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In assessing reduction of concrete strength under irradiated conditions, reference levels are introduced: 1×1020 n/cm2 for fast neutrons and 2×1010 rad (2×105 kGy) for gamma-rays. Concrete structures are regarded as sound as long as irradiance levels accumulated during long-term operation are less than the reference levels.
Most experimental investigations of irradiation effects on concrete were performed in the 1960's and 1970's. However, there is no good explanation of how concrete deteriorates under neutron and gamma-ray irradiation.
Hilsdorf put the primal irradiation test data together to investigate effects of irradiance levels on residual strength ratio of concrete. The reference levels were obtained from his paper. However, the test conditions in which the data quoted by Hilsdorf were obtained are very different from the irradiation and heat conditions usually found in a Light Water Reactor (LWR).
This paper summarizes the interactions between radiation and concrete components and presents the results of gamma-ray irradiation tests on cement paste in order to provide a better understanding of the deterioration mechanisms of concrete under irradiation and heat conditions in LWRs.


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The noncommutative minimal model program (ncMMP) uses the techniques of Mori theory to classify noncommutative surfaces, which we assume to be finite over their centres. The main result is a very pleasing analogy with the commutative theory - a noncommutative surface is either birational to a unique minimal model, or a noncommutative ruled surface.
In this talk, I will explain how to associate a Brauer pair to a noncommutative surface, and how to run the ncMMP for these Brauer pairs. Although this is similar in spirit to the log MMP, there are some differences. Noncommutative ruled surfaces arise naturally in this context, and we will conclude with some structural results about them obtained by moduli theory.No Notes/Supplements Uploaded No Video Files Uploaded

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Male size and reproductive performance in three species of livebearing fishes ( Gambusia spp.): A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Bora Kim*, Nicholas Patrick Moran, Klaus Reinhold, Alfredo Sánchez‐Tójar
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1. The genus Gambusia represents approximately 45 species of polyandrous livebearing fishes with reversed sexual size dimorphism (i.e. males smaller than females) and with copulation predominantly via male coercion. Male body size has been suggested as an important sexually selected trait, but despite abundant research, evidence for sexual selection on male body size in this genus is mixed.
2. Studies have found that large males have an advantage in both male–male competition and female choice, but that small males perform sneaky copulations better and at higher frequency and thus may sire more offspring in this coercive mating system. Here, we synthesized this inconsistent body of evidence using pre-registered methods and hypotheses.
3. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of summary and primary (raw) data combining both published (n = 19 studies, k = 106 effect sizes) and unpublished effect sizes (n = 17, k = 242) to test whether there is overall selection on male body size across studies in Gambusia. We also tested several specific hypotheses to understand the sources of heterogeneity across effects.
4. Meta-analysis revealed an overall positive correlation between male size and reproductive performance (r = 0.23, 95% confidence interval: 0.10–0.35, n = 36, k = 348, 4,514 males, three Gambusia species). Despite high heterogeneity, the large-male advantage appeared robust across all measures studied (i.e. female choice, mating success, paternity, sperm quantity and quality), and was considerably larger for female choice (r = 0.43, 95% confidence interval: 0.28–0.59, n = 14, k = 43). Meta-regressions found several important factors explaining heterogeneity across effects, including type of sperm characteristic, male-to-female ratio, female reproductive status and environmental conditions. We found evidence of publication bias; however, its influence on our estimates was attenuated by including a substantial amount of unpublished effects, highlighting the importance of open primary data for more accurate meta-analytic estimates.
5. In addition to positive selection on male size, our study suggests that we need to rethink the role and form of sexual selection in Gambusia and, more broadly, to consider the ecological factors that affect reproductive behaviour in livebearing fishes.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Animal Ecology
Number of pages15
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 2021
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 - Gambusia geiseri
 - Gambusia holbrooki
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ISA Device Auto Configuration
A key advantage of Berkeley UNIX is its ability to configure at boot time devices present on the system. This feature, while difficult to implement on the ISA given numerous conflicts, was considered valuable and was implemented.
In Figure 10(a), we have data structures that encode all the appropriate information to configure a device in 386BSD. Each driver, which may have many devices, is able to locate and configure a device if present. The isa_device structure also contains the characteristics of each device to be recognized. If found, hardware resources can then be assigned to each device as configured. A sample table of possible devices to search for within the kernel appears in Figure 10(b).
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Feeling irritated? Getting blown off course by the emails pinging into your inbox, or the six open tabs in your web browser? Take a deep breath…but also, if you can, take a nap.
A Dutch researcher named Harm Veling has conducted research into distraction and concluded that the state of being tired compromises the ability of a person's brain to filter out distracting stimuli. Veling gave standard tests, in which words to be remembered are interspersed with 'distracting' extraneous words, to normal subjects and to subjects who were mentally tired. He found that normal subjects are able to exclude distracting words from being remembered, but that tired subjects lose that ability. Further, blocking out distractions seems to eventually make a brain tired:
According to the press release,
People who were mentally fatigued were no longer able to suppress the distraction. Moreover they scored less well in their task. Suppression is therefore not automatic and costs energy. A humorous example of the principles Veling investigated is the Dutch TV quiz programme Rad van Fortuin (Wheel of Fortune). The candidates of this quiz are brutally distracted whilst answering the questions and can therefore scarcely answer the simplest of questions
—which just might explain why contestants on American game shows with lots of flashing lights and fog machines (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, for example), can seem a little obtuse.
Veling's research was funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.


text: Chinese 李: from a character meaning 'minister'. This was part of the title of Gao Yao, a great-grandson of the legendary emperor Zhuan Xu, who became famous as a minister under the model emperors Yao and Shun in the 23rd century BC; he was the first to introduce laws for the repression of crime. His descendants adopted this part of his title as their surname. The use of this name continued for over a millennium to the twelfth century BC, down to the rule of the last king of the Shang dynasty, the despotic Zhou Xin. Li Zhi, the head of the Li clan at that time, displeased Zhou Xin and was executed, leaving the rest of the clan facing imminent disaster. They fled, and nearly starved to death, surviving only by eating a fruit called mu zi. When the characters for mu and zi are combined, they form the character for plum, pronounced Li. In token of this salvation, the clan changed their name to the current character for li 'plum'. Li is now the most common surname in China. Among the many famous bearers are Lee Kwan Yew, prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990; Lee Teng-hui, president of Taiwan from 1988; Li Peng, prime minister of China from 1988; and Bruce Lee (1941–73), movie actor.

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I have watched a part of TV show and the Muslim scholar was saying it is a must to let your beard grow and trim your mustache. I have always thought there is a kind of cultural influence and it is not a must to have it.
Is in a sin to shave your beard in Islam? is it a must to have a beard or else you will not be a good Muslim?
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 I would typically discourage questions of a fiqhi nature because they're not suited for discussion on a forum of amateurs but I'm not flagging this one because the topic of the beard is of general interest and something that is highly visible, thereby inviting questions. – Ansari Jun 20 '12 at 16:01
 - -1 You didn't do your research. This is a well-established ruling. – ashes999 Jun 20 '12 at 16:54
Having a beard for a man (when it is possible) is wajib (obligatory) in Sunni Islam by consensus of almost all scholars and schools of thought. One of the many ahadith cited as evidence for this is the hadith from Abdullah b. Umar narrating from the Prophet (saws):
انْهَكُوا الشَّوَارِبَ، وَأَعْفُوا اللِّحَى
Trim the mustaches and leave the beard (to grow).
from Sahih al-Bukhari also in many other books
There is a difference of opinion within the Shafi'i school whether it's highly encouraged or obligatory.
For a Muslim, a hadith with a command from the Prophet (saws) is generally taken to describe an obligatory deed unless evidence suggests otherwise (from the principle "al-amru li al-wujoob").
Based on this hadith and many others like it, the scholars do say that it is a sin to shave the beard. As for whether or not you won't be a good Muslim without it, I don't see the connection. Being a good Muslim encompasses a number of things, from belief in the heart to kind actions to acts of worship. Not having a beard doesn't directly reflect on someone's character or the purity of their heart. But if not having a beard comes out of an arrogance or intentional disobedience of the Prophet (saws) then I guess that could have effects on others parts of one's Islam.
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 Are you sure? Having bread is not Wajib, but shaving it is haraam. – user8749 Jun 20 '12 at 16:01
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 Well if shaving it is haram, then having it (when possible) is wajib :) In any case, even aside from that argument, the standard position in Sunni fiqh at least is that it is wajib, with a caveat for a difference of opinion among some Shafi'is. – Ansari Jun 20 '12 at 16:03
 - Ah, you're quite right. They're the same thing! Please add the "Sunni fiqh" part to your answer. – user8749 Jun 20 '12 at 16:04
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 Done - thanks for pointing that out. Curious now - what's the Shi'a fiqh on this? Ja'fari or Zaidi... – Ansari Jun 20 '12 at 16:07
 - A special shaving of beard is forbidden (haraam) in Shi'a Figh. One can use moser to shave beard to a level that you can't tell if he has from a fairly near distance. But I think there's not much of difference on this matter between n the two, only a slightly detailed one. – user8749 Jun 20 '12 at 16:24
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M. H. Moore (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), R. L. Hudson (Eckerd College), P A. Gerakines (UAB and NRC/NASA-GSFC)
Nitrogen (N2), methane (CH4), and carbon monoxide (CO) have all been identified in the IR spectrum of Pluto (Owen et al.,1993; Doute et al.,1999). The same ices are present on Triton along with separated terrains containing water (H2O) and carbon dioxide(CO2) (Quirico et al., 1999). We have identified the major products in UV-photolyzed and proton-irradiated pure ices of N2, CH4, and CO at T < 25 K using mid-IR spectroscopy. Processed ice mixtures of CH4 or CO diluted in solid N2 along with results from the ternary mixture N2 + CH4 + CO will be presented. A list of major products from UV-photolyzed compared with those of proton-irradiated ices will be discussed along with the thermal evolution of processed N2 + CH4 + CO ice.
Owen, T. C., et al., Science 261, 745; Doute, S. et al., 1999, Icarus 142, 421; Quirico, E. et al., 1999 Icarus 139, 159
This research is funded through NRA 344-33-01 and 344-02-57. RLH was supported through NASA grant NAG-5-1843 and PAG held a NAS-NRC/NASA-GSFC research associateship


Related to: Does reaping in Galatians 6:9 refer to salvation?
Galatians 6:9 (NASB)
If the word reaping in Galatians 6:9 were interpreted to refer to salvation, does Galatians 6:9 contain a causality that would imply works salvation?
In other words, would it imply that salvation is dependent upon "doing good"?
"Reaping" does refer to salvation. However, that does not indicate that salvation is dependent on doing good.
 - That would be a contradiction with the entire force of the letter, making Paul into an idiot.
 - Just as in Romans 6, Paul demonstrates in Galatians 6 that works necessarily flow from salvation. This is why he compares the fruit of the Spirit and the fruit of the flesh: consistent with the rest of his writings, and the rest of Scripture, he is describing two types of people, who manifest two types of behavior.
 - See the Old Testament (particularly wisdom literature) distinction between the good the wicked. It is clear from Paul's extensive usage of the Hebrew Old Testament that he considered these views authoritative (besides his famous statement to Timothy). God saves men in such a manner that no one is justified, counted righteous, who is not also simultaneously made holy in Christ (what the theologians call definitive sanctification and the reason why Paul usually addresses his letters to God's "holy people"). This "two types of people" view is not nullified by the New Testament as legalistic but rather is reinforced by it, and by Paul himself, in passages such as Romans 5 (those under Adam and those under Christ).
 - We do not have direct access to God's divine decree of election; this is the reason why verses such as this seem to imply that we must do something or fail; because if we do not do it, we will indeed fail in that we will be shown to not actually have been saved after all.
To the contrary, doing good is dependent on salvation in such a way that salvation is never evidenced without it (thus "holiness without which no man shall see the Lord"—Hebrews 12:14).
Unfortunately, this answer is very generic and asks for an overall change of approach which you (and others) may completely reject. So here come the downvotes. But, without further ado... :)
"Reaping" does refer to salvation (to quote the other answerer, _USER_). And in fact, if someone does not do good, they will not be saved. This does not mean that salvation is something people merit, as if people could somehow atone for their sins by doing lots of good stuff. This does not make sense in Paul's scheme of things. But it does clearly mean that salvation will not be attained by someone unless they do good, with actual causality not being assumed in this discussion.
I add this answer, which isn't all that different than the one by _USER_'s yet for one particular reason, and that is because the tension exists because in general the argument of epistle is being misread. Paul is not arguing with a people who are saying you have to merit salvation by doing the works of the law; he is arguing with people who say that anyone who wants to follow God rightly needs to obey the law. It's not about righteousness as a bank of good stuff you could (or could not) do, but rather a discussion of how to live the godly, righteous life. It is more a question of boundary markers or definition than it is a question of grace or grace + works. By missing the argument earlier in the epistle, we set up a false tension between obedience and salvation.
This kind of perspective is not unique to me (I certainly did not come up with it). It lies in the general realm of what some people call "The New Perspective on Paul." If you are interested in reading more on this general approach to Paul, I can recommend N.T. Wright's "Paul in Fresh Perspective."
 - I think you answer is very interesting, and pointing out flaws in assumptions is certainly a valid way to answer concerns in a passage... So +1. But I'm not sure that Paul is not arguing with a people who are saying you have to merit salvation by doing the works of the law is consistent with 3:2-5 or 5:4-5 – Eric Apr 16 '12 at 20:30
 - And many agree with you. But I would still recommend a reading of the book. Even if you don't end up agreeing with this other perspective, perhaps it will still benefit you. Of course the whole question of this new perspective would be a fun one to discuss on the site but the format doesn't really fit it well. Q&A is not discussion board. Oh well. – Mallioch Apr 16 '12 at 20:50
 - NT Wright has an excellent perspective on this. – swasheck Apr 16 '12 at 21:50
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Definition of missis
n. - A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate.
The word "missis" uses 6 letters: I I M S S S.
No direct anagrams for missis found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after missis (in bold), or to iimsss in any order:
d - dismiss e - missies
Shorter words found within missis:
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Words formed from any letters in missis, plus an optional blank or existing letter
List all words starting with missis, words containing missis or words ending with missis
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1. Explain what is lock escalation and what is its purpose?
Lock escalation is when the system combines multiple locks into a higher level one. This is done to recover resources taken by the other finer granular locks. The system automatically does this. The threshold for this escalation is determined dynamically by the server.
To reduce system over head by recovering locks
Maximize the efficiency of queries
Helps to minimize the required memory to keep track of locks.
2. What is SQL Server locking?
SQL Server has 3 main lock types:
Shared: Locks are compatible with other shared and update locks.
Update: Locks are compatible with shared locks.
Exclusive: Locks are not compatible with any other locks.
Apart from lock types, there are transaction isolation levels for managing security among transactions:
SQL Server has some locking optimizer hints along with lock types:
3. What is a live lock?
When a request for exclusive lock is denied again and again because a series of overlapping shared locks are interfering with each other and to adapt from each other they keep on changing the status, it is known as live lock.
4. What is a dead lock?
When two computer programs sharing the same resource prevent each other from accessing the resource results in a deadlock. This deadlock results in finishing the program.
P1 requests R1 and receives it.
P2 requests R2 and receives it.
P1 requests resource R2 and is queued up, pending the release of R2.
P2 requests resource R1 and is queued up, pending the release of R1
Here, P and R is Program and Resource respectively.
5. Do you know what guidelines should be followed to help minimize deadlocks?
Guidelines to minimize deadlocks:-
Avoid user interaction in the transactions. The transaction must not rely on any inputs from the user.
The concurrent transactions must access data in the same order. There should be consistency in which the operations occur
Transactions must be short and simple to avoid deadlocks. Long transactions may block other necessary activities
A lower isolation level like read committed must be used. Using lower isolation levels reduces the possibility of holding shared locks for a longer time
Bound connections should be used. Here, two or more connections opened by the same application can assist each other.
6. Explain different types of lock modes in SQL Server 2000?
Different lock modes:
Shared (S): Mostly used for Read only operations like SELECT statements. It allows concurrent transactions to read data. No other transaction can modify the data until the lock is present. The lock is released as soon as the read is over.
Update locks (U): used to prevent dead locks. Used on resources that can be updated. Common forms of deadlocks occur when multiple sessions are reading, locking, and potentially updating resources later.
Exclusive (X): used for data modifications statements like INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE. This lock ensures multiple updates cant be made simultaneously.
Schema: Sch-M or Schema modification locks are used when an operation related to the table schema is being performed. Schema Stability or Sch-S locks are used when queries are being complied.
Bulk update locks: Used when bulk copy is being performed. BU allows processes to bulk copy data concurrently into the same table while preventing other processes that are not bulk copying data from accessing the table.
7. Explain the various types of concurrency problem?
Concurrency problem:
Lost updates: this occurs when two or more transactions are trying to update same row without being aware of each other. The last update overwrites updates made by the other transactions, which results in lost data.
Uncommitted dependency (Dirty read): This occurs when a second transaction selects a row that is being updated by another transaction. This second transaction is reading data that may not have been committed.
Inconsistent Analysis (Nonrepeatable Read): This occurs when a second transaction accesses the same row several times and reads different data each time. It is similar to dirty read. However, here it reads committed data, but different data each time.
Phantom Reads: This occurs when a range of rows which is being read by a transaction is deleted or updated. The transaction's first read of the range of rows shows a row that no longer exists in the second or succeeding read, as a result of a deletion by a different transaction.
8. Explain optimistic and pessimistic concurrency?
Optimistic concurrency: - Assumes that a resource is likely to be available at all times. This means that resource locking is very unlikely. If a conflict occurs, the application must read the data and attempt the change again.
Pessimistic concurrency : - this locks the resources as and when required. A transaction can be assured to be completed unless a deadlock occurs
9. Explain the various types of concurrency problem. I.e. Lost or buried updates, uncommitted dependency, inconsistent analysis, phantom read?
Types of concurrency problem:-
Lost or buried updates: - When the same row is selected for updates by two or more transactions and updates the row based on the value originally selected. Here, each transaction is unaware of the other transactions. The last update overwrites updates made by the other transactions, which results in lost data.
Uncommited dependency: - here, a transaction reads data of another transaction which has not been committed yet. The value may be changed by the other transaction.
Inconsistent analysis: - here, the transaction reads the data inconsistently. This means that every time the data is read; different values are read. This is because another transaction is continuously updating the data.
Phantom Read: - Here, an insert or update is done on a row that belongs to some other transaction. Hence the transaction may read a row that may be deleted by some other transaction.
10. What are the different types of lock modes in SQL Server 2000?
Lock modes in SQL Server 2000:
Shared: Used for operations that read data. When shared lock is applied concurrent transactions can read data/resource but not modify it. This lock is released as soon as the transaction finishes.
Update: These locks are used when there is a need to update a row or page and later promote the update page lock to an exclusive lock before making the actual changes. Update locks are used to prevent deadlocks.
Exclusive: Used for data modification operations. No other transaction can read or modify data while Exclusive lock has been acquired.
Intent: These are used when SQL Server wants to acquire a shared or exclusive lock on some resource lower down in the hierarchy.
Schema: These are used when an operation dependent on the schema of a table is executing.
Bulk update: These are used during bulk copying of data into tables provided either TABLOCK hint is mentioned or table lock on bulk upload table option is set.
Key range: These are used by SQL Server to prevent phantom insertions/deletions into a set of records which are being accessed by a transaction.
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How-To Care for Your Cloth Shower Curtain
Shower curtains made of untreated cotton canvas, hemp or nylon do a great job at stopping water from spraying outside the shower. They work like a wick, channeling water downwards through the cloth into the tub. No liner needed.
A natural fiber or nylon shower curtain will last for years with proper care. Fabric is especially vulnerable to mold and mildew because it can easily retain moisture. When a curtain remains wet and never completely dries, mold/mildew sets in. However, it is possible to control mildew naturally. Here are a few tips for keeping your cloth shower curtain fresh and clean:
1. Allow curtain to dry completely between showers
 2. Wash curtain on a regular basis
 3. Remove mildew build-up and stains
 4. Rotate your curtain


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Computer Engineering Institute, The Technological University of the Mixteca (UTM), Carretera Huajuapan-Acatlima Km. 2.5, Huajuapan de León, 69000 Oaxaca, Mexico
Copyright © 2010 Ricardo Pérez-Aguila. This is an open access article distributed under the
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This work is devoted to present a methodology for the computation of Discrete Compactness in -dimensional orthogonal pseudo-polytopes. The proposed procedures take in account compactness' definitions originally presented for the 2D and 3D cases and extend them directly for considering the D case. There are introduced efficient algorithms for computing discrete compactness which are based on an orthogonal polytopes representation scheme known as the Extreme Vertices Model in the -Dimensional Space (D-EVM). It will be shown the potential of the application of Discrete Compactness in higher-dimensional contexts by applying it, through EVM-based algorithms, in the classification of video sequences, associated to the monitoring of a volcano's activity, which are expressed as 4D orthogonal polytopes in the space-color-time geometry.


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Running Your Software: Load your software onto nodes and run commands on nodes
The goal of this exercise is to show you how to copy files from your local computer (e.g., laptop) to select nodes in the topology. We will also show you how to run commands on specified nodes in your topology. This is particularly useful if you want to quickly load your source code onto all (or some of) the nodes, compile it, and then run it.
Loading Files onto Nodes
Clicking on the launcher and selecting the File Upload module. This module will allow you to copy files to the GENI Desktop. From the GENI Desktop, the files can then be copied onto the nodes you select through the file upload window (see below).
File Sets
Users often find it useful to create a "file set" containing all their code and test data. Having created a file set, the user then wants to load the file set onto a set of nodes in the topology. Users often want to try their code on a variety of topologies. As a result, we enable users to copy files from their local machine to the GENI Desktop server which will store them in directories (and subdirectories), thereby allowing users to create file sets that can be quickly loaded onto any topology they create.
Copying File Sets to Nodes
To copy a file set to a node(s), select the node(s) in the topology view and then click "Set Selection". You can also select the destination directory on the nodes where you want the files to be placed. After selecting the destination nodes, destination directory, and file set to copy, you can click "Copy Portal Files to Nodes" to copy the files onto the nodes. A progress bar is displayed to show how much of the file set has been copied. (Follow the sequence of operations in the figure above)
Running Commands on Nodes
Again using the launcher, select the "Command" module which will open up a Run Command Window (see below). Select the nodes on which you want to run a command using the topology viewer. Type in the command you want to execute in the Run Command window and press the "Run Command" button in the window. This will open up a new tab with the output from the command.
Exercise Tasks
For the following exercise, if you do not have your own source code that you want to try, you can simply us the following HelloWorld.c program.
 main() {
 printf("Hello World\n");
 1. Task 1: Create a file set with your source code on the GENI Desktop.
 2. Task 2: Upload your source code to VM-0 and VM-1.
 3. Task 3: Compile your code on VM-0 and VM-1.
 4. Task 4: Run your compiled program on VM-0 and VM-1.


About the ALCA
The Australian Lure Coursing Association was established in 2013 to ensure a consistent approach to the sport of lure coursing across Australia.
Mission Statement
The purpose of the Australian Lure Coursing Association Incorporated (IA41383) is to promote and administer the sport of Lure Coursing in Australia at a National Level.
 1. To encourage the participation of dogs in organised Lure Coursing events.
 2. To provide and maintain a national unified set of rules, under which state Lure Coursing bodies conduct Lure Coursing events.
 3. To develop and maintain a code of ethics under which state bodies and participants participate in lure coursing events
 4. To develop and maintain a set of criteria under which lure coursing events in Australia are judged to be used by all member clubs.
 5. To promote the sport of Lure Coursing as a sport for all dogs.
 6. To develop a set of procedures and criteria under which new judges are trained and assessed.
 7. To cater for the demand of various groups and clubs to have and operate lure coursing events in an organised and professional manner.
 8. To develop a set of coursing plans and procedures for setting out suitable layouts of courses.
 9. To provide a platform for interstate Lure Coursing competitions.
 10. To develop and maintain a grading system to allow dogs to progress through grades and to obtain titles in Lure Coursing.


Hazards of Kissing
1. Infectious mononucleosis
2. Allergic reactions due to transmission of allergens from kisser to kissee. This occurs in ± 5% of the general population, and causes localised itching, swelling, urticaria, and possibly wheezing
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50 Years Ago The hazards of kissing under the mistletoe are described in the British Medical Journal as'serious but exaggerated'.


Modern Languages
The Modern Languages Department at De La Salle endeavours to create a positive and enjoyable language experience. Pupils have the opportunity to study Spanish and Irish to A level. We ensure that lessons are interesting, fun, lively and challenging by using an active approach.
Pupils have the opportunity to listen, speak, read and write in the target language through a range of activities such as games, pair and group work, quizzes, mini whiteboards, iPads, video and audio clips and MFL websites. We believe that it is essential that every pupil reaches his potential.
We strive to develop pupils' interest in the Irish and Spanish language and culture while at the same time helping pupils develop independence and gain an insight into their own language.
Pupils of Irish are encouraged to visit the Iúir Gaeltacht and Spanish students enjoyed Spanish culture and history in the amazing city of Barcelona. They experienced Spanish life, tasted typical Spanish food and most importantly practiced their language skills
Aims of the Modern Languages Department
 - To foster pupils' enjoyment of language learning
 - To have high expectations of pupils' achievements and behaviour
 - To instil a love for the Irish language
 - To develop awareness of Spanish speaking countries and cultures
 - To encourage pride in successful linguistic achievement
 - To ensure that pupils achieve their full potential in public examinations


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The flask in the image above contains cell cultures in the laboratory of UMass Amherst cellular engineer Susan Roberts who is studying cells extracted from the yew tree, known to produce the powerful anti-cancer agent, Taxol. Produced by plants as a defense against predators, Taxol and other secondary metabolites have many beneficial uses. Roberts and her colleagues are developing methods to enhance Taxol productivity in lab cultures to enable a large-scale, sustainable supply. Roberts also directs the interdisciplinary Institute for Cellular Engineering, whose researchers are working to harness the cellular "machinery" in plants, animals, and microorganisms for applications in human health, bioenergy and the environment. Learn more.
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One advantage of economic globalisation comes from the free trade. "Two nations can benefit from free trade by specializing in producing those products in which they enjoy a comparative advantage" (Case & Fair 2004, p.716). A country enjoys a comparative advantage in the manufacturing of a good if the production has a lower opportunity cost than it would have if produced in other country. When specialization takes place in a production, the production will become more efficient. It is due to research and development which aids in improving the production and minimizing the cost of production. This will thus stimulate the domestic economy (Case & Fair 2004, p.716).
Another advantage of economic globalisation is world output will increase due to free immigration of labours. Immigration of labours happens because of the high wages offered and the job opportunities in a local country. When local firms hire these labours, their cost of production reduces, assuming that each labour has the same efficiency. This leads to an increase in productivity in the country and thus, there will be more total output which leads to expansion in world output (Case & Fair 2004, p.720). For example, a firm in Malaysia uses 5 workers to produce 10 shoes and their total wages are RM1000. If that firm hires 10 immigrants to produce the same amount of shoes with the same amount of wages, the production of shoes actually increases without any extra cost, assuming all workers has the same efficiency. When this happens to all firms, the world output for shoes will increase.
Besides that, economic globalization allows the flowing of capital freely among countries. Local producers or firms can invest into foreign bonds and stocks. When these firms do so, those foreign countries can now buy more assets such as buildings, factories and machines to increase their production of goods and also to create jobs directly. Currencies in those countries will then increase and this will result in...
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Definition of rebury in English:
verb (reburies, reburying, reburied)[with object]
- No one has yet requested to have relatives re-interred at Gorton, Manchester General or Phillips Park cemeteries, which means all the others will be reburied at Bury.
- Jay found the sovereigns, either in the lighthouse or in the garden, and he buried or reburied them in the garden.
- 'There is also the question of how long somebody should have been buried before we can consider removing or reburying their remains in this way,' he said.
- reburial noun
- Example sentences
- The group also wants the government to contribute to the costs of the exhumations, including DNA testing and dignified reburials.
- The figure was revealed today as the row over reburials took a new twist when town hall chiefs offered a compromise.
- Relatives of many of the people buried say the town hall should pay for private reburials.
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IAEA Tracks Carbon in the Arctic
25 August 2009: Scientists from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Marine Environment Laboratories in Monaco are reaching the end of their involvement in a month-long sampling effort aboard a Canadian research icebreaking vessel, studying the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment.
After the field component of the project ends, scientists will use the data they have gathered to evaluate recent changes in carbon outflow from rivers, and to design algorithms that will be needed to track climate change using satellites. These algorithms will take into account stocks of organic carbon and environmental factors that influence the climate, as well as parameters for interpreting the satellite images. [IAEA Press Release]


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FORT DERUSSY, Hawaii - The Army Museum of Hawaii, located in Fort DeRussy's Battery Randolph, in the heart of Waikiki, is a 19th century U.S. Army coastal defense gun battery that once served as a first line of defense against enemy attack on Oahu's southern shore.
"Even though Battery Randolph has been here for nearly a century, some of our island's newcomers, visitors and even local folks have yet to discover the treasures and rich military history on display here," said Judith Bowman, museum director.
The battery was built between 1909 and 1911 and gained international, national, state and local significance at a time when British, French, Russians, Germans, and even the Japanese, all had ships in the Pacific, and were expressing interest in Hawaii.
At the time, the United States was expanding its defenses westward as other nations were looking to Hawaii as an economic and militarily significant port of call in the middle of the Pacific for their merchant and naval vessels.
Fort DeRussy was part of a series of fortifications whose mission was to defend Pearl Harbor and Honolulu Harbor from attacking battleships. It comprised two artillery batteries, Battery Randolph to the east and Battery Dudley to the west.
"Besides drawing in members of the armed forces, tourists from around the world flock to the museum daily as a way to step back in time and relive history." Bowman said. "Some are interested in the late 1700s and early 1800s when King Kamehameha united the seven Hawaiian islands under a single rule, while others come to learn about the role their parents or grandparents played in World War II.
Visiting from Montreal, the Frijon family decided to take a break from the frigid conditions at home and enjoy a week in a little more temperate climate.
"We could have gone anywhere," said son Stephane Frijon, "but we wanted to see paradise."
Travelling with his parents, Benoit and Francine, and with young son Zack in tow, the family decided to pop into the museum when they eyed it while strolling down Kalia Road in Waikiki.
We enjoy history in general," explained Stephane. "This visit gives us an opportunity to learn some American history and see what the museum has to offer."
"Many visitors entering the facility don't realize that this museum is more than just about its exhibit galleries or the cannon and tanks displayed outside," Bowman said. "The building itself is an artifact and a significant part of Hawaiian history."
In its heyday, Battery Randolph had two 14-inch guns and Battery Dudley had two six-inch guns mounted on disappearing carriages. When they were installed, they were the largest guns in the entire Pacific from California to the Philippines.
"The disappearing carriages allowed the guns to remain hidden from sight of approaching battleships by solid concrete walls called parapets, capable of withstanding a direct hit from a 2,000-pound artillery shell," explained Dorian Travers, museum curator. "To get the gun into the firing position, the artillery crew tripped a lever attached to a 50-ton weight. As the weight fell, it lifted the gun tube into battery (the firing position), and the gun was then ready to fire again."
A crew of roughly 14 artillerymen would load a ¾-ton shell in the breech, and then load 340 pounds of gun powder behind that.
After lobbing the 1,556-pound shells up to 14 miles out to sea, the recoil automatically pushed the gun carriage back down behind its concrete parapet, protecting the Soldiers and gun from low-angle naval fire. The gun was then reloaded again.
"A well-trained crew could fire a round downrange every 30-seconds," Travers said. "As one round was impacting its mark, the second round was already half way in flight to hit the target again."
Protecting Soldiers inside the battery, the overhead concrete was up to 12-feet thick. On the ocean side of the battery, concrete was the equivalent of 30-feet thick. The measurements were derived from a calculation based on 15 feet of concrete and 45 feet of sand, in which three feet of sand equates to one foot of concrete.
Were these weapons, based on 1890s technology, accurate?
"They were very accurate," Travers said, emphatically. "Observation points on top of Diamond Head and Tantalus were used to triangulate the distance, direction and speed of potential adversaries via telephone to the plotting room at Battery Randolph.
"The guns were capable of hitting a 20-foot target from six miles away - the equivalent of hitting a bus in Kaneohe, or on a wall 60-feet away," he explained, "with a bullet the size of a pinhead, all without the aid of a computer."
In today's dollars, this weapon system would be a bargain to operate. In 1914 terms, when a Soldier's average daily salary was $2 per day, it cost a pretty penny.
The cast iron practice projectiles cost around $55 each, whereas the armor-piercing projectile cost about $780. For both systems, the powder charge propelling the projectile was $230.
Although an engineering marvel and weapon for its day, the emplacement proved its obsolesces with advent aircraft carriers. No longer did attacking navies need to bring their ships within eyesight of the beaches in order to effectively engage targets.
Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese planes devastated the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet in their attack on Pearl Harbor, and on the central and leeward parts of Oahu, without firing a single round at the defenses at Fort DeRussy. There was no need.
With the end of World War II came the realization that the fort was no longer capable of meeting the needs of the U.S. military in Hawaii. The giant guns were cut up and sold for scrap, having never fired a shot in anger or defense.
Battery Randolph was eventually abandoned and briefly became a warehouse storage facility.
Efforts were made in 1969 to demolish the batteries and free up the prime real estate for other useful purposes.
Battery Dudley was razed to the ground, but Battery Randolph proved more stubborn. Its concrete walls repeatedly defied destruction, and the demolition company contracted to remove the structure eventually went bankrupt in the process.
"In 1976, the Army designated Battery Randolph home of the U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii," Bowman said. "We continue to expand and improve exhibits in the museum, keeping the Army's history alive, current and relevant.
"You cannot find a better educational venue to learn about the history of the U.S. Army in Hawaii and the Pacific, and the vital role Hawaii's citizenry played in the defense of our nation."
The U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii is located in Honolulu, along the ocean side of Waikiki's Kalia Road. It is situated adjacent to the Hale Koa Hotel, at the corner of Kalia and Saratoga roads.
The museum houses a gift store that sells military memorabilia, books, clothing, military unit insignia, and World War era music, all reasonably priced.
The museum is free of charge and open to the public, Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and closed on some federal holidays, but open on military holidays.
Audio tours are available.
Validated parking is available across the street from the museum, and disabled parking spaces are provided in front of the museum.
Group tours can be arranged by calling _PHONE_.


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3D Video Converter for 3D TV
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Step 1: Load the source
Run DVDFab 10, go to Converter module and load the 2D video you are going to convert.
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Navigate to the profile library on the top left corner of the main interface, choose Format > Video > Filter, check the 3D option and choose a 3D video format you want.
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Click the "Advanced Settings" icon, you can go into the Advanced Settings panel. Here you can set the video/audio parameters as well as the 3D type. In "3D Format" part, click the drop down list to choose "Split Screen" (SBS) as the 3D type, and choose the Left/Right or Top/Bottom format according to your 3D TV. After all settings are done, you can go back to the main interface to change the video name, choose the audio tracks and subtitles you want (you can add external subtitles). You can also click the "Editor" icon to edit the video.
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Cowie, Daniel B.
The following data is extracted from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans.
Daniel B. Cowie. In an article on other pages of this publication will be found some account of the salt industry in Kansas and some mention of the more prominent mines and companies. One of the most striking figures in the development of the salt industry in Kansas was the late James Cowie, Sr., and the above named is a son of that salt pioneer and is now general superintendent of the Independent Salt Company at Kanopolis.
The Cowie family are Scotch people, and in Scotland they were also identified with mining. The grandfather of Daniel was George Cowie, who spent his life in Scotland and was a successful coal contractor. James Cowie, Sr., was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, in 1839. He grew up and married there and from an early age was a coal miner. Prior to his coming to America he was general manager for one of the largest coal companies in Scotland, having supervision over ten diffierent coal properties. On coming to the United States in 1884 he entered the employ of the H. C. Frick Coal Company at Connellsville, Pennsylvania.
James Cowie, Sr., came to Kanopolis, Kansas, in 1889. The credit is given him for originating the salt mining industry of Kansas and he was known in the press and to the general public as the "salt king." As manager of the Royal Salt Company he put in the first salt mine in Kansas just east of the city limits of Kanopolis. He managed that company until 1905 and then organized the Crystal Salt Company, of which he was manager and part owner. He bought from the Kanopolis townsite the salt rights underneath the town. The Crystal mine is just outside the limits of Kanopolis but its tunnels and underground work are partly beneath the town itself. At the time of his death James Cowie, Sr., was managing director of the Crystal Salt Company and also owned between 5,000 and 6,000 town lots in Kanopolis. Previously he was owner of about forty buildings in the town but had sold this part of his real estate. As an American citizen James Cowie, Sr., was a republican, was an active Presbyterian, and served a number of terms as mayor of Kanopolis and well justified the honors bestowed upon him by efficient service in the administration of municipal affairs.
James Cowie, Sr., married Elizabeth Barrowman. She was born in Scotland in 1842 and died at Kanopolis in 1915, while her husband passed away there in 1911. Her father, George Barrowman, was a prominent coal contractor in Scotland, where he died. James Cowie and wife had five children. George, the oldest, is manager of the Standard Salt Company at Little River, Kansas. James Cowie, Jr., is president of the Exchange State Bank of Kanopolis and is also mine foreman under his brother Daniel. Daniel is the third in the family. Janette married Samuel Hogsett, a loan and real estate man at Kansas City, Missouri. Elizabeth, the youngest child, is the wife of George P. Kelly, of Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Kelly is president of the American Salt and Coal Company of Lyons, Kansas, and at this writing is installing one of the largest combination rock salt and evaporation salt plants in the United States. The evaporation works are already in operation and the rock salt mines will be completed and in a producing state within six months.
Daniel B. Cowie, son of James Cowie, Sr., was born at Kylswith, Stirlingshire, Scotland, March 20, 1869, and was fifteen years of age when the family came to the United States. He received his education in the public schools of Stirlingshire and for two years taught school in Scotland. At the age of eighteen he began working as a miner, and had an intimate experience with that industry in every capacity from tapper boy to general superintendent.
Under his father he became expert in all branches of salt mining and manufacture. He was general superintendent of the Kingman Salt Company at Kingman, Kansas, until the plant was burned in 1903, after which he returned to Kanopolis and was general superintendent of the Crystal Salt Company and since 1913 had been superintendent of the Independent Salt Company. For 3½ years prior to 1915 Mr. Cowie was at Detroit, Michigan, his services being employed to straighten out the tangled affairs of the rock salt plant, wherein was involved an investment of over $1,000,000. The plant was in the hands of a receiver and the expert ability of Mr. Cowie was called into service, and he not only put the plant on its feet but developed it so that now it is one of the best salt mine propositions in the United States.
Mr. Cowie lives close to the Independent Salt Company's plant and in the superintendent's house furnished by the company. He owned six dwelling houses in Kanopolis, a farm of eighty acres near the city, and is a stockholder and director in the Exchange State Bank.
His fellow citizens have honored him with the office of mayor two terms and with that of city clerk two terms. For fifteen consecutive years he was a member of the school board and since 1913 had again been on the board and is now treasurer. He is a republican, an elder in the Presbyterian Church, is past master of Kingman Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and the Knights Templar Commandery at Kingman, is past noble grand of Kingman Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, past master workman of Kingman Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and charter member of Kanopolis Camp of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Mr. Cowie enjoys an ideal home life and had a large and happy family. He first married at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1891, Miss Allie Matthews. She died in 1897, leaving two daughters: Elizabeth, now the wife of William McVittie, a member of the city fire department of Detroit, Michigan; and Janette, living at home. In 1900, at Emporia, Kansas, Mr. Cowie married Miss Ruth A. Haley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Haley. Her mother is deceased and her father still lives on a farm near Emporia. Mr. and Mrs. Cowie have seven children: Anna, born in 1901; Daniel, Jr., born in 1903; Margaret, born in 1905; Jane, born in 1907; Dorothy, born in 1909; Evelyn, born in 1911; and James, born in 1914.
Source: A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans


The Yin and the Yang
I've been thinking about communism and capitalism and I found a nice image to explain one of the crucial differences and inherent mechanisms.
The yin-yang image from Taoism explains things by ratios of yin and yang, and the thing is, those never exist in a pure state: in the yin half-circle, there's a dot of yang, and in the yang half-circle, there is a dot of yin. Essentially, this means that in perfect stillness there's an aspect of activity, and in pure activity there's an aspect of stillness.
In capitalism, in its pure and perfect form, where the vast majority of the population is wealthy, there is a minority that languishes in poverty. In communism, in its pure and perfect form, where the vast majority of the population languishes in poverty, there is a minority, the officials and dignitaries of the Communist Party, who are wealthy and powerful.
There must be a poor minority in capitalism, because they serve as a warning to others, of what could happen to them if they fail. They are a much greater motivation for success than the few super-wealthy, who can be seen as completely beyond reach. However, everybody sees the homeless people on the streets and they are an omnipresent warning: get your shit together or that's where you will end up. So, in capitalism, there is widespread wealth and localized misery; it's really unimportant that some are super-wealthy and can afford their own jet planes, if the majority is wealthy enough to be able to afford a good house and a nice car. Eventually, as the entire country becomes super-wealthy, someone compassionate says "let's eradicate poverty altogether". Let's raise the taxes for the wealthy, and elevate that tiny minority above the threshold of poverty. And people agree, because it's hard for them to see how it could harm, since everybody is so well off. However, as they raise the taxes in order to funnel the money into welfare, the state bureaucracy grows, the difficulty of doing business grows, the taxes grow exponentially because you no longer have only welfare as an expense, but the price of bureaucracy, and in a generation the result of attempting to remove that tiny dot of yin in the sea of yang you actually expanded the dot. You made poverty widespread and wealth localized. Unfortunately, as that happens people vote for more socialist measures because they feel impoverished, and point at the rich thinking that they are who stole their money, either by not paying enough taxes or by outright exploitation. However, the thing is, nobody needs to steal your money in order for you to be poor. Money can simply vanish, by destroying the environment in which it can be created. Wealth is not a given, it's an emergent property. If you have very few laws, for instance to assure that the contracts are honored, that the patents are obeyed and that the offenders are punished, but nothing more than what is essential, you will have a thriving society and wealth will be created. If you create a situation where people need to fill paperwork whenever they wipe their ass, and they are taxed so much they never get to have any money to spare, you don't shift wealth elsewhere, you destroy it. What was once a machine of capitalism that produced prosperity and wealth, now becomes a quagmire of socialism that produces only bureaucracy, discontent and more socialist measures to combat the rare situations where anyone managed to have any money. So, by trying to eliminate that localized speck of poverty from a capitalist society, we destroy the capitalist society and turn it into a cesspool of poverty and socialist incompetence and ideological warfare.
In communism, there's something called "corruption", which basically means that the communist party leadership always manages to be well off, even in the countries where most of the population is starving. However, if you try to change anything, you will destroy the communist system. If you try to fight "corruption", you end up decapitating the communist system, as it happened in Romania, and the entire country transforms into something else, it's no longer communist. If you try to elevate the majority of the population into the middle class, as it happened in Yugoslavia, people start thinking in capitalist terms. They see socialism as restrictive, because if they can't earn money for building a house at home, but they can do so in Germany, there's something seriously wrong with the system at home. They are no longer the impoverished masses who are willing to embrace communism because it promises equal misery to all where at least they will have some food, they are the middle class who wants nicer cars and bigger homes. As a result of draining the swamp of poverty, communism turns into capitalism.
The conclusion is that it's quite easy to destroy any system by destroying its foundations. In capitalism, you need to have minimalistic rules, no glass ceilings for the winners and no safety net for the losers. Then, as a result, you get widespread wealth and localized misery. Never attempt to remove this dot of misery in the pool of wealth because you will destroy the pool of wealth, and the misery will drown us all.
Why everybody wants to go to America… not
I am annoyed when Americans routinely state, as argument in favor of the thesis that America is the best, or at least the least bad of all countries, that everybody wants to go there.
According to this argument, shit is the best thing in the world because all the flies want to get there.
It's not important how many people want to get somewhere, it's the motive behind their migration. If they figured out there's free welfare which they can obtain without having to work, it's hardly evidence of your country's greatness. If jihadists want to get to your country, in order to make an Islamic caliphate and kill you, it doesn't mean they think your state is great, it means they think it's weakly enough defended to make it a tempting target.
The fact that parasites and enemies want to invade you doesn't mean you're great. It means you're seen as roadkill, as something to be devoured by lesser beings in absence of a proper defense that would be presented by a living organism.
The idea that everybody always wanted to go to America is American narcissistic delusion. I live in Croatia, a country with probably the second greatest diaspora in the world, after Israel. I think that more Croats live outside Croatia, in Canada, USA, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Germany and other countries, than inside Croatia. That's because of all sorts of wars, persecution and poverty, during the rule of several different regimes in the 20th century. To them, it wasn't clear where they wanted to go. America was merely one of the possible destinations. There was absolutely nothing special about it. Before the second world war, Argentina was as preferable, and after the second world war, Germany was more preferable – simply because it was easy to get work and be paid well. So no, America was historically not the singular beacon of freedom and a destination of choice. It was just another country, one that was far away that you can hope it's significantly different from what you had at home. For most people, what was important is that there's work that's paid well enough, and that there's no outright persecution, such as they usually faced at home. To Croats, America was a free country, Argentina was a free country, Canada was a free country, Germany was a free country, Australia was a free country, New Zealand was a free country. Wherever you could work and not be killed was a free country, which tells you something about the conditions at home, where the Serbs were mistreating the Croats so badly, they had really low requirements for emigration. As long as you didn't get killed, beaten up and robbed, and you can find a job that paid well enough to make a living, it was a free country. Nobody cared about the American constitution, it's completely irrelevant. Nobody cared about Australian constitution, either. As long as the Serbs can't beat you up, imprison you on false charges and kill you, it's a great constitution.
Let's see who's actually trying to go to America now:
 - Latino immigrants looking for free money or low-paying jobs.
 - Jihadists who want to convert it to Islam.
The times after the second world war, when the greatest minds from Europe flocked to America because it wasn't destroyed by war and they could continue to do their work in normal conditions, those times are over. Also, the times from the 19th century, when people like Nikola Tesla went to America to escape the Austro-Hungarian bureaucracy which hindered all progress, they too are over, because as things are, American bureaucracy now is a copy of that innovation-stifling mess people used to run away from. Also, if people want freedom, America with its fascism, restrictions on travel, spying and surveillance, completely controlled media spewing propaganda is the last country on Earth they would go to. In fact, people seeking freedom and fighting for truth are right now hiding from America in Ecuadorian embassy (Assange) and in Russia (Snowden). America is the country that persecutes freedom fighters and restricts freedoms. America is a country where Nazi armed guards implement controls at the airports, so that they could have complete control of the population, and spiritual heirs of the Sturmabteilung thugs wearing black masks and neo-fascist symbols intimidate free speech advocates at the universities, using violence with the tacit support of the police.
In the 1980s, I actually used to dream about going to America to work at Microsoft or somewhere else in the IT industry, because that


Arduino WSPR
This page details my experimental AD9851 WSPR transmitter. Visit the WSPR page for my standard WSPR tests. These pages are also related to this, and may be of an interest to you: Arduino AD9851 Arduino RTTY Arduino QRSS 1W PA for 10MHz
This page assumes that you already have an Arduino board and AD9851 DDS chip in some form, for example the DDS-60 board by AmQRP. See the Arduino AD9851 board for my solution.
Source Code for AD9851 Simple WSPR Transmitter You'll need to generate your own data, as detailed in the text.
Theory of the WSPR Protocol
This section is the theory of how WSPR works. You do not need to understand any of this in order to make a WSPR transmitter. I worked through it because I was interested in the theory and maths. But I guess most people are not! 🙂
The first thing I did was see what frequencies were needed to be transmitted. This can be done with the WSPR program from the command line. Read the manual, WSPR Instructions found here. Most importantly the section entitled GENERATING A LIST OF TX TONE FREQUENCIES. This section describes making custom hardware or MCU solutions to transmit WSPR – exactly what I was trying to do! Wikipedia also has an interesting section, WSPR Protocol Specification, which contains some information.
WSPR has a fixed standard message of the station's callsign, 4-digit QRA locator and signal power in dBm. My example would be "M1GEO JO01 20" where M1GEO is my callsign, JO01 is the first 4 digits of my QRA locator and 20dBm (is roughly 100 mW). In total, 50 bits are used (28 for the callsign, 15 for the locator, and 7 for the power).
Using a high convolution code of length 32 and rate 0.5 as parameters for the forward error correction (messages are encoded in a redundant way, so the loss of information, here bits, has a greatly reduced impact on the quality of the message received) allows for a very redundant code.
If we expand this out, we can work out the number of binary symbols required to send this data. This convolutional encoding is explained mathematically here. Binary channel theory is explained here too. You don't need to understand these, just to know it happens is enough. This is the theory of why it works, how averaging the noise, redundant encoding (FEC) and other measures will help our cause. Here, just believe me, this is how it works out – our original 50 bits become the following number of symbols:
N_{sym} = 2(B + = 2(50 + [32-1) = 2(81) = 162 \; bits
The protocol specification states:
Each tone should last for 8192/12000 = 0.682666667 seconds, and transitions between
tones should be done in a phase-continuous manner.
This is a pre-chosen value, 8192/12000, (simplifies to 256/375) which was chosen because it works out nicely. Transmissions are a reasonable length of time, a computer sound-card can work with this value well.
Inverting this tone length, we get the tone separation:
F_{sep} = \frac{1}{T_{tone}} = \frac{1}{\frac{256}{375}} = \frac{375}{256} \approx 1.46 \; Hz.
as specified in the protocol. Next we know that we're using MFSK-4 (4 frequencies) with a separation of 1.4648 Hz, such that we can send our pseudo-random synchronisation vector. We work out the total occupied bandwidth,
BW_{tot} = T \times F_{sep} = 4 \times \frac{375}{256} = \frac{375}{64} \approx 6 \; Hz
The 162-bit seudo-random synchronisation vector (PRSV) serves to help the receiver to synchronise. It affords the receiving station some data that it knows to expect. It is able to find this pattern mixed in with your message (callsign, locator, power) and has therefore found your signal too. The 4 tones, mentioned above in our bandwidth calculation can be used to represent 1-bit of the PRSV and one bit of the message (00, 01, 10, 11). One of these four tones is called a channel symbol, and conveys one sync vector bit (LSB) and one data message bit (MSB). We send two bits at a time, hence 4 tones.
From here, we can work out the transmission time,
N_{sym} \times T_{tone} = 162 \times \frac{256}{375} = \frac{13824}{125} \approx 110.6 \; s
The protocol also specifies that transmission timeslots start one second into the even UTC minute.
Using The WSPR Binary to Generate Tone Data
For a starting position, I decided to use the WSPR binary application to generate the tone data. I am only really interested in the tone numbers (second column). In case you skipped the theory section, the protocol specification is set out here: and describes the many options to do with the WSPR binary command line. Here I just get the computer to generate my callsign, locator and power, 100 mW (M1GEO JO01 20). Note you need to use the WSPR.exe program or the wspr0 binary under Linux. Using the script just starts the WSPR GUI.
Old Versions:
./wspr0 Tx 0 0.0015 0 M1GEO JO01 20 11 New Versions: ./wspr0 -t -X -c M1GEO -g JO01 -dBm 20
WSPR generator
The power here shows 17 dBm. It was changed later to 20 dBm
The output data, tells you the bit number, and they're to be transmitted in this sequence. The next column tells you the tone number, 0-3, and the final column shows the frequency for the offsets you have entered in the two values after the Tx argument.
If you're running a Linux or Unix based system, running the command below will create you a list of tone numbers, separated by commas. If you're running Windows, I'm sure there are ways to do this (one of which is doing it yourself). I can't offer you any advice. Sorry.
./wspr0 -t -X -c M1GEO -g JO01 -dBm 20 | awk '{print2}' | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/,/g'
This data can then be input into your Arduino Code as a data array.
Simple WSPR Transmitter
You can use this data to transmit WSPR very simply. Putting this data into an array allows for easy recall in a sequenced manner. Here, I add the data into an array as you would expect to find in a C program. This is for Arduino v1, but is very universal. You can see how creating the comma separated list in the step above helped a lot!
byte WSPR_DATA[] = {3,3,0,2,2,0,2,0,1,0,2,0,1,1,1,0,2,2,3,0,2,1,2,3,1,3,1,2,0,
The line breaks are for looks only. You could just as easily leave all the data on one single line. Make sure the end of each line ends with a comma, as this signifies that the data continues.
A simple way to read this data out of the array is to create a for-loop:
void wsprTX() {
int i = 0;
for (i=0;i<162;i++) {
wsprTXtone( WSPR_DATA[i] );
Here you can see that the loop goes from the 0th element to 161st element sequentially incrementing the variable 'i'. I in turn feeds into our array, picking the next element from WSPR_DATAeach time it is updated. This value is passed by compound statement (the value WSPR_DATA[# returns is input directly as the argument) to the function wsprTXtone(t) which translates this tone number into an actual frequency.
void wsprTXtone(int t) {
if ((t >= 0) && (t <= 3) ) {
frequency((WSPR_TXF + (t * 1.4648)));
When the wsprTX(void) function calls wsprTXtone(t) it is passed a number, as discussed representing the tone required. The first thing we do is to check the tone is valid (0 <= t <= 3). If it is, we can simply calculate the required tone offset by multiplying the passed parameter, t, with the tone offset, 1.4648 Hz. This value is added to WSPR_TXF in this example which is the absolute offset, defined elsewhere as 10,140,200 Hz. The frequency() function, as you might expect, sets the frequency of the DDS.
The last issue to tackle is the timing. As


What legal rights does a father have to his child?
Under New York law, an unmarried mother or unmarried father may be able to make a claim for child custody, child visitation rights or for child support. You should not face any sort of legal penalty simply due to the fact that you were not married when you had a child.
Can a mother keep a child from their father?
Does father Have Same rights mother?
In most situations, the rights a father has are the same as the mother. This may be for custody, during divorce, in legal battles and when there are no issues with the spouse. … Because the male partner believes he has no rights for legal arguments, he may not fight against a ruling or before one may be issued.
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The duties include the duty to maintain the child and provide them with food, shelter, medical care, education, clothing and the duty to protect the child from neglect, discrimination and abuse. In a nutshell, it is the responsibility to provide for the financial, physical, mental and emotional needs of the child.
What rights does a father have?
A father has just as much right to have contact with the child as the mother. A father who was married to the mother or was listed on the birth certificate has parental responsibility over a child. The parental responsibility is not lost by the father when they separate or divorce from the mother.
Can a dad take his child?
Who has rights to a child when not married?
According to family law, the mother automatically gains custody of the child if she is unwed to the father. There is no need for unwed mothers to take legal actions to fight for the child's custodial rights, even the decision to determine the father's role in their child's life.
How can a mother lose custody?
Top 4 Reasons That Could Cause a Mother to Lose Child Custody
 2. Physical abuse of the partner. …
 3. Neglect. …
 4. Violation of a court order.
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Can a father stop a mother from moving?
What happens if a mother lies about paternity?
A man who has been told by the mother that he is the father of her child can sue her if she is lying. A woman now has a legal obligation to tell the correct man that he is the father of her child. … He may also bring a civil action for paternity fraud against the mother to recover damages and any emotional distress.
Is it illegal to not tell the father your pregnant?
No, you don't have to tell the father of your child that you are pregnant. You have no legal obligation to let him know. … Say you never tell the father, later on, you find someone and want them to adopt your child. They will need the biological parent's consent for this – probably requiring DNA testing.
Do biological fathers have rights?
Biological parents have a right to seek legal or physical custody of their child or child visitation, regardless of whether they were married or not when the child was born. … Contrary to what many people believe, fathers have the same rights as mothers regarding child custody in a divorce.
Can a court force a mother to put a father's name on birth certificate?
It is not illegal for a mother not to put the father's name on the birth certificate. … A father's name can be added to the birth certificate at a later time. If the parents are married, then both parents details will appear on the birth certificate. Either parent can register the child's birth on their own.
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When a parent keeps a child from the other parent?
Parental alienation is a common tactic by one parent who intends to significantly harm and even destroy the other parent's relationship with the child. From our article titled "What is Parental Alienation and What Can You Do About it?" (linked below), here is our definition.
Does a father automatically have parental responsibility?
A mother automatically has parental responsibility for her child from birth. A father usually has parental responsibility if he's either: married to the child's mother.
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How to Setup a Linux Mail Server on Debian / Ubuntu
A Linux mail server consists of software packages that can send and receive mail using the SMTP protocol and retreive mail using the standard protocols POP3 and / or IMAP. Since we are about to setup your new Linux mail server, it is important to understand the differences between the various protocols and their purposes. SMTP is typically used to deliver mail from a client to a server or pass messages from one server to another. POP3 (Post-Office Protocol) is an uni-directional protocol, which retrieves mail from the mail server and delivers it to a mail client like Mozilla's Thunderbird. POP3 differs from IMAP with one significant respect: IMAP synchronizes messages between different d whereas POP3 simply downloads copies of messages.
The default configuration for the mail server software we are going to use to build our server is setup for a single domain. However, it is more useful to create a server that can not only accomodate multiple email addresses, but also multiple domains. The most convenient way to manage these multple domains and email addresses is to use a MySQL database as a backend.
Preparing Your Linux Mail Server
First, let's prepare the system by installing the required packages:
During installation, you'll be asked the following questions:
Question 1: What type of server site do you want? Select Internet Site
Question 2: Enter the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name)
This is the full domain name that you will put into in the MX Records. Make sure this has already been entered into the DNS at your registrar / name servers. The example below shows, but you will want to change it to your legitimate mail server address (or backup MX record).
Question 3: Enter the administrative "root" user password.
Make sure this is a strong password, and make sure you write it down! You'll need it later…Once you enter in the password, you will (of course) be asked to confirm it.
Question 4: Create directories for web-based administration?
Enter: No.
Question 5: Is not really a question.
It just tells you that you are going to need an SSL certificate. Just click OK.
Question 6: For the Samba server, leave the workgroup name "WORKGROUP"
Question 7: Next, phpMyAdmin will ask you to choose the web server it will use. Select Apache.
Question 8: Configure the database for phpMyAdmin with dbconfig-common? Select Yes.
Question 9: Enter the password for the database administrative user.
Question 10: Next, it will ask you for a password to register with the MySQL server. Enter in the root password you put in for question 3 above.
The installation of the software packages will continue and return you to the prompt. Next, we'll need to configure the database system so we can support multiple domains and multiple users. The easiest way to do this is to install postfixadmin, and let postfixadmin create the database tables we will use to manage the system.
Setting Up the Database
Making Sure the MySQL Database Server is "listening"
Edit the /etc/mysql/my.cnf file to ensure that bind-address on line 47 is configured to be If it was not, change the directive to the following:
bind-address =
and then restart the MySQL service with this command:
/etc/init.d/mysql restart
Setup a User for the Database
Log into the MySQL client:
msyql -uroot -p
Enter the password you created for root above. (See Question 3 above!)
GRANT ALL ON postfix.* to 'postfixadmin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'changethispassword';
Change to the /var/www/ directory (Apache's document root)
cd /var/www/
Download the current version of postfixadmin:
wget -O postfixadmin.tar.gz
Untar the package:
tar -zxvf postfixadmin.tar.gz
Postfixadmin will likely untar into a directory like postfixadmin-2.3.5, which is not very convenient for us. So, let's move it to a more memorable, easier directory:
 mv -v postfixadmin-2.3.5/ postfixadmin/
Configure PostfixAdmin
Edit, and change line 27 to set $CONF['configured'] to true:
//$CONF['configured'] = false;
$CONF['configured'] = true;
Now, configure the database permissions on line 52-54 (approximately). Change the username to postfixadmin and the password to the password you configured above.
Once you have completed the configuration of PostfixAdmin, you can now navigate to the setup script in the browser by going to the IP address of the server /postfix/admin.php.
The script will check your setup and alert you to any errors. If you have followed this tutorial closely (and correctly) there should be no errors. If there are, however, double check the process, and correct any errors that are being shown.
Once you correct any errors, it will ask you to enter in a setup password. Enter in the password, and click the Generate Password Hash button. Once you do so, it will give you a line configuration that we will enter into
Copy and paste that configuration line to the end of the, and then refresh the page.
Once the page is refreshed, enter in the setup password, and create a master email account that will serve as the superadmin account. Once you have completed this process, double check to make sure that the setup script has notified you of two events:
Everything seems fine... attempting to create/update database structure
Database is up to date
Once you see these messages, the database and table structures are created, and we are ready to move on to the next part of the process.
Setup phpMyAdmin
Change directory to /var/www/
cd /var/www/
Download the current version of phpMyAdmin:
wget -O phpmyadmin.tar.gz
Untar it
tar -zxvf phpmyadmin.tar.gz
Move the directory to something more usable:
mv -v phpMyAdmin-3.5.2-english/ phpMyAdmin/
Navigate to and log in using postfixadmin and the password you set for the postfixadmin user to double check to make sure that user permissions are correct. Upon logging in, you should see the postfix table listed on the left hand side, and then the following list of tables will be shown:
Configuring Postfix to Use MySQL
There are six files that we are going to configure to work with our configuration as we have set it up thus far, which are all located in /etc/postfix/:
This file tells postfix what domains the mail server will be receiving mail for. Here are the contents:
user = postfixadmin
password = thepostfixadminpassword
dbname = postfix
query = SELECT domain AS virtual FROM domain WHERE domain='%s'
hosts =
This table sets up email forwarding and aliases. Its content should be:
user = postfixadmin
password = thepostfixadminpassword
dbname = postfix
hosts =
This file tells Postfix where in your local mail server's file system the mail will be kept. The SQL statement parses the email address and turns it into a relative path from the mail root. It's file contents are:
user = postfixadmin
password = thepostfixadminpassword
dbname = postfix
query = SELECT CONCAT(SUBSTRING_INDEX(username,'@',-1),'/',SUBSTRING_INDEX(username,'@',1),'/') FROM mailbox WHERE username='%s'
hosts =
This tells Postfix how to find and indentify aliases. It's contents should consist of:
user = postfixadmin
password = thepostfixadminpassword
dbname = postfix
query = SELECT username FROM mailbox WHERE username='%s'
hosts =
Postfix needs to be told how to transport emails from the point of receipt to teh final destination. For our purposes (and mostly because we are configuring this server with PostfixAdmin), we are going to use "virtual" as the transport because this server receives mail for virtual hosts. The file contents and configuration for this consist of:
user = postfixadmin
password = thepostfixadminpassword
dbname = postfix
query = SELECT transport FROM domain WHERE domain='%s'
hosts =
This last configuration file tells Postfix how to limit email accounts based on a quota. Its configuration file should be:
user = postfixadmin
password = thepostfixadminpassword
dbname = postfix
query = SELECT current FROM quota WHERE username='%s'
hosts =
Now, we have to change the ownership and group of the files to make Postfix happy:
chmod o= /etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_*.cf
chgrp postfix /etc/postfix/mysql-virtual_*.cf
Now, we have to create a user and group that will own and operate the virtual mail stores (along with the home directory where all the mail will be stored)
groupadd -g 5000 vmail
useradd -g vmail -u 5000 vmail -d /home/vmail -m
Next, use the commands below to configure Postfix to use the MySQL tables and configuration files we have set up to this point. Be sure to change to your FQDN or you'll break Postfix!
postconf -e'myhostname ='
postconf -e'mydestination =, localhost, localhost.localdomain'
postconf -e'mynetworks ='
postconf -e 'virtual_alias_domains ='
postconf -e 'virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail'
postconf -e 'virtual_uid_maps = static:5000'
postconf -e 'virtual_gid_maps = static:5000'
postconf -e'smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes'
postconf -e 'broken_sasl_auth


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Benedikt Bauer and Jan Steffen Becker and Thomas Peikenkamp and Christof Schlaak and Ingo Stierand
Combined Proceedings of the Workshops of the German Software Engineering Conference 2018 (SE 2018)
For computing-intensive applications such as driver assistance systems, multiprocessor and multi-core processor systems are increasingly being used in embedded systems. This paper shows how requirements for a multi-core system design can be implemented in compliance to ISO 26262 modeling concepts, i.e. safety standards. Accordingly, safety-relevant system-level requirements have to be broken down to the subordinate system components (e.g., controllers) as well as the hardware and software architecture. In safety-critical application domains, there are also requirements and limitations that must be taken into account during partitioning, mapping, and distribution processes. For the distribution of software components to the individual processing cores, various algorithms are mostly used, since a manual distribution under consideration of all constraints is error prone, time consuming and ineffective. This paper finally presents a way to determine and identify requirement types along with methods and tools that are supported by the APP4MC platform.
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AMALTHEA4public Enabling of Results from AMALTHEA and others for Transfer into Application and building a Community around ASSUME Affordable Safe And Secure Mobility Evolution ARAMiS II Automotive Railway Avionics Multicore Systems II


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Green Your Sports: Eco-Friendly Skiing
Tip #3: Ski Green
Though skiing isn't the greenest of sports (resorts guzzle freshwater for artificial powder and electricity for lifts), some destinations have opted to use wind power and recycled snow instead. Help green the sport by strapping on eco-skis when hitting the slopes. Grab an old pair from a friend, buy used, or invest in skis from an earth-conscious company. Lokomotiv Skis, for example, plants a tree for every pair they produce, and make their gear from bamboo.
Tell us: How do you green your ski trip?


Geek This: The Saga of the First King
You should be geeking Bransen Garibond.
Bransen Gairbond is a hunched-cripple who can barely walk and can't even get through a sentence without succumbing to a horrible stutter. He is an orphan who lost his parents to sickness and execution who is raised in a monastery by a monk named Garibond.
Bernivvigar is an evil ruler, Prydea is his sole confident. He rules the rand with religious bias and executes those who disagree. So when Bransen discovered the Book of Jhest and the soulstone hermatite, gift left over from his departed mother, Bransen begins the arduous task of infusing his body with magic, straightening his chi and learning the ways of Jhest. This transforms him from the cripple he is to the dexterous vigilante called The Highwayman.
Why care?
The story of Bransen Garibond, as told through the Saga of the First King, is a Corona novel written by R.A. Salvatore. The world of Corona, as made famous by the DemonWars Saga, was Salvatore's fantasy world he wrote in during his dispute with TSR.
The story of Bransen has a very traditional feel drawing from comic book media, the masked vigilante who gains unheard of powers, and traditional fantasy, a humble boy who becomes a great hero. This leads to an interesting and original, while keeping with the fantasy borders, first book. The plots of the book are fairly deep, ranging from religious intolerance to the effect a war between to fanatical nations has on its people. The character development grows as steadily as the plots, using idea and concepts like should a soldier be loyal to his believes or his country and how to stop what you hate without becoming it.
The familiar writing of R.A. Salvatore, best known as the creator and writer of Drizzt, brings his lifelong enthusiasm of martial arts and melee combat, and his natural ability to describe both in words, into his fictional world. We see a similar melee grace in the fencing, something normally reserved for Artemis Entreri or Drizzt Do'Urden, added with a kung-fu element that feels like your reading a Jet Li or Jackie Chan movie.
The Sage of the First King is a brilliant series that Salvatore-ians will love and that fantasy and comic fans will find enjoyable and refreshing.
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How to Edit or Delete Documents
Learn how to edit and delete your documents, files, and official records stored in the Kendra Align application.
- Go to the 'Search' section of the documents module to search for and view the documents that you need to edit or delete.
- Type the name of the file in the search box and press search to view your file.
- Select the file that you want to edit or delete. You'll get a screen like below:
- To edit the document tags and details, press the 'Edit' button that you can see at the top of your screen.
- You can then edit the tags and details and click the 'Save' button to save your changes.
- To delete the document, click on the red 'Delete' button.
- You will get a confirmation message before deleting the document.
- Click 'Yes' to confirm that you want to delete it.


They don't seem to live a nomadic lifestyle, so why were they called "Air Nomads" when they lived in permanent homes by the air temples?
 - Mayhaps the air temples and support structures moved about, making them nomadic, especially in comparison with the other nations. – Möoz Jul 2 '16 at 0:35
Classically the Air Nomads did not live permanently in their temples. Their temples were for training and other important air-bending rituals. They were indeed nomads who eschewed any form of materialism and wandered from temple to temple around the world.
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While the Air Nomads were not active during the The Last Airbender Saga, we see their traditions reawakened in Korra, where the Air Nomads traveled the world seeking newly awakened Air Nomads and fostering good will in the land.
However, being nomadic does not preclude them having stable locations which could last quite a while particularly during extreme seasonal periods such as winters or long rainy seasons.
They may have also lived around the temples in semi-stable communities in order to prepare food and resources for the temple during periods of greater occupancy, a willing labor-force that may have even rotated out periodically.
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Since the temples were used for training and important air bending rituals, they served a central part of the culture, storing information and sustaining older airbenders who were no longer easily able to wander.
The definition of nomad does not preclude stable locations:
It may well be that the nomads regularly rotate between the two temples (each gender has two, that is, there are four in total), and, in addition, an overall tradition of wandering the world... some visiting of other temples is part of the Nomad life and training (a particular temple is listed as the site where Air Nomads choose their skybison, which suggests that it's a place visited by many of them at some point, even despite the gender restriction for "living" there) and presumably there are other sites with connections to the air and the spirit world that air nomads might like to see.
While there may well be individuals who live in one place or another constantly, as a society, nomadism may be still considered a dominant trait of their order (unlike the other nations, all airbenders were essentially a single organization, and all members of the society were airbenders, at least up until the genocide).
There is even some (circumstantial) evidence for temples being unoccupied because of migration in the show itself, as revealed by the trivia section of the Western Air Temple's entry in the Avatar Wiki:
It may well be that the genocide happened while the majority of the Air Nomad women were living at the Eastern temple for some reason or another, and that's why there are no bodies (perhaps a siege was set up so that stragglers were targeted as they left).
In Legend of Korra, of course, there was only one family descended from actual Air Nomads, and they had a permanent home in Republic City (at least, until later developments, but we never got to see how that developed). But they mostly called themselves Air Acolytes rather than Air Nomads.
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QuickMap is normally installed by running setup off Disk 1, followed by Disk 2. However larger organisations may choose to install QuickMap automatically via a login script, SCCM or AD Software Deployment. The instructions below describe how QuickMap may be installed automatically for individual users via a login script.
To install Quickmap in silent mode, you will need to use the following command line switches:
INSTOPT="MINIMAL | TYPICAL"
These can be used on the Quickmap.msi found in the Release folder, to be run with msiexec with the /i and /qn switches.
After you have installed Quickmap, you will have to register it silently. To do this, see Step 3, below.
Here's an example of how to install Quickmap silently (note one is typical using no GUI, the other is minimal using a basic GUI):
msiexec /i Quickmap.msi /qn INSTOPT="MINIMAL" TARGETDIR="C:\Qmap"
msiexec /i Quickmap.msi /qb INSTOPT="TYPICAL" TARGETDIR="C:\Qmap"
Below is an example of a silent install of a client – server.
Step 1 – Setup the server
Do a full QuickMap install of your server PC in the standard way (e.g. to C:\QMap)
Step 2 – Client install
Share C:\QMap on the server to each client (e.g. to Z:), then for each client, do an unattended minimal install with the command:
msiexec /qb /l* qmaplog.txt /i Z:\Release\quickmap.msi INSTOPT="MINIMAL"
Where Z:\ is the shared folder on the server.
To do a full install, rather than minimal, the command would be
msiexec /qb /l* qmaplog.txt /i Z:\Release\quickmap.msi INSTOPT="TYPICAL"
Step 3 – Register QuickMap
Write your Registration Key Number to the registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Qkey\Option\Default
This will result in the registration key be automatically displayed when QuickMap prompts the user to register the first time they run it. All the User has to do is click the Register button. They do not need administrator rights to successfully register QuickMap.
If autoregister.lic exists in the quickmap Data folder (e.g. Z:\Data) then QuickMap will register itself online without asking for any input from the user. A dialog box is displayed while this registration process is in progress.


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Pendant in the Form of a Sawfish
In Ghana and the Ivory Coast, regions that acquired great wealth from the mining and trading of gold, rulers displayed their status by wearing a profusion of gold ornaments, even attaching such objects to umbrellas and swords. Although many of these ornaments are abstract geometric shapes, some represent human faces or animals, as in the piece shown here depicting a sawfish. Such works were made using the lost-wax casting method, in which a clay mold was made around a modeled wax form. The mold was then heated and the wax poured out, after which molten gold was poured in and solidified in the form of the original wax model.
- Cultures: Ebrié; or Adjukru; or Alladan
- Medium: Gold
- Geographical Locations:
- Dates: 19th century
- Dimensions: 2 3/16 x 3/8 x 2 15/16 in. (5.5 x 1 x 7.5 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Arts of Africa
- Museum Location: This item is on view in South Gallery, 1st Floor
- Accession Number: 49.32.2
- Credit Line: A Augustus Healy Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Ebrié. Pendant in the Form of a Sawfish, 19th century. Gold, 2 3/16 x 3/8 x 2 15/16 in. (5.5 x 1 x 7.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A Augustus Healy Fund, 49.32.2. Creative Commons-BY
- Catalogue Description: An oval body of open lattice work, edged by rows of circular openings. A long tail curves around one side and is made of wrapped 'threads.' The head is cylindrical with two projecting eyes. There are two rings for suspension. Condition: Very good.
- Record Completeness: Best (85%)


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How to draw Po from Kung Fu Panda. Learn to draw cartoon, Kung Fu Panda Po. From step by step drawing and video tutorial. Learn how to draw Manga, Anime, and comics. Drawing and sketching anime technique for manga, cartoon and comics. Draw and Sketch Cartoon character, Kung Fu Panda in action pose. Learn from Step by step and video tutorial. The process shows drawing and sketching video series of comic book characters that will help you gain knowledge of its cartoon anatomy and dynamics in the positioning of the figure and the details.
Po Ping or Po is the main protagonist of the Kung Fu Panda series. He is the adoptive son of Mr. Ping and one of Master Shifu's students at the Jade Palace. Po is also the prophesied Dragon Warrior, as well as the warrior of black and white. Po's dreams become reality when he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside his idols, the legendary Furious Five (Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey) under the leadership of their guru, Master Sifu.
Here is a drawing of Po from Kung Fu Panda.
Watch the drawing video tutorial how to draw Po from Kung Fu Panda
Here is an easy geometry break down of the character to understand the drawing.
Below are step by step drawing Po to go along with the video lesson with detail instruction.