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were immediately joined by their brethren within the Grand Priory of South Africa. In the subsequent years, the Order was blessed with a phenomenal growth in various different regions and jurisdictions.
Whilst emulating the noble virtues of the extinguished medieval Order of Chivalry bearing the same name, the United Grand Priories of the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem projects itself according to the laws and statutes of the countries where it operates as a fully registered chivalric institution. It is duly recognized as such by all the relative authorities and is proud to have a number of very close relationships with governments, national, regional and local authorities, other established chivalric operations and royal and noble families throughout the world. In various regions where it operates, the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem works hand in hand with local and national government authorities together with civil society in order to further underline modern-day Hospitaller and philanthropic work.
Its primary aim is Hospitaller and philanthropic work throughout the continents. Such Hospitaller work is evident and constant in the continents of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australasia and Asia. Although cordial rapport is encouraged with other organizations working today under the banner of Saint Lazarus, the United Grand Priories does not form part of Lazarite organizations who unfortunately continue to defy the accuracy of historical records and perpetrate the myth that the medieval Order of Saint Lazarus continued uninterrupted after the French revolution.
Additionally, in 2008, the United Grand Priories of the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus, by means of a unanimous vote taken by all of its Grand Priories save one, abolished the self-appointed position of 'Master General' of the Order which was unfortunately introduced without the proper statutory consultations. From that time onwards, the expansion of the Order on an international level was encouraged and properly overseen by means of a pro-active Grand Chancellery fully authorized to ensure a Global Lazarite presence.
With this administrative change in the United Grand Priories in 2008, a number of important milestones were firmly established which included the following:
1. The establishment of a Supreme Grand Priory to govern all the united Grand Priories within the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus with proper and statutory representation for all Grand Priories.
2. The establishment of the Supreme Grand Prior, duly elected by the Grand Officers of the Supreme Grand Priories to preside on the work carried out by the Supreme Grand Priory. The role of the Supreme Grand Prior thus takes the form of an experienced Chairman to the operation and has nothing whatsoever to do with the various uncalled-for trappings and hyperbolic add-ons which are normally found in other organizations which use the title of Grand Master or Master General. The first Supreme Grand Prior of the Order was HE Richard Comyns of Ludston GCLJ GCMLJ, who was also the prime founder and signatory of the establishment of the United Grand Priories in 1995. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary since the founding of the Order, the mantle of leadership was passed on to HIRH Sandor Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke of Austria and Prince of Tuscany.
3. The unanimous agreement within the United Grand Priories that all funds generated from specific regions by the various Saint Lazarus Delegations, Commanderies, Grand Commanderies, Priories and Grand Priories will remain available to be utilized in charitable and Hospitaller works in the region from where they were collected.
From 2007 onwards, the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem expanded greatly in various countries and regions. The Order established itself in 78 different jurisdictions in 69 different countries (as of May 2020) in the continents of North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia/Oceania and Africa and the Middle East. While most of its jurisdictions are organized as Grand Priories, there are a number of jurisdictions which are somewhat smaller in number and thus are organized as Priories, Grand Commanderies, Commanderies and Delegations.
The year 2012 saw the Sacred Medical Order of the Knights of Hope unanimously voting to join the United Grand Priories of the Order during the International Lazarite Symposium held in April in the ancient Sacra Infermeria of the Knights of Saint John. The Sacred Medical Order of the Knights of Hope works world-wide in direct, hands-on medical and Hospitaller work with the needy, but is highly active in the Americas and the Caribbean.
In January 2014, after two years of close synergy, Humanity Healing International, a 501C3 charitable organisation registered in the US and operating mainly in Africa and the Indian sub-continent, also joined the United Grand Priories.
In October 2019, a historic agreement was concluded by which the United Grand Priories would be working closely and collaborating extensively with the various initiatives of the International Flame of Peace Movement, quartered in Vienna, Austria and headed by HIRH Herta Margaret Habsburg-Lothringen.
With these influxes of Lazarite synergy worldwide, most of the Grand Priories of the United Grand Priories are also very active in aiding and assisting the country branches of these organisations, hence being given constant support services from both our administrative structures in order to ensure concrete Hospitaller and philanthropic work all over the world under the Lazarus banner. This synergy effectively ensured that the United Grand Priories of the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus became one of the largest, if not the largest, Lazarite organization worldwide with an international membership of 15,000 brothers and sisters worldwide.
The Order's international presence and activities were also noted within several international structures. The United Grand Priories of the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus was accepted and listed as a Non-Governmental Organisation within the United Nations and is also an active member of several international and European fora, including organisations working with the Council of Europe, international disability and social inclusion fora and platforms.
Today, the Order has a number of its own properties in Europe, America and the Caribbean. It runs clinics and boasts of its own Hospitaller Museum in Nevis. Its hospital and clinical services have been volunteered to in a number of different countries, specifically targeting the vulnerable sector within the communities. Extensive donations for worthy causes have been given by means of fund raising initiatives within the Order's jurisdictions.
It has been the policy of the United Grand Priories of the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus to constantly present the history and ethos of the Order of Saint Lazarus throughout the ages from its crusading past to the present day in an undiluted and non-interpolated manner. We actively ensure that people interested in Saint Lazarus operations in the 21st Century understand that it is a proven historic fact that the medieval Order of Saint Lazarus became extinct immediately after the French revolution. For these last decades since the founding of the United Grand Priories in 1995, we have humbly sought to emulate the Hospitaller tradition of the medieval Order by means of an international chivalric organization, fully compliant with the laws and regulations of the jurisdictions in question, and without the need to manipulate history in order to project an inaccurate account of a wishful Lazarite past. It is, we believe, primarily due to this sincere approach to our members and patrons that one can understand why the United Grand Priories of the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus have grown to be the most active and the most expanding Lazarite chivalric organization worldwide.


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Text messages are stored on your iPhone. If you have a lot of text messages stored on your phone, the device may take longer than usual to load them. Even if you don't have many messages, you should delete texts that contains sensitive personal or business information. If somebody else gets access to your iPhone, he may be able to transfer all your messages to an iCloud account and compromise your data.
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Tap the "Messages" icon on the home screen to open the Messages app. Messages and iMessages are organized into conversations. Note that iMessage text bubbles are blue and regular text message bubbles are green. Conversations that contain unread messages have a blue dot next to the contact name. Tap the conversation to open it and then locate the messages you wish to delete. Hold on a text message and tap "More." To delete several messages at once, tap other messages to select them. Tap the trashcan icon and then tap "Delete Message" to confirm and erase the messages. Tap the "Delete All" option only if you want to delete all messages in the conversation. To delete entire conversations, swipe the conversation to the left in the list of conversations and then tap "Delete." You can use these procedures to delete both regular and iMessage texts.


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In Octavia Butler's historical time-travel novel Kindred, the two characters Rufus Weylin, and his father Tom Weylin, are white slave owners in the antebellum South. The protagonist, Dana, a black woman from the 1970s, is summoned back in time to the Weylin plantation in order to save Rufus' life multiple times. Rufus will then go on to impregnate Alice, whose child will be the next step in Dana's bloodline.
Dana is called back to save Rufus numerous times over the course of his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and as she gets to know him and forms a relationship with him, she tries very hard to impart on him a sense of morality and equity. While there are glimpses of Dana's influence on him, Rufus is steeped in the social mores of his time and goes long periods without seeing or interacting with her. He ends up taking on not just the responsibilities of his father as owner of the plantation and its slaves, but also many of the learned racist customs of slave culture. By the end of...
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What is Sensory Deprivation?
It is a trendy form of deep physical and mental relaxation. It involves effortlessly floating in a sensory deprivation tank, which is full of Epsom Salt that creates a sort of gravity-free environment. The goal is to deprive yourself of any external stimuli such as smell, noise, sight, and hearing.
In that way, the mind completely switches off, thus achieving an unparalleled state of relaxation. Read more in the beginner's guide to sensory deprivation.
What is Floatation Therapy and is it the same thing as sensory deprivation?
The most common method to experience sensory deprivation is the floatation therapy. This involves laying in a floatation tank loaded with Epsom Salt in order to achieve maximum buoyancy. However, both terms are different.
Sensory deprivation can be experienced by means, different from the floatation therapy. For instance, you can be locked in a dark isolated cell that will deprive you of any external stimuli. Sometimes this is a method used by government forces to break convicted criminals and make them talk.
What is a sensory deprivation tank?
It is a tank full of water heated at skin temperature saturated with Epsom Salt. It creates a lightless and completely quiet environment in which individuals float. Often, it is also called an isolation tank, a floatation tank or an isolation capsule. The size can differ from one manufacturer to another but usually, a tank is approximately 8 feet long, 5 feet wide, and 5 feet tall.
How much does a sensory deprivation tank cost?
The prices vary depending on the different models. The cheapest one on the market is the home float tank, courtesy of ZenFloatCo. It starts at $1940. The i-sopods designed for commercial use can reach a price of $30 000 and more. Check out this article for more information.
What is the floatation experience like?
Honestly, it is personal for everybody. To put it in a framework, you feel decomposed and completely relaxed in the tank. Imagine having a time only for yourself. There is no one and nothing else around you.
There is no noise, no smell, no light, and no sight. By practicing regularly, you will start reaching a blissful meditative state. You will also feel how the tension in your muscles go away.
What is Epsom Salt?
The Epsom Salt is a natural compound of magnesium sulfate. It is named after the English city it was first discovered. The salt is indispensable for achieving buoyancy in the water in the float tank. Learn more about the Epsom Salt and its benefits.
Where can I float?
The most common method as for now is to visit a float spa center. The best way to find one is to type in Google 'float centers near me' or to visit this portal.
Is it possible to float at home?
Absolutely! The good news is that it is more affordable and accessible than ever before. Home float tanks are seizing the market and become the preferred solution for thousands of floaters around the world. Who wouldn't want to experience sensory deprivation from the comfort of his home without being obliged to search for a float center, book a session in advance, and drive many miles to arrive there?
Not to mention that if one has a regular float practice, a home floatation tank would save tons of money. Read more about the two most celebrated home tanks – the zen float tent and its upgraded version the zen float tank.
Are there any scientific proofs in favor of the widely spread benefits of the floatation therapy?
Yes, there are many. Clinical research and various scientifically conducted studies show that the floatation therapy has proven beneficial effects on many physical and mental conditions such as stress, anxiety, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, high blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases, etc.
What is the history of the floatation therapy?
The 'father' of the sensory deprivation tank is the famous neuroscientist John C. Lilly who created the first version in 1954 in America. His purpose was to study how the brain reacts in a sensory deprived environment.
The commercial use of the floatation tanks started a bit later in 1973 when the company 'Samadhi' was established.
What should I do in order to take the most out of my floatation experience?
The answer lies in what you shouldn't do in the floatation tank. Read more about the 5 things not to do while floating and achieve an ultimately relaxing float session.
How much does it cost for a float session?
Typically, the price is in the range of $40 – $80.
How long is a typical floatation session?
At spa centers, you pay for 60 – 90 mins. If you float at home, you can do it as long as you wish until that makes you feel good.
How often should I float?
There is no straight answer to that question. It all depends on how you feel it. However, if you want to achieve maximum results in terms of relaxation and mind comfort, it is preferable to float as often as 2 – 3 times per week at least.
What should I expect from my first float?
Your first float will probably feel strange and awkward. This is completely normal and it happens to many beginners. In the first minutes while in the tank, you will feel edgy. You will almost physically sense the many thoughts racing through your head.
You will think mostly about being in that bizarre thing resembling a futuristic sleep capsule called floatation tank. But after a while, you will begin feeling more at ease. You will feel that your mind is calmer and your entire body is in such a relaxed state that you have never experienced before. You will be self-aware while effortlessly floating in nothingness. The right term is mindfulness.
What is the water temperature in the tank?
The water is heated to body temperature meaning that it is 93.5 degrees Fahrenheit or 36 – 37 degrees Celsius. The goal is only to float in the water and to feel nothing.
How does the floatation tanks work exactly?
The technology behind the sensory deprivation tanks is innovative and well thought out. They have a heating and filtration system incorporated in them and they are filled with 10 inches of water. They are also perfectly insulated. Read more about how these intelligently build devices work here.
Is it hygienic to float in a tank in which many people float?
Yes. Thanks to the advanced filtration system that the tanks have the water is constantly kept exceptionally clean.
Are there any side effects of sensory deprivation?
If you stay locked in the tank for days you may start having hallucinations and panic attacks. You may also experience high anxiety and depression. But this happens only following unusually prolonged float sessions. When practicing floatation therapy for 1-2 hours, several times per week the effects would be no different from beneficial to your wellbeing.
What does it take to build a sensory deprivation tank?
While many enthusiasts claim that this is a very cheap alternative to buying a home floatation tank, it requires a certain set of skills, hard work, and time. You have to carefully consider a lot of things such as size, weight, safety, filtration, heating, etc. Moreover, the expenses wouldn't be much lower compared to those coming from purchasing a cheap and quality-certified home floatation tank such as the zen float tent, for instance.
Is sensory deprivation safe?
It is completely safe. In its most popular form – the floatation therapy, it is a highly relaxing and therapeutic experience.
What are the others saying about their sensory deprivation experience?
Honestly, everyone loves it! We haven't heard of anyone who tried it and didn't like it. Watch some truly fascinating sensory deprivation tank experiences here.
Can I float if I am pregnant?
Yes. It is totally safe for you and the baby.
Can I float if I am claustrophobic?
Yes, you can still float and forget all fears. You can go out of the tank at any time. You are not locked and you are not restricted.
Can I meditate in the tank?
This is the best thing to do in a sensory deprivation tank. In fact, there is no better environment more conducive to meditation than a float tank. This is one of the main purposes of the floatation therapy.
What happens to the brain during sensory deprivation?
When you enter in this relaxed, meditative state, your brain produces theta waves. This brain frequency is beneficial not only for our mental state but also for our physical wellness. The theta waves unlock creativity, self-awareness, and concentration. Read more about the powerful mind benefits of the sensory deprivation.
What is holistic medicine?
It is a philosophy that strongly relies on the belief that a person's health depends on the emotional and mental balance that he has in his life. The origin of all illnesses is the distorted energy balance in the body. The acupuncture and the EFT tapping are popular forms of holistic medicine.
I am a gorgeous woman and I am menstruating. Can I still use the floatation tank?
You sure can! If you can be in the pool or in the sea during your period, you can be in the float tank as well. There is no difference.
I don't have any physical or mental issues. Can I still float?
It is a common misconception that one has to suffer from something in order to justify float sessions. This can


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This page describes different features that have been proposed for Multi-Core Debugging. They may be addressed in the future.
Debug Working sets
Debugging with multiple editors visible
The Pin & Clone feature could be useful when debugging multiple contexts simultaneously, but will not be that useful if the source from only one context will be visible at a time. Currently, the user is able to arrange multiple editor side by side in the editor area. However, there are no APIs to allow the debugger to ensure that an editor is opened in a particular section of the editor area. There are two ways to solve this:
 1. Add functionality to workbench editor area management:
 2. Create a "source viewer" editor.
Add context to expressions in the Expressions View
Persistable context
User control over how context is matched
 DSDP DD MultiContext-Context selection.png
 Image: Control for selecting which elements of the context should be used to enable the evaluation of a given expression.
Filtering out disabled expressions
Compare mode in Variables views
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Image: Variables view showing data from two different threads.
(Debug) Locations View
Problem being Solved
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Image: Locations view showing many threads stopped at two locations.
View Layout
The full layout of the view is the following:
 - Debugger Location - This is typically the top stack frame.
 - Thread or Threads
 - Stack frames
 - Fork in the stack frame
 -...
 - Performance!!! - Retrieving stack data for multiple threads at the same time could be very expensive.
 - Clutter - Deep stack traces would still take a lot of space. This view trades clutter in one part of the tree, with clutter in another part. Instead, would stack trace be better placed in a separate window or pane.
Debuggers View (another alternative to Debug View)
View Layout
 - A GDB debugger instance launched from Eclipse.
Stack Frames
Example: GDB
 - Thread - The threads which are within the process.
Example: Wind River Debugger
Example: legacy connection
 - Thread - Threads that are within the process.
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 1. A user-mode agent which is attached to a "hello" process.
 2. An instruction set simulator of a PowerPC 860 processor.
Open Issues
 - Details pane (for stack)? - One way to show stack without forcing too much clutter. Detail pane could show stack for multiple processes too.
 - Configurability - Some flexibility in presentation should be considered to accommodate different working styles. This configurability should include the choice of hierarchy in the view.
 - Expanding stack on demand - One cheap option for displaying stack would be to allow displaying in the view, but still allow it to be shown in the view.
Debug view Modes
Mode selection menu
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Automatic mode switching
Multiple instances
Debugging Programs with multiple threads
 - 1.1) Two or more threads interacting : User is debugging a program with multiple threads which are interacting with each other.
 1.1.1) Debugging threads which contend for the same lock. :
 1. When a thread blocks while stepping,
 1.1.2) Debugging race conditions where multiple threads are reading and writing some shared data :
 2. Multiple threads hit the breakpoint
 5. Alternatively, user steps all threads.
 8. Halt execution when another thread accesses shared address.
 1.2) Debugging a subset of threads : User is debugging a program with multiple threads, but he is interested only in interacting with some of the threads.
 1.2.2) Run control for a subset of threads : User repeatedly suspends and resumes a subset of threads.
 1.2.3) Terminating/re-launching :
 1.2.4) Tasks submitted to a thread pool : User is debugging a routine which may be executed by any thread in a thread pool at any time, and by some threads in the thread pool at the same time.
 1.3) Program with large number (100+) of threads : User is debugging programs with large numbers of threads and he needs to manage those threads effectively.
 1.3.1) User needs to switch between suspended threads
 1. User sets a breakpoint that some threads may hit.
 2. Some threads hit the breakpoint.
 1.3.2) Threads created/destroyed rapidly: User is debugging a process with threads being created and destroyed at a rapid rate (more than 1 thread/sec.)
 1.4) Context-specific expressions : User is using the expressions view to monitor different expressions which are valid only in specific context.
 1.4.1) Local variable expressions : User creates expressions for local variables in a specific function. These variables are not valid in any other context.
 1.4.2) Thread-local variable expressions : User creates expressions for variables which are valid only in specific threads.
 1.5) Clone threads : Debugging a system where multiple threads are executing the same section of code.
 1.5.1) Comparing data in clone threads : User compares variables in threads which are stopped in the same section of code.
General enhancements proposed for Multicore Debugging
Below is a general list of enhancements that could improve multicore debugging for the CDT. If clarifications are needed, please contact marc.khouzam at ericsson dot com.
Stability of the Debug View
Ability to keep the debug view display as stable as possible for the user to quickly see what has changed. We want things to stay in the same place.
 1. Stack list should have the ability to be fixed to a user-specified number to keep the display stable. For example if the list is fixed at 5, we would always show 5 lines for the stack frames even if there are e.g., 2 frames only, or if there are e.g., 8 frames. This feature would optional.
 2. This idea may not easily apply to threads.
 3. When a new thread stops, do we want to expand the new thread automatically? Need a user-option for this.
 4. A good option would be to add the function name on the thread context, and keep everything collapsed. So, a preference could be to choose between expanding nothing automatically but rely on label of thread node, or expand everything (limited by max stack frame to display) or a smart behavior as we do now. The label could match the preference of if we expand automatically or not; we may want a separate preference for how much info is in the label.
 5. When a new thread stops, do we switch focus to the new thread or not. It may be annoying to have it switch focus, in fact if lots of threads keep stopping, it will be unworkable. We could simply never allow switching, but it would be better to have a user preference for this. Having a user-preference to allow switching, not allow switching.
Grouping and hiding
The CDT community is currently working on a feature that would allow to group elements of the debug view into user-defined groups. These groups would be used to reduce the amount of information displayed at the same time, but also to perform operations on a set of debug entities (e.g., a group of cores). Below is the list of discussed requirements.
 1. Expansion state of the groups should be preserved based on the last user decision. However, this should be a user-preference because it may not be the right thing is particular situations.
 2. It should be possible to create many groups but not display all of them at the same time. The user should have access to all the groups and be able to choose which ones are shown in the Debug view. This could be a pull-down menu which lists all available groups, and the user can choose the ones to display.
 1. So we would have the following group management operations:
 1. Create (GUI and backend)
 2. Delete (GUI and backend)
 3. Show (GUI only, not backend)
 4. Hide (GUI only, not backend)
 5. Edit
 2. It should possible to create/edit a group based on already existing groups, where the content of the selected groups would also be made part of the new group. The existing groups would not be changed or removed.
 3. GDB will soon support PTC sets (Process/Thread/Core sets). Eclipse grouping should be mapped to GDB PTC sets. Creating a group in the GUI should also create it in GDB to make it available in the command line.
 1. Need a way to keep the names of PTC sets synchronized between Eclipse and GDB so that the same sets can be used in the GUI and in the command-line.
 2. Creating a group in the GUI will make the group visible in the Debug view. On the other hand, creating a group in the command-line probably should not automatically be shown in the GUI. This will create the group in the GUI also, but not automatically show it.
 4. Need an option for the user to decide if the console focus should follow the UI focus: should the PTC selected in the UI automatically become in


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Handheld devices such as the iPhone and iPod/Touch are portable repositories for a user's personal data. The data may be documents, but it often takes the form of databases. For an iOS application to use a database, it relies on a Cocoa API known as "Core Data." In this article, I examine how Core Data works within an iOS app. I start by explaining how Core Data defines a database structure and what class represents each part of the structure. Then, I detail how Core Data handles a typical file cycle, and how it handles a record transaction. You will need a working knowledge of Objective-C and Xcode a basic understanding of database design.
Core Data and the Database
Core Data gives the iOS app a standard, near-transparent interface to a database file. With Core Data, an app can define a database schema, create a database file, and create and manage record data. Core Data is hardware-agnostic. Runtime support is available on the same processors that MacOS X and iOS support. Plus, Core Data works directly with SQLite, the public-domain database engine bundled with MacOS X and iOS.
Figure 1 shows how a typical database appears under Core Data. The database file is seen as a persistent store. It retains record data between separate app sessions, even after iOS itself shuts down. In memory, the database appears as a managed object context. The context holds a copy of the database schema, and maintains both new and changed records in a queue. It also handles all queries made against the database. The context stays resident only for the lifetime of the app.
Figure 1: How Core Data views a database.
The data flow between context and store is mediated by a coordinator object. Each database table is represented as an entity, each record a managed object. There can be several managed objects within the same entity, and several entities within the same context. A record field is either an attribute or a relation. In the latter type, the field holds a reference to a secondary record.
Core Data and its Classes
At least 20 Cocoa classes make up the whole Core Data framework. Out of those, nine classes play major roles in all database sessions, and it's important to learn what they do. The following class diagrams show just a subset of methods for each class. Consult the official Apple docs for a complete list.
NSPersistentStore class (Figure 2) interfaces directly with the database file. It supports three basic file types: SQLite, XML, or a custom binary. It can handle files stored on a local volume or on a network server.
Figure 2: The NSPersistentStore class.
You usually do not create an explicit instance of
NSPersistentStore. Instead, use
NSPersistentStoreCoordinator (Figure 3) for that task. That class creates the coordinator that links each persistent store to the object context. It serializes the record data, rendering the data into a form suitable for storage. It can move the data from one database file to another. It can work with multiple database files, and it creates a persistent store for each file.
Figure 3: NSPersistentStoreCoordinator.

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text: DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, is a method for validating the authenticity of an email message by using an e-signature. When DomainKeys Identified Mail is activated for a given domain, a public encryption key is published to the global DNS database and a private one is kept on the mail server. When a new email is sent, a signature is issued using the private key and when the email is delivered, the signature is checked by the receiving server using the public key. Thus, the recipient can easily discern if the email message is legitimate or if the sender's address has been forged. A mismatch will occur if the content of the email has been edited in the meantime as well, so DKIM can also be used to ensure that the sent and the received emails are identical and that nothing has been added or erased. This email validation system will boost your email safety, as you can confirm the genuineness of the important email messages that you receive and your colleagues can do likewise with the messages that you send them. Based on the particular email provider's adopted policy, a message that fails the test may be deleted or may reach the receiver's mailbox with a warning notification.

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The platform/terrace knob was common before the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE). To increase literacy the mainland Chinese have, since the 1950s, used "simplified" characters. As a result one simplified character may be used for more than one traditional Chinese character, leading to confusion. One modern mainland Chinese author translates this knob shape as a "table knob" because the traditional character 檯, pronounced "tai," means table or desk. The traditional character 臺, also pronounced "tai"—and the one that should be used for this knob (as can be seen by the shape), means a platform or terrace. Both use the the simplified character 台 pronounced "tai." Since the two words are pronounced the same and differ only in the addition of the "wood" radical for the word "table" I suppose it is easy to see why they chose the same simplified character for both. In spoken context they would probably not be confused.
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text: The non-marine ostracod genus Frambocythere Colin, 1980 (Limnocytheridae, Timiriaseviinae) had a previously known stratigraphical range from the Albian (Lower Cretaceous) through to the Lutetian (middle Eocene). However, during surveys of Seongryu Cave in Uljin-gun Province, South Korea, specimens of an extant species of Frambocythere were recovered. This extends the stratigraphic range of the genus by more than 40 million years to the present, and the species is, therefore, considered to be a relict 'living fossil'. This newly described species is most similar in morphology to Frambocythere gr. tumiensis (Helmdach, 1978), reported from Thanetian (Paleocene) deposits of the Paris Basin. The living species was found in the hypogean realm, in contrast to the fossil species, which were all epigean. It is hypothesized that, like the genus Kovalevskiella Klein, 1963, which belongs to the same lineage, Frambocythere migrated from epigean to hypogean habitats.


text: Making presentations is usually a herculean task for many people. Reactions to the prospect of making a presentation could range from sheer fear through anxiety attacks to even a partial loss of voice. Regardless of the cost, some people prefer to avoid presentations completely rather than face up to what they see as a daunting challenge. The Creative Presentation and Public Speaking seminar is aimed precisely at overcoming such challenges. This 5-day seminar will help participants acquire proficiency in presentation and public speaking skills. They will develop skills in the analysis, planning, researching, and writing of presentations. They will also learn to make a variety of presentations including briefs, speeches of introduction and pitches to clients.


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The transition to a wavy vortex state from the Taylor vortex state has been studied under a quasistatic ramping condition. Six different values of the radius ratio, ranging between 0.7204 to 0.7399, were used. For 0.7248, the flow always evolves into an m=2 state, while for 0.7260, the flow evolves into an m=3 state. (From an earlier study, it is known that the latter transition typei.e., to an m=3 stateextends to values of at least as great as 0.7767.) Therefore, the neutral stability curves for the m=2 and m=3 states must intersect somewhere within the narrow range 0.7248 <<0.7260. The flow states near the intersection should exhibit behavior characteristics of a multiple bifurcation of codimension 2. No unusual transition behavior has yet been observed. Our results compare favorably with recent stability calculations by C. A. Jones.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics


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look like(redirected from it looks like)
look like someone or something
to resemble someone or something. You look like my cousin Fred. This one looks like an apple.
look like something
to give the appearance of predicting (something). The sky looks like rain. No, it looks like snow. Oh, oh. This looks like trouble. Let's go.
1. Have the appearance of, as in This letter looks like an acceptance. [c. 1400]
2. it looks like. It seems likely that, as in It looks like they'll invite us to dinner. [Colloquial; c. 1900] Also see the subsequent idioms beginning with look like.


Digital Phone Quick Reference
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HOLD: Places call on hold with music.
CONFERENCE: Connects six participants, including yourself, in a single call.
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 1. Press FORWARD, dial extension. All incoming calls will be forwarded.
 2. Press FORWARD.
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 3. Input number to store (include 9 for off-campus).
 4. Press SPEED CALL to store phone number.
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The Human Heart: Vulnerable When Hit or Physically Shocked
By Dorothy B. Reitman, Uechi-Ryu Karate
The lay public and newcomers to the martial arts tend to consider the most serious injuries that a person may inflict upon another to be percussive injuries such as the breaking of bones or head injuries. However, strikes that may not even cause bruising could possibly lead to serious injury or even death. [Stephen Drehobl]
The karate style, "Uechi Ryu KarateDo" contains such a movement that contemporary practitioners still struggle to understand. The strike is called Boshuken Morote Zuki in Japanese, which simply means, "thumb-knuckle strike with both hands".
The description of the Boshuken Morote Zuki Strike
Modern Arnis Philippine Martial Art "Stick Fighting" Remy Amador Presas
The black circles in the above drawing are the strike zones.
We will refer to the person performing the strike as "A" and the person struck as "B". "A" drives both hands straightforward in nearly simultaneous bilateral palm heel/thumb knuckle strikes. In kata, the movements are as follows: "A"'s right hand, starting at the ilium, strikes "B" on the left ilium; "A"'s left hand, starting at the pectoralis muscle strikes the right pectoralis muscle of "B". In other words, "A" strikes targets on "B" correspond to his/her own kata starting points. It is important to note that the strike when delivered in a real fight would probably not begin from the origin points in kata. The hands would simply srike from where ever they happened to be at the moment. The kata provides the key to unlocking the mystery of one possible application of this movement by cryptically informing the practitioner where the strike is to be placed on the opponent. The power for this strike is not confined to movement of the arms. It comes initially from the ground /feet, progressing to the knees, hips, waist, and subsequently up the spine and out to the arms to the thumbs..
Can the shock of the Boshuken Morote Zuki directly affect the heart's rhythm?
In order to understand the implications of the Boshuken Morote Zuki, we will examine the anatomy and physiology of the heart beat cycle.
The SA node (sinoatrial node) lies in the right atrium beneath the opening of the superior vena cava. See figure 18-2a. Each cardiac cycle is initiated by the SA node and sets the basic pace for the heart rate. The SA node is the pacemaker of the heart. The SA node initiates electrical impulses that spread out over both atria causing them to contract. The impulse then passes to the AV (atrioventricular node) located near the bottom of the interatrial septum. (Between the atrium and ventricle.) Contraction of ventricles is stimulated by the Purkinje fibers. [Principles of Anatomy and Physiology Gerard J. Tortora, Nicholas P. Anagnostakos ]
The operation of the SA node can be disrupted by shock, such as a physical strike to that area of the torso. When something disrupts the SA node the AV node takes over to initiate a basic pace for the heart rate. When both the SA node and the AV node are Almost simultaneously disrupted, the heartbeat can be dangerously affected. The heart could be profoundly affected to the point of cessation of function.
When the right hand strikes the Ilium a shock wave radiates across the torso, while at the opposite "corner" of the torso, the left hand strikes, which also generates a shock wave across the torso in the opposite direction. The proximity to the heart and the SA and AV nodes may allow the shock waves of the strikes to disrupt the operation of the SA, AV nodes and thereby disrupt the timing of the heartbeat cycle. How serious the strike is depends on where in the heart beat cycle the subject is when hit. The intensity of the strike may not have to be very strong in order to have devastating results. An interesting subtlety was noted by Mr. James Thompson, who pointed out that the potential energy in this movement is amplified by the whiplike phenomenon of the hand corresponding to the forward foot always striking almost simultaneously before the hand corresponding to the rear foot. [Oral seminar communication ]
In training, I was struck very lightly with the Boshuken Morote Zuki, and observed that my heart fluttered and that some light headedness occurred. The strike appeared to disrupt the rhythm of my heart. From my perspective as a registered nurse, I believe that the results of this strike could be very serious, even lethal.
Severe disruption of the heart's life sustaining function is not confined to the martial arts.
In the Philadelphia area alone, several recent newscasts have reported that baseball players struck in the chest by the baseball subsequently lost consciousness and died. A five year old girl in Kyoto, Japan playing catch with friends died after having been struck in the chest by a rubber ball [Mainichi Shimbin, March 17, 2002]
I would like to thank Stephen Drehobl, David Elkins, and Harvey Liebergott for their encouragement and help in preparing this article.
Dorothy Reitman has been studying Uechi Ryu Karate at the Uechi Ryu Karate Academy in Collegeville from Sensei Stephen Drehobl, Yandan since January 2000. She received her Shodan from Sensei James Thompson, Shihan Kyoshi Hachidan June 6, 2003. She has been a registered nurse since July 9, 1977.


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Underground drip irrigation serves two purposes
Dispose of wastewater and irrigate trees.
Water is plentiful in the fruit-growing area along Lake Michigan's eastern shore, so it's not scarcity that's an issue. The problem is with some water that's been made slightly dirty but is perfectly useful if handled right.
That's led some fruit growers and fruit processors to make double use of wastewater through subsurface trickle irrigation systems installed in fruit orchards. The system uses water that would otherwise be wasted, to irrigate.
As Beau Shacklette tells it, a fruit-processing company approached the company he works for, Trickl-Eez Company in St. Joseph, Michigan, wanting an onsite system for disposal of wastewater from their processing plant. Trickl-Eez, working with an environmental engineering company, developed the Agricultural Wastewater Dispersal System that Trickl-Eez now sells and installs.
Shacklette, the regional sales manager for Trickl-Eez in Traverse City, Michigan, has installed systems at four fruit-processing companies and for a few growers since getting state Department of Natural Resources approval for the system four years ago.
The fruit-processing companies need to get rid of wastewater they have used to cool, wash, or handle fruit or vegetables, Shacklette said. The water contains low levels of soluble solids and nutrients. The companies are located away from municipal sewage disposal systems and needed either to install their own waste treatment plants or come up with methods acceptable to the state.
On-land disposal of such water through irrigation is legal, but in northwest Michigan there is a long winter season when the land is frozen and won't accept surface-applied water. Putting the water into the ground below the frost layer solves that problem.
The orchardists, mostly growers of tart cherries, use cold well water to cool fruit during harvest in July. While this water is not considered a waste requiring treatment, there is a lot of it leaving cooling pads and trying to find its way somewhere. "Growers know it's just a matter of time until they have to contain and dispose of the water that runs off their cooling pads," Shacklette said.
Trickle irrigation is growing as a practice, especially in young cherry orchards, so the water has a use.
The system Trickl-Eez developed is a grid of underground drip irrigation tubing that runs down the rows and alleys of fruit orchards. Some of the processing companies are growers themselves, so they have their own orchards, or there are orchards close by they can access. In some cases, they've installed the systems in open fields devoted to production of hay.
"One important requirement was that the disposal system be able to operate year round," Shacklette said. "A subsurface drip irrigation system was chosen as the best delivery system to move lagoon discharge water to adjacent fruit orchards where the trees can benefit from the nutrients in the water as well as receiving beneficial irrigation water."
Allen Steimel, the plant general manager for Leelanau Fruit Company near Suttons Bay, about 20 miles north of Traverse City, said his company installed a four-acre system a year ago as an expansion for their on-land sprinkler irrigation disposal system.
"We process brined cherries for maraschinos," he said, "so we work year around using stored cherries. We needed a way to dispose of water during the winter time."
The water is only marginally dirty since it's used to move cherries that contain some residual brine solution. The actual spent brine is disposed of by injection into deep wells.
In the summer, water used in the pitting operation contains more nutrients, and that is spray irrigated since frozen ground is not an issue.
The company needs to dispose of about 22 million gallons of water a year, and most of that is sprinkler irrigated onto land that grows hay for horses, Steimel said.
Other systems Shacklette has installed vary in size from 5 to 16 acres. When installed in existing orchards, he said, usually three lines are run down each alley. Lines run on both sides of a tree row, about 30 inches from the trees, and one down the center of the alley.
In the fruit area in northwest Michigan, soil is often sandy to gravelly, and trees, especially young trees, benefit greatly from irrigation, and many growers use trickle irrigation in young orchards.
To make the drip irrigation disposal system work, water has to be relatively free from solids or the emitters will clog. In the processing plant systems he designs, Shacklette likes to have two lagoons, linked in series, that serve as settling ponds that remove much of the organic matter. Then the water is pumped through filters before getting into the drip lines. Water from cooling pads does not contain enough solids to require filtration.
Shacklette, who originally came to Michigan from Colorado and is experienced in irrigation systems, thinks this system will work well for food processing plants in any environment anywhere.
"The Agricultural Wastewater Dispersal System can be expanded to many other sites," he said. "It provides a very practical, affordable, and common-sense solution to the previously very difficult problem of how to manage agricultural wastewater and put it to a beneficial use rather than create an environmental problem."
There is also a food safety aspect to drip irrigation. Since no effluent water is sprayed onto foliage or fruit, there are no contamination issues, Shacklette said.
Unlike sprinkler application, where water slams the ground, compacting it and causing surface runoff, subsurface irrigation lets the soil act as a huge absorption system and biofilter, he said. Growing plants and trees can benefit from the water and the nutrients it contains.
The loading rate needs to be designed to fit the soil type, and the system is computer controlled to dispense the correct amount of water, Shacklette said. Trees must be able to absorb the nutrients in the water or they can leach down below the root zone.
The dispersal system includes several components.
First are the pretreatment lagoons, where oxygen is added to provide aerobic, odor-free conditions for breakdown of solids in the wastewater.
Next are the computer controls and pumps that move the water in a controlled dosing cycle.
Filters are very important, Shacklette said, to keep the drip tubes from plugging.
The drip system in the field or orchards is divided into zones, to which water entry is controlled by valves.
The final part is the underground drip lines that are buried from one to two feet deep. The lines contain pressure-compensating emitters.
"One of the biggest advantages to the subsurface drip system is the ability to provide the dose and rest cycles that facilitate wastewater infiltration into the soil," Shacklette said. "Timed doses allow for the even distribution of the liquid waste throughout the day or night."


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Joel Sartore Nominated for World's Leading Animal Conservation Award
On Tuesday Joel Sartore, renowned photojournalist and champion of conservation of animal species large and small, was nominated for the Indianapolis Prize alongside 31 other global leaders in the field of animal conservation. Regarded as the world's leading award for animal conservation, the Indianapolis Prize honors individuals across the globe who work to save species, educate the populous, and shape future ecosystems.
"The 2018 Indianapolis Prize Nominees represent many of the most significant and accomplished wildlife conservationists in the field today," said Michael Crowther, president and CEO of the Indianapolis Zoo, which initiated the Indianapolis Prize as part of its core mission. "They are protecting species and creating successful conservation methods that ensure future generations will live in a flourishing and sustainable world. We applaud their accomplishments and encourage individuals, organizations, companies, and governments to join them in advancing animal conservation."
The winner of the Indianapolis Award will receive $250,000 while the five finalists receive $10,000 each. In addition to the monetary prize, these winners and nominees are rewarded with invaluable recognition for their work so that others might be inspired to follow in their footsteps.


Scientists Find Lost Continent (or, at the Very Least, Some Weird Sand)
Photo: iStockphoto
Scientists believe they've found a lost continent in the Indian Ocean*, one that was wedged between Madagascar and India about 85 million years ago. The discovery is based on an analysis of the sand on the island of Mauritius, but, long story short, the lost continent is far beneath the ocean and is way too old to have any cool ancient ruins like the ones in the adjacent stock photo, so it doesn't really do any of us any good.
*Indian, not Pacific.


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Michael J. Jacobs
2018 Hall of Honor Inductee
In a 38-year career, Michael J. Jacobs greatly strengthened the U.S. information security posture. He led development of state-of-the-art products and services to NSA's customers, while improving government and outside partnerships. His vision led to the establishment of the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD), which significantly expanded and enhanced NSA's data and communications protection capabilities.
Mr. Jacobs significantly contributed to the Agency's recovery from damage caused by a 1970s espionage ring. He assisted in investigations, performed damage assessments, and served as the Agency's principal spokesman to affected U.S. and Allied organizations.
In the 1990s, under Mr. Jacobs's direction, the Information Systems Security organization conducted a study of field cryptographic systems, revealing the obsolescence of many algorithms, maintenance problems, and interoperability issues. Based on the Jacobs study, NSA developed a cryptographic modernization roadmap that led to a U.S. Department of Defense-wide strategy for upgrading products/systems and the supporting key management infrastructure.
Mr. Jacobs developed a layered IA strategy that included a mix of government and commercial-off-the-shelf products to protect government networks, including NSA's own. Moreover, he took the controversial step of putting algorithms approved by public cryptographers and IAD crypto mathematicians into commercial products used to protect sensitive information.
Mr. Jacobs propelled the IAD into a period of unprecedented growth in its mission, establishing NSA as the unchallenged leader in this demanding and dynamic field. He made bold decisions for the good of the agency and the nation, and his dynamic leadership made these moves successful.


According to News Center Maine, the Maine Forest Service has banned outside burning until further notice because of the high fire danger and the huge amount of wildfires we've had in Maine already this season. As of Monday, we've had 663 reported wildfires, the second highest number in ten years.
Conditions for wildfires have been near perfect; with dry, hot weather and blowing winds. A carelessly discarded cigarette, a campfire that isn't properly extinguished or a backyard brush burning that got out of hand can all lead to wild fires. Over 847 acres of land in Maine have burned already.
According to News Center's article, earlier this month nearly 240 acres of wildlands burned and the cost of fighting the fire was over $100,00. The real hit however, was the cost in wild life and their habitat. A 28-year-old man was charged with illegal disposal of lighted material that ignited the fire that scorched part of Robinson/May Mountain.
For the Maine Forest Service and firefighters, one of the biggest challenges can be actually getting the fire trucks to the fire. Sometimes they need to build roads or drop water from helicopters to fight wildfires.
In 2019 Maine had a total of 356 wildfires, we've already had 663 and it's only June. Let's be safe out there and be aware of the potential for accidentally starting a fire that could very quickly burn out of control and destroy homes, businesses and our wildlife.
Can You Guess These Maine and NH Cities and Towns?


I am building a Ruby on Rails application that lets users deploy a server in the DO region of their choice.
I'd like to show the latency between the user's location and all the available DO regions so that the user can select the region with the fastest response time for them.
The latency can be easily calculated locally in development for each region with Net::Ping using the example code below:
 check =
 start_time =
 elapsed_time = ('%.6f' % ( - start_time))
However, in production, the originating IP is consistently the web host of my application, not the user's IP address.
How can I measure the response time between a website visitor and a DO region?
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Thanks for taking a look _USER_.
I was able to solve this problem by using JavaScript to ping a website hosted in each of DO's regions. I used the speed test websites originally designed to help DO customers measure the upload/download speed from each region.
For example, the code below will ping a website hosted in each DO region and then print the response time latency in the console.
var region_data = [
 {"name":"New York","host":""},
 {"name":"San Francisco","host":""},
for (var i = 0; i < region_data.length; i++) {
 var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest()
 var start_time =;'GET', region_data[i].host, false)
 xmlhttp.onload = function () {
 var elapsed_time = - start_time;
 console.log(region_data[i].name + ':'+ elapsed_time);
 // Send request
Hi there _USER_,
Usually you would be seeing the server IP address in case that you are using Nginx as a reverse proxy. To get the real IP address of the visitor you have to get the X-forwarded-for header value. That way you would get the actual IP rather than the server IP itself.
Hope that this helps!
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In our previous blog, we introduced Service Desk Data Diagnosis, our take on building solid ServiceNow ITSM business cases to make work flow at your service desk. By analyzing data structures and quality from your existing systems, hidden patterns and opportunities come to surface that you can use to improve productivity and reduce costs. After analyzing thousands of incidents across service desks, our data experts have identified three problem areas—the hidden gems—and their solutions. These can really help you mature your service desk operations.
Service desk incident prioritization is traditionally done through assigning a ticket a low, medium, or high These prioritizations are typically also linked to SLA assignment, with resolve time expectations linked to the assigned priority. The system is relatively simple and clear in its intent, but it does not meet expectations when exposed to the complexities of active service desk environments. Data analysis performed on real-world service desk data sets has shown us that the vast majority—often over 90%—of incidents are medium priority. This has two causes. First, the medium priority is used as a catch-all category, covering a way too wide spectrum of topics and situations to properly reflect the connection between priority and SLA. It does not tell you whether an incident leans more towards medium-low or medium-high. This lack of detailed information actually leads to our second cause, as this translates to the service desk agents. A vague and unintuitive prioritization system causes agents to pick a default priority, in this case medium, for the majority of incidents. Low and High priorities are only used for outliers.
Solution: Implement an impact/urgency priority matrix
In order to properly document how each incident priority relates to other incidents, service desks should move towards implementing impact/urgency matrixes. These are provided out-of-the-box by ServiceNow and work with a more granular prioritization, including clear arguments for why a ticket is assigned a certain priority. This system gives service desk agents the opportunity to provide more information relevant to prioritization without being required to make SLA decisions.
Every service desk works with incident categories and sub-categories. These categories are intended to group similar incidents in clear, understandable categories. However, especially as the number and granularity of categories increases, separation and differentiation between categories fades. How do companies find the correct balance between granularity and clarity? Data analysis has shown that companies often suffer from having many categories that are barely used, as well as having clusters of very similar categories. The inflation of categories leads to higher onboarding costs and more complex knowledge management as intuitiveness of category selection decreases.
Solution: Introduce incident clustering & category prediction
The practice of manually defining categories and subcategories based on expert opinions often leads to the problems described above. A wealth of service desk data available at your fingertips offers opportunities to standardize incident assignment across departments. This will save time and resources as well as increase data quality and service consistency. Included in Service Desk Data Diagnosis (SDD) is an incident similarity analysis. This will cluster tickets by similarity to facilitate problem identification and possible resolution. A similarity analysis also provides insights into categorization quality and is used to correctly assign incidents to categories based on similarity. These data quality improvements set your service desk up for success, as they will enjoy better ticket categorization through ServiceNow's Predictive Intelligence that predicts the assigned ticket category based on the categorization improvements from the SDD.
Free text fields for incidents allow service desk agents to provide ticket-specific information that cannot easily be captured in categorical or numerical columns. However, the freedom inherent in these text columns also causes data quality to quickly deteriorate once agents are forced to use these fields to capture structured information that is better suited for targeted text fields. This phenomenon is often found in ITSM systems that provide only a few options for customizing displayed fields to match defined workflows, leading to so-called 'phantom fields'. These phantom fields are often part of scripts defined by management to aid agents in resolving tickets in a standardized manner where the existing system fails to do so. The inclusion of phantom fields adds unwanted noise to each incident and adds complexity in resolving these incidents.
Solution: Configure your ServiceNow instance to match your processes
When providing text fields to service desk agents, making these fields as narrowly defined as possible is the key to ensure consistency and clarity. Most Service Management systems, however, feature a limited collection of available columns that are standardized across customers. ServiceNow, however, is different. Adapting a dedicated instance to your organization's Service Management processes allows the system to work for your agents, instead of your agents exerting effort to work with the system they're given. A closer match between process and system removes the need for phantom columns and increases efficiency.
Taking advantage of the opportunities provided by analyzing existing data before investing in a ServiceNow implementation will lead to significant cost savings. Plus, it will set a strong foundation for your implementation. So, don't wait any longer and let us help you uncover the hidden gems in your service desk data!
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The definition of affiant is a legal term used to identify someone who makes a sworn statement called an affidavit.(noun)
An example of an affiant is a person who gives testimony to the police and then swears to it and usually signs it.
See affiant in Webster's New World College Dictionary
Origin: < prp. of OFr afier: see affiance
See affiant in American Heritage Dictionary 4
Origin: From affy, to make affidavit
Origin:, from Middle English affien, to trust
Origin:, from Old French affier, to promise; see affiance.
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Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (NUREG/BR-0466)
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Date Published: February 2010
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555-0001
The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 provided the framework for the widespread use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. The 1954 Act created the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to both regulate nuclear power and to encourage the use of nuclear energy.
In 1974, the Energy Reorganization Act split the two functions of the Atomic Energy Commission. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was created to regulate the safe operation of commercial nuclear power and began operation on January 19, 1975. Initially, the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) was created to manage energy research and development, nuclear weapons, and naval reactors programs. In 1977, ERDA was combined with the Federal Energy Administration to form the U.S. Department of Energy.


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Dividing the question
The President may divide a complicated question. A question is divided only if the parts of the question are capable of a distinct decision by the Senate. This may be done where preliminary words in a motion have to be understood as preceding each part of the motion, or where a subject is taken to replace a pronoun. In practice, the chair divides a question which is capable of being divided at the request of any senator, so that no senator is compelled to vote for or against two or more proposals in relation to which they may wish to vote differently. This procedure is particularly used where, by a previous decision, distinct questions, such as questions for the passage of different bills, have been combined. If a senator moves an amendment to one question which has been combined with another question, the amendment and the distinct questions are put separately. The chair may decline to divide a question if the request is not made for the purpose of protecting the right of a senator to vote differently on the component questions. Unless this principle is adhered to, a limitation of time could be subverted by divisions on every question and amendment before the chair, in some cases resulting in hundreds of divisions.).


Alexa.Gadget.SpeechData Interface
This interface sends your gadget speechmark data. Speechmarks are metadata that enable your gadget to synchronize speech with visual experiences. One example of an action that your gadget can take based on this data is to lip sync to Alexa's text-to-speech (TTS).
Supporting this interface
To support this interface, the gadget must respond to the Echo device's Discover directive with a Discover.Response event that includes the following entry in its array of Capabilities:
 "type": "AlexaInterface",
 "interface": "Alexa.Gadget.SpeechData",
 "version": "1.0",
 "configurations": {
 "supportedTypes": [
This interface includes one directive: Speechmarks, as described next.
Speechmarks directive
This directive provides speechmark data to your gadget. The.proto file contents are as follows:
message SpeechmarksDirectiveProto {
 Directive directive = 1;
 message Directive {
 alexaGadgetSpeechData.SpeechmarksDirectivePayloadProto payload = 2;
 header.DirectiveHeaderProto header = 1;
message DirectiveHeaderProto {
 string namespace = 1;
 string name = 2;
 string messageId = 3;
 string dialogRequestId = 4;
message SpeechmarksDirectivePayloadProto {
 repeated SpeechmarksData speechmarksData = 2;
 message SpeechmarksData {
 int32 startOffsetInMilliSeconds = 3;
 string type = 2;
 string value = 1;
 int32 playerOffsetInMilliseconds = 1;
The fields in this message are as follows:
Field Description Type
directive Contains a complete Speechmarks directive. Directive
The fields of the message are as follows:
Field Description Type
header Contains the header for this directive. DirectiveHeaderProto
payload Contains the payload for this directive. SpeechmarksDirectivePayloadProto
The fields of the message are as follows:
Field Description Type
namespace The namespace of this directive, which is Alexa.Gadget.SpeechData. string
name The name of this directive, which is Speechmarks. string
messageId An ID that uniquely defines an instance of this directive. This string can be empty. string
dialogRequestId A unique ID that correlates this directive with a specific voice interaction from a user. You can ignore this field. string
The fields of the message are as follows:
Field Description Type
speechmarksData An object that represents speechmark data. It specifies the type of data, values, and offset. SpeechmarksData
playerOffsetInMilliseconds Where the speech currently is in its stream, in milliseconds. int32
The fields of the message are as follows:
Field Description Type
type The type of speechmark data that this directive contains. Currently, the only possible value is "VISEME". Viseme is a mouth position that corresponds to a spoken sound. string
value The value of the speechmark. string
startOffsetInMilliSeconds The start offset of the value, in milliseconds.
To determine how to sync speechmark data to Alexa's speech, use startOffsetInMilliSeconds minus playerOffsetInMilliseconds.
For example, say your gadget receives the following viseme speechmark data at playerOffsetInMilliseconds = 7000:
value: "t", startOffsetInMilliSeconds: 3000
value: "a", startOffsetInMilliSeconds: 5000
value: "p", startOffsetInMilliSeconds: 9000
value: "e", startOffsetInMilliSeconds: 11000
Because playerOffsetInMilliseconds is 7000, your gadget should start considering the values at "p", and ignore the earlier values.
If playerOffsetInMilliseconds and startOffsetInMilliSeconds are both zero, the gadget should process the data immediately.


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Grade Range: 4-10
Resource Type(s): Web Link
Date Posted: 8/7/2009
This online exhibition, produced by the Tenement Museum, allows students to play the role of an immigrant to New York City in the early twentieth century. Students will learn about the immigration experience by creating an indentity and making decisions about making a living and making a living in the Lower East Side. Video clips of an an actress playing the role of an immigrant add context and give students helpful advice. Panoramic photographs of rooms in a tenement apartment give students a unique perspective into the lives of immigrants in the early twentieth century. This website was a 2009 Museums and the Web Best of the Web Award nominee.
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Antimicrobial Use Over a Four-Year Period Using Days of Therapy Measurement at a Canadian Pediatric Acute Care Hospital
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance is a concern that is challenging the ability to treat common infections. Surveillance of antimicrobial use in pediatric acute care institutions is complicated because the common metric unit, the defined daily dose, is problematic for this population.OBJECTIVE: During a four-year period in which no specific antimicrobial stewardship initiatives were conducted, pediatric antimicrobial use was quantified using days of therapy (DOT) per 100 patient days (PD) (DOT/100 PD) at the Alberta Children's Hospital (Calgary, Alberta) for benchmarking purposes.METHODS: Drug use data for systemic antimicrobials administered on wards at the Alberta Children's Hospital were collected from electronic medication administration records. DOT were calculated and rates were determined using 100 PD as the denominator. Changes over the surveillance period and subgroup proportions were represented graphically and assessed using linear regression.RESULTS: Total antimicrobial use decreased from 93.6 DOT/100 PD to 75.7 DOT/100 PD (19.1%) over the 2010/2011 through to the 2013/2014 fiscal years. During this period, a 20.0% increase in PD and an essentially stable absolute count of DOT (2.9% decrease) were observed. Overall, antimicrobial use was highest in the pediatric intensive care and oncology units.DISCUSSION: The exact changes in prescribing patterns that led to the observed reduction in DOT/100 PD with associated increased PD are unclear, but may be a topic for future investigations.CONCLUSION: Antimicrobial use data from a Canadian acute care pediatric hospital reported in DOT/100 PD were compiled for a four-year time period. These data may be useful for benchmarking purposes.
Copyright © 2015 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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Definition of Unit
1 Meaning of UnitIt is an amount taken as expressing uniqueness in number (one) or quality (e.g. "the Group has unit criteria"). It serves as a reference for comparing, cannot divide unless its essence is destroyed, or lose its functionality.
Measurable things used as basis for this measurement, the unit, which is always one, could not be zero, because that does not measure can not count. One is the drive itself, two is the sum of two units. The first units of which splits to form all the numbers are called absolute units. The TENs are units of second order, hundreds, of third order, fourth-order, thousand units, and so on.
The unit of measure is a number, constant, immutable and repeatable, same species to which you wish to measure. The set of interrelated units is a system of units. The international system of measurements, contains seven fundamental units, which correspond to the following quantities: length is the meter, of mass is the kilogram, the time, is the second, intensity of electric current is the ampere, thermodynamic temperature is the kelvin, of the amount of substance is the mole, and luminous intensity is the candela.
The monetary unit is the pattern of legal tender of a country, of which all others are derived.
In astronomy, the unit, are the 149.500.000 of km. that separate the Earth from the Sun.
In the military sphere under the command of a Chief, armed group is called military unit.
Unit, in the process of teaching and learning, includes the whole of sub themes, included in one central, which keep relationship and systematization among themselves and with the following and preceding units. For example "history of this year includes seven thematic units".
2. Definition of UnitWord that comes from the latin, unitas and refers to the property of all being, by virtue of which cannot divide its essence is destroyed or alter. Amount taken as a measurement or comparison with the of the same species (element unit) pattern.
In statistical terms, it refers to each elemental facts that constitute the whole study. In mathematics, is the name given to the first natural number; that is the 1. An absolute unit, in physics, is which can be defined directly on the basis of the fundamental units of length, mass and time.
A term that also defines a formation of army that can act under the orders of a single-head (head of unit), which has, in addition, can disciplinary. They are called the misunderstood from Brigade up, large units and small, the remaining.
In computer science, is the name that receives generally entire apparatus which is part of the treatment and data processing system, and which has awarded him a well-defined task. For example, we find that a disk drive, is the name given to a computer peripheral that uses diskettes (floppy disks) as support for the storage of data.
It consists of a mechanical system that spins to the disc, and a head for recording and reading magnetic data. They derive from the magnetic drums (mass memory) that unlike the disk do not have mobile recording heads, although its use is very similar to the one of them.
There are two main types, the hard drive, which uses hard disks larger and more expensive than the flexible, and the floppy disk or floppy.
3 Concept of UnitThe concept of unity is an abstract concept that is used to designate all that is uniform, United and such in the world. The idea of unit comes precisely from the one, that is one thing, a single element. Thus, for example unit of matter is present when different parties unite to become something greater or more complex that encompasses them. In scientific terms, the unit represents order, but in social terms the unit can often be understood as a negative if it is considered that the unit represents the annulment of different or distinct.
When we talk in terms of scientific, biological, chemical, physical, etc., the unit represents the conjunction of elements occurring naturally or artificially in different circumstances. So, for example when several specimens of the same species of animal are joined together in a group (a flock of birds) they become more complex, a unit since all Act and move together. A unit artificially attained by man can be for example when gets several ingredients to preparing a plate of food service; each element is different from the rest but altogether becomes all in one unit, something new.
In the case of social phenomena, the idea of unit has two aspects, one positive and the other negative. In the same way that in science, the unit can represent a phenomenon positive when he represents order and working together, for example when all persons of a company or a family Act ranked and securely, forming a unit and each role. The social unit has to do with the idea to unite all despite our differences for a purpose in common, for example, peace.
However, the unit can also be negative when in certain forms of Government, regimes or social and cultural ideas separate or different is understood as something bad or dangerous that should be eliminated. Thus tends to the disappearance of the differences that make us who we are and that we engage in a homogeneity in which none of us stands out for their own traits, characteristics, achievements, etc.


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* Note on silver prices during the American Civil War and historical data more generally:
Curiously, the data from the Federal Reserve suggests that silver did not budge during the Civil War. The series A04018GB00LONA286NNBR is listed as "Price of Bar Silver for London, Great Britain,...Dollars Per Fine Ounce, Annual, Not Seasonally Adjusted." This stability in dollar-denominated silver is confusing because although the silver price in London appears to have remained flat during the American Civil War, the exchange rate between the pound and the dollar went from $4/£1 in 1861 to nearly $10/£1 in 1864, according to the Bank of England. It is therefore difficult to imagine how the dollar-denominated price of silver in London could have remained flat during that period.
And yet, the GPIH data attributed to Jastram also lists both American and British silver prices as flat during that period. It also, however, lists an implied exchange rate of $4.53/£1 in 1864. It would be foolish for me to bite the hands of those who feed me data by claiming that the Fed and Jastram are wrong, but it is awfully strange that silver (of all commodities) should have kept its head when all about it were losing theirs!
Looking at the Fed's notes about the silver price, unless I am misreading the explanation, it seems to indicate that fluctuations in exchange rates were not taken into account in calculations of the dollar-denominated price until the 1930s.
Leaving aside this particular question, the lesson, I think, is that we should always take historical data with a grain of salt and try to keep our eye on the broad trends rather than incremental movements, understanding that that has its own dangers, too.
Source: Inflation And Yields: Gold And Equity Yields
Additional disclosure: I am short gold and S&P 500 futures.


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Researchers at Madrid's UPM Facultad de Informatica have developed a new tool that can uncover and automatically classify bioinformatics resources from the scientific literature.
Bioinformatics resources have proliferated in the years since the end of the Human Genome Project, obliging researchers to spend a quite a lot of time browsing the web in searches. The Universidad Politecnica de Madrid' s Biomedical Informatics Group (GIB) based at the Facultad de Informatica has developed an innovative methodology, the first capable of discovering and automatically classifying bioinformatics resources from the scientific literature.
Nowadays the scientific community has access to many online bioinformatics resources. This number grows exponentially day by day.
Led by Professor Victor Maojo, a team of researchers from the GIB (including Guillermo de la Calle, Miguel Garcia-Remesal, Diana de la Iglesia, and Stefano Chiesa) have developed an innovative methodology designed to discover, retrieve, and automatically classify bioinformatic resources from specialized scientific literature. The developed index of resources is freely available via the web application BioInformatics Resource Inventory (BIRI).
The methodology is based on natural language processing and artificial intelligence techniques used to retrieve and automatically classify key information contained in scientific articles — primarily abstracts. Each article is analyzed morphologically, syntactically, and semantically in search of a series of set patterns that are able to automatically identify the names, functionality, access URL, and in some cases, the resource inputs and outputs without user intervention.
Additionally, the resources are classified by two dimensions: the application domain (for example, DNA or proteins) and the category (functionality/type) of the resource (for example, alignment, database or annotation). For the purposes of classification, the application uses a taxonomy of domains and categories specially designed for this purpose and based on other existing taxonomies.
To validate the methodology, the UPM group ran a preliminary experiment on 400 articles indexed in the ISI Web of Knowledge. A search was run with the "bioinformatics resources" string and selected the top 392 most relevant articles by impact factor. The others articles were unrelated to bioinformatics resources and were entered as a control group to verify method robustness. A total of 376 names of resources were automatically retrieved from the above set of resources. This amounts to a success rate of almost 95%.
Additionally, a web-services-based web application has been built for the scientific community to use to access the index and search resources by name, category and domain.
The key advantage of this method over existing resource indexes is that it is automatically created and updated. As it is a general-purpose methodology, it is being applied as part of the European ACTION-Grid project, the first European Grid Computing, Biomedical Informatics and Nanoinformatics Initiative, coordinated by Professor Victor Maojo.


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You will work with a multidisciplinary team of scientists to develop and implement novel thermal analytical techniques to characterize complex organic and inorganic materials in order to develop new products or advance existing products or processes at GE.As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will:
- Lead thermal analysis capability within characterization organization.
- Develop and/or implement new thermal analytical methods for characterization of complex organic and inorganic materials.
- Participate in research programs at GE Global Research that require thermal characterization expertise.
- Effectively communicate to other researchers at GRC and the GE businesses to provide consultation, written reports, and verbal presentations describing methods, analytical data, and interpretation of results.
- Collaborate with the larger team of experts using other characterization techniques to provide solutions for GE businesses.
- Maintain and provide support for the analytical instrumentation in the lab.
- Doctorate degree in chemistry, material science or related discipline with at least 10 years post-degree experience (with at least 7 years of experience in thermal methods of analysis.)
- Extensive experience in thermal methods of analysis must include training, education, and hands on lab experience in applications of thermal analysis methodology.
- Demonstrated leadership skills in developing, aligning with project needs, and expanding thermal analysis capabilities where appropriate.
- Demonstrated experience working in a chemical or materials laboratory and conducting critical experiments.
- Demonstrated ability to independently carry out experimental or analytical methods
- Strong analytical, experimental, failure analysis and problem solving skills.
- Knowledge of instrumentation and computer interfacing to analytical equipment.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Niskayuna, NY.
- Must be willing to take a drug test and submit to a background investigation as part of the selection process.
- Must be 18 years or older.
- You must submit your application for employment on the careers page at _URL_ to be considered.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.
- Recognized technical expert in thermal analysis techniques.
- Expertise in the operation, calibration, repair and maintenance of thermal analysis instrumentation.
- Expertise in sample preparation techniques for thermal analysis. Design of fixtures, sample supports, etc.
- Experience with design and implementation of current thermal analysis techniques. (thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), thermo mechanical analysis (TMA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), etc.).
- Strong problem solving skills in the area of thermodynamics, kinetics, mechanical properties, and materials characterization.
- Technical leadership capabilities with excellent teaming skills.
- Six sigma and DOE training
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Safety conscious
- Self Motivated
- Flexible, able to work with experts in diverse fields
- Able to work independently and as part of the team and negotiate concrete deliverables for projects
- Able to quickly learn new technologies and skills and thrive in an applied research environment
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines