Baltic Exchange
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An exchange that handles the trading and settlement of both physical contracts and derivatives relating to shipping and maritime transportation. The Baltic Exchange provides daily prices for freight, and tracks shipping costs through several indexes. Traders use these indexes to settle forward freight agreements (FFAs), which are freight futures contracts.
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The Baltic Exchange was founded in 1744 in London. It publishes the Baltic Dry Index (BDI), which provides pricing information on shipping various cargo types along different routes. The index is used by economists and investors to determine the demand for shipping versus the total shipping capacity.
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15.37 The Copyright Act does not contain an exception for the use of copyright material for inquiries or royal commissions. These uses are currently made under the statutory licence.
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The NZAGRC methane programme is jointly planned and funded in partnership with the PGgRc and aligns with existing MPI programmes funded through SLMACC and New Zealand funding in support of the Global Research Alliance on agricultural greenhouse gases. It aims to reduce emissions by directly targeting the methane producing methanogens through the discovery of small molecule inhibitors and vaccines and indirectly through feeding and changes in animal phenotype.
- Breeding: Research to understand the genetics of host control of ruminant methane emissions, which aims to develop genetic and genomic selection technologies to reduce methane yield and intensity in sheep. The current stage of the programme involves the development and dissemination of practical tools for selection for lowered emissions. A major part of maximising impact and uptake is to explore relative economic value from increased production and potential increased feed utilisation associated with lowered methane
- Vaccine (jointly supported by PGgRc): A prototype vaccine (which after further development is aimed at producing a vaccine targeted at reducing methane emissions in cattle and sheep by 20%) is being formulated with the help of a commercial partner
- Inhibitors (previously jointly funded but now fully funded by PGgRc): Research to develop cost-effective inhibitors that reduce methane emissions by at least 20% in sheep and cattle—without reducing productivity—is now being developed, with a view to bring the technology to market
- Modelling: A tool to help scientists in the NZAGRC/PGgRc programme to develop hypotheses and predict responses in methane formation is in its final stages
Current progress and research stories
The current objectives within the NZAGRC methane programme have made significant progress this year, with the sheep breeding programme getting closer to delivering breeding values to the national flock.
The complete genome sequence of Eubacterium limosum SA11, a metabolically versatile rumen acetogen
Kelly, W. J., G. Henderson, et al. (2016). "The complete genome sequence of Eubacterium limosum SA11, a metabolically versatile rumen acetogen." Standards in Genomic Sciences 11(1): 26.
Acetogens are a specialized group of anaerobic bacteria able to produce acetate from CO2 and H2 via the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway. In some gut environments acetogens can compete with methanogens for H2, and as a result rumen acetogens are of interest in the development of microbial approaches for methane mitigation. The acetogen Eubacterium limosum SA11 was isolated from the rumen of a New Zealand sheep and its genome has been sequenced to examine its potential application in methane mitigation strategies, particularly in situations where hydrogenotrophic methanogens are inhibited resulting in increased H2 levels in the rumen. The 4.15 Mb chromosome of SA11 has an average G + C content of 47 %, and encodes 3805 protein-coding genes. There is a single prophage inserted in the chromosome, and several other gene clusters appear to have been acquired by horizontal transfer. These include genes for cell wall glycopolymers, a type VII secretion system, cell surface proteins and chemotaxis. SA11 is able to use a variety of organic substrates in addition to H2/CO2, with acetate and butyrate as the principal fermentation end-products, and genes involved in these metabolic pathways have been identified. An unusual feature is the presence of 39 genes encoding trimethylamine methyltransferase family proteins, more than any other bacterial genome. Overall, SA11 is a metabolically versatile organism, but its ability to grow on such a wide range of substrates suggests it may not be a suitable candidate to take the place of hydrogen-utilizing methanogens in the rumen.
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Conspicuous consumption was introduced by economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen in his 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class. It is a term used to describe the lavish spending on goods and services acquired mainly for the purpose of displaying income or wealth. In the mind of a conspicuous consumer, such display serves as a means of attaining or maintaining social status. Economists and sociologists often cite the 1980's as a time of extreme conspicuous consumption. The yuppie materialised as the key agent of conspicuous consumption in the US. Yuppies didn't need to purchase BMWs or Mercedes' cars for example; they did so in order to show off their wealth.
Most developed countries cannot be dependent on private domestic consumption in excess of 60% of its GDP. Not only is the planet running out of resources to produce these goods/services but also the impact on climate change is very significant. The essay that won the 2021 Financial Times 'Political Economy Club prize' by Krzysztof Pelc outlines that there is a shift in attitudes of today's consumer. He states that much of the material wealth that people generate is an expression of signalling to others 'look at me'. In each case this signalling demands some sort of 'conspicuous waste' – a highly visible expenditure of resources that brings no material benefit but simply signals the purchaser's ability and willingness to waste those resources. As there are more things to buy the greater the pressure on people to buy them and thereby increasing the waste and diluting the means of social distinction. The conspicuous consumer could be a thing of the past as loud labels become a shallow human signal with show-off status being gradually replaced by natural-face-to-face interaction and an emphasis on a sustainable planet.
Owning material things from expensive homes to luxurious cars turn out to provide less happiness than holidays, concerts and special occasions. In the long run it doesn't matter so much about the USA, European economies and their consumption habits but those that are fast growing and with vast populations – China and India. They have a good chance to shift their trait-display systems before conspicuous consumption becomes locked in as a cultural norm.
The recent global downturn with Coivd-19 has sent out a few mixed messages. Firstly there has been the reduction in consumption as people's credit lines have dried up but there are those that believe that you should spend more to maintain growth and employment in the economy. With household budgets being very tight smarter consumption rather than less consumption has been advocated by Geoffrey Miller in his book 'Spent'. He refers to this as more ethical consumption where the production of produce does not involve the abuse of natural resources or the exploitation of people or animals. Furthermore a need to switch from an income tax that promotes short-term runaway consumption to a consumption tax that promotes longer-term ethical investment, charity, social capital, and neighbourly warmth.
"affluent economies such as Britain's have already reached a point at which further advances in wellbeing are not likely to come from a single-minded focus on growth." Krzysztof Pelc


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The paper discusses experimental and numerical seismic analyses of typical connections and wall systems used in cross-laminated (X-Lam) timber buildings. An extended experimental programme on typical X-Lam connections was performed at IVALSA Trees and Timber Institute. In addition, cyclic tests were also carried out on full-scale single and coupled X-Lam wall panels with different configurations and mechanical connectors subjected to lateral force. An advanced non-linear hysteretic spring to describe accurately the cyclic behaviour of
connections was implemented in ABAQUS finite element software package as an external subroutine. The FE model with the springs calibrated on single connection tests was then used to reproduce numerically the behaviour of X-Lam wall panels, and the results were compared with the outcomes of experimental full-scale tests carried out at IVALSA. The developed model is suitable for evaluating dissipated energy and seismic vulnerability of X-Lam structures.


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ENTER THE OAR FISH
Are ancient sea monsters abroad,
For scientists to be awed…
Like a coelacanth
Oar fish (not in Banff*),
Exist as creatures of God.
Think of all the things men said aren't true,
That have fallen by the wayside too…
Wonders in the sea
Fill us with glee,
Are there salt water plesiosaurs** swimming through?
—Jonathan Caswell, M.S.E.
notes: *Banff, in Alberta, Canada…simply used to rhyme with coelacanth, an ancient fish found in fossils and recovered in fishing nets off the coast of South Africa in 1938. Two species of this "extinct" fish are living.
**Plesiosaur is the ancient sea animal found in the fossil record that many people think are represented in modern times by the Loch Ness monster (Nessie) and the Lake Champlain monster (Champ) and certain other examples elsewhere. Not having definite proof for either conclusion, there is one purported underwater photograph showing a triangular-shaped flipper-like feature that may or may not be the side flipper of "Nessie", and some other evidence of varying acceptability—subjects of many studies done by serious scientists and interested amateurs!
(Coelacanth image courtesy Wikipedia…Oar fish—2nd picture below is courtesy magsx2.wordpress.com)


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The flying things you see in picture below are actually invisible objects. They only became visible while taking the picture with flashlight.
There is no source of light whatsoever in these two photos, above and below.
(In the photo below, the invisibly flying object no. 2 has a dark spot. It's not in it, it's a pencil on the floor. Its mouth is right in the middle.)
I have argued with my favorite cousin about them. He is a passionate photographer, and that's how I have learned about bokeh. Bokeh is a Japanese word for the (sometimes) so beautifully blurred lights in the out-of focus part of the picture.
Below some beautiful example of a photo made up only of bokeh: part of a Christmas tree taken with the out of focus camera.
Please do note the shape - it has the heptagonal shape of the objective's aperture (f45)
The lens flare is well known. It's the usually annoying light spots which appears when sun or another light source looks directly (or almost) into the objective.
And below an example of the mentioned annoying lens flare (photo taken with a wide angle objective)
These objects you've seen however in the first two photos were neither lens flare nor bokeh. They have appeared in some photos of us, but only in those made with flash. If in the same scenes we made photos without flash too, they simply didn't appear.
And below the lens flare "taken" with a different camera then all the other photos on this page here. The camera obviously has a circular aperture. The light sources are obvious.
Here are some arguments why these flying invisible things are different from bokeh or lens flare
The shape of these flying invisible objects is really circular. Bokeh and lens flare have the same shape as the camera's aperture, e.g. hexagonal. (S. the article Why is the bokeh shaped like the aperture, By a nice coincidence it was posted the day before me writing this article!
No light sources in the photos below
... A final argument: I had two objectives for my Nikon F50 (F for film). I kept them when I changed the camera for my current digital Nikon D50. One objective is a wide angle (w. a hexagonal / 6 sides aperture), the other one is the common, normal f45 one (heptagonal / 7 sides aperture).
In this situation, can you explain me why some bokeh and lens flares are sometimes heptagonal respectively hexagonal, and do appear on the light's path toward the objective (as the photo manual tell them to), why they have no structure but look a pretty much like a solid body – and others have a structure (always the same) and a „mouth" (or several), and appear anywhere in the photo? If they are made with the same objectives, which the are, they should behave the same way!
Because yes, except for the yellowish photo made in the tunnel, all photos on this page are made with the two mentioned normal and wide angle objectives attached on Nikon F or D50.
It seems that those flying invisible things only become visible because of the flashlight being reflected on them.
We had the evidence for this (or something similar) some 15 years before, when or son, by then 4 or 5, was waking in the night, half awake, and was following with his eyes something moving in the air that we could not see. Read the full story here.


A boat has a speed of 9 mph in still water. If the boat takes the same time to go 28 miles upstream as it takes to go 44 miles downstream, what is the speed of the current?
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The river flows downstream at c mph, so the boat's upstream speed is reduced by the speed of the current to 9-c, while its downstream speed is increased to 9+c. Time t taken to go upstream, t=28/(9-c) and downstream t=44/(9+c). Therefore 28/(9-c)=44/(9+c), 28(9+c)=44(9-c) by cross-multiplying, 252+28c=396-44c, 72c=144, so c=144/72=2mph.
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Designing and Validating Sensors for ADAS and Autonomous Vehicles in a Virtual World
Engineers are dreaming up a world without traffic accidents. According to General Motors' Self-Driving Safety Report, autonomous vehicles could eliminate human driving errors — the main cause of 94 percent of traffic accidents. In other words, a shift toward autonomous vehicles and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) could save millions of lives.
ANSYS VRXPERIENCE helps engineers validate ADAS and autonomous vehicles.
Enabling vehicles to be fully autonomous can be complicated. Car manufacturers must first prove the safety of their autonomous vehicles, ADAS and sensors. How can they do that? One method is to conduct billions of miles of physical road tests in complex driving environments and challenging weather scenarios. However, this option is expensive and risky. This method also makes it hard to ensure every edge scenario is adequately tested.
Seeking a solution that is faster, safer and more economical than physical testing, engineers are turning to Ansys SPEOS. This optical simulation solution expedites the positioning of sensors inside the autonomous vehicle by eliminating the need to build expensive and laborious prototypes. SPEOS sensor models can then be test-driven within Ansys VRXPERIENCE, a virtual reality (VR) tool that allows users to test, validate and experience the sensors' performance in realistic driving conditions.
Designing ADAS and Autonomous Vehicle Sensors with SPEOS
Sensor integration will directly impact what the autonomous vehicle will perceive. SPEOS provides a tool set that enables engineers to assess and optimize sensor positioning and vehicle perception.
To simulate a sensor within SPEOS, engineers import their computer-aided design (CAD) geometry and the road environment. They then set up material definitions and optical properties for the car, environment and sensor.
SPEOS is used to simulate what a sensor would capture when it
encounters a white truck and a bright sky.
A camera sensor's characteristics are used to generate accurate images from the simulation. For example, the user will dictate the camera's location, orientation, number of pixels, sensitivity, white balance and other factors.
To calculate the camera's performance, engineers create a pixel grid that helps determine any mechanical interference. Various light sources are accounted for, including the sun, street lights and head lamps.
Once SPEOS has this data, engineers can generate the virtual images that were sent to the virtual camera. The engineers can then use different post-processing tools to evaluate the performance of the camera based on standardized automotive test.
Validating ADAS and Autonomous Vehicle Sensors with VRXPERIENCE
VRXPERIENCE enables engineers to create a virtual world that tests the limits of sensors, ADAS and autonomous vehicles.
Each virtual drive can be uniquely customized by the engineer, enabling them to select from a variety of driving scenarios and road conditions. This means that engineers can guarantee that the autonomous vehicles, ADAS and sensors are all tested on edge scenarios.
VRXPERIENCE enables engineers to test their autonomous vehicles, ADAS and sensors faster than if they tested them with physical prototypes.
SPEOS is used to simulate what a sensor would capture when it
encounters a white truck and a bright sky.
The tool also eliminates any risk that real-world tests would pose to other drivers and pedestrians.
For a deep dive on how SPEOS models link to VRXPERIENCE to test automotive sensors, read VRXPERIENCE Tests Automotive and Autonomous Vehicles within Virtual Reality.
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Extending Continuous Integration
The automated testing currently done in continuous integration environments is along the lines of functional or unit tests; that is, they verify that the application seems to do what is intended. Can you extend this testing to verify that the application seems to conform to performance, memory usage, integration, and scalability forecasts? It turns out that you canI call the resulting process "continuous performance management."
Continuous performance management implements performance and scalability testing within a continuous integration environment. The idea is to configure what Fowler calls "secondary continuous integration builds" to execute performance unit tests, integration tests, or load (stress) tests.
This lets you, for example, profile the application's unit tests to identify slow algorithms, incorrect memory usage (such as loitering objects and object cycling), and measure code coverage of tests. You can also test beyond the component level, such as testing integration of components into a working solution by tracing a request as it passes between multiple Java Virtual Machines (JVMs). You can even run automated load tests within the continuous integration test harness to baseline and track the application's scalability during development.
The first prerequisite is having unit tests for your code developed and implemented in a scriptable framework such as JUnit (_URL_). This covers component-level unit-test analysis. Integration and load testing requires a different test bed because these are more like business use cases rather than functional teststhe HttpUnit extension of JUnit works well here.
To take fullest advantage of continuous performance management, you also need scriptable performance analysis tools; for example, a Java code profiler and memory debugger. That is, you need an engine that will run the performance, integration, or scalability tests, and capture the results.


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A specialised material is a substance specially designed for specific usage. It is widely used in various highly sophisticated areas or fields. Some of its notable applications are as follows:
The electronics industry relies on highly specialized materials to make the components it uses in telephones, computers, and other electronic devices. Silicon is a key material in most of these components.
In medical field, dental amalgam is a material mainly specialised for use by dental surgeons to fill cavities in teeth.
In prosthetics, plastic polymer laminates or thermosets are widely used for the fabrication of prosthetic sockets. Common types of plastic polymer laminates used in prosthetics are acrylic, epoxy and polyester. The advantage of plastic laminates is that the prosthetist has a great deal of control over the strength, stiffness and thickness of the finished product.
Specialised polymers are used in concrete repairs to modify cementitious systems or in the form of thermosetting resins, epoxy and unsaturated polyester resins and unsaturated acrylic resin system.
In film industry, the back protectors used for dangerous physical stunts are made from a polypropylene layer for strength, while the shock-absorbing element is often made of expanded polyurethane for maximum comfort and safety.
High tungsten, high carbonsteel tool are special materials used in machine tools and other applications requiring high hardnesss and toughness in the cutting edges of machine.
Most non-stick pans are made using polytetrafluoroethylene, a specialised material for coating designed to prevent food from sticking to their surface during the cooking process.
Because of its energy-absorbing quality, graphite is used to develop high performance sports equipment including golf clubs, tennis racquets, hockey sticks etc.
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May 16, 2011 / ENERGY GLOBE Award
Project presentation - "River from Sky"
With only 45 days of rain annually, Rajasthan (northwest India, 56 million residents) is the most arid region of India. In 2003 "Sustainable Innovations", a non-profit organization, initiated the development of the water project "Aakash Gangaist" (translated "river from sky").
The principle is simple: Rainwater is collected from roofs in drains and accumulated in subterranean networked tank system. The success strategy for implementing the project is to focus on long-range economic viability via public/private partnerships (PPP). The system has already been installed in six Indian villages to serve some 10,000 residents.
The government of Rajasthan has now signed a document of intent that provides for extending the project to 70 villages and 250,000 people. The costs of water per liter amount to $0.002 (based on a lifetime of 25 years). By comparison, the price of water from drilled wells comes to $0.04/liter. Additional pilot projects like this are planned for China already.
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Modifiers are used to add variations and flexibility to your product offering without creating an excessively large menu.
You are able to create modifiers manually or en masse using Excel. This article will walk through the process of adding and editing your modifiers using the Import/Export feature.
Please Note: Import/Export is only possible with Excel.
- Exporting the Modifier Spreadsheet
- Working in the Modifier Spreadsheet
- Importing the Modifier Spreadsheet
Exporting the Modifier Spreadsheet
The first step to add/edit modifiers via a spreadsheet is to export the sheet. To do this:
- From the Management Console ([yoursubdomain].revelup.com), go to Products.
- Click Import/Export and choose Modifiers from the menu:
- You will now be on the Export Modifiers page. For Export Type you can select Basic, Advanced, or Empty Template:
- Basic: This spreadsheet contains the minimum amount of modifier details like name, price, cost, and active status. The basic export will contain your existing modifiers, which you can edit and/or add new modifiers with this spreadsheet.
- Advanced: This spreadsheet contains all of the columns in the basic export plus Additional Fields like color code, kitchen print name, and printers. Similar to the basic spreadsheet, this will export your existing modifiers so you can edit them and/or add new modifiers with this sheet:
- Empty Template: This spreadsheet contains all of the columns in the basic export, but it does not export your existing modifiers. This is the best export type to use if you only want to add new modifiers and you do not want to edit your existing modifiers. This selection also lets you choose Additional Fields if you want to add advanced details to your modifiers:
Working in the Modifier Spreadsheet
The basic exported modifier spreadsheet works using the fields listed below.
NOTE: In order to successfully upload your modifier spreadsheet, fields with a * MUST be filled out; italicized items are optional:
- Lines 1-19 in the spreadsheet provide instructions on how to use the sheet. You can leave them there or delete them, but no action is required for those lines.
- Modifier Class Name*: Column A; This is the grouping that your specific modifiers will fall under. For example, Cheese Types, Size, and Dressing Choice could all be modifier classes.
- Modifier Name*: Column B; This is the name of the specific modifier. For example, Pepper Jack, Medium, and Ranch.
- Description: Column C; Here you can provide more details about the specific modifier. The modifier description is accessible on the Point of Sale. This is an optional field.
- Price*: Column D; The amount the customer will be charged upon purchase of the modifier. The price can be left at 0 if it is a free modifier.
- Cost: Column E; The amount it cost your business to purchase one single unit of this modifier.
- SKU*: Column F; If the modifier has a specific Stock Keeping Unit associated with it, put that here. OR
- Barcode*: Column G; If the modifier has a specific barcode associated with it, put that here. Please Note: Modifiers MUST have a barcode OR a SKU. If your modifier does not need a specific SKU or barcode, it can be an arbitrary number.
- Active*: Column H; If the active status is Yes, the modifier will be available for use on the Point of Sale. If the status is No, it will not appear on the Point of Sale but can still be accessed on the Management Console.
- Sort Order: Column I; The order in which the modifiers will appear on the Point of Sale within the modifier class:
Additional fields that may appear with the Advanced export include:
- Color Code
- Display in Kiosk (applies to both Kiosk 1.0 and Kiosk XT)
- Display on online and 3rd party applications
- Do Not Print
- Dynamic cost
- Image URL
- Is Hot
- Is Quick
- Kitchen Description
- Kitchen Print Name
- Reset Barcode
- Reset SKU
- Third Party Name
Importing the Modifier Spreadsheet
Once you have filled out the spreadsheet following the instructions above, save your file. Then, follow these steps:
- On the Management Console, go to the Products tab.
- Click the Import/ Export button and choose Modifiers.
- You will be back on the same screen from which you exported the list. Scroll down to the Import Modifiers section.
- Click Choose File and attach your saved spreadsheet.
- Then, click Import:
- The upload process occurs offline. You will receive an email with the results of the import. If the email states any errors occurred, fix the issue in the spreadsheet and upload it again.
NOTE: New modifiers that have been added through an import are NOT attached to products. To attach modifiers to products, you can do so:


It's a hard habit to break. Hiya's State of the Phone Call Report found that Americans only answer 52% of the calls received on their mobile phones. Businesses are fighting an uphill battle to reach customers through phone calls. People are simply not picking up.
How businesses can keep up
The public opinion on phone calls is shifting and consumers are turning to text messaging to avoid robocalls, anxiety and disruption to their days. If phone calls aren't going through, and emails are too slow, then what's left?
Texting for business.
If a business wants to keep up with their customers and connect, they'll need to look to the new frontier of business communication and add the ability to text. Let the two mediums work in tandem from the same number to improve your customer response rate and overall experience.
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 1. Austin's Population Is Booming. Why Is Its African American Population Shrinking?
 Last month KUT asked our audience to suggest stories they wanted us to report on. The story that listeners chose is about Austin's African American population. Specifically, why is it shrinking, while every other group in the city grows? In the first installment of a project we're calling ATXplained, KUT's Mose Buchele reports.
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(l-r) ACES's Team Behaviorist Vince Rose, UCLA, PhD research student Marisa Tellez and Holy Cross manager Vernon Wilson.
Holy Cross Croc Saved
Submitted by Marine Biologist Cherie Chenot-Rose, ACES/American Crocodile Education Sanctuary
North of the cut on Ambergris Island, a five foot American Crocodile decided to take up residence in a shallow canal on the property of the managers of Holy Cross Anglican School, Francis and Vernon Wilson. Worried that the bold reptile would make a beloved pet its prey, the Wilson's decided it needed to be removed. With the word out that a nuisance crocodile needed to be relocated, a few locals stopped by and offered to 'off' the cute little bugger for a price. Not wishing to harm the juvenile croc, the Wilson's were put in contact with ACES / American Crocodile Education Sanctuary in Punta Gorda by wildlife advocate, Colette Kase. Being ACES is a non‐profit organization with limited funding, the Wilson's graciously put the ACES's Team up for the night, and the Holy Cross Anglican School donated funds to cover the costs of the crocodile's relocation.
American Crocodiles are not only protected under the Belize Wildlife Protection Act (Chapter 220); but are also currently considered 'Vulnerable' by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and on a global level are facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
ACES's Team, Behaviorist Vince Rose, Biologist Cherie Chenot‐Rose and UCLA, PhD research student Marisa Tellez, arrived on the scene Tuesday, August 4th, at lunchtime and was fed a yummy, complimentary meal by the Holy Cross School. Setting up traps in the hot day's sun, the team caught the croc by 5:00 pm in a snare type trap; and then, collected scientific data pertinent to the conservation of Crocodilians in Belize.
The captured croc was a female and name Alice E. after Francis's mother. In the species Crocodylus acutus, American Crocodiles, the female is the more aggressive. This particular croc had taken up residence in the Wilson's canal because the contained water had a lower salinity than the surrounding canals.With fresher water to drink and ample food sources, from not only the birds and fish but from the nearby workers, the croc was protecting her little water hole with all she had. This was truly one of the feistiest little crocs I have ever encountered. And, even though this croc was successfully relocated to ACES in Punta Gorda where she will be used in educational lectures on how to safely co‐exist with crocs, another croc will most likely move into her now vacant water hole.
It is important to understand that removing all the problematic crocs is not an answer to Ambergris's ever growing problem of human‐croc conflicts. The answer to coexisting with these modern day dinosaurs is to recognize it is us, humans, who are the intruder and we need them more than they need us. The number one thing everyone can do to decrease the number of problem crocodiles is never discard food waste, especially chicken and fish scraps, into the waters. Everyone enjoys a free meal and will choose it over paying or expending extra energy.
Feeding crocodiles directly or indirectly by this manner is the number one cause of croc attacks and is illegal in Belize.
If you have small pets or children and you are living on a canal or lagoon front, a sea wall will assure protection from crocodiles coming into your yard. At times of mating and when dry seasons are extra dry, crocs will seek waterholes with a lower salinity than the sea. Even though American Crocs are a saltwater species and can excrete salt through a specialized gland on their tongue and through their feces, high continual concentrations of salt can be stressful on them, especially the young and nesting females. Normally, these crocs will drink fresh water from the thin layer of rainwater that being less dense lays on the surface of the saltier sea. This year, with as dry as it has been, this layer at times does not exist and the crocs will seek out pools, puddles and contained water areas for their lower salinity.
ACES would like to thank Francis and Vernon for their hospitality and the Holy Cross Anglican School for funding the capture. We praise their decision in taking the extra mile to save this highly threatened apex predator. So many people do not seem to understand the importance of crocodiles in keeping Belize's ecosystems in balance. Not only do they feed upon small mammals and rodents that carry disease, such as raccoons, but they keep fish populations in balance and healthy as well. By reducing the numbers of apex predators, such as crocs, in an area, populations of their prey explode. This in turn leads to spread of disease and famines as prey consume all of the available food sources. In turn, the prey will eventually die off in mass numbers and habitats that once flourished with life will become vast wastelands. With only an estimated 10 to 20 thousand American crocodiles left world‐wide, ACES is making every effort to help preserve these magnificent reptiles for Belize's future generations and to hopefully save them from extinction.
For more information about ACES please visit our website at _URL_.


Newly legalized CT immigrants eligible for Social Security, Medicare, but not other benefits
WASHINGTON -- Immigrants in Connecticut who receive provisional legal status under President Obama's new executive orders will be eligible for Social Security and Medicare, but not food stamps or health care benefits provided by AccessHealthCT.
Under the president's plan, undocumented immigrants whose children are citizens or U.S. residents can apply for provisional legal status if they've lived in the United States for at least five years, can pass a criminal background check, and have paid fees and their share of taxes.
That is expected to help thousands of migrants in Connecticut, which has an estimated 55,000 to 100,000 undocumented residents.
The White House said this week that those who receive provisional legal status, which must be renewed every three years, would be eligible to obtain work permits and a Social Security number. As a result, they would pay into the Social Security and Medicare programs through payroll taxes and be eligible for benefits.
But those immigrants who reach retirement age would have to work at least 10 years to become eligible for those programs and Congress or future administrations would have to extend Obama's actions so that those immigrants would still be considered lawfully present in the country.
The years undocumented immigrants have worked and paid payroll taxes before they obtained legal status would not be counted.
Those who receive provisional legal status would continue to be banned from purchasing health insurance through AccessHealthCT, which provides tax subsidies to low-and-medium income people. Nor would they be eligible for Medicaid, food stamps, heating assistance or other safety net programs in the state.
Yet there may be an uptick in enrollment in those programs anyway.
Many undocumented immigrants with children who are U.S. citizens don't enroll the children in public benefits because they fear that giving family information to government agencies will result in their deportation.
Lucy Nolan, executive director of End Hunger Connecticut!, a nonprofit that helps individuals and families enroll in food stamps, said many undocumented immigrants in Connecticut "have a healthy distrust of the government."
"Kids were eligible for food stamps, but their parents were afraid to enroll them because they were afraid they'd be turned in," said Nolan.
She and others say with the fear of deportation gone, some of these immigrants may step forward to enroll their children in Husky, the federal/state health program in Connecticut, as well as food stamps and other benefits.
State agencies say they're expecting new enrollees in government health care programs, but don't know how many.
"Some portion of them will come forward," said Jason Madrak, AccessHealthCt's chief marketing officer, of children who have qualified for Husky and not enrolled. "The challenge is coming up with numbers."
David Dearborn, spokesman for the Connecticut Department of Social Services, said "traditionally, there has been awareness that some foreign-national parents may be reluctant to enroll their U.S. citizen children when the parents are in the country illegally, although it would be difficult to quantify how many eligible children went without coverage because of that factor. "
"Overall, Connecticut has always welcomed all U.S. citizen children who are eligible for Medicaid/HUSKY Health," Dearborn said. "But it's logical to assume that as more parents gain lawful status, there would be less reluctance on the part of some to engage the health coverage system on behalf of their U.S. children."
The Pew Research Hispanic Trends Project says that about 4.2 percent of kindergarten through 12th grade students in the state have undocumented parents. That's more than 20,000 children.
The Pew Research report said most of these schoolchildren were born in the United States and are U.S. citizens.
Jane McNichol, executive director of the Legal Assistance Resource Center of Connecticut, said there's been "a lot of confusion" in the state's immigrant community as to who is eligible for government benefits and who is not and that confusion is likely to continue unless government agencies take action.
"I'm sure there are now kids who are now eligible for programs who are not enrolled," she said.
McNichols said there's a need for more Spanish-language information and explanation of benefits in Spanish.


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David Beaty, Sr.
David Beaty, Sr. was born in 1783, in Pennsylvania. Probably in Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He died during the 1850s, in Fentress County, Tennessee. He was a brother to John Beaty, Jr., born in 1760, and to George Beaty, born in 1785. These 3 brothers probably were sons of John Beaty, Sr., who was born in Ireland shout 1725, who came over to Pennsylvania about 1750 and married Margaret Montgomery. This couple were parents of the following children: James Beaty, born in 1752 or 1753; Andrew Beaty, born in 1758; Thomas Beaty; William Beaty; Phoebe Beaty; Alexander Beaty; Pleasant Beaty; and Martin Beaty. In his military records, James stated that he had a twin sister; that their older brother wrote their names and birth dates down from the family Bible. But that his brother listed one twin as born in 1752, and the other as born in 1753. And that he (James) didn't know which birth year was the correct one. James said that he was born in Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. But that he was residing in Rowan County, North Carolina, in the latter part of the year 1775, when he enlisted in the American Revolutionary War, in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
Fentress County historian and author, Albert R. Hogue, stated that the 3 Beaty brothers John, Jr., David, Sr. and George were first cousins to the famous Davy Crockett. And that they came from North Carolina to Fentress County, Tennessee, during pioneer days, in the early 1800s. He also said that William Beaty, a brother to James, fought under the command of Andrew Jackson, in the famous Battle of New Orleans, which occurred a few days after the peace treaty had been signed, in the War of 1812. And that William Beaty was kin to Jackson. But if these Beatys were kin to Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson, I don't know how they were kin.
However, it appears that John, Jr., David and George may have been full brothers to James, William and the others. For records show that a John Beaty, Sr. and his wife Margaret (Montgomery) Beaty were living in Washington County, Virginia, in 1803, when her father, Thomas Montgomery, died there, leaving his land and other property to his 3 daughters -- Margaret (Montgomery) Beaty, Abigail (Montgomery) Preston and Ann Montgomery, and to the children of Margaret and Abigail. Records also show that John Beaty, Sr. and Margaret were still living in 1823, when two of their sons -- James Beaty and John Beaty, Jr. -- sold their share of the land to their brother Alexander M. Beaty. However, no birth dates were listed. So, I am not certain if this was the same John Beaty, Sr. and Margaret (Montgomery) Beaty who had lived in Pennsylvania earlier.
But another of the Beaty brothers, Andrew, (my ancestor) had come down to what was called Washington County, Virginia, which included what is now Sullivan County, Tennessee. The state line between Virginia and Tennessee was in dispute at that time. And Andrew enlisted in military service there, in the spring of 1777, and served a 3month period. In the spring of 1779, he served another 8-month period. Then, in the autumn of 1780, he served another period and fought in the important Battle of Kings Mountain. After the war ended, his brother, James Beaty, remained in Rowan County, North Carolina, a number of years, then came up and lived in Sullivan County and Greene County, Tennessee, ten years or more. Then, in 1799 probably, James, Andrew, William, Alexander and Martin Beaty, and probably Thomas and Andrew Cooper, went to Cumberland County, Kentucky, and lived there about 20 years. And, apparently, John, Jr., David, Sr. and George Beaty went from either Rowan County, N.C. or the Washington County, Va. -- Sullivan County, Tenn. area to Fentress County, Tennessee, while the parents remained in Washington County, Virginia, the rest of their lives. For I think that John Beaty, Sr. and Margaret (Montgomery) Beaty were the parents of all these Beaty brothers, including David Beaty, Sr.
David Beaty, Sr. married Sarah Stephens, who was born in North Carolina, in 1790. They settled on the East Fork of Obey River, near Boatland. They lived there for several years, and died there. They had 15 children, whose names, probable order of birth, and approximate birth dates were as follows: George, who probably was born about 1808; Jenetta, born 1810; Mary, born 1812; Ann, born 1814; John, born 1815; Ida, born 1816 or 1817; Jerry, born 1818; David, Jr., born 1820; Catherine, born 1822; Rita, born 1824; Sarah, born 1826; Julia, born 1828; Nancy, born 1829; Cuzzy, born 1831; and Artemis, born 1833.
The marriages of David Beaty, Sr.'s sons and daughters were as follows: George married Agnes Boles; Jenetta married David Conatser; Mary married William Reagan; Ann married Sampson Solomon; John married Narcissa Hinds; Ida married Nathan Franklin; Jerry married Sarah Choate; David, Jr. married Jane Smith; Catherine married Jacob Cooper; Rita married William King, older brother to James and Robert King; Sarah was deaf and dumb, and probably never married; Julia married Asberry Wilson; Nancy married A.L. Shoops; Cuzzy married John C. Albertson; and Artemis married Mese Phillips.
Some of the grandchildren of David Beaty, Sr. were as follows. Jerry's children were: Shade Beaty, who married Mary Hogue; Putnam Beaty, who married Mary Jane Hall; Hiser Beaty, who married Rosetta Hogue; Henry Beaty; Ferzina Beaty married Reese Stephens, her second cousin, grandson of George Beaty; Cuzzy Jane Beaty, who married Walter Harrison Davis; they were Don Hyder's grandparents; Arbella Beaty, who married Tatum Tipton; Viann Beaty, who married Reece Stephens, who later married her sister, Ferzina Beaty; Kit Beaty never married. He drowned in Kentucky. And Jake Beaty, who married Polly Ann Garrett. David Beaty, Jr.'s children were: Catherine Beaty, who married Hiram Cyrus Beaty, her second cousin; Lodicey Beaty, who married Claiborne Beaty, her second cousin, grandson of George Beaty; Richard Beaty, who married Lydia Ann Stephens, his second cousin, granddaughter of George Beaty; Marion B. Beaty, who married Martha Emeline King, d/o his second cousin, Nancy Agnes (Beaty) King and Robert King; Clemons Beaty, who married Lottie Bowden, d/o Joshua Bowden; Julia Ann Beaty, who married James Stephens, her second cousin, grandson of George Beaty; and Ellen Beaty, who married Cull Threet. They are buried in Ferrell Cemetery, in Overton County, Tennessee. Catherine (Beaty) Cooper's children were: Jeremiah Cooper, born 1843; Thomas Cooper, born 1845; Sarah Cooper, born 1847; Cuzzy Cooper, born _PHONE_; William Cooper, born 1853; George Cooper, born 1856; Artemis Cooper, born 1858; Julia E. Cooper, born 1860; James Cooper, born 1862; John Cooper, born 1864; and Jacob Cooper, Jr., born 1866. Catherine (Beaty) Cooper named sons after 4 of her brothers, (George, John, Jeremiah and David) and she named daughters after 4 of her sisters, (Sarah, Julia, Cuzzy and Artemis). David Beaty, Sr. and his wife, Sarah (Stephens) Beaty, have many other descendants.
I don't know where David and Sarah are buried. Probably on the farm where they lived, or in a nearby cemetery.
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Using a teleport command to get out of water while in the swimming animation causes it to be stuck. The player swims on land and is not able to toggle it off.
This also happens sometimes when you jump out of water.
- Setup a commandblock with the following command. Add repeaters to it so you have delay after activation
- Activate the contraption
- Get into a pool of water (at least two blocks deep) and press Shift to enter swimming mode
You are teleported while you're swimming, causing you to continue the swimming animation. Upon re-entering water the swimming animation gets deactivated.


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TRANSITION | CONSOLIDATE | FINALIZE functions. There is one predefined MAP function named IDENTITY that returns (key, value) pairs unchanged. Although (key, value) are the default parameters, you can specify other prototypes as needed.
- TRANSITION | CONSOLIDATE | FINALIZE
- TRANSITION, CONSOLIDATE and FINALIZE are all component pieces of REDUCE. A TRANSITION function is required. CONSOLIDATE and FINALIZE functions are optional. By default, all take state as the first of their input PARAMETERS, but other prototypes can be defined as well.
A TRANSITION function iterates through each value of a given key and accumulates values in a state variable. When the transition function is called on the first value of a key, the state is set to the value specified by INITIALIZE of a REDUCE job (or the default state value for the data type). A transition takes two arguments as input; the current state of the key reduction, and the next value, which then produces a new state.
- If a CONSOLIDATE function is specified, TRANSITION processing is performed at the segment-level before redistributing the keys across the Greenplum interconnect for final aggregation (two-phase aggregation). Only the resulting state value for a given key is redistributed, resulting in lower interconnect traffic and greater parallelism. CONSOLIDATE is handled like a TRANSITION, except that instead of (state + value) => state, it is (state + state) => state.
- If a FINALIZE function is specified, it takes the final
state produced by CONSOLIDATE (if present) or
TRANSITION and does any final processing before emitting the
final result. TRANSITION and CONSOLIDATE
functions cannot return a set of values. If you need a
REDUCE job to return a set, then a FINALIZE is
necessary to transform the final state into a set of output values.
- Required. A name for the function. Names must be unique with regards to the names of other objects in this MapReduce job (such as function, task, input and output names). You can also specify the name of a function built-in to Greenplum Database. If using a built-in function, do not supply LANGUAGE or a FUNCTION body.
- Optional. Specifies the full body of the function using the specified LANGUAGE. If FUNCTION is not specified, then a built-in database function corresponding to NAME is used.
- Required when FUNCTION is used. Specifies the implementation language used to interpret the function. This release has language support for perl, python, and C. If calling a built-in database function, LANGUAGE should not be specified.
- Required when LANGUAGE is C (not allowed for other language functions). To use this attribute, VERSION must be 18.104.22.168. The specified library file must be installed prior to running the MapReduce job, and it must exist in the same file system location on all Greenplum hosts (master and segments).
- Optional. Function input parameters. The default type is
MAP default - key text, value text
TRANSITION default - state text, value text
CONSOLIDATE default - state1 text, state2 text (must have exactly two input parameters of the same data type)
FINALIZE default - state text (single parameter only)
- Optional. The default return type is
MAP default - key text, value text
TRANSITION default - state text (single return value only)
CONSOLIDATE default - state text (single return value only)
FINALIZE default - value text
- Optional optimization parameters for the
STRICT - function is not affected by NULL values
IMMUTABLE - function will always return the same value for a given input
- Optional. Specifies the number of rows returned by the function.
MULTI - returns 0 or more rows per input record. The return value of the function must be an array of rows to return, or the function must be written as an iterator using yield in Python or return_next in Perl. MULTI is the default mode for MAP and FINALIZE functions.
SINGLE - returns exactly one row per input record. SINGLE is the only mode supported for TRANSITION and CONSOLIDATE functions. When used with MAP and FINALIZE functions, SINGLE mode can provide modest performance improvement.
- Required. A REDUCE definition names the TRANSITION | CONSOLIDATE | FINALIZE
functions that comprise the reduction of (key,
value) pairs to the final result set. There are also several
predefined REDUCE jobs you can execute, which all operate over a
column named value:
IDENTITY - returns (key, value) pairs unchanged
SUM - calculates the sum of numeric data
AVG - calculates the average of numeric data
COUNT - calculates the count of input data
MIN - calculates minimum value of numeric data
MAX - calculates maximum value of numeric data
- Required. The name of this REDUCE job. Names must be unique with regards to the names of other objects in this MapReduce job (function, task, input and output names). Also, names cannot conflict with existing objects in the database (such as tables, functions or views).
- Required. The name of the TRANSITION function.
- Optional. The name of the CONSOLIDATE function.
- Optional. The name of the FINALIZE function.
- Optional for text and float data types. Required for all other data types. The default value for text is ''. The default value for float is 0.0. Sets the initial state value of the TRANSITION function.
- Optional. Defaults to [key, *]. When using a multi-column reduce it may be necessary to specify which columns are key columns and which columns are value columns. By default, any input columns that are not passed to the TRANSITION function are key columns, and a column named key is always a key column even if it is passed to the TRANSITION function. The special indicator * indicates all columns not passed to the TRANSITION function. If this indicator is not present in the list of keys then any unmatched columns are discarded.
- Optional. A TASK defines a complete end-to-end
INPUT/MAP/REDUCE stage within
a Greenplum MapReduce job pipeline. It is similar to EXECUTE except it is not immediately executed. A task
object can be called as INPUT to
further processing stages.
- Required. The name of this task. Names must be unique with regards to the names of other objects in this MapReduce job (such as map function, reduce function, input and output names). Also, names cannot conflict with existing objects in the database (such as tables, functions or views).
- The name of an INPUT or another TASK.
Optional. The name of a MAP function. If not specified, defaults to IDENTITY.
Optional. The name of a REDUCE function. If not specified, defaults to IDENTITY.
- Required. EXECUTE defines the final INPUT/MAP/REDUCE stage within a Greenplum MapReduce job pipeline.


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The Digital Supply Chain: How can Digitalizing Produce Helps Solve Trade Disputes
Managing agri-food supply chains is notoriously fraught with challenges. Today, global agrifood supply chains are extremely complex, as agricultural products such as fresh produce often pass through many different stakeholders and cross international borders before finally reaching the end consumer.
The current modus operandi of modern agrifood supply chains often means that information stored at one layer of the supply chain remains accessible only at said layer. For instance, information regarding the sorting and packing process of fresh fruits into different cartons often stays at the packers – meaning only the packer knows how were the fruits sorted and what was packed and shipped for each carton.
This often results in a disconnected visibility of the supply chain where companies are unable to track products as they move across borders – creating what we in the industry call the "Messy Middle" where miscommunications, misinformation and trade disputes thrive due to the lack of data and information flows. Due to this lack of transparency, packers and suppliers find themselves facing heavy burden of proof when it comes to proving that they have packed produce of order-specified quality to buyers and retailers.
The Messy Middle of agri-food supply chains
The Unspoken Challenges of The "Messy Middle"
Operating in the "Messy Middle" is a giant nightmare for both buyers and suppliers alike. Currently, the information flow for each trade is all over the place, made more complicated with the onslaught of country-preferred instant messaging applications. Sales teams often communicate through both messaging applications and email threads, making transactions prone to miscommunications and misinformation.
Without a single trusted platform acting as a unifying depository of sales and product information categorized according to each trade conducted, internal company resources like manpower and time are predominantly allocated towards coordinating, tracking and tracing sales orders, shipping documentation, and financial payments.
With the different communication channels, there is no way to verify, find and share information in a timely and efficient manner.
This becomes a huge problem when quality disputes over goods received are raised. A Chinese apple supplier receives a quality complaint for a container order of Fuji apples from its buyer in Indonesia – "there's a problem with the apples for order number 123, they are of poor quality".
Now the apple packer faces an overwhelming burden of proof in trying to show that they have indeed packed their apples to the specifications of said order, as all the information regarding the trade is all over the place, and this trade dispute resolution process is only beginning to happen after the packing, transporting and receiving has been done.
Because suppliers often find it difficult to prove what happened at the point of packing, professional quality control groups are often hired in order to provide a "fair" evaluation of the quality of the products, adding yet another cost of doing the trade.
Disputes often translate to a drastic loss of margins of up to 5 – 10% per container, amounting to as much as $2,500 to $5,000, which is why such a problem is often swept under the rug. Nobody wants their competitors to know they are not doing well or there was a supposed problem with their product. Hence, a key unspoken challenge remains for players navigating this "Messy Middle" nightmare
Hear our founder explain the problems of the produce business here
Blockchain Touted As Revolutionary Supply Chain Technology
That's why blockchain technology has come under the spotlight recently for its application to the supply chain industry.
Blockchain can publicly validate, record, as well as distribute transactions in immutable, encrypted ledgers.
This means that that custody of truth is no longer with one single party within each trade, but instead, trade partners now look towards the blockchain as a source of truth and verified information.
This is also especially valuable when it comes to entering new markets and working with new buyers and suppliers. Having a single, shared platform where information on it is trusted by both parties significantly reduces the friction of conducting business.
With blockchain, buyers and suppliers can now see and agree upon the order specifications that was finalized between both parties, as well as access to relevant product information such as health certificates necessary for exports.
DiMuto goes a step further beyond blockchained trade documentation by providing physical asset digitalization – meaning we assign a digital identity to every single physical produce, and are able to capture a photo of each carton and product before each carton is sealed, upload this photo and associate it to the specific sales order it was packed for. (We previously explained what constitutes a digitalized produce here)
Our proprietary Digital Asset Creation machine, affectionately named DACky
Photo of DiMutoed apples for a specific carton that had a quality dispute (Read more here)
This means packers and suppliers are now able to see the quality of the product before the products are shipped off, and access the information easily according to each sales and purchase order – greatly relieving the previous burden of proof and reducing trade disputes.
Proving The Error and Not Error-Proofing
However, it is important to note that blockchain platforms built for trade transparency shouldn't aim to completely eradicate errors.
An error-proof system would mean greater rigidity and potentially be more costly to upkeep, and less scalable due to the operational differences between individual packers and suppliers.
As Nick Szabo, an eminent computer scientist and cryptocurrency expert, once said, "Blockchains don't guarantee truth; they preserve truth and lies from later alteration".
That's why at DiMuto, we have designed our platform in a way that's easy and intuitive for industry players to use while achieving the primary purpose of blockchain for supply chain transparency.


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What is Memcached?
Memcached is a high performance distributed memory object caching system for dynamic Web application to reduce the database load. It does this by caching data in memory and objects to reduce the number of times to read the database to provide dynamic, database-driven Web site speed. Memcached is based on a memory key / value pairs hashmap. The daemon (daemon) is written in C, but the client can be written in any language, and by agreement with the memcached daemon communication. But it does not provide redundancy (for example, copy the hashmap entry); When a server S stops or crashes, all stored in the S on the key / value pairs are lost.
Memcached developed by the Danga Interactive for LiveJournal.com improve access speed. LJ dynamic page views per second, thousands of times, the user _PHONE_.
Memcached will significantly reduce the database load, and better allocation of resources, faster access.
How to use the memcached-Server-side?
In the server running: #. / Memcached-d-m 2048-l 10.0.0.40-p 11211
This will start a process that takes 2G memory, and open the 11211 port for receiving requests. Because the system can only handle 32-bit addressing 4G memory, so more than 4G memory usage on the server PAE 32-bit processes can run 2-3, and listen on different ports
_URL_ download memcached-1.2.1-win32.zip package
memcached 1.2.1 for Win32 binaries
This is the Win32 memcached server latest version, downloaded directly on it;
With the source package, in accordance with the following steps
1. Unzip the file to c: \ memcached.
2. The command line, type 'c: \ memcached \ memcached.exe-d install'; or run c: \ memcached \ instalService.bat file.
3. The command line, type 'c: \ memcached \ memcached.exe-d start'; or run c: \ memcached \ memcached.exe file. (The command to start Memcached, the default port is 11211 ******)
(Note: after windows memcached as a service to automatically start each time. This server has been installed a)
By memcached.exe-h to view its help


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Go provides concurrency constructions as part of the core language. This lessons presents them and gives some examples on how to use it.
The Go Authors
* Goroutines
A _goroutine_ is a lightweight thread managed by the Go runtime.
go f(x, y, z)
starts a new goroutine running
f(x, y, z)
The evaluation of 'f', 'x', 'y', and 'z' happens in the current goroutine and the execution of 'f' happens in the new goroutine.
Goroutines run in the same address space, so access to shared memory must be synchronized. The [[]['sync']] package provides useful primitives, although you won't need them much in Go as there are other primitives. (See the next slide.)
.play concurrency/goroutines.go
* Channels
Channels are a typed conduit through which you can send and receive values with the channel operator, '<-'.
ch <- v // Send v to channel ch.
v := <-ch // Receive from ch, and
// assign value to v.
(The data flows in the direction of the arrow.)
Like maps and slices, channels must be created before use:
ch := make(chan int)
By default, sends and receives block until the other side is ready. This allows goroutines to synchronize without explicit locks or condition variables.
.play concurrency/channels.go
* Buffered Channels
Channels can be _buffered_. Provide the buffer length as the second argument to 'make' to initialize a buffered channel:
ch := make(chan int, 100)
Sends to a buffered channel block only when the buffer is full. Receives block when the buffer is empty.
Modify the example to overfill the buffer and see what happens.
.play concurrency/buffered-channels.go
* Range and Close
A sender can 'close' a channel to indicate that no more values will be sent. Receivers can test whether a channel has been closed by assigning a second parameter to the receive expression: after
v, ok := <-ch
'ok' is 'false' if there are no more values to receive and the channel is closed.
The loop 'for'i':='range'c' receives values from the channel repeatedly until it is closed.
*Note:* Only the sender should close a channel, never the receiver. Sending on a closed channel will cause a panic.
*Another*note*: Channels aren't like files; you don't usually need to close them. Closing is only necessary when the receiver must be told there are no more values coming, such as to terminate a 'range' loop.
.play concurrency/range-and-close.go
* Select
The 'select' statement lets a goroutine wait on multiple communication operations.
A 'select' blocks until one of its cases can run, then it executes that case. It chooses one at random if multiple are ready.
.play concurrency/select.go
* Default Selection
The 'default' case in a 'select' is run if no other case is ready.
Use a 'default' case to try a send or receive without blocking:
select {
case i := <-c:
// use i
// receiving from c would block
.play concurrency/default-selection.go
* Exercise: Equivalent Binary Trees
There can be many different binary trees with the same sequence of values stored at the leaves. For example, here are two binary trees storing the sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13.
.image /content/img/tree.png
A function to check whether two binary trees store the same sequence is quite complex in most languages. We'll use Go's concurrency and channels to write a simple solution.
This example uses the 'tree' package, which defines the type:
type Tree struct {
Left *Tree
Value int
Right *Tree
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* Exercise: Equivalent Binary Trees
*1.* Implement the 'Walk' function.
*2.* Test the 'Walk' function.
The function 'tree.New(k)' constructs a randomly-structured binary tree holding the values 'k', '2k', '3k',..., '10k'.
Create a new channel 'ch' and kick off the walker:
go Walk(tree.New(1), ch)
Then read and print 10 values from the channel. It should be the numbers 1, 2, 3,..., 10.
*3.* Implement the 'Same' function using 'Walk' to determine whether 't1' and 't2' store the same values.
*4.* Test the 'Same' function.
'Same(tree.New(1),'tree.New(1))' should return true, and 'Same(tree.New(1),'tree.New(2))' should return false.
The documentation for 'Tree' can be found [[][here]].
.play concurrency/exercise-equivalent-binary-trees.go
* sync.Mutex
We've seen how channels are great for communication among goroutines.
But what if we don't need communication? What if we just want to make sure only
one goroutine can access a variable at a time to avoid conflicts?
This concept is called _mutual_exclusion_, and the conventional name for the data structure that provides it is _mutex_.
Go's standard library provides mutual exclusion with
[[]['sync.Mutex']] and its two methods:
- 'Lock'
- 'Unlock'
We can define a block of code to be executed in mutual exclusion by surrounding it
with a call to 'Lock' and 'Unlock' as shown on the 'Inc' method.
We can also use 'defer' to ensure the mutex will be unlocked as in the 'Value' method.
.play concurrency/mutex-counter.go
* Exercise: Web Crawler
In this exercise you'll use Go's concurrency features to parallelize a web crawler.
Modify the 'Crawl' function to fetch URLs in parallel without fetching the same URL twice.
_Hint_: you can keep a cache of the URLs that have been fetched on a map, but maps alone are not
safe for concurrent use!
.play concurrency/exercise-web-crawler.go
* Where to Go from here...
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[[][Go Documentation]] is a great place to
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It contains references, tutorials, videos, and more.
To learn how to organize and work with Go code, watch [[][this screencast]] or read [[][How to Write Go Code]].
If you need help with the standard library, see the [[][package reference]]. For help with the language itself, you might be surprised to find the [[][Language Spec]] is quite readable.
To further explore Go's concurrency model, watch
[[][Go Concurrency Patterns]]
[[][Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns]]
and read the
[[][Share Memory by Communicating]]
To get started writing web applications, watch
[[][A simple programming environment]]
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[[][Writing Web Applications]] tutorial.
The [[][First Class Functions in Go]] codewalk gives an interesting perspective on Go's function types.
The [[][Go Blog]] has a large archive of informative Go articles.
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The title of this chapter, "Drawing with Brushes" is shorthand for applying brush strokes to paths. You'll have more fun, be more productive, and be less frustrated if you take a moment to appreciate the difference.
Envision a graphic artist a hundred years ago choosing from a set of feather pens. Or, for a more modern example, imagine a painter with an array of paintbrushes. Now forget that image and read on. For all practical purposes, drawing a path and applying a brush stroke are generally two distinct processes in digital design, particularly in Illustrator.
Remember that the heart of Illustrator is the ability to define vector paths, usually using the Pen or Pencil tool. The paths can have an almost infinite variety of fills, stroke properties, and other effects. Among these effects is an amazing variety of brushlike stroke attributes.
You can select a brush from Illustrator's Brushes palette and "paint" with it, using a mouse or drawing tablet. The advantage is that you can draw a path and apply stroke attributes all at once. The disadvantage is that you have to manage both drawing and strokes simultaneously. You'll learn how later in this chapter.
However, for most of the techniques in this chapter the assumption is that you have drawn your path, and are now ready to apply brush stroke attributes to that path.
#25 Applying or Drawing with Brushes
As noted in the introduction to this chapter, there are two ways to use the Paintbrush tool. You can draw with the brushes, or you can apply them to existing strokes.
Drawing with the Paintbrush tool is similar to drawing with the Pencil tool. The main difference is that drawing with the Paintbrush tool applies the selected brush stroke to a path as you draw ( Figure 25a ).
Figure 25a Selecting the Paintbrush tool in the toolbox.
To draw a brush stroke in one step, select the Paintbrush tool. In the Brushes palette, choose a brush stroke. Then draw as you would with the Pencil tool ( Figure 25b ).
Figure 25b Drawing a path with the Paintbrush tool and a brush selected.
You can apply a brush pattern to a stroke by selecting the stroke and clicking on a brush in the Brushes palette. This works for strokes that already have a brush applied; selecting a brush in the Brushes palette changes the applied stroke.
The Brushes palette has four icons on the bottom ( Figure 25c ).
Figure 25c The Brushes palette.
To remove a brush stroke from a selected path, click the Remove Brush Stroke icon at the bottom of the Brushes palette menu ( Figure 25d ).
Figure 25d brushesremoving brush stroke from pathpathsremoving brush stroke fromremovingRemoving a brush stroke.
The Options of Selected Object button opens a different set of options for each type of brush. The New Brush icon allows you to define a custom brush. Both options will be explored in the remaining techniques in this chapter, which discuss the four types of brushes. The Delete Brush icon is not used to remove a brush from a stroke; it deletes the brush from the palette.


This video makes clear, with several tests, the big differences between a 4x4 with summer tires and a 4x2 with winter tires.
Front-wheel drive with Vs 4 × 4 winter tires with conventional wheels? (video)
Comparison in the snow: Front wheel drive and winter wheels Vs 4x4 drive and summer wheels
cold climates, rain, ice or snow, there was nothing like a good four-wheel drive system. By having four driving wheels, the torque is distributed better and, therefore, it is easier to channel the energy of the propeller to the ground and move forward. Also, with a all-wheel drive car it is less likely to lose grip when exiting a curve.
However, the new winter tires are achieving that a normal tourism with front-wheel drive can face situations with even more guarantees than an identical vehicle with integral traction and summer wheels. Of course, let's not talk about a front tire with summer tires anymore.
The main advantage of the 4 × 4 traction - compared to a 4 × 2 - is the motricity, the lateral grip difference is minimal unless the driver has a lot of expertise. In braking, as you imagine, the grip is identical. Therefore, it is easy to be aware that in snow with winter tires we have secured a shorter braking distance and a greater lateral grip. And what about the acceleration when the coefficient of adhesion is so low?
In the previous video you saw several tests on snow comparing a BMW X1 with front-wheel drive and winter tires, and another car identical only with four-wheel drive and summer tires. Already in the first test, where a 0 - 50 - 0 km/h is made, the difference is abysmal, even from the first meters.
Later continue making other interesting tests like a braking from 50 km/h until it stops completely, ascent of slope, braking downhill, avoiding obstacle or going through a circuit on snow looking for the best time. The differences in all of them were huge, leaving always favored the front-wheel drive vehicle with winter tires.
It is true that the four-wheel drive vehicle had some tires for very sporty asphalt, a Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3, which are very good at dry and at optimum temperatures, but penalize a lot in rain or cold. The winter tires were a Goodyear Ultragrip Performance Gen-1. Despite this, the difference has been very big.
Obviously, for areas where snow, ice and cold are common, a traction car is most advisable Integral with good winter tires. But in view of the above, it has become clear that any tourism will behave much better in the snow with front-wheel drive and winter tires, than with four-wheel drive and summer wheels.
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White Cape (modern Cape Cod, MA)
Champlain described in his journals the voyage in 1606:
Map based on Champlain's description of Cape Cod Bay by W.F. Gangong, 1911.
"The White Cape is a point of sand which bends southward some six leagues. This coast has fairly high sand-banks which are very conspicuous from the sea, where soundings are found of thirty, forty and fifty fathoms nearly fifteen or eighteen leagues from land, until one comes to ten fathoms in approaching the shore, which is very clear. There is a great extend of open country along the shore before one enters the woods, which are very delightful and pleasant to the eye. We cast anchor off shore and saw some Indians, towards whom four of our party advanced. Making their way along the sandy beach, they perceived as it were a bay with wigwams bordering it all around."


A Roman marble head of a man, possibly the Emperor Trajan
Lot 161*
A Roman marble portrait head of the Emperor Trajan
£50,000 - 70,000
US$ 83,000 - 120,000
Auction Details
Lot Details
A Roman marble portrait head of the Emperor Trajan
Early 2nd Century A.D.
Depicted turning to the left, his stern face drawn into a frown, his thin lips pressed together, his hair characteristically combed forward over his forehead, 11in (27.8cm) high, mounted
 - Provenance:
 French private collection.
 François de Ricqlès, Drouot-Montaigne, Paris, 11 November 2001, lot 335. Accompanied by a copy of the French export licence.
 Royal Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XIV, 2003, no.20.
 American private collection.
 The Emperor Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus) acceded to the Imperial throne when he was forty-five years and ruled from A.D.98 to 117. Under his rule, the Empire saw its greatest expansion through military conquests, conquering Nabataea, Dacia, Armenia and Mesopotamia.
 Carved from marble from the Greek island of Thasos, this bust can be seen as one of Kleiner's 'postdecennial' types: D. Kleiner, Roman Sculpture, Yale, 1994, p.208, which includes those on the Trajan's Column in Rome and other posthumous portraits produced after Trajan's death in A.D.117. For a similar head of Trajan in the Uffizi, cf. G. Mansuelli, Galleria degli Uffizi. Le Sculture, Rome, 1961, no.83.
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Date Dif 1.9
Date Dif is an application to calculate the elapsed time between two dates, or between now and a date.
It can also calculate the number week days (Mon. to Fri.) or the number of weekend days (Sat. & Sun.) for the same period. A date can be moved forward/backwards by any number of weeks, week days, days, hours or minutes. Entries can be saved for use in the future. Time calculator allowing computations to be performed on days, hours and minutes is also included.


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Project: Clean Water
Matilija Schoolyard Habitat and OFG
This project was initiated by Renee Roth, an OFG activist with the Ventura County Surfrider Chapter. Renee learned of the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife's Schoolyard Habitat Program (SYH). SYH offers technical assistance and funding to non-profits working to create school gardens that provide wildlife habitat and an outdoor classroom. Ojai Unified School District Green Schools Committee had been searching for strategies to increase student participation in environmental education and outdoor learning.
The project is being phased in, and will eventually transform 2/3rd of an acre.
Through the project, students observe, explore, and learn while restoring natural habitat for wildlife and contributing to protecting our watersheds. Directing rainwater from nearby buildings into the garden and creating contours on the site reduces the need for irrigating with local or imported drinking water and prevents runoff – important objectives of the Ocean Friendly Gardens Program. On February 3rd and 4th, 2011, over 200 native plants were installed onto the SYH site. Students are hand watering until they can install the drip irrigation system.
Renee has become a resource for her community to help educate and train others, and she is also working as a Regional Organizer for G3/The Green Gardens Group, an OFG partner.
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Using your hat:
- To remove the bobble, grasp the hat as close to the magnet as possible with one hand and the bobble with the other and snap (as if you were breaking a KitKat). This way you avoid pulling on the hat and the seams.
- To store the hat and its three bobbles in the box, remove the bobble from the hat, put the bobbles in the hat, roll it widthways and put it in the box.
- Some hats (meads) have a "loose" effect - they are designed to fall backwards so feel free to pull them back a little to put them on.
- Our materials are tested for pilling, however, like with any fabric it happens after a while. To delay this, avoid carrying your hat in the bottom of a bag or in a place where it could rub and turn it over if it does.
Caring for your hat:
- Wash at 30 °C or 40 °C without the bobbles! It's more environmentally friendly and it works very well. The bobbles don't go through the wash because there is a small spot of glue to hold the threads together.
- Air-dry flat, avoid tumble drying clothes, it's not very environmentally friendly and it will damage your super hat.
- Clean the bobbles with a damp cloth, do not machine wash.


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IZA DP No. 13404: Changes in Female Employment in Mexico: Demographics, Economics, and Policies
The unemployment and labor force participation gender gaps narrowed in Mexico after the 2008 global economic crisis, when female labor force participation increased. This paper aims to understand female labor force participation growth and identify its main determinants. For that purpose, the paper estimates a probit model with data from the National Employment Survey of 2007 and 2017, when the unemployment rate returned to the pre-crisis level. Broadly, the results show that increasing labor force participation of women ages 36 to 65 sustained the growth of overall female labor force participation, women's educational attainment can offset any individual or household obstacle to women's employability, and childcare availability significantly supports mothers' employability.


for every one hour throughout the day, at 5.30, 6.30 7.30 etc. How many such
trains would cross the passenger rail before it reaches Delhi?
74. The distance from Station to Bus-stand, Via Tank Bund is 8 miles. From Tank Bund to
Bus-stand via Station is 7 miles. From Station to Tank Bund via Bus-stand is 11 miles.
Calculate the distances between: 1. Station and Bus-stand, 2. Station and Tank Bund and
3. Bus-stand and Tank Bund.
75. There are some eggs in each bucket, named A, B, C, D, E. If A = 5; B+A =6; E+B =C;
E+C+B = 8, choose the values of A, B, C, D, E from 1, 2,3,4,5.
76.As in the same question above, find out the values of A, B, C, D, E from 1, 2,3,4,5 if D+B
= A+C; 2E =C+5; D+C = E. This is a more complicated question.
77. Three friends divide eggs from a bag equally. After each of them eat 4 eggs, the total
number of eggs remaining with them, is equal to 1/3 of total eggs. Find the original
number of total eggs.
78.You have two cups, one containing orange juice and one containing equal amount of
the orange juice or more orange juice in the lemonade?
79.A student is studying for his examinations and the lights go off. It is around 1:00 AM.
He lights two uniform candles of equal length but one is thicker than the other. The thick
candle is supposed to last 6 hours and the thinner one illuminates for 4 hours. When he
finally goes to sleep, the length of the thick candle is twice longer than the thin one. For
how long does the student study in candle light?
80.There are 3 switches, 1, 2 and 3 in a hall in the ground floor. One of them is connected
to a dining room bulb in the third floor. You can't see it from the ground floor, whether the
dining room light is on or off. How can you identify the correct switch? You can on and off
the switches as many times as you want, but you are supposed to go to the second floor
dining room only once and should announce the switch number from there.
81. A man decides to buy a horse for 600 rupees. After a year, he sells it for 700. He buys it
again for 800. And finally sells it for 900. What is his overall profit?
82.A swimmer jumps from a bridge into a canal and swims 1 kilometre against the stream.
There he passes a "floating cork" coming in opposite direction, going towards the bridge.
He continues swimming forward for half an hour more and then turns around and swims
fast does the water in the canal flow?
83.Two cars (A and B) are travelling in opposite direction with 60 and 40 miles per hour.
The distance between them is 100 miles. A bird starts along with car A, and flies at a speed
of 80 miles per hour towards B. When it reaches car B, it turns back and when it reaches
the car A, again it turns to the opposite direction. What is the total distance that the bird
has travelled when the two cars met?
84.You drive at 20 mph from point A to B and return at 30 mph. what is the average
85.If you drive at 20 mph from point A to B, how fast must you drive back to attain an
average speed of 40 mph?
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The Georgia Conservancy is a statewide environmental organization working to ensure that present and future generations of Georgians have healthy air, clean water, unspoiled wild places, and community greenspace. The Conservancy's tools include advocacy and education
The Georgia Conservancy was founded in 1967 after a former U.S. congressman from Decatur, James Mackay, convened a group of concerned citizens to discuss Georgia's vanishing resources. The earliest work of the organization focused on protecting threatened places. Working in partnership with other organizations, the Conservancy won some early victories when Sweetwater Creek and Panola Mountain in metro Atlanta became state parks, Cumberland Island became a national seashore, and the Okefenokee Swamp was designated as Wilderness.
The Georgia Conservancy focuses on more than environmentally sensitive places. Early on, the group expanded its efforts to include advocacy for clean water and clean air. It worked in the Georgia General Assembly to pass the Metropolitan River Protection Act, which was aimed at increasing protections for the Chattahoochee River, and successfully opposed the construction of a dam on the Flint River at Sprewell Bluff near Thomaston. As early as 1971 the Conservancy's executive committee called for investment in rapid transit in metro Atlanta because of the link between automobile emissions and air pollution.
Because of the connections among land use, quality of life, and environmental protection, by the mid-1990s the Georgia Conservancy began to emerge as a leader in the "smart growth" movement. The Conservancy's Blueprints for Successful Communities program has gained a national reputation for bringing diverse constituencies together to develop and implement thoughtful solutions to combat sprawl. To date, more than twelve communities in metro Atlanta and around Georgia have developed plans for a more sustainable future through the expertise of the Georgia Conservancy. Currently the program is focusing on the implementation of watershed-based plans along the middle Chattahoochee near Columbus, the revitalization of the Ocmulgee River corridor in downtown Macon, and the continued survival of the unique coastal community of Sandfly near Savannah.
The Georgia Conservancy continues to work for sustainable policies for air, water, and natural areas. The organization supported the creation of the Georgia Community Greenspace Program and is currently calling for a statewide vision for protecting natural areas in the state. The group works with transportation planners and state air-quality officials to restore and maintain air quality and thus protect public health and the natural environment throughout the state. It is represented on the board of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA) and works cooperatively with GRTA and other groups to propose alternatives and to comment on proposed regulatory strategies as an advocate for air quality and public health concerns. The Conservancy has urged state and local leaders to take steps to conserve water and has opposed efforts to build reservoirs until the state better understands their full impact. As part of the Georgia Water Coalition, the Conservancy is working to ensure that water continues to be a public resource, managed by the state for the good of all.
The Georgia Conservancy also offers a variety of environmental education programs. Annually it holds the Youth Environmental Symposium to honor middle and high school environmental projects. "Native Seasons," developed by the Conservancy, is the only environmental education curriculum offered in Georgia that is specific to the state. It focuses on how plants and animals adapt to the changes of season. Educators who participate in Conservancy workshops receive the curriculum and tips on how to use it with their students. Children's programs are also available.
Georgia Conservancy members take part in educational programs, conferences, and symposia and enjoy travel to some of Georgia's most interesting places. They receive a bimonthly newsletter and have opportunities to participate in the Conservancy's advocacy work.
Fred Brown and Nell Jones, Georgia Conservancy's Guide to the North Georgia Mountains (Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1996).
Chuck Leavell, Forever Green: The History and Hope of the American Forest (Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 2001).
Richard J. Lenz, Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Georgia Coast and Okefenokee (Atlanta: Longstreet, 1999).
Grace Trimble, Atlanta Regional Commission
A project of the Georgia Humanities Council, in partnership with the University of Georgia Press, the University System of Georgia/GALILEO, and the Office of the Governor.