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Microlaze, a system for automated laser micromachining, is the main tool used to construct the kit of parts.
Based on a G-code file translated from a DXF file, this system can cut or score a variety of materials.
Details of how it is used to make the parts can be found in the construction kit part recipes section.
fixture is the addtional tool needed (besides the Microlaze system
mentioned above) to fabricate the hollow, triangular cross section,
stainless steel beam kit components.
is the tool at the heart of the automation process. It is used to
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With Carmen Mountain whitetail deer recently added to the roster of subspecies recognized by Safari Club International, more hunters are becoming interested in pursuing this elusive desert dweller before the record books fill up. Here's where you can find them, along with a look at the future of the subspecies:
The Carmen Mountain whitetail is named, not surprisingly, for the Sierra del Carmen range, which crosses the U.S.–Mexico border. The Carmen Mountains are located mainly in Texas; the highest point is Sue Peaks, in Brewster County, Texas, at over 5,800 feet above sea level.
The deer can be found on both sides of the Rio Grande, in Coahuila and Texas' Big Bend National Park.
Carmen deer are normally only found in certain mountain ranges, including the Burros (Coahuila, Mexico), Carmen (Texas and Coahuila), and Chisos, Chinati, Rosillos, Christmas, Del Norte, Vieja, or Dead Horse mountains (Brewster and Presidio Counties, Texas). They are rarely found below heights of 4,500 feet and tend to avoid flat ground.
The Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park are home to the largest, most stable population of Carmen whitetails in the U.S. The high altitudes provide a perfect environment: the highest peak in these mountains, Emory Peak, stands taller than 7,800 feet above sea level. The temperatures here rarely reach extremes, sometimes climbing into the 80s during the summer and rarely falling below 20 degrees Fahrenheit at the coldest point in the year.
At the moment, it's unclear if the mountain ranges in Texas, other than the Chisos, will be able to support these deer in the long run. Their need for free-standing water and dense vegetation at high altitudes leaves them with a very limited habitat, and predation, hunting, and competition with livestock could destroy these populations. Between the limited opportunities and the conservation issues, these mountains are less highly recommended than other destinations.
Predation is a serious issue for Carmen whitetails—mountain lion attacks are the leading cause of death for them. Coyotes and bobcats are also known to prey on them.
GSS represents excellent outfitters operating in Coahuila, in locations where the populations are larger and more stable than most U.S. locations. However, the effect of human interaction on the Carmen Mountain whitetail deer population is unclear. Their elevated habitat and small size may help limit local hunting pressure, and while competition with livestock can sometimes be problematic, ranches that introduce new water sources at high altitudes can be beneficial. As always, hunt within the mindset that hunting is applied conservation. For additional information on hunting this whitetail deer sub-species, please contact Rick Kennerknecht at Global Sporting Safaris at _PHONE_, Extension 702.

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This topic provides details on the internal structure of the flash disk.
The flash disk has a number of areas. Each area includes one or more flash sectors. Each sector has a physical size of 264 bytes. Of those, only 256 bytes are used to store the data. Two last bytes of each sector store the checksum. Six remaining bytes are mostly left unused, except in the FRT/FAT areas (see below), where they do serve a useful function.
The flash disk has the following areas:
-BOOT sector, always at logical sector #0 (so it is the topmost physical sector of the flash — this was explained in Sharing Flash Between Your Application and Data). The boot sector contains the information about the sizes of other areas of the disk.
-File record table (FRT) area.
-File allocation table (FAT) area.
-Data area — actual data sectors of files.
-END BOOT sector — keeps the same data as the BOOT sector, but is located past the data area.
Each file record occupies 64 bytes. Therefore, each sector of the FRT area can fit 4 file records. Therefore, if you specify (during formatting) that you would like to have 15 different files, the fd.format (or fd.formatj) method will round this up to 16 files. This will require 4 sectors to fit. Actual amount of allocated sectors is always double that. This is done for sector leveling, which the fd. object takes care of internally. Also, the number of allocated sectors is never less than 8, again, for sector leveling reasons.
The maximum number of files stored by the.fd object is 64. Thefore, the maximum size of the FRT area is (64/4)*2= 32 sectors. Hence, the size of the FRT area is always between 8 and 32 sectors depending on the maximum number of files you need to store on the disk.
Each FAT sector consists of 128 FAT entries, 2 bytes per entry. Therefore, each FAT sector can fit the allocation data for 128 sectors from the data area of the disk. To improve sector leveling, the number of sectors allocated for the FAT area is, again, double against what's necessary. So, for every 128 sectors in the data area of the disk there are 2 sectors in the FAT area. At least 16 sectors are always allocated to FAT.
An example; supposing the data area has 1100 sectors. Therefore, 1100/128= 9 FAT sectors are needed. The fd. object will allocate double this required minimum, so 18 FAT sectors will be prepared. Let's suppose now that we only have 500 data sectors. This requires 4 FAT sectors, 8 after we double this amount. This is less than the minimal 16 FAT sectors that are always provided, so the fd. object will still allocate 16 sectors.
Allocation and capacity calculation example
The fd.format method takes, as an input parameter, the total number of sectors that you wish the disk to occupy. From that, and the supplied desired max number of files, the fd.format will work out the size of each area of the disk. Let's see this on a real example:
Supposing, you call fd.formatj(1300,41,100) — you want the disk to occupy 1300 sectors and store 41 file. You want the journal area to have 100 free sectors. So, what will be the size of the FRT, FAT, and data areas?
First, the fd.format deducts 2 sectors to account for the BOOT and the END BOOT sectors that must always be present. This leaves us with 1298 sectors.
Next, decuct the journal area — now only 1198 sectors are left.
Next, the fd.format determines the size of the FRT area: 41 is rounded to 44, this works out to hat (44/4)*2= 22 sectors are needed (this exceeds the minimum of 8, so we do not need to correct this number). We have 1198-22= 1176 sectors left.
Now, how many FAT sectors we need? 1176/128= 9.18, i.e. 10. Actual amount will be doubled, so we need 20 sectors (exceeds the minimum of 16, so we do not need to correct this number). Therefore, we are left with 1176-20= 1156 data sectors. This is what you will get from the fd.capacity R/O property (see Checking Disk Vitals).
One small caveat...
Now let us show you one trickier example. Say, you do fd.format(1301,4). You can quickly work out that you have 1301 sector for the FAT and data areas combined. Now, how should this be divided?
If you had 1300 sectors, then there would be no problem. Of them, 1280 would go to the data area, and 20 will belong to the FAT. 10 "necessary" FAT sectors will together hold 10*128= 1280 entries — just right for the size of the data area. The number of FAT sectors is always doubled, so FAT will get 20 sectors. Everything fits perfectly!
Now, there is no good solution for 1301 sectors. If you give this extra one sector to the data area, then you will need two more sectors for the FAT area — and you don't have those sectors. Allocating this extra sector to the FAT is useless, because you are not increasing the number of data sectors, so you don't really need an extra FAT sector. Hence, the value of 1301 is actually not suitable to us. Same goes for 1302. 1303 is good again, because three extra sectors allow us to give one sector to the data area, and add two sectors to the FAT area (FAT always increased in "doubles", remember?).
Fd.format avoid falling into the trap by correcting downwards the total disk size you request if it turns out to be one of the "problematic" values. So, if you do fd.format(1302,4), then the result would be as if you did fd.format(1300,4). The fd.totalsize R/O property reflect this.
Why is there the END BOOT sector?
The END BOOT sector exists for one purpose — to detect whether your application has encroached on the flash disk. As was already explained, on devices with the shared flash memory, the firmware/application and the data area reside in the same flash IC. Data area sectors are counted from the topmost physical sector of the flash memory. Therefore, the END BOOT sector is the one "closest" to your application. Should the application become larger and take some of the space that was previously occupied by the flash disk, the END BOOT sector will be overwritten. The fd. object will detect this during mounting and return 3- PL_FD_STATUS_FORMAT_ERR status code.

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Discord is a popular open-source digital communication platform that allows users to connect via text, voice, or video chats. Meanwhile, you need a good sound quality system for effective communication on Discord. For this purpose, using a Soundpad is an ideal solution. After all, Soundpad enhances audio experiences through effects, music clips, editor, voice control, playbacks, and more.
Apparently, many users have reported malfunctions of Soundpad working on Discord. This article will briefly discuss how to fix Soundpad that is not working on Discord. Afterward, you'll be able to resolve these issues more smartly and efficiently.
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Why is Soundpad Not Working on Discord
Soundpad is a third-party tool that enhances audio support within Discord communication servers. After all, it allows playing audio files directly into the user's microphone as input in real-time scenarios. However, there are often problems with Soundpad not working on Discord. Here you'll find reasons why this happens at first:
- The settings of the Soundpad or Discord may not be accurate, as there may exist misconfigurations in the system settings. Due to this, Soundpad may not work properly.
- Your current Soundpad may have an outdated version that could lead to compatibility issues. Meanwhile, software conflicts might also exist with different audio applications running simultaneously on Discord.
- The Discord server may face disruptions in connection or even backend maintenance that fails to establish effective communication. Automatically, Soundpad's functionality will reduce.
- Hardware issues within your audio devices or even the microphone can also affect the overall performance of your Soundpad on Discord. This is mainly caused due to physical damage to the hardware.
6 Fixes to Soundpad Not Working on Discord
As a Discord user, if you're also a victim of Soundpad not working on Discord, there are some fixes to overcome this particular issue. Let's find and discuss all these fixes that will help you move forward:
Fix 1: Triggering Push-to-talk Button
Push-to-talk button is a special feature within the audio settings of Discord. Hence, if you are facing Soundpad is not working issue on Discord, Push-to-talk can help solve this issue. To click this button, follow the steps here:
Step 1: Open Discord and select "Voice & Video" from the "App Settings" on the home interface. Continue to set "Input Device" to Soundpad.
Step 2: Scroll down and set the "Input Mode" to the "Push-to-Talk" setting. This way, your mic will become activated.
Fix 2: Similar Microphone Utilization
It's essential that your Discord's microphone is set to Soundpad as an input source because your microphone settings may not be fine. To rectify your microphone settings and set Soundpad as input, follow the simple steps provided here:
Step 1: Launch Discord on your device and move into "User Settings." From the panel on the left side, select "Voice & Video" from the "App Settings."
Step 2: The "Voice Settings" menu will appear, where you need to ensure the "Input Device" option is set to Soundpad.
Fix 3: Adjustment of the Volume
It's possible that due to low sound volume, your Soundpad is not working properly. Moreover, by adjusting the volume of your Soundpad, you can also rectify the Soundpad not working problem on Discord. To adjust sound, you need to first increase the volume from the Soundpad application itself. If the issue is still not solved, correct it from the Discord application. For this purpose, these steps will help you:
Step 1: Open and launch the Discord application on your device and select the "Voice & Video" option from the "App Settings" icon.
Step 2: A settings window will open from where you need to click "Voice Settings" and adjust the "Input Volume" and "Output Volume" from the available sliders on the screen's right side.
Fix 4: Restart Both Applications
There might be some glitch in your Soundpad or Discord, which is causing problems. The best way is to close both programs and restart them. This may help you to overcome issues with Soundpad not working on Discord.
After all, with restart, the underlying bugs are automatically removed most of the time. Thus, close both Soundpad and Discord applications by clicking the "Cross" icon from the top-right corner and reopen them.
Fix 5: Update Soundpad and Discord
Maybe your Soundpad and Discord have outdated versions, so you're facing problems. Thus, you need to delete current applications and install updated versions. To execute this task, these steps will help you:
Step 1: Press the "Windows" icon from the screen's bottom-left corner and tap the "Settings" icon. From the settings window, select "Apps." Now search Discord, click it, and press "Uninstall." Following this, locate the Soundpad app, click it, and press "Uninstall.
Step 2: Download both these applications again from their respective websites. Afterward, open and launch them again to use for further tasks.
Fix 6: Utilization of a Different Microphone
There's a possibility that your microphone may have internal damage, e.g., issues with wire or any internal component damage. For this purpose, you can test whether your mic is working or not. If, by chance, your microphone isn't detecting voice, it's damaged. Thus, you need to replace it with new microphones like HyperX Solocast, Samson Q2U, Shure MV7, and FIFINE Amplitank K688.
Discord is a great platform to stay connected via text, video, or audio chats with your friends. In contrast, the gaming community also uses it to remain connected through dedicated servers. Meanwhile, Soundpad is common in Discord for enhancing the audio experience. However, connection issues exist, so you search for how to fix Soundpad not working on Discord. In general, this article provided 6 different ways to fix this issue.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Can we use Soundpad on Windows 11?
Unfortunately, you cannot use Soundpad on Windows 11 because it's only compatible with Windows 7, 8, and 10. In the future, Windows 11 may also be added to its compatibility list. But right now, you certainly cannot use it on Windows 11.
2. Can we use Soundpad on Steam and TeamSpeak?
Yes, you can use Soundpad on Steam and TeamSpeak applications. After all, both applications require users to interact via communication mediums. Generally, Soundpad helps improve audio support while greatly assisting Steam and TeamSpeak platforms.
3. What are the AI features of Discord?
Like many other digital utilities, Discord also empowers itself with various AI functions. This includes AutoMod AI, Clyde Chatbot, and Conversation Summaries of the messages. Meanwhile, some of its upcoming AI tools include an Avatar Remix and a Whiteboard with a Preview of AI. All these functions are unique and tasked to bring automated functionalities into the Discord system.


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Determine if the Lyndon Fire District (District) Board of Fire Commissioners (Board) provided adequate oversight to ensure disbursements were authorized, supported and for appropriate District purposes.
Aside from minor exceptions, disbursements were authorized, supported and for appropriate District purposes. However, the Board could improve oversight of and internal controls over disbursements. The Board:
- Did not properly segregate the disbursement duties or implement adequate mitigating controls, and it did not properly review disbursement activity.
- Could not explain what specific procedures its reviews of financial reports included.
Because the Board did not properly review disbursement activities, there is an increased risk for unauthorized and inappropriate transactions.
- Segregate incompatible duties or establish adequate mitigating controls.
- Become familiar with the resources listed in Appendix C of this report for training opportunities. District officials agreed with our findings and indicated they would initiate corrective action.


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Dec. 5, 2012 Carp stored in large tubs at Czech Christmas markets align themselves in the north-south direction, suggesting they possess a previously unknown capacity to perceive geomagnetic fields, according to a new study published December 5 in the open access journal PLOS ONE, led Hynek Burda from the University of Life Sciences (Prague), Czech Republic and colleagues from other institutions.
The authors photographed and analyzed the positions of fish in the traditional Czech Christmas market, where carp are stored live in large tubs prior to being sold for the holiday feast.
Their study included over 14,000 fish in 25 markets, and the majority of these fish were found to align themselves along the north-south axis. The fish were accustomed to human onlookers, and street lights and other potential disturbances seemed to have no effect on the orientation of the fish.
In the absence of other common stimuli for orientation like light, sound or the flow of water, the authors suggest that the fish most likely align themselves to geomagnetic cues.
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- Vlastimil Hart, Tomáš Kušta, Pavel Němec, Veronika Bláhová, Miloš Ježek, Petra Nováková, Sabine Begall, Jaroslav Červený, Vladimír Hanzal, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Kamil Štípek, Christiane Vole, Hynek Burda. Magnetic Alignment in Carps: Evidence from the Czech Christmas Fish Market. PLoS ONE, 2012; 7 (12): e51100 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone._PHONE_
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POPCORN SAFETY TIPS
- When selling popcorn in your neighborhood always have an adult or buddy with you.
- Never enter a stranger's house without an adult.
- Keep checks and cash in a separate envelope with your name on it.
- Always walk on the sidewalk whenever possible.
- Never sell at night.
- Always be courteous.
POPCORN SALES TIPS
Ten ways to make a popcorn sale.
- Ask your parent to be the first to buy popcorn.
- Ask your relatives to buy popcorn. (Married brothers and sisters)
- Ask your neighbors to buy popcorn.
- Ask the parents of your friends (not in Scouts) to buy popcorn.
- Take a popcorn order form to your place of worship and ask people to buy popcorn during coffee/fellowship hour (get permission first).
- Ask your parents if they can take a popcorn order form to work and ask their co-workers to buy popcorn.(They may need to get permission first.)
- Ask your patrol or den to schedule a "Super Sale Day". This is a day when your fellow Scouts select a neighborhood and go door-to-door as a group to ask people to buy popcorn.
- Ask a parent or fellow Scout to go door-to-door with you in your neighborhood to ask people to buy popcorn.
- Ask your parents or relatives if they give out gifts during the holiday season. If yes, ask them to consider giving out popcorn (in a tin decorated for the holidays) as a holiday gift.
- ALWAYS WEAR YOUR UNIFORM!
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- Religious Friends
- Area businesses
- Married Brothers & Sisters
- Parent's Work
- Unit Leaders
Don't forget last year's customers. Make sure you kept your sales form from last year and ask each of them to buy again.
Have a parent in your pack or troop that owns his/her own business? Do they send Christmas gifts to employees/customers? Ask them to send popcorn this year.


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You can generate reports across items in the same container (such as workspaces). Only the containers for which you are authorized can be selected. For Shared reports, users' access to the report data will be limited in the same way, based on their assigned permissions. If you edit a cross-item report to remove any column, the existing filters will be reset, so instead, hide the columns and the filters will remain unchanged.
To create a cross-item report
 1. Click Service Analytics.
 The Service Analytics utility opens in a new window.
 2. Select New > Cross Item.
 3. In the Report Setup section:
 1. In the Record Type field, select an item.
 2. In the Title field, type a descriptive name for this report.
 3. (Optional) In the Description field, add any notes to explain the purpose of this report.
 4. (Optional) To allow other users to access this report, in the Report Visibility Is field, select Shared.
 If you accept the default of Private, no other users can access this report. If you select Shared, only users authorized with at least read-only rights to the selected workspace can view this report.
 5. (Optional) If you want this report to be available as a console widget, in the Make Available In field, select Consoles.
 The options in the Configurations and Filters sections vary based on your selections in the Report Setup section.
 4. In the Configurations section:
 1. (Optional) In the Saved Search field, select a search to find the data for this report or to create a new search, click the Create a new saved search link.
 When the search is saved, click the Refresh icon next to this field to update the list.
 For more information, see Using Advanced Search and saving searches.
 2. (Optional) In the Descriptions to include field, select whether to include All Descriptions, First Description, Last Description, or First and Last Description
 3. (Optional) To include data regardless of the Lifecycle reporting settings, select Include time spent regardless of status.
 4. In the Measurement Type field, select Clock hours.
 5. In the Available Fields list, select the check boxes for the fields that you want to include and from the Calculated Fields section, select the Total Lifetime Billing and Total Lifetime Time check boxes.
 5. Click Apply changes.
 After you remove a column, if you click Apply Changes, the filters that you have applied are reset unless you added a new column to the report.
 6. In the Filters section:
 1. In the Rows field, select a category for the data rows.
 For more information about defining filter criteria, see Defining filters for reports.
 2. (Optional) In the Columns field, select a format for the data columns.
 Do not select the same category as you selected for Rows. You cannot display the same data category both as a row and a column.
 3. (Optional) In the Values field, select a value.
 4. (Optional) In the Filter field, select a filter.
 5. (Optional) In the View field, select the report graphs that you want available to be displayed on the Dashboard.
 7. In the Table section, review the sample report or to review the most current data, click Refresh at the top of the page.
 Below the Table section, the available report formats appear for this type of report.
 Generally, there is a Chart format and one or two additional formats such as Heatmap.
 1. Review the formats to verify that your settings are returning the data you need.
 2. (Optional) In the format sections, select display options to change the default views.
 3. (Optional) Make additional changes to the report, click Apply Changes and review the updated results in the bottom sections of the page.
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Definition of Et al
1. Adverb. And others ('et al.' is used as an abbreviation of 'et alii' (masculine plural) or 'et aliae' (feminine plural) or 'et alia' (neuter plural) when referring to a number of people). "The data reported by Smith et al."
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2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
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The magneto-plasmon dispersion relation of a quasi-three-dimensional electron gas confined in a wide AlxGa1-x As parabolic quantum well is investigated in the magnetic quantum limit. Magneto-plasma excitations polarized perpendicular to the magnetic field and with wave vector q of the order of the inverse magnetic length 1 l0 are measured in far infrared magneto-transmission experiments on 100 nm thick electron slabs. A minimum is found in the magneto-plasma mode frequency at ql0 ≈ 2 suggesting the existence of a magneto-roton excitation. The collective excitation spectrum is calculated in analogy with Feynman's theory for rotons in helium, and is found to be in good qualitative agreement with the measurement.
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For example, a lightweight cardigan can make all of the difference when the sun is playing peekaboo with the clouds, and can be paired with almost any other piece.
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They create a peekaboo effect that lets you showcase special pieces of china or drinkware.


UK: Impacts of a Deposit Refund System for One-way Beverage Packaging on Local Authority Waste Services
A UK study designed to answer the question: 'What would be the impacts of the introduction of a deposit refund system for oneway beverage packaging on local authority waste services in England?' shows councils would benefit from the introduction of a deposit return scheme (DRS). It finds that, while it is true that some valuable materials may be removed from existing recycling services, far from leading to additional costs, a DRS would be likely to yield net savings, overall, once other factors such as the likely impact on residual waste arisings are taken into account. Overall, it is estimated UK councils would save around £35m per year. Similar savings could be expected from a NZ scheme if introduced.
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DO-178C is the international and de facto standard for certifying all aviation safety-critical software.
The purpose of DO-178C is to provide guidance for developing airborne software systems to ensure that it performs its intended function with a level of confidence commiserate with its airworthiness requirement.
DO-178C is objective driven and companies may use a variety of means to achieve compliance as long as they meet the objectives in question. To comply with DO-178C, companies must provide multiple supporting documents and records surrounding their development processes.
Different airworthiness levels within DO-178C—A, B, C, D and E—directly correspond to the consequences of a potential software failure: catastrophic, hazardous/severe-major, major, minor or no effect, respectively.
Each software level has a defined number of objectives that need to be satisfied (some with independence). Objectives requiring independence need documentary evidence that the person verifying the item is not be the person who developed the item.
These different software level certifications also determine the rigor required in testing and other aspects of development—the most challenging of which is software verification.
DO-178C compliance involves six key processes: planning, development, verification, configuration management, quality assurance (QA) and certification liaison.
One of the significant changes in DO-178C from DO-178B is that there are four additional supplements that may be used in conjunction with the DO-178C.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)EASA and Transport Canada approve all commercial software-based aerospace systems. Through DO-178C these certification authorities emphasize that achieving compliance needs to be done in all aspects of development.
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Have you ever done something on your computer without really thinking about it, but the person next to you has a surprised and confused look on their face? If so, then you might have performed a Stupid Geek Trick. Today we'll show how to open an Explorer window from the current command prompt directory.
Let's begin… just open up a command prompt and then type in the following (the. passes the current directory to Explorer)
You'll immediately see an Explorer window show up with the contents of the directory your command prompt is in.
If you want to type less characters, you can use the following instead:
You can even use the full path to a folder…
Or one of the built-in shell variables…
Or the newer shell: operator style:
And you'll see that directory instantly show up:
And finally, don't forget that you can also use most of these techniques from the File Open/Save Dialog.
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TigerSharks are species of humanoid fish-like creatures. These aquatic creatures have have human-like face and body structure but they also have fins and stripes on their bodies like tiger sharks.
The true origins of these beings remain a mystery. Many hundreds of years ago, the TigerSharks were one of the many animal species that were enslaved by Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living, an evil undead sorcerer who desired universal control. Mumm-Ra had imprisoned all these animal species aboard his massive spaceship and used them for one purpose only - to search for the Power Stones that would endow him with unlimited power.
Each animal specie was assigned a different area to scour on the various planets. Terrestrial animals like Dogs and Lizards would search the lands, while the Birds would explore the skies. Due to their aquatic nature and agility underwater, the TigerSharks were entrusted with the task of searching the various water bodies for the stones.
After Mumm-Ra's two most trusted commanders, Leo and Panthera overthrew their evil master, their spaceship crashed on Third Earth. The TigerSharks were not seen after the crash, but it is likely that like all the other animals, they too settled on the planet. While there is no direct evidence for this, it is possible that the Fishmen might be descendants of the TigerSharks.
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History of the Hudson 8/9 Slide Rule - MIT Museum
Full interview with Frank Adorney about the conception, development and fabrication of the Hudson 8 and Hudson 9 slide rule. This rule, invented by James R. "Pop" Bland, a mathematics professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, was the prototype for the famous Keuffel & Esser Deci-Lon slide rule. Bland asked his former student Frank Adorney for help fabricating the initial mock-ups and working prototypes of his new rule.
This interview was conducted by Deborah Douglas, curator of science and technology at the MIT Museum on January 25, 2012 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It provides extensive background about the rules which are now part of the MIT Museum's collection.
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text: This article reviews the results of bone collagen stable carbon and nitrogen isotope paleodietary studies conducted in Australia. Stable isotopic analyses of prehistoric human and faunal bones and teeth provide a means to assess past Aboriginal dietary patterns and habitat use, palaeoclimate, and palaeoecology. In some cases, the relative consumption of marine versus terrestrial foods or use of C3-vs C4-based foods within terrestrial ecosystems and access to these various habitats can be inferred from stable isotope values. The relationship between mortuary variability and dietary differences can also be addressed. In addition, stable carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotopes can provide information about changes in past rainfall patterns, climate and plant and animal distributions. Thus, stable isotope studies provide an independent method to assist with the reconstruction of prehistoric subsistence-settlement systems, social systems, and palaeoecology. These biochemical data can supplement information obtained from conventional archaeological studies. Potential contributions of stable isotope research to Australian archaeology and future research directions are discussed.


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Artist Charles Sowers specializes in public art works and display of physical phenomena. In Windswept, Sowers displays wind patterns in the actual space.
Windswept is a wind-driven kinetic façade consisting of 612 freely-rotating directional arrows creating a large-scale observational instrument that reveals the complex interactions between the wind and the building. The wind arrows serve as discrete data points indicating the direction of local flow within the larger phenomenon.
Compare this to Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg's Wind Map or Nicolas Garcia Belmonte's map of wind motion patterns. We're essentially seeing the same data in action, but they're on completely different scales.
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OpenSSL version numbers are formatted as n1.n2.n3x, where n1-3 are numbers and x, if present, is one or more letters. These can change depending on the release type:
- Major releases that change one/both of the first two digits, which can break compatibility with previous versions
- Minor releases that change the last digit, e.g. 1.1.0 vs. 1.1.1, can and are likely to contain new features, but in a way that does not break binary compatibility. This means that an application compiled and dynamically linked with 1.1.0 does not need to be recompiled when the shared library is updated to 1.1.1. It should be noted that some features are transparent to the application such as the maximum negotiated TLS version and cipher suites, performance improvements and so on. There is no need to recompile applications to benefit from these features.
- Letter releases, such as 1.0.2a, exclusively contain bug and security fixes and no new features.
The full release strategy for OpenSSL is available here
Finding the current version
The command line tool version can be used to determine the installed OpenSSL version.
Header file opensslv.h also contains information about the version number.


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What Is A Cloudflare Railgun™?
1. What is Railgun?
Railgun is a WAN optimization technology. CloudFlare's Railgun technology greatly speeds up the delivery of non-cached pages. Although CloudFlare automatically caches 65% of the resources required to make up a page, 35% can't be cached mainly because the resources are dynamically generated or marked as 'do not cache'. That 35% is often the initial HTML of the page that must be downloaded first. CloudFlare Railgun speeds this remaining 35%.
2. What are the benefits of Railgun?
Sites running Railgun show a 143% improvement in HTML load times and a 90% decrease in Time To First Byte (TTFB) responses.
3. How does Railgun work?
Railgun opens a secure, tunneled connection between the CloudFlare network and your host's origin server where the connection only sends differences from the last request. This is similar to how video encoding works.
The markup of websites does not change that frequently from one request to the next. Instead of relocating the entire request between CloudFlare and the origin server, Railgun will transfer only the alterations in markup from one request to the next. This cuts down on bandwidth, transfer time, and overall page load times. Railgun caches these differences in memory to make page processing as prompt as possible.
4. What kind of sites can use Railgun?
Any website can benefit from the effectiveness improvements Railgun offers, especially dynamic sites.
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If you purchase Railgun directly through CloudFlare, it costs $200/month. On the other hand, I provide it for Free with any package ordered.
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Remember, if you're using SSL on your website, it will have to be regenerated by Cloudflare. This process takes up to 24 hours and may create errors on your secure pages.
Personally, I recommend enabling this during the weekend/off peak hours to avoid any interruption in traffic.
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If you experience issues when enabling Railgun, just Contact me
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Optical Measurement of Granite Tranches.
Automatic contour recognition
In association with Kusser Aicha Granitwerke FORWISS has developed an optical measuring system for granite plates. The informations on these so called tranches are saved in a relational database system. During the measuring process the system will automatically recognize parts of the tranche that were marked as defective by simply covering the surface with painted tiles.
In addition a colored picture of a small part of the tranche will be shot in order to classify the surface color and structure of the granite tranche. This picture will also be stored in the database.
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On the basis of the database proper tranches could be chosen by a salesclerk to simplify customer requests. To do this, it had been necessary to implement intelligent search functions, an estimation and optimization of the production waste and the value of the remaining tranche, and the possibility of comparing the surface collor of different tranches
The whole software system can be controlled with a modern interactive user interface and leads to efficient storage administration and quality assurance in a middle class company.
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Why Do Doctors Press on Your Stomach During a Checkup?
I was wondering, why do doctors push on your stomach during a checkup or if
you complain of abdominal pain?
Pressing on your stomach is a way to find out if the size of your internal organs is normal, to check if anything hurts, and to feel if anything unusual is going on.
Looking, listening, and feeling are all part of a physical exam. Doctors use all three to check that everything's normal or to evaluate a health condition. For example, doctors use sight to diagnose conditions like acne or pinkeye. They'll listen to a person's heartbeat to be sure it sounds normal. And they'll use touch to investigate areas that aren't visible to the naked eye, like bones or internal organs.
During a checkup, don't hesitate to ask your doctor questions if you're curious about why something's being done. Your doc is there to help, and answering questions is part of that!
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'Lord' Hadad
As "Ba'al" is a title meaning "Lord" rather than a name, many other deities are referred to as Ba'als along with Hadad, such as Ba'al Zebul. Baal Hadad was a storm god frequently referenced and villainized in the Old Testament as the pagan god of Canaan.
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Baal in Famicom Megami Tensei II.
Baal appears frequently as a demon, and to a lesser extent a persona, in the Megami Tensei series, generally depicted in two ways. The first and earliest design in the Famicom Digital Devil Monogatari depicts the god as female, a motif developed subsequently in Megami Tensei II, adding wings and a serpentine body. This design has not been used beyond the Super Famicom era.
The modern Baal design, as seen in Majin Tensei II.
The other, more notable and commonly seen design of Baal first appears in Shin Megami Tensei II, as interpreted by Kazuma Kaneko. It depicts Baal with purple skin whilst grasping a goblet and wearing priestly attire, replete with a headdress adorned with the bull horns standard of his and his father El's iconography. The release of Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers later reused this design but rendered it with a different, darker palette.
As there are innumerable deities from the Levant given the epithet "Baal," it is possible that these two designs actually depict different deities. In the Japanese versions of the games, the female design is most commonly spelled as "バアル" ("baaru") while the helmeted male version is usually spelled "バール" ("bāru"). However, as these spellings can also be found inconsistently labeled, it remains unclear if a distinction was intended between them.
Digital Devil Monogatari: Megami Tensei
Baal in Megami Tensei.
This earliest appearance of Baal in Digital Devil Monogatari: Megami Tensei depicts a female figure brandishing a sword. This Baal is of the Vile race and is encountered in the game's Valhalla dungeon. In the game's Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei remake, this older design would be replaced by the serpentine one from Megami Tensei II.
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In Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei (II).
The winged, serpentine Baal first appears in Digital Devil Monogatari: Megami Tensei II and its Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei remake as a level 58 member of the Deity race. Given a supportive slant, this incarnation of the god comes with the healing skills Mediarahan, Diarahan, and Samarecarm.
Shin Megami Tensei
Mega CD SMT's Baal.
Baal appears as one of the demons added to the Mega CD port of Shin Megami Tensei, using the winged serpentine design. Seemingly based on the Megami Tensei II appearance, Mega CD Shin Megami Tensei's Baal is a level 60 member of the Deity race boasting the same skillset from the previous game: Mediarahan, Diarahan, and Samarecarm.
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Baal in Shin Megami Tensei II and if....
Shin Megami Tensei II, the first usage of the male Baal design, ranks the god as a level 58 member of the Deity race. Similarly, he also appears in Shin Megami Tensei if... as a level 71 Deity. These appearances would mark a shift in Baal's skills away from healing and more towards magic skills like Maziodyne, as he sports in later games.
Majin Tensei series
Baal in the first Majin Tensei.
Baal appears in both Majin Tensei strategy games. First, in the initial Majin Tensei title, he is a high-level demon of the Deity clan, using the last instance of the winged serpentine design. In the sequel, Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis, Baal is a demon classified under the unique Soshin "Ancient God" clan, using the updated helmeted male design.
Last Bible series
Last Bible III's Baal.
Baal makes minor appearances as an enemy demon in the Last Bible spinoff series, in both the first Last Bible, later brought to the West as Revelations: The Demon Slayer, and in Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible III, where he appears as a short, elderly man, in contrast to any other design of the god.
Persona series
In Persona, Persona 2: Innocent Sin, and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, Baal appears as a persona of the Emperor arcana. In the first Persona he is level 55 with majority ice skills, and his name was first translated in Revelations: Persona as "Bard." In both Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment, he is level 37 and mostly learns water-based skills.
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Baal's sprite from Soul Hackers.
In Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, Baal is a level 73 Deity with a range of the most powerful elemental attacks the game features, including Mazionga, Maragion, and Mabufula. While Baal can be fused using normal means, he is also part of a special fusion triangle with his fellow Canaanite deities Anat and Mot. Using two-way fusion, combining any two of the gods will result in the third; hence, Baal will result if Anat and Mot are fused.
This version of Baal also appears as a card in Shin Megami Tensei Trading Card: Card Summoner.
Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
Ba'al Hadad in Giten Megami Tensei.
Two demons named Baal appear in the PC-exclusive title Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku. The first, Ba'al Hadad, a demon of the Deity race, is the only time in the series that Baal is called by his full name. The second is simply named Baal and is a Tyrant. Giten Megami Tensei's Tyrant race is notable in that it includes many other demons with Baal-derived names such as Bael, Belphegor, Baalberith, and Baalzephon, and also predates Devil Survivor's Bel demon storyline.
Shin Megami Tensei: NINE
Similar to other appearances, Baal is a level 72 Deity in Shin Megami Tensei: NINE, with physical and magic attack skills. It is also the first and only time Baal proper has been rendered in 3D.
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
The Demi-fiend encountering Baal Avatar.
Baal appears in Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne as Baal Avatar, the form Chiaki Hayasaka takes when she fully assimilates with the ideology of her Reason, Yosuga: the survival of the fittest. Baal Avatar, of the Deity race, is white and ceramic-looking, with a particuarly large wing-like protrusion, evoking artifacts and figures found of Ba'al Hadad at archaeological sites, particularly sharing a conical-shaped headpiece.
Baal Avatar is encountered as a boss late in the Tower of Kagutsuchi, after Ahriman and Noah, and is flanked by angelic versions of Fallen demons, Ose Hallel and Flauros Hallel ("hallel" meaning "praise" in Hebrew; see also "hallelujah"--"praise to Jah"). Once defeated, the body of Baal Avatar explodes and shatters, like an idol cast down from an altar.
Being Chiaki's sponsor deity, Baal Avatar hews closer to the female winged serpent of earlier games, and incorporates concepts mainly from the demonized, Hebraic interpretations of the "Baal" title used by the Canaanite god and other deities, with one example being its skill called Bael's Bane, an attack which transforms those without curse immunity into flies, suggesting Beelzebub.
Devil Survivor series
Baal makes a cameo appearance in Devil Survivor and Devil Survivor: Overclocked, fused into the design of the grand demon Belberith. Also incorporating other hitherto unseen "Bel" demons from the game's plot such as Belphegor and Bael, Baal's upper torso appears on the lower left side of Belberith's body mass. Difficult to discern on the map sprite, Baal is also almost totally obscured in Belberith's menu profile, making his cameo easy to overlook.
Baal in Devil Survivor 2.
Baal makes a proper appearance in the spinoff series in Devil Survivor 2. He is a unique level 65 Deity and voids fire, ice, and electricity but is weak to wind. He has no starting skills except passive elemental boost skills Fire Amp, Ice Amp, and Elec Amp, which is seemingly a callback to


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Can you UseCodeTags in future? It makes your posts much easier to read, so you're more likely to get a useful reply. I've added them this time.
The question is all about the order constructors get called, and which constructors get called when an object is deserialized. Do you know what the rules are for that? Basically:
- The initial creation of the Dog object prints Animal/Dog, because superclass constructors are called first.
- The constructor of a serializable object is not called when deserializing. But if the superclass is not serializable, its constructor will be called. Change the code to make Animal serializable and you'll notice a change in the output.


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The basic difference between fixed investment and inventory investment is the type of goods on which investment is to be made. Firstly, Fixed investment refers to expenditure on investment in capital goods. On the contrast, inventory investment refers to the expenditure incurred on investment in stock.
To know the difference between these two, we must clear the meaning of these terms:
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Meaning of Fixed Investment:-
It refers to the increase in the stock of fixed assets of the producers during a year. In other words, it can be described as the expenditure incurred by producers on purchase of long term assets or capital goods during the year. For example, Plant and machinery, Furniture and Building etc.
It can be calculated as:
Fixed investment during the year = Stock of fixed assets at the end of the year – Stock of fixed assets in beginning of the year
Let's assume, a producer has a stock of 20 machines at the beginning of year i.e. 1st Jan 2020. On 31st December 2020, he has a stock of 35 machines. Thus, the fixed assets stock of producer is increased by 15 machines during the year.
Therefore, fixed investment during the year 2020 = 15 machines.
Due to this, fixed investment is also known as Fixed capital formation. Thus, It means the increase in capital in terms of fixed assets which are used in the process of production for several years.
Meaning of Inventory Investment:-
It refers to the change in the stock of finished, semi-finished and raw material during a year. Here, the finished goods refer to the final goods ready to sale or unsold. And, Semi-finished goods include goods which are in the process of production. Thus, The stock of these goods is known as Inventory stock. It keeps on varying with the passage of time. Hence, the change inventory stock during the year is known as inventory investment of producers.
It can be calculated as:
Inventory investment during the year = Inventory stock at the end of the year – Inventory stock at the beginning of the year.
Let's assume the producer has 1,25,000 units of inventory stock including finished, semi-finished goods and raw material at the beginning of year i.e. 1st Jan 2020. On 31st December 2020, he has 2,25,000 units of inventory stock with him. Thus, the inventory stock of producer is increased by 1,00,000 units.
Inventory stock during the year = 1,00,000 units.
Chart of Difference between Fixed investment and inventory investment:
|Basis of Difference||Fixed Investment||Inventory Investment|
It refers to expenditure incurred on the purchase of fixed assets or capital goods.
|It refers to expenditure incurred on the purchase of raw material, semi-finished or finished goods.|
|Purpose||Here, the purpose is to continue further production.||Here, the purpose is to meet the demands of consumers in case of shortage.|
Can be known as
|It can also be known as Capital investment.||It can also be known as Working Capital investment.|
|Here, the investment can be considered as expenditure on long term assets.||And, this investment can be considered as expenditure on income yielding short term assets.|
Resale of assets
|In this type of investment, the assets are not meant to be resold at any period of time.||Here, the inventory is not meant to be resold immediately but stays in stock to raise inventory level.|
|The stock of fixed assets at the end of the year – Stock of fixed assets in beginning of the year||Inventory stock at the end of the year – Inventory stock at the beginning of the year.|
|In short, It leads to a higher rate of economic growth.||Generally, It avoids the uncertainties related to price and availability of raw material.|
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Thus, these both investments are essential for any business enterprise. As one is required for further production. And, other is required to make profits.
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What is your bartender's favorite cocktail? A Great question, and one usually asked towards the end of the night. It certainly wouldn't be the Manhattan or old fashioned, those are too common. It can't be the daiquiri, which is so misunderstood, or the mai tai, which is too complicated. The answer, seemingly more than any other drink, is the bitter Negroni.
The better question might be: why isn't the Negroni everybody's favorite drink? It's a dynamic sip, with fruitiness from the Campari, sweetness from the vermouth, and botanicals from the gin. It's bitter, making it both challenging to beginners and endlessly drinkable to fans. Perhaps most impressively, it's darn easy to make. Even the less-discerning dives are likely to have Campari, and the preparation requires neither mixing glass or shaker.
The most surprising thing about the Negroni is how few bartenders know how to make it. Outside the cocktail-wild halls of bigger cities, the drink still seems to be developing a name for itself. Luckily, at three even parts, the recipe can be explained in a single sentence. Consider it a public service. Perhaps one more bartender finds a favorite drink.


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Definitions for sfumatosfuˈmɑ toʊ
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
gradation of tone used to blur the outlines of a form in painting.
Category: Fine Arts
Origin of sfumato:
1840–50; < It, ptp. of sfumare to gradate tone or color
In painting, the application of subtle layers of translucent paint so that there is no visible transition between colors, tones and often objects.
Origin: sfumato,'shaded, toned down' (1909)
having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting


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Mercury Based Fixatives
Mercurials contain mercuric chloride. Their method of tissue fixation is poorly understood. While not penetrating tissue well and causing some tissue hardness, mercurials are fast and provide excellent nuclear detail. They are commonly used to fix hematopoietic and reticuloendothelial tissues.
Alcohols, including methyl alcohol (methanol) and ethyl alcohol (ethanol), are sometimes used as fixatives. They tend not to be used routinely as they cause brittleness in tissue due to their dehydrating effect. However, they are very good for cytological smears because they act quickly and give good nuclear detail.
Oxidizing agents such as potassium permanganate, potassium dichromate, and osmium tetroxide are powerful denaturants and are therefore of limited use. Osmium tetroxide is used most commonly in electron microscopy.
Picric Acid Fixatives
Foremost among the picrate based fixatives is Bouin's solution. Its mechanism of action is unknown. Like the mercurials, they give good nuclear detail but with less brittleness of tissue.
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Voice Technology Effective in Monitoring Diabetes Safety Events
A new study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) found that providing interactive voice recognition follow-up calls to diabetes patients is effective in identifying safety triggers. "Safety Events during an Automated Telephone Self-Management Support Intervention" appeared in the May issue of the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. The "safety triggers" the study examined were problems such as extremely high or low blood sugar, not having medications or supplies, or experiencing significant side effects. Using an automated voice system, patients with type II diabetes received self-management support through interactive messaging. The automated system was effective in identifying safety triggers and the majority of eligible participants received at least one phone call. The results indicate that interactive health information technology can support self-management tasks for diabetes, but more research is needed to understand program design elements to address safety concerns.
To read the abstract of this article, click here.


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Recently, Hospice Austin asked our staff to define what bravery means to them and to give an example of courageous behavior that they've witnessed over the past year either from themselves or from others – a patient, patient's family member or colleague. This response is from Hospice Austin Nurse Molly Chudleigh.
What is your definition of bravery? What does being brave mean to you?
Bravery to me is standing up for what's right when it's hard to do. It's choosing to do the right thing, over the popular thing. It's a willingness to go at something alone or with others even in the face of uncertainty. Bravery is having the strength to be vulnerable.
Do you have a story or example of being brave this past year?
I see bravery in every family and patient that elects hospice care and chooses to help themselves or a loved one die with dignity. I see bravery in every patient who is aware that they are in their final days of life and embrace their family and friends and seek connection. I also witnessed bravery this year especially in all of the nurses in the beginning of the pandemic who fearlessly and unselfishly volunteered to take care of COVID-19 patients and all the sacrifices they were willing to make even if it meant becoming ill themselves.
Do you have a story or example of a patient or family being brave this past year?
I recently met a patient and his wife the ER because the patient was struggling at home with severe agitation, weakness, and having continuous falls. He had advanced dementia and was unaware of his physical limitations. The wife suffered a bad injury and had severe pain, but she stayed by her husband's side even if it meant risking further injury to her or abuse from him. In the face of grieving the loss of her husband's cognitive function (and awareness that he didn't know who she was), she wanted to be there for him in every way possible because she knew in her heart that he would do that for her. She was so vulnerable and hurting, physically and emotionally, but she stayed by his side in the hospital. She was advocating for him, making difficult decisions for his safety, and navigating it all in spite of being physically injured and exhausted. She was so brave.
Do you have a story or example of one of your team members being brave?
Hospice social workers have a really tough job. They consistently have the most difficult conversations with families and patients. Caroline Gonzales does this over and over again in the hospital setting. There are a not a lot of great opportunities nor an ideal time and space in the hospital to have these types of conversations, not to mention just having to overcome the anxiety or fear of walking into a hospital during a pandemic. There are often many moving parts and a great deal of uncertainty of prognosis during the course of a hospitalization, and social workers like Caroline are very brave every time they enter conversations with families about directives and final arrangements. It's the right thing to do, but it is the hardest thing to do, in my opinion.
What are your hopes and goals for 2021?
I hope to connect more with my team members and colleagues in 2021. I started working for Hospice Austin (again) just before the pandemic hit and really miss face-to face interactions and find being socially distant from everyone makes an already pretty autonomous job a little lonelier. I look forward to more opportunities to see whole faces and connect with the amazing staff and people of Hospice Austin.
Molly Chudleigh
Hospice Austin RN


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Kyte & Doolittle Hydropathy
Hydropathic regions achieve a positive value. Setting window size to 5-7 is suggested to be a good value for finding putative surface-exposed regions, whereas a window size of 19-21 yields a plot in which transmembrane domains stand out sharply, with values of at least 1.6 at their centers.
When the window size is 19, peaks with scores greater than 1.8 indicate possible transmembrane regions.
When the window size is 9, strong negative peaks indicate possible surface regions of globular proteins.
The Window Position values shown on the x-axis of the graph reflect the average hydropathy of the entire window, with the corresponding amino acid as the middle element of that window. For example, if the window size were 19, the score at window position 10 would be the average hydropathy of the 19 amino acids from position 1 to position 19 in the input sequence. Notice that the horizontal axis is scaled to include only those amino acids for which a windowed hydropathy score is computed.
First, each amino acid is given a hydrophobicity score between -4.5 and 4.5. A score of 4.5 is the most hydrophobic and a score of -4.5 is the most hydrophilic. Click here to see each amino acid's score. Then a window size is set. A window size is the number of amino acids whose hydrophobicity scores will be averaged and assigned to the middle amino acid in the window. The default window size is 9 amino acids. The computer program starts with the first window of amino acids and calculates the average of all the hydrophobicity scores in that window. Then the computer program moves down one amino acid and calculates the average of all the hydrophobicity scores in the second window. This pattern continues to the end of the protein, computing the average score for each window and assigning it to the middle amino acid in the window. The averages are then plotted on a graph. The y axis represents the hydrophobicity scores and the x axis represents the position in the protein sequence.
Hopp & Woods Antigenic/Hydrophilic
This scale was developed for predicting potential antigenic sites of globular proteins, which are likely to be rich in charged and polar residues. This scale is essentially a hydrophilic index, with apolar residues assigned negative values. The authors suggest that, using a window size of 6, the region of maximal hydrophilicity is likely to be an antigenic site.


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The revolutionary AquaC protein skimmers do not use venturis, downdraft tubes, or air pumps; they employ the patented "Spray Injection System." This innovation allows the protein skimmer to efficiently draw in much more air than any other of the top protein skimmers. This coupled with the superiorly designed compact reaction chamber yields results that will literally blow the waste out of your water.How does Spray Injection Work?
In 1998, Jason Kim (owner and founder of AquaC) developed a patented process of protein skimming which has come to be known as Spray Injection. Unlike previous forms of skimming, our spray injection method enables huge amounts of air and water to be processed with a relatively small pump. Although it is a simple process, there is still some confusion as to how the spray injector works.
Imagine that you're washing your car – you've got a bucket full of soapy water and a garden hose with a fast-moving stream of water. By placing your thumb over the end of the hose, you can disrupt the stream into a turbulent, high –pressure spray. Now direct that spray down into the bucket of water, and you'll generate a massive amount of bubbles and air flow. That is exactly how our spray injector works.
The skimmer body acts as a water reservoir – the bucket in the example above. Water is pumped through the spray injector, which has a special nozzle that fans the water out into a pressurized spray. This spray shoots into the skimmer body, generating millions of tiny air bubbles. As the bubbles are formed, more air is sucked into the skimmer as a result of the local drop in pressure and the process continues.
Most other forms of protein skimming rely on special valves or media to generate the air flow, and these parts quickly become clogged with salt, dust, or even mineral deposits. The AquaC spray injector is a relatively large nozzle that resists clogging, and when combined with a pump prefilter, can be considered maintenance free.
The redesigned and improved EV Series skimmers raise AquaC's spray injection skimming (U.S. Patent # 6,156,209, #6,436,295) to a new level in terms of efficiency, performance, and value. A new baffling system combined with a significantly larger mixing box results in far less turbulence and increased contact time. The net effect is a dramatic increase in skimmer performance despite a drop in pump pressure requirements. AquaC's molded spray injector now generates a significantly larger number of microbubbles, boosting overall performance to unbelievable levels considering such low pump pressure requirements.Features:
- Flexible design for in-sump or external applications.
- The new EV Series skimmers are designed to run in sumps WITHOUT BEING RAISED. The output gate valve has been increased to a height of 10" (EV-120/180 models), which means that as long as your sump level is 9" or lower you will not need to worry about fluctuations having an impact on skimming consistency. The powerful EV-120 can sit in water as deep as 9".
- The addition of a precision ball valve for airflow control allows the aquarist to fine tune the skimmer's output. Unlike most other high performance skimmers in this class, the EV is remarkably silent. The spray injection system does not generate the sucking noises typical of venturi and Beckett units.
- The John Guest "Speedfit" fitting is a great feature you will only find on AquaC ozone-equipped skimmers. This fitting is standard on models EV-240 and above, and can be ordered on the EV-120/180. Aquarists may also connect their calcium reactor effluent line to the skimmer's speedfit connection. The pH of a calcium reactor effluent typically falls between 6.5-6.9, and over time the addition of this low pH effluent can have a deleterious effect on the system's pH level. By dosing your effluent directly into the skimmer, excess CO2 will be "blown off" into the atmosphere and the tank pH will remain unaffected.
- The improved "Twist-Lock" collection cup and cap makes for a secure, flanged connection without the need for set screws or other locking type unions. Simply twist to crack the seal (EPDM gaskets) and removal requires a scant ¼" clearance. The new EV Series skimmers can be operated with AquaC's auto-waste container, which are available in 2.5 and 5 liter sizes.
- Increased contact time = more protein removal. The size of the mixing box has been increased on all models by approximately 40%. To accommodate the extra foam the skimmers now feature taller and wider reaction towers, as well.
- Height: 20"
- Recommend Pumps: Mag Drive 7 or Rio 3100
- Footprint: 5.75" x 9"
- Foam Tower: 5" OD
- Tank Size: 75-180 Gallons
- JG Fitting: Optional 1/4" JG fitting
- Bubble Size:.03–.05mm
- Water flow-thru rate: 275gph
- Volume of foam produced: 135cu.in.
- 3/4" hose barb water input
- 1" gate valve output
- 5/8" collection cup drain
- 3/8" threaded air inlet
- Gate valve exit is 8" high
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AquaC Protein Skimmers in Use
|This is one reef aquariums where the AquaC prototypes are tested on.|
At the time of the picture, this aquarium had been running with an AquaC EV90. Note that this aquarium is fairly heavily stocked. After this picture was taken, quite a bit more livestock has been added to this aquarium. Currently, an AquaC EV150 is running on this well-overstocked tank. AquaC feels that this the EV150 is probably not neccessary for the tank, but they feed their tank quite aggressively to keep all the fishes that has been added healthy and wanted to keep maintenance at a minimum. According to AquaC, maintenance on this aquarium has been extremely low.
The AquaC EV-150 protein skimmer working on our aquairum:
Please note the dry consistency and quantity of the foam being collected by the AquaC protein skimmer. This drain cup is being filled on a daily basis. There is a convenient collection cup drain connector that allows you to drain the the waste collected in collection cup into a waste container.
This particular model stands only 20" tall, so it is extremely easy to place this skimmer underneath most aquarium stands. Even the model EV200 fits very easily under most aquarium stands.
The AquaC EV skimmer working in one of our customer's tank:


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Well, indeed carbon powder is black, but so are magnetic dust particles containing various metal oxides. You may remember from school that a TV is nothing but a cathode ray tube. The electron beam hitting the phosphors on the inside of the front screen is deflected horizontally and vertically by magnetic field oscillations, which create the nice images we see. Hold a magnetic compass near a TV and watch it deviate. Remember the product warnings on good VCR tape packages not to store them near the TV? It is the magnetic field from the rear end of the CRT, which causes the black dust to stick to the TV, whereas organic dust would be blown away by air drafts and convection as on any other surface. So over time a black sticky dust coat covers the TV. The front screen has an additional dust collection effect. The Bremsradiation (X-rays), which are generated, when the electrons hit the screen ionizes the air in front of the screen and in spite of the embedded conductors in the screen it is always on a negative potential (electrons are negative). So the positive parts of the ionized dust in front of the screen gets accelerated towards the screen. So, if you ionize a dust particle containing metal atoms, what do you get? oxidized metals on your screen. Now depending on the chemical nature of your dust this deposit can vary between pitch black or light gray.
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The Independent review of deaths and serious incidents in police custody by Dame Elish Angiolini has been published by the Home Office today. It is the first and only review of policing practises and related processes following police related deaths.
The report offers the government a blueprint for change to urgently implement in the face of numerous recent concerning deaths.
It makes over 100 evidence based recommendations, which are intended to be a pragmatic way forward. These include important recommendations on:
- Access to justice for families, including through non-means tested legal representation for bereaved families from the earliest point following the death.
- Strengthening systems and structures of accountability, holding the police to account at an individual and corporate level.
- National Oversight and learning from deaths, such as through an 'Office for Article 2 Compliance' which would monitor and report on recommendations arising from deaths.
- Improved investigation, including through the phasing out of Ex-police officers as lead investigators within the IPCC.
- Tackling discrimination, through recognition of the disproportionate number of deaths of BAME people following restraint and the role of institutional racism, both within IPCC investigations and police training.
- Better treatment of vulnerable people, including through proper resourcing of national healthcare facilities to accommodate and respond to vulnerable people in urgent physical or mental health need coming into contact with the police.
- An end to delay, in which Article 2 related cases should be dealt with in the same time scales as a civilian homicide case.
Custody deaths review urges shake-up
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Here is a second tip for debugging that requires a slight.h file change. If you have the VSIP SDK installed and you need advanced assert help, use VSASSERT. VSASSERT is a nifty utility that is installed with the VSIP SDK that will put up an assert message. The advantage of this assert technology over the CRT or ATL's assert is that you can hide all the VS asserts for that instance of VS, selectively choose to hide a particular assert, copy the assert text to the clipboard, break into the debugger at the line of the offending assert, etc. To use this assert, you need to _TAG_ the file vsassert.h into your code, and then for the debug build of your code link to vsassert.lib. Then, rather than using VC's assert mechanism, you use VS's like so:
VSASSERT(false, "This is a failed assert.");
Even though the assert ships with the VSIP SDK, your code does not need to be VSIP related to use VSASSERT, the code can be a VSIP package, an Add-in, or even code that is not related to VS, you just need to be using C++.
Now to the problem: To use VSASSERT, you will need to change a header file to get everything to work. If you were to compile anything that _TAG_ vsassert.h, you will get the following error message:
c:\Program Files\VSIP 7.1\EnvSDK\common\inc\vsassert.h(249): fatal error C1017: invalid integer constant expression
You can fix this by opening vsassert.h, and on line 249 change the text from:
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This simple change will fix up the problem, and you can start using a much better assert tool. (And yes, there is a bug tracking this to have somebody fix it)


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The code samples are from our headless and UI sample applications. They show you how to use the Push Service APIs of the BlackBerry 10 Native SDK to do the following:
- Create a PushService object so that your application can create a push session and perform push-related operations. The push session is required to establish communication with the PNS agent. The PNS agent is a software component that maintains a connection with the PPG, and forwards push notifications that it receives from the PPG to the appropriate application instance.
- Start running your headless application in the background if it isn't already running when a push message arrives.
- Create a push channel to the PPG and subscribe with the Push Initiator. The Push Initiator uses the push channel to send push notifications to our sample application.
- Receive a push message.
- Acknowledge the receipt of a push message.
- Handle notifications in the BlackBerry Hub.
- Destroy a push channel and unsubscribe from the Push Initiator.
- Automatically detect a changed SIM card and stop receiving push messages on the device.
- Handle a push transport error and a PPG server error.
- Handle a lost connection with the PNS agent.
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A marble is launched horizontally off a 93.0-cm high table causing the marble to land on the floor 1.85 m from the base of the table.
a.) How long was the ball in the air?
b.) With what velocity must the marble have left the tabletop?
Wouldn't another piece of information be needed to solve this problem?
Is it implied the initial y velocity is 0?
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The Role Of Sound On The Path With Kirtan Musician Krishna Das
Join Andrew on this interview with Krishna Das, the renowned Kirtan musician, on a heartfelt journey into the world of devotion, and the role of sound on the path. What is Kirtan, and how does one listen to it? Can you bring music onto the path, and what are the near enemies in doing so? The discussion turns to sound as the nature of reality, and the role of mantra to reveal reality. Even scientists talk about the Big Bang, and "string theory." Is the world made of sound and light? ("In the beginning was the word, and the word was made flesh.") How does one "listen to the mind," instead of the classic instruction of looking at the mind? KD talks about creativity, the role of improvisation, and what happens when he performs. The conversation turns to how devotion, guru yoga, bhakti yoga, and openness are central to the journey. This interview is uniquely personal, with Andrew and KD sharing intimate stories of their respective paths. At Andrew's request, KD offers two selected Kirtan chants, with commentary; and Andrew offers his performance of a Rachmaninoff prelude. Join us for this disarming and sound-soaked interview, with one of the most endearing artists on the planet.
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Died This Day: Edward Drinker Cope
July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897
"What truly assured Cope's (above right) place in the history of paleontology and even eclipsed his science was his bitter feud with Yale University paleontologist O.C. Marsh (above left). What began as a friendly rivalry in the late 1860s, broke out into all out war in 1872 and then raged on until Cope's death in 1897. Both Cope and Marsh were recipients of family fortunes and they used their wealth to discover new fossils and to reconstruct ancient life. This scramble literally propelled American science into the forefront of paleontology."Read about Cope HERE.


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A: Descriptions of a job and an execution plan are as follows:
In E-MapReduce, to create a job is to create a configuration about how to run the job. A job cannot be run directly. The configuration of a job should contain the jar package to be run for the job, the input and output addresses of data, and some running parameters. After such a job is created, you can name it (that is, define a job). When you want to debug the running job, an execution plan is required.
- Execution plan
The execution plan is a bond that associates the job and the cluster. Through the execution plan, multiple jobs can be combined into a job sequence and prepare a running cluster for the job (or automatically create a temporary cluster or associate an existing cluster). The execution plan also helps to set a periodical execution plan for the job sequence and automatically releases the cluster after the task is accomplished. The execution record list displays successful execution plans and logs.
A: The E-MapReduce system uploads running job logs to OSS according to the jobid plan (that is, the path that is set by users when they create the cluster). You can view the job logs directly on the webpage. If you log on to the master node for job submission, and you are running the script, the logs are determined by your script according to your plan.
A: You can search directly through OSS for all log files, and download them. However, since OSS is not available for direct viewing of log files, this procedure may cause issues. The following describes how to use OSS to view log files.
- Go to the execution plan page.
- Find the corresponding execution plan and click "Running Log" to enter the running log page.
- Find the specific execution log on the running log page, such as the last execution log.
- Click the corresponding "Execution Cluster" to view the ID of the execution cluster.
- Search for OSS://mybucket/emr/spark/cluster ID directory under the OSS://mybucket/emr/spark directory.
- There will be multiple directories displayed under OSS://mybucket/emr/spark/cluster ID/jobs according to the execution ID of the job, and each directory stores the running log file of the job.
A: There are three timing policies, as follows:
The timing policy of the cluster
In the cluster list, the running time of every cluster is displayed. Calculation of the running time is: Running time = Time when the cluster is released - Time when the cluster is established. Once a cluster starts to be established, the timing starts until the end of the lifecycle of the cluster.
The timing policy of the execution plan
In the running log list of the execution plan, the running time of every execution plan is displayed. The timing policy can be summarized in two categories:
If the execution plan is executed on-demand, the running process of every execution log involves the cluster creation, job submission for running, and cluster release. The calculation policy of an on-demand execution plan is: Running time = The time when the cluster is created + The total time used for completing running all the jobs in the execution plan + The time when the cluster is released.
If the execution plan is associated with an existing cluster, the entire execution cycle does not involve the cluster establishment and releasing. In this case, Running time = The total time used for completing running all the jobs in the execution plan.
The timing policy of the job:
The job here refers to the jobs assigned to the execution plan. Click the View Job List on the right of the running log of every execution plan to see the job. Here the calculation of the running time of every job is: Running time = The actual time when the job running ends - The actual time when the job starts to run. The actual time when the job running starts (ends) refers to the time points when the job is actually scheduled for running or stops running by the Spark or Hadoop cluster.
Q: During ODPS reading/writing, why does the java.lang.RuntimeException.Parse response failed: '…' display?
A: Check whether the ODPS tunnel endpoint is correct.
A: The topic may have been created in a beta or other testing environment, therefore creating inconsistent consumption data of some consumer groups. Please submit a ticket indicating the corresponding topic and Consumer ID to ONS for troubleshooting.
A: Yes, however, the "Save Log" option must be enabled when the cluster is created. The log location is: Execution Plan List > Running Log > Execution Log > View Job List > Job List > View Job Worker Instance.
A: Take the following example:
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE storage_log(content STRING) PARTITIONED BY (ds STRING)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t'
STORED AS TEXTFILE
hive> select * from storage_log;
Time taken: 0.3 seconds
There is no data in the created external table.
In the preceding example, Hive will not automatically associate the partitions directory of the specified directory. You need to associate it manually. For example:
alter table storage_log add partition(ds=123); OK
Time taken: 0.137 seconds
hive> select * from storage_log;
A: First, check whether the Spark version is earlier than Version 1.6. Spark Version 1.6 repaired a memory leak bug. Earlier versions of Spark may retain this bug, which will cause container memory overuse, meaning the job will not be executed. Additionally, check whether your code has been optimized for memory usage.
Q: Why is a job still in "Running" status in E-MapReduce Console even though the Spark Streaming job has ended
A: Check whether the running mode of the Spark Streaming job is "yarn-client." If yes, we recommend that you change it to the "yarn-cluster" mode. E-MapReduce is not currently optimized for monitoring the status of Spark Streaming jobs in the "yarn-client" mode.
Q：Why does "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Class com.aliyun.fs.oss.nat.NativeOssFileSystem not found" display
A: When reading/writing OSS data in Spark jobs, you need to package the SDK provided by E-MapReduce into the Jar package. The specific operations can be found at: Development Manual > Spark > Development Preparation.
A: One simple method is to use the complete OSS URI. For details, refer to: Development Manual > Development Preparation
A: Check whether the path protocol header of the job jar package is "ossref" in the job configuration. If the protocol header is different, change it to "ossref".
A: The E-MapReduce contains a master node and multiple slave (or worker) nodes. The master node does not participate in data storage and computing tasks, and the slave nodes are used for data storage and computing. For example, in a cluster with three 4-core 8G machines, one of the machines serves as the master node and the other two serve as the slave nodes. In this case, the available computing resources of the cluster are two 4-core 8G machines.
A: Check whether the data receiving mode is Push-based. If it is a different mode, switch it to the Push-based mode for receiving data. Reference
Q：Why does java.io.IOException: Input stream not be reset when only _PHONE_ bytes have been written, and does not exceed the available buffer size of 524288 display
A: If insufficient cache is detected, and the preceding error is displayed, we recommend that you use EMR-SDK Version 1.1.0 or later to avoid insufficient cache during OSS network reconnection tries.
Q：Why does "Failed to access metastore. This class should not accessed in runtime.org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient" display
A: The job execution mode must be yarn-client (or local) for Spark to process Hives data. Yarn-cluster is not supported. Otherwise, the preceding exception will appear. Some third-party packages in the job jar file may also trigger the exception while running Spark.
A: A simple method is to modify the mapred-site.xml file. For example:
You then only need to add the library file you need.
A: See the following.
OSS URL： oss://[accessKeyId:accessKeySecret@]bucket[.endpoint]/object/path
This URI is used for specifying input/output data sources in the job, and is similar to hdfs://. In OSS data operations, you can configuration accessKeyId, accessKeySecret, and endpoint to Configuration, or you can specify accessKeyId, accessKeySecret, and endpoint in URI. For more details, refer to Development Preparation.
Q: Why does the Spark SQL display "Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:mysql:xxx" error
- The mysql-connector-java of an earlier version may have similar issues. Update it to the latest version.
- In the job parameters, use "—driver-class-path ossref://bucket/…/mysql-connector-java-[version].jar" to load mysql-connector-java package. The preceding issue also occurs when mysql-connector-java is directly packaged into the job jar package.
A: Check whether the RDS database address is an intranet address. If it is not, go to the RDS console to switch the database address to an intranet address.
Q: When Spark SQL is connected to RDS, why does the "Invalid authorization specification, message from server: ip not in whitelist" appear
A: Check the RDS


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Find an e‑mail or newsgroup message
Windows Mail includes the Search box, which makes it easy to find specific e‑mail and newsgroup messages. Using the Search box, you can quickly filter your message list so that it only shows messages containing specific words, characters, or e‑mail addresses.
Open Windows Mail by clicking the Start button, clicking All Programs, and then clicking Windows Mail.
Type a word or part of a word into the Search box.
As you type in the Search box, the message list will continue to be filtered to reflect each successive character you type.
When you see the message you want, you can stop typing in the Search box and double-click the message to open it.
If you want to expand your search capabilities, try using the Search box in Windows document folders, where you can search for messages and documents simultaneously You can also search for a message in multiple e‑mail folders, and even save your favorite search results so that you can access them again at any time.
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Cows Will Sex Text Farmers When They're Feeling Frisky
Feb 23, 2012 12:23
Farming cows are tough because you'll need to keep track of their fertility. Its important because that will determine the quality of your meat, or the milk in your cereal. Mobile technology has made it possible for cows to drop their farmers an SMS when they're feeling its about time to get jiggy.
A new collar designed by researchers from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland uses the same sensor as a Wii to keep track of a cow's movement and activity, and based on that movement, scientists have been able to work out the characteristic behaviour of cows when they're read to get down. So when they do, farmers are going to get some Bovine Sexting.
The collar will notice how the cow is moving, in a particular way, and when it does it will drop the farmer a text message. From that point, the farmer will, lend a hand, which means there's probably going to be some artificial insemination going on here.


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Yalwal is the site of a former gold mining town of the same name situated 29 km (18 mi) west of Nowra at the confluence of the Dangera and Yarramunmun Creeks which then forms Yalwal Creek which flows into the Shoalhaven River. It is now the site of a City of Shoalhaven managed picnic area and Dangera Dam.
Gold was first discovered in the area by Rev W.B. Clarke in 1852. Successful sluicing operations began in 1870 by J. Sivewright and party but were disrupted by the great flood of 1871. In 1872 open cut mining operations were begun at the Pinnacle when the main reef was discovered. The first shafts were sunk in the Homeward Bound mine in 1872 with payable gold found in 1874. In 1875 the first stamp battery (5 head) was erected. In 1880 a mail receiving station was opened and in 1884 a public school opened, it closed in 1918, reopened in 1924 and finally closed in 1928.