3D CAD classes to students learning at home.
- Rockwell Automation is partnering with PTC to offer free access to Vuforia Chalk, a collaborative remote assistance tool.
- Rosetta Stone is providing free access to Rosetta Stone for Students and has created a resource center with distance learning tools for teachers, parents, and students.
- Salesforce is offering free access to Health Cloud for qualified emergency response teams, call centers, and care management teams for health systems affected by COVID-19.
- Tableau, a subsidiary of Salesforce, has developed a free COVID-19 Data Resource Hub to help organizations make data-driven decisions relating to the virus using resources compiled from the WHO, the CDC, and Johns Hopkins University.
- Salesforce is making Quip Starter—a collaborative document and spreadsheet tool that helps remote teams work together effectively—available for free to any Salesforce customer or non-profit organization through September 30, 2020. Learn more about Quip here.
- Salesforce has donated $3 million to UCSF's COVID-19 Response Fund, the CDC Foundation's Emergency Response Fund and San Francisco's Give2SF Fund, in addition to continuing to match employee donations to all eligible organizations. Salesforce also recently announced donations of $500,000 to the New York COVID-19 Emergency Fund, $250,000 to the Italian Red Cross, $166,000 to the Madrid Food Bank, $84,000 to the Barcelona Food Bank, $125,000 to the French Red Cross, $125,000 to Samusocial International, a French social service organization, $125,000 to the German Red Cross, and $125,000 to Tafel Deutschland e.V., the umbrella organization for Germany's food bank network.
- Salesforce has expanded