Perfecting the Vehicle Presentation
Written by Darin George. Posted in Sales Training
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The saying "Presentation is Everything" must have started in the restaurant industry. Good food is important, but how it's presented distinguishes a great dining experience from being just another meal.
The presenters at the major auto shows are well rehearsed and trained so they can deliver top-notch product presentations to the crowds. Manufacturers want and need these presentations to be outstanding. If you take the same approach at your dealership, you will see a consistent increase in demonstration drives, sales, and overall gross profit.
After or during your contact questions and when you have chosen a vehicle to present, where do you start your vehicle presentation?
A vehicle presentation should always start at the front of the vehicle, because your end result has to be the customer sitting in the driver's seat. I've heard others say suggest starting at the point of interest to the customer. This is OK, but remember you are giving the customer control of your presentation. The bottom line is you have to get the customer into the driver's seat.
Determining what type of customer you have will affect the time you spend with them. Visual person = less time; Auditory person = more time; Kinesthetic person = both, depending on your initial rapport established.
The average presentation should be 10 minutes. Your product knowledge is critical during your walk around. Professionals know every detail of their product and the competition's.
No one is perfect, but your credibility is at risk if the customer asks a question you can't answer. Be sure to acknowledge when the customer raises a point you are not familiar with. Say something like, "This is an excellent question and would it be OK if I find out the correct answer for you a bit later?"
It is important not to avoid the question; write it down and answer it later.
Do not interrupt the flow of your presentation to look for the answer unless it is of critical concern that influences the selection.
Six Position Vehicle Walk Around
1. Explain the front of vehicle, styling and aerodynamics of the vehicle.
2. Explain everything about the engine.
3. Explain the passenger side of the vehicle and open doors.
4. Explain the trunk and rear of the vehicle.
5. Open driver's side door and go over the interior features.
6. Seat the customer in driver's seat and explain gauges etc.
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When you can, you should always show a vehicle feature and explain any benefits that are related to it.
At the end of the walk around, with the customer sitting in the driver's seat say to them: "Let me show you the vehicle properly. I'll be right back."
Do not hesitate; just go and get a dealer plate and come back to the vehicle and put it on the car. When you are back to the vehicle ask/tell the customer: "Mr. Customer, for safety reasons could you please sit in the passenger seat while I drive the vehicle out of the dealership?
Never ask the customer if they would like to go on a test drive, because if you do; statistics show you have a 50/50 chance of actual going on the test drive. If you just assume the demo drive your chances climb to a 70/30 that you will be going on the demonstration drive. More demonstration drives, always results in more sales.
It's all about presentation. Your goal of a vehicle presentation is to get the customer to the next step, the demo drive. The proper amount of professional quality time spent during your vehicle presentation, combined with your contact question and a demo drive, will separate the great sales people from the average.
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Donald Mackinnon
Donald Mackinnon (_PHONE_) was a son of Duncan Mackinnon and Mary Macleod, 7 Cromore.
He joined the Royal Naval Reserve, S/N AX20733, on February 21, 1939. His record indicates that he was 5ft 8½ in tall with dark brown hair, brown eyes and a fresh complexion. Donald was a fisherman on Stornoway registered fishing boats incuding the Welcome Home.
He was Mobilised on July 28, 1939 and served in the Royal Navy for only one year. He was based at HMS Victory and aboard HMS Wren. Donald lost his life HMS Wren was sunk by German dive bombers.
Donald died aged 19 and his name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval War Memorial.
Title: Donald Mackinnon
Record Type: People
Gaelic Name: Dòmhnall Dhonnchaidh Uilleam
Also Known As: Doilean Dhonnchaidh
Date of Birth: 12-09-1920
Date of Death: 27-07-1940
Occupation: Fisherman, Royal Naval Reservist, Royal Navy
Sex: Male
Bk Reference: CEP 3429
Record Maintained By: CEP
Subject Id: 44579


This exercise is part of the first assignment for the computational design studio and
aims to learn decoding the logic of complex facade systems.
The design of the facade that has been made in grasshopper is based on the two facades
shown below.
Parametric facade by Archi Union Architects: Michler, A. (2018). Photo: Inhabitat
Parametric facade by ROB technologies: ROB Technologies. (2018). Photo: ROB Technologies.
Pseudo code for parametric brick facade:
1. make a brick with variable length, width, height;
2. create a open offset within the brick;
3. make sliders for the length, height and depth of the wall;
4. make a serie of points with the length of the wall and randomness in y direction;
5. make a curve from the points;
6. repeat 3 and 4 to create a new curve;
7. move the curve from step 5 to z direction using the slider for the height of the wall;
8. loft the two curves;
9. make contours between the two curves with the height of the bricks as steps;
10. divide contours with points to place bricks;
11. place the brick on all made points in 9;
12. flatten the bricks to open the wall.
Parametric Facade of Bricks is a project of IaaC, Institute for Advanced Architecture
of Catalonia developed at Computational Design in 2018/2019 by:
Student: Axel van der Vegte
Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre, David Andres Leon


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Apply for a Determination Letter - Quality Assurance Review
The role of the Quality Assurance Staff (QAS) is to measure the quality of work done on Employee Plans determination cases. They perform a quality assurance review to ensure that consistency and quality are maintained in the determination letter application review and development process. The QAS consists of a manager and a centralized determination letter application review team.
General review process
After all necessary additional information is secured by a technical screener or specialist, a determination letter is prepared and the case is submitted to the group manager. However, a case may be returned to the specialist if further development is warranted. If no further development is needed, the group manager then approves the case for closing.
All cases approved by a group manager for closing are subject to a random sampling or mandatory quality assurance review by QAS before the determination letter is issued.
Once a case is received by the QAS, an assignment letter is issued to the plan sponsor (and a copy is sent to the person with Power of Attorney) providing the reviewer's name and phone number.
If the QAS discovers additional issues after reviewing the case, they may return the case to the specialist to resolve the issues before issuing a determination letter. This may delay the case closing process. Otherwise once the QAS' review of the plan is complete, and all issues have been addressed and resolved, they will issue a determination letter for the plan.
The following cases are subject to a mandatory quality assurance review:
- Foreign plans
- Proposed adverse determination letters
- Termination cases with reversions of more than $5,000,000
- Termination cases with over 1,000 participants
- Technical advice requests
- Cases in which interested party comments are received
Appeals and withdrawal
If certain requirements are not satisfied, the IRS may propose an adverse or unfavorable determination letter. If an adverse or unfavorable determination letter is proposed, the submitter's options are:
- Appeals - The appeals process is available when the IRS and the taxpayer cannot resolve issues and the IRS proposes an adverse determination letter. See:
- Technical Advice - A technical advice request is a request for guidance about a procedural or technical issue. The IRS provides a response in the form of a memorandum to the individual taxpayer. Technical advice requests help IRS personnel resolve complex issues and help establish and maintain consistent holdings throughout the IRS.
Generally, the IRS will determine when a taxpayer should request technical advice, but the taxpayer may also request that an issue be forwarded for technical advice. A request for technical advice is encouraged on any technical or procedural questions that cannot be resolved on the basis of law, regulations, or a clearly applicable revenue ruling or other published precedent.
Some determination letter requests involve issues that are subject to mandatory technical advice. These issues are listed in the annual revenue procedure covering technical advice:
- Revenue Procedure 2014-5, Technical Advice
- Withdrawal - The applicant's request for a determination letter may be withdrawn by a written request at any time prior to the issuance of a final adverse letter. Withdrawal of the application will not result in an adverse letter. However, user fees are non-refundable. Also, an information referral may be made to EP Examinations to consider an audit of the plan.
- Determination, Opinion and Advisory Letters
- Apply for a Determination Letter - Individually Designed Plans
- Determination Letter Review Process
- EP Quality Assurance Bulletins

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Sickness Absence and Precarious Employment: A Comparative Cross-National Study of Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Norway
A Oke, P Braithwaite, D Antai
Background: Precarious employment is a major social determinant of health and health inequalities with effects beyond the health of workers.
Objective: To investigate the association between precarious employment and sickness absence in 4 Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
Methods: Logistic regression analyses were conducted separately for each country on data from 4186 respondents aged 15–65 years in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden derived from the 2010 European Working Conditions Survey. Sickness absence was based on self-reports and defined as absence of seven or more day per year. Precarious employment was operationalized as a multidimensional construct of indicators. Analyses were also conducted separately for men and women.
Results: The prevalence of sickness absence was lowest in Sweden (18%), and highest in Finland (28%). 3 precarious employment indicators were positively associated with sickness absence; the pattern being largely similar in the total sample. In the sex-disaggregated sample, 5 precarious employment indicators increased the likelihood of sickness absence; the pattern was heterogeneous, with women generally having significantly higher odds of sickness absence than men. "Low household income" and "sickness presenteeism" were strong predictors of sickness absence among both sexes in most of the 4 studied countries. Sickness absence varied between the Nordic countries in the sex-disaggregated analyses.
Conclusion: Precarious employment indicators predicted sickness absence in the Nordic countries. Findings emphasize the need to prioritize informed and monitored collective bargaining for all workers, increase working time flexibility, and improving work conditions.
Sick leave; Employment; Sex; Workplace; Denmark; Finland; Sweden; Norway
doi: 10.15171/ijoem.2016.713
 pISSN: 2008-6520
 eISSN: 2008-6814


Trustable Communication Between Mathematics Systems
Jacques Carette, William M. Farmer, Jérémie Wajs
This paper presents a rigorous, unified framework for facilitating communication between mathematics systems. A mathematics system is given one or more interfaces which offer deductive and computational services to other mathematics systems. To achieve communication between systems, a client interface is linked to a server interface by an asymmetric connection consisting of a pair of translations. Answers to requests are trustable in the sense that they are correct provided a small set of prescribed conditions are satisfied. The framework is robust with respect to interface extension and can process requests for abstract services, where the server interface is not fully specified.


Don't Wipe That Sweat Off Your Brow and You'll Cool Down Faster
As the temperatures get higher, a lot of us are starting to sweat more often. But, unless you're drenched, you're better off not wiping it off your head, since it can cool you off faster.
Brian Palmer over at Slate explains the science:
Don't wipe unless you're drenched. Sweat releases heat by evaporative cooling. As each gram of sweat transitions from liquid to gas phase, it absorbs 2,427 joules of energy from the body and dissipates the heat into the environment. But if you wipe away the perspiration before it evaporates, that process will get cut short, and you'll need to sweat more just to achieve the same degree of cooling. On the other hand, any sweat that drips to the ground before it can evaporate won't do you any good, so if you're really soaked you may as well reach for the towel.
So the next time you go to mop your brow, think twice—if you're really serious about cooling off, you may want to leave those sweat beads to evaporate on their own. Of course, you can always speed up the process by knowing your body's quick cooling spots, too.
Let Them See You Sweat | Slate
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Form and Size:
The leafy stems of sweet William are 18 – 28 inches long. The flower head is daisy-like with fringed petals protruding out from a center disc. There are many blooms that cluster tightly together on one stem.
5 – 10 days
Remove any leaves from the bottom of the stem that will fall below the water line, cut stems under water and place in fresh water with flower food.
History and Usage:
A member of the Caryophyllaceae (pink) family, sweet William originated in southern Europe. Its botanical name comes from the word "di" which is Greek for of Zeus or Jove and "anthos" which is Greek for flower. There are various stories that attempt to explain how it got its popular name. One story states that the name came from the word "oeillet" which is French for eye. This is in reference to the eye of the flower, which is often a different color than the petals. It was then shortened to "Willy" and then in English, William. Another explanation states that it is named that in honor of St. William or William Shakespeare.
Points of Interest:
Relatives of sweet William include carnation, babies breath, silene, chickweed and snow-in-summer. To Victorians, sweet william represents childhood, memory, gallantry, finesse and dexterity.

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text: sera floredepot is a long-term gravel substrate with growth promoter for freshwater aquariums. The 2.4 kg bucket is sufficient for a 60 litre aquarium, the 4.7 kg bucket for a 100 litre aquarium. sera floredepot contains essential nutrients and trace elements and should be used with new aquarium set-ups and larger rearrangements. During the first 4 weeks sera floredepot provides the plants with everything they need in order to form strong roots and lush green leaves. sera floredepot is free from nitrate and phosphate.Do you have questions about this article?


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Raindrop: An Innovative Educational Tool for River Awareness
This project will create a new educational tool for river awareness in the United States through a mobile device application called Raindrop. Raindrop traces the flow of water from the user's home location to a downstream watershed location. Raindrop is part of a larger installation named FLOW (Can You See the River?), which joins the cognitive power of science with the affective power of the arts by creating virtual and physical spaces for river awareness in the White River watershed in Indianapolis, IN. In addition to the flow path, Raindrop functionality includes watershed context and physical marker mapping, flow path water quality indicators, utilization of NOAA weather feeds and alerts, weather and climate comparisons, storm event size implications, and guidance on watershed restoration actions. Artist-designed physical markers are strategically located in the watershed to direct the virtual user to physical areas of interest.


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Submitted to: Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/9/2000
Publication Date: N/A
Technical Abstract: Phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) soil test calibration and correlation data were developed many years ago in Louisiana. There is some concern that fertilizer recommendations based on these data are inadequate for modern high-yielding crops. The purpose of this research was to verify the accuracy of our current soil test P and K data and fertilizer recommendations. In the years 1992 to 1999, experiments were conducted with corn, cotton, rice, soybean, and sugarcane at 36 on-farm locations throughout Louisiana. Fertilizer recommendations were correct in 24 of the 36 trials (66% accuracy). Responses to P and K fertilizer did not occur when soil test P or K was rated high or very high. For the 12 trials in which recommendations were incorrect, fertilizer addition did not increase yield, even though soil test results indicated that a response should occur. Accuracy was greatest (90%) in trials with corn, and poorest (29%) in trials with soybean, suggesting that soybean yields often are affected by factors other than P or K fertility. In general, the results of these trials suggest that the current P and K fertilizer recommendations are accurate for the most of the major agronomic crops grown in Louisiana.


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Assume that $E\subset F$ and that $E$ and $F$ are fields. Also, say $[E:F]=p$, where $p$ is a prime. If $a$ is any element of $F\setminus E$. Show that $F=E(a)$.
I'm pretty unsure of how to approach this.
Degrees are multiplicative: $$ [F : E] = [F : E(a)][E(a) : E]. $$ See Proposition 1.20 of Milne's notes for a proof. What can you say about $[E(a) : E]$ now?


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Maintenance Knowledge of Small Dth Drilling Rig
I. Installation of DTH drill rig:
1. The size of the rock drilling space preparation space can be determined according to the type and method of drilling.
2. Bring gas water near the point of use (if water and dust removal is needed), pipes, lighting circuits, etc.
3. Hole position According to the design requirements, we guarantee the stable positioning of the rig.
Second, check before operation:
1. When starting work, please carefully check whether the gas and water (if water and dust removal) pipes are tightly connected, especially if the Fengshui pipe joint and the Fengshui pipe are tightly connected to prevent tripping. You should check for injuries and not allow all joints to leak.
2. Make sure the oil mist is full of organic oil (not too much).
3. Check whether the screws, nuts, joints, etc. of each part of the small-scale down-hole drilling rig for photovoltaic piles are tightened, and that the positions are firm and firm.
3. Drilling work procedures and rod removal methods:
1. When opening the hole, first drill the hole with low impact energy, thrust and low speed so that the drill bit can be easily placed first (if dust removal is required, please provide enough water). Reduce dust) When drilling a drill bit of about 10 cm, use a complete shock absorber to dampen shocks, increase propulsion and increase speed (when dust removal is required, maintain a proper gas-to-water mixture ratio). After drilling the drill pipe, stop the operation of the wind motor and stop supplying air and water to the impactor. Insert the fork into the drill pipe slot of the bracket, turn the wind motor, push the slider backward, and then remove the joint from the drill pipe. Then connect a second drill pipe for drilling to work continuously.
2. Unloading method of small down-hole drill: The unloading method of the drill pipe is semi-automatic. When the lever is removed, the rotating machine moves backward. If the second groove of the drill pipe (the groove of the male joint of the drill pipe is close to the center of the drill pipe) is exactly opposite to the four corners of the bracket, please insert the second groove with a fork and reverse it. If it is the unloader's quadrangle and the first groove of the drill pipe (the end groove of the drill pipe joint is near the end of the drill pipe), insert it with the second fork and remove the first fork. On the front fork of the frame) to operate the propelling cylinder, so that the rod shifter drives the drill rod again. When the second slot of the second drill pipe is aligned with the holder slot, the motor reverses. After disconnecting, remove the first drill pipe and then separate each drill pipe in turn.
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Ocean Nutrition Formula 2 Flake
Excellent flake diet for both herbivorous marine and freshwater fish. This algae boosted diet targets the needs of all marine and fresh water herbivorous fish. Feed as much as you fish will eat in 2-3 minutes. Distribution 3-4 times per day.
- Highly palatable staple food for marine and freshwater tropical fish.
- Extra algae to please the more herbivorous fish.
- High protein content and rich in vitamins.
- Improves coloration and vitality while boosting the immune system.
- Does not cloud the water.


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History of USDA Pecan Breeding Program
Tommy E. Thompson
The pecan research activities of the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA, formerly the Bureau of Plant Industry, in Texas date back to July 1, 1930, when an appropriation for this work was obtained through the efforts of Congressman J. P. Buchanan of Brenham.
The original headquarters for this new U.S. Pecan Research Laboratory was located on the "Little Campus" of the University of Texas in Austin. An orchard developed from native trees and owned by Dr. J. E. Pearce of the University was leased for experimentation. This orchard was poorly suited for research projects, and Dr. Traub, who was in charge of this research, soon began looking for something better. He found a desirable site along the Pecan Bayou which could be irrigated from Lake Brownwood, and was owned by the City of Brownwood. A contract was arranged with the Chamber of Commerce and the City of Brownwood by which this property became available for long-term use as a pecan experiment station. This contract was revised several times in later years.
The first buildings on the Station were a small office and laboratory, a machine shed, and a residence for the technician. They were erected in the summer of 193l. About 35 acres were planted to pecan trees in the spring of 1932 and 30 acres more in 1933. At several times, in later years, additional trees were planted.
After the orchard at Brownwood had become well established, plans were made to move the headquarters from Austin to Brownwood. At this time, another branch of the Bureau of Plant Industry wished to do work at Brownwood. To accommodate both Pecan Research and Deciduous Fruit Investigations, the acreage to be used was increased and the present office and laboratory building was put in, as well as another machine shed. Transfer of equipment and personnel from Austin to the new headquarters was in August 1938.
Although the Brownwood Station was established primarily for pecan research, there was a period of years following 1938 during which considerable work was done in Deciduous Fruit Investigation under the direction of Dr. Lee Hutchins, and following him Dr. L. C. Cochran. However, because of the Second World War, the death of the man in local charge of the work, and other reasons, that work was tapered off and finally discontinued.
It should be mentioned also that the Division of Entomology of the U.S. Department of Agriculture established a Pecan Insect Laboratory in Brownwood around 1920. Presence of this Laboratory was probably a factor in getting the Field Station to Brownwood. In 1950 this Insect Laboratory, the personnel and several buildings were moved to the Field Station. Because of the disability retirement of the man in charge, this work was discontinued in 1952.
The City of Brownwood donated 4.79 acres of land and all buildings to the USDA pecan program in 1973. This was accepted by the USDA in 1976.
The Brownwood site was designated as the permanent site for the National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Pecan, Hickories, and Chestnuts in 1978. Also at this time, 79.1 acres adjacent to the station was purchased by USDA for this permanent repository site. This repository originally consisted of pecan cultivars collected from throughout the U.S. that had been used as parents in the breeding program. Currently, this collection is the largest and most complete in the world, containing over 250 cultivars, from 25 states as well as Mexico. The repository also maintains the most complete collection of pecan nut samples in the world for use in cultivar identification. Collections from native pecan populations representing the native range of North America are also maintained and characterized.
In 1987, at the invitation of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Texas A&M University, an additional work-site was established at College Station on land owned by the Experiment Station. This site was needed to more adequately screen material for disease resistance and more effectively breed for the eastern U.S. pecan industry. Currently, five of the USDA breeding personnel are at this location, with six located at the Brownwood field station.
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It's essential for any company, in any industry, to choose a web content management (WCM) solution that both meets immediate requirements and supports longer-term, strategic business needs for change and growth.
Some organizations instinctively opt to use Microsoft® SharePoint®, a family of software products for collaboration, file sharing and web publishing, to manage their web content. But while SharePoint is well suited for document-oriented enterprise content management (ECM), can it grow to deliver the advanced digital marketing capabilities you need?
You will learn the strategic impact of choosing a full-fledged, "future-proof" WCM solution such as Sitecore, in comparison to pressing an ECM application, such as SharePoint, into duty for web content management. See a feature-by-feature comparison, and examine the downstream impact of this choice on the IT organization, in the context of two critical business issues:
- What is the true total cost of ownership (TCO) of using SharePoint, compared to Sitecore, to manage web content?
- What is the opportunity cost of choosing SharePoint over a marketing-oriented WCM solution such as Sitecore, which is designed to grow with future needs?
This paper also discusses optimal scenarios for SharePoint, and how Sitecore and SharePoint can co-exist, helping companies to extract maximum value from their investments in both providers' solutions.


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27. Evaluation of E-commerce in B2B in China.
the subject of the dissertation is Evaluation of E-commerce in B2B in China.
1. Discuss the importance of e-commerce in the B2B context in china
2.state of knowledge in b2b website
3. talk about e-commerce in general, especially in B2B, implication in China, culture context, culture scale.
4.need to find the gap that existing reading research do not have
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Association between life stress during pregnancy and infant crying in the first six months postpartum : a prospective longitudinal study
Early human development
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pregnancy, life stress, negative life events, infant fussing and crying, behavior regulation, infancy
OBJECTIVE: To examine prospectively the relationship between prenatal life stress and infant crying/fussing during the first 6 months of postnatal life, taking into account an array of confounders suggested in the literature. DESIGN: Prospective longitudinal study of a convenient sample, with data points in pregnancy and at about 6 weeks, 3, and 6 months postpartum. METHODS: The study included 86 pregnant women who completed a standardized, validated and widely used questionnaire on negative life changes experienced in the preceding 12 months. Women were grouped by median split on the impact score of negative life changes. Demographic, obstetric and lifestyle variables were obtained from preand postnatal interviews and from medical records in order to be taken into account as possible confounders. At all three postnatal data points, mothers kept a validated 5-day 24-h behavior diary to assess durations of infant crying/fussing. RESULTS: Infants of mothers with high scores of negative life changes exhibited more crying/fussing than infants born to mothers with low negative change scores, throughout the first half year postpartum, but particularly at ages 3 and 6 months. These results do not seem to be spurious due to the confounders considered in this report or to recording bias. CONCLUSION: Prenatal life stress is associated with infant crying/fussing in the first half year after delivery. To prevent or reduce infant crying and to foster a well-adapted parent-infant relationship, professionals attending expectant mothers should consider their emotional condition. If required, support should be provided already in pregnancy.


_USER_{NBERw11097, title = "Urban Growth and Housing Supply", author = "Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko and Raven E. Saks", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "11097", year = "2005", month = "January", URL = "_URL_ abstract = {Cities are physical structures, but the modern literature on urban economic development rarely acknowledges that fact. The elasticity of housing supply helps determine the extent to which increases in productivity will create bigger cities or just higher paid workers and more expensive homes. In this paper, we present a simple model that provides a framework for doing empirical work that integrates the heterogeneity of housing supply into urban development. Empirical analysis yields results consistent with the implications of the model that differences in the nature of house supply across space are not only responsible for higher housing prices, but also affect how cities respond to increases in productivity.}, }


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History of Westfield, Indiana
The history of Westfield, Indiana commenced when the city was officially founded in 1834 by Quakers who had emigrated to Central Indiana from North Carolina. It was not until January of 2008, however, that the town was officially incorporated as a city.
Today, Westfield is one of the fastest growing towns in the United States, along with several other such cities in Hamilton County, Indiana. At a distance of only about ten miles from the northern edge of Indianapolis, Westfield has benefited enormously from its location over the generations.
It is largely accepted that Westfield was one of the sites on the all-important Westfield Underground Railroad during the Civil War. Both the Quaker Friends Church and the Wesleyan Methodist Church supported the anti-slavery causes and activities of that era.
Nearby Carmel's Hamilton County Convention and Visitors Bureau has recently pitched in to help Westfield develop a new museum, which already houses lots of interesting and nostalgic memorabilia. The Westfield Washington Historical Society and Museum is inside the old Fire Station and Town Hall on Union Street. There, visitors can view, among other historical items, the very first motorized fire truck in Westfield. There are also tours available of some of the homes and businesses purported to have been safe houses along the famous Underground Railroad.


Stud definition lgbt
What does stud mean slang?
What does it mean when a girl is a stud?
A consensus appeared to exist that "studs" are those assigned female at birth who wear "male" clothing and are more generally masculine than other individuals assigned female at birth.
What does stem stand for Lgbtq?
Sandra is one of 55 STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) workers—including faculty members, students, and staff—who were interviewed for a study about what it's like to identify as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) in STEM.
What is a FEM LGBT?
Fem/Femme/Feminine/Fem of Center – set of attributes, society's expectations behavior that are typically associated with women or girls. Gender Non-Conforming – refers to people who do not follow other society's ideals or stereotypes about how they should look or act based on the sex assigned at birth.
What does stud earrings mean?
noun. The definition of a stud earring is a small piece of jewelry that is worn through a small hole in the earlobe. An example of a stud earring is a small diamond set in gold and worn in the earlobe.
What is stud dog?
A stud animal is a registered animal retained for breeding. The terms for the male of a given animal species (stallion, bull, rooster, etc.) usually imply that the animal is intact—that is, not castrated—and therefore capable of siring offspring.
What do Boi mean?
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What do you call a female bromance?
A womance is a close but non-sexual, non-romantic relationship between two or more women. … The emergence of the terms bromance and womance has been seen as reflecting increased relationship-seeking as a modern behavior.
What does it mean to YEET?
What does the R stand for in Lgbtq?
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
What does a stem do?
Stems are usually above ground, although the stems of some plants, such as the potato, also grow underground. Stems may be herbaceous (soft) or woody in nature. Their main function is to provide support to the plant, holding leaves, flowers, and buds; in some cases, stems also store food for the plant.
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By Rachel Walsh
Old Faithful is a geyser in Yellowstone National Park that is powered by an instrusive pluton that is believed to be at a depth of 2.4 km to 4.8 km below the surface. The water is heated, and pumped through a plumbing system up through many geysers, one of which is old faithful. The height the water can reach is up to 56m. The duration of each eruption is 1.5 to 5 min. and the volume of water can reach up to 32 m3. I am going to investigate the rate, velocity of water at the hole and the possible pressure by the pluton.
- the plumbing is one vertical pipe of equal diameter through all 3.6 km (average) of the earth to the pluton.
- The eruption is at a constant rate.
- The change of temperature is irrelevant
- The pressure at the opening of the hole is atmospheric
Radius of opening: 0.2m
Possible viscosity of brine:1.3 x 10-3 Pa *s (Francke et al)
Density of brine: 1090 kg/ m3
Q= v/t to 32 m3 / 300s = 0.11 m3/s
Velocity of water:
pgh = ½ pv2 to (9.8 m/s)(56m) = ½ v2
v = 23.4 m/s
Change in pressure from pluton to surface:
Q = pR4(deltaP)/8hL à 0.11 m3/s = p(0.2m)4(deltaP)/8(1.3x10-3 Pa*s)(3600m)
deltaP = 1100 Pa
Francke, Henning. "Density and Viscosity of Brine: An Overview from a Process Engineers Perspective." Sci Verse. Cheme Der Erde - Geochemistry, n.d. Web.


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Romain Millan, Jeremie Mouginot, Eric Rignot
Environmental Research Letters
 - Presents a comprehensive mapping in Queen Elizabeth Islands (QEI), Canada of ice velocity using a suite of satellite data from year 1991 to 2015, combined with ice thickness data from NASA Operation IceBridge, to calculate ice discharge
 - Finds that ice discharge increased significantly after 2011 in Prince of Wales Icefield, maintained or decreased in other sectors, whereas glacier surges have little impact on long-term trends in ice discharge
 - Finds that during 1991–2005, the QEI mass loss averaged 6.3 ± 1.1 Gt yr−1, 52% from ice discharge and the rest from surface mass balance (SMB)
 - Finds that during 2005–2014, the mass loss from ice discharge averaged 3.5 ± 0.2 Gt yr−1 (10%) versus 29.6 ± 3.0 Gt yr−1 (90%) from SMB


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Natural native-spoken Spanish can be challenging for learners. Not everyone speaks slowly and precisely like the teacher in your classroom, or the way they speak in made-for-study recordings. Lupa stories, by Radio Ambulante, are made for native listeners. This is exactly what you need to train your ears.
Lupa lets you slow everything down, all the way to half speed (0.5x), using the audio speed controls.
Make sure Assist Mode is on (the 'light bulb' icon is yellow.)
While studying a new chapter, find a comfortable speed where you can hear at least half of the words. After you feel confident with the material, make sure to listen once through the chapter with Assist Mode off (white 'light bulb' icon) so your ears get used to listening at native speeds.
Remember, there's a world of difference between "slow Spanish" and native Spanish at a slower speed. With Lupa you're always listening to authentic Spanish, the kind you'll hear in the real world.
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A security token (or sometimes a hardware token, authentication token, usb token, cryptographic token, software token, virtual token, or key fob) may be a physical device that an authorized user of computer services is given to ease authentication. the term may also refer to software tokens. security tokens are used to prove one's identity electronically (as in the case of a customer trying to access their bank account).


out there. Hence you probably don't want to specify --timer=select
Accelerating Time
Regardless of which timing method you use, you can try specifying --sleep-accel to reduce the amount of time to sleep in usec. I've found this is useful for providing a "fudge factor" in some cases.
Tuning for High-Performance
Choosing a Packet Interval Method
The first recommendation is simple, use: --topspeed. This will always be the fastest method to send packets. If however you need some level of control, using --pps to specify packets/second is recommended. Using --pps-multi will cause multiple packets to be sent between each sleep interval, thus providing higher throughput potential then just --pps alone, but at the cost of traffic being more "spikey" then flat. Higher --pps-multi values improve performance and make the traffic more "spikey".
Using --mbps or --multiplier for high performance situations is not recommended as the overhead for calculating packet intervals tends to limit real world throughput.
Tuning your Operating System/Hardware
Regardless of the size of physical memory, UNIX kernels will only allocate a static amount for network buffers. This includes packets sent via the "raw" interface, like with tcpreplay. Most kernels will allow you to tweak the size of these buffers, drastically increasing performance and accuracy.
NOTE: The following information is provided based upon my own experiences or the reported experiences of others. Depending on your hardware and specific hardware, it may or may not work for you. It may even make your system horribly unstable, corrupt your harddrive, or worse.
NOTE: Different operating systems, network card drivers, and even hardware can have an effect on the accuracy of packet timestamps that tcpdump or other capture utilities generate. And as you know: garbage in, garbage out.
NOTE: If you have information on tuning the kernel of an operating system not listed here, please send it to me so I can include it.
General Tips
 1. Use a good network card. This is probably the most important buying decision you can make. I recommend Intel e1000 series cards. El-cheapo cards like Realtek are known to give really crappy performance.
 2. Tune your OS. See below for recommendations.
 3. Faster is better. If you want really high-performance, make sure your disk I/O, CPU and the like is up to the task.
 4. For more details, check out the FAQ
 5. If you're looping file(s), make sure you have enough free RAM for the pcap file(s) and use --enable-file-cache
 6. Use --quiet
 7. Use --topspeed or --pps and a high value for --pps-multi
 8. Use tcprewrite to pre-process all the packet editing instead of using tcpreplay-edit
 9. Virtualization technologies like VMWare and Xen may cause a lot of problems with packet timings. YMMV.
The following is known to apply to the 2.4.x and 2.6.x series of kernels. By default Linux's tcpreplay performance isn't all that stellar. However, with a simple tweak, relatively decent performance can be had on the right hardware. By default, Linux specifies a 64K buffer for sending packets. Increasing this buffer to about half a megabyte does a good job:
echo 524287 >/proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default
echo 524287 >/proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max
echo 524287 >/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max
echo 524287 >/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default
On one system, we've seen a jump from 23.02 megabits/sec (5560 packets/sec) to 220.30 megabits/sec (53212 packets/sec) which is nearly a 10x increase in performance. Depending on your system and capture file, different numbers may provide different results.
*BSD systems typically allow you to specify the size of network buffers with the NMBCLUSTERS option in the kernel config file. Experiment with different sizes to see which yields the best performance. See the options(4) man page for more details.
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Location: Kamakhya Temple, Guwahati
Time of Celebration: Mid June
Highlights: Dedicated to Ma Kamakhya (Ma Kamrupa)
The fairs in Assam, as in any other part of India, are associated with religious ceremonies in the temples. The most popular among these is the Ambubachi Fair. Celebrated in the urban area of Guwahati, it is the most important fair of the state, which revolves around the Kamakhya temple. Situated on top of the Nilachal hills of western Guwahati, the temple is one of the most important Shakti shrines in the entire country. The residing Goddess of the temple is known as Ma Kamakhya or Ma Kamrupa.
Ambubachee Mela takes place during the month of Ahar (according to the Assamese calendar) i.e. around the middle of June, when Ma Kamakhya is worshipped in the form of a yoni (uterus)-like stone, over which a natural spring flows. The fair is, in fact, the worship of the female process of menstruation. It is believed that during these months, the creative and the fostering power of the 'menses' of Mother Earth becomes available to devotees at this site. The temple remains closed for 3 days, as the Goddess is considered impure during these days.
On the 4th day, the deity is bathed to regain purity and many rituals are performed. It is only after this that the doors of the temple are opened to the devotees. Mythology has it that after the death of His beloved Sati, Lord Shiva was in great distress and while flying through the skies, dropped her body parts on the earth. The area where her yoni settled is called as Kamakhya. At the time of fair, the blessings of the Goddess come in mainly two forms - the fluid part of her body (Angadhak) i.e. the water from the stream and the cloth covering her body (Angabastra) during the time of menstruation. Thousands of devotees and tourists line up every year to get a glimpse of the Goddess.


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From strawberries to lentils: Canada's diversity in food production & the challenge of self-reliance
 - Jun 23, 2020
 - 2.5 min read
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated discussion around the supply source of food. For many agriculture products, Canada produces significantly more than we can eat - and we became a net exporter of food in 2019. But we're also accustomed to eating fresh fruit and vegetables year-round. As a result, trade is and will continue to be an essential component of the Canadian agri-food supply chain.
Building an index to measure reliance on trade
A trade dependence ratio measures the Canadian agri-food industry's dependence on trade using net imports and exports relative to overall consumption.
A value of 0 means Canada is self-reliant, as domestic production equals consumption (Figure 1). Negative values mean Canada is a net importer, while positive values record a net exporting position.
For example:
 - A value of -2 means that Canada's net imports are two times larger than what it produces.
 - Conversely, a value of +2 means that Canada's net exports are two times larger than what it consumes.
As expected, Canada is self-reliant in supply-managed sectors where the ratios are near 0.
Figure 1: Trade dependence ratio
Chart showing trade dependence ratio Source: Statistics Canada
Strong net exports and a few dominant net imports
 - Canada's production of fresh strawberries and asparagus does not meet the overall consumption needs with a trade ratio of -7.5 and -3.15, respectively.
 - We have an excess supply of pork, lentils and maple sugar as the ratio is much larger than the zero threshold.
 - Products under supply management have a ratio near zero, which is most often negative as we import products more than we export.
A net import position can represent an opportunity. Canada's lamb and mutton sector have grown cash receipts 32% over the last ten years. The COVID-19 pandemic hit the sector's profitability hard, but Canada's overall demographic trends and food preferences are positive long-term trends for the industry. Net importing positions can also highlight difficulties challenging other producing countries' dominant supplier positions given climate conditions and costs.
Net export positions cannot be taken for granted. Trade restrictions are a major risk, especially in current times of uncertainty. Food export restrictions implemented during the 2008-09 global recession or recently by Russia and Argentina can have unintended consequences. It can create significant commodity price spikes and lead import-dependent countries to promote their food systems at the expense of imports. Trade restrictions then have an overall negative impact on large food exporters like us.
The Canadian food supply chain is reliant on trade. A key risk to our exports and food affordability, is the potential that trade barriers impede the free flow of goods around the world. A strong global economic rebound should keep the demand for Canadian food vibrant globally.
James Bryan
Senior Relationship Manager
James joined FCC as an Agricultural Economics Analyst in 2011 and is now a Senior Relationship Manager in Thornton, Ontario. He also runs a small farm operation with his family. James completed a BSc in Environmental Science and a Masters of Agricultural Economics at the University of Guelph.


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If you use Windows Vista, and ever felt the need to turn off the "Aero transparency interface", here is the normal process that you would have to go through:
- Open Appearance Settings by clicking Start -> Control Panel -> Appearance and Personalization -> Window Color and Appearance.
- Uncheck the box labeled Aero Transparency, and then press OK.
or you can try the following method:
Run REGEDIT and go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\Shell. Right-click the Shell part, select New > Key and call it Aero On.
Right-click the Aero On key you've created, and create a new key called command. Double-click this (in the right-hand side of the screen) and give it the value Rundll32 dwmApi #102.
Right-click the Shell key again, select New > Key, and call this Aero Off. Create a command key below it, as you've just done, and give it the value Rundll32 dwmApi #104.
Now, right-click an empty part of the desktop to see your options, and select Aero On when you want fancy effects like Flip 3D, and Aero Off when you're after raw speed.
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Users who have the Administrator role can export all the information stored in a process instance with just one click. This can be done at any stage of the workflow, even if the process instance has finished or if there are ongoing tasks.
To download a process instance, you should follow the following steps:
1) Open the process instance you want to view.
2) Click on the 'Process instance history' icon.
3) Navigate to the 'Full Report' task and download it.
If you click on 'Download Report' and you don't click the checkbox shown in the image above, an Excel file will be downloaded containing the detailed report of the process instance. In case you have clicked on the checkbox, a.zip file will be downloaded, containing:
A PDF with the process instance form, including all the fields and their values. Besides, in case someone has made comments in a process instance, these will also be included.
All the attachments (if any), either uploaded through an attachment field or through the Attachments tab.
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Australia: the next culinary capital?
A food museum could put Australia firmly on the global food tourist map, but defining our national food culture could be a challenge, according to an Australian tourism expert.
From Sweden's Disgusting Food Museum and the Netherlands' Dutch Cheese Museum to the Philippines' Desert Museum and Spain's Museu de la Xocolata, countries all over the world are increasingly capitalising on the lucrative food traveller market – according to the World Food Travel Association, around 53 percent of holidaymakers are food travellers.
Tourism expert and Edith Cowan University researcher Dr Eerang Park believes that food travel could be a golden opportunity for Australia when international travel resumes post-COVID. However, the first step will be understanding what makes Australia's cuisine unique.
"We need to prepare for beyond the pandemic," Dr Park says. "We can tap into culinary tourism by positioning Australia as a destination of choice for a unique food experience.
"Australia has some incredibly diverse offerings for food tourists, from modern gastronomy to traditional Indigenous cuisine. We should showcase this to Australians and to the world."
More than just pavlova and Vegemite
Dr Park says while Australia is home to some iconic foods – such as Vegemite, Tim Tams and lamingtons – the key to a successful food museum will be in defining our food culture.
"Australia is well-known around the world for its high-quality produce, particularly our fresh food and wine," she says. "But how do we express our food culture and identity while also embracing our vast and diverse heritage and Indigenous history?
"Food tourism is deeper than just a few special dishes – it needs to go beyond the food to the culture and wider experience."
Hungry for knowledge
Dr Park has researched gastronomy travel around the world to understand what attracts holidaymakers. Her latest study explored the motivations of food tourists who visited China's Hangzhou Cuisine Museum, which features lifelike models of dishes from different historical periods, and found that providing an authentic and engaging experience was key.
"Food museum visitors want an immersive experience with the ability to taste and enjoy the food while learning about its origins and history," Dr Park says. "Around the world, we're already seeing a gradual shift in museums from look-but-don't-touch monuments to more interactive places for visitors to explore and learn."
Dr Park believes the opportunity for an Australian food museum is ripe for the picking.
"When the world recovers from the devastating impacts of COVID-19, what better way for people to reconnect, explore and engage than through food?"


Start with the basic plugin call without any parameters.
object CheckCommand "systemd" { // Plugin name without 'check_' prefix
 command = [ PluginContribDir + "/" ] // Use the 'PluginContribDir' constant, see the contributed ITL commands
Run a config validation to see if that works, icinga2 daemon -C
Next, analyse the plugin parameters. Plugins with a good help output show optional parameters in square brackes. This is the case for all parameters for this plugin. If there are required parameters, use the required key inside the argument.
The arguments attribute is a dictionary which takes the parameters as keys.
 arguments = {
 "--unit" = {... }
If there a long parameter names available, prefer them. This increases readability in both the configuration as well as the executed command line.
The argument value itself is a sub dictionary which has additional keys:
 - value which references the runtime macro string
 - description where you copy the plugin parameter help text into
 - required, set_if, etc. for advanced parameters, check the CheckCommand object chapter.
The runtime macro syntax is required to allow value extraction when the command is executed.
Inside the Director, store the new command first in order to unveil the Arguments tab.
Best practice is to use the command name as prefix, in this specific case e.g. systemd_unit.
 arguments = {
 "--unit" = {
 value = "$systemd_unit$" // The service parameter would then be defined as 'vars.systemd_unit = "icinga2"'
 description = "Name of the systemd unit that is beeing tested."
 "--warning" = {
 value = "$systemd_warning$"
 description = "Startup time in seconds to result in warning status."
 "--critical" = {
 value = "$systemd_critical$"
 description = "Startup time in seconds to result in critical status."
This may take a while – validate the configuration in between up until the CheckCommand definition is done.
Then test and integrate it into your monitoring configuration.
Remember: Do it once and right, and never touch the CheckCommand again. Optional arguments allow different use cases and scenarios.
Once you have created your really good CheckCommand, please consider sharing it with our community by creating a new PR on GitHub. Please also update the documentation for the ITL.
Inside the Director, you can render the configuration in the Deployment section. Extract the static configuration object and use that as a source for sending it upstream.
Modify Existing CheckCommand
Sometimes an existing CheckCommand inside the ITL is missing a parameter. Or you don't need a default parameter value being set.
Instead of copying the entire configuration object, you can import an object into another new object.
object CheckCommand "http-custom" {
 import "http" // Import existing http object
 arguments += { // Use additive assignment to add missing parameters
 "--key" = {
 value = "$http_..." // Keep the parameter name the same as with http
 // Override default parameters
 vars.http_address = "..."
This CheckCommand can then be referenced in your host/service object definitions.
Plugin API
Icinga 2 supports the native plugin API specification from the Monitoring Plugins project. It is defined in the Monitoring Plugins guidelines.
The Icinga documentation revamps the specification into our own guideline enriched with examples and best practices.
The output should be as short and as detailed as possible. The most common cases include:
 - Viewing a problem list in Icinga Web and dashboards
 - Getting paged about a problem
 - Receiving the alert on the CLI or forwarding it to external (ticket) systems
:
OK: MySQL connection time is fine (0.0002s)
WARNING: MySQL connection time is slow (0.5s > 0.1s threshold)
CRITICAL: MySQL connection time is causing degraded performance (3s > 0.5s threshold)
Icinga supports reading multi-line output where Icinga Web only shows the first line in the listings and everything in the detail view.
Example for an end2end check with many smaller test cases integrated:
OK: Online banking works.
Testcase 1: Site reached.
Testcase 2: Attempted login, JS loads.
Testcase 3: Login succeeded.
Testcase 4: View current state works.
Testcase 5: Transactions fine.
If the extended output shouldn't be visible in your monitoring, but only for testing, it is recommended to implement the --verbose plugin parameter to allow developers and users to debug further. Check here for more implementation tips.
More debug output also helps when implementing your plugin.
Best practice is to have the plugin parameter and handling implemented first, then add it anywhere you want to see more, e.g. from initial database connections to actual query results.
Value Status Description
0 OK The check went fine and everything is considered working.
1 Warning The check is above the given warning threshold, or anything else is suspicious requiring attention before it breaks.
2 Critical The check exceeded the critical threshold, or something really is broken and will harm the production environment.
3 Unknown Invalid parameters, low level resource errors (IO device busy, no fork resources, TCP sockets, etc.) preventing the actual check. Higher level errors such as DNS resolving, TCP connection timeouts should be treated as Critical instead. Whenever the plugin reaches its timeout (best practice) it should also terminate with Unknown.
Keep in mind that these are service states. Icinga automatically maps the host state from the returned plugin states.
A plugin calculates specific values and may decide about the exit state on its own. This is done with thresholds - warning and critical values which are compared with the actual value. Upon this logic, the exit state is determined.
Imagine the following value and defined thresholds:
ptc_value = 57.8
warning = 50
critical = 60
Whenever ptc_value is higher than warning or critical, it should return the appropriate state.
The threshold evaluation order also is important:
 - Critical thresholds are evaluated first and superseed everything else.
 - Warning thresholds are evaluated second
 - If no threshold is matched, return the OK state
Avoid using hardcoded threshold values in your plugins, always add them to the argument parser.
Example for Python:
import argparse
import signal
import sys
if __name__ == '__main__':
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 parser.add_argument("-w", "--warning", help="Warning threshold. Single value or range, e.g. '20:50'.")
 parser.add_argument("-c", "--critical", help="Critical threshold. Single vluae or range, e.g. '25:45'.")
 args = parser.parse_args()
Users might call plugins only with the critical threshold parameter, leaving out the warning parameter. Keep this in mind when evaluating the thresholds, always check if the parameters have been defined before.
 if args.critical:
 if ptc_value > args.critical:
 print("CRITICAL -...")
 sys.exit(2) # Critical
 if args.warning:
 if ptc_value > args.warning:
 print("WARNING -...")
 sys.exit(1) # Warning
 print("OK -...")
 sys.exit(0) # OK
The above is a simplified example for printing the output and using the state as exit code.
Before diving into the implementation, learn more about required performance data metrics and more best practices below.
Threshold Ranges
Threshold ranges can be used to specify an alert window, e.g. whenever a calculated value is between a lower and higher critical threshold.
The schema for threshold ranges looks as follows. The @ character in square brackets is optional.
There are a few requirements for ranges:
 - start <= end. Add a check in your code and let the user know about problematic values.
10:20 # OK
30:10 # Error
 - start: can be omitted if its value is 0. This is the default handling for single threshold values too.
10 # Every value > 10 and < 0, outside of 0..10
 - If end is omitted, assume end is infinity.
10: # < 10, outside of 10..∞
 - In order to specify negative infinity, use the ~ character.
~:10 # > 10, outside of -∞..10
 - Raise alert if value is outside of the defined range.
10:20 # < 10 or > 20, outside of 10..20
 - Start with @ to raise an alert if the value is inside the defined range, inclusive start/end values.
_USER_:20 # >= 10 and <= 20, inside of 10..20
Best practice is to either implement single threshold values, or fully support ranges. This requires parsing the input parameter values, therefore look for existing libraries already providing this functionality.
check_tinkerforge implements a simple parser to avoid dependencies.
Performance Data Metrics
Performance data metrics must be appended to the plugin output with a preceding | character. The schema is as follows:
 | 'label'=value[UOM];[warn];[crit];[min];[max]
The label should be encapsulated with single quotes. Avoid spaces or special characters such as % in there, this could lead to problems with metric receivers such as Graphite.
Labels must not include'and = characters. Keep the label length as short and unique as possible.
Values must respect the C/POSIX locale and not implement e.g. German locale for floating point numbers with,. Icinga sets LC_NUMERIC=C to enforce this locale on plugin execution.
Unit of Measurement


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In 2009 the Provand's Lordship Garden Project was launched to establish and maintain a herbal garden. The intention was to create a community garden that volunteers are welcomed to. Where they can also help to maintain it, and enjoy it.
The garden also aims to provide opportunities for people and communities to enjoy the health benefits of working in the garden. They also have the opportunity to learn about herbalism, the garden, and history.
Volunteers will be encouraged to hold activities in the garden and in Provand's Lordship. There will also be a lively public programme that will reflect local communities.
The garden is explained through labels and leaflets so visitors can enjoy and understand it.
This work could not have been carried out without generous help and advice from the following:
The Incorporation of Gardeners of Glasgow donated money towards the project.
The Wise Group has provided materials and volunteers.
Glasgow City Council Land and Environmental Services have provided tools and assistance.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and the Wellcome Trust, have provided resources and advice for researching medieval and herbal medicine.


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Putin puts down protesters with physics: What is 'Brownian motion,' anyway?
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin described election protesters as seeking 'Brownian motion.' Here's what the obscure term means.
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Mr. Putin was referring to a physics phenomenon first described by Scottish scientist Robert Brown in his 1827 paper "A brief account of microscopical observations made on the particles contained in the pollen of plants."
While observing pollen grains suspended in water, Mr. Brown found that the grains jiggled and bounced within the fluid in what he called "rapid oscillatory motion." He could not see any cause of their motion – they didn't appear to impact any other particles, and he ruled out currents within the water – but he was able use other substances to consistently replicate the phenomenon, which he dubbed "Brownian motion."
It wasn't until 1905 that the phenomenon was explained, by none other than Albert Einstein. The grains weren't jerking randomly in the water, he wrote, but rather were colliding with much smaller water molecules. As the molecules hit the grains, the grains would change direction, but since the water molecules were invisible, it would appear that the grains were jittering without cause. Einstein's discovery was seen as proof of the atomic theory of matter: that all matter is made of tiny particles, or atoms.
So what did Putin mean? Presumably, he was referring to the protesters acting without apparent purpose – he also said that their proposed individual programs were not "unified," and that their goals "are also not clear."
But there's also a bit of a warning in Putin's metaphor. After all, the point of Brownian motion is that it's not as inexplicable as it seems – it's only inexplicable because the observer can't see all the molecules in play. Perhaps the same is true of Putin's perspective on the protesters.
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Surname – PATER
Meaning/Origin – The name PATER comes from the Latin pater, meaning "father". In English, it is pronounced PAY-ter or PAH-ter. Hear it pronounced by a Polish speaker here.
Countries of Origin – The surname Pater can be found in several countries. According to the World Names Profiler, the countries with the highest frequency per million residents are the Netherlands, with 176, and Poland with 115. The next highest countries (and their respective frequency per million) are Luxembourg (43), France (8), Belgium (7), Canada (6), United States (6), and Germany (5). Although Great Britain is not currently listed with a high frequency, in past centuries Pater was also considered to be a British name.
Spelling Variations - The spelling does not vary in the Netherlands, but in Poland you will find a few variations, including Patera, Paterak, Paterała, Paterek, Paterkiewicz, and Paterski. (Source: Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings, Second Edition by William F. Hoffman)
Surname Maps – The following maps illustrate the frequency of the PATER surname in the Netherlands and Poland. According to _URL_ there are about 1,500 people with the surname in the United States, with the heaviest concentration in Pennsylvania.
SOURCE: familienaam.nl database, _URL_ accessed October 10, 2009.
SOURCE: Mojkrewni.pl "Mapa nazwisk" database, _URL_ accessed October 10, 2009.
Famous Individuals with the Surname – Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English writer and art critic (see some of his works here at Project Gutenberg). Jean-Baptiste Pater (29 December 1695 – 25 July 1736) was a French painter.
My Family – My Pater family comes from Poland. My earliest ancestor so far with this name is Hilary Pater, born between _PHONE_ in Poland. My line of descent is as follows: Jan (b. 1834, Kamieńskie Budy) > Jozef Pater (b. 21 Sep 1864, Ruda Guzowska, which later became Żyrardów) > Ludwik (Louis) (b. 24 Aug 1893, Żyrardów) > Henry (b. 25 Mar 1912, Philadelphia). Jozef and his family immigrated to the U.S. (Philadelphia, PA) from 1905 to 1907.
A female Pater (daughter of Jozef) may have settled in New Jersey or New York with her husband and family. The family is rumored to have cousins in Chicago as well (possibly owners of a movie theater in the 1940′s).
Based on information in the IGI, my great-grandfather's cousins remained in Żyrardów – Jozef (son of Marcin, brother of my Jozef) died in 1942 at the age of 45, and his son Bronislaw died in 1943 at the age of 22. I can only assume they died as a result of the war, but more research is needed about their lives and deaths.
My Research Challenges – I need to find evidence of Hilary's birth, marriage, and death in Polish records. He was named on his son's marriage record, but I have not yet located his own records. I would like to trace the name as far back as possible to determine if the family immigrated to Poland from somewhere else. In addition, I would like to track down the descendants of my grandfather's (Henry's) brothers, Walter Pater and Eugene Pater (Walter used the alias Walter Miller) and fill in some missing information about my great-grandfather's sisters and their families.
Other Pater Families – The Family Organisation Pater in the Netherlands is led by Bram Pater. They have researched over 30,000 names in seven different Pater lines – including some in Poland (though not my own branch). If you can read Dutch, check it out!
Surname Message Boards – There is a rather inactive message board on Ancestry here.
Miscellaneous - The American Soundex code for Pater is P360 and the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex Code is 739000. There are 386 individuals in the U.S. Social Security Death Index with the surname Pater (four are related to me – Elizabeth, Henry, Mae, and Eugene).
This post is #1 of an ongoing series about surnames.


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Child Safety Harness
A Child Safety Harness is designed for toddlers, allowing them the freedom to be a child but with a lot less worry for you.
Safety harnesses (also known as toddler leashes) help parents better control over busy toddlers, while still allowing them to explore the world on their own terms but within safe boundaries.
- Fully adjustable, easy to put on your child and easy to use while on-the-go
- Combine comfort with style with a range of various fun colors and designs
- Perfect for twins and triplets too, and ideal for all outings!
- Manufactured with SABS-approved materials.
- Printed design may differ slightly from the pictures


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Nobody knows for sure exactly why the rocks ring like bells when struck with a hammer is a mystery. The rocks do contain a significant amount of iron, which might be part of the explanation. However, the high iron content doesn't explain two other strange qualities that the rocks possess... Not all of the rocks ring when struck, and they don't ring when they are removed from the site, suggesting that the ringing has something to do with the way the rocks lay against one another. Larger flat ones seem to produce an especially impressive sound when struck.
Compared to the neighbors.
The Ringing Rocks are very small part (160 acres) of a mountainous region called the Boulder Batholith, which encompasses a large portion of southwestern Montana. Batholiths originate when magma cools slowly beneath the surface to form granite.
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Sarah Dazley - Murder
The development of forensic science in the 19th century
A case study for Key Stage 3, Britain 1750 - 1900 and GCSE History
This case study outlines the case of Sarah Dazley, a young widow, who at the age of 28, was tried and found guilty of the murder of her 2nd husband, William Dazley.
The case is interesting in many ways:
- Forensic Evidence was used to make the case against Sarah - this was an early use of forensic science to determine the cause of death.
- Heresay gossip from villagers counted against her.
- Sarah Dazley was the last woman to be publicly hanged at Bedford Gaol.
In this section you will find background information and activites relating to the case of Sarah Dazley, the detection of crime and the treatment of those accused of murder in the 19th century.
The KS 3 & 4 activities are aimed at students but provide a wealth of additional information and insight to the life of a young woman during the 19th century.
A case study for Key Stage 3, Britain 1750 - 1900 and GCSE History. The materials can also be used for general interest.
This section has reports and documents relating to the life of Sarah Dazely that can be used for research or for completing the activities provided with this case study.


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Northern California style: Country charmer
Colorful beds soften a side yard in Sonoma
Lauren Bonar Swezey
Landscape designer Jaquie Tomke-Bosch and husband Al Bosch moved from the Bay Area to Sonoma seven years ago with a collection of 23 containerized Japanese maples and ambitious plans to renovate a long, narrow side yard. "The garden became a labor of love," Tomke-Bosch says.
First, they removed large portions of an existing lawn and oversize deck. Then they formed rounded planting beds to visually soften the space. Each maple became the focal point for one of the beds. Beneath the trees, Tomke-Bosch wove a tapestry of perennials and ornamental grasses, using plants with flowers or foliage in shades of yellow ― including alstroemeria, euphorbia, Japanese forest grass, and Jerusalem sage ― to direct the eye through the garden.
Steppingstones embedded in the lawn invite visitors to stroll through the garden to the rear of the property, where Bosch designed and built a garden cottage for potting and storage. "It's a fun country garden with something happening in it every month of the year," Tomke-Bosch says.
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You can create a text file that lists the commands you would like to execute on the Domino server. The commands which you can include can be anything that can be typed at the server's console. To load the script you must use the < command (less-than symbol), followed by a blank space, and then the name of the text file you created. For example, if you need to execute these commands:
you can create a file called F:\MYFILE.TXT, and within this text file, enter the commands that are to be executed. After you save the.TXT file, enter the following at the Domino server console:
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What Is Focusing Effect?
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Focusing effect: The auditory characteristics of the human ear can be focused from a number of sounds to a certain point. For example, when we listen to the symphony, we concentrate our energy and listening on the sound of the violin. The music played by other instruments will be suppressed by the cerebral cortex, making you feel the pure violin performance. This kind of inhibition ability varies from person to person, and people who often exercise listening exercise have strong inhibition ability. We call this auditory characteristic of the human ear a "focus effect." Doing more exercise in this area can improve the ability of the human ear to distinguish the tone, quality, resolution and level of a certain spectrum.


Letter from Africa: Why age is just a number in Ghana
By Lorlornyofm May 14, 2017 14:02
Letter from Africa: Why age is just a number in Ghana
In our series of letters from African journalists, veteran Ghanaian journalist Elizabeth Ohene reflects on why in Ghana a person's age is not etched in stone.
Ghanaians do not particularly love numbers. We tend to be quite lax, especially with figures that have to do with age.
Someone's date of birth or age is not considered important and very rarely features in any story about that person.
I know that in many parts of the world, once you are born and you acquire a date of birth, it stays with you. It is unchangeable and you die with it.
In Ghana, it is common to see notices in newspapers announcing a change in someone's date of birth. This often happens when a working person's date of retirement is approaching.
People then swear an affidavit to change their profiles from the 59-year-olds they are known to be, to the 55-year-olds that they want to be so they can carry on receiving a salary for a few extra years.
According to the constitution, the retirement age for most public officers is 60.
Seven years younger
Some people have been known to swear affidavits to change their date of birth that would put them in Primary Class One before they were born.
The most dramatic Notice of Change of Date of Birth I have seen was one that reduced an official's age by seven years.
An official of the Electoral Commission (EC) helps a voter to do biometric verification before casting his vote for the presidential election at Bole district in northern Ghana, on December 7, 2016.
Image copyright AFP: Image caption Incorrect birth records could undermine elections
I am writing about this subject because of a recent news item that I thought went way beyond the extraordinary, even for Ghana.
The news report said that about 800 teachers had applied to the Ghana Education Service to have their ages changed.
Some wanted their dates of birth changed to make them younger and a few wanted their dates changed to make them older than what was on their documentation.
The news story was greeted with a lot of outrage and I said to myself: This must mean Ghana is finally joining the rest of the world in paying respect to dates of birth.
"How can people want their dates of birth to be changed?" was the incredulous reaction to the story I heard from many young people.
But then the head of one of the teaching unions came out to make a spirited defence of his members.
The teachers wanted their dates of birth changed only because, according to him, mistakes had been made at the time of their employment by the payroll departments in entering the dates.
Why make a fuss about three years?
This phenomenon has been possible because very few births are recorded.
Once upon a time it was illiterate parents that did not bother to get the births of their children recorded and with time the date got lost in the mists of memory.
A birth certificate is supposed to be provided before a child can be enrolled in school but somehow or other, many people are able to get their children into school without birth certificates.
Elizabeth Ohene:
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This total disregard for the sanctity of dates of birth manifests in other ways that sometimes undermines all official records in Ghana.
When in later life you require a birth certificate, you would go before a commissioner of oaths and offer a date that would be said to be based on the best "guessestimate" given you by your parents or family member.
In much later life, when you are approaching the compulsory retirement age of 60 and you desperately want to continue to work a few more years because you can't survive on your pension, you go back to the commissioner of oaths and swear that you have now discovered compelling evidence that the original date of your certificate was wrong.
For example, you were told that you were born in the year the chief of the village was enstooled (inaugurated) and you have discovered he was enstooled in 1968 and not 1965.
There probably does not exist any official record of the date of the enstoolment of this chief anyway, so why make a fuss about a difference of three years?
Ghana school class
Some school children might have voter cards
I have seen school children who cannot be more than 14 years old who have voters registration cards. The law says you have to be 18 to register to vote.
The consequences might follow you through life unless you are prepared to go on paying visits to the commissioner of oaths to acquire new dates of birth.
Police recruitment advertisements have a cut-off date of 25 years.
You are really 21 but have a voters' registration card that says you are 26 because you passed yourself off as 18 when you were 14.
Sometimes it has been football players who try to shave off a number of years from their ages so they can participate in age-restricted competitions.
Nana Akufo-Addo, the new president of Ghana,
Photo: President Nana Akufo-Addo, 73, wants citizens to have ID cards with unchangeable biometric data
These days technology is being deployed to ensure the integrity of such competitions, making it difficult for 20-somethings to participate in under-17 competitions.
A lot of attempts have been made to enforce the registration of births and deaths, and so far all these attempts have failed spectacularly.
There is already in existence a regulation issued by the head of the civil service some years ago which says public officials are not allowed to change their dates of birth during their time in government employment.
In other words, you are stuck with whatever date of birth you enter the service with, and you cannot get younger or older by swearing an affidavit.
It was always going to be difficult to enforce this directive because there are many people here who believe their ages are "confidential" and should not be advertised.
You could ask someone how old they were and get a reply: Is it my official or real age that you want?
One of the firm promises made by the new government is that within its first year in office, a national identification system will be in place.
In other words, all Ghanaians will have identification cards with their unchangeable biometric data and none of us will be able to swear an affidavit to acquire a new date of birth.
Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland plays a forehand in his semifinal match against Roger Federer of Switzerland on day 11 of the 2017 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 26, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.
Switzerland's tennis star Stan Wawrinka has been described as "a mere 31"
We are all holding our breath.
And whilst I await this dramatic change, I have been wondering if there are any advantages in the current situation where a person's age is a changeable and confidential figure?
My mind went to a sentence I read in an online article in a British newspaper earlier this year.
Those who follow tennis would recognise that this was part of a report during the Australian Open:
"A few hours after Serena Williams, 35, joined her 36-year-old sister, Venus, in the women's final by trouncing the 34-year-old Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Federer, 35, somehow conjured some more retro magic to beat Stan Wawrinka, a mere 31, for the 19th time in 22 matches," the article in The Guardian said.
I fear that faced with the possibility of such prose in our newspapers, many people in Ghana are going to opt to keep dates of birth a changeable and private event.
By Lorlornyofm May 14, 2017 14:02
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Clinton's woodfern originated as a hybrid of Goldie's fern and crested woodfern, and its characteristics are mostly intermediate between the two parents. The fertile fronds of Clinton's woodfern are taller, narrower, and more upright than its sterile fronds, but the difference is less pronounced than it is in crested woodfern. Like crested woodfern, Clinton's woodfern's lowest leaflets are broadly triangular. The fronds are wider than crested woodfern fronds, but narrower than Goldie's fern fronds.
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