While taking the facilitator training, I watched a video with Joe Gerstein where he showed the ABC relationship with a lapse and how it often involves a belief (B) or a consequence (C) turning into another activating event (A) thus creating a cascade of ABCs. This intrigued me, and putting it together with the way I had noticed my own urge experiences, I realized most of the time there is a basic pattern an urge takes on for me. Being a very visual thinker, I began to formulate on my computer screen a picture of how my urges occur.
anatomy of an urge-1The graphic included here is the result of this thought process. After drawing out the anatomy of an urge, my urges diminished significantly. It was simpler to see exactly where I was in this process and what I needed to think and do to get out of it.
The diamond shapes represent decision points. It is clear there are two definite choices at those points – yes or no. This is an aspect of the graphic I like because it shows me clearly what the choices are and the possible consequences of each. While in other aspects of my life there may be many choices, with this, there really are just two. That simplifies it!
Another point made clear from this graphic is even if I choose not to debate my beliefs and spend a lot of time circling through the cycle on the left side, the problem with my belief does not disappear. This represents why it is that when you stop the addictive behavior you wake up to discover the problems are all still there.
The third point I see from this is there is a path back to abstinence. It leads directly to the debate (D). To me this is comforting. I can make the best choice even after a lapse.
Defeating Addictive Urges


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The Ocean Networks Canada data centre is located at the University of Victoria (UVIC). The ONC data centre has several roles as ONC observatories continuously acquire and archive massive amounts of data each day. The Oceans 2.0 data portal, which is developed and maintained by software engineers, provides access to archived data and can allow technicians, scientists and PI to configure and control instruments via web-based tools. Software engineers based out of the data centre are continually developing and improving Oceans 2.0. Observatory systems analysts are also at the data centre monitoring the subsea infrastructure and instruments, and can often detect and trigger automated responses during network events.
Ocean Networks Canada observatories have shore stations which provide power and communications to the observatories. Shore stations located in Port Alberni, Sidney, and Vancouver, British Columbia provide a connection between the land and subsea portions of ONC observatories. Each shore station has power feed equipment that converts the utility AC power to high voltage DC. The backbone cables supply 1,200 to 10,000 V DC power depending on the length of the backbone cable. Network equipment in the shore stations handle routing, switching, optical multiplexing and precise time synchronization within the network.

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Is it possible to prepare for a food crisis? How should the severity of the health risk be estimated? When and how should communication be established in a food crisis? These are only a few of the questions which will be discussed at the 2nd workshop on 'Current Challenges of Risk Assessment in Food Safety' in the Cape Verdean capital Cidade de la Praia from April 10-12, 2018.
The workshop is being organised jointly by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), the Portuguese authority for food safety and economy (Autoridade de Seguranca Alimentar e Economica, ASAE) and the Cape Verdean authority for the regulation and monitoring of pharmaceutical products and foods (Agencia de Regulacao e Supervisao dos Produtos Farmaceuticos e Alimentares de Cabo Verde, ARFA). Representatives of scientific institutions and authorities from Europe and the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa and South America will be taking part in the workshop. "In the event that an outbreak of foodborne disease develops into a crisis, appropriate political decisions have to be made under extreme time pressure," explains BfR President, Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel, "and this requires the advance development of crisis plans and the build-up of the corresponding structures for risk assessment and risk communication, which then take effect immediately when a crisis occurs and which can be modified accordingly".
During the workshop itself, using the example of concrete scenarios, participants from Cabo Verde, Angola, Brazil, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Mozambique are to prepare strategies for dealing with disease outbreaks caused by pathogens in and on food. In addition to the assessment of the health risk and recommendations to risk management on how to deal with each situation, the primary objective is adequate risk communication in critical situations. This must be coordinated with the communicative, technical and cultural circumstances of each respective affected region and it must also reach the people it is addressed to representatives of the responsible authorities as well as normal people. In essence, the goal of the workshop is to develop a deeper understanding of the significance of clear structures in food safety, the advantages of effective methods of risk analysis and assessment and the great value of clear, unequivocal, consistent and timely communication of risks.
About the BfR
The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) is a scientifically independent institution within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) in Germany. It advises the Federal Government and Federal Laender on questions of food, chemical and product safety. The BfR conducts its own research on topics that are closely linked to its assessment tasks.
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Addressing health challenges in the aftermath of Typhoon Pablo
28 December 2012. Typhoon Pablo is one of the most destructive typhoons that hit the Philippines in 2012. The widespread damage to affected areas is considered the most devastating for a region that has never been affected by such extreme disaster in many years. The typhoon also hit a vulnerable population that lives in remote areas affected by armed conflict and civil unrest.
Response to the crisis caused by Typhoon Bopha
Typhoon Bopha (locally referred to as "Pablo") struck the Philippines in eastern Mindanao on 4 December. The typhoon caused heavy rains and flooding affecting 5 412 140 people in 287 cities and municipalities. As of 11 December, there were 714 deaths, 1906 injuries and 890 missing people, mainly in Compostela Valley province. WHO is supporting health authorities and health partners to coordinate the response to the affected population. An estimated US$ 750 000 is urgently needed for the initial response phase.
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan (NDRRMP) 2011 - 2028
- National health plan
- Second phase multi cluster rapid needs assessment (MIRA) for tropical storm WASHI - 15 January 2012
- Humanitarian action plan for Philippines (Mindanao) 2012 - Response to tropical storm Washi (2nd emergency recision)

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29Bit CAN – Receive message
This block makes it possible to configure a CAN receive message. The block represents the values received recently.
Max. 8 RX messages can be configured. Further messages will be marked as errors.
They can be overwritten multiply during one program cycle f. e.:
- CAN message will be send with 2 ms,
- the cycle of the program task is 10 ms,
- the message is received 4 times, the block gives out the recently received values.
If the output "NewDat" is permanently on High, at least 1 message has been received between 2 program cycles.
Over the parameter dialog (call during implementation of the block or over the context menu):
- the CAN ID (29 Bit),
- an optional description for messages (only for documenting reasons),
- the inputs regarding their data type,
- and an optional description for the regarding input (only for documenting reasons)
can be configured.
Errors during ID giving (decimal/hexadecimal are possible) or configuration of the length of the message (maximum 8 Byte above the assigned data types) are noted accordingly.
Using multiple receive indicator blocks with the same ID is not valid and will be shown as error during download.
Over the error browser the remarked blocks can be searched.
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The Extended Marketing Mix for Service Industry: Additional 3 P's
The additional 3Ps are People, Process and Physical Evidence.
These additional 3P are required because of the special characteristics of the Service Industry. The product of a service industry is not tangible. The Service cannot be manufactured and inventoried but are often produced & delivered simultaneously. The service cannot be touched or felt but has to be experienced. The quality of the service is perceived quality and depends upon who is providing, when is providing and how is providing. The services are perishable and depend upon the people who are providing, the ambience where it is being provided and the way it is being provided. Because of certain characteristics like intangibility, inseparability, heterogeneity, perishability etc. Service industry needs additional marketing mix elements.
The Process industrializes and standardizes the services, Physical evidence tangibilizes the services and people (personnel) are the essential parts of the service.
- Process: The sub elements of process are flow of activities, service steps, and involvement of the customers.
- Physical evidence: The sub elements of physical evidence are Ambience, facility design, Equipment, signage, Employee attire, Displays etc.
- People: The sub elements of people are Employees and customers.


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Staying in Luxembourg for less than 90 days as a third-country national and family member of an EU citizen or Luxembourg national
During the transition period as foreseen by the Withdrawal Agreement concluded between the United Kingdom and the European Union, British citizens remain subject to the same rules and procedures as EU citizens.
Third-country nationals who are family members of an EU citizen or Luxembourg national may stay in Luxembourg for less than 3 months provided that they are effectively considered to be a family member, and after having performed certain formalities.
Who is concerned
"EU citizens" are nationals of an EU Member State.
Nationals of the other Contracting Parties of the European Economic Area Agreement (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) and the Swiss Confederation are treated as EU citizens.
The following are considered to be family members:
 - the spouse;
 - the registered partner;
 - the direct descendants (sons or daughters) of the EU citizen or of their spouse/partner if the child is under 21 or is under their care;
 - the direct ascendants (father or mother) if they are under the care of the EU citizen or their spouse/partner;
 - any other family member if:
 - in their country of origin, they were under the care or were a member of the household of the EU citizen benefiting from the authorisation to stay; or
 - for any serious health issues, the EU citizen will personally cover the needs of the family member in question;
 - the non-registered partner (cohabitation - common-law union) with whom the EU citizen has a duly demonstrated long-term relationship. These partners cannot be linked to another person through marriage, declared partnership or long-term relationship. The long-term nature of the relationship is assessed according to how strong, long-lasting and stable the links between the partners are, including, in concrete terms:
 - uninterrupted legal cohabitation lasting at least a year before the request;
 - a common child for whom they share parental responsibility.
Any person claiming to be a dependent must provide proof of financial support, i.e. proof of poverty in the country of origin, or proof of regular payments (bank transfers, agency transfers, etc. stating the name of the sender and the beneficiary) made to them by the person they wish to join in Luxembourg. These transfers must have been made regularly over a period of at least 6 months before the family reunification request was submitted. The amounts to be taken into account must have been sufficient to cover the needs of the applicant in the country of origin.
Family members of Luxembourg nationals are treated as family members of EU citizens.
Specific case of a third-country national wishing to come to Luxembourg to get married:
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The right of residence for an EU citizen and members of their family is conditional on them not becoming unreasonably dependent on the social welfare system. This dependency is currently assessed by considering criteria including the amount and duration of the non-contributory benefits paid, as well as the period of residency.
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Before entering the country, third-country nationals wishing to stay in Luxembourg must hold a valid passport.
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Many plant populations fluctuate between years of high and low seed production. These fluctuations, often called mast-seeding, have typically been attributed to fluctuations in resource availability.
Recent theoretical models show that mast-seeding could also be due to the dynamics of resource allocation within individuals, synchronized among individuals by pollen limitation in low flowering years. This "pollen coupling" mechanism appears to explain synchronous, alternate-year flowering in a perennial wildflower, Astragalus scaphoides. Our past research shows that plants are more pollen limited in low-flowering years, and that pollen coupling models fit to data for this species predict alternate-year flowering in the absence of environmental forcing. Here, we present tests of two additional components of pollen coupling. First, we directly tested whether preventing fruit set caused plants to flower in successive years.
Removing flowers in 2005, a high flowering year, caused these plants to flower again in 2006. Because few other plants flowered in 2006, these plants did not set seed, and flowered again in 2007. We also directly measured resource depletion by quantifying N, P, and nonstructural carbohydrates before flowering, after fruiting, and at the end of the season in plants with flowers removed.


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Date of Degree
MS (Master of Science)
Energy efficiency of industrial systems is of great concern to many. Modeling and optimization of industrial systems has been an active research area aiming at improvement of energy efficiency of these systems. Traditional analytical and physics-based methods, reported in literature, limit modeling industrial systems, which are complex, nonlinear, and dynamic.
Due to progress in data collection techniques, large volume of data has been collected and stored for analysis. Although much valuable information is contained in such data, utilization of the data in modeling industrial systems is lagging. Data mining is a novel science, providing a platform and techniques to model complex systems and processes. Data mining techniques have been widely applied in modeling various systems.
In this Thesis, two energy intensive industrial systems are investigated, a pump system in wastewater treatment plants, and an HVAC system in commercial buildings. Data mining is utilized to derive models describing the relationship between target, operational cost of systems, and system control variables. An optimization model is constructed to minimize operational cost of a system, and intelligent algorithms are employed to solve the optimization models. The study demonstrates a considerable energy saving by applying the proposed control strategy.
The approach developed in this Thesis can be applied to industrial systems other than the pump and HVAC systems.
Data Mining, HVAC, Pump
ix, 72 pages
Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-72).
Copyright 2014 Xiaofei HE


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How To Solve Circles For CAT
Circles for CAT forms a big part of the geometry topic in the quantitative section. Clear your basics with this article prepared by IIM Skills – online CAT coaching
Circles and their concepts are an important topic of the geometry section of CAT quantitative ability. CAT asks many questions from circles in the quant section. Many questions in quant CAT that are not directly asking circles make use of some indirect concepts of circles.
Here we will learn important concepts of circles for CAT, theorems, principles, definitions, properties of circles, and how to prepare for CAT quantitative ability easily.
Definition of Circle:
A circle is a closed two-dimensional figure formed by a set of points that lie on the same plane and are at an equal distance from a certain point. That point is called the center of the circle and the distance of any point on the circle from its center is called the radius of the circle.
Terms related to a Circle:
Let us talk about various concepts and definitions that come in circles for CAT.
The diameter is the distance between two opposite points on a circle. The diameter passes from the center of the circle. The diameter is double the length of the radius. All diameters have the same length. A circle can have many diameters since it is a line segment joining any two diametrically opposite points.
Any line segment from any point on the circle to the center of the circle is the radius. The length of the radius is half of the diameter.
In a circle with center O and two points A and B on the circle, and are the radii of this circle. The radii of any circle are all equal in length.
One half of a circle cut along any diameter is a semi-circle.
An arc is just any part of the circle. An arc is measured in degrees of the angle it makes with the center.
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Important properties of Arcs:
(i) The measure of an Arc
- A semi-circle is also an arc with a measure of 180 degrees.
- The measure of a minor arc is the measure of the smaller angle it makes with the center. Let us consider a circle where BC is the minor arc. With measure 45 degrees.
- The measure of a major arc BAC is 360-(measure of corresponding minor arc) =360-m(Arc BDC) = 360– 45= 315 degrees
(ii) Intercepted Angle
An angle with vertex (A) as one point on the arc apart from its end-points( B and C here) and forming a triangle BAC so the sides BA and CA make an angle CAB. This Angle CAB is inscribed by the arc BAC.
(iii) Intercepted Arc
An arc is intercepted by an angle when sides that make the angle contain an endpoint of the arc, and the arc lies in the interior area of the angle, except for its endpoints. Arc DB and arc CA are intercepted by the COA.
Any line that touches the circle only once is called a tangent to that circle. All tangents are perpendicular to the radius at the point of contact.
In the above figure, the line with points B and C is a tangent to the circle. The tangent touches the circle at point B and is perpendicular to the radius OB ie. BC is perpendicular to OB.
A chord is a line segment with both ends lying on the circle, but it does not have to pass from the center of the circle.
It is a line that intersects the circle at two different points. A secant is just an extended form of a chord.
The circumference of the circle is the length of the perimeter of a circle.
The formula for the circumference of a circle is
Circumference of circle C =?d = 2?r (? =3.142)
where C = circumference, d = diameter, and r = radius.
The area of a circle is the area inside the boundary of the circle.
The formula for the area of the circle is:
Area of a circle, A =?r2
where A = area and r = radius.
Types of circles:
These are various types of circles you need to know for circles for CAT.
(i) Concentric Circles:
Circles having the same center and lying on the same plane are called concentric circles.
(ii) Tangent Circles:
Circles that lie in the same plane and have only one point in common are called tangent circles
Only one circle can pass through any 3 non-collinear points.
An infinite number of circles can be drawn passing through any 2 points.
Properties Of circles: Chords, Tangents, and Secants:
QUestions in quantitative ability CAT for circles for CAT can come either directly or indirectly on these properties.
PROPERTY 1: A line from the center of a circle perpendicular to a chord of the circle bisects the chord into two equal parts. Conversely, it can be said that the line segment joining the center of the circle and the midpoint of any chord makes a right angle with the chord.
PROPERTY 2: Chords of a circle or congruent circles that are equal, are equidistant from the center of the circle.
Conversely, two chords inside a circle or two congruent circles that are at the same distance from the center of the circle, that make the same angle with the line drawn from the center are equal.
PROPERTY 3: "Equal chords subtend equal angles at the center". This is true for one circle or a group of congruent circles.
Conversely, chords that subtend equal angles at the center of one circle or congruent circles, are equal in length.
Tangent Perpendicularity Theorem:
Any tangent to a circle and the radius through the point of contact are perpendicular to each other. If O is the center of the circle, A is the point of contact of the tangent X, then OA 丄 X
Take any point on the circle, there is only one line passing through that point that is the tangent to that circle.
From any point outside the circle, precisely two tangents can be drawn onto that circle.
No tangents can be drawn from any point inside the circle.
PROPERTY 5: The lengths of two tangents to the circle, from any external point, are equal.
If two tangents are drawn from a point C lying outside the circle touching the circle at points A and B, then AC=BC
5.1) In two tangent circles, the point of contact lies on the straight line through the centers of both circles.
5.2) In two tangent circles, the distance between the centers of both circles = sum of their radii.
5.3) If any two circles touch each other internally at one point, the distance between the centers=difference of the radii.
Distance between centers AB = | AC-BC | where B is the point of contact
PROPERTY 6: Angle subtended by a diameter
(i) The diameter subtends an obtuse angle at any point E lying inside of the circle AEB>900
(ii) The diameter of a circle subtends an acute angle at any point E in the exterior of the circle AEB<900
(iii) The diameter of a circle subtends a right angle at any point lying on the circle. AEB=900
Also, if a line segment subtends a right angle at a point on the circle, then the line segment is the diameter of the circle
Angles inscribed by one arc on any point on the circle are equal ∠AOB=∠ACB as they are inscribed by the same arc AB. O and C are two distinct points on the circle.
PROPERTY 8: Equal arcs of a circle make equal chords. Conversely, equal chords of a circle make arc equal to each other.
PROPERTY 9: Inscribed angle theorem: The measure of an angle inscribed by an arc (at any point on the circle) is half the measure of the arc.
The sum of opposite angles of a cyclic quadrilateral is always 180 degree
If a and b are opposite angles, a+b=180
PROPERTY 11: "If a line segment joining two points subtends equal angles at two other points lying on the same side of the line containing the segment, then the four points lie on the same circle."
Points A, B, C, D lie on one circle; i.e. they are concyclic points.
PROPERTY 12: If two secants intersect outside of the circle, the angle that they intersect at is equal to half of the difference of the length of the arcs intercepted by them on the circle.
PROPERTY 13: If two secants intersect inside the circle, the angle they intersect at is equal to half the sum of the measures of the arcs intercepted by them.
If a tangent and a secant intersect outside the circle, the angle of intersection is half the difference of the length of the arc intercepted by them.
PROPERTY 16: Common Tangents
16.1)The two circles that have centers A and B, Where QP and SR are two direct common tangents and DC and FE are two transverse common tangents of both circles(Only two of each of direct common and transverse can be made with two circles).
Where r1 and r2 are the radii of the two circles
Length of Direct common tangent PQ = √ ((AB)2 – (r1– r2 )2 )
Length of the transverse common tangent CD = √ ((AB)2 – (r1+ r2 )2 )
These were all the properties you need to learn to score in circles for the CAT section in quant.
Importance of Quantitative ability
So why does CAT ask quant problems? And specifically questions on circles for CAT?


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After completing at least six hours of STEM Kit instruction and implementation, please do the following:
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whereas specifying "noun" will generate shook their heads in agreement. There are very many searches one might try, though in practice most searches are relatively simple.
Context searches can also be used to exclude unwanted items: thus you could input a query of weapons of using the phrase option for the Query type (described in the section above), then exclude "destruction" by typing it into the Context Lemma box, specifying Right and then selecting "None" from the drop-down list. This returns a concordance for any lines containing the string weapons of without the word destruction.
The Text Type section
Return to the concordance query form, if you are not already there, by clicking on "Concordance" at the top of the left hand side menu. Close the Context section by clicking on the expert option "Context" and select the option "Text Type", again, in the left hand side panel.
With the Text Types option you can limit your search to a part of the corpus. If you want to see how a word behaves in the spoken part of the corpus, enter the word in the search box (or combine with other search specifications as described above) and tick the boxes for "Spoken context governed" and "Spoken demographic". Your concordance will contain only spoken-language examples. The partitions available depend on the text types (also referred to as header information or metadata) provided in the corpus data.
== 4. Manipulating your concordance output == _TAG_ Once you have generated a concordance, there are several options for increasing its usefulness. Click on "Concordance", chose a query type simple search and enter the word haunt and click "Make Concordance".
The concordance screen looks like this:
As before, the options above the bar in the left hand side will take you to other parts of the program and are described below. The options below the horizontal bar in the left hand side menu allow you to work on this concordance.
The panel directly above the concordance tells you which corpus you are using, and how many hits match your search item. For haunt, there are 1098 concordance lines.
Moving around the concordance
You can move from one part of the concordance to another either by specifying a number in the Page box and selecting Go, or by clicking on Next, Last, First or Previous.
Finding out about a particular concordance line
If you click on one of the highlighted node words, more of its context appears in the panel at the bottom of the screen and you can further expand the context by clicking on expand left and/or expand right. To hide this extra context click on the "-" in the top left hand of the context window.
To get information about the source-text a particular concordance line comes from, click the document-id code at the left-hand end of the relevant line (assuming you have not changed the "View option" relating to "references", see below). This brings up "header" information in the bottom pane.
=== The concordance menu ===_TAG_
In the lower section of the left hand side panel there are various options for refining your concordance.
* View Options: takes you to a new screen in the main panel that allows you to change the concordance view in various ways. To summarise the functions available when you select View Options (NB if you do click view options then you can select view concordance to get back) :
 * the Attributes column allows you to change from the default display (in which only the text is visible in the concordance line) to a number of alternative views in which you can see PoS-tags, lemmatized forms, and any other fields of information, either for the node word only ("KWIC tokens only") or for every word in the concordance line ("For each token"). The function can be useful for finding out why an unexpected corpus line has matched a query, as the cause is sometimes an incorrect PoS-tag or lemmatization
 * the Structures column allows you to change from the default display to show the beginning and end tags for structures such as sentences, paragraphs and documents.
 * the References column dictates the type of information regarding the source texts which appears (in blue) at the left-hand end of the concordance line. The default is an identifier for the document that the concordance line is taken from. Any other fields of information about corpus documents can be selected and the value that the concordance line has for that field will then be seen. For example, if the corpus encodes whether a document is imaginative writing or not, and the appropriate feature (e.g. in the BNC this is "Domain for written corpus texts") is selected in the References column and change view options is clicked, then the domain of the concordance lines will be displayed in the left hand column and we can see those that come from an "imaginative" text.
 * the Page Size box (bottom left) allows you to specify a longer page length for the display: the default is that each page of concordances contains 20 lines. (Increasing the Page Size will slow down initial retrieval of the concordance.)
 * KWIC Context size allows you to specify the size of the context window in number of characters
 * Sort good dictionary examples allows you to specify how many lines of 'good' examples that the system should automatically rank at the top of the concordance according to the GDEX program (see
 * Icon for one-click sentence copying: You can add an icon for copying lines from the concordance
 * Allow multiple lines selection - Allow user to select and/or copy more than one line at once.
 * XML template for one-click copying (A feature used for specific projects only)
* KWIC/Sentence lets you toggle between standard KWIC concordance view (which appears by default) and full sentence view.
* Save gives you options for sorting the concordance. You can specify whether the output is text or xml, how many pages, whether a heading is included, whether the lines are numbered, whether the KWIC are aligned in the output and the maximum number of lines.
* Sort: Sorting is often a quick way of revealing patterns. If you select this option in the left hand side panel you obtain a screen in the main panel with various complex options for sorting (see the page specific help on Sort) you can alternatively use the other options below sort to simply sort by:
 * Left: one token (word or punctuation) to the left
 * Right: one token to the right
 * Node: the KWIC (also referred to as the node word)
 * References: sorting according to whichever references you display to the left of the concordance lines (as described in view options above).
 * Shuffle: this shuffles the concordance so that the lines are arbitrarily ordered. Since the sample option described below always provides the same ordering for a give sized sample, this allows you to jumble the concordance so you can view only a portion of the concordance or your sample, without bias from the ordering.
* Sample: This allows you to create a random sample of the corpus lines. You can specify the size of the sample (i.e. the number of lines) or use the default of 250. For example, if you search for play (verb) and decide that you do not want to analyse 37,632 lines, use this option to reduce this to a manageable number. (see also specific help on the random sample page)
* Filter: This allows you to specify constraints on the context of your KWIC to retrieve a subset of your concordance. See the filter page specific help
* Frequency allows you to produce two types of frequency information regarding your search term:
 1. Multilevel frequency distribution shows the frequency of each form of a given lemma. To see how this works, make a concordance for forge (verb): when the concordance displays, select Frequency and use the Multilevel frequency distribution section. The (default) "first level" shows you the frequencies of the forms forge, forged, forging and forges. The second and third levels allow more complex searches of this type: for example if you check "second level" and select "1R" (=word one position to right of node word) you will see which words appear in this position and how frequent each of these words is.
 2. Text type frequency distribution shows how your search term is distributed through the texts in the corpus. You may find, for example, that a word like police appears significantly more often in newspaper texts than in other text types. This is a potentially useful tool which could show you - for example - that a particular medical term is not restricted to specialised medical discourse. As with the "references" column in the "View Options" screen, the actual values you can select depend on the corpus you are using, and how it has been set up in the Sketch Engine.
* The frequency option is also described in the page specific help on frequency. You can alternatively use the simpler frequency options below Frequency to simply sort by:
 * Node tags: the PoS tags for all the KWIC word forms (node word types)
 * Node forms: the word forms for all the KWIC word forms
 * Doc IDs: frequency distribution over the document ids
 * Text Types: frequency distribution over all the text types specified for the corpus
* Collocations allows you to generate lists of words that co-occur frequently with your node word (its "collocates"). Where word sketches (see the next section) are available, they give a more sophisticated account of collocates in


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Sending Data from Splunk To Database Using DB Connect ( DBX – Part 3)
In this post we are covering how to to create an output in the "Splunk DB Connect" application and get the most out of your database with Splunk.
Creating an "Output" in "Splunk DB Connect" application
Step-1: Navigate to the "Outputs" page, and click on the "New output" button.
Step-2: Set up Search,
Search/Saved Search : Select whether you want to write a new search or you want to use a saved search.
Run the search to check the output of your search/saved search.
Once you are satisfied with the output, click on the "Next" button.
Step-3: Choose Table,
Connection : Select the connection you want to use
for this input.
Catalog : Select the Catalog (if available).
Schema : Select the Schema from your database.
Table : Search for the table/click on the table
name where you want to push the data
Here, we are using a table "METHOD_INFO",
Verify the "Table Schema"and click on the "Next" button.
Step-4: Fields Mapping
Fields Mapping Section:
Here, you map the data fields from Splunk to the database table. You just need to click on the "Search fields" and the corresponding "Table Contents".
You can add multiple search fields by clicking on the "Add Search Field" button.
Enabling this behavior overrides any rows with the same values, you need to choose a column that can be used as a "key".
Click on the "Next" button to move further into the configuration.
Step-5: Set properties,
Name : Provide a unique name for this output.
Description (Optional): Add a description about what
this output does.
Application: Select the app context.
Query Timeout : Specify how long to wait for the query to
Scheduling : Click on the box to enable scheduling for
this output, otherwise the output behaves as
a single shot query.
Execution Frequency : Set the time interval(s) at which
this query should run (CRON Expression).
Click on the "Finish" button to finish the configuration.
You should get the "Done" screen as shown below.
Step-5: Now you will be to see the data in the database. You can check with Database Team to verify whether data has been stored into the database or not. See the below screenshot for our database.
Additionally, you can use the "SQL Explorer" to test/experiment with your SQL queries before you use them to create inputs/outputs etc.
Hope, this post was worth a read. If you want to know more about the DB connect configuration and operations please visit the below links.


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Is your contractor compliant – and are you?
11 April 2018
Would you allow your dentist to perform open heart surgery on you just because they're a medical professional and have lots of certificates on the wall? That's the question BAFE chief executive Stephen Adams put to delegates attending his session on contractor competence in the Fire Safety Keynote Theatre at the Fire Safety Event this morning (11 April).
Since the Grenfell disaster, the spotlight has been well and truly focused on how competent responsible persons and duty-holders are, said Stephen. "Contractors must be trained and certificated to ensure a quality and safe service. The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 states that every commercial building in the UK must have a responsible person/duty-holder to ensure a competent person is implementing fire safety measures."
He went on to quote the BSI's definition of competence, which describes it as the "distilled wisdom of people with expertise in their subject matter and who know the needs of the organisations they represent". Under the RRFSO, the responsible person must:
- Carry out a fire risk assessment of the premises and review it regularly
- Tell staff about any risks identified
- Put in place and maintain appropriate fire safety measures
- Plan for an emergency
- Provide staff with information, fire safety instruction and training
"It all starts with the fire risk assessment," Stephen emphasised. "Is the person doing it competent? Remember, different competencies will be required to risk-assess different premises. And the people doing it need to know and declare what they are and are not competent to do. General competence covers all aspects – passive, active, means of escape, etc. Specific competence is to do with particular buildings and premises. And competence must be ongoing, as all buildings and use thereof change all the time."
The first report from the ongoing Hackitt review into the Grenfell disaster, published before Christmas, spoke about the need to raise levels of competence and establish formal accreditation of those engaged in the fire-prevention aspects of the design, construction, inspection and maintenance of high-rise residential and complex buildings.
Said Stephen: "Grenfell happened because of a failure all the way through – what Dame Judith Hackitt has called 'the golden thread of competence' has been broken so many times it ended up in this terrible fire."
He then went on to discuss third-party certification, which, according to Stephen, "provides the fullest possible assurances regarding quality, safety and reliability". In the real world, he explained, you need competence for the following reasons:
- Increasing demand from major customers in both the public and private sector
- Insurers and the HSE are increasingly looking at competence "after the event" to ensure all reasonable risks were assessed
- The Fire & Rescue Services are taking legal action in more and more cases against responsible persons and fire risk assessors, with significant fines and jail terms now common
- There must be no more disasters like Rosepark, Lakanal House and Grenfell Tower
But the challenge in terms of third-party certification is how to assess it across the board – Dame Judith Hackitt's "golden thread". Stephen explained: "Bafe is a register of competent companies, and some individuals, principally the field of active fire protection. It introduced a fire risk assessment scheme after Lakanal House but five years on, only 62 companies have been registered to it. That's pathetic! Why are end-users not more demanding with regarding to being sure the contractors they are using are competent?"
Stephen wound up his presentation by urging the delegates always to source competent suppliers and providers, and to start by searching for them on the BAFE registers, which states clearly what services they are certified to provide.


parallel.
But why can we do this? The answer is associativity. The reason why this functions is because the max operation has the nice property of
 max(max(a,b),c) = max(a,max(b,c))
which by definition is the mathematical property of associativity. It's the independency of order of operation that give us the guarantee we need to abstract away and parallelize immediately.
There is yet a catch, however. Associativity help us abstracting the funcitonal power by avoiding dealing with order of operations but we still need to track the number of operations in transit. Sounds strange? Lets imagine that we have the max operation running into 3 different threads and we want to avoid deal directly with the low level operation of distributing accuratelly all the elements to compute.
Imagine that I have A=[a,b,c,d] and max_1, max_2, max_3 the max function running on three threads. We could compute the final result as
 res = max(max(max_1(A1),max_2(A2)),max_3(A3)) where A1=[a,b], A2=[c,d], A3=[]
notice that max_3(A3) doesn't make much sense because as it is would force us to break this function composition. But notice that under these semantics max([]) is equivalent to compute max(0,0) assuming a,b all positive. So the result is the same as
The same goes if A3=[f]. This would be equivalent of computing max(f) = max(f,0)
So what are we talking about here? The presence of identity over the operation give us a way to abstract the number of function composition. So we add a new layer of abstraction over the tooling of functional programming.
Ok. But in the beginning you talk about monoids. What does all this mumbo jumbo have to do with them.
Well by definition a monoid is just that, a set with an operation that have associativity property and identity element.
Deep, Dark web
An ocean of data
Yes. You can see the internet as an ocean. When you think of the ocean it comes to your mind, most certainly, two very different pictures of it. One above, another bellow the ocean surface. Much like the case of an Iceberg, you
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An ocean of data
Yes. You can see the internet as an ocean. When you think of the ocean it comes to your mind, most certainly, two very different pictures of it. One above, another bellow the ocean surface. Much like the case of an Iceberg, you know that much more has to be seen bellow the surface than that above. Well, the same happens with internet data. On the internet the ocean surface is the data that is indexable by the search engines. Some also call it the visible web. This is because people mainly use search engines to search for new data. If some data is availabe on the internet but is not indexable by a search engine we say that this belongs to the deep web.
Yeah sure, but what about the dark web?
Dark web is not indexable by search engines so it is certainly a part of the deep web. The term is not particularly clear but we can say that these are contents that are available on the internet in the form of an overlay network. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are a particular case of a overlay network which, also, is not indexable by search engines. Most certainly it should be considered part of the dark web, but it isn't. The same happens for contents presented in mail servers, private cloud providers and so on. So the definition it seems to be a little bit wrong. From what we see in popular culture. The best definition found was
This seems more accurate. With this definition it is easy to see why mail server contents, vpn networks and data based in private cloud service providers don't belong to the dark web.
Tor and the Onion Services
One particular case of service that definetly belongs to the dark net is all the content served in The Onion Router. The Onion Router is a routing system of the best onions on the planet? Well, not exactly. But yes it is a routing system. The Onion Router has its name derived from the way it routes the traffic, onion routing
Onion Routing
The above picture is a good visual explanation for what is happening when your surf the web through the TOR system. Your traffic is encripted and sent into a total of three hoops from a pool of available peers.
Tor Hoops
The traffic is encrypted beetween all the nodes to provide secrecy. By avoiding direct connections between nodes and services it adds another feature some degree of anonimity. Note, however, that the traffic between the last tor node and the end service may be not encrypted and so can leak confidential and compromisable information. The nodes in the tor network that forwards the messages are called relays and the last, the one that does the last jump, is called exit relay. In the picture above the node that communicate directly to Bob is the exit relay.
Tor and VPN
Virtual Private Networks are a particular case of overlay network that sits on top of an underlying network, usually internet. Since tor is a web based application used to route http/https services it is possible that other applications running in your pc leak important information that enable eavesdropping through data correlation. To add a higher level of anonymity it is usual to see a combination of tor and vpn services.
Onion Services
Initially Tor was developed to achieve privacy and anonymity on web browsing with the use of an onion routing system. This had been of great help for many human beings that were behind the censorship of many, not so open, countries. However the onion routing only solves one side of the censorship. While many people found a way to connect to censored data they were not able to publish their own information. Imagine Bob in North Corea. With onion routing Bob was able to read the Le Monde in France. Bob was not able, however, to build his own version of Le North Corea web site. Why? Services on the web follow the traditional domain approach. For this he would need to register a domain and host his own website with the newspaper data. To block the access and identify the person responsible for the site is a trivial job. By following this road Bob would end, quickly, in one small cell in a cold place in North Corea.
It was needed a reverse onion routing system
To achive bi directional anti censorship mechanism the tor project devise a scheme called onion services. The idea is an extension to the onion routing already implmented, a rendevouz point and a service discovery mechanism.
Onion Service
The service discovery, responsible to resolve an identifier into a host, is implemented as a distributed hash table a descentralized data structure. With a descentralized approach tor difficults the mission of censorship agents.
But wait! If the service discovery resolves to Bob he is in a nasty situation.
Thats true. Hence a rendevouz endpoint. Rendevouz endpoints are nodes that will bridge the contents provided by Bob. While these onion hidden services are not bulletproof they offer a pretty good way of censorship circunvention.
All very interesting. But what has all this has to do with dark net or deep web?
Fair enough. First note that onion services run on the onion routing framework. Since TOR is an overlay network in the internet the content available as a onion service is not indexable by web search engines since these target primary content available in the primary network, the internet.
But there is more. By looking to the main goal of tor arquitecture we also must conclude that onion services belong to the dark net since tor adds a fair amount of secrecy and anonymity.
Yes this is all very interesting but what are we really talking about here? Where can I find and use these dark sites?
Since they run on the tor overlay network you will not find them with your tradicional browser and google queries. First you must download tor browser. This is a mozilla firefox based browser that was addapted to route your traffic through the onion.
But yeah. What now? Now you must search for.onion endpoints. These are not readily available from traditional search engines. However after some digging you'll find specialized onion search engines like the TORCH or Ahmia.
Underworld Services
After spending some hours these are some of the hidden services found
These are some of many, many more hidden services available. Unfortunately these are bad examples that give bad reputation to the network. The problem with this type of services is that they give bad reputation to a good tool. In the future if the gross majority of tor traffic is used for criminal activities those who need this tool the most will mostly suffer from increase censorship from states.
The idea with this post was to serve as an introduction to a not so mainstream set of tools the cons and pros and ultimately the future of private privacy as we know it.
And so..
In the previous post we had quick overview over the history of web development, how and why virtualization happens to be a huge success and all of this without a single line of code.
Impressive, the power of the mumbo jumbo we can deliver...
In this post we
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RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Surface reservoirs dominate dynamic gas-surface partitioning of many indoor air constituents JF Science Advances JO Sci Adv FD American Association for the Advancement of Science SP eaay8973 DO 10.1126/sciadv.aay8973 VO 6 IS 8 A1 Wang, Chen A1 Collins, Douglas B. A1 Arata, Caleb A1 Goldstein, Allen H. A1 Mattila, James M. A1 Farmer, Delphine K. A1 Ampollini, Laura A1 DeCarlo, Peter F. A1 Novoselac, Atila A1 Vance, Marina E. A1 Nazaroff, William W. A1 Abbatt, Jonathan P. D. YR 2020 UL _URL_ AB Human health is affected by indoor air quality. One distinctive aspect of the indoor environment is its very large surface area that acts as a poorly characterized sink and source of gas-phase chemicals. In this work, air-surface interactions of 19 common indoor air contaminants with diverse properties and sources were monitored in a house using fast-response, on-line mass spectrometric and spectroscopic methods. Enhanced-ventilation experiments demonstrate that most of the contaminants reside in the surface reservoirs and not, as expected, in the gas phase. They participate in rapid air-surface partitioning that is much faster than air exchange. Phase distribution calculations are consistent with the observations when assuming simultaneous equilibria between air and large weakly polar and polar absorptive surface reservoirs, with acid-base dissociation in the polar reservoir. Chemical exposure assessments must account for the finding that contaminants that are fully volatile under outdoor air conditions instead behave as semivolatile compounds indoors.


How to release a bowling ballHow to release a bowling ball
How do you hold and release a bowling ball?
Release the ball with a push-away motion. Release your thumb from the thumb hole just before completing your forward swing. This release allows for rotation and will cause your ball to hook when it approaches the pins. At the moment your thumb releases the ball, it should be pointing towards the bowling pins.
When should you release the ball?
The perfect release time would be on the flat plane of the downswing, before you pass your toes. It's tough to get this timing right, so practice is important. Use a bit of acceleration: Right before you release the ball, you should accelerate your hand a bit to give the ball some additional speed.
What causes a bowling ball to roll out?
The ball surface creates too much friction on the lane. Once the right amount of friction occurs, the ball no longer skids and has full traction on the lane and basically rolls out. The layout of the ball is not conducive to the way you bowl.
How do you rejuvenate a bowling ball at home?
Hot Water Bath Place your ball in some sort of bucket or container that is deep enough to completely submerge the ball. Run your tap as hot as it will go (without exceeding 140°F) and submerge the ball. After ~15 minutes, drain the water, give your ball a good clean, and re-submerge the ball.
Do professional bowlers use the thumb hole?
No. If a bowler doesn't use their thumb during a delivery, they can either have a thumb hole or a balance hole but not both. If the ball has a thumb hole but the bowler doesn't use it, then as long as it meets static balance requirements, the ball is allowed.
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What fingers do you hold a bowling ball with?
Finger Placement A typical bowling ball has three holes. Two are side by side and one, usually, the largest of the three is located below those two. Put your middle finger and your ring finger in the side-by-side holes and your thumb in the other.
How do I stop pulling my bowling ball to the left?
How can I improve my bowling?
4 Tips to Improve Your Bowling Game Slow Your Feet. When your feet are ahead of the swing, this is called fast feet. Adjust Your Grip. Depending on how you want to throw the ball, your hands and fingers need to be placed accordingly. Learn About the Oil. Where you place your feet or what grip you choose are important to a good bowl. Join a League.
How do I stop my lofting bowling ball?
You can stand in front of a friend and gently roll the ball to him/her and he/she will stop it with his/her foot.
Can a bowling ball lose its hook?
Bowling balls lose their hook as a result of the oil and dirt collected from the lanes, poor maintenance, and age. The oil is absorbed into the pores of the coverstock and cause your ball's performance to decline over time if not properly cleaned and stored at proper temperatures.
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Friend or foe: how to build respect for wildlife, not fear
A powerful photo is on the Calgary Herald's website this week, after one of their photographers snapped a group of tourists getting far too close to a mule deer in Banff.
The Herald spoke with a WildSmart coordinator from Bow Valley, who summed up why crowding a deer in the town would be a bad idea.
"They're big giant animals with big giant antlers," Tyler McCluretold The Herald."They could do a lot of damage."
McClure noted that the ungulates are used to having people around, so will walk through the town "nonchalantly." But that doesn't mean they should be approached.
In fact, it is outright dangerous. As McClure said, these are often large animals who, when they want or need to, will not hesitate to knock over a few bipeds to get where they're going. With some animals like squirrels or raccoons, that danger isn't so easy to see. With others, like bears or coyotes, one would think it'd be obvious.
But where's the line between educating people to respect wildlife, and using fear to force them to respect animals?
Fear is a powerful entity; the threat or idea of potential bodily harm can drastically alter someone's actions. It could play a significant role in preventing such dangerous situations as people approaching wildlife in Banff. But that same fear is what leads to mass culls of animals, the slaughter of wildlife families.
Teaching safe, compassionate wildlife viewing to tourists and some residents may take time and patience. If we want the conversation about respecting wildlife to end well, we need to start it with respect, too.
Politely remind visitors, friends, and family not to feed wild animals, or interact with them inappropriately. The animals have learned to live among us, we must now learn to live among them.
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Educational Studies (General Education)
School of Education
Formative Assessment, Homework, Self-regulation
This study explored the formative learning cycle's ability to increase student confidence to create quality homework. Student from a socio-economically diverse school district in Western Pennsylvania reported their confidence levels on homework production on two surveys. The first survey provided a rapid response at the end of lessons taught using the formative learning cycle. The second survey was completed at the end of the study window. The results from these surveys indicate a positive correlation between the formative learning cycle's ability to increase self-regulation processes to confidently produce quality homework.
Sapsara, J. (2015). An Investigation of the Impact of the Formative Learning Cycle on Student Self-Regulation to Confidently Produce Quality Homework (Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University). Retrieved from _URL_


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Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day)
Emissions of organic water pollutants are measured by biochemical oxygen demand, which refers to the amount of oxygen that bacteria in water will consume in breaking down waste. This is a standard water-treatment test for the presence of organic pollutants.
1998 study by Hemamala Hettige, Muthukumara Mani, and David Wheeler, "Industrial Pollution in Economic Development: Kuznets Revisited" (available at _URL_ The data were updated by the World Bank's Development Research Group using the same methodology as the initial study.


the large scope names of the business use cases and not worry about the details. Then there's the solution that says if it's important enough to know the details of the software workflow, the business process we're planning to automate, why isn't it important to know the details of the business workflows also? Let's do that. The devil is in the details.
Two traditional types
The first and major type of use case traditionally is the system type when we design interactions around software. The trigger to the process is when someone or something chooses something from the main menu or a system hits our API. Sometimes, that main menu is a log-in part of the process that protects the value of the use case by keeping unwanted people out and those that we give access to the rights to initiate the use case.
Then there's the business type, which from a lack of detailed examples, no one does. I think the best work on doing enterprise analysis to show how UML can be used to draw diagrams that the business doesn't want to use is Eriksson and Penker's Business Modeling with UML - Business Patterns at Work (2000). These Swedes have a beautiful system that technical people can admire for completeness, details, and symbols that look just like software diagrams. But it's the business people that need to be drawing, updating, and using these diagrams and they sure don't want to spend time with UML to do that.
One of my pet peeves is the UML way to draw a business use case. The use case symbol is the ellipse, also known as an oval for the non-technical crew out there. You put the name of the use case in there leaving little space for anything else. Then you draw a diagonal line inside the oval making it look like you had a masking problem with another symbol. And if you followed UML to put the extension points in there as well, you'd have an unreadable ellipse. Let's just use a stereotype to say <> so that the category is clear when there's no system boundary box in sight.
Even Erikkson and Penker don't get down to the level of detail that is important to start with on a business process. But they do a bang up job on high-level structures. The level of detail that is necessary for a system use case to be useful to build for the developer is fine-grained down to a task level that needs no other explanation.
Maybe we don't think like Swedes here in America and don't take the time at a high-level to plan our goals. We think the market is moving much too fast for that and like to do shorter-term planning. Do we see the Swedes competing well in any American market other than build-it-yourself furniture? Like how many people do you know that own a Volvo?
A pure start
Moving on to how I see the process types being divided up, they start with a set of tasks performed by a human. That is what I would call a pure business use case. This business use case
 - starts when a trigger sets it off,
 - moves through a set of sequential tasks,
 - ends with significant value for the business and
 - probably has documents created to support it.
There's value in promoting merchandise, there's value in making a sale, there's value in fulfilling a sale, and there's value in getting payment for a sale. There's even value in accepting a return for a purchased item.
There's no talk of automation in the pure business use case and if someone wants to use a tool, then that is part of the design for fulfilling the process tasks. That's what increases efficiency. The task sequence described in the pure business use case is what increases effectiveness. Both can increase value for the business.
System use cases made easy
I encourage my students to write their system use cases as pure business use cases that will be automated by the programmers. That clarifies what types of assumptions they have made about what they will be building. What if we eliminated the design constraints and changed all those "system displays a main menu" types of tasks into a business pure "system prompts for what to do"? Then the system use case turns into a pure business use case and the system role becomes a business role of some sort. I think it's better to think about how a person might handle the system functionality when writing use cases.
But this next type of use case pops up from every single student that I've ever taught and one that lets design elements creep into the use case tasks. It's expected in many industries because of what they already have accepted before the project began or in other words, elicited as a constraint. So this is called a system with constraints type.
Students always want to "submit" the data that is collected. They also want to use buttons, keyboards, mice, screens, menus and every other standard GUI option they think is normal. But in doing so, the tasks are now explicitly describing a design that must be used. When a web site is being designed, the design constraint of using a set of web languages and a web server has already been decided. Why should we follow that architecture if the requirements don't really point us in that direction?
So, not to fight the common usage of this type of use case in business, it's just easier to put a field at the top of the form to capture what the design constraints are that have already been decided to use before we capture the requirements. The requirements then have the freedom to talk about all those clicks and hovers they want. But let's call it a system process with constraints.
Distributed tasks
The last type of use case is the distributed use case, a mix of business and system tasks or different systems, and one that I've seen no documentation on. There's no UML approved designs for it and no discussion about it that I know of. But as soon as I started to do business use cases for a real scenario, it stuck its oddly shaped head up and stopped me from using the other two. I could have changed the business process to manage, but the sequence of activity is so common, it has to be dealt with by changing the way we do the use case.
Another use for the distributed use case is when you have real distributed processes that are seen as a complete goal and within the scope of development. An example might be when microservices or API calls provide less than a goal value but are integrated in working with a web page to deliver the end result. I do have a problem with creating a use case just to validate an address on the server because that is less than a business goal that a use case should end with.
The distributed use case does a step or two in one system, existing or to be developed, and then does a business activity or a different system's task, like talking to a person to acquire information. Then it cycles. The process is distributed over two activity flows. Think of ordering at a fast-food restaurant. There the actor initiates the food order and uses an automated system for the customer as an agent or proxy because it is too complex. The process goes like this: the actor-agent
 1. greets the customer (business task)
 2. opens a new order (system task)
 3. asks the customer for their item to order (business task)
 4. selects the item, enters the quantity, checks for additional questions or restrictions (system task)
 5. gets needed data from the customer (business task)
 6. enters extra information (system task)
 7. informs the customer of information (business task)
 8. confirms end of order with customer (business task)
 9. sends order to be processed (system task)
 10. tells customer the total of the order, how to pick up their order and says goodbye
An extension point for optional multiple item order which is clumsily handled by trying to show a loop is better handled by adding the extension point at #8 and sending them back to #3 as an option for the extension "Add another item to order."
Now the problem is how to diagram that. I propose using two ellipses with <> and <> stereotypes and showing the dependency of the system to the business use case with an <>. The business use case with acknowledge its dependency with a use case name that has a system usage in it. Here's how it would look:
The diagram also shows that it is possible to do an entirely business use case to take an order and then later, do an entirely system use case to create the order.
Course of events layout
You might think this distribution would cause some confusion in the course of events. There are some issues. But the first thing to do is to label the actor correctly, the one whose only job is to initiate the use case, and then add those other supporting roles, aka "supporting actors", as the customer and the system.
Maybe a two column layout would be better to separate what the business use case has different from the steps in the system use case. That way you wouldn't have to duplicate the system use case as a distinct use case when it copies the steps from the business use case. Or just make sure you put what use cases are included at the top in the metadata and manually keep them in sync.
But for now, this reorganization of use case types massively helps my ability to model real life business use cases and I hope helps those who would like to document their business processes. Having an understanding that the use case starts with pure business functionality clarifies what a basic use case is about. Then as we automate some portions or all of it, the type of the use case changes and clarifies how to model


Are You Frugal or Cheap? Which One Are You?Yes, there is a difference!
Trust us: there is a huge difference between frugal and cheap!
We use the word "frugal" quite a bit here at SAHM, but how do you know if your frugality is really just you being cheap? With jobs getting harder to come by and money getting tight, the concept of being frugal is something that gets thrown around all the time. Now, it's easy to just be cheap while using frugality as an umbrella term for everything you do, but there's a lot more to being frugal than just buying the cheapest everything.
So what IS the difference? Are you frugal or cheap?
What does being frugal mean?
According to the dictionary, frugality is defined as "the wise and intentional use of money." The key word there is "intentional," and I think that's what really separates the cheapskates from the "frugalers" (which should totally be a word). In my own life, frugality is learning to get the most out of each and every dollar with a specific plan in mind. It is the deliberate decision to be prudent and wise with spending.
And what is being cheap?
On the other hand, when you're cheap, you're just reluctant to spend money at all, even when it's on something that you really need. You could use other words such as tight, miserly, and stingy, but they all describe the same type of person. Most people who are "cheap" are actually selfish and can even be dishonest if it means saving a couple of bucks.
Why? The only thing cheap people care for is keeping their money to themselves despite the possible consequences on other people (or even on themselves).
Let's put it to some examples to really see the clear difference between frugal and cheap.
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1. Food
A cheap person will buy the food that costs the least, even if it means disregarding all nutritional and health impacts of doing so. A frugal person will prepare a food budget, take their health into account and weigh the pros and cons of spending a little more on something more nutritious.
So a cheap person will probably buy canned food good for a month while a frugal person will spend on fresh fruits and vegetables and figure out how to make food last longer.
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2. Eating Out
A cheap person will also go out to dinner all the time, but rarely tip for good service using the excuse of not having enough money. On the other hand, a frugal person will plan for the coming month to see when their budget allows for eating out. Of course, the frugal person understands the value of money, so he or she will probably tip well!
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3. Purchasing Items
A cheap person will buy something on sale even if they don't really need it simply because it's cheaper than it usually is. A frugal person only makes intentional purchases based on planning and necessity. They may buy a cheaper item, but only without sacrificing quality.
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4. Savings
A cheap person also does not think long-term. They would rather buy water in plastic bottles every day than buy a single glass or stainless steel water bottle. But a frugal person thinks not only of long-term savings but also of the environment.
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5. Giving Gifts
Oh, and cheap people are notorious for showing up on parties empty-handed! Frugal people, on the other hand, even with a limited budget will try their best to come up with a gift, whether bought or made by their own resourceful hands.
A frugal person would also rather buy something more expensive if it means better value.
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Simply put, while a cheap person only looks at the financial aspect of things, a frugal person uses a more balanced perspective, taking many factors in mind. A frugal person asks many questions. Why this is cheaper? What is it made of? Will it be better for my family? Will this benefit other people? That is the difference between frugal and cheap.
Frugality is more than just saving money. Finding a good balance between the two can be hard, especially when you see your bank account dwindling between paychecks.
However, the most important thing to remember is that your health and comfort, as well as those of your family and of other people, are more important than having a few extra dollars at the end of the month. You work hard for your money, so you should be able to get a sense of fulfillment out of spending it.
In the end, frugality is really about finding the centre line between being cheap and the opposite side of the spectrum, which is spending extravagantly. The key is proper planning, research and budgeting, and with those, you'll find that your family has more money for "comfort" items at the end of each month.
So, which one are you?
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Environment Variables
1. Shared State
This feature is only available on macOS 10.15+. Prior to macOS 10.15, it might be crashed.
It's possible to share states from the onRequest() and the onResponse() from different scripts when the script is executed with the global object: sharedState
 - The sharedState is a JS Object (Dictionary), so you can assign any keys and values from onRequest(), then receiving it on the onResponse() or from different script.
The following code demonstrates:
 - Get the global counter and increase it as soon as the script is executed
 - Share data between Request and Response
function onRequest(context, url, request) {
// Save some state to sharedState
sharedState.url = url;
sharedState.data = "custom";
sharedState.info = {"username": "Proxyman"};
// Increase the global counter
var count = sharedState.count?? 0;
count += 1;
sharedState.count = count;
// Log
return request;
function onResponse(context, url, request, response) {
// Receive it
console.log("Custom data = " + sharedState.dataa);
console.log("sharedState.count = " + sharedState.count);
// Done
return response;
From Proxyman 2.25.0+, the sharedState is available across different scripts. It is only released when quitting Proxyman app or using 'clearSharedState()' function.
Prior to Proxyman 2.24.0, the sharedState is only alive on the current flow that executes the script and it's released when the script is run over.
To clear all data, please consider using 'clearSharedState' function.
// Clear all data from sharedState object
2. Environment Variables
Plan to support soon.


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ANSWER: If you are sure it is natural ground water and not a septic tank or water service line that is causing the problem, you probably need to speak to your local department of natural resources. In many situations like this, Roto-Rooter plumbers can work with homeowners to install a French drain system. A French drain (sometimes called trench drain, rock drain, weeping tile, etc.) is a tube with perforations that allow water to flow in and filters that keep sediment out. These drains redirect surface water to a different area, such as a curbside gutter.
If it is not natural water, contact your local licensed Roto-Rooter plumbing specialists for leak detection. Outdoor pipe leaks can have a number of different culprits, from tree roots to old broken pipes to septic tank problems. We utilize video cameras to identify all types of problems, such as root intrusion and pipe that is misaligned, broken, punctured, off-grade or corroded. The camera also identifies grease buildup, leaks and obstructions. The inspection can be repeated after any service is performed to verify that the line has been properly cleaned or repaired.


- Aaron Neinstein
The Most Important Digital Health App of 2013: Now THIS is a Learning Healthcare System
The Most Important Digital Health App of 2013: Bugs and Drugs
In a year that saw consumer-facing digital health app after consumer-facing digital health app, the app that impressed me most was actually clinician-facing, not consumer-facing. In 2012, the digital health apps that stood out to me most were Kinsa, a smartphone-connected thermometer enabling real-time community maps of infectious disease, and GeckoCap, a wireless sensor-in-a-smartcap for asthma inhalers enabling parents to track their kids' asthma. (Of course, for fairness sake, I'm leaving out Tidepool, the open platform for type 1 diabetes for which I'm medical advisor, and about which I am incredibly enthusiastic.)
When seeing new digital health devices and apps, I usually have one of three reactions, either: a) "Nope, next!"; b) "This has potential, I want to hear more about it"; or c) "I need to immediately call everyone I know and tell them about what I just saw". This year, reaction C came from the AthenaHealth/ePocrates Bugs and Drugs app. This app makes me feel optimistic about real progress happening in healthcare. This app makes me feel like the promise of the Learning Healthcare System is either upon us, or truly just around the corner.
If you've not seen this app yet, stop reading this article for a moment (come back to finish it, of course!) and go download it from the App Store. The Bugs and Drugs app is a real-time, aggregated, cloud antibiogram.
What's an antibiogram?
Here is an example of the 2011 UCSF adult antibiogram. First, a quick explanation for the non-clinician. To test a patient for urine or bloodstream infections, clinicians order cultures to see if bacteria will grow (literally) out of the respective collection sites from a patient. If bacteria grows from a culture and the patient is thus deemed infected, tests are done to see which bacteria is the specific cause. Additional tests are then done to see which antibiotics will be effective at killing this particular bacteria strain. This is known as sensitivity or susceptibility data. This information can make the difference between giving a patient an ineffective antibiotic and an effective one. Without it, we as clinicians are guessing about which bacterial strain we think the patient might have and which antibiotic to use. We base this on our knowledge about which bacteria are most commonly pathogenic and which antibiotics are designed to kill which bacteria. We also use available past data about cultured bacteria and antibiotic susceptibilities. This last piece of data comes from antibiograms. Many hospitals regularly publish an antibiogram, a handout that aggregates all of the culture and susceptibility data from each culture site (e.g. blood or urine) from the past year. It shows the relative frequency of the occurrence of each bacterial strain and the frequency of each particular bacteria being sensitive or resistant to each common antibiotic. For example, in the example UCSF antibiogram linked to above, there were 810 E. coli isolates (the most common bacteria isolated), and 85% of these were susceptible to ceftriaxone, a common antibiotic. You might find that in another hospital in another region of the country, say North Carolina, that the sensitivity rate of E. coli to ceftriaxone is 35%. Thus in the first hospital, the treating doctor would be likely to use ceftriaxone to treat the next patient with an E coli urinary tract infection, whereas in Texas, the doctor would certainly want to choose something else, knowing that ceftriaxone is unlikely to be effective.
So, this information can truly be life or death information. It also contributes greatly to the concept of antibiotic stewardship and appropriate use of antibiotics to maintain their effectiveness for future use. Traditionally, antibiograms are published regularly with an aggregation of the previous year's data for each particular hospital. But, that is static data, a collection of one year at a time. It is also data bound within the physical or virtual walls of each healthcare organization or medical center.
Bugs and Drugs: An Antibiogram for the Learning Healthcare System
The Bugs and Drugs app has taken this concept and moved it into the cloud era. The app capitalizes on the fact that AthenaHealth, as a cloud EHR provider, is able to aggregate all of the clinical data from their EHR, in real-time. They have aggregated together all of the bacterial culture and antibiotic susceptibility data from all of their users and display it in real time in this app. You are a doctor in Wichita and your patient has a urinary tract infection? Pull open the Bugs and Drugs app and you can actually see what the most common bacteria are in the Wichita area right now that are causing urinary tract infections. You can see which antibiotics are effective against those bacteria in the Wichita area right now. This data is not from last year, it is from the last few weeks. This data is not just from your hospital's lab, it is from all of the hospitals' labs in the area.
The catch of course is that this still lacks true health information exchange. While the data does cross boundaries between health systems, it does not cross EHR vendor boundaries, coming only from AthenaHealth locations. So, in the example above, you would not be getting data from every location in Wichita, just those that use AthenaHealth.
However, the really important thing about this app is that it shows on a nuts-and-bolts clinical level what we can do with aggregated real-time clinical data when it is put into a useful format in the hands of a clinician. This information can influence care right now, for the patient sitting right in front of you. This is the realization of the possibilities of the Learning Healthcare System, moving valuable information much more efficiently into the hands of the treating physician. I predict (and hope) that we'll see many more innovations like this in the coming year.
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Modularity in Art
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|Slavik Jablan, Mathematical Institute, Belgrade|
|Jablan uses the word "modularity" to refer to the process of making art by repeating a simple block, tile, or motif to make a more complicated design, by symmetry/reflection and/or tessellation. This site includes a paper on such art and its math, linked to illustrations from a wide range of sources: Paleolithic ornaments, Roman mazes and labyrinths, Kufic writing, Celtic key-patterns and modern Op-art works. The author includes pictures of his "SpaceTiles", "KnotTiles" and "OpTiles" with which you could create your own impossible objects, knotwork designs, and Op-art works.|
|Levels:||Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), College|
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|Math Topics:||Symmetry/Tessellations, Topology, Art|
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Peace Corps Samoa's current program focus is on promoting English literacy in Samoan primary schools. The Primary School English Literacy Project was developed in close partnership with the Ministry of Education, Sports, and Culture (MESC) and was officially launched in fall 2012. Volunteers in the Primary School English Literacy Project play an important role in helping Samoans develop the skills they need to succeed and thrive. Volunteers not only build the English literacy skills of students but help teachers incorporate student-centered teaching methods. They also work to improve information and communication technology resources and to increase the community's involvement in literacy activities.
Please take a look at our 2018 Annual Report for more details: HERE


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of data, to understand the meaning & process of research in social sciences, to have fundamental knowledge about analysis of data & the diagrammatic representation of data and to learn the techniques of interpretation of data & report writing.
· The objective is to know the relationship between society, economy and environment, to create awareness among people regarding constraints in economic environment and its consequences.
PROGRAMME SPECIFIC OUTCOME
· PSO1:Understand and appreciate the role of interdisciplinary sciences in the development and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities
· PSO2:Understand the sciences and technologies that enhance the quality of life of people
· PSO3:Acquire professional and entrepreneurial skills for economic empowerment of self in particular, and community in general
· PSO4:Develop professional skills in food, nutrition, textiles, housing, product making, communication technologies and human development
· PSO5:Take science from the laboratory to the people
COURSE OUTCOMES: ODIA HONOURS:
CORE – 01 (ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ଇତିହାସ)
· ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ମୂଳ ଉତ୍ସ ସଂପର୍କରେ ଅବଗତ ହେବା ।
· ପ୍ରାଚୀନ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ପୃଷ୍ଠଭୂମି ବିଷୟରେ ଧାରଣା ଦେବା ।
· ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ର ଆଦ୍ୟ ସ୍ରଷ୍ଟା ମାନଙ୍କୁ ଜାଣିବା ।
CORE – 02 (ମଧ୍ୟଯୁଗୀୟ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟ)
· ମଧ୍ୟଯୁଗୀୟ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ପୃଷ୍ଠଭୂମି ଏବଂ ପରିବେଶ ସହିତ ପରିଚୟ କରାଇବା ।
· ମଧ୍ୟଯୁଗୀୟ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ଆଙ୍ଗିକ ଓ ଆତ୍ମିକ ବୈଚିତ୍ର୍ୟ ସହ ଅବଗତ ହେବା ।
CORE – 03 (ଆଧୁନିକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟ)
· ଆଧୁନିକ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ପୃଷ୍ଠଭୂମି ଏବଂ ନବଜାଗରଣ ର ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧରେ ଜାଣିବା ।
· ଆଧୁନିକ ସାହିତ୍ୟର ପ୍ରମୁଖ ସ୍ରଷ୍ଟା ସହିତ ପରିଚୟ ଏବଂ ଚେତନା ସଂପର୍କୀୟ ଧାରଣା ଦେବା ।
CORE – 04 (ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ପରବର୍ତ୍ତୀ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟ)
· ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ପରବର୍ତ୍ତୀ ସମୟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟରେ ବିଭିନ୍ନ ଚେତନା ଓ ଧାରା ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧରେ ଜାଣିବା ।
· ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା ପରବର୍ତ୍ତୀ ସ୍ରଷ୍ଟାଙ୍କ ସଂପର୍କରେ ଜାଣିବା ।
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· ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ଏବଂ ଲିପି ବିଷୟରେ ବିଶେଷ ଧାରଣା ଦେବା ।
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The University of New Mexico has placed an interim ban on the use, possession and storage of hoverboards on every UNM campus, including branch campuses, due to widespread safety concerns over the electronic skateboards or self-balancing scooters informally known as "hoverboards."
For the safety of the campus community, UNM is prohibiting them from all campuses until the safety of these devices can be assessed or the safety standards of all such devices are improved.
The ban extends to all exterior areas and building interiors, including Residence Halls and the Student Union Building, until the University can research and develop a long-term policy addressing the devices.
"The hazards of hoverboards include the possibility of injury to bystanders due to loss of control of the device as well as the risk of fire," said UNM President Robert Frank. "So it's not just a fire safety issue. If hoverboards were allowed in exterior areas, but not inside, students would more likely store them in their vehicles, which might also pose a fire risk.
"Further, UNM could become a preferred site for non-student recreational use of the devices, as it is now for skateboards and BMX bikes, which pose hazards to the campus community."
The boards will not be confiscated initially. UNM Police will stop those who possess one and inform them of the ban. If they ignore the warning or other follow up is required, the matter would be directed to the Dean of Students Office for remediation.
"We want students to understand that having a device that can catch fire and blow up is a huge safety risk for those using the device as well as those around it," said Jenna Crabb, interim Dean of Students. "Until further research is conducted on hoverboards, and safety standards developed, we must put the safety of our UNM students and community first."
Visitors to campus would get a criminal trespass citation if they ignore the warning.